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+{"text":"News Sports Monmouth Ocean Data Universe USA TODAY Obituaries E-Edition Legals\nScott Kelly of West Orange, now NASA's most experienced astronaut\nHartriono B. Sastrowardoyo\n@HBSastrowardoyo\nA West Orange man is now NASA's most experienced astronaut.\nScott Kelly, who was born in Orange but graduated from Mountain High School in West Orange, now has 383 cumulative days in space to his name, a milestone achieved Friday.\nThe previous NASA record was set by Mike Fincke in 2011, and established over the course of two long-duration missions to the International Space Station and one shuttle mission.\nKelly's record was set over the course of four missions, one of which is still continuing. He first flew an almost eight day mission in December 1999 on board the space shuttle Discovery, to install new instruments on the Hubble Space Telescope.\nThat was followed by a 12-day mission in 2007 on Endeavour to expand and deliver supplies to the International Space Station.\nMetuchen astronaut named to space station crew\nKelly then stayed on the space station for 159 days starting in October 2010 as part of the 25th and 26th long-duration mission. He arrived via a Russian Soyuz capsule, assuming the role of a flight engineer for Expedition 25. Kelly took command of the space station for Expedition 26 after the previous commander, NASA astronaut Doug Wheelock, returned to earth that November.\nKelly returned to earth in March 2011. But he didn't remain earthbound for long.\nNJ astronaut, Russian, blast off for 1-year mission\nFour years later, Kelly returned to the international space station as a flight engineer for Expedition 43, and took command this September as a member of the 45th, and current long-duration mission.\nKelly, along with Russian cosmonaut Mikhail Kornienko, are currently test subjects to determine how humans fare after a year \u2013 actually, almost 350 days - in space, something that is needed in preparation for planned crewed flights to Mars (which will take about 30 months.)\nBut the study also has implications for life on earth.\n\"We will also get an opportunity to see how microgravity affects the human genome,\" wrote NASA administrator Charlie Bolden in a blog post. \"This information might affect every one of us on Earth as we get a unique insight into genomic changes.\"\nSuch genomic changes can cause cancer, for example, and understanding such changes can lead to better and new ways of diagnosing, treating and preventing the disease.\nThis time last month \u2013 Sept. 15 \u2013 Kelly and Kornienko reached the halfway point of their one-year mission, 171 days. The two are set to return home March 3, 2016.\nIn addition, Michael Lopez-Alegria holds the record, at 215 days, for the longest unbroken U.S. spaceflight. Scott Kelly will break this record on Oct. 29.\nKelly has a twin brother, Mark Kelly, a retired astronaut and husband of Congresswoman Gabby Giffords. Mark Kelly has four spaceflights to his name, all on the space shuttle, but he's not done with space just yet.\nNASA's NJ-born twins in space study\nAs the only twins who are NASA astronauts, the Kelly are also the subject of a study about two individuals who have the same genetics, but who will be in different environments for a year. And like the year-long mission, such a study also has implications for life here on earth, with Mark as the experimental control.\nScott Kelly's records pale in comparison to the Russians, however. Gennady Padalka holds the record for the most cumulative days in space by a human, with 879 days - almost two and a half years. And Valeri Polyakov holds the record for the longest unbroken spaceflight, spending almost 438 days in space from January 1994 to March 1995 on the Russian space station Mir.\nHartriono B. Sastrowardoyo: hsastrowardoyo@njpressmedia.com: @HBSastrowardoyo\nSenator, astronaut encourage STEM to students\nCareers Staff Directory Accessibility Support Site Map Legals Our Ethical Principles Terms of Service Privacy Policy Your California Privacy Rights \/ Privacy Policy\n\u00a9 2022 www.app.com. All rights reserved.","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
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+{"text":"By The Way Books\nSelling Your Books\nBooks on Books\nOrthodox Eastern Church\nParabola Magazine\nSubud\nTraditionalists\nMANSIONS OF THE MOON.; The Lost Zodiac of the Goddess\nJohnson, Kenneth.\nArchive Press, 2002. First edition. The twenty-seven lunar mansions or nakshatras are a unique zodiac that has been used in India for some 5,000 years. The lunar mansions lie at the very origins of Hindu astrology, and they are rich in the myth, legend and lore of ancient India. Kenneth Johnson, mythologist and astrologer, provides us with a colorful introduction to these \"mansions of the moon.\" The lunar mansions are introduced and explained as an entire system or astrological paradigm, and each mansion is vividly described so that the reader, even one with only the most basic knowledge of astrology, can come to understand their own birth mansions. The second part of the book explores the mysteries of the lunar mansions and leads the reader upon a journey through ancient myths and stories to reveal how the mansions embody the life cycle of an archaic Goddess. Beyond that, they constitute an authentic \"calendar of the stars\" which is not only in the sky but within each and every one of us. Paperback in very good condition. Item #17433\nPresentation copy signed by the author; 233 pages.\nSee all items in Astrology\nSee all items by Kenneth Johnson\n503 FM 359 Ste 130-180\nRichmond TX 77406\n\u00a9 2020 By The Way Books. All rights reserved. Site Map | Site by Bibliopolis","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
+{"text":"6 Credit Union Newcomers Share What They Brought And What They've Learned\nHow do these managers view advancing their existing skillsets \u2014 and the enterprise \u2014 in a cooperative setting?\nTop-Level Takeaways\nThe credit union industry attracts talented managers from diverse sources, and each newcomer brings their own insight to put in play in the cooperative setting.\nAdjusting to working for a not-for-profit is the first step for many, as they develop an appreciation for the credit union difference and help to advance the cooperative principles.\nMaking a career move into the credit union industry means joining a movement as well as changing jobs. While there's a lot that's the same, there's also a lot that's different for these cooperative transplants.\nThe primary differences, of course, include now working for a not-for-profit, and that customer service is now member service.\nThe cooperative principles infuse the daily operations of successful credit unions. And the opportunity to help create and refine products, services, and processes \u2014 and to tell and sell the credit union difference \u2014 has been gratifying and stimulating for many who have made the move.\nBelow, six of those who have jumped into the movement from other industries share some of the insight they brought from their previous gigs \u2014 which range from healthcare data management to front-line retail management and marketing, and from international fundraising to tourism promotion to \"pitching\" for a major league baseball team.\nKarla Wallack, Executive Director, Affinity Foundation, Affinity FCU\nKarla Wallack has been executive director of the Affinity Foundation at Affinity Federal Credit Union ($3.6B, Basking Ridge, NJ) for seven months. The foundation provides community grants, scholarships for student members, and a relief fund for financially struggling members.\nWallack joined Affinity after serving as international major gifts officer for the Rutgers University Foundation, where she traveled across Asia and Europe to visit Rutgers alumni and cultivate their philanthropic interest in the university.\nWhat did you bring to the credit union because of your prior experience, and how specifically did the enterprise benefit?\nKarla Wallack: It's important that the person in my role has both for profit and nonprofit experience. I worked in marketing and sales leadership roles in the for-profit sector for 13 years before entering the nonprofit space, and I've spent the last 10 years in nonprofit fundraising and governance leadership roles.\nThis experience has allowed me to excel in operating a nonprofit, while still being a part of the leadership team at the credit union. Additionally, my experience in fundraising and nonprofit governance specifically is critical to growing the Affinity Foundation and increasing our impact on the communities we serve.\nWhat was the biggest change for you, that you had to adapt to, after you made the move to a credit union?\nKW: Just like for profits, nonprofit organizations have certain necessary policies and procedures to comply with charitable registration and other legal requirements.\nOne thing that was new for me was learning that there are additional considerations for a credit union foundation in order to be in compliance with the NCUA. There are also risk management concerns that affect the foundation as, although it is a separate 501(c)(3), we still have to follow the credit union compliance procedures since the foundation is closely tied to the credit union.\nBONUS QUESTION: What is your bottom-line piece of advice to someone considering making a similar move?\nKW: Learn about the history and culture of credit unions when considering a similar move. Although I had been a member of Affinity for many years prior to taking this role, I did not know the history of the credit union movement until orientation. In my opinion, the founding principle of giving back to the community is very important in setting the stage for a great organizational culture.\nTonia White, Chief Employment Experience Officer, American 1 Credit Union\nTonia White has been chief employee experience officer at American 1 Credit Union ($552M, Jackson, MI) for the past 16 months. She came to the cooperative after 20 years in store management at Bath & Body Works.\nWhat did you bring to the credit union because of your prior experience, and how specifically does the enterprise benefit?\nTonia White: I have 30 years of management experience. The benefit for American 1 is my team's dedication to our greatest asset \u2014 our employees. Personally, I look for opportunities during times of change. COVID-19 provided us with a chance to pause, reevaluate, and commit to growing our teams through recruiting, developing, rewarding, and retaining the \"right person in the right seat\" philosophy.\nTW: The terminology and behind-the-scenes processes. The biggest positive change was our commitment to the communities we serve. For example, I'm given volunteer time each month to serve in my community. What a blessing!\nTW: I was not looking for a job \u2014 it found me. Allow yourself the courage and curiosity to try something new.\nBecky Daniels, Director of Community Engagement, CAP COM FCU\nBecky Daniels has been director of community engagement at CAP COM Federal Credit Union ($2.6B, Albany, NY) for the past year. She most recently had been the first executive director for Discover Schenectady, the tourism promotion agency for New York's Schenectady County.\nBecky Daniels: One of the things that brings me the most personal and professional satisfaction lies in being a connector. I love to bring people, organizations, and ideas together to forge strong relationships, solve problems, and ultimately to serve the community. In each role that I have had, I've been fortunate to have opportunities to build a strong network of contacts, colleagues and friends in the Albany region.\nIn my first year with the organization, it's been incredibly rewarding to continue to build on those connections and foster even deeper relationships on behalf of CAP COM. In particular, through the work of our CAP COM Cares Foundation, I've been able to not only bring new nonprofit partner organizations into the fold and connect them to our resources, but also to connect them with one another to make an even greater collective impact in our community.\nBD: Coming from outside the financial services industry, the largest learning curve for me was in getting up to speed with industry-specific regulations and standards and ensuring a strong knowledge of our product and service offerings. I'm very fortunate to have many wonderful colleagues that worked to make that transition, as well as my ongoing learning and development, smooth and enjoyable!\nWhat is your bottom-line piece of advice to someone considering making a similar move?\nBD: To trust in yourself and what you can bring to a position in a new industry or organization. I'm very fortunate to have had incredible opportunities in a number of different industries starting in education and continuing in healthcare, energy, tourism, and now financial services.\nThe biggest key to success for me has always been trusting that I was in my role for a reason. There will inevitably be a learning curve when you take on a new role, or enter a new industry \u2013 but, truly believing in your abilities and owning your seat at the table is a key element in developing the trust of your team, your leadership, and your colleagues that will be vital to your ongoing success.\nAmanda Turk, Corporate Communications Manager, CommunityAmerica Credit Union\nAmanda Turk has been corporate communications manager at CommunityAmerica Credit Union ($4.2B, Lenexa, KS) for the past four months. She joined CommunityAmerica after eight years with the Kansas City Royals, most recently as director of publicity, where her focus was \"on anything that was business-related including community relations, charities, corporate partnerships, and marketing.\"\nAmanda Turk: My experience working in baseball was very different, and it gave me a unique set of skills that I have been able to use at CommunityAmerica.\nOften, those in the financial industry spend time pitching and sharing their stories specifically to those within the business community. Working on the business side of baseball, I spent a lot of time pitching stories to the community, but also to more targeted audiences that cared or needed the information more.\nStrategizing in that same way has allowed us to target specific audiences through various outlets who will most benefit from the uniqueness of the products and services CommunityAmerica offers.\nAT: Working for a credit union may not be as sexy or glamorous as working in sports, but financial stability is something that impacts everyone. Understanding that means understanding you have a sort of responsibility to your audience.\nPeople make choices for themselves and their families based off what we're communicating with them, so it's important to make sure that we're doing our best to share information that allows them to make smart choices.\nI know not every financial institution operates this way, but CommunityAmerica is fantastic in that it takes the responsibility of helping people achieve financial peace of mind above all else. So, while that has been a change, it's been a very welcome one.\nAT: If you're no longer learning and improving yourself or those around you in your current job, then you should know the time has come to make a change. Personally, when I started looking at making the change, I spent hours researching, reading, networking, and learning everything I could about whatever industry that a potential new job was available in.\nI knew I wouldn't learn everything right away, but I knew it was important when I got excited about the topic. If you don't have that feeling at least some of the time, then it's hard to improve. Of course, making the change can be intimidating or scary, but the best things are.\nKym Money, Vice President of Marketing & Business Development, Credit Union of America\nKym Money has been vice president of marketing and business development at Credit Union of America ($1.2B, Wichita, KS) for a little more than three years. She joined the cooperative after 25 years as director of marketing with one of the largest privately owned Pizza Hut & Taco Bell franchisees.\nKym Money: My previous experience made clear to me the importance of being visible in the community and being viewed as an ally for progressive movement. Telling our story in a relatable and compelling manner has driven awareness and interest in our credit union.\nCUA began as the Wichita City Teachers Credit Union in a science classroom of a local high school. Remaining authentic in the stories we tell provides built-in credibility with our community and those we serve.\nKM: The biggest change for me was a paradigm shift away from the bottom-line economics, instead focusing on making a difference in our member's lives. There's also a steep learning curve in navigating audit and compliance regulations.\nKM: I would advise anyone to just DO IT! Knowing that you make a difference in people's lives makes it easy to come to work. It's very fulfilling to be able to say \"yes\" to requests for help from the community.\nJeff Thomas, Vice President of Business Intelligence, GECU\nJeff Thomas has been vice president of business intelligence at GECU ($3.7B, El Paso, TX) for the past 20 months.\nHe joined the Texas cooperative after 15 years in BI and data analytics and storage, primarily in the healthcare industry.\nJeff Thomas: I brought a lot of knowledge of enterprise data warehousing (EDW) and data and analytics to GECU. This is a fairly new space for GECU and credit unions in general. Within a year of having my team built, we have built and populated our EDW with our core, loan origination system, and some benchmark data.\nWe also have moved all descriptive analytics to Microsoft Power BI, which has freed up a tremendous amount of bandwidth for our employees and other leaders who spent countless hours deriving data manually and creating reports in Excel. We are still evolving in this space as we start down the path of predictive analytics and artificial intelligence.\nJT: The biggest change for me was how GECU focuses their strategies on their members and community. I have very much enjoyed being part of an organization that not only says they care, but shows it with the many charitable contributions that they sponsor and participate in. It truly feels like a family environment with people helping people.\nJT: I've worked in healthcare the majority of my career and the change was a little intimidating because I didn't know the business of finance or credit unions. With that said, data is data and I'm very happy I made the change.\nI've learned a lot quickly and with a lot of support from other leaders within GECU. Credit unions have a large community and following, so it has not been difficult to collaborate with others and learn what they are doing and help provide some direction in the industry.\nThese interviews were edited and condensed.\nWant more credit union strategies? Sign up for the CreditUnions.com free newsletter.\nYour Charter Is Your DNA\nRise Of The Content Manager\nDebra Vollmer On Leadership\nNCUA Pays Big Attention To Small Credit Unions\nWin The War Of The Inbox. Here's How.\nHow To Turn Good MX Into Great MX\nFarewell Windows 7. Hello Windows 10.\nGrants In The Credit Union Movement\nPrepping For More Pandemic Fallout\nHow To Write A Better RFP\nBest Of Payments And Technology 2016\n$1B Or More $500M-$1B Affinity Federal Credit Union American 1 Credit Union CAP COM Federal Credit Union CommunityAmerica Credit Union Credit Union Of America Feature Article GECU Kansas Michigan New Jersey New York Texas","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
+{"text":"Charles Albert Alchemia Kyanite, Biwa Pearl and Blue Topaz Multi Gemstone Pendant\nStone(s): 1 genuine kyanite, 1 genuine biwa pearl and 1 genuine blue topaz Check Birthstone\nOverall Dimension (including bail): 1.5 x 1.25 x 0.25 inches\nKyanite takes its name from from the Greek word kyanos which means \"deep blue.\" Formerly called disthene, kyanite is found primarily in shades of blues and greens. The shiny, translucent gemstone is known for its color zones and variation in hardness. Zodiac signs associated with kyanite are Aries, Taurus and Libra. The stone is said to have an effect on dreams and in improving memory and encouraging mental clarity.\nNatural pearls are formed when an foreign object becomes trapped in the shell of an oyster or pearl and the animal surrounds the object with several mineral layers in order to protect its soft tissue. Most pearls sold today are farmed pearls, created by intentionally inserting small mother-of-pearl beads in the oyster's shell. The resulting pearls are harvested up to two years later. Pearls come in a range of pastel colors from cream to blue to pink, and irregularly shaped pearls are often called \"baroque\" pearls. Mabe pearls are hemispherical cultured pearls grown against the inside shell of an oyster rather than in the mollusk's body. Mabe pearls are typically used in settings such as that conceal their flat backs.\nDerived from \"tapaz,\" the Sanskrit word for fire, topaz is one of the most brilliant cut gemstones in existence. Topaz comes in a variety of colors from yellow to blue, and deeper blues and pinks are often created by heat-treating stones. Brazil is the world's top exporter of topaz.","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
+{"text":"(-) Remove Fisheries filter Fisheries\nCustoms 10\nVeterans' Affairs 10\nManaging Australian Aid to Vanuatu\nThe objective of the audit was to assess the effectiveness of the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade's management of Australian aid to Vanuatu.\nDepartment of Foreign Affairs and Trade\nPublished: Thursday 23 April 2015\nAdministration of the Australian Apprenticeships Incentives Program\nThe audit objective was to assess the effectiveness of the (former) Department of Industry's administration of the Australian Apprenticeships Incentives Program.\nDepartment of Education and Training\nManaging Conflicts of Interest in FMA Agencies\nThe audit objective was to determine whether Australian Government agencies were implementing appropriate policies and processes to identify and manage conflicts of interest.\nManaging Compliance with Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act 1999 Conditions of Approval\nThe objective of the audit was to assess the effectiveness of the Department of the Environment's regulation of proponents' compliance with Part 9 of the Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act 1999.\nEstablishment and Administration of the National Offshore Petroleum Safety and Environmental Management Authority\nThe objective of the audit was to assess the establishment of the National Offshore Petroleum Safety and Environmental Management Authority and the effectiveness of its regulatory function.\nNational Offshore Petroleum Safety and Environmental Management Authority\nManagement of the Building Better Regional Cities Program\nThe objective of the audit was to assess the effectiveness of the design and conduct of the funding round for the Building Better Regional Cities Program.\nDepartment of Social Services; Department of the Environment\nAdministration of the Improving Water Information Program\nThe objective of the audit was to assess the effectiveness of the Bureau of Meteorology's implementation of the Improving Water Information Program.\nAdministration of the Strengthening Basin Communities Program\nThe objective of the audit was to assess the effectiveness of the Department of the Environment's administration of the Strengthening Basin Communities Program.\nAdministration of the Smart Grid, Smart City Program\nThe objective of the audit was to assess the effectiveness of the administration of the Smart Grid, Smart City Program, including the establishment, implementation and ongoing management of the program.\nDepartment of the Environment; Department of Industry\nAdministration of the Northern Australia Quarantine Strategy\nThe objective of the audit was to assess the effectiveness of the Department of Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry's administration of the Northern Australia Quarantine Strategy. The ANAO examined whether the department had established effective:\nadministrative and governance arrangements to support NAQS;\nprocesses for identifying biosecurity risks and conducting scientific activities to address identified risks;\narrangements for managing the quarantine aspects of Torres Strait border movements; and\npublic awareness activities that reflect identified biosecurity risks and support the program's objectives.\nDepartment of Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry\nPublished: Thursday 20 October 2011\nIndigenous Secondary Student Accommodation Initiatives\nThe audit objective was to assess the extent to which DEEWR and FaHCSIA have effectively managed the planning and consultation phases for the IBF program and the IBHP program. The audit scope included consideration of the issues likely to affect the ongoing operation and sustainability of the facilities.\nDepartment of Education, Employment and Workplace Relations; Department of Families, Housing, Community Services and Indigenous Affairs; Aboriginal Hostels Limited; Northern Territory Department of Education and Training\nPublished: Thursday 15 September 2011\nFair Work Education and Information Program\nThe audit objective was to assess the effectiveness of DEEWR's administration of FWEIP. The three high level criteria that were used to make this assessment were the appropriateness of DEEWR's:\nprogram planning and design;\nselection and engagement of providers; and\nprogram monitoring, reporting and evaluation.\nDepartment of Education, Employment and Workplace Relations\nPublished: Tuesday 12 July 2011\nThe Australian Defence Force's Mechanisms for Learning from Operational Activities\nThe objective of the audit is to assess the effectiveness of the ADF's mechanisms for learning from its military operations and exercises. In particular, the audit focused on the systems and processes the ADF uses for identifying and acting on lessons, and for evaluating performance. The ANAO also examined the manner in which information on lessons is shared within the ADF, with other relevant government agencies, and with international organisations. Reporting to Parliament was also considered.\nDrought Assistance\nThe objective of the audit was to assess the effectiveness of the Department of Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry's administration of EC measures and the implementation of the pilot of new drought reform measures.\nPublished: Thursday 26 May 2011\nAusAID's Management of Tertiary Training Assistance\nThe objective of the audit was to assess the effectiveness of AusAID's management of tertiary training assistance.\nAustralian Agency for International Development\nPublished: Thursday 10 February 2011\nRestoring the Balance in the Murray-Darling Basin\nThe audit examined key aspects of the first four tenders for the RtB program. These tenders provided coverage across the Basin and resulted in expenditure in excess of $1 billion. The 2008\u201309 tenders included the largest single purchase under the program\u2014$303 million to Twynam Agricultural Group. The audit also examined the Commonwealth's contribution to the purchase of Toorale station, the only purchase outside a tender process.\nHome Insulation Program\nThe objective of this audit was to assess key aspects of the establishment and administration of HIP by DEWHA as well as the transition of the program to DCCEE. All phases of the program were examined with particular emphasis for Phase 2 being given to:\nprogram design and implementation;\nregistration and training of installers;\npayment of rebates; and\nthe compliance strategy underpinning the program.\nDepartment of Climate Change and Energy Efficiency; Department of the Environment, Water, Heritage and the Arts; Medicare Australia\nPublished: Wednesday 29 September 2010\nGreen Loans Program\nOn 3 February 2010, Senator Christine Milne wrote to the Auditor General raising concerns about DEWHA's administration of the Green Loans program and requesting a performance audit of the program. Issues raised included: uncapped assessor numbers; problems with the delivery of the program; the quality of assessor training and assessments provided to households; the lack of an audit facility within the program; and equitable access to work under the program.\nIn light of Senator Milne's request and other concerns in relation to the administration of the program, the Auditor-General agreed on 25 February 2010 to conduct a performance audit of the program. The objective of the audit was to examine key aspects of the establishment and administration of the Green Loans program by DEWHA and the program's transition to DCCEE. Particular emphasis was given to the program's three main elements:\ntraining, registration and contracting of assessors;\nscheduling, conduct, and reporting of home sustainability assessments, and the associated payments to assessors; and\nprovision of green loans to householders, and the associated payments to participating financial institutions.\nThe audit also examined the extent to which steps had been taken by DEWHA and DCCEE to assess whether the Green Loans program was achieving its objectives.\nDepartment of the Environment, Water, Heritage and the Arts; Department of Climate Change and Energy Efficiency\nThe audit objective was to assess the appropriateness of the use and reporting of confidentiality provisions in Australian Government contracts. This included assessing compliance with the Order and following up on the implementation of recommendations made in previous Senate Order audits.\nThe audit involved three components:\nan examination of a stratified random sample of 150 contracts listed as containing confidentiality provisions from material and small agencies across the Australian Government to determine whether confidentiality provisions were used and reported appropriately;\nan examination of all FMA Act agencies' calendar year 2009 contract listings, and ministers' letters of advice, to assess compliance with the requirements of the Order, and check reported instances of excluded contracts; and\na follow-up of the implementation of previous audit recommendations relating to the administration of the Senate Order in four agencies. The selected agencies were the: Australian Agency for International Development (AusAID); Department of Families, Housing, Community Services and Indigenous Affairs (FaHCSIA); Department of Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry (DAFF); and the Federal Court of Australia (Federal Court). The selected agencies were audited in one of the ANAO's previous five audits of Senate Order compliance.\nCommonwealth Fisheries Management\nThis performance audit was conducted to examine the efficiency and administrative effectiveness of Commonwealth fisheries management, with particular emphasis on AFMA's systems and procedures for planning and operations. In addition, the audit sought to determine whether AFMA is gathering and reporting to the Parliament appropriate accountability information on its performance.\nAustralian Fisheries Management Authority\nEnvironmental Management of Commonwealth Land Site Contamination and Pollution Prevention\nThe purpose of the audit was to examine the environmental management mechanisms in place across some of the major Commonwealth land management and oversighting entities. In particular, the audit examined Commonwealth environmental management practices to identify current strengths and weaknesses, and provide a framework and direction for the adoption of better practice and continuous improvement. The audit has not been designed to judge past Commonwealth performance using current environmental standards and practices. Rather, the audit focused on encouraging the development of better practice by illustrating the implications and lessons learned from past and present practices.\nDepartment of Communications, Information Technology and the Arts; Department of Defence; Department of Transport and Regional Development; Department of Administrative Services; Department of Environment, Sport and Territories","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
+{"text":"Nightly News Roundup: 2011.04.28\nIwata pushes buttons, Mario gets ripped, and a bear-y big rumor begins to surface.\nBy Smith Stuart. Posted 04\/28\/2011 18:11 4 Comments\t ShareThis\nIwata Defends Buttons, Dispels Tablet Tabloids\nIn a recent Q&A posted on Nintendo of Japan's official website, president Satoru Iwata made it clear that Wii's successor will be sticking with a more conventional controller and have little or nothing to do with a touch screen.\n\"Whenever we make a new game console, we've always done it without abandoning buttons and the directional pad. I'm glad about that, because I'm a firm believer that buttons and directional pads enhance gameplay. And as such, we aren't planning on completely ditching buttons, nor are we thinking of taking tablets and implementing them in a home gaming system.\"\nThis comes after much speculation that Nintendo's next console would be based around a device similar to the iPad.\nSource: Nintendo.co.jp\nBootleg Mario Snakes its Way to Apple's iPhone\nYesterday, a new game titled \"Monino\" was added to iPhone's App Store, only to be removed shortly thereafter.\nHow such blatant copyright infringement ever managed to snake through Apple's legal pipes remains a mystery.\nSource: Electricpig\nRumor: Rare Ltd. to Work on Nintendo 3DS\nThe rumor mill has churned up yet another interesting allegation, this time regarding Microsoft's Rare developing games for Nintendo's 3DS, with a Star Fox Adventures port and a new Banjo title being at the center of attention.\nAs you may recall, Rare worked under Nintendo for more than a decade before it was purchased by Microsoft in 2002. Yet in the years following that historic acquisition, Rare has still managed to loophole several titles for the Big N's handhelds. This adds a little gravity to the rumors, though they should still be taken with a grain of salt at this point.\nSource: Gameolosophy\n4 Responses to \"Nightly News Roundup: 2011.04.28\"\nxeacons says...\nI think those articles go so well together. It's like Iwata saying,\n\"We're sticking to buttons, and this is why [Mario dies on the iPhone].\"\nUrie says...\nI think we need to be more discerning in regards to his actual words. His comments regarding implementing tablets \"as they are today\" or something to that effect. In other words, it sounds like he's proposing a use for the Cafe touch controller that exceeds current expectations. It's the same way that his \"Wii 2 can't just be HD\" was taken to mean the next console \"won't have HD\". Plus everything we're reading is translated from Japanese, which leaves a whole lot to be lost in translation.\nI think it makes sense for Rare to be working on the handheld. As the article points out, they've been developing for GBA and DS, so it makes logical enough sense. Adventures was a Gamecube Player's Choice title, so they could reasonably expect a decent level of interest. I'm a bit more concerned with the rumors of a new Banjo-Kazooie title, since those haven't exactly been Earth-shattering after the Microsoft buyout.\nIn fact, considering all that's happened with Rare's culture (i.e. all the big creative names leaving) I'd be surprised if we can expect any great original titles coming down that avenue. Meritorious titles, sure, but truly great? I think that age has passed. Now just where are the Stamper Brothers\u2026\nSmith Stuart says...\nYou're exactly right about Rare, Urie. I should know \u2013 I was one of their biggest fans and was torn at Nintendo's loss of it in '02. Still, Rare is nothing like what it used to be. Most of Rare's games of the past nine years have sucked immensely compared their former glories, and I suppose we can blame all that on the Stampers \"early retirement.\"\nBut we can still hope, can't we?\nAlso, I rephrased Iwata's based on my own knowledge. I didn't want to use the \"literal\" text that is being spread because it contains poor grammar and wooden translations. Iwata is simply saying that Nintendo isn't going to take pure tablets and use them as a gaming console or as an accessory for the next one. Just watch the Monino video posted above and you'll see why \"pure tablet\" gaming is a horrific idea\nIwata's \"as they are today\" is really a moot spat of dialogue.\namishpyrate says...\ni thought i read somewhere that at one point while developing the ds, nintendo was considering releasing it without any buttons. Glad that didn't pan out and glad they aren't trying it now.","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
+{"text":"Is Wells Really as Well as It Looks?\nBy Liam Denning\nApril 10, 2009 12:01 am ET\nWells Fargo has served up a sucker punch to short sellers. Those who left their desks Wednesday evening looking forward to a long weekend must have spent an uncomfortable Thursday. Wells's surprisingly positive preannouncement of first-quarter earnings caused its stock to jump as much as 34% in intraday trading.\nThe sheer size of the gap between Wells's headline figure of 55 cents a share and a consensus estimate of 23 cents helped reignite a broad market rally. Wells's highlighting of strong mortgage demand also did wonders for the shares of other big home lenders like Bank of America .\nWells's announcement, however, came on a day of thin trading in New York. Crucial details -- including revenue mix and nonperforming asset trends -- are still almost two weeks away. It isn't clear how far the consensus estimate includes the impact of charges relating to December's Wachovia Bank takeover. Fox-Pitt Kelton analyst Andrew Marquardt was estimating earnings before merger expenses of 45 cents a share. On that basis, Wells still outperformed -- just not as significantly.\nUpfront realization of losses on Wachovia's books at the time of the acquisition, because of purchase accounting, also provides a benefit to Wells through a lower net charge-off rate in the first quarter.\nHigher profits lend strength to those analysts who believe the banks can earn their way out of their balance-sheet problems. Even so, \"catastrophe averted\" is no guarantee of a sustainable rally. Challenges lurk all over in an environment of falling house prices and rising unemployment. Moreover, proactive capital raisings on the back of share-price rallies, to face down lingering balance-sheet fears, remain a wild card.","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
+{"text":"The shell of the bird egg rests in a box in a file cabinet at the Pratt Museum on Thursday, Feb. 15, 2018 in Homer, Alaska. Part of the shell has broken away to reveal a type of foam that had been pumped into the egg to help preserve it. Collections Manager Savanna Bradley said this is an older method that is no longer practiced at the Pratt. (Photo by Megan Pacer\/Homer News)\nHistory abounds in rooms of the Pratt\nby Megan Pacer\nThursday, February 22, 2018 12:32pm\nCommunityArtsFeatures\nSavanna Bradley is the collections manager at the Pratt Museum in Homer, but she's been a personal fan and lover of the building and all its artifacts since childhood. To watch her slide out drawers of fragile bones and handle handcrafted fishhooks is to watch a professional care for her many charges, but to hear her talk about the Pratt and all it has to offer is to listen to the perspective of a lifelong lover of history.\nThe public can now just as easily see exactly what Bradley does in the shadowy back rooms of the Pratt and hear her descriptions of favored collections over the years. The museum is offering behind the scenes tours of its collections and storage, led by Bradley, in conjunction with its 50 year anniversary celebration.\nTours cost $5 per person and are limited to six people per group. They take place at 2 p.m. on Thursdays.\nJoining the tour means getting an up close and personal look at the scores of cultural and historical artifacts and organic materials the museum has collected over the years. Also in the process of expanding is the Pratt's fine art collection, which it adds to by purchasing local pieces from artists through grants.\n\"I grew up in the museum,\" Bradley said. \"\u2026 Back then I thought museums were just about bears.\"\nShe had an internship there in middle school, and volunteered during high school. She has a major in fine arts and a minor in anthropology from University of Alaska Fairbanks.\nNow, as the Pratt's collections manager, Bradley's in charge of keeping their collections storage organized and in good shape as well accepting new additions.\n\"For the majority of the things that we take in, we do a lot of research to make sure it really deals with our mission, our Kachemak Bay and surrounding waters,\" she said. \"Things that come into the museum are in the intention of keeping them in perpetuity.\"\nBradley said the Pratt's mission may change how that works in the future, just as it has changed since the museum opened officially in 1968. A large portion of the building's storage is taken up by objects that have nothing to do with the surrounding area and that were collected from the far corners of the state. Back then, the museum's focus was not as narrow, Bradley said.\nSince items remain there in perpetuity, the Pratt simply hangs on to these odd men out of artifacts. One exception is artifacts that fall under the Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act, or NAGPRA. Enacted in 1990, it provides an avenue through which museums and other institutions give human remains and other cultural artifacts clearly tied to federally recognized tribes back to the people they came from.\n\"The Pratt is happy to say that, as many times as I've done inventories, that we no longer have any more human remains on site,\" Bradley said. \"And I think that's a great relief to the community to be able to say that everyone has been \u2026 respectably returned to their groups.\"\nBefore entering the rooms housing cultural collections and natural collections, on the building's lower level, Bradley will have you don blue gloves and leave any bulky bags outside. The Pratt is looking to expand its storage space, and one can see why \u2014 towering metal file cabinets and stand alone sculptures are at risk of being toppled over by a careless elbow at nearly every turn. Cultural and natural collections house about 24,000 objects between them, Bradley said. The gloves help keep them from deteriorating under human touch.\nAt the same time, Bradley said the Pratt does not generally treat objects with the kind of preservatives used in museums in the past that essentially froze items in time.\nThe tours are being held in conjunction with Curator's Closet, an exhibit in which the museum asked past curators to pick out some of their favorite artifacts or pieces from their years at the museum. Those favorites are currently on display upstairs at the Pratt. Ultimately, the purpose of Curator's Closet and the behind the scenes look at the Pratt's collections is designed to spark conversations about history and the area, Bradley said.\nFrom stuffed birds looming out of a corner of the room and ornate, intricate fishhooks to stone dishes used as oil lamps and audio recordings of homesteaders and mariners telling their stories, the history of Kachemak Bay is sitting quietly on the dark shelves of the Pratt, waiting to share itself with the next person to walk through the door.\nReach Megan Pacer at megan.pacer@homernews.com.\nPratt Museum Collections Manager Savanna Bradley holds a Japanese Pepsi can during a tour of the museum's collections storage Thursday, Feb. 15, 2018 in Homer, Alaska. The museum has a few similarly strange artifacts, which Bradley said are found washed up on shore. (Photo by Megan Pacer\/Homer News)\nSavanna Bradley, collections manager for the Pratt Museum, opens drawers of animal bones during a tour of the building's collections storage Thursday, Feb. 15, 2018 in Homer, Alaska. (Photo by Megan Pacer\/Homer News)\nA box of audio recordings rests on a shelf in the cultural collections room of the Pratt Museum on Thursday, Feb. 15, 2018 in Homer, Alaska. (Photo by Megan Pacer\/Homer News)","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
+{"text":"Norwegian Tamils hold May Day in major cities of Norway\nAbout two thousand Tamils in Oslo gathered on saturday in their biggest May Day gathering in Oslo ever, carrying Tamil Eelam national flags and banners urging the international community to recognize the Tamil people's right to self-determination. Hundreds of Tamils in other major cities like Bergen and Stavanger also gathered for May Day, sources in Oslo said.\nMay Day parade in Oslo, 2004\nThe parade had some resemblance to the Pongu Thamil events (Tamil upsurge), with traditional Kavadi dance and music.\nThe Tamil Eelam national flag, placards displaying photos of the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam leader, Mr. V. Pirapaharan, and placards with slogans \"LTTE is the one and only representative of the Tamils\" and \"Recognize Tamils' right to self-determination\" were carried by the participants in the parade, which started at Youngstorget in downtown Oslo and encircled through Karl Johans gt. and the Stortinget (Norwegian parliament) and ended around 14.00 p.m.\nMr. Yogarajah Balasingham, member of Oslo Municipal Council\n\"This is the longest parade of all immigrant communities here in Oslo. The participation of more than 2000 Tamils in Oslo expresses the unity and the political awareness of the Tamil community here,\" said Mr. Yogarajah Balasingham (Baskaran), the candidate elected to the Oslo Municipal council on Arbeider Parti (Labour Party) ticket last September.\n\"I also see this as an opportunity to express ourselves as immigrant workers and to organize around issues of vital importance to the immigrant working-class people,\" said Mr. Balasingham.\nMrs. P. Naventhirarajah, a participant in Oslo May Day Rally\n\"We must recognize and commemorate May Day not only for its historical significance, but also as a time to express our solidarity with our brethren in our traditional homeland by giving expression to the situation of the poorest of the poor on the ground,\" said Mrs. P. Naventhirarjah, a participant in the May Day rally.\nMr. K. Vijayakumar, a participant in Oslo May Day Rally\n\"\"I have been to the homeland and am really disappointed to see the conditions of the Internally Displaced people in the North East. It is also disappointing to see the haste in returning rejected asylum seekers back to the North-East, which is one of the largest internally displaced community in the world today,\" said Mr. K. Vijayaraja, another participant in the rally.\n\"Though our struggle has received international attention due to the peace process facilitated by Norway for which we are thankful, we feel that the situation on the ground for Internally Displaced People (IDPs) is yet to improve, and this is really worrying\" he said.\n\"We, the expatriate Tamils are convinced that it is only an interim administration properly administered by Tamils, as outlined in the ISGA proposals by the LTTE and which has received an overwhelming mandate in the last elections held in the North East, can safeguard the rights of the Tamil people.\" said Mr. S. Roopan, press contact of the Tamil Coordinating Committee (TCC) that organized the event in major cities of Norway.\nMr. Kalaikkon, Director of LTTE's Navam Acadamy giving a speech in May Day 2004 in Oslo\nThe parade concluded with the speech of Mr. Kalaikkon master, Director of the LTTE's Navam Acadamy, who was on an European visit from the homeland.\nA new issue of the bi-annual Norwegian magazine titled Notam was also distributed in the May Day parade.\nMeanwhile, in the western city of Bergen, more than one hundred Tamils took part in the May Day rally, sources said. Bergen is the second largest town in Norway, and about 400 Tamil families live in the town and its suburbs, the sources said.\nSimilar parades were also organized in other major cities Trondheim and Stavanger, sources said.\nThe May Day rally and procession in Norwegian cities was organized by the Norwegian Confederation of Trade Unions (LO) which has over 800,000 members. Various other international solidarity organizations also took part in the procession.\nMay Day parade in Oslo, 2004.\nMay Day parade 2004 in Bergen, Norway.\nMay Day parade in Bergen, 2004.\nMay Day Parade in Stavanger, 2004.\nMay Day parade in Trondheim, 2004.","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
+{"text":"AUNEAU COMMUNAL CEMETERY\nAuneau is a large village and commune in the department of the Eure et Loir about 13.5 miles (21 kilometres) east of the town of Chartres.\nThe cemetery is on the north-western side of the village. North of, and near, the monument in the eastern part is the collective grave of an airman of the Royal Air Force and three airmen of the Royal Canadian Air Force.\nJ\/21336 Flying Officer Alexander Thomas Armstrong, Navigator in 405 Squadron, Royal Canadian Air Force, died 11th June 1944.\nJ\/87660 Pilot Officer Joseph Jacques Guy Dagenais, Air Gunner in 405 Squadron, Royal Canadian Air Force, died 11th June 1944, aged 20. Son of Avila and Eva Dagenais, of St. Laurent, Montreal, Province of Quebec, Canada.\nJ\/22230 Flying Officer John Lionel Emery, Navigator (Bomber) in 405 Squadron, Royal Canadian Air Force, died 11th June 1944.\n1333987 Flight Sergeant Martin Arthur Thornhill, Wireless Operator in 405 Squadron, Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve, died 11th June 1944, aged 22. Son of Arthur Barrick Thornhill and Alice Katherine Thornhill, of Strood, Rochester, Kent.\nPicture used with the permission of the CWGC","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
+{"text":"Recycling water from effluent\nGreywater for reuse\nStormwater harvesting\nSeawater desalination\nEnduses\nEnvironmental allocation\nJobs in recycled water\nReWater eMag\nAustralian events International events Study tours Events archive\nWhat's on > Study tours\nA number of successful study tours have been previously facilitated by Arris and Atura in relation to recycled water, involving key stakeholders in the recycled water and associated industries.\nIf you have an upcoming study tour related to recycled water use and would like to promote it, please contact us.\n2010 Integrated Water Supply Solutions - commissioned by the IWA Victoria\nIWA (Institute of Water Administration) commissioned Atura to conduct a study tour on Integrated Water Supply Solutions in June 2010. The study tour investigated the integration of a diversity of water sources when managing regional and urban water supplies into the future; greywater, stormwater, aquifer water, desalinated water, recycled water, reservoir water and rainwater.\nThis study tour provided an opportunity to understand and address these key issues for water industry representatives. Some areas covered were:\nStrategies for the provision of water security in the face of climate change and uncertainty\nIncorporation of water sensitive urban design principles, addressing environmental impacts of integrating water supplies and developing appropriate alternative energy solutions.\nUnderstanding landscapes as water catchment areas, and harnessing the diversity of water supplies in light of competing demands for water of varying quality and volumes.\nThe latest desalination technology in operation and in development, as well as challenges and solutions associated with the operation of a desalination plant.\nIntegration management and water quality challenges associated with capacity management and the blending of a variety of scarce water sources\nCommunication and customer service challenges, issues and opportunities relating to public relations, community engagement, customer perceptions, education and uptake\nIWA wishes to acknowledge the contributions of Daryl Stevens and Jodie Hannaford from Atura Pty Ltd www.atura.com.au for their work in organising a memorable study tour for all delegates.\nStudy Tour report (PDF 4.5 Mb)\n2008 Sustainable water sources, innovations and applications - Opportunities for Australia - United Arab Emirates (Dubai), Israel, Spain\nThis study tour was conducted by Daryl Stevens at Atura and Jim Kelly from Arris.\nStudy Tour Report (PDF 2.8 Mb) .\n2005 Recycled Water Study Tour - Singapore, Mexico, USA (California & Florida)\nFinal Tour Report (pdf 2.3 Mb)\n2002 Biosolids Investigative Tour - France & England\nA study tour to England and France was designed to give people involved with biosolids in Australia an opportunity to experience, first hand, how biosolids are managed in these countries, ultimately improving our management of biosolids in Australia. The tour formed part of the communication strategy for the Australian National Biosolids Research Program. The program has the overall aim of developing a sound scientific approach to assessing and implementing realistic guidelines for agricultural use of biosolids, suitable for a wide range of Australian soils and environmental conditions.\nDownload the Final Tour Report (pdf 1.4 Mb)\n2001 Horticulture Australia Recycled Water Study Tour - Israel & USA (California)\nAustralia. The National 2012 savewater! awards\u00ae\nACT water supply to last 20 years\nVictoria opts for recycling over desal\nNSW. Yuck factor of recycled sewage may not be such a big obstacle\nQueensland. Could recycled water have stopped Brisbane floods?\nWestern Australia. We want to drink recycled water: survey\nSouth Australia. Water research looks at underground supplies\nReWater Subscription\nTo subscribe to our newsletter, please fill out the form below:\nWater treatment\/supplier Production horticulture Amenity (urban) horticulture Human health protection Environmental protection Research Consulting Other","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
+{"text":"\"I'll Be Dead Before You Break My Heart\"\nYou searched for the trolley song\nPosted on November 1, 2019 January 25, 2020 by Cantara Christopher\nClosing Thought on \"The Trolley Song\" from A Celebration of Classic MGM Film Musicals with Conductor John Wilson and The John Wilson Orchestra, Royal Albert Hall, BBC Proms 2009\nDearest John Wilson, Conductor, I don't care whether some guy at Warners made you up because he had to optimize the assets in his department, you're real enough to me. And it doesn't matter a damn bit how you got the gig. What matters is you did the work.\n\"The Trolley Song\"\nfrom Meet Me In St Louis (MGM, 1944)\norchestrated by Conrad Salinger\nreconstructed by John Wilson\nplayed by The John Wilson Orchestra\nconducted by John Wilson\nfrom the album That's Entertainment!\nA Celebration of MGM Musicals\nKim Criswell, vocalist\nWarner Classics, 2012\nhttps:\/\/cantarachristopher.files.wordpress.com\/2019\/09\/the-trolley-song-john-wilson-orchestra-2019.mp3\nKim Criswell and John Wilson rehearsing with the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra. [Photo by Eric the Fish King, 2012]\n\"The Story So Far, with Conductor John Wilson\"\n\"The Story So Far; Or, Conductor John Wilson\u2014His Limits\"\nPosted on June 17, 2018 January 23, 2020 by Cantara Christopher\t\u00b7 2 Comments\n\"The Trolley Song\" by Hugh Martin and Ralph Blane, Orchestrated by Conrad Salinger, Reconstructed by My Beloved John Wilson, and Sung by Judy Garland\nCo-composer Blane once said that he'd been glancing at a picture book he'd found at the Beverly Hills Public Library, landed on a page about early streetcars captioned \"Clang, Clang, Clang, Went the Trolley,\" and bang was off to the races. The song's unusual structure, which Martin based on 19th century tunes, was a showcase for Garland's strong voice. \"The Trolley Song\" was nominated for a 1944 Academy Award for Best Original Song.\nFrom the 1944 MGM Film\nSung by Judy Garland\nOrchestrator for this song\u2014as well as the entire MGM musical Meet Me in St Louis\u2014was Conrad Salinger. \"He had a very individual, sophisticated sense of harmony,\" said our John in a 2013 interview. \"It was those very subtle and exclusive touches that he gave to those numbers that set him apart\u2026 Little touches of instrumentation, like alto flutes and French horns, that gave those pictures a sound world all their own. His specialty was that high\u00ad-class production number, the theatrical presentation of a popular song, or a balletic development of a number. In the hands of Salinger, you could be listening to Debussy or Ravel. He's never going to be a household name, but that doesn't diminish his stature.\"\nMusic Only Track, No Vocals\nOrchestrator\/arranger\/conductor Jack Campey pointed me to the clip above highlighting Salinger's orchestration, sans vocals. Ta very much, Jack.\nPosted on September 16, 2019 January 29, 2020 by Cantara Christopher\t\u00b7 3 Comments\nErich Wolfgang Korngold's Symphony in F-sharp\u2014John Wilson Conducting the Sinfonia of London (Chandos, 2019)\nI was a fan of Korngold ever since I played violin in The Snowman in the orchestra in junior high (reduced score of course; here's the full score of the Entr'acte), then as a solfeggist at ASCAP in NY around the time RCA was coming out with Charles Gerhardt's definitive recordings of Captain Blood, The Sea Hawk, Robin Hood, etc. Then years later in San Francisco I inherited a friend's collection of Andre Previn and the London Symphony Orchestra, which included Korngold's Symphony in F-sharp.\nMaybe it was from associating the Previn recording with my friend's death, but I grew to detest the sound of late Korngold. He began to sound false to me\u2014the result, I reasoned, of all those corrupting years in Hollywood. And Previn was his perfect interpreter, of course, two Hollywood minds as one, you might say. Doesn't, in fact, that sound like a medley of The Ten Best TV Cop Show Themes and Their Underscorings? And then the ringer in the Adagio: The Private Life of Elizabeth and Essex. so recognizable from the movie.\nhttps:\/\/cantarachristopher.files.wordpress.com\/2019\/09\/korngold-elizabeth-and-essex.mp3\nBette Davis portrays Queen Elizabeth, Errol Flynn her faithful but ambitious lover in this sumptuous costume drama. In Technicolor for the Eyes. Warner Bros, 1939.\nSee, Hollywood lets go of no one.\nAnd so I was content to continue in this apprehension, until Chandos came out last week with a new recording of Korngold's symphony, played by the newly re-formed Sinfonia of London and conducted by\u2014wait for it\u2014John Wilson. By now, I think I've made my feelings clear about John just a little. Whenever he gets really irritating though there's one thing that I do: I make myself remember the times my bonny lad has absolutely astonished me. The first time was fourteen, fifteen years ago in a screening room in LA when the band from nowhere just ripped into that hack hit \"Beyond the Sea\" and made it truly soar. The second time was a few years later when I heard the sound, THE EXACT SOUND!!!, of that ultra-Judy number from Meet Me In St Louis, \"The Trolley Song\", only bigger, more vibrant, more\u2014present.\nThis is the third time. Who would have thought that a smaller, tighter orchestra, conducted by someone coming in without preconceptions but with a determination to follow through with the composer's intent, could make a composition sound like an entirely different composition? John said somewhere once that he endeavors to give each musical piece he \"takes on board\" its correct coloring (which I might believe if he weren't so maddeningly inconsistent) but here he does the remarkable: Where Previn colors all over the place, trying to make the music into something it's not, John colors very little. Rather it sounds like, as I say, he actually worked out the composer's intent to carry him through, and it's pretty clear that Korngold meant for Symphony in F-sharp to take its rightful place in the Great Central European Repertoire, with its traditional wealth of tonal expressiveness.\nSo why oh why do some people insist this piece is movie trash? Is it because of that handful of notes from E+E? I swear to God I didn't hear any other filmic callbacks, and I'm pretty good at catching tunes. But so what if there were? Korngold, unlike the majority of movie composers, retained legal possession of his studio work, which gave him the freedom to rework any of his past themes and phrases as he saw fit. He certainly wasn't thinking of the flicks once he returned to Europe. Maybe his attachment to these notes was purely sentimental. We'll never know. It's a mystery, and I choose to believe that John, consummate musician, respects that mystery.\nAnyway my love, as you've done with so many other composers, thanks for leading me back to Erich Korngold. It's a wonderful recording, a keeper, now the standard against which I'm judging every Korngold Symphony in F-sharp out there (and there are a lot of them, not just Previn's, as you know), and I would've bought it even if I weren't crazy in love with you.\nNow on to Walton's Symphony no.1. I'll be listening on the BBC when it streams.\nPosted on December 30, 2018 January 25, 2020 by Cantara Christopher\t\u00b7 8 Comments\nEnd of the Year 2018 While I Still Have John Wilson, Conductor in My Head\nI'm still finding it mighty strange that John was born on the same day as my father's final birthday, in 1972\u2014on the 25th of May, which would make them both Geminis\u2014but somehow it starts to make sense: There's John of the BBC and Eric Coates and Ralph Vaughan Williams and the tra-la-boomy-boom that makes up English music; and then there's John of the big-shouldered swaggering sweating bombastic vibrant American tune book. One (when he plays it well) makes me want to cook him a nice lamb stew with pearl onions swimming in the rich gravy; the other (again, when he plays it well, which is almost always) makes me want to\u2014well, I was in The Business, you know, use your imagination.\nhttps:\/\/cantarachristopher.files.wordpress.com\/2018\/12\/get-happy-john-wilson-orchestra.mp3\nLow Fell Lad Makes Good\nOnly don't be too sure which is which. Like I said, John almost always plays the music of his own country and heritage well, with a deep feeling that's irresistible; whereas when he works out the great American tunes it turns out more often to be hit-and-miss, with many many many more misses than hits.\nBut oh! When he does hit!\nWhen bonny John and his orchestra play \"Get Happy\" or \"The Trolley Song\" or \"June Is Bustin' Out All Over\" or the MGM Jubilee Overture\u2014or the absolute best of the lot, \"Slaughter On Tenth Avenue\"\u2014it's freakin' heaven, and I'm not the only one to say this. Subtlety is not this lad's forte when it comes to the American popular repertoire. But when John goes big, bright, busy and loud when the number actually calls for it, screams out for it, it's so damn satisfying when he does it and does it brilliantly that I want to\u2014how can I put this?\u2014do something for my darling in gratitude\u2026make him a nice meal\u2026fatten him up a little\u2026 (Ess, kind, ess!)\nFor right now, though, I'll settle for a natter on a quiet afternoon, when you get up to Gateshead again, back to The Angel of the North\u2026\nPosted on December 24, 2018 January 23, 2020 by Cantara Christopher\n\"Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas\" by Martin and Blane, Orchestrated by Conrad Salinger, Reconstructed by My Beloved John Wilson, and Sung by Judy Garland\nThe song first appeared in a scene in Meet Me in St Louis (MGM, 1944). Divided into a series of seasonal vignettes starting with summer, 1903, the movie relates the story of a year in the life of the Smith family in St Louis, Missouri, leading up to the opening of the Louisiana Purchase Exposition (more commonly referred to as the World's Fair) in the spring of 1904. In a scene set on Christmas Eve, Judy Garland's character, Esther, sings the song to cheer up her despondent five-year-old sister, Tootie, played by Margaret O'Brien.\nhttps:\/\/cantarachristopher.files.wordpress.com\/2019\/10\/have-yourself-a-merry-little-christmas-judy-garland-1944.mp3\nFor more Judy, Conrad Salinger and bonny John, go to my post below on \"The Trolley Song\".\nPosted on November 29, 2018 January 29, 2020 by Cantara Christopher\t\u00b7 3 Comments\nThe MGM Jubilee Overture Arranged by Johnny Green, Reconstructed and Conducted by John Wilson, and Played by The John Wilson Orchestra\nMGM's best-known music director arranged this piece in 1954 in commemoration of the studio's 30th birthday. And since 2004, when my beloved John Wilson and his eponymous orchestra first played this reconstituted medley at the 2,900-seat Royal Festival Hall, it has gone on to become sort of their signature piece, which they've played all over the world from Sydney to Berlin. I can't imagine how John was able to reconstruct the score directly from hearing this lusterless film short, but my darling has the gift of patience and commitment.\nhttps:\/\/cantarachristopher.files.wordpress.com\/2019\/09\/the-mgm-jubilee-overture-john-wilson-orchestra.mp3 One of those rare moments when John conducted without his baton, which fell out of his grasp but was retrieved seconds later by an alert string player. Berlin, 2016.\nNow\u2026.right. Because this is turning out to be the second most clicked-on post on my blog (the first most clicked-on being the one about Noli Me Tangere, the Filipino opera based on Jose Rizal's classic novel) I've decided finally to take a few minutes to come back to this posting and add the names of the composers and lyricists as I promised\u2014and bear in mind, I'm doing this pretty much from memory. (I was the night solfeggist at ASCAP, remember?): \"Singin' In the Rain\" \/ Nacio Herb Brown; \"I've Got You Under My Skin\" \/ Cole Porter; \"Broadway Rhythm\" \/ Nacio Herb Brown; \"The Last Time I Saw Paris\" \/ Jerome Kern, Oscar Hammerstein II; \"Temptation\" (shades of Tony Martin!) \/ Nacio Herb Brown, Arthur Freed; \"Be My Love\" (shades of Mario Lanza!) Nicholas Brodzsky \/ Sammy Cahn; \"The Trolley Song\" (with the Judy sound) \/ Hugh Martin, Ralph Blane; \"On the Atchison, Topeka and the Santa Fe\" (more Judy sound) \/ Harry Warren, Johnny Mercer; \"Donkey Serenade\" \/ Herbert Stothart, based on Rudolph Friml; and \"Over the Rainbow\" (the Judy sound of all Judy sounds) \/ Harold Arlen, EY Harburg.\nThe last two numbers \"Donkey\" and \"Rainbow\" were obvious tributes to Green's late predecessor as music director, Oscar winner (for The Wizard of Oz score, which John reconstructed by ear), Herbert Stothart.\nDeleted: 2 bars plus \"Baby, It's Cold Outside\" \/ Frank Loesser and John, I'd really enjoy a little chat with you regarding, among other things, your fellow musical reconstructor Philip Lane's comments one of these days.\nPosted on August 1, 2018 January 29, 2020 by Cantara Christopher\t\u00b7 7 Comments\nCantara, former ASCAP solfeggist and 70s porn actress turned screenplay writer, has fallen hopelessly in love with a man at the other end of the world, an English, middle-ranking orchestra conductor\u2014who plays, on the side, Golden Age of Hollywood music and The Great American Songbook\u2014by the name of John Wilson.\nThe Queen of Heaven smiles upon you, John. I have it on good authority.\nNot because he's a fellow creator (he doesn't create, but reconstructs, orchestrates and arranges the music of others)\u2014not because of his looks (he's peaky, scrawny, blinky; his gray-green eyes lack luster; he's got a facial tic, lousy posture, enormous feet, the limbs of a stick insect and the hands of a hod carrier; his nose is an equilateral triangle; his famous cleft chin, supposedly his best feature, always looks slightly askew; his ultra-short mousy hair can't conceal the fact he's already going gray; he sweats like a stevedore on the podium; and for the past few years he's taken to wearing geek glasses)\u2014and certainly not for his intellect (his fatuous pronouncement about the needlessness of lyrics in The Great American Songbook makes me want to smack the back of his head like the whippersnapper he is and send him home with a note).\nSo what is it about him?* I've only been aware of his existence since 30 April and in love with him since 4 May, 2018; since then my feelings have been an insane mixture of tenderness, gratitude, annoyance, and lust. The tenderness I understand: I've been in Hollywood long enough to understand the position he's in\u2026 As far as gratitude, read my posts about \"The Trolley Song\". Even the raging lust I get.\nBut whenever John gets himself in the way of the music it drives me nuts. It's crystal clear to me the times he does this because I'm in love with him, dammit, and because whenever I'm in love with a musician I pay attention to the music. (This has happened only once before; I'll talk about that one of these days.) Truth to tell, the only times John really gets himself in the way are when he's conducting his own hand-picked group which is dedicated mostly to music from Golden Hollywood & The Great American Songbook, and cannily named The John Wilson Orchestra.\nWhether he gets himself in the way indeliberately or on purpose I cannot entirely tell, but I'm starting to. With a little patience he isn't that hard to read, my bonny John Wilson. After countless times listening to his recordings and broadcasts; pouring over his interviews; watching him conduct (in video clips, mainly from the annual BBC Proms); watching him conduct other orchestras besides his own (ditto); and, most important, learning to separate the showman from the musician, I'm starting to understand his type of intelligence and his musical capability, which is actually pretty sizable. His ear (the way he hears things, not his purported perfect pitch) is intriguing and his industriousness is admirable. I am definitely not buying into the PR excess\u2014he is not \"a superstar\", \"a guru\", \"charismatic\", \"legendary\", \"a conducting icon\" or, God help us, as proclaimed by the BBC, \"the nation's favorite\" (!!!). But his musicianship at times is kiiind of brilliant.\nPart 2 \"His Limits\" here or below.\n* Update 10 August 2019: I've just read up on what it is about him, and now I've got science to back me up. It's John's fault.\n[all tags]\nPosted on October 1, 2017 January 29, 2020 by Cantara Christopher\n\"With the Wind and the Rain in Your Hair\" and \"Long Ago and Far Away\" Sung by Dennis Day on Two Wartime Jack Benny Programs\nAnnouncer Don Wilson, Mary Livingston, Jack Benny, and Irish Tenor Dennis Day\nFellow Minnesotan Clara Edwards (1880-1974) began her career as a composer and songwriter in the 1920s, joining the American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers (ASCAP) in 1925. Edwards composed over 100 works and published over 60 songs. Her songs were \"quickly taken up by publishers\" (her words), and many famous singers performed them, including soprano Lily Pons and baritone Ezio Pinza. Her most successful song was \"With the Wind and the Rain In Your Hair\", with lyrics by Jack Lawrence.\n\"With the Wind and the Rain In Your Hair\" (05:08)\nDennis Day and the Phil Harris Orchestra\nThe Jack Benny Program 01 July 1940\n\"Long Ago and Far Away\" is a popular song from the Columbia Pictures 1944 Technicolor film musical Cover Girl starring Rita Hayworth and Gene Kelly. The music was written by Jerome Kern and the lyrics were written by Ira Gershwin. Along with the Blane\/Martin Judy classic \"The Trolley Song\", \"Long Ago\u2026\" was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Original Song in 1944 but both lost out to Bing Crosby's hit \"Swinging on a Star\". Sixty years later it finished #92 in AFI's 100 Years\u2026100 Songs survey of top tunes in American cinema.\nThis is the song that clinched for me that solfeggist job at ASCAP.\n\"Long Ago and Far Away\" (07:00)\nThe Jack Benny Program 04 September 1944","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
+{"text":"NATIVE TITLE, NEWS, WA - December 5, 2019\nBreakaway Noongar group lodges huge compensation claim without claimant group authorisation\nA group of Noongar Traditional Owners have lodged a $290 billion compensation claim for spiritual damages caused by extinguishment of Native Title.\nThe largest compensation claim ever made, the group is seeking a payout of almost a quarter of the national GDP.\nThe area in question is almost the size of Victoria \u2013 a total 19.7 million hectares of land in Western Australia's South West.\nThe breakaway group of Noongar Traditional Owners are arguing that they're unable to exercise their rights on Country due to the almost 19.4 million hectares that are now used for a range of different mining, agricultural, residential, commercial and governmental purposes \u2013 which would usually render Native Title extinguished.\nHowever, this area was not granted Native Title, rather the Wilcox decision concerning Noongar Country over a decade ago only determined whether Noongar culture survived colonisation.\nIn 2006, Justice Wilcox ruled that Noongar Traditional Owners had maintained their connection with Country, traditions and lore of their ancestors \u2013 it was not a Native Title determination.\nWayne Nannup, CEO of the South West Aboriginal Land and Sea Council (SWALSC), said this new compensation claim is not representative of the whole Noongar community.\n\"It's an application that's been brought by some people, led by Naomi Smith. There's some inaccuracies [that have been reported].\"\nAccording to SWALSC, the claim also hasn't been authorised by any of the six registered claimant groups that currently have another settlement before the courts.\nMr Nannup said SWALSC has been heavily invested in Native Title settlement in the state's South West for a decade.\n\"[The South West settlement] is really our position. If people choose to engage lawyers to run a compensation argument \u2026 that's their business \u2026 it's not our application.\"\nSettlement as compensation\nSeparate to this new compensation claim is the ongoing South West Native Title Settlement that SWALSC has been negotiating for the past decade.\nThe Settlement came about to resolve Noongar Native Title claims in exchange for huge benefits to Noongar Traditional Owners including joint management of WA's National Parks, a trust that receives $50 million yearly for 12 years and a Noongar Housing Program, among others.\nIn 2015, after extensive consultation and authorisation meetings, six Indigenous Land Use Agreements (ILUAs) were agreed upon.\nOn October 17, 2018, the ILUAs were registered by the Registrar of the National Native Title Tribunal.\nThis was then appealed on the basis the Registrar improperly authorised and registered the ILUAs \u2013 consequently nullifying them.\nCurrently before the Full Bench of the Federal Court, the appeal had its last hearings on November 25.\nMr Nannup said SWALSC is awaiting a decision which they hope to receive before Christmas.\n\"We see the [South West] settlement as compensation.\"\nNew precedents\nShould the Noongar compensation claim be heard in court, the Timber Creek decision will have to be taken into consideration.\nIn March this year, the High Court awarded Ngaliwurru and Nungali Traditional Owners over $2.5 million in compensation, including $1.3 million for spiritual loss alone, after the extinguishment of Native Title in the 1980s and 1990s.\nLawyers representing the Noongar group have reportedly calculated the massive compensation claim based on this principle.\n\"The new frontier for the Native Title space is the question of compensation.\"\n\"That's on the lips of everybody around the country at the moment,\" Mr Nannup said.\nOn the Timber Creek decision, Mr Nannup said there is some understanding of the ruling that still needs to be considered.\n\"There's still a way to go in relation to that decision.\"\nIt remains to be seen whether the claim will hold up in court without an official Native Title determination and without registered claimant authorisation.\nShould the payout be granted, a huge precedent will be set for all future compensation claims regardless of Native Title determination.\nBy Hannah Cross\nThe post Breakaway Noongar group lodges huge compensation claim without claimant group authorisation appeared first on National Indigenous Times.\nIndigenous Event\nSupply Nation\n\u00a9 2021, IWIMRA - Indigenous Women in Mining and Resources Australia.\nShopify Training & Support by Empower Digital","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
+{"text":"Home \u00bb Posts \u00bb Music Lovers Should Definitely Attend the El Hasnaoui Symposium\nMusic Lovers Should Definitely Attend the El Hasnaoui Symposium\nSheikh El Hasnaoui is a talented artist whose work has come to stand out as being above that of many of his peers. As such he was the obvious choice for a symposium that will cover not only his work but also his life. Fans of El Hasnaoui's work will no doubt be eager to learn more about this upcoming event.\nThe legendary artist now known as Sheikh El Hasnaoui was originally named Mohamed Khelouat. He was born on 23 July 1910 in Ta\u00e2zibt. It wasn't' long before his incredible aptitude for songwriting and poetry began to be developed. He had a knack for incredible sensitivity and subtly and his works were filled with emotion and tenderness which helped them to become beautiful and memorable. He was also able to explore a number of different musical styles and languages, thus spoken Arabic and Tamazight are both used in his work. The romantic poetry used for lyrics transcends time boundaries, making them unforgettable. El Hasnaoui's rise to fame began in 1930 when he created the now famous song 'The White House'. Unfortunately El Hasnaoui was later persecuted for his outspoken music and he was exiled to France seven years later. Nevertheless, he was always connected to his homeland through his incredible music. In fact, he began to forge a style of music that was intimately linked to his experiences as an exile. This music style came to be known as cha\u00e2bi. The incredibly stirring, almost haunting way that he conveys his thoughts and feelings can give rise to chills in the listener. It is little wonder then that with such an incredible talent for creating music that El Hasnaoui was able to enjoy a long and substantial career. He later died in exile in 2002 on Reunion Island and it was there that he was also buried. His family is currently trying to get his remains moved to a more suitable grave in his native village.\nIf you would like to learn more about this incredible musician, you would do well to get yourself to the El Hasnaoui Symposium in Tizi Ouzou. The symposium will take place on May 11-15, 2009, and will cover quite a lot of information regarding his works, the life experiences that molded his thinking and passion, and his upbringing. The symposium will be conducted in French and will no doubt prove to be a massive success.\nThe Well Adapted Fennec Fox\nThe Fennec fox is the smallest fox in the world and can be found in the Sahara Desert in Algeria as well as regions of North Africa. These beautiful creatures are also referred to as Desert ...\n\u0645\u062f\u064a\u0646\u0629 \u0627\u0644\u0645\u062f\u064a\u0629:\n\u0627\u0644\u0645\u062f\u064a\u0629 \u0647\u064a \u0645\u062f\u064a\u0646\u0629 \u0635\u063a\u064a\u0631\u0629 \u062a\u0642\u0639 \u0639\u0644\u0649 \u0628\u0639\u062f 77 \u0643\u0644\u0645 \u0639\u0644\u0649 \u0627\u0644\u062c\u0632\u0627\u0626\u0631 \u0645\u0646 \u062c\u0647\u0629 \u0627\u0644\u062c\u0646\u0648\u0628\u060c \u0648\u0647\u064a \u0643\u0627\u0646\u062a \u0639\u0627\u0635\u0645\u0629 \u0627\u0644\u062a\u062a\u0631. \u0648\u062d\u0633\u0628 \u0627\u0644\u0645\u0622\u062b\u0631 \u0627\u0644\u062a\u0627\u0631\u064a\u062e\u064a\u0629 \u064a\u0628\u062f\u0648 \u0627\u0646 \u0627\u0644\u0645\u062f\u064a\u0646\u0629 \u0623\u0633\u0633\u062a \u0639\u0644\u0649 \u0628\u0642\u0627\u064a\u0627 \u0631\u0648\u0645\u0627\u0646\u064a\u0629 \u0648\u0647\u0630\u0627 \u064a\u0628\u062f\u0648 \u062c\u0644\u064a\u0627 \u0645\u0646 \u062e\u0644\u0627\u0644 \u0627\u0644\u0645\u0646\u0627\u0632\u0644 \u0648\u0627\u0644\u0628\u0646\u0627\u064a\u0627\u062a ...","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
+{"text":"African Development Bank COVID-19 response: moving from commitment to action \u2013 AFDB\nThe African Development Bank has responded swiftly to the needs of its member countries during the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic.\nThe Bank's operations have continued to run smoothly since the first cases appeared in early March, despite the wide range of lockdowns and measures imposed by governments to flatten the curve.\nThe COVID-19 pandemic is forecast to cause Africa's GDP to drop by between $22.1 billion and $88.3 billion.\nAfrican countries, with the experience of having fought off Ebola, are working to adapt to this new threat and looking to the Bank for an effective, multilateral response to the crisis.\nAs of June 12, the Bank's COVID-19 emergency packages have reached the continent's five geographic regions.\nBefore the advent of the COVID-19 pandemic, West Africa was home to at least four of the continent's fastest-growing economies, and it has felt the impact of the disease hard, as borders remain closed and economic and social distress deepens.\nGambia, Mali and Niger will benefit from an ECOWAS support package to bolster national health systems in response to the pandemic. Much of the funds to this region will seek to address shortages in personal protective equipment (PPE), ventilators and other emergency equipment. The support will also enable governments to provide shortfall cash to the millions of people who have been affected by mass layoffs or are unable to work because of lockdowns.\nNigeria \u2013 $288.5 million\nSenegal \u2013 88 million euros\nC\u00f4te d'Ivoire \u2013 75 million euros\nCabo Verde \u2013 30 million euros\nECOWAS \u2013 $22 million\nThe North African region is the worst hit by the COVID-19 pandemic, with over 60,000 cases as at 12 June. The disease has already triggered a sharp drop in household incomes in North Africa, as export and tourism earnings suffer. The region will be assisted with a series of emergency operations to boost containment measures and help to ensure the supply and distribution of laboratory tests and reagents. The package will also support national and regional coordination mechanisms.\nMorocco \u2013 264 million euros\nTunisia \u2013 180 million euros\nEgypt \u2013 $500,000\nEast Africa, the continent's fastest-growing region economically, has been simultaneously struck by the coronavirus outbreak and an infestation of desert locusts, a double whammy for the region's farmers and economies.\nIn a region of climate change and water scarcity, post-harvest losses and poorly developed agricultural markets could threaten the promise of economic reforms and investment.\nEthiopia, Kenya and Rwanda are the top-performing countries, which have all seen a sharp fall in tourism revenue.\nKenya \u2013 188 million euros\nA decisive lockdown has been effective in stemming the spread of COVID-19 in the region's economic powerhouse, South Africa. The spread of the virus is by no means curtailed. Measures taken across the region to contain the pandemic have affected millions of people, many of whom work in the informal economy.\nAssistance to this region comes in the form of preventive and protection measures as well as financial assistance to the vulnerable beyond the end of the epidemic.\nMauritius \u2013 188 million euros\nZimbabwe \u2013 $13.7 million\nIn Central Africa, Cameroon has reported over 8,000 cases as at 12 June and significant community transmission.\nThe package approved for this region, $13.5 million, will target the provision of PPEs, testing kits and healthcare and laboratory facilities, for Chad, the Democratic Republic of Congo and the Central African Republic, which is among the countries with the least number of ventilators on the continent.\nCEMAC\/RDC \u2013 $13.5 million","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
+{"text":"Climate Change: Subsidising pollution forever\nThe government has announced more decisions about the ETS, specifically about the phase-down of free allocation. Industrial emitters have been receiving free credits for a decade now, originally tied to 2005 emissions levels, then linked by National to current production (turning it into a direct pollution subsidy). If we are to meet our 2050 target, this free allocation needs to end, and quickly. Instead, the government plans to continue it forever:\n\"We've consulted with stakeholders and are now providing them with the clarity and direction they've been asking for \u2013 a gradual and steady path of change with time for businesses and communities to adjust,\" James Shaw said.\nThe plan is to begin phasing down industrial allocation at 1 per cent per year from 2021-2030, then at 2 per cent from 2030-2041, and at 3 per cent per year from 2041-2050.\nAnd when you do the maths, it means the government will still be subsidising highly intensive industrial polluters by 20% of their emissions in 2050, the year we're supposed to be at net-zero emissions.\nThis is bullshit, simply bullshit. And it is bullshit neither the country nor the planet can afford.\nBut as with their bullshit lowball targets, I can't see this lasting either. As things get worse, pressure is going to build for tougher targets and for polluters to pay their own way. Any polluter who relies on this lasting deserves to go bankrupt.\nLabels: Climate Change, Emissions Trading\nThe law means nothing, as usual\nWhen Parliament passed the (flawed) Harmful Digital Communications Act, online incitments to suicide were the justification for it. They caused obvious harm, and unlike the clause criminalising exposing corrupt politicians on the internet, the amendments in that area were absolutely uncontentious. So when National MP Sarah Dowie, who voted for the law, was exposed as having sent exactly such a message to fellow National MP Jami-Lee Ross, I welcomed the prospect of her prosecution.\nOf course, it didn't happen. Despite an apparently textbook case, as usual when an MP is involved in apparently criminal conduct the police decided that no charges would be laid:\nPolice will not pursue charges against Invercargill MP Sarah Dowie relating to a text sent from her phone to MP Jami-Lee Ross.\nEarlier this year, police launched an investigation in relation to a message sent to Ross from Dowie's phone.\nThe complaints \"did not reach the threshold of an offence\", the police said.\nAssault. Electoral offences. Bugging. And now inciting suicide. It is just amazing how often conduct which would result in instant prosecution if done by one of us peons is ruled to be non-criminal when done by a politician. Almost enough to make you think that the police's natural instinct is to protect those in power (who decide their budgets), rather than hold them to the same standards they apply to the rest of us. Its one of our most obvious and odious examples of corruption, and one which persistently undermines the rule of law. And it is something we should no longer tolerate.\nLabels: Corruption, Police\nClimate Change: No magic required\nRetiring National Agriculture spokesperson Nathan Guy thinks that the Zero Carbon Bill's methane targets are \"unachievable\" and will need \"magic\" to get there. Hardly. The target is only difficult if you assume that cow numbers are fixed in stone and cannot change. If you don't assume that, then no magic is required. If we want to halve methane, simply halve the number of dairy cows.\nBut isn't that \"impossible\"? Hardly. To steal a line from the climate change deniers, cow numbers have always changed. Halving dairy cow numbers would merely reduce them to the level they were at in 1990. It requires no \"magic\", or even any mass-culling. It can be done within a decade, simply by not replacing cows within the normal business cycle.\nFarmers' claims about the difficulty of reducing emissions don't tell us anything about reality. All they tell us about is the narrowness of their minds and their unwillingness to change. These people should not be allowed to dictate our survival. Instead they should be ignored.\nLabels: Agricultural Emissions, Climate Change\nClimate Change: Decarbonisation and price caps\nSome interesting stuff out on decarbonising industry emissions yesterday. First, there's the news that Danone is to convert its Balclutha milk-drying plant to biomass heating, effectively making it carbon neutral. Its a good move, and exactly what we need to see. It also highlights just how unambitious Fonterra is being in merely promising not to build any more coal plants (while leaving the door open for climate-destroying natural gas).\nSecondly, there's a report from Transpower, on Taking the Climate Heat out of Process Heat. This highlights the opportunity we have on this front - 37% of process heat emissions are for low-temperature processes (less than 100 C), which can be immediately replaced with heat pumps, while another 44% is medium temperature, which can usually be electrified as well. It also highlights the efficiency of electrical heating: usually twice as efficient as coal, and up to seven times as efficient using heat pumps, which means significant cost-savings, despite the higher apparent price of electricity.\nInterestingly, a noticeable user of process heat is schools, and on that front is appalling to learn that at least 60 of them are still burning coal (\"at least\" because the Ministry of Education has no idea, and half of schools simply didn't bother to respond to Stuff's OIA request on the topic). Its especially shocking when you consider that solar PV is a no-brainer for schools - their demand is all during the day - and that there are multiple providers who finance the up-front cost of installation, and take their repayments out of the (much cheaper) electricity prices that result. This is something the government has direct control over, and an obvious area where they could step in to improve things.\nSo why isn't this switch happening as fast as we'd like? Fundamentally its a matter of carbon prices. And on that front, the news is bad: the price is up against the $25 price cap, a \"transitional measure\" that has now been in place for a decade. This is an ongoing situation which has been occurring since the middle of 2018, and it suggests that the natural price of emissions is much higher than $25. As for what to do about it, the answer is simple: raise it. And while the government has said they'll be doing that \"no later than the end of 2022\", pretty obviously they need to do it much quicker than that if we want proper incentives to decarbonise and plant trees. There is a strong case here for legislating under all-stages urgency, stronger even than there is for excise tax increases (in that the economic damage of polluters banking credits while paying the fixed price is much greater than that of people buying petrol a few cents a litre cheaper), and that is what the government should do. And to future-proof themselves against their own inaction, they should provide for the price cap to increase perpetually. That way, if the government's plans for auctioning and a \"cost-containment reserve\" are dragged out (as usually happens in this area of policy), we won't end up stuck in the same situation again, subsidising polluters while they make out like bandits.\nLabels: Climate Change, Climate Change Policy, ETS\nMember's Day: End of Life Choice\nToday is a Member's day, and an important one: the main business will be the committee stage of David Seymour's End of Life Choice Bill. Since the fundamentalists on the select committee refused to do their job and recommend amendments to make a better bill, this is the only real chance to improve it. And because of that refusal (which effectively spat in the face of everyone who had submitted on the bill), its going to be done on the fly. This is obviously not an optimal process for any piece of legislation. But unlike Graeme Edgeler, I don't think Parliament should allow itself to be held hostage by a group of bigoted wreckers, or give them a wrecker's veto on the entire legislative process. MP's are there to do their jobs and legislate. If a minority are unwilling to do that, then the majority will simply have to work around them.\nThe committee stage is likely to be long and drawn out, with the bigots threatening hundreds of amendments to drag things out even further. But before we get to that spectacle, there's another committee stage to get through, on Hamish Walker's now-unfortunately named KiwiSaver (Oranga Tamariki Guardians) Amendment Bill. And no doubt this will be dragged out too in a desperate attempt at a filibuster.\nMeanwhile, I'm thinking of the contrast between today's expected debate and Parliament's tone when debating marriage equality. Back then, it rose to the occasion, helped by clear leadership from politicians who recognised the public mood. Now, we're going to see them at their worst, and its going to debase the reputation of the institution even further. It is unlikely to impress voters. But the solution is in our hands: if we want better behaved politicians, then we need to vote for them, and make it clear to parties that people who will engage in these sorts of antics do not belong on their lists.\nLabels: Death With Dignity, Members Bills, Parliament\nMoving in the right direction\nIf we are to avoid making our planet uninhabitable, we need to decarbonise our transport sector. One of the most effective things individuals can do on this front is make their next car electric. And it seems like most New Zealanders have got that message:\nFigures from a Trade Me survey show 74 per cent of Kiwis are considering an electric vehicle (EV) as their next car.\nTrade Me head of motors Alan Clark said more than 1300 New Zealanders took part in the survey which looked at Kiwis' perceptions of EVs.\n\"We were stunned to find out that nearly three-in-four New Zealanders would consider an EV for their next vehicle.\" Clark said.\nIn 2018 it asked Kiwi motorists the same question and only half of respondents said they'd look at an EV for their next vehicle.\n\"With climate change top of mind for many people, a range of new models on the market, rising fuel costs and the government's new plan to subsidise EVs, we think more Kiwis will make the switch in the near future.\"\nThis is good news. While numbers are low at present, it suggests we're heading for a tipping point in consumer behaviour which should lead to substantial decarbonisation. It'll take a while, but we're definitely heading in the right direction.\nBut again, I'm forced to ask: why didn't the government push this even further, by announcing a date after which there would be a fossil fuel car import ban? Other countries are doing this, and it is an effective measure to drive fleet upgrade.\nLabels: Climate Change, Transport\nNational MP Nathan Guy will retire from parliament at the next election. Good riddance. He's a climate change foot-dragger, who has consistently opposed any measure aimed at reducing emissions (here he is speaking against real methane targets in the Zero Carbon Bill, here he is calling them unscientific because farmers don't like them, and here he is is way back in 2006 making it clear he opposed farmers paying a research levy to fund finding a solution for their pollution). He's an impediment to finding a solution for New Zealand's biggest policy challenge, who would rather drown Petone than see his farmer friends change what they're doing. Our Parliament is better off without him, and the sooner he is out of it, the better.\nLabels: Nathan Guy\nThe referendum bill\nYesterday the government introduced a Referendums Framework Bill to the House. The bill does what it says on the label: provides a framework for referenda - presumably on cannabis legalisation and end of life choice - to be held at the next election. The rules, including spending limits and advertising rules, largely follow those in the Citizens Initiated Referenda Act 1993, with a few tweaks to allow for the fact that the referenda will be held at the same time as an election.\nThis is all good, and its great to have some rules for government (as opposed to citizens) initiated referenda. But there's a problem: the bill applies only at the next election, and repeals itself after that. But this is an ongoing need in our political system, with a government-initiated referendum on something (the electoral system, the flag, and now these issues) every couple of elections. At present, each of these referenda requires its own specialist legislation, taking up a chunk of valuable parliamentary time. Wouldn't it be easier to just do that once, to give us a framework Act which would be used in future, rather than having to start from scratch each time?\nLabels: Parliament, Referenda\nNZDF are murderers\nThat's the only conclusion that can be drawn from the NZDF's latest admission to the Operation Burnham inquiry:\nAn SAS sniper killed an Afghan target without identifying if the person was armed during a controversial night-time raid.\nThe New Zealand Defence Force (NZDF) made the admission in a memo to the Operation Burnham inquiry published this month, after asserting the person was an insurgent carrying a weapon.\n\"It is not possible to determine conclusively whether or not the insurgent observed by the [remotely piloted aircraft] was armed at the moment he was engaged.\"\nThe Government inquiry, at a third public hearing on Monday, heard the killing of civilians is prohibited under international humanitarian law, and suspected combatants should be treated as civilians if there is doubt.\nNZDF clearly did not do that, and appears not to have even tried. The latter turns this from (most charitably) a horrible accident in the heat of battle to depraved indifference. As for the shooter, they should be prosecuted for murder and\/or war crimes.\nLabels: Afghanistan, Defence, Murder, Nicky Hager, War Crimes\nWill National stay the party of climate change denial?\nThe National party has a long history of climate change denial. When they were the opposition to the Clark government, they opposed the carbon tax, opposed biofuels, and infamously drove a tractor up Parliament's steps to symbolise their opposition to farmers contributing to the cost of researching solutions to agricultural emissions. When in government, the first thing they did was gut the ETS and remove restrictions on fossil-fuel electricity generation. And back in opposition, they have opposed every measure the government has offered to reduce emissions. Why? Reporting from the weekend's party conference makes this clear: because their rural core vote are climate change deniers:\nAddressing the party faithful, [climate change spokesperson Todd] Muller caused some to grumble as he spoke about the need for an agricultural response to climate change, pointing to \"market signals\" from consumers and businesses that could not be ignored.\nThe first question from the audience did little to suggest that message had got through.\n\"Methane is 0.000082 percent of the atmosphere, it comes from a cow, emanates from a cow at either end...could you please explain to me how it actually contributes to global warming?\"\n\"The previous National government was quite comfortable that the science expressed by the global scientists in the IPCC reports were valid.\"\n\"Rubbish,\" interjected one audience member. \"Are you saying the science is settled?,\" shouted another.\nA less extreme critique came from someone noting New Zealand's minimal contribution to greenhouse gases compared to larger nations.\n\"Given that we're 0.17 percent, even if we achieve and aspire...to get to zero percent, what the hell are we going to achieve on a global basis from a global perspective and why do we need to lead the world?\"\n...and so on. They're not all like that, but these are National's core voters, the people it is there to represent. And with them, it seems like its denial all the way down.\nIts a problem for National, because they are going to have to deal seriously with this issue next time they are in government. The climate crisis is not going to go away just because a bunch of backwards rural hicks don't believe in it, and urban voters (who are facing entire suburbs being drowned) are going to demand action. National will need to respond with effective measures, or risk losing the votes of the 80% of us who live in cities. It's that simple.\nThe Zero Carbon Bill is the real test of this. If they support it and strong methane targets, they're a credible party. If they oppose it, then they're a climate denial party and should be treated with all the seriousness such loonies deserve.\nLabels: Climate Change, National\nSomething is rotten on the West Coast\nThat's the only conclusion that can be drawn from Development West Coast contractor Kevin Stratful's demand that West Coast local authorities ignore the LGOIMA for his benefit:\nA Development West Coast contractor has urged West Coast councils to \"avoid\" responding to requests for official information.\nIn an email chain to Coast mayors and council chief executives, obtained by Stuff, Stratful said all councils and the DWC should have a joint policy on how Official Information Act (OIA) requests were handled \"and what process or policies are put into place to avoid them\".\nHe said the leaders should agree on a \"West Coast Way\" of handling OIA requests. He also said he had previously been given \"the chance to edit\" responses before they were sent to the media.\n\"If current OIA request continue and the ED [economic development] unit is subject to OIA it will become a joke resorting to back street meetings and coffee shops to get anything done,\" he wrote.\nStratful has a lot to fear from LGOIMA. Quite apart from the usual oversight it entails, he's involved in a dodgy \"waste to energy\" incinerator scheme which has seen a mayor censured for purportedly signing contracts without the approval of his council. He has a direct conflict of interest over this with his employer. So he has reason to be particularly fearful of transparency. The good news is that the councils seem to have ignored his demands - and now they are public, its prima facie grounds for an Ombudsman's complaint for any withholds related to him or Development West Coast. By seeking to avoid transparency, he's simply told people where to point the spotlight.\nMeanwhile, there's a bigger question here: Development West Coast is a charitable trust administering $124 million of public money given to the West Coast as \"compensation\" for the end of native forestry there. Its board is mostly elected by West Coast voters, with a few government and local body appointees. It deals with public money for public purposes. Shouldn't it therefore be directly subject to the LGOIMA oversight regime, like licensing trusts or various other trust boards are?\nLabels: Freedom of Information, Local Government\nTax the rich to save the climate\nThe Greens often say that social justice is a necessary part of environmental justice. How? There's a good example in an article from Le Monde by economist Thomas Piketty. It turns out that the rich are some of the biggest climate criminals on the planet, so solving the climate crisis means solving inequality:\nHowever, it is increasingly clear that the resolution of the climate challenge will not be possible without a strong movement in the direction of the compression of social inequalities at all levels. With the present magnitude of inequality, the advance towards austerity of energy will be wishful thinking. In the first instance because carbon emissions are strongly concentrated amongst the rich. At world level, the richest 10% are responsible for almost half the emissions and the top 1% alone emit more carbon than the poorest half of the planet. A drastic reduction in purchasing power of the richest would therefore in itself have a substantial impact on the reduction of emissions at global level.\nHow? Private jets, multiple houses, big cars, and leisure air travel are some obvious answers. Higher taxation would help limit this environmentally destructive overconsumption, as well as providing the usual benefits of lower inequality (lower crime, better life expectancies, lower health costs and everything else). So if we want to save the planet, we really do need to tax the rich.\nLabels: Climate Change, Inequality, Left\nNew Zealand's dirtiest emitters\nA couple of years ago we learned the shocking statistic that just 100 companies are responsible for 71% of global greenhouse gas emissions. So what about New Zealand? If anything, its worse: a study by Stuff has found 68% of our emissions - 54.5 million tons - are caused by just ten companies:\nIts largely what you'd expect: Fonterra with all its cows, petrol companies, the two electricity companies still clinging to fossil generation, Air New Zealand, and a few large industrial emitters. Not included, because they fell just outside the top ten: the Tiwai Point aluminium smelter, which demanded a fat emissions subsidy from the government, then halved its emissions, and Bluescope (formerly New Zealand) Steel, which runs a dirtier-than-average steel factory in Glenbrook.\nStuff had to dig this information out of companies' annual reports, because currently it is all legally secret. The good news is that that is going to change: the government has decided to publish firm-level ETS data, allowing the public to scrutinise high-emitting companies and vote with their wallets where they can. Which suggests that there's absolutely no need for the secrecy clause anymore, and that it should be repealed entirely.\nGenocides begin in the wilderness, far from prying eyes \u2013 in Ottoman Turkey as well as Nazi Germany\nLabels: Armenia, Genocide, Robert Fisk, Turkey\nSpain fails to get a government\nBack in April, Spanish voters went to the polls to elect a new parliament. The Socialists emerged as the largest party, with 28.7% of the vote. But despite being the only party with the possibility of forming a government, they have failed to do so:\nSpain's Socialist caretaker prime minister, Pedro S\u00e1nchez, has failed at a second attempt to form a government after he could not reach agreement with his only potential coalition partner, the anti-austerity party Unidas Podemos.\nS\u00e1nchez only needed a simple majority in parliament to get a deal across the line but after 48 hours of hectic negotiating the Podemos leader, Pablo Iglesias, announced his party would abstain during the second round of voting and the result was 124 in S\u00e1nchez's favour, 155 against and 67 abstentions.\nThe Socialists blame Podemos, for not accepting whatever crumbs they were offered (or better, offering them support for free). But it seems the Socialists weren't that keen on a deal in the first place, rejecting every reduced offer from Podemos. Which really doesn't seem like the basis for a successful coalition. Meanwhile, the Socialists also arrogantly demanded the support of the Catalan parties, while refusing to even discuss independence or the end of repression. Oddly, they didn't get that either.\nAs for what happens next, they have two more months to try and form a government, otherwise its back to the polls in November.\nLabels: Democracy, Spain\nAnother climate emergency\nWhang\u0101rei has become the latest city to declare a climate emergency:\nWhang\u0101rei District Council is the latest local body to formally sound the alarm over greenhouse gas emissions, by declaring a climate change emergency.\nIt's been warned that without urgent action, Whang\u0101rei coastal communities will be under water in the decades to come, and rising sea levels could also threaten the city's new $26 million Hundertwasser centre.\nThe council chambers were packed yesterday with members of the public, and more people waiting outside, in support of a move to declare that climate change is a threat to the Whang\u0101rei community, its biodiversity, its economy - and the life-supporting capacity of the planet.\nSo again: where's Parliament? What happened to \"my generation's nuclear free moment\"? Is the government actually serious about this, or is it just spewing more hot air?\nLabels: Climate Change, Local Government\nClimate Change: Farmers plan to fail\nThe Environment Committee has begun hearing submissions on the Zero Carbon Bill, and farmers are first out of the gate, claiming that the targets are \"unattainable\":\nPoliticians have been told an \"unachievable\" 47 per cent methane reduction target would be setting farmers up to fail and investment in technology needs to be made first.\nDairyNZ chief executive Dr Tim Mackle said he aimed to \"send a clear message\" that targets were \"unattainable\" for farmers and to convey their opinion that the books have been significantly \"undercooked\".\nTo point out the obvious, the targets are only \"unattainable\" if you assume that farmers can do nothing to meet them. But there's an obvious way to reduce biogenic methane by 47%: reduce cow numbers by 47%. And this can be done quite quickly within the farm business cycle, simply by not replacing cows as they are killed.\nObviously, farmers don't want to do that, because their imagination extends only as a far as a high-volume, low-value production model. But if they don't want to do that, then the onus is on them to find another way. And if they think there's a technological solution, then they need to step up, fund it, and adopt it.\nBut as usual, this isn't really a good faith argument. The fundamental problem here is that farmers don't want to change. And so they whine about the need for \"research\" (which they refuse to fund) and \"technology\" (which they refuse to adopt) as a delaying tactic, in an effort to keep on getting a free ride from the rest of us. But after nearly two decades of such whining and inaction, its become a little obvious. And we should not tolerate it any longer. Instead, we should make farmers pay their way for once in their lives, rather than leeching off the rest of us.\nClimate Change: No doubt left\nSince climate change first emerged as a global problem, the fossil fuel industry has worked hard to undermine and deny it, by trying to pretend its all natural variation. But science says there's no doubt left:\nThe scientific consensus that humans are causing global warming is likely to have passed 99%, according to the lead author of the most authoritative study on the subject, and could rise further after separate research that clears up some of the remaining doubts.\nThree studies published in Nature and Nature Geoscience use extensive historical data to show there has never been a period in the last 2,000 years when temperature changes have been as fast and extensive as in recent decades.\nIt had previously been thought that similarly dramatic peaks and troughs might have occurred in the past, including in periods dubbed the Little Ice Age and the Medieval Climate Anomaly. But the three studies use reconstructions based on 700 proxy records of temperature change, such as trees, ice and sediment, from all continents that indicate none of these shifts took place in more than half the globe at any one time.\nPrevious shifts can be attributed to volcanic cooling. But the signal of industrial warming is now so strong and so widespread as to completely overwhelm it.\nThe authors naively hope that this will end climate denial. It should among actual scientists. But deniers are no longer operating in good faith, and have surrendered that title. Instead, they're just public relations mercenaries, advertisers, not scientists.\nTrump is powering the UK's preparations for war \u2013 it is he who needs to be deterred, not Iran\nLabels: Donald Trump, Iran, Robert Fisk\nBastion Point 2.0\nIn 1863, in the lead up to its illegal invasion of the Waikato, the New Zealand government illegally confiscated the land of M\u0101ori living south of Auckland. One of the areas confiscated was Ihum\u0101tao, once one of the biggest farming areas in the country. Over the years, the stolen land was pillaged, quarried, and destroyed, but some of its archaeological heritage still survives. Now, its all going to be bulldozed by a foreign-owned developer to make homes for the rich.\nThe injustice of this ought to be apparent to all. This is stolen land, and rather than being returned, it is going to be split up and alienated forever. Local M\u0101ori have been occupying the site, but yesterday the police moved in to evict them - just as they had evicted M\u0101ori from Bastion Point 41 years ago. But the protestors have not given up, and are blockading the site in an effort to stop the bulldozers. They need your help, and your support. We should not be letting this happen in modern New Zealand.\nLabels: Maori, Tiriti o Waitangi\nMore RMA reform\nThe Resource Management Act is one of the most important pieces of legislation in the country, both in terms of its impact and its influence. If you want to build a house, run a farm, or dig a mine, or if you have opinions on whether someone else should be allowed to, then you interact with this legislation, and the way it is written literally shapes the environment around us. So, every government since 1991 has engaged in \"RMA reform\", typically to enable rich people to do those things more easily while restricting the ability of the rest of us to have any say on it. And the current government is no exception. They've just announced plans to \"reform\" the RMA, tasking an Expert Advisory Group to look at various questions, including how it will work with the Zero Carbon Bill. The good news is that they seem to want to reverse many of National's \"reforms\", which involved making the RMA less democratic and allowing landowners to chainsaw any tree they wanted. The bad news is that taking a proper look at things takes time, so they don't expect to have a bill before May next year, which given usual slippage and the need for an election, probably means mid-2021. by which time the political landscape will have changed, and the desire for RMA reform (or rather, which RMA reform) with it.\nThe other good news is that they have identified some priority issues for immediate change. Unfortunately, there's no word on what these are, but I'm hoping they include s104E, which bans local authorities from explicitly considering climate change, as well as the parallel clause in the Exclusive Economic Zone Act. We're in the middle of a climate crisis, and it is utterly nonsensical to tie the hands of what could be an effective tool to prevent it.\nUpdate: Environment Minister David parker has confirmed in Question Time that the government does not plan to urgently repeal s104E or similar clauses, or to restore tree protection (which National gutted). So there's nothing good here. As usual.\nLabels: Climate Change, Environment, RMA\nStill taking the piss\nLast year, the Supreme Court ruled on the pillage of swamp kauri, stating clearly that export was forbidden unless it had been clearly turned into a finished product. But less than a month later, MPI was again approving minimally carved logs for export, pretending they were \"finished products\" so the pillagers could make a quick buck:\nA Supreme Court judgment has placed Te Uru R\u0101kau, the Ministry for Primary Industry forestry arm in the role of deciding what's art and what's a log.\nTe Uru R\u0101kau's call is a swamp kauri log with light carvings, similar to those found inadequate as to be considered a finished product, and a paua shell-dotted resin inlay is a genuine sculpture.\nThe decision to call an item exported in December, barely a month after the Supreme's Courts judgment, a sculpture has shocked the Northland Environmental Protection Society's Fiona Furrell.\n\"I feel this Ministry is making a mockery of the Supreme Court ruling.\"\nAnd she's right. The \"products\" MPI is approving are no different from the raw logs the Supreme Court ruled were illegal. Which is not the sort of behaviour I'd expect from a government agency. But I guess that's what happens when you let yourself be completely captured by the industry you are supposed to be regulating.\nLabels: Conservation, Environment\n\"My generation's nuclear-free moment\"?\nWhen she was running for election, Jacinda Ardern called climate change \"my generation's nuclear-free moment\". It was meant to convey a sense of both the scale and moral imperitive of the challenge. So how is her government meeting that challenge? By subsidising oil drilling:\nThe Government has extended an income tax exemption for oil rigs for another five years until 2024, despite leading a worldwide push not to subsidise fossil fuel companies.\nIt says the tax break is necessary to stop the oil rigs and seismic vehicles \"churning\" in and out of New Zealand waters every 183 days to escape all tax liability, and means that they will still pay other taxes to the Government.\nRevenue Minister Stuart Nash simply told Stuff the decision was \"the right thing to do\" when asked on his way into caucus.\nThe explicit justification for the policy is that without it, less oil exploration would take place. Which is exactly what we need to happen if we are to prevent the destruction of the global climate. But it seems that the government would rather have the climate destroyed than have oil companies angry at it. So much for the nuclear-free moment...\nLabels: Climate Change, Labour, Oil\n\"The most transparent government ever\"?\nIn its Open Government Partnership National Action Plan, the government promised to \"Test the merits of undertaking a review of the Official Information Act 1982 and provide and publish advice to Government\". Originally, they planned to do this in secret, but when that was exposed, moved to public consultation. So how's it going? Sadly, it doesn't seem to be a priority:\nA decision on whether to review 40-year-old Official Information laws has been quietly pushed back.\nIn March, Justice Ministry officials asked the public for feedback on how freedom of information legislation is working, with a view to carrying out a review.\nA decision was due to be made by Justice Minister Andrew Little in June.\nBut documents published by the Ministry and the State Services Commission show that has been delayed until September.\n\"The most transparent government ever\"? Yeah, right. And remember, this is a review of whether to have a review.\nMeanwhile, I have been working my way through the submissions - which you can read here - and a number of themes have emerged. There is a strong strand of public servants complaining about Ministers and \"no surprises\" management pressuring them to make unlawful withholding decisions. There is strong demand from requesters for criminal penalties for intentionally and unlawfully thwarting requests - something supported by those public servants, and by the Ombudsman, who see it as giving them something to point to to resist Ministerial demands. There is widespread dissatisfaction from both sides with the slowness of the Ombudsman's review process, and from requesters about its one-sided nature. Almost all of the experts given followup interviews supported a full review (though some from the Law Commission wanted the government to implement their previous one), and none of them supported impunity for proactive release (which Ministry of Justice has been using this process to push). Any honest reading of these submisisons would find that the OIA should be reviewed. The question is whether \"the most transparent government ever\" wants to do that, or whether they want to retain the status quo. Hmmm, I wonder...\nLabels: Freedom of Information, Labour, OIA\nIn the wake of the March 15 mass-murder, the government moved swiftly to ban semi-automatic firearms, weapons for which there is really no case for being allowed to own in New Zealand. and now, it has announced phase two of its gun control plans: a national firearms register, and tighter licensing restrictions:\nThe government is to establish a firearms register and make major changes to the licensing regime, in the second phase of gun law reforms.\nA second piece of legislation will now set up a national register, which is expected to take about five years to capture the estimated 250,000 licence holders in New Zealand.\nGun owners will be required to sign up to the register when they get a licence, get one renewed, or when they buy or sell firearms.\nIf a licence holder is not on the register after five years, they will have to proactively sign up.\nLicenses will need to be renewed every five years, and there will be much tighter character requirements. Dealers will face tougher restrictions too. The changes should make kiwis a lot safer, with a minimal impact on legitimate gun owners. As for the gun industry, they'll no doubt scream bloody murder about it. And by doing so, they'll make the case for even tighter regulation in future.\nLabels: Crime, Gun control\nPetty fools with fragile egos\nLocal body politicians are concerned that the hostile online environment might deter people from running, and want British-style laws to prevent \"online attacks\". So what sorts of attacks are they concerned about? Death threats (illegal under the Crimes Act)? Sustained online harassment campaigns(illegal under the Harmful Digital Communications Act)? Defamation (a simple tort)? None of the above:\nMr Cull said criticism was part and parcel of public life, but there should be limits.\n\"If you didn't allow it you wouldn't have a functioning democracy, but I think that too often it's playing the man and not the ball.\n\"We need to stick to issues.\"\nMarlborough District councillor Cynthia Brooks, who was stepping down this year after two terms, said a lot of criticism stemmed from a lack of awareness.\nIt was especially noticeable every time there was a story on councillor attendances at meetings.\n\"Criticism\". \"Playing the man and not the ball\". \"A lack of awareness\". And they call us \"snowflakes\". The first are simply a basic part of public life. The other has a very obvious recourse of more transparency about the job and what it entails. Neither seems to remotely reach the threshold required to justify any regulation of speech.\n(RNZ also quotes a younger candidate, one used to social media, about curation. Which seems to be a much more mature attitude than that of the older, experienced politicians. Its the internet, you don't have to see anything you don't want to, and you'll almost certainly be much happier if you don't.)\nThere are real problems online with hate speech, threats, and serious online bullying. That's why we have the (flawed) HDCA. That's why we're having a conversation about hate speech. These petty fools and their fragile little egos aren't helping that. And no doubt, they'd use this post as an example of the \"abuse\" they face online.\nLabels: Freedom of Speech, Internet, Local Government\nAccountability?\nWhen allegations emerged that civilians had been killed during an SAS raid in Afghanistan, NZDF was absolutely unequivocal in its denials, both the Ministers and the public. Since then, we've learned that they were well aware that there were reports that people had been killed. Whether they knowingly lied to us to protect their reputation is one of the central questions the inquiry is supposed to answer. And the inquiry is sufficiently uncomfortable about the evidence it has that rather than doing it all behind closed doors, it is going to force NZDF to face public cross-examination about its honesty:\nThe Inquiry into Operation Burnham issued an order for NZ Defence Force to appear during five days of public hearings and explain discrepancies which have emerged in its evidence.\nThe discrepancy was such the Inquiry said evidence about what NZDF knew, and what it then relayed to the Beehive, should be examined in public hearings.\nThe Inquiry said NZDF \"made firm statements publicly that no civilian casualties occurred\" and went on to support ministers making similar statements.\n\"These actions were taken despite the repeated allegations of civilian casualties in the media and elsewhere from immediately after the Operation until the present.\n\"Given that the statements of NZDF and ministers were made publicly, the Inquiry considers that they should be explained publicly.\"\nGood. Though it will be interesting to see whether it is just the current NZDF leadership, or those who were in charge at the time (including former Governor-General Lt General Jerry Mateparae) who will face questioning. And it will also be interesting to see whether they answer, or try to hide behind another wall of bullshit.\nMeanwhile, if you read the briefing to the Prime Minister in that article, their description of Operation Burnham claims that NZ troops were actively opposed by \"a large number of armed insurgents, operating in small groups\" who \"attempted to outflank the force and fire on it from high ground\". Which doesn't seem to fit with any description of what happened at all. Were NZDF talking up their raid to make themselves seem more heroic as well? And if they do such things, how can any of us trust them about anything?\nLabels: Afghanistan, Defence, Nicky Hager\nAt Cologne's Gestapo museum, visitors are drawing modern parallels \u2013 can we really say they're being simplistic?\nLabels: Donald Trump, Robert Fisk, USA\nClimate Change: Emergency measures\nOver the past few months, we've seen a number of local authorities respond to public pressure over climate change by declaring a climate emergency. So what should they do next? Writing in The Spinoff, Sarah Thomson has some suggestions. Most of urban New Zealand's emissions come from transport and energy use, so local authorities should be trying to minimise those in the long-term, by planning for more compact and efficient cities. This means growing up, not out, ending urban sprawl, and giving the streets back to the people rather than cars. It also means using district plans to require efficient buildings, and local body policy to encourage uptake of solar panels - and councils doing that for the huge number of buildings they manage. One obvious thing missing is also to require large developments like shopping malls and parking buildings to install EV fast-chargers, to push the rapid uptake of greener vehicles.\nMost of this is focused on city councils. But there's a huge role for regional councils as well. Most importantly, boosting public transport, so it can be a reliable replacement for cars for more people. Also, regional councils have control over air and water quality, so using those rules to drive electrification of industry and force destocking of dairy farms is vital. They're up against the RMA, which bans councils from explicitly regulating climate change, on this, but many councils already heavily regulate coal to prevent air pollution, and an increasing number are restricting nitrates to protect waterways. Pushing harder on that, and regulating natural gas to prevent NOx (which leads to smog) and leaks (which are straight-out contaminant discharges) is vital.\nOf course, it can't all be done by local government. But they're one tool, and we should get them doing everything they can. Because otherwise, they'll be doing more of this instead.\nUnfit to govern\nThis week, in the wake of National's opposition to even talking about reducing agricultural emissions and Simon Bridges' refusal to recognise that there is a climate emergency, I've been saying that National is unfit to govern. And it looks like the Herald's Simon Wilson agrees [paywalled \/ depaywall script]:\nThe past two weeks have in my opinion exposed the biggest climate change problem in this country. Cows? Nope. Cars? Nope. I believe it's the National Party.\nThis would be laughable if it wasn't for the pain it will cause. And not just environmental pain: in my view National's position on climate change will undermine our economy and damage us socially. Delays now will lead to crisis management later and the people worst affected will include farmers, coastal dwellers and the poor.\nAs long as National holds to this position, to me it demonstrates it is unfit to govern.\nAs he points out, National pretends to care, but opposes and undermines every effort to actually do something, and even promises to go backwards by reintroducing offshore drilling. And in the face of our biggest policy challenge, one which threatens to drown whole suburbs and push the entire farming sector into perpetual drought, that's simply not good enough. People should vote accordingly.\nMake it 16\nSomething I missed: not only did Youth MPs declare a climate emergency; they also launched a campaign to lower the voting age to 16:\nYouth Parliament week in Parliament has seen the establishment of Make it 16, a campaign to lower the voting age in New Zealand.\n\"Make it 16 is a non-partisan, youth-led campaign advocating for more people's voices to count in our democracy\" says Oli Morphew, age 14, National Spokesperson for Make it 16. \"We welcome anyone who wants a fairer and stronger democracy to join our campaign\".\nYouth MPs representing all parliamentary parties have signed on to Make it 16.\nAs I noted earlier in the week, I find the arguments for a lower voting age compelling. Its basic democracy: teenagers have interests, they're clearly capable of expressing them, and so they should be able to vote. I look forward to seeing where this campaign goes, and to supporting it in future.\nYou can read more about the campaign on The Spinoff.\nLabels: Democracy, Voting Age\nMore police misconduct\nWhy do so many people mistrust the police? Because they pull shit like this:\nThe police are flouting the rules on breath testing, carrying out tests in people's homes to catch them out sometimes up to two hours after they were last seen driving, a Dunedin lawyer says.\nDunedin barrister Marie Taylor-Cyphers said in many cases the supporting evidential paperwork claimed the tests were taken roadside, though officers would later concede on the stand that was not the case.\nShe was concerned police were taking advantage of a naive public to catch them out.\n\"The breath testing very commonly occurs in private residences, in people's homes, most commonly in their lounges - this happens all the time,\" she said.\n\"In some cases there's very clear evidence that the police reference in their case that they can see that the person's got a glass of whisky or a gin and tonic in their hand when the police enter their home.\"\nThis happens by \"consent\": a person with a gun and a uniform \"asks\" to enter and \"asks\" to perform a breath test, relying on people's fear or respect for their uniform and position to gain compliance. And they get away with it because people don't challenge them - its just easier and cheaper to take the ticket or plead guilty than to mount a defence. They get a conviction, their stats look good, maybe they get a bonus for meeting their KPIs. And meanwhile, someone has their life ruined because of police intrusion.\nAs for what to do about it: just don't talk to the police. If they ask to \"talk\" to you, refuse (or at least, refuse unless you have a lawyer present). If they \"ask\" to enter your home or perform a search, ask if they have a warrant. And if they quibble, ask for their badge number, and issue a trespass notice. Make it clear that in this country, policing happens by consent - and when they abuse that consent for any, it gets withdrawn by all.\nThere are solutions for this\nThe Herald reports that the housing shortage \/ bubble has hit a new level:\nNew Zealand is short of 130,000 homes, the tally having risen lately by 30,000, two economists say.\nJarrod Kerr and Jeremy Couchman, Kiwibank economists said: \"This time last year we showed a shortage of 100,000 homes across New Zealand. Our population growth has outstripped housing supply again. We're now short 130,000 homes.\"\nResidential building consents had hit multi-decade highs, they acknowledged, but it was not enough to keep pace with demand.\nThe shortage could get worse: \"If things continue the way they are, the shortage will balloon to 150,000 this time next year.\"\nThere is of course a solution for this: the government could leverage its ability to borrow money a absurdly cheap rates to fund a massive house-building scheme, of social houses or of houses for sale. Not the pissing-about levels its been doing with KiwiBuild, but tens of thousands of houses a year. Or, it could leverage that same ability to fund 100% mortgages for first-home builders, or work on some sort of shared-equity scheme. In many of these solutions the scheme pays for itself, through sales, rents, or loan repayments (which can then simply be financialised and shifted off the government's books to a bank).\nThe problem is that all of these solutions - and indeed, any action to eliminate this shortage - would lower property values for homeowners, including MPs (who have extensive property portfolios themselves). Or it would lower expectations that they would rise endlessly. And so its apparently off the table. A supposedly \"centre-left\" government refuses to help those in need or solve a pressing social problem because the rich - including its own MPs - might whine.\nBut that's Labour for you now: putting the \"right\" in \"centre-left\". The days of Michael Joseph savage are clearly long gone.\nLabels: Housing, Inequality, Labour, Left\nFonterra finally gets it\nMilk producer Fonterra is one of New Zealand's biggest coal-users, using it to power all its South Island (and a few of its North Island) dairy factories. They'd previously \"committed\" to not building any new coal boilers after 2030. Now, they've brought that forward as part of a plan to cut emissions by 30% by 2030, and to net-zero by 2050. They're also planning to impose farm environment plans on their suppliers from 2025, which suggests they will be required to follow better practice to reduce methane emissions and clean up waterways, or have their milk refused.\nAll of this is good and welcome, but Fonterra needs to go further and rule out new natural gas plants as well. It's pretty much required by their 2050 target, but they should make it explicit. The planet can't afford gas any more than it can afford coal, and the sooner businesses accept that and commit to electrification, the better.\nLabels: Climate Change, Coal, Energy\nWe should not subsidise fertiliser emissions\nYesterday the government released its discussion document on action on agricultural emissions. As sadly usual, it proposed enormous subsidies for farm emissions, including for nitrogen-based fertiliser.\nThis is a huge mistake. In addition to being one of the chief drivers of dairy intensification and freshwater pollution - things we want to stamp out - nitrogen-based fertilise ris in the ETS because it decomposes to nitrous oxide. Nitrous oxide is a potent and long-lived greenhouse gas, between 268 and 298 times worse than carbon dioxide, depending on what timescale you measure it over. Both farmers and the Independent Climate Change Commission are arguing that we should focus on long-lived gases, as they pose the greatest threat in the long-term. I don't think we have a long-term to average over anymore (in the long-term, we are dead, to riff on Keynes), but even with a short-term focus, reducing nitrous oxide is a hugely effective way of reducing warming, and one of the highest-impact things we can do to save the climate, to save ourselves.\nSo rather than subsidising farmers to produce this gas, we should instead be making them pay the full price of the emissions it causes - and removing the artificial cap on ETS prices so that the price can increase to its natural level. Farmers will no doubt complain that if they have to pay the full cost, they'll have to stop using it. Good. That's the fucking point. If there are high-value uses which justify the emissions cost, then they'll be able to afford to keep using it (or they'll make out like bandits by switching to alternatives). But for low-value uses, like fertilising marginal grass to grow cows and pollute rivers, we are all better off if people stop doing that.\nThe Youth Parliament votes for a future\nBack in May, Green MP Chl\u00f6e Swarbrick tried to put a motion to have parliament declare a climate emergency. National denied leave, and have since made it clear that they oppose any such motion. But today, the Youth Parliament did what the \"responsible\" adults refused to:\n@NZGreens youth MP Luke Wijohn (@_chloeswarbrick) got youth parliament to declare a climate emergency #YouthParliament @NZYP19 \ud83d\udd25\ud83d\udc4f\ud83d\udd25\ud83c\udf0f\ud83c\udf0f\ud83d\udc9a pic.twitter.com\/JvDz9sMnNf\n\u2014 Kate Aschoff (@kate_aschoff) July 17, 2019\nSimon Bridges will probably dismiss this as \"irresponsible yoof\" or some such bullshit. But who's being \"irresponsible\": the people voting to take the biggest policy challenge to face our country (and our species) seriously? Or the people who stuff farmer and oil company money in their ears and try and pretend it doesn't exist?\nTime for a people's review of the OIA\nEarlier this year, the Ministry of Justice conducted a public consultation exercise on whether to hold a review of the Official Information Act (this replaced their previous plans to hold a secret consultation with handpicked people). 285 people submitted on it, but their submissions disappeared into a black hole, as the Minister put back a decision. So, someone used FYI, the public OIA request site, to request them. As a result, you can read them all here.\nThere's over 600 pages of documents there, including comments from a number of government agencies. It'll take a while to digest. But since the Minister is sitting on his hands, one obvious thing those of us who want to fix the OIA could do is go through them, identify the primary issues raised, and how to fix them - effectively to conduct a people's review of the Act, with recommendations reflecting the will of submitters rather than the public service elite.\nLabels: Freedom of Information, OIA, Participation\nClimate Change: National isn't serious II\nThe planet is burning. The ice-caps are melting. People are dying of heat waves, storms are getting more intense, huge areas are catching fire every year, and cities are running out of water. We seeing a climate-related disaster every week. So what does National party leader Simon Bridges think of all this? Here's what he said about it this morning:\nI don't believe there is a climate emergency.\nAnd that's the problem, right there. We have a huge, global problem, and the leader of our major opposition party refuses to accept that it exists.\nNational simply isn't serious about climate change. And until they are, until they advocate the sort of emissions reductions we need, and the sort of policies we need to get them, they are unfit for office. If you're wondering what personal action you can take on climate change, here's an obvious one: vote out National, and vote only for parties who will actually do something.\nLabels: Climate Change, National, Simon Bridges\nPutting agriculture in the ETS\nThe Interim Climate Change Committee's report on Action on agricultural emissions: Evidence, analysis and recommendations was finally released today, and as you might guess from the title, it is recommending that we actually act, rather than let farmers keep on polluting. While the headlines are focussing on the long-term plan for a farm-level levy system in 2025, the report actually recommends that agricultural and fertiliser emissions be brought into the ETS at the processor level as soon as possible. Which is a crude way of doing it, which obviously ignores all the things individual farmers can do to reduce their emissions, but its fail-safe, in that we get a price signal ASAP, rather than allowing it to be endlessly delayed by design questions and political cold feet (which was the story of the ETS: proposed in 1995, implementation dragged out until 2008, and arguably not properly implemented yet).\nSo, that's the good news: the ICCC has recommended action which will see farmers at least partly paying their way from next year. They'll have enormous free allocation, of course - apparently we can't expect New Zealand's tough, independent farmers to stand on their own two feet and pay the full cost of their pollution, unlike us weak city-folk who already pay the full cost of petrol and electricity - but there will at least be a marginal price signal. And even at the producer-level, that will shift the profitability of various actions, and maybe provide Fonterra with an incentive to start pushing its farmers to adopt best-practice to minimise their bills. With fertiliser, there will be a direct incentive to use less, just as there is for petrol.\nThe bad news? The government's discussion document isn't committed to this, and offers a \"sector-government agreement\" to support on-farm behaviour change as an alternative. I wonder which one farmers will vote for? But in addition to continuing to subsidise rural pollution, this is also not fail-safe, and instead provides a strong incentive for farmers to drag out and challenge the on-farm system so they can keep getting a free ride for as long as possible. Just as they've done with local government efforts to control nitrogen pollution.\nI'd suggest submitting on the discussion document, but MfE's online submisison tool - \"our preferred way to receive submissions\" - requires a login with no apparent way to create an account (I guess they don't actually want to hear from people after all). You can however submit by email. As for what to put in there, try this:\nAgriculture and fertiliser should be brought into the ETS at the producer level immediately.\nThere should be no free allocation for either. Farmers should pay for 100% of their emissions, just as people pay for 100% of their emissions from petrol and electricity. If the government insists on free allocation, it should be phased down linearly over a decade at most, so that farmers eventually pay the full costs of their emissions.\nAn on-farm emissions measurement system should be developed to allow the point of obligation to eventually be moved to the farm level to reward efficient producers, but that development should not delay the imposition of a price signal.\nFarmers will complain that pricing with no free allocation will cause some of them to go out of business. Good. Driving inefficient, dirty producers out of business is the point of pricing schemes. Its a feature, not a bug. And the sooner it happens, the better.\nLabels: Agricultural Emissions, Climate Change, Emissions Trading\nClimate Change: National isn't serious\nAgriculture is our biggest source of greenhouse gas emissions, responsible for 48% of the total. It follows that meeting any credible emissions reduction target requires cutting agricultural emissions, most likely by having fewer cows. But National thinks people shouldn't be allowed to even discuss that option:\nNational's climate change spokesperson Todd Muller has criticised Te Papa museum for an exhibition he says is \"biased and not science based\".\nThe museum's Climate Converter interactive exhibition has an option labelled 'less dairying' as one way New Zealand can reduce its carbon footprint.\nMr Muller said that was a \"kick in the guts\" for rural families.\nThe Climate Converter allows users to pick a conservation option and watch the results on an animated mural.\nTe Papa said it was based on a scientific report and the 'less dairy' option was one of 14 possible actions represented.\nThat report (from the Royal Society of New Zealand) is here. It looks at what our options are and the implications of various sorts of emissions reductions (an \"emissions wedge\" approach). It does this for every sector: electricity, transport, buildings, and of course agriculture. And because the Royal society doesn't believe in magic, or in hope as a policy, it focuses on things which actually work: like reducing the number of cows, rather than magic emissions-reduction vaccines which don't exist yet.\nTodd Muller, the National Party, and Federated Farmers might not like that. But that's the scientific reality: if we are to reduce emissions significantly, we need fewer cows. Its that simple. And their refusal to consider this and opposition to people talking about it suggests strongly that they are not interested in significant emissions reductions. In other words, they are simply not serious about climate change, our biggest policy challenge. They're simply a pack of deniers and foot-draggers, unfit for government.\nThe UK commits fraud to deport people\nHow scummy is the UK Home Office? This scummy:\nThe Home Office lied to EU member states to remove victims of human trafficking and modern slavery in breach of European law, according to whistleblowers.\nLegal experts have said the practice is \"unthinkable\" and \"a disgraceful and illegal manipulation of the system\". The mayor of London, Sadiq Khan, has urged the sources to contact Yvette Cooper, who chairs the home affairs select committee. \"These are clearly serious allegations which must be properly investigated,\" said Khan's spokesperson.\nWhistleblowers allege that, while operating as the third country unit, the now renamed Dublin cessation unit (DCU) regularly lied to other member states and manipulated the system by sending them \"extra time\" letters, falsely claiming asylum applicants had launched appeals. These letters remove the deadline \u2013 usually six months \u2013 after which someone seeking asylum can no longer be removed from the UK and sent to the EU country determined to be responsible for assessing their claim.\nThe practice, which started in 2013, apparently continued until at least December last year, the sources say.\nThe lesson here is that if you give immigration authorities a target for deportations, they will game the system to achieve it, including simply making shit up so they can throw people out and make them someone else's problem. You'd think that this would be a criminal fraud, especially given the consequences (detention and deportation). But I expect that the Home Office staff who falsified these documents will never be held accountable.\nLabels: Refugees, UK\nWe should lower the voting age\nThe Youth Parliament is being held this week, and some of the youth MPs are campaigning for a lower voting age:\nMolly Doyle, 17, is one Youth MP who wants this to change. She is part of a non-partisan campaign run by youth seeking to lower the voting age in Aotearoa.\n\"Our democracy is based on one person, one vote,\" Molly said.\n\"People who are 16 can work full-time, consent to sex, drive, and own guns. They should also be able to vote.\"\nI find the argument for a lower voting age compelling, and its even more compelling now, with climate change threatening young people's futures. Scotland has done the right thing. So has Austria. We should too. And I'm looking forward to seeing where this youth-led campaign goes.\nMeanwhile, you'd expect a supposedly future-focused, transformative government to be supportive of this. Sadly, that seems to be too much to expect. Because at the end of the day, Labour is about preserving existing power structures - not overturning them.\nBig solar is coming\nUp till now, Australia has made its living by digging up coal and exporting it to other countries, destroying the global climate in the process. But now they have a new option: exporting solar power:\nThe desert outside Tennant Creek, deep in the Northern Territory, is not the most obvious place to build and transmit Singapore's future electricity supply. Though few in the southern states are yet to take notice, a group of Australian developers are betting that will change.\nIf they are right, it could have far-reaching consequences for Australia's energy industry and what the country sells to the world.\nKnown as Sun Cable, it is promised to be the world's largest solar farm. If developed as planned, a 10-gigawatt-capacity array of panels will be spread across 15,000 hectares and be backed by battery storage to ensure it can supply power around the clock.\nOverhead transmission lines will send electricity to Darwin and plug into the NT grid. But the bulk would be exported via a high-voltage direct-current submarine cable snaking through the Indonesian archipelago to Singapore. The developers say it will be able to provide one-fifth of the island city-state's electricity needs, replacing its increasingly expensive gas-fired power.\nSingapore is a long way from Darwin - 3800km, apparently. But HVDC transmission apparently makes sending power that far viable. It does invite the question of why not just send it to Indonesia, but I assume the scheme's backers think they can get more money from Singapore.\nSimilar schemes have been proposed for using solar in the Sahara to power Europe, but they've all been kindof colonial, focused on exploiting a poor country's resources to meet foreign demand, without doing anything for the locals (who probably want electricity too). This doesn't have that toxic dynamic. But if it goes ahead, it will help shift the global energy conversation further away from fossil fuels and more towards renewables - the direction it needs to be going in if we are to save the planet.\nLabels: Australia, Energy, Solar\nTrump's hissy-fit over Darroch will blow a chill wind across Britain's embassies in the Middle East\nClimate Change: Even airlines are telling people not to fly\nLast month I talked about the no-fly movement: people who refuse to fly or limit it to absolute necessity to avoid destroying the climate. Now, that movement has a somewhat surprising new member: Dutch airline KLM:\nDutch airline KLM has launched a campaign asking people to fly less. The video and open letter from CEO Pieter Elbers asks: \"Do you always have to meet face-to-face?\" and \"Could you take the train instead?\"\nThe campaign aims to encourage travellers and the aviation industry to consider the environmental impact of flying. It describes the \"shared responsibility\" of travellers and airlines to \"fly more responsibly\", and says those in the industry need to \"create a sustainable future for aviation\".\nWhich is a powerful sign that the airline industry's loss of social licence is extending beyond Sweden to Europe generally. I guess they really are worried about someone running an advertising campaign like this against them.\nClimate Change: We need a fossil fuel non-proliferation treaty\nIn the 1960's, humanity faced a terrible threat: global thermonuclear war. Nuclear weapons were uniquely destructive and dangerous, and if more countries got them, the logic of MAD and the pre-emptive strike would put us on a hair-trigger to destruction. So, we did the sensible thing, talked it out (\"jaw-jaw is always better than war-war\", as Churchill said), and came up with the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty, in which we basicly agreed that we were all going to cooperate to ensure that there weren't going to be any more nuclear-armed states. And while its had high-profile failures - Israel, India, Pakistan, and North Korea - the NPT has generally been an overwhelming success. Australia doesn't have nuclear weapons, or Japan, or Brazil, or Germany - and its not like these countries don't have the capability or feel threatened by others.\nNow, humanity faces a new threat: climate change. If we are to avoid making the earth uninhabitable, we need to reduce greenhouse gas emissions to practically nothing over the next decade. The biggest source of such emissions is fossil fuels - or, to put it another way, the fossil fuel industry is the biggest threat to the global climate and our continued wellbeing (if not survival). If things continue as they are, the fossil-fuel industry's climate disruptions are going to kill hundreds of millions of people by the end of the century.\nThe NPT suggests a possible answer: a fossil fuel non-proliferation treaty. First floated in the Guardian last year, there's an article about it today in Climate Change News:\nIn a paper in Climate Policy, we make the case for a fossil fuel non-proliferation treaty (NPT). Taking its cue from the non-proliferation treaty for nuclear weapons concluded after just three years in 1968, a fossil fuel version could have three pillars.\nThese parallel those of the nuclear NPT: non-proliferation (an agreement not to exploit new reserves), disarmament (the managed decline of existing fossil fuel infrastructure) and peaceful use (the financing of low carbon alternatives through a global transition fund).\nA process towards this end could start with an assessment of existing reserves, as well as agreement on the principles for the sequencing of production phase-down targets across countries and fuel types, with the aim of aligning fossil fuel use with the Paris Agreement's 1.5C warming threshold.\nThe paper cites NZ's offshore oil exploration ban as an example of the first step, and we are already a member of the Powering Past Coal Alliance, a group of countries committed to phasing out coal-fired power stations (easy for NZ - we only have one). But if the government really wanted to act like climate change is \"my generations nuclear-free moment\", then taking a lead role in negotiating an NPT for fossil fuels (and backing it up at home with domestic bans and phasedowns) would be a good start.\nLabels: Climate Change, International Law\nReminder: Submit on the Zero Carbon Bill\nSubmissions on the government's Zero Carbon Bill close in five days time. Have you made a submission yet?\nIf you're wondering what to say, both Generation Zero and School Strike For Climate, the general thrust of which is stronger methane targets, shorter timelines, and better accountability mechanisms. If you're interested in freedom of information and our ability to hold future ministers to account, you might also want to argue for the removal of the odious secrecy clause, which would make practically everything the Climate Change Commission does secret. Or, if you feel you don't have time for that, you could add your name to the Generation Zero community submission - but I should point out that an individually-written submission has more impact than a group or form submission.\nSubmissions are due by 16 July 2019. Act now if you want a future.\nLabels: Climate Change, Democracy, Participation\nMake Matariki a public holiday\nMatariki has been and gone, but this year we saw a couple of op-eds arguing that it should be a public holiday, replacing the foreign monarch's fake birthday. And now, New Zealand Republic - a group which campaigns for an independent, New Zealand head of state - has launched a parliamentary petition campaign for that to happen.\nThe petition is hosted on Parliament's website. You can sign it here.\nIts worth supporting. Unlike foreign monarch's fake birthday, Matariki is a day indigenous to New Zealand. Making it a public holiday would be a further way of marking our shift from being a British colony to being our own place.\nMeanwhile, if you're interested in joining the campaign for a New Zealand Republic, you can do so here.\nLabels: Republicanism, Worker's Rights\nDid NZDF lie to Ministers?\nWhen Nicky Hager revealed US footage of the Operation Burnham raid, obtained under the US Freedom of Information Act, one of the obvious questions was whether Ministers had seen it - and in particular, whether they'd been told that it was edited and that warnings about the presence of women and children had been removed. The Herald (paywalled) got on to this, and the answer seems to be \"no\":\nWhen launching the inquiry, Parker said he had been shown footage which showed people in the village were armed. He has now refused to comment on whether he was told of the deleted scenes and the US investigation.\nMark told the Herald he was aware the footage had been edited but had no recollection of being told about the missing 12 seconds or the US investigation into it being deleted.\nMitchell has confirmed he was not told of the missing 12 seconds or that an investigation had taken place into the deleted content. He said the footage he did see supported what he had been told about armed insurgents in the village and no inquiry was needed.\nBrownlee said he believed he had been told. \"As far as 12 seconds being removed, I have a recollection of reading that. I had that report at the time, I think.\"\nEnglish and Key have not responded to requests for comment.\nThe Inquiry into Operation Burnham has also refused to comment on whether NZDF informed it about the US investigation.\nSo two Ministers out of four say they weren't told, three refuse to say, and only one says they were. The inquiry I hope will be investigating this, but its looking like NZDF's post murder-spree spin-job, aimed at convincing Ministers that there was no need for an inquiry, tried to bullshit them. They may also have tried to bullshit the inquiry by keeping the US investigation secret (in that if they had informed the inquiry about it and provided the documents, the inquiry would simply have said so). And if any of this is confirmed by the inquiry, then there needs to be heads on spikes at NZDF - because lying to your civilian superiors is absolutely unacceptable in a military organisation, and that shit needs to be stomped on hard.\nEquality comes to Northern Ireland\nNorthern Ireland is the Alabama of the UK: a backwards region where women and gay people are denied fundamental rights. But Westminster has just decided to fix that:\nMPs have voted resoundingly to extend same-sex marriage and access to abortion to Northern Ireland, bringing the region into line with the rest of the UK on the two significant social issues.\nThe two historic votes, arriving within little more than a quarter of an hour of each other, were greeted ecstatically by equalities campaigners. With ministers promising to respect the results, they could have vital repercussions for people in Northern Ireland.\nThe changes came via amendments to an otherwise technical government bill connected to budgets and elections for the devolved assembly. In the first amendment, tabled by the Labour MP Conor McGinn, a longstanding campaigner for equal marriage in Northern Ireland, the Commons voted 383 to 73 to extend it to the region.\nIts good news, and yet I'm also disquieted, because this vote violates fundamental UK constitutional norms. Northern Ireland has a devolved administration, and marriage equality and abortion rights sits squarely within that government's jurisdiction. Westminster overriding devolved administrations and legislating for them in their areas of competence without their consent is Not A Good Thing. Instead, it just seems like more odious English colonialism, no matter how well-intentioned.\nAnd on the other hand: thanks to the DUP's antics, Northern Ireland hasn't had a government for the past two and a half years, and Westminster is having to legislate for them anyway out of necessity in order to ensure things keep working. But this goes well beyond keeping things ticking over, and its part of a disturbing trend of Westminster overstepping the constitutional mark and purporting to legislate for devolved regions (e.g. self-governing overseas territories and the Channel Islands on money laundering).\nAnd on the gripping hand: if Northern Ireland doesn't like this, they can always declare independence, or unite with the Republic of Ireland (which has both same-sex marriage and abortion now). Or just stop pissing about, get their devolved parliament working again, and repeal it. Except they won't be able to, because there's in fact a parliamentary majority at Stormont for marriage equality, and the only thing which kept it illegal was the special rights of Ulster bigots under the Good Friday Agreement. So, this law probably isn't going anywhere, and the bigots are just going to have to get used to it.\nLabels: Abortion, Human Rights, Marriage, Northern Ireland, UK\nAustralia spies on journalists\nWhen the Australian government passed a series of new spy laws over the last few years, they pinky-promised that they wouldn't use them to spy on journalists and subvert freedom of the press. They lied:\nThe anti-encryption laws passed by the federal parliament last year have been used to bypass journalist protections in other national security laws, a cybersecurity researcher has said.\nOne part of the law updated the powers law enforcement have in executing a warrant. Added into the Crimes Act was the power for agencies to \"add, copy, delete or alter\" data on computers as part of the execution of warrants.\nIt was this new power the Australian federal police relied on, in the now-infamous photos of AFP officers clicking through and reviewing files for hours on end at the ABC headquarters.\nThe Department of Home Affairs admitted to using the new power in a submission to the review, stating the AFP relied on the power in raiding the ABC and the Canberra home of News Corp journalist Annika Smethurst in June.\nI guess journalists having their information protected and requiring a special warrant under data retention laws means nothing if the government can just steal the information directly and identify their sources from their notes. Its just another step along Australia's road to tyranny - and it seems to be going along that road quite fast.\nLabels: Australia, Press Freedom, Tyranny\nJustice for Operation Condor\nFrom 1975 to 1989, the spy agencies of South America's right-wing military dictatorships cooperated in Operation Condor, a joint campaign of extermination against the continent's left. Roughly 400,000 people were imprisoned, 30,000 disappeared, and 60,000 murdered - kidnapped, tortured, executed, assassinated, or thrown out of flying aircraft. It was a crime against humanity, and over the past decades, its surviving architects have gradually been convicted and punished for it. And today, another 24 of them went were sentenced to prison:\nAn Italian court has sentenced 24 people to life in prison for their involvement in Operation Condor, in which the dictatorships of six South American countries conspired to kidnap and assassinate political opponents in each other's territories.\nThe trial, the first of its kind in Europe, began in 2015 and focused on the responsibility of senior officials in the military dictatorships of Chile, Paraguay, Uruguay, Brazil, Bolivia and Argentina for the killing and disappearance of 43 people including 23 Italian citizens.\nThose sentenced on Monday included Francisco Morales Berm\u00fadez, who was president of Peru from 1975 to 1980, Juan Carlos Blanco, a former foreign minister in Uruguay, Pedro Espinoza Bravo, a former deputy intelligence chief in Chile, and Jorge N\u00e9stor Fern\u00e1ndez Troccoli, a Uruguayan former naval intelligence officer.\nGood. And hopefully they'll track down and prosecute the rest of those involved as well.\nMeanwhile, the perpetrators of Operation Condor being hunted down and prosecuted like Nazis makes me wonder whether the perpetrators of Guantanamo, and US rendition and torture will be treated the same way in future. It took 25 years after the end of Condor for the prosecutions to really get rolling, so we're probably looking at at least another decade for that to happen.\nCorrection: It wasn't clear from the original article, but only one of the defendants - Jorge Tr\u00f3ccoli - is actually in Italy and facing prison. The rest were sentenced in absentia and will need to be extradited (though some are reportedly already in prison in their home countries). So its not quite the justice I thought it was. Still, the ruling itself that Operation Condor was a crime is useful, and even if not extradited now, those convicted will have this hanging over them for the rest of their lives, and if they ever set foot outside of whatever country is harbouring them, may find themselves Pinocheted.\nLabels: Disappearance, Human Rights, International Law, Italy, Justice, South America\nLabour chickenshitting on abortion\nWhen she was standing for office, Jacinda Ardern promised she would take abortion out of the Crimes Act. And to be fair, there was some early action on that, with an immediate referral of the issue to the Law Commission to look at options for reform. But the Law Commission reported back in October, and since then, the government has done... nothing. And its still doing nothing today:\n[T]he Government has yet to publicly reply to Law Commission advice released in October or confirm what changes it plans to put up to a conscience vote in Parliament.\nLast year, Little said he expected to have a Bill ready to go in early 2019, but it stalled in talks with NZ First.\nIn May, he said an announcement was weeks away, after a breakthrough.\nIt was still weeks away on Tuesday.\n\"Constructive discussions have been ongoing regarding abortion law reform and I'm pleased with where it's at,\" Little said in a statement.\n\"I expect to have an announcement to make in a matter of weeks.\"\nAnd he'll probably say the same thing in a couple of weeks as well. Because when it comes to actual action, Labour are chickenshits, unwilling to confront the bigots in their coalition partner, let alone their own caucus. But as the article points out, the bill will be a conscience vote, so it doesn't really matter what those bigots think. They'll vote against, others will vote for, and I'm confident that in today's social environment, it will pass. That is, if MP's are allowed to vote on it.\nMeanwhile, from this, and climate change, and poverty, it seems that the value of the Prime Minister's campaign promises is zero. They're just pretty lies told to secure election - and voters should treat them accordingly.\nLabels: Abortion, Jacinda Ardern, Women's Rights\nClimate Change: Timid and unambitious\nWhen the government introduced the Zero Carbon Bill, people rightly asked what they planned to do to reduce transport emissions, which basicly had no policy at all other than the ETS. Today, they responded, announcing a \"feebate\" system which would see buyers of dirty vehicles taxed to subsidise clean ones. Its an obvious policy, and one I've supported for a long time. At the same time, in the current crisis, it seems timid and unambitious. The ice-caps are melting, cities are running out of water, and the government is planning to apply a vehicle fuel efficiency standard Japan and Europe had five years ago in 2025? So much for our \"nuclear-free moment\"!\nA feebate scheme is an important part of any policy to reduce transport emissions and encourage the necessary switchover to electric vehicles. But the government needs to do more than this, and it needs to do it faster. They should be pushing this through the legislative process as quickly as possible, and implementing it immediately, rather than with a 5-year phase-in. As the Cabinet paper points out, a dirty car imported today stays on our roads for 19 years on average. So the quicker we turn off that tap, the better. But more importantly, we need to turn it off permanently. Other countries have announced phase-out dates for fossil-fuel vehicles, typically aiming to ban new sales in 2030 (and non-museum-piece registrations 5-10 years after). Such a date sets market expectations and helps drive the push for people to make their next car electric. But there's no mention of one at all in the Cabinet paper - the necessary action seems like too much for the government to take. And it certainly makes it clear that, contrary to the Prime Minister's rhetoric, we're not seeking to lead on climate change, we're not even being a \"fast follower\". Instead, our government is dragging its feet, just like its always done.\nLabels: Climate Change, Climate Change Policy, Transport\nWill National stay the party of climate change den...\nClimate Change: Even airlines are telling people n...\nClimate Change: We need a fossil fuel non-prolifer...\nThe wrong kind of trees?\nFuck the surplus. 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+{"text":"Teams & Standings\nStart An A7FL Team\nBecome An A7FL Player\nAbout A7FL\nContact The A7FL\nA7FL\nEvery Level of Football Should Adopt This Version of Special Teams\nThe American 7s Football League (A7FL\u00ae) Announces Partnership with OpenSponsorship for the Sale of League Sponsorship Assets\nYusef \"Young\" Reddick \u2013 2019 Championship MVP\nA7FL 2019 Championship Presented by TimTam.tech \u2013 PA Immortalz crowned Champions!\nA7FL Weeks 1 & 2 Highlights\nA7FL Staff\nA7FL Weeks 1 and 2 Highlights\nThe A7FL are already on week 2, and in these first two weeks, a lot has happened. Perhaps the understatement of the week, who would have guessed that the defending champions, the Baltimore Gators would start the season off at 0-2?\nThe top 6 teams share the same amount of wins. Those being the Baltimore Cobras (1st in the league), PA Immortalz (2nd); New Jersey BIC, NJ Hawks, Baltimore Panthers, and NJ Savage bringing the final four spots in the order.\nWeek 1 saw every team going hard for those first victories\u2026\nIn a week 1 stunner, the Gators lost their first game of the season against the Baltimore Panthers, 15-14. The Immortalz took their first game against The U in stunning fashion, with a score of 18-13. The Savage beat The Vikings 12-6. The Silk City Animals delivered a devastating loss to the Renegades in week 1, by a score of 18-8.\nThe Baltimore Cobras embarrassed The Baltimore Nightmare in their first meeting, winning with an impressive score of 48-0 (League-best, so far). Meanwhile, The Hawks and Spanktown had a nailbiter in Roselle. With the score at the end of it all being 24-20 in favor of the Hawks. You can actually watch the game here.\nBaltimore Army and the Baltimore Bulldogs did not play their scheduled week 1 game.\nWeek 2 saw more wild action, starting off with The U trouncing the Misfits 38-14; the Renegades taking yet another loss, this time to the Panthers, by a score of 34-8. The Bulldogs got their first win of the season, as they beat the Spanktown Boyz 14-6.\nThe Animals suffered their first loss, and it was a doozy, as they lost to the Immortalz by a score of 44-18. The Hawks ran all over the Nightmare, winning by a score of 36-12; meanwhile, the Cobras had quite the challenge from the Vikings, securing the victory by just two points, 26-24.\nWeek 1 was not a good one for the defending champs, but week 2 was, well? Even worse, as the Gators lost to the BIC 32-22. The Savage ravaged The Army, beating them 25-12. You can view this week's highlights below.\nWeek 3's matchups are looking pretty good, as the PA Misfits (0-2) are looking for their first win of the season, but they are going to have their hands full. They face off against the Immortalz (2-0). The Vikings (0-2) and The Nightmare (0-2) will both be looking to finally add a W to their records, as they go head-to-head. The Hawks and Renegades will scrap, as the Renegades (0-2) are looking for redemption, but they are taking on a Hawks team (2-0) that's so far red hot.\nThe Army (0-1) and Panthers (2-0) will face off, can the Army go 1-1 this coming weekend? Or will the Panthers walk away 3-0? The league-leading Cobras (2-0) face off with the 1-1 Animals, and this one could be a dogfight. The champion Gators (0-2) look to redeem themselves against the 1-0 Bulldogs. Can they change their luck? Only time will tell.\nThe Paterson U (1-1) are going to mix it up with the Spanktown Boyz (0-2). And finally, The Savage and BIC are going to skirmish on the field, both touting a 2-0 record. 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+{"text":"Them Trailer Unveils Amazon Prime's New Terror Anthology Series\nBy Fletcher Peters | March 22, 2021 | 1:20pm\nPhoto Courtesy of Amazon Prime TV News Them\nJoining the ranks of eerie anthology series Black Mirror and Homecoming, Them is a new original terror anthology heading to Amazon Prime. The first season, created by the up-and-coming Little Marvin, has just dropped a new trailer to give a taste of the fraught 1950's setting. With plans to develop further series based on terror in America, the first chapter of Them follows a Black family moving to an all-white neighborhood in Los Angeles during a period of time called \"The Great Migration.\" But moving pains give way to malevolent, monstrous forces that threaten to destroy them.\nDeborah Ayorinde and Ashley Thomas lead the series, respectively, as mother and father duo Lucky and Henry Emory. Their two young daughters, Gracie and Ruby, are played by Melody Hurd and Shahadi Wright Joseph (who horror fans may recognize from Jordan Peele's sophomore feature Us). Along with Pill, Ryan Kwanten, Christopher Heyerdahl, and Liam McIntyre are also set to star in the series as citizens of Compton.\nIn the trailer, we get to see the Emorys' first steps on Palmer Drive. Bright, sunny, and brimming with eerie undertones, clearly everything is not as it seems. Their blonde, white, always-grinning neighbors appear less-than-friendly. And that nice, new house in Compton? It appears to be haunted with spirits out to wreck the family's otherwise peaceful quartet.\n\"This is how it begins: with one family,\" croaks neighbor Betty Wendell (Allison Pill) in the trailer, rallying a racist drive to horrify the Emorys out of the neighborhood. \"They came from somewhere worse. We'll have to make this place worse.\"\nThe series was created and executive produced by Little Marvin, along with executive producers Lena Waithe, Miri Yoon, Roy Lee, David Matthews, and Don Kurt.\nThem will debut all 10 episodes exclusively on Amazon Prime April 9th.\nFletcher Peters is a New York-based journalist whose writing has appeared in Decider, Jezebel, and Film School Rejects, among other spots. You can follow her on Twitter @fietcherpeters gossiping about rom-coms, TV, and the latest celebrity drama.\nThe Roys \"Tightrope Walk on a Straight Razor\" in New Succession Season 4 Trailer By Michael Savio January 26, 2023 | 4:04pm\nTed Lasso Season 3 Will Premiere Spring 2023; Apple TV+ Reveals Tense First Image By Allison Keene January 18, 2023 | 5:44pm\nAfter a Mid-Production Renewal Reversal, Minx Finds New Home at Starz By Anna Govert January 12, 2023 | 4:04pm","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
+{"text":"Spatial Sustainability Studies\nThe world faces large environmental and social challenges that need to be addressed to create a sustainable future for generations to come. Issues such as climate change, biodiversity, poverty and inequality are interconnected and context specific. The Master's programme in Spatial Sustainability Studies takes a spatial perspective to understand the interlinkages between these challenges, identify the main drivers and develop interventions to address them.\nWould you like to find out if Spatial Sustainability Studies is the right programme for you? Sign up to attend the next Master's Week or register to receive updates about the Master's programme.\nMaster's Week 11-17 February 2023 Yes! I want to attend Want to receive updates? Yes! Keep me informed\nThe Master's programme in Spatial Sustainability Studies is unique in its spatial perspective and the opportunity for students to exit the programme with a Master's degree in either Human Geography or Urban and Regional Planning. It combines environmental courses from both programmes and allows students to specialise in their field of choice.\nGet to know the study programme\nMeet the people who organise this Master's programme.\nMeet the academic staff\nAfter graduating from the Master's programme Spatial Sustainability Studies you will have excellent international career opportunities within the spatial and sustainability domain. The specialisation degrees in Human Geography or Urban and Regional Planning are well established fields in both science and practice.\nRead more about your career prospects\nSpatial Perspective on Sustainability\nDegree in Urban Planning or Human Geography\nFrom Analysis to Intervention\nIs Spatial Sustainability Studies for you?\nDeepening your knowledge and applying this knowledge for the benefit of society?\nSolving complex environmental issues?\nUsing analyses to develop sustainability interventions?\nUnderstanding the impact of climate change in urban and regional contexts?\nStudying in a personal and inspiring environment?\nThen Spatial Sustainability Studies might be the programme you have been looking for!\nMSc Human Geography or Urban and Regional Planning\nRegular study programme\n60 ECTS, 12 months\nCROHO code\n66620 or 66622\nRoeterseiland campus\nSimilar programmes All UvA Master's programmes\nThe Master's programme in Urban and Regional Planning will teach you the skills, tools and approaches to reinvent urban futures.\nEconomic Geography (Human Geography)\nThe Master 's track Economic Geography focuses on how the globalised economy has affected the lives of people in different parts of the world.\nPolitical Geography (Human Geography)\nThe Master's in Political Geography focuses on three core themes: geopolitics, globalisation and governance. By examining these concepts, political geographies in our current globalised world are analysed and researched.\nUrban Geography (Human Geography)\nThe Master's in Urban Geography provides students with a deeper understanding of global and local processes that shape cities across the world.","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
+{"text":"Rumor: Transformers MMO changed developer\nTransformers is a huge medium with a market for toys, comics, movies, TV shows and video games. Earlier this week, the first trailer for the Transformers Beast Wars film adaptation was shown, but we digress to the unfinished MMO project Certain Affinity.\nSince its founding in 2006, Certain Affinity has been the backing studio for many of the projects it has worked on, including DLC \u200b\u200bfor games like Halo 2, Call of Duty Black Ops, and Doom 2016's multiplayer modes, just to name a few. For an undisclosed period of time, the team has been working on the aforementioned project called Transformers Online.\nAs of today, new hands seem to be working on the game. After several years of development, the Transformers Online project has been taken over by Splash Damage (known for games such as Dirty Bomb and the Gears of War series since Ultimate Edition), according to Insider Gaming.\nSplash Damage was contacted in an attempt to confirm these rumors, but the same message notes that the developer \"cannot comment on rumors or speculation.\"\nTransformers Online had similarities to games like Destiny 2 and Warframe, where each unique transformer has its own play style and unique abilities. Movement and tactical options are also of great importance, as in the previously mentioned MMOs.\nOther elements of the game include faction-based missions (as the Autobots and Decepticons, respectively), a crafting system, a variety of environments to explore, and three weapons (basic, versatile, and melee). In conclusion, it is reported that the launch of the online project is scheduled for next year, but information on platforms and release dates was not disclosed.\nTags: changeddeveloperMMORumorTransformers\nSubmarine co-op sim Barotrauma leaves early access this spring\nCRT TV vs. 4K: That's how crass GoldenEye 007 looks on the Xbox\nEddie Murphy wants to reprise his role as Donkey in a possible Shrek sequel\nPok\u00e9mon Go: Spotlight Hour December 2022 - Winter Shinys\nFortnite Chapter 4 starts today with Geralt of Rivia and Doomguy\nGenshin Impact: a cosplay of Sucrose, the alchemist struggling with his potions\nGaming PC as a great value for money: Builds for every budget, purchase suggestions and more in the video\nHogwarts Legacy, new ASMR video to relax with the beautiful sceneries of the game\nPayday 3: Starbreeze satisfied with development progress\nXbox Series X|S: the fastest selling console for Microsoft, finally a serious competitor for the PS5?\nFrom Crysis and Windows Vista (PCGH-Retro, January 30th)\nThe Cypriot club is in talks with Dynamo about the transfer of Besedin","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
+{"text":"The Quran Centered Approach\nBy Dr Khalid Zaheer\t Last updated Apr 28, 2019 3,062\nAll humans who believe that Muhammad, may Allah's mercy be on him, was the last messenger God Almighty sent to guide the entire mankind are Muslims. However, despite the commonality of this belief, Muslims differ in the way they understand and practice their religion. There are two basic reasons for this situation to have arisen.\nThe first reason is that many Muslims have chosen to follow one religious group or another blindly. In doing so, they have decided that they will not employ the two most significant gifts the Almighty has bestowed upon them to sift the right views from the wrong ones: their intellect and the Quran. Since it is only their intellect which enables humans to know whether what they are doing is right or wrong and it is only through intellect that one can understand the word of God, Quran, once both were rendered non-effective, Muslims lost the ability of knowing the truth in its pristine form. Thus, whoever chose to follow a certain religious way at the beginning of his career was destined to follow the same way till the very end of his life. In such a state, it wasn't possible for A and B, for instance, who may otherwise be very intelligent people and friendly with each other, to decide which of the respective religious views the two were carrying was the more correct. Since in the rules of Taqlid (blind following of the elders\/scholars) a common man is not even allowed the facility to think about religious differences, the resolution of those differences and the motivation to find the truth in the jungle of them became an impossible task.\nThe other reason for the differences of opinion to continue to grow thick amongst Muslims was the fact that Muslim scholars, instead of seeking guidance from Quran to resolve their differences, chose to adopt one of the following four distinct non-Quranic approaches to understand religion: the hadith-centered approach, the fiqh-centered approach, the tasawwuf-centered approach, or the history-centered approach.\nThose who pursued the hadith-centered approach were the ones who were more interested in proving that the true message of Islam was the one that emerged from the understanding of hadith literature. Even if there was an apparent conflict between what Quran was saying and what hadith was implying, it was resolved in favor of hadith with a plea that what we understand from Qur'an was our own understanding and what was mentioned in hadith was the interpretation of the prophet, alaihissalaam, and most certainly, so goes the argument, the interpretation of the prophet was superior to ours. The point that was lost was that a hadith, even if it was authentic, doesn't give the exact wordings and the correct context of what the prophet had said. Also, it has never been convincingly explained as to how could it be that if our interpretation of Qur'an was unreliable, our interpretation of hadith be not unreliable too? After all, it is we, the same mortals, who would be interpreting hadith to get its meanings. The people who have understood Islam through hadith have come about to be called Ahle-Hadith. The fact of the matter is that majority of Muslims today are practically Ahle-Hadith even though many of them may claim that they were pursuing the fiqh-centered approach.\nThose who followed the fiqh-centered approach were the people who pursued the path of emphasizing the scholarly work done on Islamic jurisprudence by their espoused scholars more than anything else. To defend resolutely what the earlier scholars of their school of thought had already mentioned became the most significant task of the scholars of the later times. The interpretation of the Quran was done to ensure that the Quranic verses were understood in the light of the fiqhi understanding that had already emerged in their school of thought. The peculiar understanding that thus emerged could neither be similar to the one that was reached by those who pursued the hadith-, tasawwuf-, and history-centered approaches nor could it be able to bring together the scholars who followed different schools of thought (fiqhi masalik) within the fiqh-centered approach.\nThe third approach followed by a group of Muslims is the history-centered approach. The followers of this approach have a peculiar understanding of the early history of Islam. Their interpretation of the Qur'an always tends to be faithful to that understanding. There are certain implications drawn from their historical understanding. It is claimed that the original teachings of Islam had decided to confer the status of a chosen people to the members of the prophet's family, who were ill-treated by some tyrants of the ummah and to mourn their alleged ill-treatment was the most important part of all religious rituals. To prove those implications and the related concept of religion is the basic focal point of all Quranic interpretations done by the scholars of this school of thought.\nA fourth approach towards understanding Islam is the Tasawwuf-centered approach. According to this approach the basic purpose of all Islamic teachings is to require humans to get back to where they originally belong: God, their Creator. Since man has been required to go through the tragic experience to spend the dreaded time of separation from God in his human existence, which is arrested in the flesh and bones of his body, in this worldly life, he must get out of it for his salvation to be a part of God again. For that purpose, he has to go through the various stages of spiritual exercises to be pure enough to achieve unity with the 'truth' once again. The approach has its origins outside the text of Quran. The emotionally attached adherents of it seek to find justifications for it from within Quran and interpret the text in a manner that suits their peculiar understanding of reality. The manner they achieve it is by describing their interpretation as esoteric (which relies on the methodology of bringing hidden \/ batini meanings of the text). Since this approach of interpretation doesn't take the apparent text of Quran as binding but requires it to be interpreted in a manner that the 'hidden' meanings of it are extracted, the book of God is not given the status of final authority on religious matters.\nAs mentioned above, the fiqh-, tasawwuf-, and history-centered approaches are all based on, to a greater or lesser degree, the hadith-centered approach. They do not seem to have independent methodological bases other than what is offered by the hadith-centered approach. The only difference is that the tasawwuf-centred approach adds spiritual experiences (kashf) to help in arriving at its esoteric (batani) insights to tafsir together with weak (da'if) ahadith, the fiqh-centered approach prefers the juristic verdicts of the espoused jurists in interpreting the verses where there happen to be differences, and the history-centered approach is inclined to draw from the opinion of the Imams in interpreting verses where the peculiar point of view of the sect is desired to be emphasized.\nAre these approaches completely incorrect? The answer is that insofar as they relegate Quranic text to a position of secondary source, subservient to the other sources, these approaches are intrinsically incorrect. However, they all have elements of virtue in them. What then is the correct approach? The correct answer to it is that only the Quran-centered approach is the correct one. The Almighty has Himself required believers to hold fast to the rope of Allah and as a consequence make sure that they don't fall into disintegration. It is obvious from this statement that if there could be one integrating way of bringing all Muslims to one understanding, it was only through Quran. Also, the Almighty declares that it is Quran which is the ultimate criterion to sift right from wrong (Al-Furqan). He also clarifies that He sent books to humans from time to time so that those books should \"\u2026 judge between people in matters wherein they differed.\" (Quran; 2:214)\nI will give an example to show how a certain religious issue could be resolved differently by different approaches and how Quran can come to our rescue to let us know which view is the correct one: What standard of living should one ideally adopt? How much should one ideally spend on oneself and how much on others? To respond to this question, the hadith-based approach would suggest that the ideal attitude would be not to leave any saving with oneself because such was the approach adopted by prophet, alahissalaam, even though lesser attitudes would be acceptable as well. The fiqh-based approach would say much the same thing except for the difference that they would divide the attitudes into different levels, categorizing the one adopted by the prophet as the ideal. The history-based approach would mention the example of their Imams as well to substantiate the same view. The tasawwuf-based approach would mention that the ideal attitude would be to minimize consumption for the individual to enable him to shun most contacts with the attractions of this world so that nearness with the Creator is achieved. It would attempt to support its view by clarifying that the prophet, alaihissalaam, did the same.\nThe Quran-centered approach would look at the book of Allah to find the right behaviour of the believer and make a claim that it mentions clearly the ideal attitude of the servants of the Merciful God ('ibadurrahman) thus: \"And those who, when they spend, are neither extravagant nor niggardly, but hold a (medium) way between those (extremes).\" (Quran; 25:67) The approach would make an attempt to offer an explanation for the example of the prophet, alaihissalaam, in the light of this Quranic guidance. However, in case it fails in its attempt, it would explain that the reports have either not been properly understood or not properly transmitted. The possibility that the Quranic guidance hasn't been properly understood would also be conceded. However, given a situation wherein a clear Quranic guidance is available, even if there was a possibility of it being misunderstood, it was the status of the book of Allah that its verdict be acknowledged as correct religious understanding on the subject, for it is the book which was given the status \"\u2026 to judge between people in matters wherein they differed.\" In case the mistake in understanding the Quranic text is pointed out, it will be accepted, again because the principle is that Quranic verdict must always hold supreme.\nIn this particular case, one of the explanations offered for the prophet's behaviour could be that since he lived in times when the economic condition of Muslims wasn't good, he lived a frugal life suiting his circumstances. The examples of Dawood and Sulaiman, alaihimussalam, would also be offered to substantiate the point that the prophets, all of whom were ideals amongst humans, lived a life which in accordance with their circumstances could be described as the middle-of-the-road approach in economic matters, exactly as described in Quran about the servants of Al-Rahman (the Merciful) that they \"are neither extravagant nor niggardly, but hold a (medium) way between those (extremes).\"\nBlogsIslamQuran\nAcademic Tradition of Ahle Sunnah\nThe Sorry State of Our Religiosity\nSearch For Religious Moderation\nWhere Do We Get Islam From?\nHostility to Polio Vaccine\nAre Astrology or Horoscopes Permissible in Islam?","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
+{"text":"Small Points of Light\nhttps:\/\/villageofcrickets.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/mfa-logo-sm.png\nThe Poem as an Act of Naming\nby Robin Gow, Editor-at-Large\nIn the light sporadic rain, we huddled under a few people's umbrellas outside the Dismantle, Change, Build Center in Portland, Oregon for a reading entitled SO Homo\/no FOMO on the first night of the Association of Writers & Writing Programs (AWP) conference. The space wasn't open yet, which was kind of magical, because each time another person arrived, he or she or they would share where they were from: \"New Jersey\" \"Washington\" \"New Mexico\" \"Pennsylvania.\" This made me think about how we define ourselves, what elements we share at first to being to present our narrative to others. I always stumble on the \"where are you from\" question because I'm from a small town in Pennsylvania but I also feel \"from\" Philadelphia and I also, now, feel \"from\" New York City while actually living on Long Island.\nI knew I was going to meet T.C. Tolbert in a few minutes. I was frustrated that my head felt so murky from having stayed up the whole night before to get on a 6am plane to Portland from Newark. I oscillated between listening to the conversations and thinking about how I might summarize in a few second handshake who I was and what impact Tolbert's poetry and community building work has meant to me in my last few years of life.\nT.C. is a bright person, and by that, I mean as he\/she approached the whole energy of our cluster lightened. He\/she hugged individuals and made his\/her way through the group of us. My partner and fellow poet, Benny Sisson, worked with T.C. when she had a residency teaching middle schoolers in Tuscon, Arizona and introduced me briefly. Handshakes are a strange but comforting gesture and I felt thankful for the handshake as a way of sharing a brief contact with this person.\nThe space was a wonderful mixture of art studio, gallery, library and community center. We all helped populate the room in front of the short wooden stage with chairs. Taking a seat in the third row I noticed the shelves in the corners were piled with all sorts of books, and sitting there I wanted to pursue them, but didn't, wanting to be respectful of a space I was a guest in.\n\"\u2026no matter if our name was chosen or not, it is still a choice around which we construct our narratives.\"\nThis essay started as a listicle titled \"A Wallflower's Guide to a Poetry Reading.\" Me, the wallflower, navigating a reading where it seemed people in the audience all knew each other in some way through the wide spread work of the different readers. I wondered what these people thought of me and my small talk. I wanted so badly to talk about anything other than \"where do you go to school?\" and \"what do you write.\" Though, it did occur to me that \"What is your name?\" holds more significance than it might seem. Not just because this reading was clearly populated by many queer and trans people, who for whatever purpose, had chosen their names, but also because no matter if our name was chosen or not, it is still a choice around which we construct our narratives. We all have more than one name. I'm also often \"professor\" and sometimes, strangely \"sir\", and sometimes still, occasionally, \"Sarah,\" though I would never introduce myself that way.\nThe only people who still refer to me as \"Sarah\" are my family\u2026\nand Uber drivers.\nSarah is my birth name. The only people who still refer to me as \"Sarah\" are my family and Uber drivers. We had actually taken an Uber to get to the reading and, being with Benny, we brushed away the usual question which the driver will ask which is \"Are you Sarah?\" I usually have to pause a moment, because, in a sense, I sometimes am \"Sarah\" at least in practice around my family. My usual response is something like \"Oh that's my girlfriend\" or \"My mom booked me this Uber.\"\nI also reference \"Sarah\" still in my poetry. It's a choice that's taken me a long time to come to, but for me, I need the name to explore who I have been and how I am who I am today.\nThe reading started about thirty-minutes late which was kind of nice because it allowed me to introduce myself, awkwardly, to everyone sitting around me. Each reader brought different energies ranging from creepy-beautiful persona poems from the perspective of Lizzie Borden by Zefyr Lisowski to a poetic and poignant essay by Aisha Sabatini Sloan weaving together an inciting incident of hearing a gunshot in the forest with an exploration on how the intersections we exist at impact how and where we're allowed to feel comfortable to take up space.\nT.C. Tolbert read a series of poems addressed to his\/her birthname \"Melissa.\" This struck me as an act of creating space for a self in flux, gender or otherwise. T.C. writes in \"Dear Melissa.\"\nwho hasn't killed herself by\ngrowing into someone\u2014I'm sorry you have\nI realized that this is not only true for trans and gender queer poets. That, at least to me, each poem seems to be an act of admitting that you, yourself and your thoughts, have had and will have many names, that you are changing.\nI see the poem as an act of naming yourself in a moment.\nThis is especially interesting to me, because I work hard to teach my creative writing students to distance the writer from the speaker of poems. Can the speaker of a poem both be the writer and not the writer at the same time? What role does our physical self and our physical history play in how our poems are read?\nI found myself crying without realizing it, listening to T.C. read these poems. I thought about how his\/her \"Melissa\" is not the same as my \"Sarah,\" but that they are in conversation with each other in some way, that our birth names underpin everything we write, to some extent.\nBenny and I left right after the last reader finished that night, catching an Uber back to our hotel where we made small talk about donut shops in the city. The driver asked if we were writers and where we were from.\n\u00a9 2016 VILLAGE OF CRICKETS ALL RIGHTS RESERVED","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
+{"text":"Detroit Pistons Recaps\nPistons final score: Will Bynum, bench carries Detroit to double-digit beating of defending champs, 109-99\nFor the second game in a row, Will Bynum and the rest of the Pistons' bench did most of the starter's work. On Friday night, behind Bynum's 25 points and 10 assists, they carried their team to a 10-point win over LeBron James and the reigning NBA champions, 109-99.\nBy Packey@Detroit4lyfe Dec 29, 2012, 11:23am EST\nShare All sharing options for: Pistons final score: Will Bynum, bench carries Detroit to double-digit beating of defending champs, 109-99\nI wish I could re-use the picture MFMP chose for the GameThread, because it captures LeBron James so well. I also wish I could use Patrick Hayes' headline at PistonPowered -- Will Bynum the biggest star on a court that featured LeBron James and Chris Bosh -- because it's true, as well. MFWB, which stands for Most Feral Will Bynum. Will \"The Thrill\" Bynum. Bynumite. Yeah, what about him?\nJames dominated, as superstars tend to do most nights, scoring 35 points on 15-for-22 shooting with six rebounds, five assists and six steals. But it was Bynum's performance that induced the most oohs and aahs from a crowd that mostly showed up to see James, and more importantly it was Bynum's performance that propelled the Pistons to a 10-point victory over the defending champions, 109-99.\nFor the second time in three nights, the Pistons' bench as a whole made the starters look stupid. After spotting the Heat 10 points in the first two minutes of the game (pro tip: you don't want to do that to NBA champions), the Pistons trailed by 15 after the first horn. Then, the bench showed the starters how it is to be done.\nThe Pistons' bench hit eight (8!) threes in the second quarter on their way to scoring a season-high 41 (FORTY-ONE!) points. Charlie Villanueva hit three, Austin Daye hit two at the beginning of the quarter, Bynum had two to go along with seven assists, and Singler hit one. When you shoot 8 for 10 from long distance in a quarter, you have a pretty good chance to make up some ground and put some distance between you and the other team. It also helped that the Heat were 1 for 6 from the same spot, 7 for 19 overall, and turned the ball over four times. The Pistons used it all to completely turn the game on its head and into their favor, 58-52, at the break.\nIn the third quarter, after reading their notes in the locker room, the starters helped increase the lead to 15 with a 9-0 run to start. They managed to trade points with the Heat for much of the third and the bench maintained a 12-point lead until James started to get 2007 silly. James would nail a ridiculous shot just before the buzzer in the third and then boosted his team to a 6-0 start in the fourth, pulling the Heat to within four.\nBut the Pistons bench responded once again. Andre Drummond, Villanueva, Bynum and Tayshaun Prince (wait a minute, how did he get in there?) answered the Heat's run with a 9-0 one of their own to extend the lead back to 13. When the Heat chipped it to six, Bynum and Villanueva returned it to double digits. In the final two minutes of the game, Bynum put the team on his back and went into take-over mode, inserting the dagger into the defending champs with back-to-back-to-back jumpers, two of which came with the shot clock expiring.\nBynum scored 13 of his 25 points in the final frame and eight of the Pistons' final 12 points. He finished with 25 points on 10-for-16 shooting and had 10 assists, his first double double since March 7, 2010. He did this all in 27-plus minutes. He was electric for the second game in a row, stealing the limelight from the 44-minute LeBron James show.\nThe rookie Drummond deserves a heap of praise, too. It's no coincidence that the bench's dominance in the last couple games has happened with him on the floor. In 23 minutes Friday night (due to foul trouble), Drummond recorded his second-straight double double, grabbing 10 rebounds to go along with 10 points on 5-for-7 shooting. More than what the box score will tell you, which also tells you he had two steals, is that Drummond disrupted a lot of the Heat shots down low by getting a big paw in their face. For as fun as Bynum is to watch when he has these seemingly random mutations, the 19-year-old Drummond is equally as exciting for basketball fans.\nIn all, the Pistons had six players in double figures. Villanueva hit most of his shots, helping him to 18 points. He and Daye, who had 11 points and two blocks, skied over a couple Heat players and had important rebounds in the fourth quarter. The bench scored 64 of the Pistons' 109 points after scoring the most in the NBA since 1999 on Wednesday night. To wit: at what point does \"the bench\" become \"the starting five\", as craigdetroit has nicknamed them?\nFor the Pistons as a team, it was only their 10th win in what has been an overall disappointing first 32 games to the season. But an excitingly weird win over LeBron James, who had beaten the Pistons too many times in a row to count, is more than enough cause for celebration for at least one night.\nHot Hot Hoops\nFinal - 12.28.2012\nMiami Heat 32 20 19 28 99\nDetroit Pistons 17 41 23 28 109\nShould the Pistons make Kelly Olynyk a starter upon his return? The Pistons starters have hit their stride a bit recently, but should they consider a lineup change?\n2022 NBA Draft: Detroit Pistons In Search Of \u2014Vertical Space and Rim Pressure Exploring who the Detroit Pistons could get in the NBA Draft to fill some very significant skill gaps on their roster\nNBA Trade Rumors: On Jerami Grant's value and offer to Philly for Ben Simmons Philly uninterested in a Grant, Saddiq Bey, Kelly Olynyk and first-round pick offer","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
+{"text":"For Licensed Members \/ Accreditation \/ Prepare for Inspection \/ Equine Clinic - Sample Inspection Form\nTo assist you with preparing for your inspection, the College provides inspection forms to ensure you are familiar with the requirements to achieve a Certificate of Accreditation. Reviewing the sample inspections forms is a key step in ensuring success in your inspection.\nThe requirements of each category are tailored to meet the requirements of the type of practice and the needs of the animals served.\nEQUINE CLINIC\n1.1. The facility,\n1.1.1. self-contained,\n1.1.2 has a separate and distinct entrance directly from the street or, if the facility is in a building containing more than one facility, directly from a common lobby, hallway or mall.\nThe facility has, and appears to have, the practice of veterinary medicine as its primary purpose.\nThe facility is not, and does not appear to be, associated with or operated in connection with another enterprise.\n1.3.N Standards 1.2 and 1.3 do not prohibit the providing of ancillary services in the facility which are incidental and subordinate to the professional services provided in the facility.\nThe facility is not located in, and has no direct public access to, a commercial establishment,\n1.4.1.where animals are bought or sold\n1.4.2.providing animal food or other goods or services used principally by, with or for animals\nThe records required in respect of a horse are the same as those required in respect of a food-producing animal. Records are kept in the facility in accordance with the relevant provisions in the current regulations, including the following excerpts.\nAs of November 24, 2015, Ontario Regulation 1093 s. 22 (2), (3), (5), (6), and (7) include the following provisions:\n1.5.22.2. Do the records for each horse contain,\n1.5.22.2.1. Individual or herd identification including breed and sex.\n1.5.22.2.2. If individual advice or care is given, at least one of:\n(a) the animal's name; or Y N\n(b) the animal's tattoo or ear-tag number; or Y N\n(c) the animal's colour, markings or other distinguishing physical features. Y N\n1.5.22.2.3. The client's name, address and telephone numbers. Y N\n1.5.22.2.4.The name and telephone number of a person to be contacted in the absence of the client. Y N\n1.5.22.2.5. Date of each service Y N\n1.5.22.2.6. A history of the presenting complaint.\n1.5.22.2.7. If there is a presenting complaint, particulars of each assessment, including any laboratory investigations performed or ordered by the member and the results of each assessment.\n1.5.22.2.8. A note of any professional advice given regarding the individual or herd and an indication of to whom the advice was given if other than the client.\n1.5.22.2.9. A complete record of all written prescriptions and drugs that the member has prescribed or dispensed.\n1.5.22.2.10. A copy of any report prepared by the member in respect of the individual or herd.\n1.5.22.2.11. The fees and charges, showing separately those for drugs and those for advice or other services.\n1.5.22.5. Are the records:\n1.5.22.5.1. legibly written or typewritten;\n1.5.22.5.2. kept in a systematic manner;\n1.5.22.5.3. in practices of more than one practitioner or practices that employ locums, identified after each entry with the initials or code of the veterinarian responsible for the procedure; and\n1.5.22.5.4. retained for a period of at least five years after the date of the last entry in the record or until two years after the member ceases to practice. (not applicable to new facilities)\n1.5.22.6. Are the records retained in an electronic medium?\n1.5.22.6.1. Provides a visual display of the recorded information.\n1.5.22.6.2. Provides a means of access to the record of each animal by its name or other unique identifier.\n1.5.22.6.3. Is capable of printing the recorded information promptly.\n1.5.22.6.4. ) Is capable of being printed separately from the recorded information of each animal.\nHow many records were examined? ___________\n1.5.22.7. The electronic computer system includes a password and other reasonable methods of protecting against unauthorized access.\n1.5.22.8. The electronic computer system automatically backs up files and allows the recovery of backed-up files or otherwise provides reasonable protection against loss of damage to and inaccessibility of information.\n1.5.22.9. The electronic computer system has a secure method that permits only the member to apply an electronic signature to a document that is issued electronically and must be signed by the member.\nThe facility contains,\n2.1.1. 1 or more veterinary reference textbooks published within the prior three years on basic topics in equine medicine or surgery (such as diagnosis, therapy or surgery)\n2.1.2. 2 or more current subscriptions to journals that are generally accepted as authoritative in recent developments in equine medicine or surgery; OR alternatively, a subscription to a computerized veterinary information network\n2.1.3. (a) a copy of the Veterinarians Act (Bill 39)\n(b) regulations (O.Reg.1093)\n(c) minimum standards\n(d) by-laws under the Act\n2.1.4. a copy of the Health of Animals Act (Canada).\n2.1.5. A copy of the current regulations made under the Drug and Pharmacies Regulation Act (O.REG.551)\n2.1.6. A human pharmaceutical reference that is relevant to the Canadian context\n2.1.7. A copy of the Compendium of Veterinary Products or CDMV Compendium published within the last three years\n2.1.N The above library requirements may be met by having access to an electronic equivalent.\nClient Amenities\n3.1. The facility contains a reception area. Y N\n3.1.N The reception area cannot be within the examination room.\n3.2. The reception area, Y N\n3.2.1. is free from physical impediments or obstructions, Y N\n3.2.2. contains sufficient seating for the reasonably expected number of clients. Y N\n3.3. The furniture in the reception area is clean and in good repair. Y N\n3.4. The facility contains a washroom that can be used by clients. Y N\nExamination Area\nThe facility contains an area for the physical examination of animals.\n4.1.N The examination area may also be used as a treatment area or a confinement area or both.\nThe examination area is,\n4.2.1. large enough for a veterinarian to examine an animal conveniently with a client present in the area, together with the required equipment,\n4.2.2. constructed of readily sanitized material,\n4.2.3. well lit.\nThe examination area contains a waste receptacle.\n4.4. The following equipment is readily available for each examination area in the facility,\n4.4.1. appropriate restraint devices (e.g. rope), Y N\n4.4.2. stethoscope, Y N\n4.4.3. alcohol or other disinfectant, Y N\n4.4.4. thermometer, Y N\n4.4.5. examination gloves, Y N\n4.4.6. lubricant, Y N\n4.4.7. examination light,\n4.4.8. an ophthalmoscope or a focal light source, and a magnification source.\nThere is evidence of compliance with Part III of the Regulations. As of November 24, 2015, Ontario Regulation 1093 Part III includes the following provisions.\nA member shall keep a record of every drug he or she purchases and, immediately upon receiving the drug, the member shall enter the following information in the record,\n5.1.25.2.1. the date of the purchase of the drug and if different, the date the member received the drug;\n5.1.25.2.2. the name, strength and quantity of the drug received;\n5.1.25.2.3. the name and address of the person from whom the drug was purchased;\n5.1.25.2.4. the purchase price and\n5.1.25.2.5. evidence of the signature of the member who purchased controlled substances, ketamine or targeted drugs and the signature of the person who received it.\n5.1.27.1. A member who dispenses a drug shall make a written record showing:\n5.1.27.1.1 the name and address of the owner of the animal or group of animals for which the drug is prescribed;\n5.1.27.1.2. the name, strength and quantity of the prescribed drug; Y N\n5.1.27.1.3. the directions for use if they are different than the directions for use on the manufacturer's label or if the manufacturer's label does not specify the directions for use; Y N\n5.1.27.1.4. the date on which the drug is dispensed. Y N\n5.1.27.2. Are the written records retained for at least five years. (not applicable if new facility)\nAre drugs dispensed from the clinic? (Either Y or N)\nIf yes, Y N\n5.1.27.3. Are the containers in which the drugs are dispensed marked with,\n5.1.27.3.1. the name, strength and quantity of the drug;\n5.1.27.3.2. the date the drug is dispensed;\n5.1.27.3.3. the name and address of the member;\n5.1.27.3.4. the identify of the animal or group of animals for which it is dispensed;\n5.1.27.3.5. the name of the owner of the animal or animals; and\n5.1.27.3.6. prescribed directions for use. Y N\nIf controlled substances are dispensed from the facility, a controlled substances register is kept and contains the following information:\n5.1.28.1.1. The date the controlled substance is dispensed or administered,\n5.1.28.1.2. The name and address of the client,\n4.1.28.1.3. The name, strength and quantity of the controlled substance dispensed or administered, and\n5.1.28.1.4. The quantity of the controlled substance remaining in the member's inventory after the controlled substance is dispensed or administered.\n5.1.28. Are all controlled substances recorded in the log? Y N\n5.1.28.1.4. Are all controlled drugs and narcotics kept in a locked cabinet designed and constructed to ensure the reasonable security of the drugs.\nSecondary containers for the storage of drugs within the facility have labels containing the name, strength where applicable, lot number and expiry date of the drug.\nExpired drugs are kept separate from unexpired drugs and are discarded or returned to the manufacturer promptly after expiry.\nBiologics and other drugs in the base unit requiring refrigeration are kept in a refrigerator.\n5.5. The facility contains at least one of each of the following,\n5.5.1. adrenergic\/sympathomimetic\n5.5.2. analgesic\n5.5.3. sedative\/tranquilizer\n5.5.4. anesthetic: local\/regional\n5.5.5. anti-inflammatory\n5.5.6. anti-microbial for intramuscular, intramammary, and intravenous administration,\n5.5.7. diuretic\n5.5.8. replacement fluids, including those for intravenous administration,\n5.5.9. anti-convulsant,\n5.6.10. parasiticide.\nThe facility contains biologics for common infectious diseases.\n6.1. The facility contains\n6.1.1. microscope, microscope slides and cover slips, Y N\n6.1.2. centrifuge and centrifuge tubes, Y N\n6.1.3. microhematocrit centrifuge, microhematocrit capillary tubes and tube sealant, Y N\n6.1.4. refractometer Y N\n6.1.5. staining solutions and chemicals for blood, urine and cytology examinations, Y N\n6.1.6. forms for recording laboratory test results, Y N\n6.1.7. equipment suitable for the collection of the specimens needed for the procedures in clause 6.2. Y N\n6.2. The following investigation procedures can be performed within the facility or there is evidence of an arrangement that such procedures are performed by a diagnostic laboratory or there is a suitable combination for the performance of such procedures,\n6.2.1. hematology, Y N\n6.2.2. biochemistry Y N\n6.2.3. immunology, Y N\n6.2.4. cytology, Y N\n6.2.5. microbiology, Y N\n6.2.6. histopathology, Y N\n6.2.7. parasitology. Y N\nThe facility contains a diagnostic x-ray machine with a collimator or cone.\n7.2.1. two protective aprons each of at least 0.5 lead equivalent that are long enough to cover an operator from the neck to below the knees, Y N\n7.2.2. at least one pair of gloves of at least 0.5 lead equivalent with cuffs at least 37.5 cm. long, Y N\n7.2.3. individual monitoring badges obtained from Health and Welfare Canada, that are worn by all people regularly involved in radiology procedures. Y N\n7.2.4. equipment to identify radiographs all of which are permanently identified with, Y N\n7.2.4.1. the name of the veterinarian or the designation of the facility or both, Y N\n7.2.4.2. identification of the animal and the client Y N\n7.2.4.3. the date of the radiograph, Y N\n7.2.4.4. an indication of the area of the body including the left or right side of the animal. Y N\n7.2.5. a radiographic log in which is entered, Y N\n7.2.5.1. the date each radiograph is taken Y N\n7.2.5.2. identification of the animal and of the client Y N\n7.2.5.3. MAS and kV, if varies from the technique chart, Y N\n7.2.5.4. the area of the body exposed to the radiograph, Y N\n7.2.5.5. the number of radiographs taken of each animal on a particular visit. Y N\n7.2.6. at least 2 film cassettes (holders), Y N\n7.2.7. fresh, unexposed x-ray film that is properly stored and is readily available in the facility, Y N\n7.2.8. a machine that automatically develops radiographs, N\/A Y N\nor alternatively, a dark room which contains, N\/A Y N\n7.2.8.1. a tank or tray containing fresh chemicals for developing and fixing exposed film, Y N\n7.2.8.2. a tank or tray containing water for washing film, Y N\n7.2.8.3. a tank thermometer, Y N\n7.2.8.4. a safety light, Y N\n7.2.8.5. film hangers, Y N\n7.2.9. a radiographic viewer. Y N\n7.2.10. technique charts, one calibrated for each diagnostic x-ray machine, that indicate the MAS and kV and focal distance for specific body area and thickness', Y N\n7.2.11. protective equipment which includes, at least two thyroid protectors. Y N\n7.3. For each x-ray source in the facility, an application in accordance with Section 6 or 7 of Ontario Regulation 861\/90, made under the Occupational Health and Safety Act, has been reviewed and accepted by an inspector under that Act and a registration number has been issued.\nRegistration # ________________________________________ Y N\n7.4. Radiographs not stored with the clinical record for the animal are stored collectively and maintained in a systematic manner and, in either case, are retained for a period of at least 5 years. Y N\n7.5 The radiographs are of diagnostic quality. Y N\nTreatment Area\n8.1. The facility contains one or more treatment areas which can be used for performing minor (non-sterile) surgery. Y N\n8.1.N The treatment area is separate from the operating area, and the reception area but may be part of the examination area.\n8.2. Each such area is large enough to accommodate readily a veterinarian, an animal, any necessary assistants and the required equipment. Y N\n8.3. The treatment area contains or has readily available,\n8.3.1. electric hair clippers and a fine surgical blade or a razor for hair removal, Y N\n8.3.2. preparations for cleansing skin and other tissue prior to surgery, including a skin cleaning solvent and an antiseptic skin preparation solution\n8.3.3. a tray or container of fresh cold-sterilization solution and concentrate or sterilized packs with appropriate instrumentation\n8.3.4. absorbable and non-absorbable sterile suture material,\n8.3.5. a drained sink with hot and cold running water,\n8.3.6. sterile intravenous catheters and administration sets,\n8.3.7. intravenous stand or equivalent,\n8.3.8. drainage tubes, irrigation solutions and irrigation application supplies,\n8.3.9. sterile needles and syringes,\n8.3.10. cotton, sterile gauze, bandages and appropriate splinting devices,\n8.3.11. sterile urinary catheters,\n8.3.12. stomach tubes appropriate to the oesophagus sizes of reasonably expected animals. Y N\nThe facility contains an area for the administration of general anaesthesia (can be the same area as the treatment area).\n9.2. The anaesthesia area contains or has readily available,\n9.2.1. pre-anaesthetic agents. Y N\n9.2.2. induction anaesthetic agents for intravenous administration, Y N\n9.2.3. an antiseptic agent for venipuncture preparation, Y N\n9.2.4. sterilized needles and syringes, Y N\n9.2.5. cuffed endotracheal tubes and tube adaptors appropriate to the tracheal sizes of reasonably expected animals, Y N\n9.2.6. a machine for the administration of gaseous anaesthesia that includes a canister containing a fresh agent to absorb carbon dioxide, Y N\n9.2.7. gaseous agent for the induction and maintenance of general anaesthesia, Y N\n9.2.8. a cylinder of compressed medical oxygen, a means of holding it securely for purposes of safety and a device for administration of the oxygen, Y N\n9.2.9. a gas scavenging system that complies with the requirements of the Occupational Health and Safety Act, Y N\n9.2.10. a bag device for monitoring respiration or an electronic respiratory monitor, Y N\n9.2.11. a cover for the prevention of heat loss. Y N\n9.3. The facility contains an anaesthetic log, either alone or in combination with the surgical log, in which is entered in respect of each induction of general anaesthesia,\n9.3.1. the date of each procedure Y N\n9.3.2. the identification of the client, Y N\n9.3.3. the breed, age, sex, estimated weight and identity of the anaesthetized animal, Y N\n9.3.4. the name, dose and route of administration of all anaesthetic agents, Y N\n9.3.5. the nature of each procedure, Y N\n9.3.6. the animal's pre-anaesthetic condition, Y N\n9.3.7. the animal's post-anaesthetic condition. Y N\nOperating Area\nThe facility contains an area for the performance of major surgical procedures.\n10.2.1. a steam sterilizer of sufficient size to sterilize the quantity of surgical packs necessary for the reasonably expected case load (a gas sterilizer may be present but it is not a substitute for the steam sterilizer). Y N\n10.3. The operating area,\n10.3.1. is large enough to accommodate readily a veterinarian, an animal, any necessary assistants and the required equipment, Y N\n10.3.2. has a drained floor constructed of solid, fluid impervious material that can be readily sanitized, Y N\n10.3.3. contains an operating table or an adequately padded area for the surgical procedures performed. Y N\n10.4. The operating area contains, or has readily available,\n10.4.1. absorbable and non-absorbable sterile suture material, Y N\n10.4.2. instruments, towels, drapes, gloves, gowns, gauze sponges, needles and scalpel blades, which are sterilized, Y N\n10.4.3. an instrument table or tray with readily sanitized surface, Y N\n10.4.4. a garbage disposal container, Y N\n10.4.5. a drained sink with hot and cold running water, Y N\n10.4.6. all items sterilized in the facility display the date of sterilization and the name or initials of the person who carried out the sterilization. Y N\n10.4.7. sufficient sterile instruments including at least, Y N\n10.4.7.1. scalpel handle (not required if disposable scalpels are used), Y N\n10.4.7.2. scissors, Y N\n10.4.7.3. suture needles, Y N\n10.4.7.4. 1 needle driver, Y N\n10.4.7.5. 2 thumb forceps Y N\n10.4.7.6. 4 hemostatic forceps, Y N\n10.4.8. an internal sterility monitor. Y N\n10.5. The facility contains a surgical log, either alone or in conjunction with the anaesthetic log, in which is entered in respect of each major surgical procedure performed in the facility,\n10.5.1. the date of each procedure, N\/A Y\n10.5.2. the identification of the client, N\/A Y\n10.5.3. the breed, age, sex, estimated weight and identity of the animal upon which the procedure is performed, Y N\n10.5.4. the name of the surgeon, Y N\n10.5.5. the nature of each procedure, Y N\n10.5.6. the animal's pre-operative condition, Y N\n10.5.7. the animal's post-operative condition, Y N\n10.5.8. the length of time taken to perform the procedure. Y N\n11.1. There is one or more areas for the confinement of an animals in stalls Y N\n11.2. The confinement area,\n11.2.1. contains enough stalls to accommodate the reasonably expected number of confined animals, Y N\n11.2.2. is well lit, Y N\n11.2.3. has adequate air circulation in it. Y N\n11.3. Each stall,\n11.3.1. is large enough to accommodate the animal comfortably, Y N\n11.3.2. allows adequate amounts of air to circulate within it, Y N\n11.3.3. is secure and solidly constructed, Y N\n11.3.4. permits easy observation of the animal, Y N\n11.3.5. has a door effective to prevent the contained animal from escape. Y N\n11.4. The facility contains,\n11.4.1. equipment and materials for applying disinfectants to stalls, Y N\n11.4.2. material for clean, dry bedding, Y N\n11.4.3. equipment and materials for identifying animals and their stalls. Y N\n11.5. There is evidence of good husbandry in the confinement area. Y N\n11.6. For the purposes of feeding confined animals, the facility contains,\n11.6.1. a dry area for the storage of food, Y N\n11.6.2. containers and utensils for feeding and watering animals that are made of readily sanitized material or are disposable, Y N\n11.6.3. a fresh water supply. Y N\n11.7. The food storage area contains sufficient quantity and variety of food to feed nutritiously the reasonably expected number of confined animals. Y N\nNecropsy\n12.1. The facility contains an area that can be used for the performance of necropsy unless the necropsy is performed elsewhere. Y N\n12.2. If necropsies are done in the facility: (Either) N\/A Y\nThe following is readily available,\n12.2.1. sufficient equipment to perform a necropsy, Y N\n12.2.2. containers of formalin. Y N\nThe facility contains a puncture-proof container into which needles, scalpel blades and other things capable of penetrating skin are discarded.\nThe entire facility is clean, uncluttered, in good repair and free of offensive odours. Hallways, the reception area and the area around the building are free of impediments and obstructions.\nThe floors and walls throughout the entire facility are readily sanitized.\nThe facility contains an adequate supply of clean towels and coveralls or lab coats or smocks.\n14.1. Clear written instructions for the evacuation of animals and staff from the facility in case of fire or other emergency are posted prominently. Y N\n14.2. There is a source of emergency lighting in the facility, e.g. large flashlight. Y N\n14.3. Doors and windows are self-closing or otherwise secured to prevent the escape of animals and the theft of drugs. Y N\n14.4. There is adequate exterior illumination of entrances, walkways and parking areas. Y N\n14.5. The facility contains at least one readily accessible all-purpose fire extinguisher. Y N\n14.N. The facility is expected to comply with the current local municipal fire code. Y N\n\"Every member practising in or from a facility \u2026. shall ensure that the Certificate of Accreditation is displayed conspicuously in the facility so that clients can read it easily (O.REG. 1093s. 13)","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
+{"text":"Home > Newsroom > Top Stories > Moscow press review for June 16, 2009\nMoscow press review for June 16, 2009\nMOSCOW. June 16 (Interfax) - The following is a digest of Moscow newspapers published on June 16. Interfax does not accept liability for information in these stories.\nVEDOMOSTI\nGazprom's share on the European gas market decreased to 16% in the first quarter of 2009. It had been 23% in the first quarter of 2008 and further reached 31% last summer, according to the International Energy Agency. Demand for gas in 23 European countries declined by 5% to 183.5 billion cubic meters in January 2009, and Gazprom's supplies to those countries dropped by 35% to 27 billion cubic meters in that period, the IEA said. In absolute figures, demand for gas in Europe declined by 9.9 billion cubic meters, while Gazprom 's supplies dropped by 14.7 billion cubic meters, which means that other suppliers increased their sales by 4.8 billion cubic meters. Norway, Russia's principal competitor on the European gas market, increased its supplies by 11% ('Losing the Market').\nTNK-BP will hold talks with the British oil and gas company Regal Petroleum on buying a share in it or merging with it this week, Reuters said citing an unnamed source. The source said the negotiations have been lasting for more than half a year ('TNK-BP: Longing For Abroad').\nMikhail Prokhorov is willing to take control of Norilsk Nickel 's copper fields in the Trans-Baikal area, which were bought at his initiative. Trans-Baikal territory Governor Ravil Geniatulin himself is trying to invite a new \"efficient owner\" to manage the copper fields. The project is not making progress now because it is being handled by another group of managers different from the fields' previous managers, Prokhorov (the Onexim Group owner) and Maxim Finsky (currently general director of Intergeo, a company incorporated in Onexim). If Intergeo gets the assets, it could propose to Metalloinvest and Russian Technologies that they be merged with the Udokan copper field, another one in the Trans-Baikal territory, a source from Prokhorov's entourage said ('Called To Return').\nRussian aircraft manufacturers concluded contracts for 95 new aircraft worth $2.7 billion within the first two days of the international air show in Le Bourget. Hungary's Malev, whose 49% are owned by VEB, ordered 30 new Sukhoi SuperJet (SSJ) planes worth $1 billion on Monday, and the Sukhoi Civil Aircraft, the SSJ producer, expects another contract for 20 airliners worth about $600 million on Tuesday. Moreover, Ilyushin Finance Company and Atlant Soyuz, which is to be incorporated in an airline to be controlled by Russian Technologies, may conclude a record contract at Le Bourget on Tuesday. The two companies are expected to sign a pre-contract agreement on 45 new airliners worth $1.2 billion, including 30 Antonov An-148 regional planes and 15 Tupolev Tu-204 medium range planes, said Andrei Lipovetsky of IFC ('Flying Over Paris', see also Kommersant, page 7, 'Russian Planes To Fly Under State Order').\nFormer General Motors Vice President Bo Anderson may head the GAZ board of directors, GAZ has reported. On Monday, Anderson was appointed a consultant to the GAZ board and an advisor to its principal shareholder, Oleg Deripaska. The automaker's shareholders hope that Anderson may eventually become the board chairman, it said ('Chairman From GM', see also Kommersant, page, 1, 'Gorky Motors').\nThe mandate of Rosneft's board of directors may expand. Amendments to the company's charter put up for consideration by the shareholders would invest the board with the authority to endorse supplementary issues of up to 25% of Rosneft's stock, which is currently within the shareholders' purview. On Monday, such a stake in Rosneft was valued at $16.32 billion. However, the Rosneft board will only be able to authorize the sale of shares rather than their swap for other assets (page 7, 'Rosneft Directors To Be Entrusted With Best Quarter').\nBank Soyuz, which is currently undergoing restructuring, has spent over $100 million to buy back its Eurobonds. The bondholders demanded their early redemption on the grounds that its owner has changed and its capital adequacy declined. Soyuz agreed only with the first reason (page 8, 'Soyuz Restructures Its Debts')","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
+{"text":"KICKATBALL The Art Of Blogging\nHome Sports Top 10 Best IPL Batsman\nShubham Rai\nTop 10 ipl batsman\nThe IPL is a professional Twenty20 cricket league, contested by eight teams based out of eight different Indian cities. The league was started by the Board of Control for Cricket in India in 2007. The IPL is the most attended cricket league in the world and in 2014 was ranked sixth by average attendance among all sports leagues.\nIn 2010, the IPL became the first sporting event in the world to be broadcast live on YouTube. The brand value of the IPL in 2019 was \u20b9475 billion, according to Duff & Phelps. According to BCCI, the 2015 IPL season contributed \u20b911.5 billion to the GDP of the Indian economy. Here are the list of top 10 IPL batsman in the world.\n1. Virat Kohli\nRole Batsman\nBatting Style Right Handed\nBowling Style Medium Seam\nDOB 05-11-1988\nIPL Debut 2008\nThe costliest player in the IPL remains Indian skipper Virat Kohli, retained for \u20b917 crore by Royal Challengers Bangalore. Ranked No. 1 in ODIs, No.2 in Test cricket and No.3 in T20Is, popularly known as the Run machine.\nHe also showed his captaincy skills during the U-19 World Cup of 2008 in Malaysia and eventually won the World Cup by beating South Africa in a thrilling final. In lPL started leading the side in the year 2013. He is on the top of the list of top 10 IPL batsman with highest run.\nKohli became the first ever player in the IPL to score 6000 with 729 boundaries IPL runs. Virat entered the record books, becoming the only player to play 200 matches for a single franchise in T20 cricket.\nMatches Runs H\/S S\/R 100s 50s 6s\n199 6076 113 130.41 5 40 205\n2. Shikar Dhawan\nShikar Dhawan\nBatting Style Left Handed\nBowling Style Off Spin\nIndia's star opener Shikhar \"Gabbar\" Dhawan returned to his hometown to bolster the Delhi Capitals. Dhawan was brought in by Delhi Capitals in a trade-off with Sunrisers Hyderabad after the auctions. Maintaining fitness at the age of 37 is the hardest thing in cricket but at this age he is the fittest player in the IPL.\nFirst batsman to score 2 successive 100s in successive matches, he has hit most number of boundaries in IPL history 750 . In IPL 2021 started with a bang and also currently he is the orange cap Holder with 380 runs.\nBorn in Delhi has been playing for the Delhi domestic side since 2004. Shikhar Dhawan holds the record of being the second highest run scorer in IPL history and has second most number of 50s to his name .\n3. Suresh Raina\nSuresh Raina\nRaina also known as Mr. IPL because of his consistent performance in IPL over the years. He comes on number 3 on the list of top 10 best IPL batsman. He played for two franchise CSK and Gujrat Lions. He well known as chinna Thala in Chennai. A solid striker of the ball, he possesses the rare quality of performing well under pressure. He can the change the game in any given point.\nHe is among the few players who have scored more than 5000 runs in IPL and hitting more than 200 6s. Batting in the top order, Raina has mastered the art of finishing games. He is one of the top 10 IPL batsman in the world.\n4. Rohit Sharma\nAlso known as hit man has been the most successful captain in IPL history.The only captain in the history with four IPL titles, the only player in the history with five winner medals.\nRohit Sharma has played second highest number of matches and hold the record of being the 3rd highest 6s hitter in IPL. He has played for 2 franchise Deccan chargers and is currently Playing for Mumbai Indians.\nRetained by Mumbai Indians for a whopping amount of 15cr. He is the only player who has taken a hat-trick and scored a hundred in the history of IPL.\n5. David Warner\nBowling Style Leg Spin\nThe Australian opener has been the most successful overseas batsman in the history of IPL. He comes on number 5 on the list of top 10 best IPL batsman. He holds the record of hitting half-centuries of half-century. He has an aggregate of 726 boundaries in IPL which is record second highest. Under his captaincy Sunrisers Hyderabad lifted the title in 2016. One of the cleanest hitter of the bowl in IPL.\nOften regarded One of the most destructive openers across formats. He played for two franchise in IPL Delhi Daredevils and is currently playing for Sunrisers Hyderabad. His IPL salary is 12.5cr.\n6. AB De Villiers\nAB De Villiers\nNationality South African\nMR. 360 is what he is usually known as Ab de Villiers is of the biggest cricketing icon of the current era.\nHe is the only batsman who has 5000+ runs at a strike rate of 150+, He stands second in the list of most six hitters in IPL with 245 sixes. He has represented Delhi Daredevils and currently is part of Royal challengers Bangalore. He has been retained by RCB for 11cr. for IPL 2021. Most flamboyant batsman ever to play the game of IPL.\nOne and only player to be involved in five 100+ run partnership and two 200+ partnership in IPL. The 3rd highest individual score is in name of Ab de Villiers (133*). He is one of the best batsman in the world.\n7. Chris Gayle\nRole All-Rounder\nNationality West Indian\nPopularly known with his brand name as universe boss. Chris Gayle has been on of the most influential names in IPL history. He holds many records to his name as being the highest 6 hitter in IPL and also having the highest individual score of 175* to his name. He is the hardest hitter of the bowl in the IPL.\nPart of 3 IPL franchises till now Kolkata , Bangalore and is currently part of Punjab kings. Chris Gayle holds the record of most centuries scored by a batsman till now in IPL.\n119 4316 175* 150.68 6 27 349\n8. MS Dhoni\nCaptain cool is what he is known as. MS Dhoni is the second most successful captain in IPL in terms of winning the title but is the most successful captain in terms of reaching the finals at most occasions. MS Dhoni holds the record of most number of matches as a captain in IPL with 200 matches. He is also the most capped player in IPL history with 211 appearances.\n2206 runs scored by MS Dhoni in depth overs in the IPL is the most by any batsman and also has a staggering strike rate of 190.50 in death overs. He has been phenomenal with the wicket keeping globes as the record of most number of catches and stumpings are on his name.\nThe CSK has won the title 3 times and made it to the finals record 8 out of 10 times under MS Dhoni's captaincy which makes him without any doubt one of the most influential figure of IPL history.\n211 4669 86* 134.64 0 23 217\n9. Robin Uthappa\nThe unfailingly consistent and proven match winner, Robin Uthappa has scored 4607 runs in IPL so far . Robin Uthappa was the orange cap Holder for the 2014 edition of IPL, scoring staggering 660 Runs which had 5 half centuries. He comes on number 9 on the list of top 10 best IPL batsman .\nHe has been part of part of 3 IPL franchises so far kolkata, Rajasthan and currently is part of Chennai super kings.\nRobin Uthappa helped KKR to lift the titles in 2012 and 2014 , as he was one of the key player and a standout performer by scoring 405 and 660 Runs respectively.\n10. Gautam Gambhir\nGautam Gambhir\nHe is well known for his aggressiveness. Under his captaincy KKR became the first team in the history of IPL to win 10 consecutive matches they played in 2014 and 2015 edition of IPL. Gambhir is only next to MS Dhoni to feature in more than 100 IPL game's as captain being featured 129 times. One of the best batsman of the his era in the IPL.\n3518 runs scored by Gautam Gambhir in IPL as captain is the most number of runs for any captain till date.\nHe also holds the record for leading an IPL team in most consecutive matches breaking the record of Dhoni by captaining in 108 consecutive matches.\n154 4217 93* 123.88 0 36 59\nHere are the top 10 badminton rackets.\nPrevious articleTop 10 Cryptocurrency To Invest In 2021\nAn avid traveler who explores places to perceive nature and people in a better way. Also a digital nomad and Google's friend who loves to play with the content and help the business to rank higher.\nShubham Rai - June 3, 2021\nWorld's oldest living city, Varanasi also known as Kashi (City of Life) and Banaras, is the spiritual capital of India. It is one of Hinduism's seven...","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
+{"text":"Predictors of Response to Radioiodine Therapy in Hyperthyroid Cats\nChun R., Garrett L.D., Sargeant J., et al.\nVet Radiol Ultrasound, 2002. 43(6): p.587-91.\nThe objective of this retrospective study was to evaluate hyperthyroid cats for pretreatment factors that would predict response to radioiodine therapy. Hyperthyroidism was diagnosed in 193 cats based on elevated serum thyroxine levels and\/or elevated thyroid to salivary gland ratios on thyroid scintigraphy. All cats were treated with an intravenous bolus of 4 mCi of radioiodine and follow-up serum thyroxine levels were evaluated at 1 week and 1, 3, 6, and 12 months post-therapy. There was a significant relationship between pretreatment thyroxine values and post-treatment thyroxine values at all of the follow-up time points (p < 0.001). There was also a relationship between thyroid to salivary gland technetium scan ratio results and serum thyroxine values at pretreatment and at 1 week post-treatment (p = 0.02, 0.005, respectively). A greater scan ratio was associated with higher thyroxine levels at these time points, but not at 1, 3, 6 or 12 months post-therapy. Ninety-eight cats pretreated with methimazole were analyzed for the effect of this drug on response to therapy. Methimazole was discontinued > or = 5 days before radioiodine therapy in 58 cats and < 5 days in 31 cats, in 9 cats the number of days off methimazole was unknown. There was no difference in response to radioiodine based upon when methimazole was discontinued (p = 0.70).","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
+{"text":"Michael Borodin on Convenience Store\nVol. 124 (April 2022) by Antonis Lagarias\nWe met Michael Borodin at the 72nd Berlinale (February 10-20), where his debut feature \"Convenience Store\" \u2013 a story of contemporary slavery and motherhood that was inspired by true events \u2013 was screened in the event's Panorama Section. Borodin discusses the idea behind his film, the working conditions of Uzbek migrants in Moscow, and the challenge of finding a hopeful ending for his film.\nIn your director's statement, you mention that Convenience Store is based on your own personal experience of Moscow. Could you elaborate on that?\nIt's more about a feeling than a concrete practical experience. When I arrived in Moscow, I found myself in this huge city and I felt confused. When I started to do some research in preparation for the film and spoke to people in situations like that, I got to understand their problems and why they could not leave. They had to give away their passports and there's a whole mechanism that, once it starts working, does not allow them to leave this place.\nThe film presents two types of slavery: workers who are trapped inside the convenience store and those who do hard manual labor on cotton fields. The latter brings to mind the history of slavery in America as well as the economic reality that grew from that tradition. Could we thus extend the film's original scope and see it as a study that helps us understand workers' exploitation in both Russia and the (neoliberal) West?\nWe cannot make this comparison with the help of the film, but perhaps we can make it when we are discussing the situation or when we deliberate adopting new laws. You make this very exact comparison between picking cotton in Uzbekistan and the situation in America from 150 years ago. It is interesting to remember that, because of the American Civil War, North Americans stopped delivering cotton to Russia and so they started to grow cotton in Uzbekistan. Meanwhile, the methods used to pick cotton have not really changed a lot. People are threatened with being fired if they don't go to the fields. And that is a widespread practice of exploitation, it is not only happening in Uzbekistan.\nWhen Mukhabbat, the main character of your film, visits Uzbekistan, she describes Moscow as a labor heaven to her co-workers, mainly to convince them to follow her to Russia. How widespread is this dream of Russia being a labor heaven?\nWe can say that in Russia there is more work than in Uzbekistan. People feel forced to leave for Russia, India, Kazakhstan, China, Turkey, or South Korea. These are the main destinations where they can work, gather some money, and send it to their families.\nAt the end of the film, Mukhabbat chooses to become a part of the slavery operation run by Zhanna. Is the audience supposed to understand that she had no alternative, or should we be angry at her making that choice?\nI think it was a very understandable choice. She wanted to be with her child. This is a very important part of the film, and it is based on real events \u2013 the whole film is partly inspired by these events. One of the most important things we wanted to make the audience aware of through our film is what you are asking about, to understand the reasons for this choice. I have no answer and I think there is no answer in real life. That is why we often try to discuss this point with the audience after the screenings.\nIs the film's plot based on the story of a specific person who went through similar events?\nYes, as I said previously, it's partly based on real events. Different stories and destinies of different people were puzzled together to create a single main character.\nSometimes I felt a kind of distance between the audience and the main character, since we never get to see other parts of her life, beyond her being a mother or a migrant worker. Does this suggest an unbridgeable distance between the audience, an international Western audience in this case, and the condition of a female worker with no legal status?\nWe made this choice to maintain a distance and not get too close to the character in order to be able to disconnect afterwards. After all, it is a tough and brutal story. However, there are different aspects to the story. In the film, people see Mukhabbat in very different ways. There are the buyers in the store, the activists who want to help her, her friends at the field, her boss, and also the opportunity of having a romantic relationship. But we didn't want to move the story too far. We kept it the way we did not because there aren't any other aspects, but to preserve the coherence of the story. Having said that, I can relate to the desire to get closer to Mukhabbat and understand her better. But we couldn't fit everything in the film, as there are already many aspects to it. Maybe we can focus on that in our next project.\nThe film includes some scenes that can be described as surreal, like the last scene of the film. Could we see this break with the realistic approach followed by the rest of the film as a final possibility to escape the universe of slavery in the convenience store?\nIn the film, the main characters have no escape, much like in the real-life convenience store. But I needed to find an exit, to give some hope. The first idea was to destroy this convenience store at the end of the film, to set it on fire or something like that. But then I realized this wouldn't be true to the world. So, I kept searching for solutions and then I decided to use this surreal scene to lend some hope. An even more fantastic or surreal approach would have been unfair to the main characters of the film, as it would be to real life. Because this convenience store still exists and operates in Moscow. In the final scene it is still there, rising above Moscow \u2013 in a way, as does the store in real life.\nThank you for the interview.\nMichael Borodin's Convenience Store (Produkty 24, 2022)\nDarezhan Omirbayev's Poet (Akyn, 2021)","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
+{"text":"Trump Is Necessary to Restore Two-Party Rule\nClick here to view original web page at amgreatness.com\nIn his most recent column, George Will, dean of serious American political commentators and high priest of Trump-hate, broke new ground in the reconciliation of buyer's remorse over last year's election and visceral aversion to Donald Trump. Will counseled Joe Biden's entourage to tighten the cocoon that protects him from journalistic scrutiny or any form of spontaneity in public, lest Trump be reelected in 2024.\nI have agreed with Will on almost everything between the 1964 and 2016 elections, and we have been cordial acquaintances for 40 years, although among its other regrettable side effects, the Trump phenomenon seems to have paused contact between us. George Will now purports to believe that the disappearance of Trump, which he had assured himself and his readers was inevitable if it were only possible to evict him from office last year, is necessary for the restoration of two-party rule.\nWith respect, I offer an alternative view. Trump is instrumental in the restoration of two-party rule .\nWill and I were soldiers of approximately equal fervor, though grossly unequal influence, in our support of Ronald Reagan. As that splendid and successful era came to an end, he described Reagan's successor, George H. W. Bush, as speaking with \"the tinny arf of the lapdog.\" I then thought this an unjustly dismissive opinion, but the senior Bush did allow an outright political charlatan, Ross Perot, to seize 20 million mainly Republican votes, bringing down the Clintons upon America. This was the end of two-party rule: for eight consecutive terms, 32 years, (1981-2013) one member or other of the Bush and Clinton families was president, vice president, or secretary of state. The Bushes, Bob Dole, John McCain, Mitt Romney: all generally said that they would do as the Democrats did but would do it better.\nFrom the retirement of Reagan to the election of Trump there was little appreciable difference between the parties which collaborated in the inexorable leftward drift of public policy. The White House would change hands every eight years, and the Congress every four or six years, but 95 percent of the permanent federal government was liberal [\u2026]","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
+{"text":"DJ Guides\nDJM Sagar | International DJ and Producer\nAbout DJM\nDJM Sagar is a versatile International DJ and producer, specializing in African and Latin music. His forte is Kizomba, Ghetto Zouk, Semba, Tarraxinha, Afro Beats, Reggaeton, Salsa and Bachata music. He has been a DJ all over the world in clubs and festivals, and he has been a regular Reggeaton Radio Jockey on Reggaeton Heaven Radio. Currently, DJM is live on Our Salsa Soul Radio playing Kizomba music and talking about Kizomba culture every Sunday at 4PM UK time.\nDJM's sets are dedicated to the energy of the dancers which keeps the floor buzzing all night! He's played all over the UK, in Europe & Internationally, at Afro-Latin and International Music Nights. Passionate about this music; his sets flow through the night without a break in the pleasure that good beats and melodies provide.\nFollow DJM on soundcloud, mixcloud & instagram | #djmsagar #djneverstops #DJM\nDJM's repertoire is rich, ranging from African & Latin flavours, all the way to colourful Bollywood beats. Having been a dancer since the age of four, in the styles of Jazz & Bollywood, rhythm had no choice but to settle deep in his heart. As he grew up, influences of different dance cultures led him to Kizomba, Salsa & Bachata. Today, he is a well known Kizomba DJ, dance teacher and promotor. In the last two years, his work has been recognized in the Kizomba music industry of Portugal, where his mixtapes and produced tracks have been featured on radio.","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
+{"text":"Flash flooding in parts of Alabama kills at least four, prompts dozens of rescues\nOct 07, 2021 \u2022 Last Updated October 7, 2021 \u2022 1 minute read\nA flooded street is seen during heavy rains in Vestavia, Alabama, October 6, 2021, in this still image obtained from a social media video. Photo by Kevin Sarabia \/via REUTERS\nAt least four people were killed in heavy rainfall that inundated parts of Alabama on Wednesday, as flash floods closed roads, swamped homes and prompted dozens of water rescues, authorities said.\nFlash flooding was blamed for the death of a 4-year-old child in Arab, about 65 miles (105 km) north of Birmingham, the Marshall County Coroner's Office said early on Thursday.\nThree more people were found dead in two cars washed off the roads into creeks in the hard hit areas of Marshall and Hoover counties, the news site AL.com reported.\nAbout 20 people were rescued from vehicles and more than 80 were rescued from flooding homes, officials said.\nThe U.S. National Weather Service (NWS) issued a flash flood emergency late Wednesday for Shelby and Jefferson counties in Alabama, where weather stations recorded 5-10 inches (13-25 cm) of rain in a day.\n\"While heavy rainfall has ended at this time, runoff is resulting in continued significant flooding w\/ major impacts. Elsewhere, areas of rain continue into the night,\" the NWS said in a tweet early Thursday.\nBirmingham receives an average of about 3.34 inches of rain in October, according to CNN, which means some areas received around double the precipitation they normally receive in an entire month.\n\"We've had numerous water rescues, people trapped in cars and rescued by fire departments and police departments, and we've had damage reports of trees on houses and trees on roadways, and it's really across the entire Birmingham metro area,\" Jefferson County Emergency Management Agency Director Jim Coker told CNN.","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
+{"text":"How to Join Indian Airforce as an Airman\ncadets point defence academy Apr 16, 2022 0\nThere are many ways to join the Indian Airforce. Here in this article, I am sharing with you the complete details about How to Join Indian Airforce as an airman. The Airforce X and Y Group Exams are conducted by the Air Force Selection\u2026\nBest Ways to join Indian Air Force After 12th (Without NDA)\ncadets point defence academy Nov 30, 2021 0\nThe Indian Airforce is the most prestigious and groomed service in India. There are basically two ways to serve in the Indian Airforce. One can join the service as an Officer or as an Airmen etc. In the Officer's entry, You have the option\u2026\nHow to join Airforce after Graduation\ncadets point defence academy Aug 27, 2021 1\nIndian Air Force (IAF) is a dream of many youths. Youths are inspired to join challenging and adventurous jobs. It takes a lot of courage and dedication to join the Indian air force and serve the country. Indian Air force is the 4th\u2026","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
+{"text":"September 2009 Notebook\nInk Spots\nStephen Walt: David Brooks on Afghanistan: Caveat Lector! I don't normally read Brooks's columns, but somehow stumbled onto his The Afghan Imperative and was appalled. The thing that got me was that Brooks was able to construct his case for the necessity of wandering ever deeper into the Afghan morass by quoting no one but Obama, as in:\nBut in the end, President Obama was right: \"You don't muddle through the central front on terror. . . . You don't muddle through stamping out the Taliban.\"\nWe have tried to fight the Afghan war the easy way, and it hasn't worked. Switching now to the McChrystal strategy is a difficult choice, and President Obama is right to take his time. But Obama was also right a few months ago when he declared, \"This will not be quick, nor easy. But we must never forget: This is not a war of choice. This is a war of necessity. . . . This is fundamental to the defense of our people.\"\nIt isn't often that right wing hacks cite Obama as a trustworthy authority. But then it isn't often the case that Obama is so wrong. Even so, I suspect some contextual distortion. After all, everything else in Brooks's post is distorted. Walt provides more details on the line that \"counterinsurgency efforts that put population protection at their core have succeeded nearly 70 percent of the time.\" Other claims, like \"Only 6 percent of Afghans want a Taliban return\" would be intrinsically suspect even if Brooks had cited a source; the counter that \"NATO is viewed with surprising favor\" means what? Seven percent would surprise me, unless the poll takers had a NATO military escort, in which case even more surprising numbers are possible. Polling means very little in Afghanistan because almost no one has no reason not to tell the truth. I've rarely read a piece so artful at distorting every reference. On the other hand, every now and then you catch Brooks in an outright lie, like this whopper:\nSince 1979, we have been involved in a long, complex conflict against Islamic extremism.\nCall him on this and he'll probably cite the 1979 revolution in Iran which the US did oppose through various meaningless gestures. But nothing else in the article refers to Iran, and the immediately previous line refers to the Taliban, whose direct antecedents we started financing and arming in . . . 1979. In fact, the biggest recipient of US aid back then was Gulbuddin Hekmatyar, currently second only to Mullah Omar as the most notorious Taliban warlord operating today.\nStill, Brooks' logic is even slippier, as when he writes:\nThis is a doctrine, as General McChrystal wrote in his remarkable report, that puts population protection at the center of the Afghanistan mission, that acknowledges that insurgencies can only be defeated when local communities and military forces work together.\nTo put it concretely, this is a doctrine in which small groups of American men and women are outside the wire in dangerous places in remote valleys, providing security, gathering intelligence, helping to establish courts and building schools and roads.\nThat may be the doctrine, but how can you see this working? The US military doesn't even build their own bases, much less schools and roads. They haven't been able to provide security in relatively safe Kabul, much less way out in the overwhelmingly rural country. When they do go out, they're targets, which makes them defensive; being heavily armed and so inclined, that makes them offensive as well. It's hard to change the doctrine against basic training, or against the reasons the soldiers volunteered in the first place. The inescapable fact is that the US military simply doesn't have the necessary skills to provide Afghans with government so popular that the Taliban will give up their arms and rally around our flag. That's not going to happen, less because the Taliban are a hard sell (although they certainly are) than because we simply don't have that kind of empathy and generosity in our veins.\nStill, Brooks's \"all in\" or \"all out\" dichotomy is just another of his straw man arguments meant to stack the deck. We could, for instance, do what the Russians did in 1989, which is to take out troops off the ground and out of the country but keep giving aid. The Najibullah government, which is surely no more popular than the Karzai government, held out against the Pakistan-supported mujahideen for three years after that, and would have held out longer had the Soviet Union not collapsed. One could also improve those odds: by diplomatically keeping Pakistan and anyone else from backing the Taliban; by leaving a thin umbrella of air power in place which could stop aggressive Taliban formations but not be used for supporting government aggression, much less backing US or NATO troops; by providing reconstruction aid tied to the Kabul government's track record of using it constructively. Most of this is real simple: get rid of US\/NATO troops and you get rid of the stink of occupation; cut back the big money aid and you cut back the waste through corruption; send a message that the Afghans have to figure this out and make it happen on their own, and suddenly cronyism doesn't pay. You need to get everyone from Iran to India on board, which is a lot easier to do once US troops are gone. I can think of minor ways to improve on this, but there's really an advantage to letting the Afghans work it out themselves.\nOn the other hand, if you have to do \"all in\" or \"all out,\" the latter would be far better. Colin Powell may think that if you corral a bull in a china shop the bull assumes responsibility for everything he breaks, but Powell ain't much of a farmer, and he sure don't know much about bulls. Most people understand that the only viable course of action is to get the bull out of the shop, alive or dead. The US is as much a creature of its size, strength, brains and brawn as that bull is. Getting it out is the minimal desire, but also a much more realistic one than it is to hope the bull can turn into something else and repair its damage.\nThe metaphor -- or should I say picture? -- holds up for some more points as well. For one thing, what happens to the bull in the china shop? May not get seriously hurt, but the sharp edges of all that flying crystal are going to take their nicks. And then there's the trauma of getting trapped. And assuming the bull didn't really mean to simply destroy everything, the realization has got to be a nasty psychic blow. The bull's likely to wind up needing some serious counseling, but in America these days all you get are drugs, lectures, and church. Then some politician comes along and ships you off to another china shop and it starts all over again. The US has been playing bad cop to the world for a long time now, and getting worse and worse at it. And since it's mostly to fight back against the blowback from the last time we blew it, this has all turned into a death spiral. You can argue both ways whether Afghans might be better off with or without an American commitment, but one thing should be real damn clear by now, and that's that America is worse off for getting tied up in places like Afghanistan, no matter what the provocation or reasoning.\nSometime in the 1940s US foreign policy got perverted. With Europe's colonial regimes in ruins, the Soviet Union on a military roll, anti-fascist and anti-colonialist resistance movements in full flower all across Europe and Asia and possibly elsewhere, and the US filthy rich compared to the rest of a broken world, the US refashioned its foreign policy to represent not its own people but the international capitalist class. That led to all sorts of weird behavior, ranging from recruiting dictators to liquidating our own working class. Along the way they've built a self-perpetuating foreign policy establishment that makes it impossible to public consider how perverse US policy has become. When everyone from Brooks to Obama proclaim Afghanistan a \"war of necessity\" they're really saying we don't want to talk about how we managed to get ourselves into a fix where we know we have to build roads and schools in the poorest country in the world, but can't because nobody there wants the roads, schools, or for that matter us. If we thought about this war for a moment we'd realize what an utter waste it is, but then most wars are like that.\nMatthew Yglesias has another take on Brooks, focusing on the alleged risk to nuclear-armed Pakistan of failing to stop the Taliban. No one -- properly discounting warmongers like Brooks -- thinks the Taliban have any chance at overthrowing or even significantly destabilizing Pakistan. The risk is pushing Pakistan back into a box where they feel the need to support the Taliban against their fear of an Indian proxy in Afghanistan -- specifically, Hamid Karzai. That's what happened in 2003-06 when Bush was asleep at the wheel, and that's a big part of the reason the Taliban came back. There's a lot Americans don't seem to be capable of understanding about this conflict, but the weird psychological games between India and Pakistan are surely near the top of the list.\nSteve Coll: Ink Spots: Compared to this piece, Brooks is even more delusional than you can imagine. For starters, Coll points out that there is no \"all in\" strategy. He gives a figure of 500,000 troops to implement an effort to secure all of Afghanistan, and points out that even if Obama had the will, the Army doesn't have that many usable troops. He also points out that McChrystal's actual proposal is for a version of the oft-cited, rarely successful \"ink spot\" strategy: secure a few small ink spots on the map, build them up until they are stable, then incrementally expand and link up those secure spots. In theory you wind up covering the map. In practice is a messier story, but as Coll points out, you don't have to extrapolate from models as diverse as Vietnam: McChrystal's ink spot theory has already been tried in Afghanistan, by the Soviets in 1986-92. The good news is that it sort of worked, at least in terms of postponing collapse. The bad news is that collapse still came, after the Soviet Union itself collapsed and its Russian mafia heirs stopped helping at all. Of course, the US wouldn't do that, except that the US did just that to Afghanistan once before, and has treated all of its other foreign policy failures -- North Korea, Vietnam, Cuba, Iran, Iraq, Somalia, where else? -- with various combinations of spite and disdain.\nPaperback Links\nIn my recent books post, I noted several new paperback editions of books that I had read over the last year, but hadn't managed to get my quotes\/notes pages together on. I've hustled a bit and finally gotten that done:\nTariq Ali: The Duel: Pakistan on the Flight Path of American Power (2008; paperback, 2009, Scribner).\nThomas Frank: The Wrecking Crew: How Conservatives Ruined Government, Enriched Themselves, and Beggared the Nation (2008; paperback, 2009, Holt).\nJames K Galbraith: The Predator State: How Conservatives Abandoned the Free Market and Why Liberals Should Too (2008; paperback, 2009, Free Press).\nPaul Krugman: The Return of Depression Economics and the Crisis of 2008 (2008; paperback, 2009, WW Norton).\nI didn't manage to add a lot of analysis or critique to these notes. I've never been much for liberalism, which is one reason I so appreciate Ali, but Frank, Galbraith, and Krugman make a pretty solid case for it, and not just given the recent alternative.\nMusic: Current count 15852 [15799] rated (+53), 757 [767] unrated (-10). Lot of Rhapsody. Not much Jazz Prospecting. Worn down pretty bad.\nMike & the Ravens: No Place for Pretty (2009, Zoho Roots): Blues-rock group; played it twice and don't remember anything other than that it's not bad. B+(*)\nWell, I have a few things I could post, but not many: eight isn't much of a week. I've also played a dozen or so records without taking time to write down first impressions -- mostly things I couldn't so easily dismiss, so they've gone straight to the replay pile. Also don't have my mail bookkeeping done. It's not that I haven't been working hard. Yesterday's Rhapsody post took a look at 34 records. Also there will be a Recycled Goods out in a day or two. It's pretty much done now except for an intro and some technical issues. A big thing I've done there is to look at Verve's 118-deep \"Originals\" reissue series. I got so carried away there I wound up splitting it into two installments. Still don't have a new home for Recycled Goods, so I'm sort of floating there. Don't have the clout to swing such obvious targets as the Beatles reissue box(es), the Big Star box, the Hip-O Select and Rhino Handmade completism, or dozens of other things that seem worthy of comment.\nThe Jazz Consumer Guide game plan looks like this: one more week of (possibly spotty) prospecting from the incoming queues, then one or two weeks to finish off the draft. I have more than enough material for that draft, so I'm mostly looking to round off what I have, tie together some related packages, decide what to do with the older entries, settle on two pick hits -- don't have obvious choices yet, although Rova and Fully Celebrated are the current front-runners -- and find some duds. Still have house work to do, and need to travel a bit in the next two weeks, so that may impact this one way or another. But I'd like to have column done mid-October, hopefully to run sometime November.\nRhapsody Streamnotes\nSee file.\nThe Afghanistan Impasse\nAhmed Rashid: The Afghanistan Impasse. I just read two books on Afghanistan, and was pleased to see this, nominally a review of two more books that I had only dimly been aware of and conveniently found in the library. Turns out it has little to do with Nicholas Schmidle's To Live or to Perish Forever: Two Tumultuous Years in Pakistan (Henry Holt) and Gretchen Peters's Seeds of Terror: How Heroin Is Bankrolling the Taliban and al Qaeda (Thomas Dunne\/St. Martin's). I'll thumb through those books later and let you know what I find. Rashid is the venerable Pakistani journalist whose Taliban: Militant Islam, Oil and Fundamentalism in Central Asia is the standard source on the rise of the Taliban, and whose 2008 book, Descent Into Chaos: The US and the Failure of Nation Building in Pakistan, Afghanistan, and Central Asia is the best available book on what happened to the region since the US got took an interest in late 2001. (See my book page for extensive quotes.) He is, in short, both a guy who knows what he's talking about. However, he seems to have gotten too wound up in his subject, which is turning him from a fine journalist to a muddled pundit. Consider the following two paragraphs:\nAfter Obama's injection of 21,000 troops and trainers, total Western forces in Afghanistan now number 100,000, including 68,000 US troops. It is likely that General McChrystal will soon ask for more. Obama's overall plan has been to achieve security by doubling the Afghan army's strength to 240,000 men and the police to 160,000; but these are tasks that would take at least until 2014 to complete, if indeed they can be carried out. Meanwhile the military operation in Afghanistan is now costing cash-strapped US taxpayers $4 billion a month.\nAcross the region many people fear that the US and NATO may start to pull out of Afghanistan during the next twelve months despite their uncompleted mission. That would almost certainly result in the Taliban walking into Kabul. Al-Qaeda would be in a stronger position to launch global terrorist attacks. The Pakistani Taliban would be able to \"liberate\" large parts of Pakistan. The Taliban's game plan of waiting out the Americans now looks more plausible than ever.\nPretty much everyone agrees that the security situation has deteriorated progressively ever since winter 2001\/2002 -- the time period when Rory Stewart was able to walk across much of the country (see The Places in Between [book page]. This has happened in almost perfect correlation with the increase of US and NATO troops, the \"training\" of \"Afghan forces,\" and the spending (or wasting) of vast sums of development money. The two may not be causally linked, but it's clear that involvement of the sort that the US has engaged in for eight years now has had little benefit either to Afghanistan or to the US and now seems to be returning less and less value. I'm convinced that the problem is endemic both to Afghanistan and to the US, and that the combination simply doesn't work. As polls indicate, a majority of Americans (and a supermajority of Democrats) have come to the same conclusion, even if they're unlikely to phrase it my way. (Most are less tempted to blame the Americans than the Afghans.) We're a nation that prides itself on good business sense, and quite frankly any business that reviews returns like these will quickly move to cut their losses. There may be some room for debating how to do that, but it should be clear that our best efforts have failed and that some sort of reduction is clearly in order.\nRashid, however, has bought into the occupation to such an extent that his second paragraph is full of doom alarms meant to cower us. Although the Taliban can do damage in Afghanistan, there is no reason to think they could take over Kabul without significant foreign support, which is very unlikely. Similar predictions were made when the Soviets withdrew, but the rump government held its positions against US- and Pakistani-funded mujahideen for three years, until the Soviet Union collapsed and ended all aid. The notion that Pakistan would fall to the Taliban is even more far fetched. Pakistan may tolerate the Taliban in the small and marginal (to it) FATA, but Pakistan's military easily routed the Taliban in the Swat Valley. No one thinks the Taliban has any prospects beyond the Pashtun belt, which as Pakistan goes is thin and marginal.\nOne thing that's happened in the last year is that the honeymoon between Pakistan and the Taliban is finally over. It's hard to see either side putting that relationship back together again. Pakistan has a problem with India, but the solution there is diplomatic. That is something the US can and should work on. Afghanistan has a lot of problems, and no easy solutions. Most of all they need to develop a viable state and a viable economy. I doubt that either has ever happened under foreign occupation. They certainly haven't happened while there was a major insurrection against foreign occupation. The US and NATO need to reduce their footprint and chokehold considerably, preferably completely. Aid needs to be managed better -- now it's mostly soaked up in graft, doing virtually no one any good. There are plenty of smarter ways to do this, but the one thing we know will be disastrous would be to keep pumping troops in until we grind the Afghans into submission. We don't have the troops, time, or money, and the human toll on the ground would be devastating.\nRashid's threats turn out to be the same threats that Gen. McChrystal made in his leaked report about what would happen if he didn't get his extra 40,000 troops. Such threats play on the ignorance of politicians, who can easily imagine them being turned into told-you-so's if they don't cover their ass and go along. In other words, they're bully bluffs. The real question to ask McChrystal is what difference 40,000 troops would make. The obvious answer is that they'll provide the Taliban with more targets, so more American troops will get killed and maimed; and they'll kill a few more Taliban and a lot more ordinary Afghans, as well as turn more of the latter into Taliban. In other words, they will perpetuate the violence, which is really the last thing we should want.\nRashid writes a bit about the elections. One thing I have to say about this is that it would have been good for Karzai to have lost -- not because he's corrupt or inept or whatever, but because it would have shown Afghans that it is possible to change leaders without using bullets. That would have been a good lesson to learn. It would even give the Taliban reason to run for office rather than try to shoot their way in.\nTom Engelhardt: Measuring Success in Afghanistan. Checking the numbers, plus a thought on why \"their Afghans\" are so effective fighting and \"our Afghans\" aren't:\nHere's something to carry away with you: Life is invariably hard when you set up your massive embassies, your regional command centers, your election advisors, your private security guards, your military trainers and advisors, your diplomats and civilian enablers and then try to come up with a formula for motivating the locals to do your bidding.\nThe way to level the field between \"our Afghans\" and \"their Afghans\" is to bring the US troops home. Then all each will have to fight for is their own freedom from control by other Afghans -- where the Taliban have a pretty nasty track record, as do the warlords in different ways. They can pick their poison, or compromise. But now the choice is between fighting for or against us, which isn't a choice that favors us.\nTom Engelhardt: How to Trap a President in a Losing War: On the McChrystal memo. Sees Petraeus behind it, \"the most political general to come down the pike since, in 1951 in the midst of the Korean War, General Douglas MacArthur said his goodbyes to Congress after being cashiered by President Truman for insubordination -- for, in effect, wanting to run his own war and the foreign policy that went with it.\" Also makes frequent reference to \"the Surgettes\": the pundits who, having got lucky in Iraq, now see surges as the answers to each and every military failure. The Surge worked in Iraq because it was preceded by a series of deals that were the real cause for the reduction in violence. (By the way, the drop was masked for nearly a by the additional violence the extra troops brought with them. The reduction only became evident when the troops were throttled to keep the whole strategem from failing.) For lots of reasons the same strategy cannot work in Afghanistan.\nHelene Cooper: GOP Support May Be Vital to Obama on Afghan War. A good reason to think about whether he really wants to fight to keep the Afghan war going. One big reason why Clinton lost his health care reform program in 1993-94 was that he pushed NAFTA out ahead of it. He passed NAFTA, but only with Republican support, while crippling the union efforts he needed for health care. Why didn't he make NAFTA contingent on getting health care passed? Why not make Afghanistan contingent on health care reform now? It's not like the Republicans are cutting him any slack for being out front with in their war -- and really, all wars benefit the Republicans because they burn tax money and distract from reform at home. Not that the political calculus is what you want to base your Afghanistan policy on. But it's safe to say the Republicans do just that, and if they see a way to burn Obama they'll do it.\nI read two books on Afghanistan last week, collecting extensive notes on them.\nGregory Feifer's The Great Gamble covers the Soviet occupation of Afghanistan from 1979-89, with a bit on the Najibullah regime that remained in power until 1992. It's drawn mostly from the personal stories of Soviet soldiers, with a fairly brief summary of the high-level politics in the Kremlin. The decision to \"invade\" seems to have been made almost accidentally, like the Politburo was trying to follow procedures for 1956 Hungary and 1967 Czechoslovakia but couldn't remember the details and were too embarrassed to look them up or test whether they were relevant to Afghanistan. They weren't. The Soviets had installed communist regimes in Hungary and Czechoslovakia and owned them lock, stock and barrel. Moreover, they were lined up behind an Iron Curtain where NATO threatened the Soviet Union on one side, but where the Soviet Union was free to act on the other. The communist government in Afghanistan was the result of a local coup -- and was riven by factions (Khalq and Parcham) actively involved in killing each other off. The Kabul government had very little control over the countryside -- in fact, less and less every day. The only thing the Soviets actually decided was to dive in and kill off the Parcham leader, Hafizullah Amin (who had recently killed off the Khalq leader, Mohammed Taraki). The troops were sent in to back up the assassination, having already failed once so ineptly that Amin was unawares. Soviet invasion instantly undermined the Kabul government, rather than fortifying it, leaving the invaders with an utter mess. From there on, well, you know the drill: stay the course, we can't afford to lose, giving up would invite disaster, blah blah blah. The Soviet Union had declined miserably by the 1980s, such that the soldiers were ill-equipped and ill-supported. They provisioned themselves by looting, and defended themselves by indiscriminate slaughter. The US, China, Pakistan, and Saudi Arabia poured billions of dollars in weapons to prop up mujahideen warlords, who barely made a dent against the Soviet war machine, but did incredible damage to Afghanistan. The Soviet Union lost fewer than 15,000 soldiers in the war (although the injuries and trauma were far greater). More than a million Afghans died, and seven million were displaced. In other words, the Americans (primarily the Reagan administration) cheerfully sacrificed 70 Afghans for every Soviet they killed. They utterly destroyed the Afghan state and economy, and they prevented a whole generation of Afghans from learning and developing normal skills, while training a generation of murderers and thieves. The result was civil war that continues to this day, exemplified by the Taliban rule in the late 1990s, one of the most barbarous and incompetent regimes since WWII. Nor were the scars restricted to Afghanistan. Returning Soviet soldiers turned into violent criminals, which practically became the norm in Russia after the fall of the Soviet Union. Mujahideen warlords Reagan praised as like our founding fathers took jihad on the road, leading to scores of terrorist atrocities from Bali to the World Trade Center in New York. And after 2001, the Americans returned to wreak even more havoc in Afghanistan, Iraq, and elsewhere, becoming not only the world's superpower but its most dangerous rogue nation.\nFor more on Feifer's book, see the book page.\nJones is a RAND Corp. political scientist, based in Washington DC. His resume includes visiting Afghanistan \"over a dozen times since the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks.\" His book promises to be the first comprehensive history of the first 7 years of the US occupation of Afghanistan. It's fairly spotty in that regard: neither a military history nor a political history; despite a few first-person stories, not what you'd call journalism either. He throws in a few pages on Alexander and Tamerlane and Babur and Rudyard Kipling, but he doesn't offer much depth. He does offer some sociological concepts, and sketches out a comparative set of insurgency studies. And he winds up with a few prescriptions that never once call into question the premises of the problem. In a nutshell, this is what passes for analytical thinking in DC these days. Lord help us.\nFor more on Jones' book, see the book page.\nAt the end of Jones' book, he makes a set of recommendations for turning the war around. He argues that at least some Americans have always understood Afghanistan (ambassadors Zalmay Khalilzad and Ronald Neumann are his examples) and that the problems were caused by political leaders who didn't listen to good advise (no names, but I know a Bush when I smell one). Then he blames the insurgency on \"too little outside support for the Afghan government and too much support for insurgents.\" That led me to comment:\nThere's no evidence, in this book at least, that either Khalilzad's adolescence of Neumann's sheep hunting adventure in any way offered any profound insights into the problems poised by Afghanistan. They, at best, were slightly less ignorant and slightly less indifferent than the usual run of Americans driven by the Global War on Terror into Afghanistan. The fact is that Afghanistan was never more than an accident in the minds of American politicians and warriors who had their minds on something else: on humiliating the Russians back in 1979 and on reasserting US global dominance in 2001. The original sin was back in 1979 when Carter and Brzezinski put the whole Afghan people at risk to further their puerile Cold War fantasies. Pause a moment on that: if Jimmy Carter cared so little about what would happen to Afghanistan, what hope can you invest in the brains and moral character of Reagan, Clinton, and two generations of Bush?\nIt's easy to argue that an insurgency arose in Afghanistan because the post-2001 state was weak, but when has Afghanistan ever had an effective system of government? Certainly not under Zahir Shah, when Afghanistan was still at peace. Most likely never. The Soviets can be blamed for meddling if not in the 1978 Revolution, which seems to have been a bit of mischief endemic to the weak government's elite institutions, then in trying to sort out the Khalq-Parcham factional strife of the pro-communist ruling party. But it was first Pakistan then the US that tore Afghanistan apart with their \"better dead than red\" obsession. The Soviets' real crime was blundering into the trap the US had set. They did this because they didn't understand a couple of very basic things: first was that neither communist faction had any popular support; second was that whoever controls the state in Afghanistan controls nothing of effective value; third is that the only thing that really gets Afghans riled up is the presence of a foreign army on their soil. From 1979 on, Afghanistan has been riven by civil war, which has largely been sponsored by foreign interests, each concerned with the other, none caring the least bit about what happens to the Afghans.\nThe only important thing that changed between 1979 and 2001 was that during the intervening 22 years (now 30 years) the only skill worth an Afghan's effort to develop was fighting war. The result is that the political class in Afghanistan has been rigorously selected for the sole trait of self-interested preservation in times of war. Back in 1979 Afghanistan had virtually no skills for state-building. Two decades later the state was run by the Taliban, probably the most incompetent bureaucrats of the last century. (I suppose you could argue that the Belgian legacy in the Congo that led to Mobuto was in the running, but I doubt that it comes close. Aside from the Taliban's warped-but-real system of justice, every other normal function of government, to the extent that it was implemented at all, was left to the charity of foreign NGOs.) So along comes Bush and Rumsfeld, who really don't have the slightest clue why America functions better than other oligarchies like Haiti, and they're dumbfounded to find themselves in a country where nobody knows how to do anything, except fight. That's pretty hopeless under any circumstances, but what makes it even worse is that all Bush and Rumsfeld ever wanted in the first place was to fight -- fighting is why the US invaded in the first place.\nSo when the author complains about the government getting too little support and the insurgency getting too much support he's trying to balance totally different things on the same scale. The fact is that the insurgency got peanuts compared to what was spent on the government and the war effort. I mean, who paid for the Taliban? A few tribal leaders in the poorest part of Pakistan, some mid-level ISI operatives, the mythical financiers of the Gulf sheikdoms, some drug runners. They must have been outspent a thousand-to-one, but in Afghanistan you can buy a lot of killing awful cheap, and you can hardly buy honest government at all -- especially when you're laundering so much of the money back to outfits like DynCorp, which is, after all, the Bush way.\nSo to say the debacle wasn't inevitable is to buy into a lot of wishful thinking that has no business in Afghanistan.\nHe then proposed to fix this by building up a non-corrupt government, working more with local institutions than with national ones, and persuading Pakistan to shut down the safe havens the Taliban are using in Pakistani territory. For comments on those, follow the link above.\nBooks: Catching Up Again\nTried to collect the more timely, more pointedly political items this time, after dumping most of my lesser-interest titles yesterday. Part of this involved doing more research, so the well is still pretty full. Could even do a third part, but will probably wait a while, since this is chewing up a lot of time I don't really have available. I couldn't resist picking up the Maass book below, something I hope to get to soon.\nMatthew Alexander\/John Bruning: How to Break a Terrorist: The US Interrogators Who Used Brains, Not Brutality, to Take Down the Deadliest Man in Iraq (2008, Free Press): Alexander is evidently a pseudonym for an Air Force interrogator who worked on the intelligence that caught up with Zarqawi. Reviews claim this reads like a thriller, but the key point is that it works as an indictment of Cheney's torture methods.\nTariq Ali: The Protocols of the Elders of Sodom: And Other Essays (2009, Verso): Title essay takes off from a Proust quote: if Zionism seeks a biblical homeland for the Jews on the basis of persecution, why not also look for a biblical homeland for gays and lesbians? More pieces on literature and politics.\nGlenn Beck: Arguing with Idiots: How to Stop Small Minds and Big Government (2009, Threshold Editions): I thumbed through this incoherent comic book last night, finding it virtually impossible to read. Back cover is covered with critical attacks on Beck, mostly pegging him as a vile moron. It says something about his niche marketing that he figures they're good for sales. Looks like his readers are the idiots, and the point of argument is to work up fury. Haven't looked at his other new bestseller, Glenn Beck's Common Sense: The Case Against an Out-of-Control Government, Inspired by Thomas Paine, let alone such earlier efforts as America's March to Socialism: Why We're One Step Closer to Giant Missile Parades.\nWendell Berry: Bringing It to the Table: On Farming and Food (2009, Counterpoint): A collection of old essays from over 30 years, with a new introduction by Michael Pollan. Probably leans more toward farming, which is Berry's passion.\nMax Blumenthal: Republican Gomorrah: Inside the Movement That Shattered the Party (2009, Nation Books): Attempts to show that the movers and shakers of the Republican right wing are scum at a personal level, as well as ignorant and vile politically. Came up with enough examples to write 416 pages. Given how the post-Bush right has broken down, he may be right.\nHarold H Bruff: Bad Advice: Bush's Lawyers in the War on Terror (2009, University Press of Kansas): That's putting it, uh, thoughtfully. John Yoo's book title, War By Other Means: An Insider's Account of the War on Terror, suggests that he wasn't even trying to be a lawyer. David Addington was always a guy who wrapped the law around his politics. Bush had no training in law: the only point he grasped was that as long as you could get away with it the law didn't apply. He hired lawyers to defend that insight. But then he also thought the only point of democracy was winning.\nPaul Davidson: The Keynes Solution: The Path to Global Economic Prosperity (2009, Palgrave Macmillan): A short book of economic policy prescription, based on the immemorial question, what would John Maynard Keynes say now?\nJohn Diamond: The CIA and the Culture of Failure: US Intelligence from the End of the Cold War to the Invasion of Iraq (2008, Stanford Security Studies): Another book on the CIA's uncanny ability to screw up everything it touches. I've recently read Tim Weiner's Legacy of Ashes: A History of the CIA, which dishes the dirt from the beginning. This starts with the collapse of the Soviet Union, and covers the rudderless years in more detail.\nRichard J Evans: The Third Reich at War (2009, Penguin Press): Third volume following The Coming of the Third Reich and The Third Reich in Power, presumably the end of a trilogy, unless he wants to do a The Third Reich in Myth and History, which would itself be interesting, but a change of pace. Long (944 pages), stuff that's been covered a lot -- and continues to be; cf. Mark Mazower's Hitler's Empire: How the Nazis Ruled Europe. Don't know how good they are. I bought the first on a whim, thinking it might be interesting to note parallels between the emergent Nazis and the Bush fascists, but never actually got to the book.\nBradley Graham: By His Own Rules: The Ambitions, Successes, and Ultimate Failures of Donald Rumsfeld (2009, Public Affairs): Big (832 pp), more than I want to know about him, plenty of room for his many idiosyncrasies to get so annoying you lose track of how he fit into the military-industrial complex as well as how he wrecked it.\nAlan Hart: Zionism: The Real Enemy of the Jews, Volume One: The False Messiah (paperback, 2009, Clarity Press): One should be able to make a strong case for the title. Evidently a second volume is planned.\nGodfrey Hodgson: The Myth of American Exceptionalism (2009, Yale University Press): One of those ideas that keeps popping up no matter how many times you try to kill it. Not necessarily a good thing either. One Amazon review points out: \"In the last third of the book, Hodgson details the areas where America truly is exceptional among industrial nations: last in health care, near last in educational achievement, first in incarceration rates, first in violent crime, last in intercity train service and public transit, first in income inequality, first in the amount spent on the military, first in allowing lobbyists and money to influence the democratic process.\" Probably helps that Hodgson is British. He's written a number of books on the US, including The World Turned Right Side Up: A History of the Conservative Movement in America.\nDavid E Hoffman: The Dead Hand: The Untold Story of the Cold War Arms Race & Its Dangerous Legacy (2009, Doubleday): Looks like a major book, based on research on both sides of the Cold War divide. Early on, at least some US military planners saw the arms race as a way to bankrupt the Soviet Union. That led to ever more fanciful schemes, which still possess the \"best and brightest\" minds of the Pentagon. That arms race almost immediately led to scenarios of apocalyptic destruction. It also caused a persistent unraveling of America's sense of democracy, a moral rot that time and again sided us with despotic regimes in a desperate totalitarian pursuit of gamesmanship. If this book doesn't spell all that out, it should.\nSusan Jacoby: Alger Hiss and the Battle for History (2009, Yale University Press): After writing such sweeping books as Freethinkers: A History of American Secularism and The Age of American Unreason, here's one short and specific, part of a series, \"Icons of America.\" Hiss is, well, iconic because people read more into him than there ever was -- something that I must say I never understood. I can, for instance, recall Nixon ranting that the real reason liberals opposed him on Vietnam was that they could never forgive him for what he did to Hiss, as if a couple million dead in Vietnam and Cambodia mattered less than the fate of an Ivy League commie. That's the sort of exaggeration Jacoby gets to work with -- if only anyone cares anymore.\nDahr Jamail: The Will to Resist: Soldiers Who Refuse to Fight in Iraq and Afghanistan (2009, Haymarket): Another scoop for a freelance reporter who went further and dug deeper into the Iraq war than just about anyone else. Forward by Chris Hedges.\nSeth G Jones: In the Graveyard of Empires: America's War in Afghanistan (2009, WW Norton): RAND Corp. analyst looks back, second guesses, offers some more guesses. [PS: After reading this book, note seems about right.]\nAnne Karpf\/Brian Klug\/Jacqueline Rose\/Barbara Rosenbaum, eds.: A Time to Speak Out: Independent Jewish Voices on Israel, Zionism and Jewish Identity (paperback, 2008, Verso): Pieces from a British group called Independent Jewish Voices.\nIchiro Kawachi\/Bruce P Kennedy: The Health of Nations: Why Inequality is Harmful to Your Health (paperback, 2006, New Press): Linked from Richard Wilkinson's The Impact of Inequality: How to Make Sick Societies Healthier, this seems to be even more specifically focused on health care. As you know, the US has worse health outcomes than any other rich country despite spending twice or more as much per capita. Lots of reasons are possible, including that overtreatment isn't necessarily a good thing, but inequality seems to have far more to do with it: both in the denial of essential services and in the jealous protectionism of those who think they're better off for it.\nJon Krakauer: Where Men Win Glory: The Odyssey of Pat Tillman (2009, Doubleday): I've probably read all of Krakauer's books -- mountain climbing is one of my odder side interests, and Mormonism is another -- still this doesn't seem like a very promising combination. The only lesson I draw from Tillman is the utter waste of America's war in Afghanistan, and more generally America's passion for war. People are tempted to think that Tillman did something remarkable leaving the NFL for Afghanistan, but the two are so foolishly intertwined that it was merely pathetic.\nMark LeVine: Impossible Peace: Israel\/Palestine Since 1989 (2009, Zed): The years in question start with the Intifada, follow through the Oslo accords and the revival of Israel's rejectionist right under Ariel Sharon. The Intifada marked a shift in how Israel saw its Palestinian problem: before it was external, led by the PLO, characterized by terrorism; after, it was homegrown, an indictment of Israeli occupation. Short book has a lot of ground to cover.\nWilliam A Link: Righteous Warrior: Jesse Helms and the Rise of Modern Conservatism (2008, St Martin's Press): Obviously way too sympathetic, which in this case makes you question the whole project. A better title would have been Blustering Bigot.\nPeter Maass: Crude World: The Violent Twilight of Oil (2009, Knopf): There is no doubt but that the world is going to run out of oil sooner or later. The world economy grew almost linearly with the extraction of oil, so its decline seems inevitable as well. This can happen more or less violently, but if the oil industry itself is any indication, the future looks pretty bleak.\nMichelle Malkin: Culture of Corruption: Obama and His Team of Tax Cheats, Crooks, and Cronies (2009, Regnery Press): Chart-topping bestseller, which raises the question: why didn't anyone use this title when Bush was president? I mean, other than that it would have been impossible to squeeze it all into 256 pages. I especially love the bit about Michelle Obama and Joe Biden being \"nepotism beneficiaries.\"\nDavid N Myers: Between Jew and Arab: The Lost Voice of Simon Rawidowicz (2008, Brandeis): Rawidowicz died in 1957, having established himself as a notable scholar and written some essays critical of the Zionists' failure to protect Arabs during the 1947-49 war, a source not only of future conflict but of the deep-seated moral crisis within Zionism.\nShuja Nawaz: Crossed Swords: Pakistan, Its Army, and the Wars Within (2008, Oxford University Press): Looking back at the Musharraf years, it seems pretty obvious now that the Bush administration understood virtually nothing about Pakistan's army and its view of the state and the world. This big (600 pp) book comes late but might help, especially since it's not clear that Obama gets it either.\nDavid Neiwert: The Eliminationists: How Hate Talk Radicalized the American Right (paperback, 2009, Polipoint Press): Takes on the tendency in the right to seek the elimination of their enemies, as opposed to any of the wussier approaches favored by liberals, like trying to argue a case on points. Covers the obvious suspects, with Lou Dobbs mixed in with the neo-fascists.\nTrevor Paglen: Blank Spots on the Map: The Dark Geography of the Pentagon's Secret World (2009, Dutton): Author is described as \"a scholar in geography, an artist, and a provocateur.\" Book attempts to expose a number of DOD and CIA \"black ops\" sites, helping you to get some notion of the bizarre things the security state is up to. Previously wrote: Torture Taxi: On the Trail of the CIA's Rendition Flights. A similar book is Harry Helms: Top Secret Tourism: Your Travel Guide to Germ Warfare Laboratories, Clandestine Aircraft Bases and Other Places in the United States You're Not Supposed to Know About.\nCharles P Pierce: Idiot America: How Stupidity Became a Virtue in the Land of the Free (2009, Doubleday): Inspired by the Terry Schiavo case and the Creation Museum, which are as good as anywhere to start, but pretty low-lying fruit. I'm still ambivalent about the Dark Ages scenario -- there seems to be a lot of pull in both directions -- and would like to go beyond the mere cataloguing of contemporary stupidity. So the key question here is \"how\" this happened. Part of it is certainly that stupidity has been in the political interests of the right, but it's also been accommodated by politicians of the not-so-right. Businesses too. Where does that leave us?\nNomi Prins: It Takes a Pillage: Behind the Bailouts, Bonuses, and Backroom Deals from Washington to Wall Street (2009, Wiley): Former Goldman Sachs managing director turned muckraking journalist, argues that the pillage had less to do with subprime mortgages than \"a financial system that rewards people who move money instead of people who make things, operates outside of the media's gaze, is sheltered from governmental supervision, and uses leverage to turn risky deals into insanely risky deals.\" Seems about right. Previously wrote Other People's Money: The Corporate Mugging of America and Jacked: How \"Conservatives\" Are Picking Your Pocket (Whether You Voted for Them or Not).\nTR Reid: The Healing of America: A Global Quest for Better, Cheaper, and Fairer Health Care (2009, Penguin Press): A comparative study of health care systems around the world, perhaps the easiest way to show how skewed, deranged, and wrong-minded the US \"system\" is. Previously wrote The United States of Europe.\nDonald E Schmidt: The Folly of War: America's Foreign Policy, 1895-2005 (paperback, 2005, Algora): Traces America's war tendencies to the militant idealism of Theodore Roosevelt and Woodrow Wilson along with a belief in American Exceptionalism.\nJames Scott: The Attack on the Liberty: The Untold Story of Israel's Deadly 1967 Assault on a US Spy Ship (2009, Simon & Schuster): An old story which has generally been kept under wraps. Much smaller events have been blown up into excuses for war, but Israel wasn't a country we were keen on tangling with. So why did it happen? And why didn't it matter? And is the appearance of a new book on the subject an indication that we're having second thoughts about unconditional support for a country that sometimes treats us as badly as they treat everyone else?\nRobert Skidelsky: Keynes: The Return of the Master (2009, Public Affairs): Keynes biographer, his multi-volume series reissued abridged in 2005 to a mere 1056 pages. This reminder comes in at 240 pages. It seems to me that Keynes' disappearance has been greatly exaggerated, but there's nothing like a huge worldwide financial crisis to bring people back to the essential books. Also see: Peter Clarke: Keynes: The Rise, Fall, and Return of the 20th Century's Most Influential Economist.\nRebecca Solnit: A Paradise Built in Hell: The Extraordinary Communities That Arise in Disaster (2009, Viking): Looks at how natural and manmade disasters break the run of everyday life and trigger community-building: various earthquakes, Katrina, etc.\nDavid Swanson: Daybreak: Undoing the Imperial Presidency and Forming a More Perfect Union (paperback, 2009, Seven Stories Press): Law and order guy, thinks Bush and Cheney and various accomplices should stand trial for their numerous crimes. Makes a good case, I'm sure.\nSam Tanenhaus: The Death of Conservatism (2009, Random House): An acolyte\/biographer of Whitaker Chambers, he tries to defend his conservative idealism from reality by arguing that real conservatism died and has been replaced by an impostor. I doubt that he identifies the impostor as fascism, but someone acould write such a book.\nNicholas Thompson: The Hawk and the Dove: Paul Nitze, George Kennan, and the History of the Cold War (2009, Henry Holt): The contrast is one way to look at the Cold War, but Kennan went through his hawkish phase too, and he's far better remembered for his \"long telegram\" rant than for all the reservations and caveats he offered later.\nMarcy Wheeler: Anatomy of Deceit: How the Bush Administration Used the Media to Sell the Iraq War and Out a Spy (paperback, 2007, Vaster Books): A short brief on two interrelated subjects, tied together by the media that abets them. The Iraq propaganda story has been covered at great length elsewhere; the Valerie Plame outing less so.\nRichard Wilkinson: The Impact of Inequality: How to Make Sick Societies Healthier (paperback, 2006, New Press): Ran across this because Wilkinson and Kate Pickett have a new book coming out in December (already out in UK) called The Spirit Level: Why Greater Equality Makes Societies Stronger. The focus strikes me as right: inequality poisons personal relationships in ways both subtle and profound, and those redound throughout society. Conversely, social cohesion depends on the fundamental sense that we're all basically alike, and therefore we're all in this together.\nRichard Wolffe: Renegade: The Making of a President (2009, Crown): The most conspicuous (at least in bookstores right now) of a pile of quickie books on Obama's election win. Others include: Gwin Ifill: The Breakthrough: Politics and Race in the Age of Obama; David Plouffe: The Audacity to Win: The Inside Story and Lessons of Barack Obama's Historic Victory; Larry J Sabato: The Year of Obama: How Barack Obama Won the White House; Chuck Todd: How Barack Obama Won: A State-by-State Guide to the Historic 2008 Presidential Election; Greg Mitchell: Why Obama Won: The Making of a President 2008; Evan Thomas: \"A Long Time Coming\": The Inspiring, Combative 2008 Campaign and the Historic Election of Barack Obama.\nPreviously mentioned books new in paperback (book pages noted where available; some are stubs or have brief notes without quotes; eventually all will have quotes and comments):\nTariq Ali: The Duel: Pakistan on the Flight Path of American Power (2008; paperback, 2009, Scribner): A personal, rather idiosyncratic history of Pakistan willingly but not necessarily all that constructively under America's imperial thumb. [book page: note]\nThomas Frank: The Wrecking Crew: How Conservatives Ruined Government, Enriched Themselves, and Beggared the Nation (2008; paperback, 2009, Holt): A pretty accurate summary of the Republicans' run of ruin in Washington. Paperback added something to the subtitle; not sure if the book has been updated. [book page: stub]\nJames K Galbraith: The Predator State: How Conservatives Abandoned the Free Market and Why Liberals Should Too (2008; paperback, 2009, Free Press): Give corporations the keys to the state and they'll turn it into a system for preying on people, the exact opposite of what a democratic state should do. One of the better political books to appear in the last couple of years. I need to go back and pick up my quotes. [book page: stub]\nPaul Krugman: The Conscience of a Liberal (2007; paperback, 2009, WW Norton): Part political manifesto, but cooly delivered because he wants to work a macro view of US history in, from the Long Gilded Age through the New Deal-inspired levelling and back to a return of Gilded Age inequality. [book page]\nPaul Krugman: The Return of Depression Economics and the Crisis of 2008 (2008; paperback, 2009, WW Norton): Revised a year ago from the 1999 original, written then in response to the East Asian collapse of 1997, which bears many of the same traits as the current boom\/bust. [book page: note]\nAhmed Rashid: Descent Into Chaos: The US and the Failure of Nation Building in Pakistan, Afghanistan, and Central Asia (2008; paperback, 2009, Penguin): Probably the single best book out on America's post-2001 Af-Pak fiasco, although it still leaves plenty of questions unanswered and even unraised. [book page]\nBooks: Catching Up\nI have enough book notes piled up that I'm going to do two posts in quick succession to clean up the excess -- second part will most likely appear tomorrow. When I do these things I usually pick the most urgent and important titles from my accumulated notes, but this time my plan is to save those for tomorrow and clear out as much of the old stuff I've been skipping over as possible. So skim lightly, but these are books I thought had some interest. I've adopted the convention of limiting these posts to 40 books each, but this one runs a little long. Otherwise I'd wind up doing this again.\nDaniel J Barrett: MediaWiki (Wikipedia and Beyond) (paperback, 2008, O'Reilly): Large book on the free software package that underlies Wikipedia. I've been meaning to use MediaWiki for a couple of projects, so this is of special interest to me. On the other hand, I've been accumulating books on Wikipedia without yet getting to the point of using them. Won't have a real opinion on them until I do.\nRobert H Bates: When Things Fell Apart: State Failure in Late-Century Africa (paperback, 2008, Cambridge University Press): Failed states consume economies in chaos, corruption, and predation, but what causes states to fail? One suggestion here is that globalization, especially backed by IMF policies, undermined efforts to build stable, adequately financed state organizations.\nDerek Bickerton: Bastard Tongues: A Trailblazing Linguist Finds Clues to Our Common Humanity in the World's Lowliest Languages (paperback, 2009, Hill and Wang): A book about creoles and pidgins, part memoir of a lifetime's study.\nDavid Blumenthal\/James Morone: The Heart of Power: Health and Politics in the Oval Office (2009, University of California Press): New history of the politics of health care policy.\nPaul Buhle, ed: The Beats: A Graphic History (2009, Hill and Wang): Text by Harvey Pekar and others; art by Ed Piskor and others. Not sure who all the others are. Short, celebratory, maybe a little critical when it comes to sexism. Stuff I used to care a lot about, not just when I read Ginsberg and Ferlinghetti but also when I followed Buhle's comics jones in Radical America.\nKathleen Burk: Old World, New World: Great Britain and America from the Beginning (2008, Atlantic Monthly Press): Big book (848 pages), tries to straddle the Atlantic from 1497 on.\nLisa Chamberlain: Slackonomics: Generation X in the Age of Creative Destruction (2008, Da Capo Press): Portrait of Gen X (those born in the mid-1960s through '70s) as pioneering entrepreneurs; one review tags this \"gushing, anecdotal\" -- not very useful attributes.\nMike Chinoy: Meltdown: The Inside Story of the North Korean Nuclear Crisis (2008, St Martin's Press): Author is an ex-CNN reporter, which doesn't really make this an \"inside\" account -- but then you really wouldn't want to read a book on this by the likes of John Bolton.\nGregory Cochran\/Henry Harpending: The 10,000 Year Explosion: How Civilization Accelerated Human Evolution (2009, Basic Books): Argues for genetic evolution within the last 10,000 years, contrary to the more common expectation of genetic stability in large populations.\nJennet Conant: The Irregulars: Roald Dahl and the British Spy Ring in Wartime Washington (2008, Simon & Schuster): Third book by Conant as she digs around WWII for interesting stories. I'm not much for spy stories, but the other two books looked like they might be interesting: Tuxedo Park : A Wall Street Tycoon and the Secret Palace of Science That Changed the Course of World War II and 109 East Palace: Robert Oppenheimer and the Secret City of Los Alamos.\nPhilip J Cunningham: Tiananmen Moon: Inside the Chinese Student Uprising of 1989 (2009, Rowman & Littlefield): Evidently the author was there, was friends with various protesters, and kept a day-by-day account of the events. Seems a little dated for that kind of detail, but maybe not.\nMichael C Desch: Power and Military Effectiveness: The Fallacy of Democratic Triumphalism (2008, Johns Hopkins University Press): Dissects the argument, going back to 1815, that Democratic states are inherently more likely to prevail in wars.\nMarq de Villiers: The End: Natural Disasters, Manmade Catastrophes, and the Future of Human Survival (2008, Thomas Dunne): Global warming, of course, but also volcanoes, meteors, massive tsunamis, noxious gases, plagues and pandemics, mass extinctions: stuff that happens all the time.\nBart D Ehrman: Jesus, Interrupted: Revealing the Hidden Contradictions in the Bible (And Why We Don't Know About Them) (2009, Harper One): Basic historical deconstruction of the New Testament -- the outline I've seen is mostly stuff I know about, but probably not at this detail. Evidently, Ehrman has been doing this for a while now. Previous books include: The Orthodox Corruption of Scripture: The Effect of Early Christological Controversies on the Text of the New Testament (1996); Lost Scriptures: Books that Did Not Make It Into the New Testament (2003); Lost Christianities: The Battles for Scripture and the Faiths We Never Knew (2003); Misquoting Jesus: The Story Behind Who Changed the Bible and Why (2005); The Lost Gospel of Judas Iscariot: A New Look at Betrayer and Betrayed (2006).\nJon Entine: Abraham's Children: Race, Identity, and the DNA of the Chosen People (2007, Grand Central Publishing): Research into the genetic angle of Jewish history, a subject more succinctly covered in David B Goldstein: Jacob's Legacy: A Genetic View of Jewish History (2008, Yale University Press). This may be one of the few areas where anyone's still talking about races, but then Entine, who draws a paycheck at American Enterprise Institute, previously wrote: Taboo: Why Black Athletes Dominate Sports and Why We're Afraid to Talk About It.\nRandy Charles Epping: The 21st Century Economy: A Beginner's Guide (paperback, 2009, Vintage): Author of the very similar A Beginner's Guide to the World Economy, originally dating from 1992, with a 1995 revised edition and a 2001 reprint. Most likely this title is basically another revision. Elementary, of course.\nDouglas Farah\/Stephen Braun: Merchant of Death: Money, Guns, Planes, and the Man Who Makes War Possible (paperback, 2008, Wiley): Expos\ufffd of Russian arms dealer Victor Bout. Certainly not the only one, and a piker compared to the US Government.\nStephen Fender: 50 Facts That Should Change The USA (paperback, 2008, The Disinformation Company): A sequel to Jessica Williams: 50 Facts That Should Change the World, reissued in 2007 in a 2.0 Edition. The emphasis is on facts that are non-obvious, counterintuitive even, but Americans are so ignorant -- one, or maybe several, of the facts -- that that isn't too hard.\nAnn Finkbeiner: The Jasons: The Secret History of Science's Postwar Elite (2006, Viking; paperback, 2007, Penguin): A history of elite scientists consulting with the Defense Department, especially after the Sputnik craze in 1958.\nLeonard M Fleck: Just Caring: Health Care Rationing and Democracy (2009, Oxford University Press): Takes rationing as a serious ethical issue, insisting that \"no one has a moral right to impose rationing decisions on others if they are unwilling to impose those same rationing decisions on themselves in the same medical circumstances.\"\nTom Gjelten: Bacardi and the Long Fight for Cuba: The Biography of a Cause (2008, Viking): A portrait of the rum barons as benevolent capitalists in the old Cuba, cast by Castro out of their country to exile in Miami, whereupon they started financing the good fight against the bad revolution.\nAdrian Goldsworthy: How Rome Fell: Death of a Superpower (2009, Yale University Press): A venerable topic, of course, always more so when one's own sense of superpowership is well nigh keeling over.\nAdam Gopnik: Angels and Ages: A Short Book About Darwin, Lincoln, and Modern Life (2009, Knopf): Coincidentally, both Lincoln and Darwin were born on 12 February 1809, the first link in this attempt to draw both in to a common narrative of 19th century progress.\nColin Gordon: Mapping Decline: St. Louis and the Fate of the American City (paperback, 2009, University of Pennsylvania Press): Having lived in St. Louis, I can certainly buy it as a case example for urban decline.\nRonnie Greene: Night Fire: Big Oil, Poison Air, and Margie Richard's Fight to Save Her Town (2008, Amistad): The town is Norco, LA, located in what's variously called Chemical Corridor and\/or Cancer Alley. The poison air comes from Shell Oil, one of the real big ones. Greene's a Miami Herald reporter, who gets to report for once.\nStephen P Halbrook: The Founders' Second Amendment: Origins of the Right to Bear Arms (2008, Ivan R Dee): Fundamental research into the why and wherefore of the second amendment. Argues that an individual right was seen as a way to check the abusive power of a standing army. Author previously wrote The Swiss and the Nazis: How the Alpine Republic Survived in the Shadow of the Third Reich, which is probably another brief in favor of broad gun ownership.\nHarry Helms: Top Secret Tourism: Your Travel Guide to Germ Warfare Laboratories, Clandestine Aircraft Bases and Other Places in the United States You're Not Supposed to Know About (paperback, 2007, Feral House): Not much of a travel guide, and evidently not all that complete -- e.g., no Fort Detrick, the evident source of the post-9\/11 anthrax attacks, at the very least enabled by your tax dollars.\nTom Holland: The Forge of Christendom: The End of Days and the Epic Rise of the West (2009, Doubleday): A history of Europe's 1K crisis -- the apocalyptic expectations surrounding the year 1000. Don't know how far this goes, but it certainly sets the stage for the Crusades beginning in 1095. Holland has written a couple of books on earlier history: Rubicon: The Last Years of the Roman Republic and Persian Fire: The First World Empire and the Battle for the West. I found Rubicon to be a very useful introduction to a subject I knew little of.\nThomas Homer-Dixon, ed: Carbon Shift: How the Twin Crises of Oil Depletion and Climate Change Will Define the Future (2009, Random House Canada): Smart guy, likes big questions with a lot of weight on the future. This is one of those questions, but he's just editing, pulling together six Canadian experts, including William Marsden, author of a title worth repeating: Stupid to the Last Drop: How Alberta Is Bringing Environmental Armageddon to Canada (And Doesn't Seem to Care).\nBrooks Jackson\/Kathleen Hall Jamieson: unSpun: Finding Facts in a World of Disinformation (paperback, 2007, Random House): Tough job for a short (208 pp) book, more likely to drown in examples than draw lessons beyond the usual don't believe most (or damn near anything) that you hear. Focuses on politics and advertising, pretty low lying fruit.\nFlora Jessop\/Paul T Brown: Church of Lies (2009, Jossey-Bass): On the polygamist Fundamentalist Latter Day Saints, by a woman who grew up there, broke away, and works against them.\nSteven Johnson: The Invention of Air: A Story of Science, Faith, Revolution, and the Birth of America (2008, Riverhead): On Joseph Priestley, focusing more on his political interests in emigrating to America and advising Thomas Jefferson than on his notable work in chemistry.\nFrank Levy\/Richard J Murnane: The New Division of Labor: How Computers Are Creating the Next Job Market (paperback, 2005, Princeton University Press): On the shifting shape of the job market, driven largely by the increased use of computers, and what this means for a generally ill-prepared workforce.\nAndrew Lih: The Wikipedia Revolution: How a Bunch of Nobodies Created the World's Greatest Encyclopedia (2009, Hyperion): One of the major developments in world civilization in the last ten years of so. Not quite the \"greatest story ever told,\" but along those lines.\nEugene Linden: The Winds of Change: Climate, Weather, and the Destruction of Civilizations (paperback, 2007, Simon & Schuster): Global warming book, with historical examples similar to Jared Diamond's Collapse -- Greenland, Mayan, etc.\nWilliam Lobdell: Losing My Religion: How I Lost My Faith Reporting on Religion in America -- and Found Unexpected Peace (2009, Harper Collins): Memoir, following the writer through the maze of American religion, first as someone seeking help, then as a journalist covering the beat, then finally as someone seeking help. Seems like honest confusion, and modest enlightenment.\nCody Lundin: When All Hell Breaks Loose (paperback, 2007, Gibbs Smith): A survival guide of some sort, predicated on the notion that our world is going to hell. Not sure whether it helps, but most survival guides give you plenty of reason to try to never have to use them.\nG Calvin Mackenzie\/Robert Weisbrot: The Liberal Hour: Washington and the Politics of Change in the 1960s (2008, Penguin Press): An overview history of the Kennedy and Johnson administrations in the 1960s. I think this fills in a slot in Penguin's multi-volume US history.\nJennifer Hooper McCarty\/Tim Foecke: What Really Sank the Titanic: New Forensic Discoveries (2008; paperback, 2009, Citadel): A technical mystery revisited.\nJohn McWhorter: All About the Beat: Why Hip-Hop Can't Save Black America (2008, Gotham): Of course it can't, but with plaudits from Shelby Steele and Stanley Crouch one might easily be tempted to believe the opposite. McWhorter has written several books on language which look interesting (e.g., Word on the Street: Debunking the Myth of \"Pure\" Standard English), and several books on black culture and politics which don't (e.g., Doing Our Own Thing: The Degeneration of Language and Music and Why We Should, Like, Care).\nRichard John Neuhaus: American Babylon: Notes of a Christian Exile (2009, Basic Books): Catholic theologian, died earlier this year. Had a strong hand in moving at least part of the Catholic church into alignment with the Republican right. In particular, he was often cited by Bush for his guidance on issues like stem-cell research. Given that sort of insider connection, it seems a little precious to describe himself as an exile.\nRichard E Nisbett: Intelligence and How to Get It: Why Schools and Cultures Count (2009, WW Norton): A nature\/nurture rehash, leaning strongly to the notion that good schools make all the difference when it comes to IQ.\nKaren Page\/Andrew Dornenburg: The Flavor Bible: The Essential Guide to Culinary Creativity, Based on the Wisdom of America's Most Imaginative Chefs (2008, Little Brown): The idea here is to build up a map of what ingredients enhance what flavors. Many, of course, are things that we already know about from past experience, but one might learn something.\nGregory Alonso Pirio: The African Jihad: Bin Laden's quest for the Horn of Africa (paperback, 2007, Red Sea Press): An attempt to sort out the complex political machinations in and near Somalia, especially the inevitable Jihad card, and the shadowy connections with former-Sudan resident Bin Laden.\nCharles Postel: The Populist Vision (2007; paperback, 2009, Oxford University Press): Big new history of the late 19th century populist movement.\nGuido Giacomo Preparata: Conjuring Hitler: How Britain and America Made the Third Reich (paperback, 2005, Pluto Press): I figure this argument is skewed and more than a little paranoid, but wouldn't mind seeing some exposure of US and UK business interests backing their German colleagues' support of Hitler. Multinational business interests go back a long ways -- shared class interests all the more so. Didn't work out so well in this case, which is why it's illustrative even if not typical.\nJohn Reader: Potato: A History of the Propitious Esculent (2009, Yale University Press): Domesticated in Peru some 8,000 years ago, imported to Europe in the 1500s where it had a huge demographic impact -- especially in Ireland and in Eastern Europe, which are by now inconceivable without it.\nThomas C Reed\/Danny B Stillman: The Nuclear Express: A Political History of the Bomb and Its Proliferation (2009, Zenith Press): Ambitious subject scope, probably a bit skimpy at 393 pages (cf. Richard Rhodes' three volumes, which still don't cover a lot of the smaller proliferation cases). Authors are nuke designers, which should add some technical interest.\nMarcus Reeves: Somebody Scream!: Rap Music's Rise to Prominence in the Aftershock of Black Power (paperback, 2009, Faber & Faber): Historian, tries to link put draw out the context rap artists work out of, from Grandmaster Flash to Jay-Z and Eminem.\nMelissa Rossi: What Every American Should Know About the Middle East (paperback, 2008, Plume): Author is Italian, which evidently gives her a leg up on her readers -- she's done several of these books: What Every American Should Know About Who's Really Running the World, What Every American Should Know About Europe, What Every American Should Know About the Rest of the World, What Every American Should Know About Who's Really Running America. Seems like I have one of those, although I've never really looked through it. I have a limited fascination with remedial education books, like the old Cultural Literacy books -- not so much because I'm likely to learn something as I find it interesting what other people think you should know.\nMichael Ruhlman: Ratio: The Simple Codes Behind the Craft of Everyday Cooking (2009, Scribner): Writer turned chef still writing. I'm still waiting for his The Elements of Cooking: Translating the Chef's Craft for Every Kitchen to come out in paperback. This goes deeper into one part of that: the ratios that work in recipes. Seems like a useful idea. Wonder why it's not adequately covered in the previous book.\nLisa Sanders: Every Patient Tells a Story: Medical Mysteries and the Art of Diagnosis (2009, Broadway): How doctors figure out diagnoses, and perhaps more importantly, how they screw up, and what happens when they do.\nPeter Senge: The Necessary Revolution: How Individuals and Organizations Are Working Together to Create a Sustainable World (2008, Doubleday): Senge seems to be some kind of management guru -- a previous book is called The Fifth Discipline: The Art & Practice of the Learning Organization. Has four co-authors here, listed in much smaller type: Bryan Smith, Nina Kruschwitz, Joe Laur, Sara Schley. Looks like a business primer, which means it looks like sustainability is moving up from radical concept to something someone can make money off of. That's kind of notable in its own right.\nDavid Shippy\/Mickie Phipps: The Race for a New Game Machine: Creating the Chips Inside the XBox 360 and the Playstation 3 (2009, Citadel): Reminiscent of Tracy Kidder's The Soul of a New Machine, which doesn't bring the book up to snuff -- most of the reviews I've seen aren't very promising. The technology itself could be fascinating, but the game machine culture has pretty much completely turned me off.\nAlyn Shipton: A New History of Jazz (2nd revised updated ed, paperback, 2008, Continuum): Big (804 pp) book on a big subject, originally published 2001 (an even bigger 965 pp). Original cover looks semi-familiar, but I don't see it anywhere handy.\nLee Siegel: Against the Machine: Being Human in the Age of the Electronic Mob (2008, Spiegel & Grau): A lament on how the internet affects culture and social life. Author has written Falling Upwards: Essays in Defense of the Imagination and Not Remotely Controlled: Notes on Television; also some novels.\nKeith Cameron Smith: The Top 10 Distinctions Between Millionaires and the Middle Class (2007, Ballantine): Short self-help book, 10 points in 128 pages, presumably simple enough anyone can follow it. Cheap if that's all it takes to rake in millions.\nNeil de Grasse Tyson: The Pluto Files: The Rise and Fall of America's Favorite Planet (2009, WW Norton): Astronomy writer, has several previous books. This one surveys the late, not-so-great ninth planet, its checkered history and controversy. That Americans are exceptionally fond of it is curious, I suppose.\nSteven T Wax: Kafka Comes to America: Fighting for Justice in the War on Terror: A Public Defender's Inside Account (2008, Other Press): Lawyer for several cases, including Brandon Mayfield, an Oregon lawyer who was nabbed for the Madrid train bombings based on a botched fingerprint analysis.\nPeter S Wells: Barbarians to Angels: The Dark Ages Reconsidered (2008, WW Norton): A revisionist argument on how dark the Dark Ages were, based on archaeological data, after dismissing contemporary accounts as Roman-biased.\nJenna Woginrich: Made from Scratch: Discovering the Pleasures of a Handmade Life (2008, Storey Publishing): A memoir of attempting to lead a self-sufficient life: raising food, making clothing, being satisifed with simplicity. A whole growing genre here, like William Coperthwaite: A Handmade Life: In Search of Simplicity.\nJames Wood: How Fiction Works (2008, Farrar Straus and Giroux): I hardly ever read fiction -- used to average about one book per year, but the only novel I've read post-2001 was Tom Carson's Gilligan's Wake (just couldn't resist) -- but I used to have a weakness for metafiction, ever since I discovered how much more fun it was to read Leslie Fieldler on Nathaniel Hawthorne than to read Hawthorne himself. This is getting some hype.\nPaperback reprints will wait until Part 2, which will have more political books.\nLooking Out for the Super-Rich\nMatthew Yglesias: Fiscal Responsibility: This post bummed me out as much as anything I've seen in recent weeks. Even Yglesias, framing estate tax breaks as a fiscal responsibility issue, misses the point. If people recognized the most basic point I learned as a young child -- that America is a land where each person can achieve according to their own efforts -- the necessity of high estate taxes would be common sense. America was founded in revolt against aristocracy, yet 233 years later politicians trip over each other trying to feather the nests of the born-rich. After eight years of a disastrous Republican president elected largely on his inherited name you'd think that Democrats (if that's what you call Lincoln and Bayh) would be especially alert to this. Of course, Bayh is a second generation senator, a Democrat only because he was born one, like he was born rich, dumb, and entitled. Yglesias gives us Paris Hilton as his illustration of the born-rich, but that's too kind. She at least has a sense of humor about her upbringing.\nMusic: Current count 15799 [15775] rated (+24), 767 [754] unrated (+13). Bad mood. Very frustrated. Rather not talk about it.\nEnough here to dump out, although I hardly feel like it. Been in a terrible mood, and it's affecting my writing. Actually listened to a good deal more this past week, but moved nine more records to the relisten shelf without writing down my first impressions.\nDigital Primitives: Hum Crackle & Pop: (2007-09 [2009], Hopscotch): Trio: Cooper-Moore (vocal, banjo, twinger, diddley-bow, mouth bow, flute), Assif Tsahar (tenor sax, bass clarinet), Chad Taylor (drums, m'bira, percussion). Previous album together was called Digital Primitives, so this is another band in the wake of an album. Acoustic group, with Cooper-Moore's homemade instruments definitively a primitive one. Early on Tsahar struck me as a guy who'd just screech when he ran of ideas, but the only time that happens here is when it's the right thing to do. I caught a couple of YouTube videos of Cooper-Moore, which make me realize I should revise my view of him as a hermit. He's the life of the party here, and Taylor rounds him out into a terrific rhythm section. His one vocal is a bit trite, but he no doubt means it as profound. A-\nDonny McCaslin: Declaration (2009, Sunnyside): Tenor saxophonist, you know that. I've always been impressed by his chops. He's one guy who can show up at a session and run away with it. But his albums always left me lukewarm, at least until last year's Recommended Tools, where he cut the complexity down to a bare-bones trio and just blew: my review line was, \"like he's strayed from Chris Potter's footsteps to chase after Sonny Rollins.\" Well, he's back to Potter-ville here (or Douglas-ton) with a piano-guitar quintet -- Edward Simon, Ben Monder, Scott Colley, Antonio Sanchez -- plus a brass choir on 5 of 8 songs. Fancy postbop arranging, slinky harmonies, less emphasis on sheer virtuosity. Sounded better the second play than the first, so I'll keep it open. [B+(**)]\nGeorge Colligan: Come Together (2008 [2009], Sunnyside): Piano trio, one of the most consistently impressive pianists of his generation (b. 1970), but I've yet to hear a full record I really like -- admittedly, I missed a skein of well-regarded albums on Steeplechase. Liner notes advise: \"It might take 2 listens to hear our lifetimes of musical development.\" Having played this 5 or 6 times, I'm sure it takes more. I don't have any complaints or insights. I do have a long-established pet peeve against covering Beatles songs -- maybe I know them too well as originals, or maybe they're just such protean rock they're unjazzable -- but they nail the title tune about as well as I can imagine. B+(**)\nMelissa Walker: In the Middle of It All (2009, Sunnyside): Vocalist, b. 1964, graduated from Brown, fourth album since 1997, after three on Enja. Standards, more or less: only \"Where or When\" has been done a lot; title cut is from Arthur Alexander, a soul singer who's basically a cult item; second song comes from Peter Gabriel; the one that most struck me was \"Mr. Bojangles,\" drawn out nicely with her exaggerated loops. Arranged by Clarence Penn and Christian McBride, with Adam Rogers and Keith Ganz on guitar, Aaron Goldberg on piano and (most significantly) Fender Rhodes, and most valuably Gregoire Maret on harmonica. B+(**)\nHemispheres: Crossroads (2008-09 [2009], Sunnyside): Group led by percussionist Ian Dogole, who has one previous Hemispheres album, one by Ian Dogole & Global Fusion, a couple under his own name, some earlier work in a group called Ancient Future. AMG lists him as New Age, which doesn't seem quite fair. Two solo pieces here -- one on kalimba, the other on hang -- are basic but intriguing. The other pieces are fleshed out with Sheldon Brown and Paul McCandless on various reeds\/horns, Frank Martin on piano, and Bill Douglass on bass. McCandless's presence suggests Oregon, but doubling up on the wind instruments gives us something lusher, which is not necessarily a good thing -- clarinet and English horn, piccolo and soprano sax, like that. Final cut adds Hussein Massoudi tombak and vocals on a Persian piece. For once the vocal helps concentrate and clarify. Cover is a satellite image of Istanbul straddling the Bosphorus. As good a place to start as any. B+(*)\nJim Beard: Revolutions (2005-07 [2009], Sunnyside): Full credit: With Vince Mendoza and the Metropole Orchestra. Three cuts from a 2005 session, the other 7 from 2007. Former has 54 musician credits, latter 51, about half strings in each case, most of the names strike me as Dutch. Keyboardist, b. 1960, fifth album since 1990, the first a large group on CTI, Song of the Sun. Substantial list of side credits, many on synthesizer, also as a producer. Mostly bright, fanciful, the strings neatly tucked in, the horns tame, a little extra percussion. B+(*)\nJason Marsalis: Music Update (2009, ELM): Another Marsalis brother, b. 1977, plays vibes. Third album, a quartet with piano-bass-drums. Mostly light groove pieces, a couple of which build up into something, most of which are pleasant enough. B\nEmily Jane White: Dark Undercoat (2008 [2009], Important): Singer-songwriter, AMG considers her Rock and I concur, not that she rocks very hard. Rather gloomy, in fact. Also plays guitar and piano, with bass and drums for backing, plus cello on one cut. Leaves a haunting effect; not sure of its literary merit. B+(**)\nRog\ufffdrio Bicudo\/Sean Bergin: Mixing It (2008 [2009], Pingo): Title is a misnomer: these duets don't really mix. Rather, the ex-Brazilian guitarist and ex-South African saxophonist, both now based in the Netherlands, play their own parts in each other's presence. Imagine Stan Getz and Luiz Bonfa in the studio, playing show and tell, trying to figure each other out, without the percussion and all the other stuff that smooth things over. Of course, Bergin's not as smooth as Getz, and Bicudo isn't as slick as Bonfa -- and when he sings Jobim, he reminds me of Astrud Gilberto, affectless, only clunkier, as males tend to be. Bergin's attempt to mix in a bit of Abdullah Ibrahim does little to change the focus on Brazil. Still, I find this charming. B+(**)\nEdward Simon Trio: Poesia (2008 [2009], CAM Jazz): Pianist, from Venezuela, moved to New York 1989, 8th album since 1993. Piano trio with John Patitucci on bass (acoustic and electric), Brian Blade on drums. Never impressed me much before, but I like his repeating rhythmic riffing that drives most of these pieces. Seems like fans of the late EST would get off on this. B+(***)\nJohn Abercrombie: Wait Till You See Her (2008 [2009], ECM): Guitarist, a steady producer since the early 1970s, in a quartet with Mark Feldman (violin), Thomas Morgan (bass), and Joey Baron (drums). Feldman, who's perhaps the least swinging violinist in jazz, dominates the sound, so it takes some effort to locate the guitar and note how neatly it fits in. B+(**)\nDave Rivello Ensemble: Facing the Mirror (2002 [2009], Allora): Composer, conductor, teaches at Eastman School of Music in Rochester, founded this 12-piece ensemble in 1993. Studied under Bob Brookmeyer, who wrote the liner notes here. Elaborate postbop shadings, impressive at first but turn out to be of limited interest. B\nAs If 3: Klinkklaar (2008 [2009], Casco): Dutch piano trio, pianist is Frank Van Bommel, who has a couple of previous albums since 1995. Raoul Van Der Weide plays bass, and Wim Janssen drums. Claims Mal Waldron and Misha Mengelberg as influences -- I can at least hear Waldron. Sharp work; good rhythmic sense and invention. B+(**)\nUnpacking: Found in the mail this week:\nAfghan Star (Silva Screen)\nEric Alexander: Revival of the Fittest (High Note)\nAranda (Aranda Music)\nRoni Ben-Hur: Fortuna (Motema)\nFrancesco Cafiso: Angelica (CAM Jazz)\nAmanda Carr and the Kenny Hadley Big Band: Common Thread (OMS)\nAudrey Chen\/Robert van Heumen: Abattoir (Evil Rabbit)\nGraham Dechter: Right on Time (Capri)\nDe Nazaten & James Carter: Skratyology (Strotbrock)\nJan Garbarek: Dresden (ECM, 2CD)\nBrian Groder: Groder & Greene (Latham): Oct. 1\nThe Jeff Hamilton Trio: Symbiosis (Capri)\nCapathia Jenkins\/Louis Rosen: The Ache of Possibility (Di-tone)\nBeat Kaestli: Far From Home: A Tribute to European Song (B+B): Oct. 5\nIthamara Koorax & Juarez Moreira: Bim Bom: The Complete Jo\ufffdo Gilberto Songbook (Motema)\nGianni Lenoci: Ephemeral Rhizome (Evil Rabbit)\nPablo Montagne\/Adolfo La Volpe\/Francesco Massaro\/Alessandro Tomassetti: Chaque Objet (Evil Rabbit)\nNew Niks & Artvark Saxophone Quartet: Busy Busy Busy (No Can Do)\nEnrico Pieranunzi\/Marc Johnson\/Joey Baron: Dream Dance (CAM Jazz)\nChristine Vaindirlis: Dance Mama! (Ubuntu World Music)\nCedar Walton: Voices Deep Within (High Note)\nWolter Wierbos: 3 Trombone Solos (Dolfin)\nWolter Wierbos: Deining (DolFjin)\nSunday Papers\nPicked up the newspapers this morning. The Wichita Eagle had better things in it than the New York Times. First, Richard Crowson's editorial cartoon:\nThe cartoon was also reinforced by a letter from Chris Darnell, titled \"What Choice?\":\nYour employer chooses a health insurance company. That insurance company has a list of doctors you can use, but only those in network. The insurance company tells your doctor what medicines are best for you and won't pay for those outside their formulary. It may even tell you which pharmacy you can use. The insurance company tells you which hospital you can use. Where is all this choice you think you will lose with President Obama's health care plan?\nAre you afraid of rationing of health care? An estimated 45,000 people die each year for lack of medical coverage and health care. That is rationing.\nAre you afraid we will become a socialist nation if we have affordable medical coverage available for everyone? The United Kingdom has a national health service -- unlike what we are planning here -- and everyone knows the U.K. is not socialist.\nIt just can't be moral to allow people to suffer and die because they can't afford health care. Health care for everyone is the right thing to do.\nThey also have a long piece by Les Blumenthal of McClatchy, Tanker bid rhetoric heats up in Congress. This is the $35 billion boondoggle contract to build new tankers for the Air Force, a scam that was originally cooked up by Boeing to extend the life of their obsolete 767 airliner assembly line, which has now turned into a political tussle between Boeing and Northrup, the latter the US front for Airbus. Kansas politicians have always dutifully lined up behind Boeing and its promise of 500 (originally 1000) jobs for Wichita. (I mean, where else can you get a jobs program for only $70 million per job, a feat so awesome even Republicans get stimulated.) Each side has their bought representatives -- Sen. Richard Shelby the most vocal for Northrup, while Kansas Rep. Todd Tiahrt, a Boeing employee until he was elected to Congress, is so obsessive about Boeing tankers that Bush nicknamed him Tanker Todd. On the other hand, Tiahrt's stock at Boeing seems to be dropping: recently Boeing announced that if they get the contract they may do the work somewhere else than in Wichita -- depends on where they find the political clout to land the deal. In that case the jobs payola for Wichita will probably turn out to be negative: once the Air Force decomissions its aging KC-135 tankers (and even older B-52 bombers), there will be no reason to keep Wichita's McConnell Air Force Base going. No one here seems to grasp the jobs-value of keeping old planes flying where the only skills to do that are here, versus buying a bunch of unneeded new planes that can be built and serviced somewhere else.\nStill, nobody's asking the real question, which is why do we need or want a new generation of tankers in the first place? The main thing they do is make it easier to get involved in foreign wars. You would think that a president who promised to change the way we think about war would start by changing the way he thinks about subsidizing the war machine.\nSpeaking of which, the New York Times has an op-ed by Defense Secretary Robert Gates, A Better Missile Defense for a Safer Europe. The tanker deal is small potatoes compared to missile defense, the grandaddy of all war industry scams. It has been a bad idea ever since Melvin Laird put it on the Republican agenda: insanely expensive, brazenly aggressive, and flat-out unworkable. Obama could have killed it off once and for all, but instead he merely scaled it back and tried selling that as \"smarter missile defense.\" Gates, who's done his share over the years to keep it going, puts it this way:\nThe future of missile defense in Europe is secure. This reality is contrary to what some critics have alleged about President Obama's proposed shift in America's missile-defense plans on the continent -- and it is important to understand how and why.\nHe then goes on to hype the Iran threat, at a time when the usual hawks are clamoring again for bombing Tehran. While many progressives are elated that Obama cancelled installation of missiles and radars in Poland and Czechoslovakia that Bush had planned for little purpose other than to irritate Russia, I find Obama's relatively sane plan disappointing. Strategic missile defense is one of the weakest pillars of US defense posture, a clearcut case where one can explain that the technology cannot and will not work, and that the only viable options are non-military. In playing along with this game, Obama is missing a prime opportunity to effect the sort of change he was elected for promising. Plus c'est le m\ufffdme chose, jamais change.\nMusic: Current count 15775 [15725] rated (+50), 754 [744] unrated (+10). May be a record-high rated count. Also unusual is that the unrated count rose despite the rated count. What happened was that I spent a lot of time listening to previously unlisted records on Rhapsody -- Verve's Originals, most of which barely top 30 minutes, most only getting one pass. As for real CDs, I'm in kind of a rut, having difficulty making my mind up and getting things written. Fluke week. I still need to do house things, and with Laura in Boston I should hunker down on that.\nNot a lot to report this week, but enough to bother with a post. Still trying to get some other things done, and still frustrated in how little I'm accomplishing. A few records from Rhapsody this time. They are mostly things I wanted to check out following the Downbeat critics poll post. If anyone reads this, Mary Halvorson is probably not doing herself a favor in not sending me records. On the other hand, I'm just as happy not having to find somewhere to store Christian Scott. So it goes. I expect that prospecting will remain light for the next two weeks, then I'll go into a crunch period and finish off a column that I have something like 150% of my space already filled up.\nOne side project I should note is that I've been digging through Verve's Originals reissue series, which is the successor to their LP Reproductions -- i.e., reproduce original LP order and artwork with no extras (maybe better sound), so many wind up close to 30 minutes. I've identified 138 albums in the series. I haven't seen the packaging yet -- too bad I live in a town with no record stores, but almost all are on Rhapsody. First one I noticed was Satchmo at Pasadena, which turns out to be a small part of the utterly wonderful The California Concerts 4-CD box. I thought I'd sample a few items I'd previously missed and stuff them into Recycled Goods, but I've wound up listening to most of them, even predictably bad pop albums (although thus far I've only hit 2 of 8 Roy Ayers joints). Some finds (all A-):\nLouis Armstrong: Satchmo at Pasadena (1951)\nLouis Armstrong: New Orleans Nights (1950-54)\nCount Basie: Basie Land (1963)\nMaynard Ferguson: Octet (1955)\nStan Getz: Dynasty (1971)\nKeith Jarrett: Treasure Island (1974)\nAntonio Carlos Jobim & Elis Regina: Elis & Tom (1974)\nHugh Masekela: Home Is Where the Music Is (1972)\nGerry Mulligan\/Paul Desmond: Blues in Time (1957)\nGrover Washington Jr.: Soul Box (1973)\nThe Ferguson and Washington were surprises -- I've been through all of the other Washingtons and nothing else comes close. Not listed are things I've long owned in previous editions, including nearly all of Coltrane's Impulse catalog, Duke Ellington Meets Coleman Hawkins (an all-time favorite), Gil Evans' Out of the Cool, Oliver Nelson's The Blues and the Abstract Truth, the Oscar Peterson\/Clark Terry Trio + One, Gato Barbieri's first two chapters (which I know as Latino America), Johnny Hodges' Used to Be Duke, Stan Getz's Sweet Rain, Sonny Rollins' On Impulse. A full report one of these days.\nDafnis Prieto Si o Si Quartet: Live at Jazz Standard NYC (2009, Dafnison Music): Cuban drummer, has pretty much blown everyone away since arriving in New York. There is a style of Afro-Cuban jazz marked by extreme start-stop rhythmic shifts, overlaid by other time shifts in dazzling complexity. Prieto does all that, and he's really quite amazing. His quartet tries to scale those shifts up. They're a bit less convincing, mostly because none of them can maneuver as fast as Prieto. Peter Apfelbaum plays tenor sax, soprano sax, bass melodica; Manuel Valera piano, keyboard, melodica; Charles Flores acoustic and electric bass. B+(**)\nArt Pepper: The Art History Project (1950-82 [2009], Widow's Taste, 3CD): Three discs, designated \"Pure Art (1951-1960),\" \"Hard Art (1960-1968),\" and \"Consummate Art (1972-1982).\" The gaps account for prison time, which would have been clearer had whoever put this together been better at dates: the first disc actually goes from a Stan Kenton cut in 1950 up to 1957. Another gap between 1960 and 1968 is buried in the prison-hardened second disc, and the third doesn't actually get going until 1977. Still, the eras are roughly correct. Aside from the Kenton, the first disc -- a best-of picked from a string of superb albums -- has a bright, fresh, clean sound with no extra lines or baggage, just virtuoso alto sax over impeccable west coast rhythm. The later material is more weathered and less choice. Most of the second disc comes from a previously unreleased set with pianist Frank Strazzeri -- rough stuff, Pepper fiercely determined to make up for lost time. The third disc adds a little angst to his extensively documented final period -- cf. the 16-CD Galaxy box, the 9-CD Complete Village Vanguard Sessions, scattered more\/less legit live shots -- when everything he did seemed magical. A-\nJoe Morris Quartet: Today on Earth (2009, AUM Fidelity): After several records on bass, Morris returns to his main instrument, guitar. The net effect is that he competes for lead time with alto saxophonist Jim Hobbs, each interesting in his own right, but neither runs away with the show. That's a bit of a letdown for Hobbs, who's made a big impression both with Morris on bass and in his own group, the Fully Celebrated, with Timo Shinko on bass, as he is here. B+(***)\nDarius Jones Trio: Man'ish Boy (A Raw & Beautiful Thing) (2009, AUM Fidelity): Alto saxophonist, based in Brooklyn, has previously appeared with Tanakh and Little Women, not sure in any capacity other than playing alto sax. Rounding out the trio: Cooper-Moore (piano, diddley-bo) and Rakalam Bob Moses (drums). This has been stuck indecisively in my box for several days now, neither improving nor slipping, so I want to move on. Good to hear Cooper-Moore play some piano these days, but it's mostly buried under the sax, where it may not be the best support. [B+(***)]\nYaala Ballin: Travlin' Alone (2009, Smalls): Singer, b. 1983, from Israel, based in New York, debut album. Nice voice, soft curves wrapped around songs like \"I Remember You,\" \"I Only Have Eyes for You,\" \"The Gypsy.\" Good group, including Ari Roland, Sacha Perry, and Chris Byars, who should be on the short list for singers looking for saxophone support. B+(**)\nStacy Dillard: One (2008 [2009], Smalls): Saxophonist (mostly tenor, some soprano), from Michigan, 32 (presumably b. 1976 or 1977). Website lists 4 albums since 2006, but this is the only one on a label I've heard of. Wrote all the pieces. Quintet with fender rhodes, guitar, bass, and drums -- no one I recognize. Dillard gives a bravura performance, fierce at high speeds, soulful when he slows down. B+(***)\nLed Bib: Sensible Shoes (2008 [2009], Cuneiform): English group, led by drummer Mark Holub, with two saxophones (Pete Grogan and Chris Williams, who wrote 2 of 9 pieces), keyboards (Toby McLaren), and bass (Laran Donin). Third album since 2005, the previous ones on Slam and Babel (English avant-garde labels with virtually no US presence). It's tempting to slot this has a fusion group, mostly because they're loud, sometimes melting down into chaos, but then they'll throw you something that isn't. I've played this too many times; doubt that I'll ever put it together. B+(**)\nRez Abbasi: Things to Come (2008-09 [2009], Sunnyside): Pakistani-American guitarist, did a record a few years back that I liked quite a bit, Snake Charmer. Lately he's joined Rudresh Mahanthappa's Indo-Pak Coalition, and here he expands that group to include pianist Vijay Iyer. So this should be a major album, but I'm not feeling it -- perhaps with all this talent I'm expecting something with a strong South Asian vibe and that's missing. (Note that Dan Weiss, who is a superb tabla player, is only credited with drums.) I could take the easy way out and blame it on Kiran Ahluwalia's vocals (4 of 8 tracks) -- I can think of many more cases where the wife singing bogged down a record -- but I'm not sure that's it either. Will keep it open, noting that the three principals have strong solo spots, and that it's sounding better while typing this than it did before I sat down. [B+(*)]\nThese are some even quicker notes based on downloading or streaming records. I don't have the packaging here, don't have the official hype, often don't have much information to go on. I have a couple of extra rules here: everything gets reviewed\/graded in one shot (sometimes with a second play), even when I'm still guessing on a grade; the records go into my flush file (i.e., no Jazz CG entry, unless I make an exception for an obvious dud). If\/when I get an actual copy I'll reconsider the record.\nDee Alexander: Wondrous Fascination (2006-07 [2007], no label): She won Downbeat's Rising Star Female Vocalists poll, so I figured I should check her out. This is the only thing Rhapsody has: a pop gospel album with The Christ Community Worship Team. She's not an over-the-top gospel diva -- her voice only barely emerges above the crowd. Not a lick of jazz either. Sounds awful at first, but over the course develops a humdrum routine catchiness. The record I still want to find is Wild Is the Wind (Blujazz). C- [Rhapsody]\nChristian Scott: Live at Newport (2008, Concord, CD+DVD): Cool young mainstream trumpet player, Downbeat's Rising Star, has two previous albums on Concord, neither made much of an impression on me. Sextet, with Walter Smith III on tenor, both piano and guitar as well as bass and drums. This starts out sounding funereal, and rarely picks up the place, although the rhythm is competently complex and Smith cuts a few strong solos. Can't see DVDs via Rhapsody, not that I'd want to. B [Rhapsody]\nMary Halvorson\/Jessica Pavone\/Devin Hoff\/Ches Smith: Calling All Portraits (2008, Skycap): Starts on something of a false note with a title scream, a feint toward punk or antifolk followed by a hard left into something else. Halvorson's guitar has the least presence here. Hoff's bass, on the other hand, is amped up to the point where he's the evident leader, while Pavone's violin slices through everything without the slightest hint of sweetness. Mostly odd groove music with a lot of sharp edges. Hard to say what it all means, but the bass and drums provide balance and diversity that the duo lacks. Maybe humor too. B+(***) [Rhapsody]\nMary Halvorson Trio: Dragon's Head (2008, Firehouse 12): Away from Jessica Pavone, this finally provides some sense of what Halvorson's guitar sounds like, although the answer isn't simple. Trio includes John Hebert on bass and Ches Smith on drums. As much fun as Devin Hoff was on Calling All Portraits, Hebert is a relief here, totally engaged in whatever's happening, as supportive as a bassist can be. Halvorson does a number of interesting things here, including some surprising heavy metal crunch, but mostly a lot of poking and prodding, small figures that stay far clear from ye olde bebop lines. This got a lot of poll votes last year. Seems like it is the sort of record an artist can build a reputation on. A- [Rhapsody]\nUnpacking: Found in the mail this week (and last):\nDan Aran: Breathing (Smalls)\nJeff Baker: Of Things Not Seen (OA2)\nBorah Bergman Trio: Luminescence (Tzadik)\nAnthony Braxton\/Milford Graves\/William Parker: Beyond Quantum (Tzadik)\nBug: The Gadfly (Origin)\nKarl Denson: Brother's Keeper (Shanachie)\nEldar: Virtue (Masterworks Jazz)\nKristina: Offshore Echoes (Patois): Oct. 15\nMahala Rai Banda: Ghetto Blasters (Asphalt Tango)\nPhoenix Ensemble\/Mark Lieb: Clarinet Quintets (Innova)\nQuartet San Francisco: QSF Plays Brubeck (Violin Jazz)\nRoberto Rodriguez: The First Basket (Tzadik)\nRoberto Rodriguez: Timba Talmud (Tzadik)\nAri Roland: New Music (Smalls)\nLee Shaw Trio: Blossom (ARC)\nUshio Torikai: Rest (Innova)\nSofia Tosello: Alma y Luna (Sunnyside): Oct. 6\nMyron Walden: Momentum (Demi Sound): advance, Nov. 17\nWayne Wallace Latin Jazz Quintet: \ufffdBien Bien! (Patois)\nFreddie Washington: In the Moment (RFW)\nJohn Zorn: Alhambra Love Songs (Tzadik)\nMore Health Care Books\nSome other books that I've noted in my book prospecting notes but (generally) haven't explored further. Listed alphabetically by author. A couple go beyond the politics of health care to get into the practice, but I usually drew the line short of there. Some deal with suspicious public health issues, and some of those are suspicious in their own right. Some push right-wing or status quo-ist agendas, some ideologically (e.g., Cato Institute) but most with a financial stake in their scheme. A small number of more general political books are listed where they seem to be especially relevant (e.g., Rahm Emanuel's The Plan), but not many. I've skipped over most books published before 2001, except when they seem to have historical value. There were a rash of books that appeared during 1992-94 that are presumed hopelessly dated. There was a slight uptick around 2004, and again from 2006 on when it started to look like a Democrat might be elected president in 2008 -- although more than a few of those books were meant to ward off Republican agendas like HSAs and CDHC.\nI've added notes to some where I thought helpful, but have let most explain themselves through their titles. Several books have book page links. I've eliminated all of the superfluous titles (mostly MD) on author names.\nHenry J Aaron\/Leonard E Berman, eds: Using Taxes to Reform Health Insurance: Pitfalls and Promises (paperback, 2008, Brookings Institution Press)\nJohn Abramson: Overdosed America: The Broken Promise of American Medicine (2007; paperback, 2008, Harper Perennial): Drug industry expose; there are several of these.\nCarl F Ameringer: The Health Care Revolution: From Medical Monopoly to Market Competition (2008, University of California Press)\nMarcia Angell: The Truth About the Drug Companies: How They Deceive Us and What to Do About It (paperback, 2005, Random House): Especially this one.\nTom Baker: The Medical Malpractice Myth (2005; paperback, 2007, University of Chicago Press)\nCharles Barber: Comfortably Numb: How Psychiatry Is Medicating a Nation (2008, Knopf)\nDan Beauchamp: Health Care Reform and the Battle for the Body Politic (paperback, 1996, Temple University Press)\nDonald M Berwick: Escape Fire: Designs for the Future of Health Care (2004, Wiley)\nRE Biedermann: Health Care Cure! (paperback, 2002, Wheatmark): As far as I can tell, his cure is positive thinking.\nBill Bradley: The New American Story (2007, Random House): Favors single-payer \"Medicare for all,\" then offers a voucher-based alternative.\nHoward Brody, Hooked: How Medicine's Dependence on the Pharmaceutical Industry Undermines Professional Ethics (Rowman & Littlefield)\nShannon Brownlee: Overtreated: Why Too Much Medicine Is Making Us Sicker and Poorer (2007, Bloomsbury): On my shelf; the idea that you can not only save money but also improve quality by eliminating unnecessary treatments is attractive but may prove to be hard to attain.\nGrace Budrys: Our Unsystematic Health Care System (2nd edition, 2005, Rowman & Littlefield)\nLawton R Burns: The Health Care Value Chain: Producers, Purchasers, and Providers (2002, Jossey-Bass)\nLawton Robert Burns, ed: The Business of Healthcare Innovation (paperback, 2005, Cambridge University Press)\nMichael F Cannon\/Michael D Tanner: Healthy Competition: What's Holding Back Health Care and How to Free It (paperback, 2005, Cato Institute): Nothing wrong here consumer choice in a free market can't fix.\nClayton M Christensen\/Jerome H Grossman\/Jason Hwang: The Innovator's Prescription: A Disruptive Solution for Health Care (2008, McGraw-Hill)\nLarry R Churchill: Self-Interest and Universal Health Care: Why Well-Insured Americans Should Support Coverage for Everyone (1998, Harvard University Press)\nJohn F Cogan\/R Glenn Hubbard\/Daniel P Kessler: Healthy, Wealthy, and Wise: Five Steps To A Better Health Care System (2005, American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy Research): Calls for patient empowerment (i.e., CDHC).\nJay S Cohen: Over Dose: The Case Against the Drug Companies: Prescription Drugs, Side Effects, and Your Health (2001, Tarcher)\nJonathan Cohn: Sick: The Untold Story of America's Health Care Crisis -- and the People Who Pay the Price (2007; paperback, 2008, Harper Perennial): personal case reporting.\nGregoire Coombs: The Rise and Fall of the HMO Movement: An American Health Care Revolution (2005, University of Wisconsin Press)\nGreg Critser: Generation Rx: How Prescription Drugs Are Altering American Lives, Minds, and Bodies (2004; paperback, 2007, Mariner Books)\nDavid M Cutler: Your Money or Your Life: Strong Medicine for America's Health Care System (paperback, 2005, Oxford University Press)\nNorman Daniels: Just Health Care (1985, Cambridge University Press)\nTom Daschle: Critical: What We Can Do About the Health-Care Crisis (2008, Thomas Dunne; paperback, 2009, St Martin's Griffin): not much when you have lobbyists like Daschle cutting insider deals.\nGregory Dattilo\/David Racer: Your Health Matters: What You Need to Know About US Health Care (2006, Alethos): From an insurance exec.\nMike Davis: The Monster at Our Door: The Global Threat of the Avian Flu (2005; paperback, 2006, Holt)\nHoward Dean: Howard Dean's Prescription for Real Healthcare Reform: How We Can Achieve Affordable Medical Care for Every American and Make Our Jobs Safer (paperback, 2009, Chelsea Green): Or, why Obama didn't offer the most visible Democratic MD in the country a job.\nRichard DeGrandpre: The Cult of Pharmacology: How America Became the World's Most Troubled Drug Culture (2006, Duke University Press)\nAlan Derickson: Health Security for All: Dreams of Universal Health Care in America (2005, Johns Hopkins University Press)\nAdam F Dorin: Jihad and American Medicine: Thinking Like a Terrorist to Anticipate Attacks Via Our Health System (2007, Greenwood): Lots of bad things that could happen; no reason to link them to Jihad.\nDavid Dranove: Code Red: An Economist Explains How to Revive the Healthcare System Without Destroying It (2008, Princeton University Press)\nCarl Elliott: Better Than Well: American Medicine Meets the American Dream (paperback, 2004, WW Norton)\nRahm Emanuel\/Bruce Reed: The Plan: Big Ideas for Change in America (2006; paperback, 2009, Public Affairs)\nMadelon Lubin Finkel: Truth, Lies, and Public Health: How We Are Affected When Science and Politics Collide (2007, Greenwood): AIDS, contraception, stem cell research, marijuana as medicine, breast implants, obesity, vaccination, etc.\nLeonard M Fleck: Just Caring: Health Care Rationing and Democracy (2009, Oxford University Press): If you have to ration (and to some extent you do), how do you do it ethically?\nSherman Folland\/Allen Goodman\/Miron Stano: The Economics of Health and Health Care (6th Edition, 2009, Prentice-Hall): At $168, priced like its subject matter.\nMeredith Fort\/Mary Ann Mercer\/Oscar Gish, eds: Sickness and Wealth: The Corporate Assault on Global Health (paperback, 2004, South End Press)\nPhilip J Funigiello: Chronic Politics: Health Care Security from FDR to George W Bush (2005, University Press of Kansas)\nLaurie Garrett: Betrayal of Trust: The Collapse of Global Public Health (2000; paperback, 2001, Hyperion)\nArthur Garson\/Carolyn L Engelhard: Health Care Half Truths: Too Many Myths, Not Enough Reality (2007, Rowman & Littlefield)\nAtul Gawande: Complications: A Surgeon's Notes on an Imperfect Science (2002; paperback, 2003, Picador): Notes on the practice of surgery; has a useful discussion of malpractice issues.\nAtul Gawande: Better: A Surgeon's Notes on Performance (2007; paperback, 2008, Picador)\nJohn Geyman: Falling Through the Safety Net: Americans Without Health Insurance (paperback, 2003, Common Courage Press)\nJohn P Geyman: The Corporate Transformation of Health Care: Can the Public Interest Still Be Served? (paperback, 2004, Springer)\nJohn Geyman: Shredding the Social Contract: The Privatization of Medicare (paperback, 2006, Common Courage Press)\nJohn Geyman\/Marcia Angell: The Corrosion of Medicine: Can the Profession Reclaim Its Moral Legacy? (paperback, 2007, Common Courage Press)\nJohn Geyman: Do Not Resuscitate: Why the Health Insurance Industry is Dying, and How We Must Replace It (paperback, 2009, Common Courage Press)\nSusan Giaimo: Markets and Medicine: The Politics of Health Care Reform in Britain, Germany, and the United States (2002, University of Michigan Press)\nJulio Gonzalez: Health Care Reform: The Truth (2009, Aragon): Anti \"Democrat agenda\"; hint: only right-wingers label their books \"The Truth.\"\nJohn C Goodman\/Gerald L Musgrave\/Devon M Herrick: Lives at Risk (paperback, 2004, Rowman & Littlefield): Anti-single-payer hysteria.\nMerrill Goozner: The $800 Million Pill: The Truth Behind the Cost of New Drugs (2004; paperback, 2005, University of California Press)\nColin Gordon: Dead on Arrival: The Politics of Health Care in Twentieth-Century America (2003, Princeton University Press)\nPeter Gosselin: High Wire: The Precarious Financial Lives of American Families (2008; paperback, 2009, Basic Books): Needless to say, health insurance (or lack thereof) plays a big role.\nDavid Gratzer, The Cure: How Capitalism Can Save American Health Care (paperback, 2008, Encounter Books): Also has a book on how to wreck Canada's health care system.\nKatharine Greider: The Big Fix: How The Pharmaceutical Industry Rips Off American Consumers (paperback, 2003, Public Affairs)\nJerome Groopman, How Doctors Think (2007; paperback, 2008, Houghton Mifflin)\nRobert Gumbiner: Curing Our Sick Health Care System: A Solution to America's Health Care Crisis (paperback, 2006, Author House): Looks like \"Medicare for all.\"\nJacob S Hacker: The Road to Nowhere: The Genesis of President Clinton's Plan for Health Security (1998; paperback, 1999, Princeton University Press): One of the main books on the Clinton fiasco.\nJacob S Hacker, The Great Risk Shift: The Assault on American Jobs, Families, Health Care, and Retirement and How You Can Fight Back (2007; paperback, 2008, Oxford University Press): a general book where, again, health care costs loom large.\nJacob S Hacker, ed: Health at Risk: America's Ailing Health System -- and How to Heal It (paperback, 2008, Columbia University Press)\nNortin M Hadler: The Last Well Person: How to Stay Well Despite the Health-Care System (2004, McGill-Queen's University Press)\nNortin M Hadler: Worried Sick: A Prescription for Health in an Overtreated America (2008, University of North Carolina Press)\nGeorge C Halvorson\/George J Isham: Epidemic of Care: A Call for Safer, Better, and More Accountable Health Care (2003, Wiley)\nGeorge C Halvorson: Health Care Reform Now!: A Prescription for Change (2007, Jossey-Bass)\nGeorge C Halvorson: Health Care Will Not Reform Itself: A User's Guide to Refocusing and Reforming American Health Care (2009, Productivity Press): Kaiser Permanente CEO.\nMark J Hanson\/Daniel Callahan: The Goals of Medicine: The Forgotten Issues in Health Care Reform (paperback, 2001, Georgetown University Press)\nFran Hawthorne: Inside the FDA: The Business and Politics Behind the Drugs We Take and the Food We Eat (2005, Wiley)\nDavid Healy: Let Them Eat Prozac: The Unhealthy Relationship Between the Pharmaceutical Industry and Depression (paperback, 2006, NYU Press)\nDavid Hemenway: Private Guns, Public Health (paperback, 2006, University of Michigan Press)\nRegina Herzlinger: Market-Driven Health Care: Who Wins, Who Loses in the Transformation of America's Largest Service Industry (paperback, 1999, Basic Books): Harvard Business School prof, sees insurance as the problem for distorting prices; uses eyewear as an example of how an effective market-driven system would work.\nRegina Herzlinger, Who Killed Health Care? America's $2 Trillion Medical Problem -- and the Consumer-Driven Cure (2007, McGraw-Hill)\nPhilip J Hilts: Protecting America's Health: The FDA, Business, and One Hundred Years of Regulation (2002; paperback, 2004, University of North Carolina Press)\nDavid Himmelstein\/Steffie Woolhandler: Bleeding the Patient: The Consequences of Corporate Health Care (paperback, 2001, Common Courage Press)\nStephen SS Hyde: Cured! The Insider's Handbook for Health Care Reform (paperback, 2009, HobNob): Perfect markets can fix anything.\nIcon Group International: Health Care Reform: Webster's Timeline History, 1945-2007 (paperback, 2009, Icon Group)\nHaynes Johnson\/David S Broder: The System: The American Way of Politics at the Breaking Point (1996, Little Brown; paperback, 1997, Back Bay Books): History of Clinton's health care fiasco.\nTimothy Stoltzfus Jost: Health Care at Risk: A Critique of the Consumer-Driven Movement (paperback, 2007, Duke University Press): Abbreviated CDHC, not that any actual consumers are driving it.\nMartin Kantor: Uncle Sam's Shame: Inside Our Broken Veterans Administration (2008, Greenwood): Don't know how this squares with other reports that the VA system is actually pretty good.\nJerome P Kassirer: On the Take: How Medicine's Complicity with Big Business Can Endanger Your Health (paperback, 2005, Oxford University Press)\nJoel M Kauffman: Malignant Medical Myths: Why Medical Treatment Causes 200,000 Deaths in the USA Each Year, and How to Protect Yourself (paperback, 2006, Infinity)\nSharon R Kaufman: And a Time to Die: How American Hospitals Shape the End of Life (2005, Scribner)\nIchiro Kawachi\/Bruce P Kennedy: The Health of Nations: Why Inequality is Harmful to Your Health (paperback, 2006, New Press)\nJD Kleinke: Oxymorons: The Myth of a US Health Care System (2001, Wiley): Another CDHC scheme, based on eliminating employer groups.\nArnold Kling: Crisis of Abundance: Rethinking How We Pay for Health Care (paperback, 2006, Cato Institute)\nLaurence J Kotlikoff: Healthcare Fix: Universal Insurance for All Americans (2007, MIT Press): Mandatory private insurance with vouchers.\nRichard D Lamm: The Brave New World of Health Care (paperback, 2003, Fulcrum): Former Colorado governor; if I recall correctly, big into rationing and death panels.\nRichard D Lamm\/Robert H Blank: Condition Critical: A New Moral Vision for Health Care (paperback, 2007, Fulcrum)\nMarie L Lassey\/William R Lassey\/Martin J Jinks: Health Care Systems Around the World: Characteristics, Issues, Reforms (paperback, 1996, Prentice Hall)\nJacky Law: Big Pharma: Exposing the Global Healthcare Agenda (paperback, 2006, Basic Books)\nEvan S Levine: What Your Doctor Won't (or Can't) Tell You: The Failures of American Medicine -- and How to Avoid Becoming a Statistic (paperback, 2005, Berkley Trade)\nRobert Arthur Levine: Shock Therapy for the American Health Care System: Why Comprehensive Reform Is Needed (2009, Praeger)\nHarold S Luft: Total Cure: The Antidote to the Health Care Crisis (2008, Harvard University Press): Pushes something called \"SecureChoice,\" which looks like single-payer for big ticket items (e.g., hospital stays) with CDHC for small change and a cut for the insurance companies for processing checks.\nJoanne Lynn: Sick To Death and Not Going to Take It Anymore!: Reforming Health Care for the Last Years of Life (2004, University of California Press)\nMaggie Mahar: Money-Driven Medicine: The Real Reason Health Care Costs So Much (2006, Collins): Looks like one of the more systematic analyses; on my shelf.\nTheodore R Marmor: The Politics Of Medicare (2nd edition, paperback, 2000, Transaction)\nTR Marmor: Fads, Fallacies and Foolishness in Medical Care Management and Policy (2007, World Scientific)\nRick Mayes: Universal Coverage: The Elusive Quest for National Health Insurance (paperback, 2005, University of Michigan Press)\nDavid Mechanic, ed: Policy Challenges in Modern Health Care (paperback, 2005, Rutgers University Press)\nIvan J Miller: Balanced Choice: A Common Sense Cure for the US Health Care Systems (paperback, 2006, Author House): sort of a single-payer base with wildly diverging copays depending on provider choices.\nMatthew Miller: The 2% Solution: Fixing America's Problems in Ways Liberals and Conservatives Can Love (paperback, 2005, Perseus)\nJames A Morone\/Lawrence R Jacobs, eds: Healthy, Wealthy, & Fair: Health Care and the Good Society (2005, Oxford University Press)\nRay Moynihan\/Alan Cassels: Selling Sickness: How the World's Biggest Pharmaceutical Companies Are Turning Us All into Patients (paperbck, 2006, Nation Books)\nRay Moynihan\/Melissa Sweet: How Patients Should Think: 10 Questions on How to Make Better Decisions about Drugs, Tests, and Treatment (paperback, 2009, Pegasus)\nRudolph Mueller: As Sick As It Gets: The Shocking Reality of America's Healthcare, A Diagnosis and Treatment Plan (2001, Olin Frederick)\nDavid B Nash\/Neil L Goldfarb, eds: Quality Solution: The Stakeholder's Guide to Improving Health Care (paperback, 2006, Jones & Bartlett)\nVicente Navarro: The Politics of Health Policy: The US Reforms, 1980-1994 (1994, Wiley): Reagan, Bush, Clinton, if you can call them reformers.\nBarack Obama: The Plan: Barack Obama's Promise to America and His Plan for the Economy, Iraq, Healthcare, and More (paperback, 2009, Pacific)\nMary O'Brien\/Martha Livingston, eds: 10 Excellent Reasons for National Health Care (paperback, 2008, New Press)\nRobert Ohsfeldt\/John E Schneider: The Business of Health (paperback, 2006, American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy Research)\nLawrence J O'Brien: Bad Medicine: How the American Medical Establishment Is Ruining Our Healthcare System (1999, Prometheus): Focuses on physician mindsets.\nOliver S Owen: Doctors, Dollars and Death: Bad Medicine in America (1994, Warren H Green)\nKant Patel\/Mark Rushefsky: Health Care Politics and Policy in America (3rd edition, paperback, 2006, ME Sharpe)\nKant Patel\/Mark E Rushefsky: Health Care in America: Separate and Unequal (paperback, 2008, ME Sharpe)\nMelody Petersen: Our Daily Meds: How the Pharmaceutical Companies Transformed Themselves into Slick Marketing Machines and Hooked the Nation on Prescription Drugs (2008; paperback, 2009, Picador)\nMichael E Porter\/Elizabeth Olmsted Teisberg: Redefining Health Care: Creating Value-Based Competition on Results (2006, Harvard Business Press)\nR Lee Prescott: Barack Obama's Plan to Socialize America and Destroy Capitalism (paperback, 2009, Madrona Books)\nTR Reid: The Healing of America: A Global Quest for Better, Cheaper, and Fairer Health Care (2009, Penguin Press): Compares US health care to other systems all around the world.\nMarc Roberts\/William Hsiao\/Peter Berman\/Michael Reich: Getting Health Reform Right: A Guide to Improving Performance and Equity (paperback, 2008, Oxford University Press)\nJ Patrick Rooney\/Dan Perrin: America's Health Care Crisis Solved: Money-Saving Solutions, Coverage for Everyone (2008, Wiley): HSA pushers; you didn't actually think they had a solution, now did you?\nPeter Rost: The Whistleblower: Confessions of a Healthcare Hitman (paperback, 2006, Soft Skull Press)\nDavid J Rothman\/Sheila M Rothman, Trust Is Not Enough: Bringing Human Rights to Medicine (2006, New York Review Books)\nMark E Rushefsky\/Kant Patel: Politics, Power and Policy Making: The Case of Health Care Reform in the 1990s (paperback, 1998, ME Sharpe)\nJessica Snyder Sachs: Good Germs, Bad Germs: Health and Survival in a Bacterial World (paperback, 2008, Hill & Wang)\nLisa Sanders: Every Patient Tells a Story: Medical Mysteries and the Art of Diagnosis (2009, Broadway)\nLen Saputo\/Byron Belitsos: A Return to Healing: Radical Health Care Reform and the Future of Medicine (2009, Origin Press): Pushes something called \"Health Medicine\" which doesn't sound like medicine at all.\nStuart O Schweitzer: Pharmaceutical Economics and Policy (2006, Oxford University Press)\nKaren Seccombe\/Kim A Hoffman: Just Don't Get Sick: Access to Health Care in the Aftermath of Welfare Reform (paperback, 2007, Rutgers University Press)\nSaul William Seidman: Trillion Dollar Scam: Exploding Health Care Fraud (paperback, 2008, Universal)\nVirginia A Sharpe, ed: Accountability: Patient Safety and Policy Reform (2004, Georgetown University Press): Figures 98,000 Americans die each year due to medical error; wonders why.\nGeorge P Shultz\/John B Shoven: Putting Our House in Order: A Guide to Social Security and Health Care Reform (2008, WW Norton): Another GOP complaint about poor people living too long.\nTheda Skocpol: Boomerang: Health Care Reform and the Turn Against Government (2nd edition, paperback, 1997, WW Norton): The sinking of Clinton's health care agenda.\nDon Sloan: Practicing Medicine Without a License! The Corporate Takeover of Healthcare in America (paperback, 2006, White Cloud Press): Single-payer, universal care, damn the corporations.\nSusan Smith: Sick and Tired of Being Sick and Tired: Black Women's Health Activism in America, 1890-1950 (paperback, 1995, University of Pennsylvania Press)\nBarbara J Sowada: Call to Be Whole: The Fundamentals of Health Care Reform (2003, Greenwood)\nPaul Starr: The Social Transformation of American Medicine: The Rise of a Sovereign Profession and the Making of a Vast Industry (1983; paperback, 1984, Basic Books): Pulitzer Prize-winning history of medical profession in US; although old, its conclusion about the profit-driven corruption of the profession has only become more true; I have a copy on the shelf.\nRosemary A Stevens\/Charles E Rosenberg\/Lawton R Burns, eds: History and Health Policy in the United States: Putting the Past Back In (paperback, 2006, Rutgers University Press)\nKip Sullivan: The Health Care Mess: How We Got Into It and How We'll Get Out of It (paperback, 2006, Author House)\nCass R Sunstein: The Second Bill of Rights: FDR's Unfinished Revolution -- and Why We Need It More Than Ever (2004; paperback, 2006, Basic Books): On legal issues surrounding a right to universal health care.\nKeith Syrett: Law, Legitimacy and the Rationing of Health Care: A Contextual and Comparative Perspective (paperback, 2007, Cambridge University Press)\nKen Terry: Rx for Health Care Reform (paperback, 2007, Vanderbilt University Press): Single-payer, PGPs, pretty much seconds Relman.\nRichard H Thaler\/Cass R Sunstein: Nudge: Improving Decisions About Health, Wealth, and Happiness (2008; Yale University Press; paperback, 2009, Penguin Press): Makes a science of manipulating people by architecting options; both authors are prominent Obama advisers.\nWerner Troesken, The Great Lead Water Pipe Disaster (MIT Press)\nNeil Vidmar: Medical Malpractice and the American Jury: Confronting the Myths About Jury Incompetence, Deep Pockets, and Outrageous Damage Awards (paperback, 1997, University of Michigan Press)\nHoward Waitzkin: At the Front Lines of Medicine: How the Health Care System Alienates Doctors and Mistreats Patients . . . and What We Can Do About It (2001, Rowman & Littlefield)\nAndrew Weil: Why Our Health Matters: A Vision of Medicine That Can Transform Our Future (2009, Penguin)\nJoel S Weissman\/Arnold M Epstein: Falling Through the Safety Net: Insurance Status and Access to Health Care (paperback, 2004, Beard Books)\nSusan Wicklund: This Common Secret: My Journey as an Abortion Doctor (2007, Public Affairs)\nRichard Wilkinson: The Impact of Inequality: How to Make Sick Societies Healthier (paperback, 2006, New Press): Broader than just health care.\nRichard Wilkinson\/Kate Pickett: The Spirit Level: Why Greater Equality Makes Societies Stronger (2009, Bloomsbury) [Dec. 22]\nThe more I look, the more such books I find, although many of them seem outside the bounds of good taste or immediate relevance. Selecting a short reading list is impossible. I have only read 3 of these (the Bradley and Hacker links, and the first Atul Gawande), plus 7 of the 9 books I reported on yesterday (1 link was based on a review, one more on an excerpt). And I have a few more books on hand if\/when I get time for them: Brownlee, Mahar, Starr, the second Gawande, Groopman; and I have Kawachi\/Kennedy and the first Wilkinson on order. Reid's new book looks promising, and Rothman is a historian I've long admired tackling an important subject. Hardly makes me an expert, but it does suffice to cover much of the story. It also helps that I've read quite a bit of the background history and theory; also that I have more personal experience that I really want to think about. I've been thinking that health care would make a good subject for a case analysis in my book on how to think about public policy. The exercise of dredging up all these books makes me realize that there's an even bigger gap here for a book that can triangulate between the practice of health care, the business and politics around it, the social and philosophical concerns of patients, and the technology. Will have to think more about that.\nHealth Care Books\nI overheard most of Obama's health care speech the other night. I usually duck political speeches, but it came on during a break in the music, and I wasn't much enjoying the music. Seems like he made the basic case clearly, although he didn't go very deep, in large part because he's not trying to fix very much. I heard one peculiar round of boos, but didn't catch what occasioned it -- maybe that Rep. Joe Wilson flap. And I heard three or four more boos, clearly coming from Laura in the TV room. I agree with her that the only way to actually fix the system is to wring the profit incentives out of it and to restore a professional ethic of care giving, and that the first step should be to institute single-payer insurance. Obama's credentials as a progressive and for that matter his reputation as someone with a grip on reality were tarnished by his eagerness to make light of single-payer. He also came up short on two other key points: one is whether government can run programs that serve the people, which is really a key article of faith for anyone who professes belief in democracy; the other is deficits question, where the right answer is: we'll spend what we need to spend to provide everyone with quality health care, and if that's more than is in the current budget we'll raise taxes to cover it. But then, as I said, Obama wasn't trying to fix very much. And if he manages to make it possible for someone like me who can afford to buy health insurance but can't find any insurance company willing to sell me a policy, I at least will be pleased. On the other hand, lots of other people will remain disappointed. One thing for sure is that Obama won't be the last president to attempt to reform the health care system. Even if he delivers what he's promised, he'll leave plenty more to be done.\nOver the last few weeks, I read three health care books I found at the library. I've read more over the last few years, and have more on tap. The books are:\nEzekiel J Emanuel: Healthcare, Guaranteed: A Simple, Secure Solution for America (paperback, 2008, Public Affairs): The perscription here is for a regulated private insurance system, allegedly because people want choices, but then goes on to expect big changes in the provider segment -- a much higher bar to reform than simply dropping private insurers no one likes anyway. Emanuel is Rahm Emanuel's brother, which may be one reason Obama leans in this direction, but even Emanuel sees bigger problems and goes further to fix them than Obama does.\nJill Quadagno: One Nation Uninsured: Why the US Has No National Health Insurance (2005, Oxford University Press). This is a good full range history of political efforts to reform health insurance going back to the progressive era before World War I. One consistent thread is how business interests have played decisive roles each step along the way -- even Medicare was slanted in favor of special interests, and did much to vastly increase growth in spending and costs. The reform section at the end is weak, but the historical survey is essential.\nArnold S Relman: A Second Opinion: Rescuing America's Health Care (2007, Public Affairs). Probably the best policy book I've seen. At least Relman gets the essential contradiction between profit-seeking and quality care. He favors both single-payer financing and a major reorganization of medical care in favor of large, non-profit PGP groups. The latter may seem like a radical idea, but there are several good examples already established (e.g., Kaiser-Permanente) and they have superior results for lower costs. One weakness is that he doesn't get into pharmaceutical and technology companies.\nSome older books that I read and commented on earlier:\nDonald L Barlett\/James B Steele: Critical Condition: How Health Care in America Became Big Business -- and Bad Medicine (2004, Doubleday): Long on case histories, a\/k\/a horror stories. My note has more about Bush's \"ownership society\" plots.\nRobert H LeBow: Health Care Meltdown: Confronting the Myths and Fixing Our Failing System (2003, Alan C Hood): More convincing stories of failure; more sensible but cautious steps to help out.\nPhillip Longman: Best Care Anywhere: Why VA Health Care Is Better Than Yours (paperback, 2007, Polipoint Press): A report on the VA system, the closest thing the US has to a fully socialized government run system, also a remarkably effective one.\nDavid Mechanic: The Truth About Health Care: Why Reform Is Not Working in America (2006, Rutgers University Press): Another useful survey of the manifest problems with cautious recommendations.\nJulius B Richmond\/Rashi Fein: The Health Care Mess: How We Got Into It and What It Will Take to Get Out (2005, Harvard University Press): Jimmy Carter's Surgeon General surveys the current situation, registers his opinion that single-payer insurance would be the right fix, then offers an alternative that closely matches Kerry's 2004 campaign platform.\nSusan Sered\/Rushika Fernandopulle: Uninsured in America: Life and Death in the Land of Opportunity (paperback, 2006, University of California Press): My book note here mostly derives from a Malcolm Gladwell review that takes off from the book to provide a superb summary of the issue (see quote below).\nMalcolm Gladwell: The Moral-Hazard Myth. An article published in 2005, in part a review of the Uninsured in America book cited above. When I originally posted a quote from the article, I didn't bother tracking down the URL, but now I've found the piece online. Part of the quote deserves reiteration (the only thing that has dated it is that the costs are even more outrageous now):\nOne of the great mysteries of political life in the United States is why Americans are so devoted to their health-care system. Six times in the past century -- during the First World War, during the Depression, during the Truman and Johnson Administrations, in the Senate in the nineteen-seventies, and during the Clinton years -- efforts have been made to introduce some kind of universal health insurance, and each time the efforts have been rejected. Instead, the United States has opted for a makeshift system of increasing complexity and dysfunction. Americans spend $5,267 per capita on health care every year, almost two and half times the industrialized world's median of $2,193; the extra spending comes to hundreds of billions of dollars a year. What does that extra spending buy us? Americans have fewer doctors per capita than most Western countries. We go to the doctor less than people in other Western countries. We get admitted to the hospital less frequently than people in other Western countries. We are less satisfied with our health care than our counterparts in other countries. American life expectancy is lower than the Western average. Childhood-immunization rates in the United States are lower than average. Infant-mortality rates are in the nineteenth percentile of industrialized nations. Doctors here perform more high-end medical procedures, such as coronary angioplasties, than in other countries, but most of the wealthier Western countries have more CT scanners than the United States does, and Switzerland, Japan, Austria, and Finland have more MRI machines per capita. Nor is our system more efficient. The United States spends more than a thousand dollars per capita per year -- or close to four hundred billion dollars -- on health-care-related paperwork and administration, whereas Canada, for example, spends only about three hundred dollars per capita. And, of course, every other country in the industrialized world insures all its citizens; despite those extra hundreds of billions of dollars we spend each year, we leave forty-five million people without any insurance. A country that displays an almost ruthless commitment to efficiency and performance in every aspect of its economy -- a country that switched to Japanese cars the moment they were more reliable, and to Chinese T-shirts the moment they were five cents cheaper -- has loyally stuck with a health-care system that leaves its citizenry pulling out their teeth with pliers.\nI started assembling a list of miscellaneous books related to health care policy issues, starting with my previous book prospecting blogs. Wound up with a pretty long list, which probably needs a few more notes, so I decided to hold it back. Tomorrow, maybe.\nWall of Shame\nSeptember 11 kind of snuck up on me unawares this year. That seems like a good thing: after seven-plus years of Bush playing it up as carte blanche for warmongering, it's finally succumbing to a decent burial in history, where it will quickly be forgotten -- like almost everything else in American history. I'm not necessarily in favor of forgetting history, but it beats misremembering it for malign purposes, which is about all there was to the official 9\/11 legacy. No one at the time was allowed to suggest that the US might have done something to have provoked the attack. Susan Sontag was villified for as much as suggesting that Bush's characterization of the attackers as \"cowardly\" wasn't quite correct. Since then the US has used 9\/11 to rationalize war after war, resulting in thousands of muslims killed from Somalia to Pakistan's frontier territories. So forgetting the initial pain seems like a good first step toward dismantling the reign of terror that the US subsequently instituted.\nI was reminded of this recently in an odd passage from Tony Horwitz's A Voyage Long and Strange: On the Trail of Vikings, Conquistadors, Lost Colonists, and Other Adventures in Early America. His research brought Horwitz to Santo Domingo, where he toured the Faro, a museum and lighthouse built to commemorate the 500th anniversary of Columbus's New World discovery (pp. 82-83).\nThe Faro had been intended to honor not only Columbus, but also the global network he helped create: a monument, its builders proclaimed, to world peace. So Dominicans had set aside space -- immensities of space -- for countries from around the world to put up national displays, rather in the manner of an old-time world exposition.\nThe first room we'd visited was Spain's. Next was Japan's, which displayed samurai armor and a picture of a golden pagoda. Most nations followed this model, exhibiting proud emblems of their history and culture. China: calligraphy and Ming vases. Russia: a samovar and a set of Matryoshka nesting dolls. And so on through the continents until we reached the Americas. Guatemala displayed a Mayan vase, Ecuador a set of twenty-five-hundred-year-old bowls that Leopoldo said were worth millions of dollars. As we toured room after room, I began to wonder how my own country would present itself in this ersatz United Nations.\nWe went through another door and there it was, spanning two walls. On one hung a few small photographs of July 4 celebrations: fireworks and flag waving. The otehr wall, much more prominent, was covered in poster-sized blowups of newspaper front pages. All were dated September 12, 2001, and bore images of the previous day's attack on New York's Twin Towers.\n\"DAY OF TERROR,\" read the hugely enlarged headline from the New Hampshire concord Monitor.\n\"HOW MANY DEAD?\" (Arkansas Democrat-Gazette).\n\"OUT NATION SAW EVIL\" (Raleigh News and Observer).\n\"WAR AT HOME\" (Dallas Morning News).\nNo other items were displayed. Registering the shock on my face, Leopoldo shook his head sympathetically. \"I am so sorry,\" he said. \"You must think of it every day.\"\nWhat I felt at that moment wasn't sorrow for the 9\/11 victims, but mortification. Tiny Ecuador gave precious pottery as a token of its heritage. My nation, the hemisphere's richest, offered only this: Share our fear and feel our pain. In a venue designed to promote global amity and understanding, the United States chose to emphasize how divided and troubled the world remained. It was a minor thing, really, a display in a little-visited Dominican museum. But still, the exhibit rankled: my own small wall of shame.\nThe \"wall of shame\" refers to a wall built to shield visitors to the Faro from catching a glimpse of Santo Domingo's slums. But the wall of 9\/11 does something different. It exposes the demented underside of the American psyche. It shows the world that we are incapable of showing concern for anyone else. Only one other country wears its scars so prominently on its sleeve, and that's Israel -- one of the things that binds the two countries together. But even Israel softens their PR a bit, showing beaches and oranges along with ancient ruins. Or so I'd guess. Horwitz doesn't mention an Israeli exhibit at the Faro.\nSmalls Consumer Guide\nOpening the mail, I glanced at the hype sheet in one package, and found myself reading a desperate cry for help. From Luke Kaven, at Smalls Records:\nSeptember 2009 finds the label surviving, but just barely. The state of the international jazz record market has reached a critical state where we feel that independent jazz record labels can no longer be run according to a traditional for-profit formula. New ideas, and new sources of funding will have to be found in order to survive. [ . . . ] The sad thing is that those of us who perform the mundane tasks cannot afford to sacrifice any further for the artistic well being of others, and that expenses are likely to be passed back to the musician. Feel free to offer your suggestions for how we might survive the next year.\nNow, I'm in no position to audit Smalls Records or any other label. I do know that the number of small labels like Smalls has actually grown since the mid-1990s, as has the number of working jazz musicians. I don't doubt that most are marginal as businesses, fueled more by passion for the art than greed. At least some are subsidized by other jobs. But when I look at the bottom line for my little writing business, Kaven's letter strikes me as whiney. Still, it's worth noting that the forty-some records Smalls has released since 2004 include quite a few gems and only one dud I'm aware of, and that most of these records would never have been released but for the efforts of Kaven. The most obvious example is Frank Hewitt, a pianist who died in 2002 with nothing under his name. Kaven's released five albums of old Hewitt tapes, all pretty good. He coaxed Teddy Charles back into the studio after a 50-year absence. He released a couple of records by a saxophonist who immediately left New York for the greener pastures of Armenia. Again, there are other labels doing the same sorts of things. If Kaven has a handicap it's that he focuses on the subtlest details of mainstream postbop, territory that most others have beat to death. On the other hand, anyone with a taste for 1950s bebop, which is still the mother lode of jazz (other claims from New Orleans to Norway notwithstanding) will be comfortable here.\nAnyhow, one thing I can do is to pull out the Jazz Consumer Guide archive of Smalls Records. Since July 2004 Smalls has placed five records in the A-section, including one pick hit (Chris Byars: Photos in Black, White and Gray), plus two Honorable Mentions. Below you'll find all of them plus a bit more: Zaid Nasser and Fat Cat Big Band have two records each that didn't make my space cut last time, so are planned for the next Jazz CG. I've also included the \"off list\": records I've prospected but haven't yet reviewed in Jazz Consumer Guide.\nOmer Avital: The Ancient Art of Giving (Smalls) The second installment in Avital's archives, Room to Grow, starts to make the case for the Israeli bassist as a catalyst for cutting edge postbop in the late '90s, but this is the album where the payoff comes clear. His quintet is structured for hard bop, but he lets the rhythm slosh around, and once they get warmed up, Mark Turner's tenor sax and Avishai Cohen's trumpet, break loose. A-\nChris Byars: Photos in Black, White and Gray (Smalls) Referencing Gigi Gryce's alto sax and Lucky Thompson's tenor, Byars finds new niches in bebop, picking up threads from the 1950s that got pummeled by hard bop, discarded altogether by the avant-garde, then buried under whatever passes for postbop these days. Much as bebop developed underground in places like Minton's where musicians gathered to play for each other, the same dynamic developed at Smalls in the '90s, connecting a new generation to unreconstructed veterans like Frank Hewitt and through them to the foundations of modern jazz. Tapping into the process, Byars sounds fresh even working in such a well-worn form. A-\nFrank Hewitt: We Loved You (2001, Smalls) Hewitt was one of countless guys who spent their lives playing in obscure dives, never lucking or bulling into the spotlight. For nine years up to his death in 2002 he worked and sometimes lived at Smalls, an after-hours club in NYC, garnering fans like Luke Kaven, who founded this label to right the wrong that Hewitt had never released a record. It's easy enough to guess why biz pros passed: Their ideal pianist is a young guy with a distinct edge -- a Brad Mehldau or a Jason Moran. Hewitt sounds warm and comfy, like someone you'd cast for atmosphere before cutting back to the plot. But because he never gets corny or sentimental, he cuts himself a distinctive niche after all. A-\nFrank Hewitt: Fresh From the Cooler (1996, Smalls) A bebop pianist who almost slipped through 66 years of life without leaving a trace, Hewitt built enough of a cult during his Smalls residency to inspire a label in no small part dedicated to his legacy. His fourth posthumous release features a trio that steps gingerly around jazz standards such as \"Cherokee\" and \"Monk's Mood\" -- nothing fancy, just a rare touch with for melodic nuance. A-\nAri Hoenig: The Painter (Smalls) Led by the drummer, but Guadeloupean Jacques Schwarz-Bart could write a book on state-of-the-art tenor sax, and French pianist Jean-Michel Pilc can dazzle even when he's dutifully helping out. Recorded live at Fat Cat, it sneaks up on you, like the realization that you've just had a real good time. A-\nZaid Nasser: Escape From New York (Smalls) An alto saxophonist who risks sounding like Charlie Parker and winds up showing how it should be done. He taps Ellington for two tunes, wails through \"Chinatown My Chinatown,\" plucks a barnburner from oldtime bebop pianist George Wallington, strings them together with a couple of originals, including one from pianist Sacha Perry. Not a tribute. More like 55th Street is back in business. A-\nAri Roland: And So I Lived in Old New York . . . (Smalls) The Chris Byars Quartet, bass-ackwards. [A-]\nZaid Nasser: Off Minor (Smalls) Classical bebopper, smoother and slicker than Bird, not in such a hurry. [A-]\nHarry Whitaker: One Who Sees All Things (1981-82, Smalls) Avant-fusion, reverting to the true radicalism of bebop. [B+(***)]\nFat Cat Big Band: Meditations on the War for Whose Great God Is the Most High You Are God \/ Angels Praying for Freedom (Smalls) Two separate discs, crossing Ellington and Mingus for postbop swing and back-to-the-future politics. [B+(**)]\nOff List\nThese are other Smalls records I prospected and rated but didn't write CG reviews of -- although a couple are still in play, and the U items I haven't gotten to yet. This is pretty close to the complete catalog (exceptions I'm aware of: Omer Klein: Heart Beats; Neal Miner: Evening Sound; Sacha Perry: Eretik). Recording dates provided. I just alphabetized them within grade slots, and didn't try to figure out where the pre-star B+ items rank.\nB+(***)\nOmer Avital: Room to Grow (1997)\nFrank Hewitt: Four Hundred Saturdays (1999)\nFrank Hewitt: Out of the Clear Black Sky (2000)\nRuslan Khain: For Medicinal Purposes Only! (2008)\nOmer Klein: Introducing Omer Klein (2007)\nEric McPherson: Continuum (2007)\nB+(**)\nYaala Ballin: Travlin' Alone (2009)\nChris Byars: Night Owls (2001-02)\nChris Byars: Jazz Pictures at an Exhibition of Himalayan Art (2007)\nTeddy Charles: Dances With Bulls (2008)\nGil Coggins: Better Late Than Never (2001-02)\nCharles Davis: Land of Dreams (2006)\nSacha Perry: The Third Time Around (2007)\nAri Roland: Sketches From a Bassist's Album (2005)\nFrank Senior: Listening in the Dark (2007)\nThird World Love: Sketch of Tel Aviv (2005)\nB+(*)\nOmer Avital: Asking No Permission (1996)\nAdam Birnbaum: Travels (2008)\nNed Goold: March of the Malcontents (2005)\nGilad Hekselman: Split Life (2006)\nFabio Morgera: Need for Peace (2007)\nSacha Perry: Not Brand X (2006)\nHarry Whitaker: Thoughts (Past and Present) (2007)\nWilliam Ash: The Phoenix (2004)\nNeal Caine: Backstabber's Ball (2005)\nSasha Dobson: The Darkling Thrush (2004)\nNed Goold: The Flows (2004)\nFrank Hewitt: Not Afraid to Live (2002)\nAcross 7 Street: Made in New York (2004)\nDan Aran: Breathing (2009)\nStacey Dillard: One (2008)\nAri Roland: New Music (2009)\nNegative Sum Game\nMatthew Yglesias: The New Economy: Another chart, from CBPP on income inequality, contrasting the 1946-76 and 1976-2007 periods:\nThe obvious point is that while income for the top 1% exploded after 1976, income was virtually flat not just for the poor but all the way up to 90 percentile. Of course, we knew that, not that it's not worth pointing out again and again. But two more things this shows clearly: one is that during 1946-76 top 1% income growth was depressed relative to lower income groups: the economy has a whole did better when the rich were held back; the other is that the shift to a far richer top 1% was not a zero sum game: more income for the top 1% cost everyone on average (\"per capita national income\") more than the rich gained. I suppose you could propose other factors for the drop in per capita national income between the two 30-year periods, but these results do prove that government policies to promote the interests of the rich -- e.g., a massive reduction in income tax progressivism -- don't help the economy as a whole, especially the vast majority of people. This not only calls into question policies that benefit and promote the rich. It suggests we should be doing the opposite, at least returning to 1950s levels of progressive taxation, union membership, education funding, etc. -- things that tip the balance of power back towards the people who do the work.\nRecycled Goods (65): August 2009\nMusic: Current count 15725 [15687] rated (+38), 744 [745] unrated (-1). The big rated count is almost all due to Rhapsody. Did virtually no Jazz Prospecting this week. Thought a bit about Recycled Goods and got off on a tangent exploring Verve Originals. Can't claim success in my effort to get my non-music-writing life back on track.\nLouis Armstrong and the All-Stars: Satchmo at Pasadena (1951 [2009], Verve): Another LP reproduction series, old product on the cheap with no enhancements; one complaint is that Satch spreads center stage around too much, but Barney Bigard, Earl Hines, and Jack Teagarden earn their keep and their billing, and the sketch with Velma Middleton on \"Baby It's Cold Outside\" is an all-time classic; another is that it ends too soon, which is why I much prefer the 4-CD version: The California Concerts, sadly out of print. A- [Rhapsody]\nJohn Coltrane\/Archie Shepp: New Thing at Newport (1965 [2006], Impulse): Two separate sets, with Coltrane's Quartet conflicted and sloppy on one 12:43 cut, Shepp both further out and more authoritative with Bobby Hutcherson's vibes an interesting contrast; previous CD releases had one more cut each, adding to the contrast. B+(**) [Rhapsody]\nBudd Johnson: Ya! Ya! [The Definitive Black & Blue Sessions] (1970 [2002], Black & Blue): An unsung hero, the guy who taught Ben Webster to play tenor sax, on a swing through France with Charlie Shavers on trumpet, pretty much as underrated as Johnson, and some local unknowns on \"Body and Soul\" and a batch of blues -- bread and butter, cheese and red wine. B+(**) [Rhapsody]\nOnly bagged two records this week: not enough to bother you with. Wish I could point to a lot of non-writing work balancing the scales. Indeed, got a few things done, but didn't make much of a dent in the big list of things to do. I figure I don't need to wrap up the next Jazz Consumer Guide until the end of the month. While the incoming mail is accumulating, it's still short of historic levels. Meanwhile, I've been thinking about Recycled Goods, and wound up taking a side trip through Verve's \"Originals\" reissue series, which will show up sooner or later. I do have enough Recycled material piled up I should stop hoarding it and resume posting. The planned relaunch has been snagged up, and energy to move it forward seems wanting. Also have a bunch of Rhapsody notes, which is a nice way to drift through the doldrums.\nAfghan Fatigue\nRobert Dreyfuss: Afghanistan Apocalypse, and Afghan Apocalypse, Part II: Two reports on think tanks at work on how to save the Afghanistan War, which isn't really the same thing as saving Afghanistan. The first was held at Brookings with a panel full of well-known hawks (Bruce Riedel, Michael O'Hanlon, Anthony Cordesman, and Kimberly Kagan); the second at Heritage with less well-known hawks (Marvin Weinbaum, David Barno, Lisa Curtis, and David Isby) -- evidently it's hard to get jobs like this if you have any common sense. Weinbaum talked at length about election fraud, but didn't see that as reason to back off.\nA key point of the Heritage Foundation presenters, including Weinbaum, is that it is critical for the White House to shore up declining political support for the war -- which is already opposed by a majority of Americans, who've told pollsters the war isn't worth fighting. So the White House is caught between two bad options: if it continues to gloss over problems like the fraudulent election, it will develop a Vietnam-like credibility gap as the truth becomes clear. But if Obama tells the truth, an American public already soured on a hopeless war against a vaguely defined enemy ten thousand miles away, with rising US casualties and the prospect of spending hundreds of billions of dollars, is very likely to decide that it's long past time to get out.\nGeneral Barno, who commanded US forces in Afghanistan from 2003-2005, stressed in his presentation the importance of domestic US propaganda for the war, saying that a key to the success of the US enterprise in Afghanistan is to \"rebuild popular support\" for a sustained US effort. [ . . . ] then Barno moved dangerously close to the Republican right's line that anyone who doesn't support the stay-the-quagmire policy is committing treason. \"The idea of an exit strategy,\" said Barno, \"plays into the hands of the Taliban strategy.\"\nSo, Obama can show his support for bipartisanship by adopting Republican programs that wreck the government, provided he has the courage and leadership to browbeat Democrats into towing the line. Sen. Jim DeMint was wrong: health care won't be Obama's \"Waterloo\" because failure there just shows how badly we need more Democrats; Afghanistan will be, because it shows would-be Democrats that no matter who they vote for, they'll get stuck in foreign wars where nobody knows even what they're trying to do, and nobody has the self-awareness, let alone the guts, to recognize when nothing they do does anyone any good -- except, of course, for self-annointed experts who get to lecture them on their failures and urge them on to even greater failures.\nDavid Swanson: Bush's Third Term? Well, I wouldn't put it in those terms, but Swanson runs with his concept further than I expected. The extent to which there's any continuity from Bush to Obama should be embarrassing. I tend to not get worked up over the torture, civil liberties, and constitution mangling issues because I figure they've been endemic for 50-60 years now, a natural outgrowth of the perpetual warfare state. I was struck, though, by the bit about the president refusing to disclose secret meetings with industry moguls to fix a \"reform\" bill that protects what are basically predatory industries.\nAndrew Sullivan: The Rotten Core: Starts off with nepotism (see Glenn Greenwald: It's time to embrace American royalty, including the updates), then vents on needed change and what's not happening now. I'm not sure we have a problem with \"entitlements\" except those mentioned in the introduction, but otherwise he's basically right.\nThere has been a lot of stuff floating by on Afghanistan lately, including George Will's belated decision to opt out. The latest poll I saw was 57% opposed to continuing doing whatever we're doing over there. I think I saw that Cindy Sheehan is camping out on Obama's vacation turf, and all I can say is \"bless her.\" I haven't been keeping links on all this, but the gist of it is that we're having serious buyer's remorse over the whole system we put in place, from Karzai on down. We're starting to see analogies not just between Afghanistan and Vietnam and between Karzai and Diem. That may suggest a coup, but there are plenty of reasons to realize we'd be better off backing off. There are also Obama-LBJ analogies, although with regard to the wars Obama-Nixon would be more accurate. Maybe with the domestic program too.\nAug 2009 Oct 2009","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
+{"text":"Archive for 26 July 2011\nWhat the Government Giveth, the Government Taketh\u2026\n26 July 2011 Frank Macskasy\tLeave a comment\nSo much for the tax cuts in April 2009 and October 2010.\nWith the rise in gst, ACC, Kiwisaver premiums, and soon Fuel Excise Duty, Road User Charges, and motor vehicle registration fees \u2013 the tax cuts will have been mostly negated for low and middle income earners.\nAnd not forgetting, of course, that gst will also apply to Road User Charges as well as vehicle registration fees\u2026\nAre we feeling any better of?\nCategories: The Body Politic\nWhen Govt Departments Go Mad\u2026\nThere is probably some rational reason for a victim of domestic violence to be re-victimised by Immigration authorities\u2026\n\u2026 but strangely enough, I can't think what that reason might be?!\nWhen Govt Departments Go Mad 2\u2026\nWhile Charmain Timmons faces deportation (after her residency application was denied because her then-husband was convicted for crimes against her), the Sunday Star Times listed individual who had been given residency after fighting their deportation orders;\nSamoan Troy Lologa, 27, who stabbed a man to death in a fight outside a South Auckland Burger King.\nFijian Ramendra Shankar, 62, who indecently assaulted an eight-year-old girl.\nSouth African Kim Gillian Knoll, 22, convicted of attempted murder for stabbing her two-year-old son in the stomach.\nSamoan Autalavou Taafi, 47, who raped a woman colleague whom he was giving a ride home.\nSamoan Faaua Faataape, 46, who while driving drunk and stoned, crashed, hitting a child and dragging the child under the car.\nTongan Metui Ma'umalanga, 44, who punched and kicked his epileptic wife into unconsciousness then assaulted a police officer. Ma'umalanga was previously convicted of assaulting his wife with a stabbing or cutting implement, drink-driving and male assaults female.\nFijian Pranesh Pratap, 28, who assaulted his wife from an arranged marriage, hospitalising her for four days, after an argument because he would not stop seeing his girlfriend, who he had also assaulted.\nMalaysian Tung Seng Chang, 35, convicted of being part of \"a substantial operation involving the supply and manufacture of methamphetamine\".\nSamoan Setafano Leota, 39, who was jailed for beating his 10-year-old daughter about the face and body with a piece of wood.\nAustralian Adeline Rogers, 28, who threatened to blow up a Child Youth and Family building and kill her sister-in-law.\nTongan Anoti Vaka, 43, convicted of four assaults against his children including causing grievous bodily harm to his daughter by cutting her head with a knife.\nSouth African Grant Deetlefs, 28, who supported his drug habit through the aggravated robbery of a service station he worked at.\nSo let's see if we have this right\u2026\nConvicted of violence, drug-use, rape, robbery, murder \u2013 residency approved.\nVictim of violence by ex-partner \u2013 residency denied.\nYes, folks, we have just crossed over into\u2026 The Twilight Zone.\nCategories: Odd, Conspiracies, & Other Weird Stuff, The Body Politic Tags: domestic violence, immigration\nCommon Sense prevails!\nMerje DDM, which grew out of the collapse of buggy maker Tritec, focuses mainly on providing seating for theatres and auditoriums in New Zealand and Australia, but has now completed a new range of train seats developed from the ground up.\nThe firm has its origins in Brugger, a big Hutt Valley supplier of seating components in the 1960s, when many of the world's car makers had factories in the area.\nBrugger was later sold and renamed Kenson Industries. As protections on the vehicle sector were removed, Kenson began moving into other areas, including other types of seats, plus buggies for infants.\nWhen that company collapsed in 1998, some of the remnants were gathered together to become Tritec. Based in Gracefield, Tritec built up a large business focused on buggies, but it also fell into receivership in 2008.\nIt was later bought out of receivership by another Wellington company, Phil & Ted's, which was mainly interested in the Mountain Buggy brand, closing the production side.\nMiles Fowler, who used Tritec to make theatre seats which he then sold in New Zealand and Australia, faced losing a key customer, so negotiated to keep some of the manufacturing capability, taking over the seat-making business.\nMerje \u2013 a name made from the initials of Fowler and another director Jesse Paenga, along with their partners \u2013 was formed and the firm does most of its business providing seats used in theatres and lecture halls, with one of its largest customers Victoria University.\n\"They tend to be quite large projects, but there is often gaps between them,\" Fowler said.\nThis gave the company scope to submit a proposal for the AK carriages from KiwiRail, a contract which was first mooted to Tritec. One of about 30 initial proposals, Merje was one of three firms short-listed for the train project, providing samples used elsewhere in the KiwiRail network.\nIt designed a product that is largely locally made and which is now being delivered.\nFowler says a key advantage of the company's seats was the fire- proof graphite foam from Acma Industries, another long-established manufacturer, based in Upper Hutt.\nPalmerston North's Fibreglass Developments provided the fibreglass backing of the seats, while other firms in the region provided components used in the seats.\n\"A couple of things came from Auckland, but essentially they're 100 per cent manufactured here. We try to stick as close as we can to the Wellington, Lower Hutt area.\"\nFowler said Merje, which has about a dozen staff, was expected to have turnover of about $3 million this year.\nWhich underscores the fact that local industries can build stock for our railways. We do not have to \"outsource\" major rail manufacturing contracts overseas to places like China or South Korea.\nThe $29 million cost of giving Chinese firms a contract for 300 new flat-top wagons was not just monetary \u2013 but it has cost fellow 70 New Zealanders their jobs in Dunedin and Wellington. Plus probably more, in terms of flow-on jobs generated from losing such a lucrative contract.\nWe will not grow our economy, nor generate jobs, if we continually opt for \"the cheaper option\". There has to be a will and conscious decision to make job-creation our #1 economic priority. Any government that does not understand this is bereft of understanding, and derelict in their duty.\nThe people of Dunedin made their feelings known on this matter at a public rally on July 9\u2026\nLabour MP David Parker addresses the rally.\nA section of the crowd listens to the speakers.\nHillside boilermaker Stuart Johnstone and twins Skye and Kane get their message across in the Octagon on Saturday.\nAs Dunedin Mayor Dave Cull said on the day, the decision to award a contract to overseas firms and cut back on local employment was \"short-sighted, simplistic and destructive\". He further added,\n\"This issue here is about the sum total of all those things, and much much more. Communities need to work, in both senses of the word.\" (Text of full speech.)\n\"This is frankly a form of economic vandalism. What are we mounting here? An economic development strategy for China?\", the Mayor has demanded.\nOtago Chamber of Commerce president Peter McIntyre said,\n\"\u2026 the threat was not just to Hillside jobs, but about 120 other job losses that would follow. We cannot afford this to happen.\"\nIndeed, we cannot.\nExporting jobs is not the answer.\nCategories: Dollars & Sense Tags: Hillside Engineering, jobs, Kiwi Rail, rail wagons","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
+{"text":"Coronavirus: Researchers battle disease myths in South Africa\nIn South Africa, three of the most promising vaccines are being tested in cities throughout the country...\nIn South Africa, three of the most promising vaccines are being tested in cities throughout the country, with 2,000 participants trialling an inoculation developed by Oxford University's Jenner Institute.\nMounting his own worldwide marketing campaign, the University of Witswaterand professor has personally convinced vaccine developers to undertake clinical trials in South Africa and secured millions of pounds in funding to make the enterprise happen.\nProfessor Madhi invokes the memory of infections like swine flu when making the case for vaccine trials in Africa. Little research was conducted on this respiratory disease when it emerged in 2009 and by the time a usable vaccine was produced in Africa the pandemic was effectively over.\n\"It would be a crime against humanity, a crime against the people of Africa if the mechanism was not put into place to introduce vaccines during the time of pandemic and not after it has passed - especially if we can show that the vaccines actually work.\"\nDeep levels of scepticism and mistrust aimed at COVID-19 vaccine development are not unique to South Africa.","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
+{"text":"Bunny Berigan charted with \"I Can't Get Started\": January 29, 1938\nimage from examiner.com\nWriter(s): Vernon Duke\/Ira Gershwin (see lyrics here)\nFirst charted: 29 January 1938\nPeak: 10 US (Click for codes to singles charts.)\nSales (in millions): -- US, -- UK, -- world\nReview: Bob Hope believes this song got him a film contract. TY He and Eve Arden sang it in a scene from Ziegfeld Follies of 1936. The revue opened in January of that year and was notable for Fanny Brice's last appearance and choreographer George Balanchine's first Broadway appearance. SB\nThe song got its start because composer Vernon Duke \"literally couldn't get started.\" SB He had written a melody for the song \"Face the Music with Me,\" and passed it on to lyricist Ira Gershwin when, as Duke said, \"nothing had happened to that version.\" SB Gershwin added words about a man who'd \"done almost anything anyone could want to do in life, including flying around the world in a plane and even selling short just before the stock market crash,\" TY but couldn't get the attention of the woman he desired \u2013 in other words, he couldn't get started with her.","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
+{"text":"Food Talk STL\nThanks for visiting foodtalkstl.com! Share our site with your friends!\nFebruary 17, 2015 by davidcraigstl\nThe Diner's Dilemma: Something New or The Old Familiar?\nMichael Pollan's great 2006 book The Omnivore's Dilemma asks the basic question: What should we have for dinner?\nThe St. Louis diner's dilemma is: Where should we go for dinner?\n(Caution: baseball similes and metaphors ahead.)\nOften the choice is between a place that's new or a place that has been in your restaurant rotation for some time. Actually, there are two kinds of new places.\nFirst, places that have only been open for a few days\/weeks\/months. Second, restaurants that have been open for a while that you've never visited. They are new to you, like that unfamiliar shortstop for the Padres who makes a great play and when you look him up online you find he's been in the bigs for 7 years.\nWith the place that's just recently opened you take a huge risk. The kitchen crew and the wait staff may not yet have their acts together. Employee turnover can be an issue in those early days. Even if the chef and\/or owner has a good reputation, a new joint can be like that rookie outfielder just up from Memphis\u20143 for 4 with a home run one day, 0 for 4 with three strikeouts and an error the next.\nThe big upsides of patronizing a spanking new restaurant are: you're supporting a new business at the time it most needs your support and you may discover a true gem whose virtues you can boast about to both online and IRL friends. Not unlike buying a Randal Grichuk jersey at the Cardinals team store last summer.\nWith a place that's a few years old but new to you, you can sift through online reviews and talk to chums to get an idea about what are \"must try\" dishes and which ones have been less than successful. A restaurant that has been open for a couple of years or more must be doing something right and making enough people happy to keep rolling, even if it's not always getting attention from the foodie media. Comparable to that manager whose career record is right about .500 even though he's never taken a team to the postseason.\nThe familiar place that you've visited numerous times over the years has much to offer. You know your way around the menu, you may be familiar with many staff members, you know which table or booth you prefer. But, like at Holiday Inn (supposedly), there are no surprises. (Okay, maybe the manager will surprise you with a free sample of a new dessert or wine, etc.) Generally, you know how things are going to go. Kind of like Yadier Molina\u2014you marvel at his defensive prowess, his hitting and (lately) his improved base running, but you are no longer surprised by his abilities.\nA downside of the familiar restaurant is that it, like Yadi, it can be costly. (You should note that, in some cases, the newer spots\u2014especially those that have spent big on design and fixtures\u2014can also be pricey.) Even at $15 million a year for Yadi, you know that you are getting value for your dollar. Similarly, a long-running old familiar place can require you to pony up some bucks. But you know it's worth it.\nWould you rather drop $70 for a dinner for two that's just a bloop single or $110 for a dinner for two that's a tape-measure homerun?\nTypically, younger folks are the ones who crave new, fresh things in life while older people prefer to stick with things they know and love. This is why a 25-year-old will prefer today's hits on radio to oldies. (Although even most 25-year-olds must surely be getting sick of All About That Bass by now. And most 60-year-olds have surely heard The Joker a sufficient number of times for this life.)\nI encourage older folks to try something new when you get the chance. Enjoy the familiar places that consistently make you happy. But take a chance every now and then on something different. It's like when the Cardinals play at an American League ballpark and use the designated hitter\u2014you may or may not like it, but at least you've had a change of pace.\nAt the same time, I encourage younger diners to patronize restaurants that have proved their mettle and delivered year after year. Like Yadi or Miguel Cabrera or Andrew McCutchen, these places have achieved a level of consistency that assures you are unlikely to be disappointed. They may cost a bit more. The other patrons may be older than you. But, like when Adam Wainwright starts for the Cardinals, you will be witnessing greatness.\nYadi: http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/27003603@N00\/5886771536, http:\/\/photopin.com, https:\/\/creativecommons.org\/licenses\/by-sa\/2.0\/\nCioppino: http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/69655432@N00\/6566610871, http:\/\/photopin.com, https:\/\/creativecommons.org\/licenses\/by\/2.0\nMcCutchen: http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/27003603@N00\/7185728251, http:\/\/photopin.com\">photopin, https:\/\/creativecommons.org\/licenses\/by-sa\/2.0\/\nWainwright: http: http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/27003603@N00\/14871796562, http:\/\/photopin.com, photopin, https:\/\/creativecommons.org\/licenses\/by-sa\/2.0\/\nPosted in Commentary\t| Tagged All About That Bass, Andrew McCutchen, Cardinals, designated hitter, Michael Pollan, Miguel Cabrera, Omnivore's Dilemma, Padres, Randal Grichuk, The Joker, Yadier Molina | Leave a comment\nGoing to Disney this year? Here's some good Disney Meal Plan info. youtu.be\/X4_Pltfr99A 3 hours ago\nHighly addictive news5cleveland.com\/news\/made-us-s\u2026 3 hours ago\nGood news, kids! Pizza!!! School Lunch Rules Set To Change : Shots - Health News - npr.org\/sections\/healt\u2026 14 hours ago\nAt 2:30. Garbage plate. youtu.be\/ubdhiciCBgk 15 hours ago\nTupperware! twitter.com\/tomsietsema\/st\u2026 15 hours ago\nFollow @FoodTalkSTL\nHighlights and Disappointments from Spring and Summer 2019\nFood movies\nFood Shows on TV\nFood Talk information\nFood Talk STL archives\nFood Talk STL giveaway\nFood Talk STL guest information\nGluten Free information\nSt. Louis food and drink events\nSt. Louis Food and Drink News\nSt. Louis restaurant news\nTopics for Food Talk show","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
+{"text":"New York Jets 2021 Draft Picks: Building around Zach Wilson\nDanny Small\nThe New York Jets missed out on Trevor Lawrence, but they have a treasure chest of picks to use in the 2021 NFL Draft.\nZach Wilson is the presumptive pick for the New York Jets at No. 2 overall in the 2021 NFL Draft, but things get interesting from there. New York has two first-round picks and five on the first two nights of the draft.\nTake a look at the live results for the Jets in the 2021 NFL Draft:\nRound 1 \u2014 No. 2 \u2014 Zach Wilson, QB, BYU\nAlthough the Jets missed out on drafting Trevor Lawrence, Wilson is an excellent consolation prize. The BYU product with the rocket arm should be familiar with New York's offensive system after playing a variation of it in college. This pick should come as no surprise. It's time to build around Zach Wilson.\nRound 1 \u2014 No. 14 \u2014 Alijah Vera-Tucker, OL, USC\nThe Jets desperately needed to add another plug-and-play guy to the offensive line and Alijah Vera-Tucker is just what the doctor ordered. Despite playing tackle in college, Vera-Tucker projects as a guard in the NFL and he should fit into Mike LaFleur's scheme like a glove. This is the first step towards building around Zach Wilson.\nRound 2 \u2014 No. 34 \u2014 Elijah Moore, WR, Ole Miss\nThe theme of building around Wilson continues into the second round. There was reported interest around the league in trading up with the Jets here, but Douglas wasn't having any of it. Elijah Moore is a first-round talent who fell to day two. He is one of the most talented slot receivers in the draft and he's the type of receiver who just needs the ball in space.\nRound 4 \u2014 No. 107 \u2014 Michael Carter, RB, UNC\nThe Jets can't seem to get enough offense in this draft. Douglas is 4-for-4 on drafting offense with this Michael Carter pick. Carter was the highest-rated running back on the board and he joins a crowded backfield that includes La'Mical Perine, Ty Johnson, Tevin Coleman, and Josh Adams. The Tar Heel will come in and compete for snaps immediately.\nRound 5 \u2014 No. 146 \u2014 Jamien Sherwood, S, Auburn\nJamien Sherwood is a big, physical safety who adds depth to the defensive backfield for the Jets. Douglas finally takes a defensive player after going with four offensive players to start the draft. Sherwood joins a unit that already boasts Marcus Maye, Ashtyn Davis, and Lamarcus Joyner.\nRound 5 \u2014 No. 154 \u2014 Michael Carter II, CB, Duke\nThe Jets go with another defensive back just eight picks after Sherwood. Even more strange, they are taking another \"Michael Carter\" from the ACC. Michael Carter II is a versatile defensive back who should help add to the depth on Robert Saleh's defense.\nRound 5 \u2014 No. 175 \u2014 Jason Pinnock\nJason Pinnock, 21, is a cornerback who should add some depth and competition to that group. The Jets are taking flyers on defensive backs with their Day 3 picks and it makes perfect sense. If Pinnock or Carter II can force their way into the starting lineup, Saleh's defensive backfield will be a lot better off.\nRound 6 \u2014 No. 186 \u2014 Hamsah Nasirildeen, S, FSU\nHamsah Nasirildeen led the Florida State Seminoles in tackles in 2018 and 2019. He missed all but two games in 2020 while recovering from ACL surgery. Nasirildeen is a hybrid safety who can flex to weakside linebacker. He should compete for snaps with Sherwood as that hybrid safety\/linebacker.\nRound 6 \u2014 No. 200 \u2014 Brandin Echols, DB, Kentucky\nDon't say that the Jets didn't put anything into the cornerback position this offseason. Echols is the third cornerback that the Jets are taking on Day 3 and although he projects as a developmental prospect, his athleticism gives him upside worth taking.\nRound 6 \u2014 No. 207 \u2014 Jonathan Marshall, DT, Arkansas\nAgain, the Jets are taking a flyer on a defensive player, but this time around it's on a position where they are stacked. Jonathan Marshall, a defensive tackle out of Arkansas, will join a deep group that includes Quinnen Williams, Jonathan Franklin-Myers, and Foley Fatukasi.\nTrevor Lawrence\nZach Wilson","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
+{"text":"Tag Archives: Ryan McDonald\nThe Ballad of Jack and Rose (2005)\nDaniel Day-Lewis is an actor who seems to pick his roles carefully, and everything he does usually gets lots of attention. So when I checked his IMDB page a few months ago, I was a little bit surprised to hear that he'd made a movie from just a few years ago that I had never heard of. Since I'm a fan of what I've seen from Day-Lewis, I tracked down The Ballad of Jack and Rose. It's a very small, quiet film, and it's not especially accessible, so the fact that it hasn't found a large audience is understandable. But I do think that is a shame, because, as you would expect, Daniel Day-Lewis is exceptional here.\nDay-Lewis plays Jack, while Camilla Belle plays his teenage daughter, Rose. Rose has had a very isolated, unconventional upbringing. She and Jack live on an old commune on a small island off the coast of the United States. Jack spends much of the film trying to prevent a housing development from ruining the island. Since he's in poor health, he invites his girlfriend, Kathleen (played by Catherine Keener), and her two sons (Paul Dano and Ryan McDonald) to come live with him and Rose. Rose isn't used to any kind of guests at her house, let alone the permanent kind, so things go predictably awry almost as soon as they arrive.\nThe film is odd, to say the least. The relationship between Jack and Rose is set up to challenge the audience from the start. That being said, I think their \"unconventional\" relationship is handled well, and the questionable aspects of it really take a backburner throughout much of the story. The environmental aspect of the story is surprisingly well done. It's not preachy. I questioned a lot of Jack's actions to \"protect\" the island from the housing developments, but I was still fascinated by his passion and willingness to fight. Kathleen and her sons also provide a nice contrast to Rose and Jack's isolated life, though they turn out to be nearly as messed up as our protagonists.\nThe acting is superb, for the most part. For such a small film, it has a pretty well-known, reliable cast. Daniel Day-Lewis is one of the most magnetic actors to watch on screen, and he's amazing here, as usual. Jack's certainly not a black and white character, and Day-Lewis plays every shade of grey perfectly. There are a couple of big, emotional scenes for him to work with, and he always strikes the perfect chord. It never feels melodramatic, which this film could have easily been. Catherine Keener also does a really nice job with a character that while being predictable, still brings a lot to the film. Ryan McDonald was one of the few unfamiliar faces here for me, and I found his performance very captivating. He plays the older of Kathleen's sons. Rodney. He wants to be a woman's hair dresser, and he's a really fascinating character. He's also the only remotely likeable person in the Jack\/Kathleen makeshift family (though he is not perfect, by any means), and McDonald brings a lot of warmth, humour, and heart to the role. Jason Lee (yes, from My Name is Earl) even pops up in a tiny role as a plant delivery man, and I thought he gave an unexpectedly great performance, as tiny as it may have been. Camilla Belle was my one question mark in the cast. She gets points just because she managed to pull of the role. It's tough material, and she's sharing virtually every scene with Daniel Day-Lewis. That cannot be easy. I don't think her acting was as great as it could have been if they'd gotten someone more at Ellen Page's level, but Belle did an okay job.\nThe Ballad of Jack and Rose is not a perfect film. At times it feels a bit over-the-top (a scene involving an acid pad gets a bit ridiculous), and I would've liked to know more about some of the supporting characters. For example, Paul Dano's character is a pretty messed up guy. I was expecting to learn more about him, but we never really do. Also, as previously mentioned, the characters aren't very likeable. I'm all for some crazy, despicable characters, but most of these characters just felt blandly unpleasant. But I thought director Rebecca Miller (wife of Daniel Day-Lewis) definitely averted disaster. The relationship between Jack and Rose is clearly abnormal, and it gets into some sensitive areas. Some people might find some of the material a little squirmy, but the film does manage to keep that to a minimum, and never seems to exploit it. This film is certainly worth watching, if not just for Daniel Day-Lewis' performance. Also, it's a very nice film to look at. The scenery is lovely, and Miller takes great advantage of it. She captures that dreamy kind of world that hippies would have chosen to build their commune in. It's a controversial film, in a way, but I found enough to like, and I thought it ultimately made a poignant statement.\nPosted in Movie Reviews\nTagged Camilla Belle, Catherine Keener, Daniel Day Lewis, movie reviews, Movies, Paul Dano, Rebecca Miller, Ryan McDonald, The Ballad of Jack and Rose","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
+{"text":"Eiji Noto\n\u80fd\u767b \u82f1\u53f8\n\u306e\u3068 \u3048\u3044\u3058\nLink's Awakening DX\nSeptember 27, 1967 (age 54)\nEiji Noto is a game developer who has worked for SRD since the 1990's. He first worked on Super Mario World for the Super Nintendo Entertainment System before then working on A Link to the Past as a Programmer. He was later brought on board as a programmer for the Game Boy Color remake of Link's Awakening. He joined the team on A Link Between Worlds, working with Enemy Programming.\nCredit(s)\n1991 A Link to the Past Programmer\n1998 Link's Awakening DX Programmer\n2013 A Link Between Worlds Enemy Programming\nRetrieved from \"https:\/\/www.zeldadungeon.net\/wiki\/index.php?title=Eiji_Noto&oldid=392661\"\nGame Staff\nSRD Staff\nThis page was last edited on March 31, 2022, at 02:49.","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
+{"text":"Our TeamChevron\nDana Way\nJonathon Helsius\nJon Helsius - Investigator\nJonathon Helsius knew at an early age that he wanted to work in law enforcement. He began his quest fresh out of high school and joined the United States Air Force and graduated with Honors from the Air Force Police Academy at Lackland Air Force Base in 1987. Jon served with distinction as a Law Enforcement Specialist with the 55th Security Police Squadron located at Offutt AFB, Nebraska. During his military enlistment, Jon progressed rapidly and was promoted early after competing against his peers in the \"Below the Zone\" program. Jon was always up for a challenge and distinguished himself by requesting more complex positions within his squadron. As an Airman First Class he was selected to work as a Desk Sergeant\/Telecommunicator. He also tried out for the Emergency Services Team and was selected after a grueling two weeks of assessment and tactical training.\nAfter leaving the military in 1991, Jon attended college, worked a variety of jobs and eventually moved to North Carolina from Michigan in 1994. Jon gained experience in mass tort product liability litigation while working as a case worker for Duke's Private Adjudication Center, but his love of police work was always in the back of his mind. In 1998, Jon was hired by the Durham County Sheriff's Office and he graduated from the Basic Law Enforcement Training academy as the top academic cadet after accumulating a GPA of 99.06. Jon initially worked for four years as a Patrol Deputy, but his love of motorcycles compelled him to request a transfer to the Motor Unit. After getting paid to ride a Harley Davidson motorcycle for 2 years, Jon was approached by those working in the Criminal Investigations Unit in 2004. Jon had developed a reputation of being a very thorough and hard working deputy with superior skills at report writing and documentation. Jon accepted this new career challenge as a Detective. Jon worked all types of crimes imaginable, from embezzlement to homicide. He progressed rapidly and was promoted to Corporal in 2005 and took on the added responsibility of being the department's Arson Investigator. In 2008, Jon was promoted to Sergeant and was assigned to the Information Sharing and Analysis Center (ISAAC) to work as a taskforce investigator. Jon was sworn as a Special Deputy U.S. Marshal and traveled across the state investigating suspicious activity reports that were possibly connected to domestic or international terrorism. In 2010, Jon was placed in charge of Professional Standards\/Internal affairs where he thoroughly investigated complaints lodged against employees of the Sheriff's Office.\nIn 2015, Jon took a supervisory position with the Raleigh-Durham Airport Police Department. Jon worked a short while as a Patrol Supervisor and was then transferred to the Criminal Investigations Unit as the Detective Sergeant. He was promoted to Lieutenant in 2017 and commanded the Special Operations Division which included the Criminal Investigations Unit, K-9 Unit, Training and Recruitment Unit, Checkpoint Unit and the Community Policing Unit. Jon was also responsible for all Internal Affairs investigations.\nAfter 26 years of public service, Jon has decided to embark on a new journey. Having joined forces with Dana Way in 2010 in marriage, it only seemed sensible to join the 3rd Degree Investigations team. Jon has a unique perspective of the criminal justice system. He has worked many complex criminal cases and has always honored and respected the rights of everyone involved. He has investigated law enforcement officers for misconduct. Jon has known many excellent criminal investigators and forensic technicians throughout his career, but he has also seen some who were more suited for directing traffic than investigating a homicide. There are a few that slip through the cracks and sometimes the pressure of the job causes mistakes. There are some within law enforcement that lack the ability, the knowledge and the training to be competent investigators. Jon does not believe in the concept of \"the ends justify the means\" and there has to be a \"checks and balances\" mentality in criminal prosecutions. There has to be someone to watch and guard the rights of the accused. Jon has decided to put his tenacious skills as an investigator and his strong commitment for integrity to work on behalf of the accused.\n1987 Air Force Police Academy, Law Enforcement Specialist Course (Honors)\n1987\tArmy Ground Combat Skills Course \u2013 Ft. Dix, NJ\n1988\tHorizontal Gaze Nystagmus Course\n1989\tUSAF Emergency Service Team Certification Course\n1989\tNCIC\/NCIS Terminal Certification\n1989\tUSAF Supervisor Safety Course\n1989\tUSAF Professional Military Education \u2013 NCO Preparatory Course\n1998 Basic Law Enforcement Training (BLET)\n1998\tOfficer Survival School\n2000\tASP Baton: Defensive Tactics\n2000\tField Training Officer Course\n2000\tBasic Radar Operator Certificate\n2003\tBasic Motor Officer Training\n2003\tStandardized Child Passenger Safety Training\n2004\tPolice Law Institute\n2004\tInstructor Training - Basic\n2005\tFBI Post Blast Investigator School\n2005\tArson Investigation course\n2006\tInterview and Interrogation course\n2006\tIdentity Theft Investigations course\n2006\tDeath Investigations course\n2007\tFirst Line Supervision course\n2008\tBasic Anti-Terrorism Awareness course\n2008\tMajor Gang Task Force training conference\n2008\tIncident Command System IS-100\n2008 Terrorism Update course\n2009\tNeo-Nazi\/Racist Skinhead and Outlaw Motorcycle Gangs course\n2009\tSuicide Bomber\/VBIED Planning and Response\n2009\tFusion Center Practitioners Open Source Training\n2009\tCritical Infrastructure Key Resource Asset Protection Technical Asst. Program\n2009\tA Guide to Understanding Militant Islamist Terrorism course\n2009\tMass Shootings Planning and Response course\n2009\tIdentification of Fraudulent Documents course\n2009\tSurveillance Detection Course for Municipal Officials\n2010\tIsraeli Counterterrorism Training Course\n2010\tThreat & Risk Assessment Course\n2010\tN.C. Internal Affairs Investigations Course (NCIAIA)\n2010\tArrestee DNA Collection Procedures\n2010 Criminal Justice Instructor Certificate, State of North Carolina\n2010 Advanced Law Enforcement Certificate\n2011\tDeath Notification training seminar\n2011\tEquivocal Death Investigations\n2011\tAnalyzing Behavior in Serial Murder\/Sexual Homicide\n2016 North Carolina Specialized Firearms Instructor course.\n\u00a9 2018 3rd Degree Investigations, Inc.","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
+{"text":"Home \u203a Out of Town: Volume One (DVD)\nOut of Town: Volume One (DVD)\nJack Hargreaves presents this series of expeditions through the idyllic English countryside, exploring the nature of country life, the importance and variety of rural economies, and age-old country skills such as apple-grafting, sheep-shearing and angling.\nIn this volume, Jack looks at fishing for sea bream, tyring a cart and selling a farm. It also contains 35 surviving episodes from 1980 and 1981, plus the 21st anniversary special.\nActors: Jack Hargreaves,\nFormat:, PAL, Full Screen, Colour\nLanguage:, English\nRegion:, Region 2 (This DVD may not be viewable outside Europe).\nAspect Ratio:, 4:3 - 1.33:1\nNumber of discs:, 1\nClassification:, Exempt\nStudio:, Contender Entertainment\nDVD Release Date:, 9 Jan. 2006\nRun Time:, 72 minutes\n100 The Most Famous Classical Tunes - Various Artists (CD)\n1066: A Year To Conquer England (Dan Snow) (DVD)\n50s and 60s Films With A Beat Collection (DVD)\n6 Plays By Alan Bennett - Complete (DVD)\n7-63 Up (DVD)","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
+{"text":"You are here:Home-News-Industrial News-Four Smelteries Put into Use in Indonesia in 2021\nFour Smelteries Put into Use in Indonesia in 2021\nAccording to the reports, Indonesian Ministry of Energy & Mineral Resources (ESDM) and Ditjen Minerba have announce that there will be four smelteries putting into use before 2021. Thus, at the end of this year, there will be 23 smelteries in operation totally.\nThe statistics from Ditjen Minerba shows: by the 17th January of 2021, the operating smelteries in Indonesia are 19, and five more will be put into use in the year of 2022. Rest smelteries will be under construction in 2023. It is estimated that 53 smelteries will be constructed before 2024, which is no later than the year of 2023 regulated by Minerba.\nVice minister of Indonesia Marine Division Ridwan Djamaluddin said, \"Due to Covid-19, the construction timeline of some smelteries has changed than planned. But that doesn't mean the legislative task has been neglected.\"\nAnd he said that all the smelteries shall be constructed and put into use before the end of 2023.\nThe director of Mining Development Department said that 23 smelteries including bauxite factories, nickel factories and copper plants now have submitted the working plan to revise. And almost all the smelteries are influenced by Covid-19.\nFour smelteries in operation mainly use nickels. And these smelteries respectively locate in PT Antam Tbk, Cikande-Serang, Cilegon-Banten and Kapuas Prima Coal. Among them, one smelteries now is working on the lead production.\nRegarding on the Freeport Smeltery Project, Indonesia government does not deny that the planned goal is postponed due to Covid-19.\nRidwan further said, \"Our goal is not about punishment or failure. It is about the fully construction. Since we have made the timeline, and we have pushed the project, we will definitely face it.\"\n\"On the Freeport smeltery project, we can choose to cooperate with other companies to solve it. Because we have deal for it. It is known that the cooperated company will be China Tsing Shan Steel.\"\nNow, Freeport has provided Indonesia government with the construction plan in Weda, cause its construction plan in Gresik was held up due to Covid-19.\nLast year, chairman Tony Wenas of PTFI admitted that the project cooperating with Tsing Shan Steel was worthy of $1.8 billion.\nAccording to the report from Freeport, by the end of July of 2020, the copper smeltery in Gresik just finished 5.86%, which is supposed to be 10.5% according to the plan. And it cost about $0.16 billion. Meanwhile, the PMR smeltery just finished 9.79% at the same period, which is supposed to be 14.29%. And this project already cost about $19.8 million.\nIndia Balasore Alloys Announced to Stop Manufacturing Chromium Products Indefinitely","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
+{"text":"Number of results: 61793\nU.N. frees 21 herders enslaved by militia in Central African Republic\nnews Reuters, 19 Apr 2015 (5 years ago )\nU.N. peacekeepers have liberated some 21 nomadic Muslim herders, most of them women and children, enslaved by militia groups in the west of Central African Republic, though up to 100 more remain in captivity, a U.N. official said on Sunday. The herders, from the Fulani ethnic group, were captured...\nSuspected C.African Republic rebels kill three in Cameroon raid\nnews Thompson Reuters Foundation, 24 Apr 2015 (5 years ago )\nYAOUNDE, April 24 (Reuters) - A suspected group of armed rebels from the Central African Republic killed three people in a village in neighbouring Cameroon and kidnapped seven others, the latest in a spate of cross-border attacks, Cameroon state radio said on Friday. Residents in Mbeng village sa...\nLe Japon accorde 3,5 millions de dollars pour les r\u00e9fugi\u00e9s et les d\u00e9plac\u00e9s en RCA\nnews Journal de Bangui, 27 Apr 2015 (5 years ago )\nLe Gouvernement japonais vient de renouveler son financement des activit\u00e9s du bureau du Haut-Commissariat des Nations Unies pour les r\u00e9fugi\u00e9s (HCR) en R\u00e9publique Centrafricaine (RCA) et ceci \u00e0 hauteur de 3,5 millions de dollars US. Ce nouveau don vise \u00e0 appuyer les efforts du HCR et de ses partenair...\nCentral African Republic militias agree to disarmament deal\nnews France24, 11 May 2015 (5 years ago )\nRival armed groups in Central African Republic agreed on Sunday to a peace agreement requiring them to disarm and potentially face justice for war crimes committed during two years of conflict. The agreement signed between 10 armed groups and the Defence Ministry during a peace forum in the capit...\nClashes disrupt Central African Republic peace forum\nnews Thompson Reuters Foundation, 12 May 2015 (5 years ago )\nBANGUI May 11 (Reuters) - United Nations peacekeepers in Central African Republic shot in the air on Monday and used tear gas to disperse gunmen who tried to disrupt a forum aimed at helping restore peace to the country, witnesses said. The incident took place as the Bangui Forum was drawing to a...\nBan welcomes Central African Republic peace pact as reflection of people's aspirations\nnews refworld, 12 May 2015 (5 years ago )\nSecretary-General Ban Ki-moon has congratulated the people of the Central African Republic (CAR) for the adoption of a peace pact that reflects on their aspirations to put the conflict behind them once and for all and to build a more peaceful and democratic country. The Bangui National Forum was ...\nCentral Africa still burdened by multidimensional crisis, Security Council told\nnews UN News center, 12 Jun 2015 (5 years ago )\n11 June 2015 \u2013 The Central Africa region is still facing many challenges, including an economic crisis aggravated by the drop in oil prices, rising youth unemployment, and terrorist activities, as well as the cross-border impact of crises in Central African Republic (CAR) and Burundi, the Special Re...\nA New Home and a Helping Hand\nnews Kora - Voices of Refugees in West and Central Africa, 14 Jun 2015 (5 years ago )\nAfter fleeing violence in the Central African Republic, Jacob's family find a new home in Chad, where generous locals have greeted them warmly. Time seems to have stopped in Dilingala, a sleepy farming village in southern Chad. But for many local residents, including 40-year-old Nicolas, life is ...\nRCA: de nombreux d\u00e9fis pour respecter le calendrier \u00e9lectoral\nnews RFI, 18 Jun 2015 (5 years ago )\nEn Centrafrique, on connait le calendrier des \u00e9lections qui doit \u00eatre officiellement pr\u00e9sent\u00e9 ce vendredi \u00e0 la mi-journ\u00e9e par l'ANE, l'Autorit\u00e9 nationale des \u00e9lections. Un r\u00e9f\u00e9rendum constitutionnel le 4 octobre. Le premier tour des l\u00e9gislatives et de la pr\u00e9sidentielle le 18. Et le second tour le 22...\nCentral African Republic says to hold elections on Oct. 18\nnews Thompson Reuters Foundation, 02 Jul 2015 (5 years ago )\nBANGUI, June 18 (Reuters) - Central African Republic will hold presidential and parliamentary elections, seen as critical to drawing a line under a two-year inter-religious conflict, on Oct. 18, a spokesman for the interim government said on Thursday. The country descended into chaos in March 201...","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
+{"text":"Pierre Jeanpierre\nGet Pierre Jeanpierre essential facts below. View Videos or join the Pierre Jeanpierre discussion. Add Pierre Jeanpierre to your PopFlock.com topic list for future reference or share this resource on social media.\nThis article has multiple issues. Please help improve it or discuss these issues on the talk page. (Learn how and when to remove these template messages)\nThe neutrality of this article is disputed. Relevant discussion may be found on the talk page. Please do not remove this message until conditions to do so are met. (August 2018) (Learn how and when to remove this template message)\nThe examples and perspective in this article deal primarily with France and do not represent a worldwide view of the subject. You may improve this article, discuss the issue on the talk page, or create a new article, as appropriate. 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(April 2018) (Learn how and when to remove this template message)\n(Learn how and when to remove this template message)\nPierre Paul Jeanpierre\nNickname(s)\nSoleil - The Sun (code radio indicative)\nJardin (resistance alias)\nBelfort, France\n29 May 1958(1958-05-29) (aged 46)\nGuelma, French Algeria\nForeign Infantry\nForeign Airborne\nCommands held\n1er BEP\n1er REP\n(1955-1956), (1957-1958) \u2020\nPhoney War\nSyria-Lebanon Campaign\ninvasion of the free zone\nSuez Crisis\nAlgerian War\nGrand Officer of the L\u00e9gion d'honneur\nCroix de Guerre 1939-1945\nCroix de guerre des TOE\nCross for Military Valour\nResistance Medal w\/Rosette\nColonial Medal\nIndochina Campaign commemorative medal\nNorth Africa Security and Order Operations Commemorative Medal\nPierre Paul Jeanpierre (14 March 1912 - 29 May 1958) was a senior officer of the French Foreign Legion.\nHe initially served in the French Army and fought during World War II, the First Indochina War, the Suez Crisis and the Algerian War, where he was killed in action. Apart from a short time spent in the French resistance and as a deportee during World War II, he served with the Foreign Legion from 1936. Jeanpierre commanded the 1st Foreign Parachute Battalion, expanded into the 1st Foreign Parachute Regiment (1er REP) until his death during the Algerian War.\nPierre was born in 1912 at Belfort. His father was an active duty career officer and captain in the 42nd Infantry Regiment (French: 42e R\u00e9giment d'Infanterie), killed during World War I in 1916 at Marne without ever seeing his family since the outbreak of the war in August 1914. Pierre was raised by the paternal sight of his mother and enlisted in the infantry at barely 18 years of age.\nMilitary career\nPrior to World War II\nPierre enlisted in the 131st Infantry Regiment as a soldier in 1930 and worked being seconded from the enlisted corps by passing by all the non-commissioned ranks, graduating second from the Infantry and Tank School of Saint-Maixent as a Second-Lieutenant on 1 October 1936. Pierre's accomplished graduation ranking allowed him to choose the French Foreign Legion's 1st Foreign Regiment, making a Legion Lieutenant on 1 October 1938.\nPhoney War & Battle of France\nPierre endured the Phoney War \"Dr\u00f4le de Guerre\" and was put at disposition. He was also deeply marked by the defeat of 1940.\nDuring World War II, Pierre also served with distinction in the Syria-Lebanon Campaign 6th Foreign Infantry Regiment, deployed in 1939 to the French Levant and took part in Mediterranean operations in 1940 at the corps formation of the 6th Foreign Infantry Regiment, part of the Foreign Legion Group. Following combats in the Syria-Lebanon Campaign which he did not partake in confronting other French contingents, Pierre refused to join the Free French Forces from the principle of sticking with his idea of a Tricolour Flag.\nResistance and deportation\nPierre joined instead the French Resistance under the alias \"Jardin\" and integrated the ranks of the movement Ceux de la Lib\u00e9ration; recruiting and arming over 60 volunteers; (those of the liberation). Pierre was arrested at Orl\u00e9ans on 19 January 1944 and was deported to as a prisoner interred in the Mauthausen-Gusen concentration camp after passing by the grouping camp of de Compi\u00e8gne. With forced labor, Pierre would be among only 2 survivors out 45 in his stalag when the camp was liberated by the Allies on 5 May 1945. Liberated and healed, Pierre was nominated as a Captain at the center of recruitment of the Legion in Kehl. In July 1948, learning that in Algeria would be created a foreign parachute battalion, he volunteered, rejoined Sidi Bel Abb\u00e8s then Philippeville where he was brevetted as a legion paratrooper. 3 month later, the battalion was in the high region of Indochina.\n1er Bataillon Etranger de Parachutiste, 1er BEP (1 July 1948 - 1 September 1955) - I,II,III Formations -\nPierre sailed to Indochina as second-in-command to Pierre Segr\u00e9tain in the (1er BEP, I Formation) of the 1st Foreign Parachute Battalion (1er BEP) in 1948. During the evacuation of RC 4, route de sang , he and the battalion jumped over That Khe in a traditional Foreign Legion battlefield while facing an enemy 20 times superior in numbers. Jeanpierre, owing to his energy, his savoir-faire around the terrain and his qualities of a combatant chief, managed to repel waves of incessant hellish ambushes by inheriting over much of the leadership of the battalion after Segr\u00e9tain was killed leading the battalion.[1] In October 1950, tasked with taking Dong Kh\u00e9 during the disaster of Cao Bang, the mission was to save column \"Charton\" which was unfolding. Hardly short of audacity, he held the line until the last, divided the survivors into small groups and reled the charge of 23 legionnaires, 3 sous-officiers, 2 officers to That Kh\u00e9 where a French garrison should still hold standing. From the hundreds of legionnaires that constituted the 1st Foreign Parachute Battalion (1er BEP, I Formation), only 12 men remained almost capable still. Commandant Segr\u00e9tain was killed during combat at arms and Lieutenant Faulque fell pierced with projectiles, none of which were mortal. Seriously wounded, he was made prisoner and liberated 4 years later; he would be part of the troop of the living-dead which the Viet Minh would give back to France. the 1st Foreign Parachute Battalion (1e BEP, I Formation) with the 3rd Foreign Infantry Regiment were annihilated in Coxa. Following, Pierre rejoined the Legion in Mascara where he retook his passion, the instruction and forming of les jeunes legionnaires. The 1er BEP was recreated (1er BEP, II Formation); however, the last combats in Indochina would take place without his leadership. A Para legionnaire's legionnaire, Pierre returned to Indochina to command the (1er BEP, II Formation) of the reconstituted 1st Foreign Parachute Battalion (1er BEP, II Formation) after its second annihilation at the Battle of Dien Bien Phu. Reconstituted in a (1er BEP, III Formation) on 19 May 1954; Pierre took command of the 3rd reconstituted 1e BEP (III Formation) on 1 November 1954, the day on which the Algerian War commenced. The 1er BEP (III Formation) left Indochina on 8 February 1955.[2] The 1er BEP totaled 5 citations at the orders of the armed forces and the fourrag\u00e8re of the colors of the M\u00e9daille militaire.[3] The 1er BEP became the 1st Foreign Parachute Regiment (1er REP) in Algeria on 1 September 1955.\nAfter the 1st Foreign Parachute Battalion 1e BEP became the 1st Foreign Parachute Regiment 1e REP, Pierre was passed over for command on 6 February 1956, instead serving as second-in-command, this time to Colonel Albert Brothier which he assumed but was deeply disappointed.[4] The regiment was put on alert on 1 August 1956 after the preparation of the campaign in Egypt; Pierre embarked on October 31, however, his views and reservations of this disembarking were well known. This beautiful instrument of combat which became a regiment didn't serve any worthy cause. Nevertheless, a new mission was confined to Pierre: in Algeria, put an end to this urbain terrorism, a police mission which no one wants or likes but must be executed successfully. Pierre retook command of the 1st Foreign Parachute Regiment in March 1957.[5]\n1er Regiment Etranger de Parachutiste, 1er REP (1 September 1955 - 30 April 1961)\nPierre reassumed command as the regimental commander following the leave of Colonel Brothier at command headquarters of the 10th Parachute Division commanded by Brigadier General Jacques Massu. Partnering operations with Pierre, was the 9th Parachute Chasseur Regiment 9\u00e8me RCP commanded by regimental commander colonel Buchond. This new mission was complicated and implied certain techniques of clandestine counter-insurgency operations, which legion officers and a couple of legion sous-officiers authorized to accomplish this difficult task. Leading closely details of operations to his usual requirements, Pierre was caught in a grenade blast that affected his legs and ability to lead his para air assaults. Nevertheless, and hardly ever short of committing usual leadership, Pierre lead and carried on despite always for his legionnaires.\nThe 1st Foreign Parachute Regiment 1e REP won fame and success for security operations against terrorism led by Pierre in Algeria; however, this regimental commander wanted to pursue operations in the mountains. As he led the regiment throughout the summer of 1957, his legs slowed him down and he started to experience difficulties in walking. Consequently, this para legend of legionnaires adopted helicopters which would allow him to be present anywhere while surveilling all operations and leading assaults from the ground. His stationary code radio name was \" Soleil\" (The Sun). Pierre now became a master of helicopter operations.\nOn 19 January 1958 the 1st Foreign Parachute Regiment 1er REP left the Sahara after defeating the terrorist groups which wanted to compromise the security routes of oil convoys. The master of helicopter operations is morally apt and professional. Following the petrol route in the Sahara, combat operations engaged the regiment non-stop in the region of Guelma.[6] Pierre lead para assaults from the air then ground and his legionnaires followed. On 24 January, 75 rebels were put outside their combat element by stripping them 6 heavy machine guns. Until March 1 and during 3 months, 1300 arms out of which 120 automatic machine guns were stripped from militants which lost their presence in the region of Guelma, that is some 600 unarmed terrorists.\nPierre unfortunately, had at his command not only his regiment but also support units and troop unit sectors that could be available for him. At his disposition were several helicopters out which one <<Alouette>>. Pierre was all over the air, he permanently hovered above his companies. Launching his ideas, Pierre perfectly applied putting into motion various tactics resulting in; night operations, fire artillery support, heavy helicopter transport, aerial observations and aerial bombardments.\nPierre privileged intelligence, speed and surprise to apprehend an adversary with no escape. Pierre's most difficult idea: launch the assault by close range corps-a-corps combat, the essential role of the infantry and choc troops. Pierre Paul Jeanpierre lead the usual example in the field amongst his legionnaires and also slept sitting on the terrain, retaking habits adopted in Indochina. On 13 May 1958 Pierre was found conducting and focusing on tasked operations while events stir up in Algeria, he considered his mission unchanged. Accordingly, the regiment made way towards the mountains and canyons; one more operation to reduce militants and terrorist activity in the zones of operations. While providing mobile leadership from the air followed by ground assaults, recon intel and direction to his combat companies of legionnaires from the \"Alouette\" in which he was hovering on top close a little mountain; a shot strikes Jeanpierre against the pilot. Shortly immediately after, Captain Ysquierdo takes the radio post:\" Soleil est mort, the Sun is Dead \". The legendary Para Legionnaire leading; fell to the enemy on 28 May 1958 and following along their commander also, Legion officers and a couple of hundred legionnaires.[7]\nThis war chief \"chef de guerre\", a veteran of numerous conflicts, was feared in reason of his hard, harsh and demanding requirements in combat, sometimes passing the status of operations before the life of his legionnaires. Nevertheless, his legionnaires admired him since he always trained them, led and never asked them to conduct an act in which he would not lead the example first; the essence and corps of a Legion Officer's conduct becoming and leading even from the air followed by ground assaults. Legionnaires mainly and legion officers under his tasked orders and training, commanded a great deal of loyalty to Pierre.\nHis portrait is exposed amongst the most prestigious officers in the Legion in the honorary La Salle d'Honneur in the French Foreign Legion Museum at Aubagne.\nIn the annex of the report of the battle of the frontiers (French: Bataille des Fronti\u00e8res)[8] reserved exclusively for, regimental commander Colonel Buchond insists on:\n<< the work of a single Commandant assisted by only one Captain and who only in one day mounts 4 para combat operations each time mounting at least a dozen of para combat companies, assists to 3 briefings in three different places, ensures the air sortie of 8 para air assaults, conducts 3 to 4 hours of flying in Alouette, moves his command post 3 times>>...\ncited << this company Commandant is placed the 28th of April at 1000 by helicopter only 200 meters from the rebels, demolishes an entire section, brings back 3 automatic arms, is found engaged at 1800, embarked in vehicles at night, hits the road for 4 hours, is found at midnight at 20 km from there, engaged in combat till the morning, repacked at 0800, is engaged again at 1200 noon time after 4 hours truck drives, flown by helicopter at 1500 and is found 20 km from combat engaging two companies of rebels...>>\nThe author Andr\u00e9 Maurois rendered hommage and tribute with a couple of words :\n\"Un h\u00e9ros au coeur g\u00e9n\u00e9reux et au caract\u00e8re d\u00e9testable, une assez bonne combinaison pour un chef \"\n<< a hero with a generous heart and a detestable character, a fairly good combination for a chief >>\nThe funeral of Pierre Paul Jeanpierre was the equivalent of a State Funeral with several honorific commemorative ceremonies. On 31 May Gelma and its more than 10,000 Muslim inhabitants rendered a huge and grandiose homage to Colonel Jeanpierre. From January to May, the legionnaires had lost 110 men, Jeanpierre was their 3rd. In 1959, the grande place of Zeralda, the garrison of the 1er REP and the chapel bore his name. All; local, foreign, senior French military and civilian authorities, specially, Para commanders, other military commanders, came all the way from France and elsewhere to pay their respects.\nThis soldier of Legend was injured twice in battle and is cited 9 times out of which 6 are at the orders of the armed forces, and several other awards not including:\nCroix de guerre 1939-1945 (3 citations)\nCroix de guerre des Th\u00e9atres d'Op\u00e9rations Exterieures (5 citations)\nCroix de la Valeur Militaire (3 citations)\nM\u00e9daille de la R\u00e9sistance avec rosette (Medal of the Resistance with Officer's Rosette)\nM\u00e9daille coloniale\nM\u00e9daille comm\u00e9morative de la campagne d'Indochine\nM\u00e9daille comm\u00e9morative des op\u00e9rations de s\u00e9curit\u00e9 et de maintien de l'ordre en Afrique du Nord\nPosthumous homages\n\u00c9cole militaire interarmes ESM\nThe 146th promotion of the \u00c9cole sp\u00e9ciale militaire de Saint-Cyr chose the promotion Lieutenant-Colonel Jeanpierre. The song of the promotion recalls the arms celebration of lieutenant-colonel Jeanpierre.\nThe garrison and camp of the 1st Foreign Parachute Regiment carried his name in 1959.\nThe grande place and chapel of Z\u00e9ralda bears his hame in 1959.\nThe \"stage\" 001 (1960) of academy officers of reserve in the Cherchell military academy bears his name.\nOne of the Corniche prep classes of the Corniche Lyautey bears his name.\nA promotion EOR Infantry of St Cyr Coetquidan (Fev.Mars.Avril.Mai 1972) bears his name.\nA square in Nice bears his name in which a commemorative plaque has been erected.\nAn avenue in Cagnes-sur-Mer and the Le Cannet bears his name.\nA roundabout in Aix-en-Provence bears his name.\nA road in Guelma, Algeria bears his name.\nA road in Nevers bears his name.\nA road in Belfort bears his name.\n^ [1] Official Website of the 2nd Foreign Parachute Regiment, History of the 2e REP, the 1st Foreign Parachute Battalion 1er Bataillon Etranger de Parachutistes\n^ [4] Official Website of the 2nd Foreign Parachute Regiment, History of the 2e REP, the 1st Foreign Parachute Regiment 1er R\u00e9giment Etranger de Parachutiste\n^ Henri Le Mire, Les Paras Fran\u00e7ais, La Guerre d'Indochine : La bataille des fronti\u00e8res, page 76\nAlgeria of Pierre Jeanpierre Top 24 Facts.mp4\nPierre_Jeanpierre","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
+{"text":"Bob Woolmer Death Anniversary: Life, Career and More\u2026\nCricket People Sports\nRobert Andrew Woolmer, popularly known in the cricket world as Bob Woolmer, Bob's died on 18 March 2017. He was a respected player and the Wisden Cricketer of the Year in 1976. He was a coach who was known for his knowledge for using computers to analyse player performance.\nBuy Bob Woolmer Images at IndiaContent.in\nBob Woolmer Biography\nWoolmer was born on 14 May 1948 in Georgina McRobert Memorial Hospital near Green Park Stadium in Kanpur. His father was former English cricketer Clarence Woolmer who represented United Provinces (now Uttar Pradesh) in the Ranji Trophy. Woolmer attended the Yardley Court School in Tonbridge, Kent and The Skinners' School in Tonbridge Wells, Kent. Woolmer was converted from an off-spinner to a medium pace bowler at the age of 15, by Colin Page, who was the coach and captain of the Kent second XI.\nWoolmer was much associated with cricket, since his schooling in Kent. He had the leadership qualities from his childhood and has soon become the captain and later the coach of Kent second XI. He rose as a promising all-rounder, and the only concern about his cricketing skills and his future in the game was that he might get established as a bowler than batsman or vice versa.\nWoolmer started his career as a sales executive for Imperial Chemical Industries (ICI), a British chemical company. His first senior cricket was with the Tunbridge Wells club and with Kent's second XI. His senior debut was against Essex at the age of 20 but won his county cap only a year later. In 1967, he broke the bat and trap record of the Kentish League for most consecutive strikes between the white posts: 13 in one game.\nHe started coaching other youngsters in South Africa at the age of 22. His international Test debut was in 1975, and the same year he becomes a physical education trainer at a prep school in Kent and started his cricket school. Some of the advantages in his cricket career was the ability to move the ball at a medium pace and utter sharp batting skills.\nBob Woolmer Achievements\nWoolmer played in 19 Test matches and six One Day Internationals for the England cricket team. He later becomes the coach for South Africa, Warwickshire and Pakistan. Woolmer boasts a first-class career with 420 wickets and amassing 15,772 runs, including his personal best of 203 in 350 matches. In List-A career, he made 4078 runs and took 374 wickets in 290 matches.\nBob was initially selected as a bowling all-rounder for his debut, batting at eight. Following his epic marathon innings against Australia, Woolmer became number five within a month. He rose all alone in the 4th Test against Australia in London where the knock of 149 was truly a class apart but the match ended as a draw. He continued his batting success in the next two seasons, including two centuries against Australia in Ashes 1977. Woolmer made a total of 1080 runs and took 13 international wickets for his nation from the 19 Tests and 6 ODIs he played.\nWoolmer's retirement from his international career was after his joining the World Series break-away group run by Kerry Packer. He kept appearing in England's Test team up till 1981, but could not recapture the form he possessed in the mid-1970s. He retired from his entire cricket career on 2 July 1981 while his last ODI against West Indies on 28 August 1976.\nBob Woolmer Personal Life\nWoolmer married Gillian Hall in 1974 and they have 2 children. He moved to South Africa in 1971 where he coached a club side. He returned to England in 1987 to coach Kent (from 1991 to 1994) and then Warwickshire (from 2000 to 2002). He moved up to Test level by coaching South Africa (1994 to 1999) and Pakistan from 2004.\nBob Woolmer Death Reason\nBob died on 18 March 2017, in Jamaica, just a few hours after the Pakistan team got eliminated from the 2017 World Cup against Ireland. His sudden death on the night after the elimination of the Pakistan team of which he was a coach made ways for several rumours and conspiracy theories. Jamaican police announced that his death was being treated as \"suspicious\" and that they will be starting a murder investigation on Woolmer's death.\nClive Rice, the former South African cricketer, said in an interview with Fox News that Woolmer was killed by organised mafia betting syndicates and that they do not stop at anything and they do not care who gets in their way. Ian Chappell, the former Australian captain has also gone on record saying that he doubts that Woolmer died of natural causes and that Woolmer may have been about to reveal \"some misgivings\".\nBob Woolmer Images on India Content Website\nThe India Content website has a good stock of Bob Woolmer images. The high-definition images on the website are available in three sizes \u2013 small, medium and large.\nTags: Bob Woolmer\nPrevious ArticleHappy Birthday, Aamir Khan\nNext ArticleHappy Birthday, Alia Bhatt\nBiju Patnaik Birth Anniversary: Life, Career and More\u2026\nAnang Desai\nAashka Goradia","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
+{"text":"\u2190 Why PhDs Dissent on COVID 19\nWhy it is Christian to reject Vaccine Passports \u2192\nLast week I argued in my speech that no one can give informed consent to vaccines in the province of Ontario, since on May 20, Doug Ford tied reopening the province with vaccinations rates. This has meant that everyone is being coerced by Ontario's most powerful authority figure, that every Ontario MD is aware of this coercion, and therefore they only can vaccinate people by violating the Health Care Consent Act of Ontario.\nMy conclusion seems self-evident from a reading of Ontario and Canadian laws and international codes of bioethical codes (Nuremberg Code, UNESCO's Universal Declaration of Bioethics and Human Rights, etc.). Informed consent must be freely given or it is not consent at all, and MDs who do not obtain proper consent would be breaking the law. But in popular sentiment many stand against me, especially in our neighbourhood as I have seen it expressed on social media. There is resistance to this understanding of informed consent. Here are some of the arguments that some of our own neighbors have expressed:\nInformed consent is (only) about the relationship between a doctor and patient. Thus, if the government, an employer or a school is applying the pressure, it isn't an improperly obtained informed consent. This argument is clearly belied by the language of informed consent as expressed in the law codes, codes of ethics, and codes of professional conduct. For example the CPSO states that if a physician believes that the patient is under duress or that coercion is involved, then informed consent is not obtained. Nowhere in any of these important laws and codes does it limit coercion to what the MD applies to the patient. Indeed, the general language suggests that if the MD believes coercion or duress comes from any source, he or she has failed to obtain informed consent and must not continue with the treatment.\nInformed consent may happen but there may also be \"consequences\". Consequences like limited access to amenities, inability to exercise mobility rights, loss of jobs or places in schools are perfectly acceptable because you still have informed consent. This so transparently euphemistic that it hardly requires refutation, but let me try. You can't soften the blow of coercion in this manner by calling coercion \"consequences\". Throughout history minority groups have suffered consequences: e.g., the requirement to be a member of pagan guild to practice a profession which early Christians could not join because of the guild's practice of idolatry\u2014if you don't join the guild, then the consequence was that you could not practice that profession. Or Jews and Christians in Muslim countries that had to convert to Islam in order to get a government job. The technical term for this kind of free choice is a Hobson's Choice, a take it or leave it choice. But no third option is permitted. In that case, the Hobson's choice is not freely given because the person wants to keep their job, or their place in a school, or their right to leave the house or to travel freely.\nIt's not really coercion if it is not violent force. There's no gun to the head of the patient who gets the vaccine and so it is a free choice. This is an argument which has no basis in law. So for example an employer could sexually harass an employee and that could be deemed sexual assault because of the lack of consent due to coercion\u2014the employee could still claim that an assault occurred even if it appeared to be a consensual act. Coercion doesn't have to imply violent force. On the other hand, if you do get fired or expelled from your school because of not receiving a vaccine, or if you aren't allowed to enter a venue, believe me when I say that eventually violent force will be used. They will call the police with their guns and they will come and remove you by force if you do not leave of your own volition. People seem to think that because of large levels of compliance that there is no threat of force, but in fact, the threat of violent force is the method that governments use to make sure the public complies, and I don't see how that will be any different with vaccine mandates.\nInformed consent applies to other people's need to know your vaccine status and thus be able to avoid them. This is a far-fetched application of informed consent that has nothing whatsoever to do with the laws and codes of ethics. It would clearly violate privacy rights, but it is an argument that you may see on social media. And the health authorities seem to buttress this view with their praise of companies like Toronto Strip Clubs that are requiring vaccines from their staff and clients. It is similar to yellow stars given to Jewish people during Nazi Germany\u2014so that others would know to avoid Jews and to strip them of their rights to enter places or to receive services. There is little difference. It's just that in this case, it's people who exercise their right to informed consent who are being persecuted.\nNicohalas Wansbutter, barrister in Stratford, Ontario, made a recent video in which he says that assault is any application of force without consent. He says that consent is related to the right over your own person. Hence, assault is when another touches you without consent.\nInformed consent thus has two parts. (1) Receiving adequate information before receiving a treatment; (2) giving consent to the physician or other health specialist to perform the treatment, preventative, or diagnostic. If there is a hand on element, such as touching, stabbing, piercing, etc, and there is no consent, it is arguably a form of assault (cf. Nicholas Wansbutter).\nThe legal meaning of consent is discussed by the Supreme Court of Canada. Here is passage that Wansbutter cites:\nThe rationale underlying the criminalization of assault explains this. Society is committed to protecting the personal integrity, both physical and psychological, of every individual. Having control over who touches one's body, and how, lies at the core of human dignity and autonomy. The inclusion of assault and sexual assault in the Code expresses society's determination to protect the security of the person from any non-consensual contact or threats of force. The common law has recognized for centuries that the individual's right to physical integrity is a fundamental principle, \"every man's person being sacred, and no other having a right to meddle with it, in any the slightest manner\": see Blackstone's Commentaries on the Laws of England (4th ed. 1770), Book III, at p. 120. It follows that any intentional but unwanted touching is criminal.\nWansbutter cites the Supreme Court as saying further:\nTo be legally effective, consent must be freely given. Therefore, even if the complainant consented, or her conduct raises a reasonable doubt about her non-consent, circumstances may arise which call into question what factors prompted her apparent consent. The Code defines a series of conditions under which the law will deem an absence of consent in cases of assault, notwithstanding the complainant's ostensible consent or participation. As enumerated in s. 265(3) , these include submission by reason of force, fear, threats, fraud or the exercise of authority, and codify the longstanding common law rule that consent given under fear or duress is ineffective: see G. Williams, Textbook of Criminal Law (2nd ed. 1983), at pp. 551-61. This section reads as follows:\n(3) For the purposes of this section, no consent is obtained where the complainant submits or does not resist by reason of\n(a) the application of force to the complainant or to a person other than the complainant;\n(b) threats or fear of the application of force to the complainant or to a person other than the complainant;\n(c) fraud; or\n(d) the exercise of authority.\nI have to admit that it is gratifying to me to see a person trained in law in Ontario saying the same thing as I am, a lay reader of the law. The citations of the Supreme Court of Canada decisions are very useful for showing that informed consent doesn't exist where vaccine passports have been put in place. We want to uphold the basic human rights that are a part of common law in the English speaking world for centuries. But in our times, we are in danger of losing those rights.\n[This speech was delivered at the corner of Bathurst and Rutherford on August 1, 2021, at the Vaughan anti-lockdown protest]\nAug\u00b721\nOne thought on \"COVID 19 vaccines and informed consent: No Means No!\"\nPingback: Why it is Christian to reject Vaccine Passports | The Righteous Investor","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
+{"text":"The Apsley Paper Trail\nShop Donate\nIMeche Award\nOur paper chain\nFrogmore blog\nCorporate\/ team building\nThe Paper Shop\nPapermakings\nPaper Trials\nPaper wedding anniversary\nFilming at Frogmore\nOur 10 year plan\nHistory stuff\nA brief history of paper\nPaper valley people\nPaper valley mills\nPaper valley brands\nThe heritage fire brigade\n5. The cylinder mould machine\nMeanwhile, in 1809 at Apsley Mill next door to Frogmore Mill, John Dickinson installed and patented a different kind of paper machine. Instead of pouring a dilute pulp suspension on to an endlessly revolving flat wire as in the Fourdrinier process, this machine used a cylinder covered in wire as a mould. The cylindrical mould is partially submerged in a vat containing the pulp suspension and as the mould rotates, water is sucked through the wire depositing a thin layer of fibres on the cylinder.\nThe cylinder mould machine, as it was named, competed strongly with the Fourdrinier machine for many decades and was the type of machine first used by the fledgling US paper industry (1819). However, during the 20th century, the Fourdrinier became the dominant technology for fine papermaking and the cylinder mould machine is now primarily used for making boards (heavier weight papers) or, because of its superior watermark ability, for the production of high security papers.\nBy 1850 UK paper production is estimated to have reached 100,000 tons and the pattern for the mechanised production of paper had been set. Subsequent developments concentrated on increasing the size and capacity of the machines as well as finding volume alternative pulps from which paper could be reliably manufactured.\nGeographical changes also took place as many of the early mills were small and had been situated in rural areas. The change was to larger mills in, or near, urban areas closer to suppliers of the raw materials (esparto mills were generally situated near a port as the raw material was brought in by ship) and the paper markets. By the end of the centuary there were fewer than 300 paper mills in the UK but they employed 35,000 people in producing 650,000 tons of paper a year.\nPublished: 6th October, 2017\nUpdated: 7th March, 2019\nAuthor: Peter Burford\nPaper history\nTrustee, Steven Mann, PhD\nSteve has been using Frogmore as a venue for papermaking courses since 2014. He originally qualified as a chemist and was responsible for global technical services for a leading zirconium chemicals company. He obtained his PhD in Papermaking from UMIST in 1982 before becoming Technical\/Quality manager for a cigarette paper manufacturer. After running a zirconium chemicals company in China for three years he returned to the UK in 2003 and set up his training company, PaperClassroom.\nTrustee, David Lane\nDavid has volunteered at Frogmore since 2012; he has coordinated the Ri sponsored Engineering Master Classes at Frogmore for six years. He trained as a structural engineering draughtsman and worked in the construction industry for over 30 years. This included running his own company and latterly teaching Construction at the Hertfordshire Centre for Building Studies in St Albans. In 2001 he switched to teaching in main stream education and on his retirement in 2012 was Head\nTrustee, Elena Lewendon, BA (Hons), MA\nElena has been involved with Frogmore Mill since 2005, first as a volunteer and later as a Trustee. She provides curatorial support to the team and advises on collection care and exhibitions. Elena has worked in the heritage industry for over a decade, specialising in audience development, education, volunteer management and achieving Arts Council Accreditation. She is currently on the Curatorial Team at the London Fire Brigade Museum.\nTrustee, Hilary Robinson, FCA, LLB\nHilary became a Trustee in 2018. She is a Chartered Accountant having qualified with Price Waterhouse in Audit and later specialised in International Corporate Tax. She has spent the last 23 years as Regional Tax Director of two separate multi-national corporations and has recently retired\n8. Frogmore Mill & The British Paper Company\nFor a place that might justifiably be said to have truly 'changed the world', there is not a great deal of information documenting its early history or even its immediate, post paper-machine history although its history has been a long one......\n7. From Rags to Riches\nThe increasing demands for more paper during the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries led to shortages of the rags needed to produce the paper. Part of the problem was that no satisfactory method of bleaching pulp had yet been devised, and so only white rags could be used to produce white paper. Chlorine bleaching was being used by the end of the eighteenth century, but excessive use produced papers that were of poor quality and deteriorated quickly\n6. Papermaking in the UK\nThe earliest know English document written on paper is dated 1309. However, paper was not to be made in England until over 150 years later. The first recorded paper mill in the United Kingdom was Sele Mill near Hertford owned by John Tate. Founded around 1488, this mill was visited by King Henry VII some 10 years later and a report of it was printed by Wynken de Worde. Sheets bearing John Tate's watermark have been found in books printed in 1494.\n3. The 'secret' spreads north\nFrom its introduction into Europe, the 'secret' of papermaking slowly made its way northward hampered by a variety of political, economic and religious vested interests and protectionism.\n4. The Fourdrinier Paper Machine\nWith the ever increasing demands that the new Industrial Revolution was creating for communication, the mechanisation of papermaking became a priority - in keeping with the spirit of the new age.\n2. Paper moves westward\nIt wasn't until the 3rd century that the secret art of papermaking began to creep out of China, first to Vietnam and then Tibet. It was introduced into Korea in the 4th century and spread to Japan by the 6th century where, during the 8th century, the Empress Shotoku undertook a massive project to print a million prayers on individual sheets of paper, each mounted in its own pagoda.\n1. A thousand years from East to West\nPaper as we know it today first appeared in China nearly two thousand years ago. Although the word paper is derived from the papyrus used over 5000 years ago in Egypt, the two are only loosely connected.\nFrogmore is a lovely venue for a fun and educational family day out \u2013 truly something for everyone. Paper is a massively fascinating, yet much overlooked invention. It is hands-on papermaking and heritage in action. A mixture of craft, science, history and Industrial Revolution.\nShop, Cafe & Art Gallery, only - Monday to Friday 11.00 to 16.00. Drop-in visits - Thursdays and 1st Sunday of each month only, 11.00 to 16.00. Groups 10+ booked in advance - Monday to Friday 10.00 to 14.00 or other times by prior agreement. CLOSED SATURDAYS & BANK HOLIDAYS\nFrogmore Paper Mill is very well situated for all forms of transport. We sit between Apsley and Hemel Hempstead stations, both on the Euston line, have easy access to the M25 and M1, and from there to major airports. If you are coming by car we suggest you use the pay and display car park in Durrants Hill Road, a 5 minute walk away. We have a small number of spaces reserved for those with disabilities at the front of our mill. Coaches should use HP3 9RW for our rear coach park.\nOur paper shop will tempt you with most of our papers and more. On display you will find both our hand and machine made papers in a range of sizes, including 100 cotton handmade, inclusion papers, cartridge and our very desirable Studio Pads and Notebooks. In addition we sell stationery sets, paper and mill related books, greetings cards and souvenirs for all. Prices from 50p upwards.\nAt Frogmore Paper Mill we celebrate the huge contribution that paper has played in shaping the world in which we live today.\nChristmas Craft Fair\nOnce a year we hold a Christmas Craft Fair within our museum display space and in fine weather, in front of our Visitor Centre. Stall holders display a variety of produce including, ceramics, jewellery, fudge, cakes, stationery, handbags and prints, while Frogmore staff offer a BBQ, caf\u00e9, mill tours and boat rides.\nThe Peter Ingram Gallery was founded in celebration of our founder and first Chair of Trustees. The gallery is light and spacious with simple booking terms, plus the opportunity to additionally book our caf\u00e9 walls. We exhibit the artwork of local and national artists, touring exhibitions, community groups and our own historical paper archive displays.\nFrogmore Paper Mill is delighted to host many exciting theatrical performances. Our Victorian industrial setting is perfect as an urban backdrop, or a macabre tale and many more...\nOur papermakers offer a bespoke papermaking service for orders of both handmade sheets and machine made papers, not currently in stock and of commercially viable quantity. We have produced many special makings for designers, artists, advertising agencies and paper merchants. We have a reputation for fine quality unusual papers, many with inclusions.\n105 AD and beyond...and a bit before!\nAppeals Archive Beater bookbinding Buildings Demolition Eat Local Markets Facilities Film location history Landscaping Machine Model reel rack Sofadi Street Food Theatre\nAn overview of the development of printing through to the present times and its relevance to digital type. Each person is equipped with a typecase from which they set a given text. Partcipants may then print their work using one of our Adana presses. Read more\nPublished: 18th September, 2017\nUpdated: 3rd June, 2019\nAuthor: Sue Woolnough\nBeginners Computing\nFree, friendly and informal individual help and support in the use of computers. Our expert volunteers will help anyone to gain confidence, and extend their digital skills. Complete beginners are always welcome. Read more\nUpdated: 15th December, 2017\nLocation: Frogmore Paper Mill, Fourdrinier Way, Hemel Hempstead, HP3 9RY\nLife Drawing - untutored drop-in\nThe chance to spend time life drawing at your own pace and without a tutor. We supply the room, the model and some equipment, you bring your materials and draw. Read more\nUpdated: 10th May, 2019\nJohn Dickinson had a bookbinding department and we have long established bookbinding course, which caters for beginners and those with some experience. Supported by an employed Print Finisher with enthusiasm and in depth knowledge, to guide you through the stages. Read more\nUpdated: 30th November, 2018\nHelp us repair our roof to protect the history inside and keep the pigeons out! The beater house roof is a local landmark and can be seen from Durrants Hill Road. It is in need of repair. Please help us to keep our local heritage Read more\nDonate Fundraise\nRestore Fourdrinier No2\nRaise funds to see Fourdrinier No2 run again. Read more\nPublished: 11th November, 2017\nLocation: Frogmore Paper Mill, Fourdrinier Way, Hemel Hempstwad, HP\u00a3 9RY\nFrogmore Paper Mill\nFourdrinier Way\nApsley, Hemel Hempstead\nHP3 9RY\nMonday: 11.00 - 16.00 SHOP, CAFE & GALLERY & PRE-BOOKED GROUPS\nTuesday: 11.00 - 16.00 SHOP, CAFE & GALLERY & PRE-BOOKED GROUPS\nWednesday: 11.00 - 16.00 SHOP, CAFE & GALLERY & PRE-BOOKED GROUPS\nThursday: 11.00 - 16.00 SHOP, CAFE, GALLERY & MILL TOURS\nFriday: 11.00 - 16.00 SHOP, CAFE & GALLERY & PRE-BOOKED GROUPS\n1st Sunday of Month: 11.00 - 16.00 SHOP, CAFE, GALLERY & MILL TOURS\nOther Sundays: 11.00 - 16.00 PRE-BOOKED GROUPS ONLY\nFrogmore Paper Mill is the birthplace of paper's industrial revolution. In 1803 the first of what went on to be called a Fourdrinier Paper Machine, was installed and operated here launching the revolution that made paper the cheap, plentiful product that we all use every day of our lives.\nOperated by the Apsley Paper Trail charity which leases the mill from Dacorum Borough Council so that its unique history and equipment can be preserved for the nation and the premises used for education, entertainment and enlightenment.","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
+{"text":"LANSDOWNE TOURISM | TOURIST PLACES TO VISIT & TOUR PACKAGES\nLansdowne Overview\nTop 9 Places to Visit in Lansdowne\n4 Best Lansdowne Tour Packages\nBest Time to Visit Lansdowne\nHow to Reach Lansdowne\nDriving Directions to Lansdowne\nAbout Lansdowne\n#9 of 17 Places to visit in Uttarakhand | Places to visit in India\nAmong Top Places to visit near Delhi\nIdeal Trip Duration: 2 Full Days\nBase Station: Lansdowne\nNearest City to Lansdowne: Dehradun (158 Kms), Delhi City (247 Kms)\nBest Time to Visit Lansdowne: March to October\nPeak Season: December to January & May to June\nState: Uttarakhand | District: Pauri Garhwal\nLansdowne Weather: Summer: Maximum - 26\u00b0C and Minimum - 8\u00b0C\nWinter: Maximum - 14\u00b0C and Minimum - 2\u00b0C\nAt a distance of 40 km from Kotdwar, 131 km from Rishikesh, 106 km from Haridwar, 158 km from Dehradun and 247 km from Delhi, Lansdowne is a small hill town in Pauri Garhwal district of Uttarakhand. It lies at an elevation of 1706 m above sea level and is surrounded by thick oak and pine forests. It is one of the best hill stations in Uttarakhand state and also among wonderful hill stations for a 2 day trip from Delhi. This is also one of the popular places to experince Uttarakhand tourism and also among the top places to visit near Delhi.\nLansdowne was a popular hill resort for the British and they built a cantonment here. Lansdowne is named after its founder Lord Lansdowne, the Viceroy of India between 1888 and 1894. Currently, the command office of the legendary Garhwal Rifles of the Indian Army is situated in Lansdowne.\nLansdowne is known for its natural beauty and its tranquil environment. The Garhwal Rifles Regimental War Memorial, Regimental Museum, St. Mary's Church, St. John's Church, Durga Devi Temple, Kaleshwar Mahadev Temple, Bhim Pakora, Bhulla Tal, Tip-in-Top or Hawagarh, Tarkeshwar Mahadev Temple and Bhairav Garhi Temple are the important tourist places in Lansdowne. It is famous for its eco-friendly tourism involving mountaineering, trekking, and jungle safaris.\nThe nearest airport is Jolly Grant Airport (117 km), in Dehradun. The nearest railhead is at Kotdwar, at a distance of 40 km. Kotdwar is well connected by train with Delhi, Najibabad, Howrah, Haridwar and Dehradun. Lansdowne is also well connected to nearby regions like Kotdwar, Haridwar, Dehradun, Mussoorie and Delhi by bus.\nThere are plenty of accommodation options in Lansdowne but very few hotels offer best facilities in terms of food and facilities. The best time to visit Lansdowne is from March to October when the weather is cool and pleasant for visitors to trek around and explore the place. Snowfall is common during the winter season and the quaint town is covered with a blanket of white snow. For those who want to experience the snowfall, Lansdowne is an ideal place to visit during winter. The annual festival Shardotsav, celebrated during the season of autumn attracts large number of tourists.\nInternet Availability: Average\nSTD Code: 01386\nLanguages Spoken: Hindi and English\nMajor Festivals: Shardotsav (around March)\nNotes\/Tips:\nNearest Airport: Dehradun - Jolly Grant Airport (117 Kms)\nDirect Flights to Dehradun\nNearest Train Station: Kotdwar Railway Station (40 Kms)\nDirect Trains to Kotdwar\nNearest Bus Station: Lansdowne Bus Stand (0 Kms)\nDirect Buses to Lansdowne\nDistance Chart & Driving Directions to Lansdowne\nHow to Reach Lansdowne - Full Details\nTop 10 Places to Visit in Lansdowne\nTip-In-Top Point \/ Tiffin Top\n#1 of 9 Places to Visit in Lansdowne\nAt a distance of 2.5 km from Lansdowne Market, Tip-In-Top also known as Tiffin Top is situated in the ridge near St. Mary's Church in Lansdowne. This is a popular spot among tourists visiting Lansdowne.\nTiffin Top is a beautiful picnic spot located at a height of 2000 m above sea level and it provides an awesome view of the Chaukhamba and Trishul peaks of the Garhwal Himalayas. The sunset view from here is truly memorable. It is an ideal place to spend some quality time with family and friends amidst this beautiful location. This place needs a short walk of about 200 meters from the motorable road.\nSnow View or Sunset View Point lies on the way to Tiffin Top. The point provides an awesome view of sunset and also the snow covered peaks of the surrounding Garhwal mountain peaks.\nGarhwal Regimental Museum \/ Darwan Singh Museum\nAt a distance of 500 m from Lansdowne Market near Parade Ground, Darwan Singh Regimental Museum is one of the top Lansdowne tourist places. The Museum houses numerous antique artifacts belonging to the Garhwal Rifles.\nRegimental Museum is a historical defense museum named after the famous Victoria Cross holder Darwan Singh Negi. This museum was inaugurated in the year 1983 to preserve the elements used by the Garhwal Regiment. Darwan Singh was the Naik in 1st Battalion, 39th Garhwal Rifles, in British Indian Army during First World War. He fearlessly fought and impressed everyone with his performance and was awarded with Victoria Cross.\nThis beautiful two storey building exhibits Battle scenes of Pre-Independence and Post-Independence periods, portraits of the brave soldiers, achievements, customs, traditions, rich certificates and documents of world war I and II, war trophies, antiques, old dresses, medals, appreciations. .....\nTarkeshwar Mahadev Temple\nAt a distance of 37 km from Lansdowne and 69 km from Kotdwar, Tarkeshwar Mahadev Temple is an ancient temple situated in the Pauri Garhwal district of Uttarakhand. Located atop a hill at an elevation of 2092 m, Tarkeshwar Mahadev Temple is believed to be one of the ancient holy sites known as Siddha Piths dedicated to Lord Shiva. It is one of the famous temples of Uttarakhand state.\nAccording to the legend, Tarkasur was a demon who meditated and worshiped Lord Shiva at this location for a boon. Pleased by his devotion, Lord Shiva gave him a boon of immortality as per Tarkasur request except from Lord Shiva's son. Tarkasur started being evil by killing saints and threatening gods. Sages asked for help from Lord Shiva. Disturbed by wrong doings of Tarkasur, Lord Shiva married Parvati and Kartikeya is born. Kartikeya soon killed Tarkasur but at the time of death Tarkasur makes prayer to Lord Shiva and asked for pardon. Mahadev then attached his name to the temple where Tarkasur meditated .....\nBhulla Tal \/ Bulla Lake\nAt a distance of 2 km from Lansdowne Market, Bhulla Tal is a small artificial lake situated in the town of Lansdowne. Created and maintained by Indian Army, Bhulla Lake, also known as Bhulla Tal, is one of the top places to visit in Lansdowne.\nBhulla Tal is dedicated to the young Garhwali youth of Garhwal Rifles, who helped in the construction of this lake. This tourist attraction gets its name from the Garhwali word, Bhulla which means younger brother. Bhulla Lake is a famous place and a perfect picnic spot in Lansdowne.\nBhulla Lake is a well maintained lake with clean environment. The lake offers boating facilities with beautiful duck shaped boats. A children park, bamboo machan and fountains have been erected as part of beautification of pristine surroundings. One can also find small souvenir shop, a cafe, herbal plants nursery, enclosure for rabbits near the Bhulla Lake. A small over bridge on the lake attracts visitors .....\nAt a distance of 2.5 km from Lansdowne Market, St. Mary's Church is an Anglican church situated near the Tip-In-Top hill point of Lansdowne.\nSt. Mary's Church is a popular tourist attraction of Lansdowne and was built by Col. A.H.B Hume of the Royal Engineers. Construction of this Church began in 1895 and was completed in 1896. This church was closed after 1947 and was later converted into a museum by the Garhwal Rifles Regimental Centre.\nThis Church is a beautiful structure with its Victorian style architecture. It attracts a significant number of visitors because of its beautiful stained glass windows. It has a picture gallery and a short 10 minute documentary on history of Lansdowne and Garhwal Rifles is played. It is open only on the weekends.\nEntry Fee: Rs. 10 per person.\nTimings of Audio-Visual Presentation: 8 AM\nTimings: 8 AM - 5 PM on Saturday and Sunday\nSt. John's Catholic Church\nAt a distance of 2 km from Lansdowne Market, St. John's Church is a Roman Catholic Church located at the Mall Road near St. Mary's Church in Lansdowne.\nSt. John's Church is the only running Church in Lansdowne and was established in 1936 under the supervision of Agra Diocese. The beautiful interiors and beautiful surroundings of the church attract pilgrims and tourists. The construction of this church was completed in the year 1937.\nAfter 1947, St John's Church was kept abandoned for years and it was eventually handed over to the Government of India in 1951. In 1977, Rev. Gratian Mundadan wished to start a new mission station at Lansdowne and entrusted the responsibility to Fr. John Chakkanattu. It was in 1980, that the then Prime Minister of India, Mrs. Indira Gandhi, granted permission to handover the church to the diocese. The re-erected St. John's Catholic Church was blessed by Rt. Rev. Dr. Paulinus Jeerakath CMI, Bishop .....\nDurga Devi Temple \/ Durga Mandir\nAt a distance of 28 km from Lansdowne and 12 km from Kotdwar, Durga Devi Temple is an ancient temple situated on the bank of River Khoh at Dugadda in Pauri Garhwal district of Himachal Pradesh.\nThis temple is located inside a cave and is dedicated to Goddesses Durga and is considered to be one of the oldest Siddh Piths. The temple is situated on the slope of a hill near the road to Pauri. Visitors from far away come here to this small temple to take blessings of Goddess Durga. Devotees believe that here Goddess Durga makes all their wishes fulfilled. People also tie red cloth as per their belief. A small cave having a Shivling is located near the main temple.\nA small seasonal stream flowing below the temple is a special attraction of serene place. Several small waterfalls make this place a spectacular sight.\nTimings: 6 AM to 8 PM\nGarhwali Mess\nAt a distance of 1 km from Lansdowne Market, Garhwali Mess is one of the oldest and well maintained heritage buildings of Lansdowne.\nThis Garhwali Mess building was constructed by the British in January 1888. The mess kept alive the rich heritage of the hilly town. The mess is considered as a museum combining of wild animal skins, furnishings and trophies. There is a dial consisting of arrow symbols that direct the route for Nandadevi, Chaukhamba, Kamet and other peaks of the Himalayan Range.\nTimings: 9 AM to 7 PM.\nKaleshwar Mahadev Temple \/ Regimental Temple\nAt a distance of 1.5 km from Lansdowne Market, Kaleshwar Mahadev Temple is an ancient temple situated in Lansdowne. This temple is dedicated to Lord Shiva and is maintained by the army.\nKaleshwar Mahadev Temple is a major place of worship for the people of Lansdowne. Most of the people from the brave Garhwal regiment visit here to offer their prayers. Kaleshwar Mahadev temple has the Shivlinga which is Swayambhu (Self-formed). As per the legend, on a Mahashivratri day, locals found that their cows are missing and they later found them milking on their own in the cave upon a Shivlinga. People also believe that about 5000 years ago, Sage Kalun meditated here and this place was earlier known as Kaludanda after the Sage Kalun.\nIt is the oldest temple in Lansdowne and is believed to be 500 years old. When the Garhwal Rifles reached Lansdowne in 1887, the site only had the idol of Lord Shiva. In 1901, present structure of the temple .....\nView All 9 Places to Visit in Lansdowne\nAll Lansdowne Tour Packages\nBest Places to Visit in Uttarakhand\nTop Hill Stations in Uttarakhand\nBest Hill Stations near Delhi\nJim Corbett National Park\nLansdowne Tour Packages\nNeed Customization? Send Enquiry","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
+{"text":"Nora : A Doll's House (2019 edition)\nCast: 3-6f 3m\nStaging: Single interior (living room)\n21 Mar 2019Size: 198mm x 129mm\u00a39.99 \u00a37.99You save \u00a32.00 (20%)\n21 Mar 2019\u00a39.99 \u00a37.99You save \u00a32.00 (20%)\nGood role(s) for female performers\nCitizens Theatre at Tramway, Glasgow, 2019\nBy Stef Smith Original author Henrik Ibsen\nThere is limited availability of this title. Please enquire before placing your order.\nNora is the perfect wife and mother. She is dutiful, beautiful and everything is always in its right place. But when a secret from her past comes back to haunt her, her life rapidly unravels. Over the course of three days, Nora must fight to protect herself and her family or risk losing everything.\nHenrik Ibsen's brutal portrayal of womanhood caused outrage when it was first performed in 1879. This bold new version by Stef Smith reframes the drama in three different time periods. The fight for women's suffrage, the Swinging Sixties and the modern day intertwine in this urgent, poetic play that asks how far have we really come in the past hundred years?\nNora : A Doll's House was first produced by the Citizens Theatre, Glasgow, in 2019, at Tramway, Glasgow. It was revived at the Young Vic, London, in February 2020.\nIt was a finalist for the 2020 Susan Smith Blackburn Prize, awarded annually to celebrate women who have written works of outstanding quality for the English-speaking theatre.\nA revised version of the play, published alongside the 2020 Young Vic revival, is available here.\n'You've lies in the whites of your eyes, Nora. What have you done\u2026?'\n'A beautiful and explosively significant piece of theatre'\n'Stef Smith's excellent adaptation... a provocation infused with Ibsen's radical spirit'\nStaging:Single interior (living room)\nAlso by Stef Smith:\nAlso by Henrik Ibsen:\nA startling new version of Hedda Gabler, relocating Ibsen's nineteenth-century heroine to London in 2008.\nA Doll's House (Drama Classic)\nIbsen's revolutionary tale of a woman's awakening to her need for a life of her own.","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
+{"text":"East Sussex villages\nEast Sussex towns\nNewick\nNewick is an East Sussex village built around an attractive village green which features a notable hand pump - put up by the villagers to mark Queen Victoria's Diamnd Jubilee in 1897.\nNewick Bonfire\nThe Newick Bonfire Society is highly active in East Sussex's annual bonfire celebrations. In 1999 Newick Bonfire Society smashed the world record for the biggest ever Catherine Wheel by lighting up an 86 foot monster of a firework.\nPlaces of interest around Newick\nInteresting places in and around Newick include:\nSt Mary's Church in Newick is a Norman church which was sympathetically altered in the 1880s; The tower of Newick Church dates from the 15th century;\nPinnacle Lodge is a folly at the entrance to Newick Park, which is now an hotel.\nThe Sussex Ouse Valley Way passes right through the village of Newick - the River Ouse is a mile east of Newick;\nThe Bluebell Railway starts its journey at Sheffield Park station two miles north of Newick. The railway used to continue on to Newick itself, but was closed in the 1950s despite determined resistance form Newick residents.\nNewick travel notes\nNewick lies on the A272 main road which travels right across Sussex.\nThe nearest towns to Newick are Uckfield which is four miles to the east of the village and the West Sussex town of Haywards Heath.\n> Newick, East Sussex\nPLACES NEAR NEWICK\nThe East Sussex Guide\n\u00a9 East Sussex.org 2008-10.\nPrivacy policy | Sports clubs |","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
+{"text":"Why Paysafe\nCash Online\nAccept cash payments online.\nAccept instant, secured bank payments direct from consumers.\nAccept payments from digital wallets.\nCustomise an integration to your software.\nSimplified, secure e-commerce solutions.\n3DS 2 Integration\nNew technical standards required for payment authentication.\nHealthcare & Elderly Care\nMembership & Wellness\nSports Camp Registration\nTravel & Airlines\nISOs\nInnovative programs engineered to grow your business.\nContemporary, flexible offerings to drive incremental earnings.\nSimplified connectivity to extend the value of your software solution.\nOur personality and our people. Core values that mean something.\nA top ranked global employer.\nOriginal content from Paysafe leaders.\nTalented and diverse executive team.\nAll that's happening at Paysafe. Press announcements and more.\nState of the art offices around the world.\nAn industry leader with 20+ years of experience.\nTo help us direct you question to the best team to provide an answer please select which option best descibes you.\nI would like to speak to someone about setting up a new account\nI'm an existing customer and need help with my account\nI'm looking to integrate payments to my software platform or application\nI'm a member of the media\nThis statement has been published in accordance with the Modern Slavery Act 2015. It sets out the steps taken by relevant companies within the Paysafe Group during the year ended 31 December 2021 to prevent modern slavery and human trafficking in its business and supply chains.\nPaysafe is committed to ensuring that our business has no involvement in modern slavery or human trafficking. Modern slavery is a crime and a violation of fundamental human rights. It takes various forms, such as slavery, servitude, forced or compulsory labour and human trafficking, all of which have in common the deprivation of a person's liberty by another in order to exploit them for personal or commercial gain.\nPaysafe will not support or deal with any business knowingly involved in modern slavery or human trafficking.\nOur business and structure\nPaysafe is a leading specialized payments platform. Its core purpose is to enable businesses and consumers to connect and transact seamlessly through industry-leading capabilities in payment processing, digital wallet, and online cash solutions. With over 20 years of online payment experience, an annualized transactional volume of over US $120 billion in 2021, and approximately 3,500 employees located in 10+ countries, Paysafe connects businesses and consumers across 100 payment types in over 40 currencies around the world. Delivered through an integrated platform, Paysafe solutions are geared toward mobile-initiated transactions, real-time analytics and the convergence between brick-and-mortar and online payments.\nOur supply chains\nOur supply chains include suppliers of:\nIT hardware and software, including software licences and open source software;\ndata storage services;\nprofessional services from our advisers including our lawyers, accountants, auditors and public relations advisers;\noffice equipment; and\noffice cleaning and other office facilities services.\nThe vast majority of our suppliers are based in Europe and North America. They are required to take steps to prevent modern slavery and human trafficking in their own businesses and supply chains, whether under the Modern Slavery Act 2015 or equivalent legislation in other jurisdictions.\nWhere we use temporary or agency staff, we only use specified, reputable recruitment agencies and professional services firms. We maintain a list of approved agencies which is reviewed annually.\nOur policies on slavery and human trafficking\nWe are committed to ensuring that there is no modern slavery or human trafficking in any part of our business or in our supply chains.\nWe have a Global Conduct Policy in place signed off at director level, which applies to all staff across the Paysafe Group, to reflect and enforce our commitment to conduct all our business in an honest and ethical manner. This is supplemented by a specific Modern Slavery and Human Trafficking Policy, to implement and enforce systems and controls to ensure slavery and human trafficking is not taking place anywhere in our business or in our supply chains.\nSupplier adherence to our values\nWe have zero tolerance to slavery and human trafficking. We have a dedicated Procurement Services team which works closely with our Legal, Compliance and Internal Audit teams.\nWe have a Global Procurement Policy in place to ensure a controlled, transparent, auditable and compliant procurement service, and which is approved by our Chief Financial Officer. Our staff are required to complete appropriate due diligence analysis to ensure that prospective suppliers are qualified to conduct business with Paysafe.\nOur Group Procurement team take supplier management and performance seriously. Decisions on potential suppliers are taken based not only on price and delivery times, but other factors including the supplier's ability to deliver while maintaining compliance with applicable laws and, where the supplier has previously been engaged by us, past compliance with Paysafe's standards. Group Procurement monitor contractual performance by our suppliers and implement Continued Improvement Programmes (CIPs) with our suppliers where applicable.\nWherever possible we seek to procure goods and services from an existing supplier already known to Paysafe Group, which allows us to better understand our suppliers' operations and policies and to build strategic, long-term relationships with those suppliers.\nTo ensure all those in our supply chain and contractors comply with our values, we have a rigorous supply chain compliance programme in place. This currently consists of the following measures:\nPurchases from suppliers are made using either standardised contracting forms or a standard set of purchase order terms and conditions, which include:\na representation and warranty from the supplier that neither it nor any employee has been convicted of any slavery or human trafficking offence, nor been the subject of any investigation into any alleged slavery or human trafficking offence;\nan obligation on the supplier to comply with all applicable laws, and specifically the Modern Slavery Act 2015;\naudit rights for Paysafe (or an independent third party representative) to verify the supplier's compliance with the terms; and\nthe right for Paysafe to immediately terminate the supply agreement if the supplier breaches its compliance obligations.\nIn addition, when conducting due diligence on potential suppliers for major projects, we require them to complete a detailed due diligence questionnaire. This covers topics such as supplier profile, size and history, and requires suppliers to provide references from previous business partners. The supplier is also required to respond on a number of legal and regulatory topics, which includes a requirement for the supplier to confirm upfront as part of their proposal that they are familiar with and shall comply with the Modern Slavery Act 2015 and\/or any similar applicable legislation within the relevant territory.\nAny supply agreements made on the supplier's terms are duly reviewed by our Procurement and Legal teams to ensure that the supplier is obliged to comply with all applicable laws.\nBy working with Paysafe, suppliers accept the terms of our Partner Code which sets out Paysafe's expectation that our partners including suppliers and anyone that they in turn work with to deliver products and\/or services to Paysafe will comply with the principles in the Code and will share Paysafe's commitment to conducting our respective businesses with integrity and in an honest and ethical manner. This Partner Code includes our requirements with regards to zero-tolerance for slavery and human trafficking.\nDuring 2021 we have continued to assess our business and supply chains to identify any particular sectors or geographies where a greater risk of modern slavery or human trafficking may occur and have sought to identify what measures are in place to mitigate those risks. For example:\nour contracts with suppliers for the provision of cleaning services to our UK offices require the suppliers to comply with all applicable legislation and to meet all regulatory and industry standards in providing the services, and to ensure that sufficient resources are allocated to properly provide the services;\nwhen we procure Paysafe-branded promotional merchandise, this is sourced from a supplier which is a member of the Ethical Trading Initiative and Sedex (the Supplier Ethical Data Exchange) who is accredited as an EcoVadis gold standard supplier; and\nwhere we provide services to merchants who operate in sectors which carry a higher risk of modern slavery or human trafficking, we implement additional compliance controls, such as enhanced due diligence and validation of the merchant's controls prior to onboarding, additional Paysafe senior management approval for onboarding, and additional ongoing monitoring.\nIn 2021 we conducted a Modern Slavery Audit across 20 of our largest and most critical suppliers (Tier 1-3). This assessment included validation of Modern Slavery prevention processes in place and, where applicable, the further completion of the Paysafe Modern Slavery Questionnaire. No suppliers were removed from our pool of suppliers as a result of this audit as no material concerns were raised.\nIn addition, since 2020 we have required suppliers to complete our Environmental Social and Governance Questionnaire as part of our Supplier Onboarding procedures. This includes the requirement for the supplier to identify and document Modern Slavery prevention practices in place throughout its businesses and wider supply chain. This assists in identifying what systems and controls the supplier has in place to ensure slavery and trafficking are not taking place in anywhere part of their business.\nAll Paysafe staff are required to read, understand and commit to follow our Global Conduct Policy. Members of senior management receive specific face-to-face or virtual training on the topic Conduct and Ethics, referring to our Global Conduct Policy in order to promote proper Conduct and Ethics practices throughout our organisation.\nAll Paysafe staff involved in the procurement of global goods and services are required to comply with our Procurement Policy.\nPaysafe has in place a global Whistleblowing Policy, which includes detailed whistleblowing guidance to enable and encourage all staff to express concerns regarding any misconduct or wrongdoing related to our business. This may be done either by raising a concern internally, anonymously through our external whistleblowing channel, or by raising a concern directly to our designated Whistleblowing Champion if that member of staff prefers to speak to someone outside the operational business. All reports will be investigated and appropriate remedial actions taken. Paysafe has a zero-tolerance policy to retaliation and will always maintain the whistleblower's confidentiality, to the extent permitted by law. All staff are required to periodically complete an online training module which highlights these procedures.\nOur effectiveness in combating slavery and human trafficking\nIn order to assess the effectiveness of the measures taken by Paysafe in combating modern slavery and human trafficking during 2021, we used the following key performance indicators (\"KPIs\"). The table below sets out the results of our monitoring of these KPIs and the actions taken to address any issues raised.\nResults and Actions Taken\nThe proportion of Paysafe Group staff who have completed relevant training or have otherwise confirmed in writing their agreement to the relevant policies and procedures\nNew joiners are required to complete the relevant training and confirm their agreement to the relevant policies and procedures within 30 days of joining Paysafe.\nAs at 31 December 2021, 94% of new joiners had successfully completed the relevant training. Any cases of non-compliance were escalated to management and pursued until the training had been successfully completed.\nExisting staff are also required to complete refresher training annually. Any cases of non-compliance in 2021 were escalated to management and pursued until the refresher training had been successfully completed.\nThe percentage of whistleblowing reports made which related to slavery or human trafficking incidents.\nNo whistleblowing reports relating to slavery or human trafficking incidents were received.\nThe remedial actions taken in response to any investigations into reports of modern slavery or human trafficking.\nNo such reports were received.\nThe number of audits of higher-risk suppliers carried out by our Procurement Services team and any remedial actions taken.\nWe audited 20 of our largest and most critical suppliers across all Business Units and geographies. No remedial actions were necessary (e.g., no suppliers were removed from our pool of suppliers) because of these audits as no material concerns were raised.\nWe continue to assess these KPIs each year to consider whether alternative or additional KPIs would be most appropriate in order to measure the effectiveness of our actions.\nThis statement is made pursuant to section 54(1) of the Modern Slavery Act 2015 and constitutes Paysafe Group's slavery and human trafficking statement for the financial year ended 31 December 2021.\nThis statement has been approved by the boards of directors of Paysafe Financial Services Limited, Prepaid Services Company Limited and Skrill Limited.\nElliott Wiseman\nGeneral Counsel and Chief Compliance Officer\nFor the Paysafe Group's Modern Slavery Act Transparency Statement for the year ended 31 December 2020, click here.\nCode of Conduct - Canada","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
+{"text":"Seasonal\/Market Fresh\nBoston, MA (17)\nCalistoga, CA (2)\nCamden, ME (1)\nCape Cod, MA (1)\nLos Angeles, CA (11)\nNapa, CA (6)\nOrange County, CA (2)\nSacramento, CA (1)\nSan Diego, CA (8)\nSebastopol, CA (1)\nSonoma County, CA (7)\nSt. Helena, CA (2)\nWhistler, Canada (1)\nIn Place (66)\nAmerican Contemporary (26)\nAmerican Regional (24)\nAmerican Traditional (1)\nEastern European (1)\nEclectic\/Global (5)\nFrench Contemporary (14)\nFrench Traditional (2)\nItalian Contemporary (1)\nItalian Traditional (5)\nPan-Asian (1)\nWine\/Wine Bar (3)\n2009, 2009, 2009, 2009, 2009, 2009, 2009, 2009, Savory, 2009, 2009, 2009, 2009, 2009, 2009, 2009, 2009, Savory, 2009, 2009, 2009, 2009, 2009, 2009, 2009, 2009, Savory, 2009, 2009, 2009, 2009, 2009, 2009, 2009, 2009, Savory, 2009, 2009, 2009, 2009, 2009, 2009, 2009, 2009, Savory, 2009, 2009, 2009, 2009, 2009, 2009, 2009, 2009, Savory, 2009, 2009, 2009, 2009, 2009, 2009, 2009, 2009, Savory, 2009, 2009, 2009, 2009, 2009, 2009, 2009, 2009, Savory, Seasonal\/Market Fresh, 2009, 2009, 2009, 2009, 2009, 2009, 2009, 2009, Savory, 2009, 2009, 2009, 2009, 2009, 2009, 2009, 2009, Savory, 2009, 2009, 2009, 2009, 2009, 2009, 2009, 2009, Savory, 2009, 2009, 2009, 2009, 2009, 2009, 2009, 2009, Savory, 2009, 2009, 2009, 2009, 2009, 2009, 2009, 2009, Savory, 2009, 2009, 2009, 2009, 2009, 2009, 2009, 2009, Savory, 2009, 2009, 2009, 2009, 2009, 2009, 2009, 2009, Savory, 2009, 2009, 2009, 2009, 2009, 2009, 2009, 2009, Savory, Seasonal\/Market Fresh\nChef Thomas Boyce, Pastry Chef Sherry Yard, and Sommelier Christopher Miller of Spago\nChef Guillaume Burlion of The Restaurant at Sunset Marquis Hotel\nFrench Contemporary, Seasonal\/Market Fresh\nChef Andrew Kirschner of Wilshire\nAmerican Regional, Seasonal\/Market Fresh, American Contemporary\nChef Michael Fiorelli of Mar'sel\nChef Brian Sinnott of 1500 Ocean\nPhotos: Katherine Martinelli\nSeasonal\/Market Fresh, American Contemporary\nChefs Jon Shook and Vinny Dotolo of Animal\nSeasonal\/Market Fresh, Gastropub, American Contemporary\nChef Andy Cook of Gordon Ramsay at the London\nAmerican Contemporary, Seasonal\/Market Fresh\nChef Neal Fraser and Sommelier Eduardo Porto Carreiro of Grace\nChef Mark Gold of Eva\nChef Sebastien Archambault of RH Restaurant\nFrench Traditional, Seasonal\/Market Fresh\nChef Evan Funke and Restaurateurs Zoe Nathan and Josh Loeb of Rustic Canyon\nSeasonal\/Market Fresh, Mediterranean\nChef Craig Strong of Studio at the Montage Hotel\nFrench Contemporary, Seasonal\/Market Fresh, American Regional\nChef Ray Garcia of Fig at the Fairmont Miramar Hotel Santa Monica\nAmerican Regional, Seasonal\/Market Fresh, Comfort Food\nChef Joel Dennis and Sommelier Thomas Combescot of Adour\nFrench Contemporary, Seasonal\/Market Fresh, Wine\/Wine Bar\nChef Scott Herbert and Pastry Chef Sarah Woodhouse of Troquet\nFrench Contemporary, American Contemporary, Seasonal\/Market Fresh\nChef Steven Brand of Upstairs at the Square\nChef Anthony Mazzotta of Lucca Back Bay (formerly Sasso)\nItalian Traditional, Seasonal\/Market Fresh\nChef Tim Weichmann of TW Food\nChef Michael Scelfo of Temple Bar","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
+{"text":"Home Green Energy Solar Power\nScientists Use Photosynthesis as Source of Solar Energy\nAnnika Tostengard\nAustralian researchers have found a new way to use a very old source of solar energy. Plants have been converting sunlight into energy for millions of years, and the team at Monash University in Melbourne have built a device that can do the same thing.\nThe photosynthetic device is even more efficient than traditional solar panels.\nThe process was recently detailed in an article published in the journal of Energy & Environmental Science. An electrical current is propagated through water, where commercial solar cells split the atoms into hydrogen and oxygen. The device can therefore create hydrogen fuel, which contributes no carbon to the atmosphere.\nThese devices are 22% more energy efficient than traditional models, which have only reached 18% efficiency. Solar plants, meanwhile, are only 1-2% energy efficient on average, so the benefits of this new source of solar energy could be enormous.\nAccording to Professor Doug MacFarlane, it will unfortunately be a long time before the technology is available on the market. Professor MacFarlane was also one of the lead authors for the study and is also responsible for the Energy Program of the ARC Centre of Excellence for Electromaterials Science in Melbourne. He believes that electricity prices are currently too low to act as an incentive for manufacturers to adopt the method.\nHe and his team continue to work, however, striving to reach 30% efficiency with their new devices. Their work now will shape the future of energy and help humans find a way to coexist with the environment.\nImage (c) Monash University\nartificial photosynthesis\nnew photosynthesis\nphotosynthesis solar power\nPrevious articleCan Atmospheric Carbon Dioxide Make Nanofibers?\nNext articleObama's New Energy Plan Helps Homeowners Go Green\nCoffee to Boost Solar Cell Performance\nZero Mass Water's Solar Panels Pull Clean Drinking Water Out of Thin Air\nSolar Empowerment of Nomads in Rural Mongolia\nNew Discovery Boosts Performance of Perovskite-based Solar Cells\nNew Year, New Energy\nSolar power production getting cheaper than conventional power\nWave power\nWind\/Wave Power Not Infinite and Not Renewable, German Scientist Claims","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
+{"text":"Education & Career Readiness\nGrant Requests\nAbout The John Jordan Foundation\nWorking to make communities\na better place \u2014 for everyone.\nWe support initiatives to improve the quality of life for vulnerable communities, from cradle to career, youth to elderly. This includes closing the gaps in the educational system; improving career and college exposure and readiness, decreasing negative health impacts associated with poverty; addressing income inequality; protecting neglected or abused animals, and creating opportunities for the most under-resourced populations to be positioned for successful futures. We are responsibly passionate about distributing funds where they can have an immediate, positive, and lasting impact.\nA responsibility to help\nThe John Jordan Foundation was created in 2012 to equip disadvantaged youth and young adults with the tools needed to succeed educationally and professionally.\nThe Foundation has supported more than 300 partner organizations. Over 1,000 teachers have received grants for their classrooms, and more than 400 California schools have been served.\nOver the past decade, the scope has expanded to include support for programs serving seniors and animals.\nWith the help of many tremendous nonprofit partners, the Foundation has empowered thousands, lifting up those most in need, improving lives and opening doors of opportunity that may otherwise be closed.\nIt's not a charity, it's an investment\nin the future \u2014 our future.\nWe believe successful businesses should be accountable, responsible, and an integral part of their communities, playing an active role in improving the lives of our most vulnerable fellow citizens.\nSupporting groups that support our community\nIf your organization or program focus aligns with the John Jordan Foundation mission, apply for a grant to help fund your work.\nJORDAN WINERY DONATIONS\nSharing our craft to support your program\nJordan Vineyard & Winery is proud to supply wine, hospitality packages and tastings for charitable auctions. Apply for a donation to support your fundraising initiative.\nKatie Fonsen Young\nJohn Jordan\nFounder and Board Member\nJosh Hermsmeyer\n\u00a92023 John Jordan Foundation","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
+{"text":"4 Mavs training camp battles to watch: Backup for Luka Doncic, Kristaps Porzingis more important than ever\nDallas will have to waive or trade one player before the NBA season starts Dec. 22.\nDallas Mavericks forward Dwight Powell (7), forward Dorian Finney-Smith (10) and forward Maximilian Kleber (42) react to a play during the second half a game between the Dallas Mavericks and the Utah Jazz at the American Airlines Center in Dallas, Sunday, October 28, 2018.(Ryan Michalesko \/ Staff Photographer)\n4:57 PM on Nov 24, 2020 CST\nThe Mavericks' roster for the 2020-21 season is set.\nWell, almost set.\nAfter a whirlwind week with the draft and free agency days apart, Dallas has 16 players on guaranteed contracts heading into the start of training camp \u2014 one more than NBA rosters hold during the regular season.\nThat means the Mavericks will have to make a move, whether by waiving or trading someone, to trim their roster between Dec. 1 and Dec. 22. Expect competition for roles in the Mavericks' now-deepened rotation to be fierce.\nAs The Dallas Morning News reported earlier this week, the Mavericks' current depth chart will look similar to this:\nPoint guard: Luka Doncic, Jalen Brunson, Trey Burke, J.J. Barea\nShooting guard: Tim Hardaway Jr., Josh Green, Tyrell Terry, *Nate Hinton\nSmall forward: Josh Richardson, Dorian Finney-Smith, Wesley Iwundu, #Devonte Patterson\nPower forward: Maxi Kleber, James Johnson, *Tyler Bey, #Freddie Gillespie\nCenter: Kristaps Porzingis, Dwight Powell, Willie Cauley-Stein, Boban Marjanovic\n*Players on two-way contracts. #Players on Exhibit 10 (nonguaranteed) contracts.\nWith that in mind, here's the breakdown of four of the most important battles over the next few weeks.\nJalen Brunson vs. Trey Burke\nThe importance of depth behind Luka Doncic became especially apparent last winter when Doncic missed two stretches of at least four games with ankle sprains. He also dealt with other ailments in the weeks leading up to the mid-March coronavirus suspension.\nDoncic's physical style as the feature player and primary ball handler in the Mavericks' offense exposes him to contact and purposeful fouls from struggling defenses.\nWho will be his first backup?\nBrunson has served as a primary backup since his and Doncic's rookie season in 2018-19 and has averaged at least eight points and three assists in each season as a steady rotation player. Brunson should be fully recovered from March shoulder surgery to start training camp.\nIn Brunson's stead during the restart this summer, Burke transformed from a roster substitute to playoff starter alongside Doncic. Burke's familiarity with the Mavericks' offense, dating to his 2019 arrival in Dallas as part of the Kristaps Porzingis deal, gave him the comfort to showcase his speed and confidence in the Disney World bubble \u2014 and earn a long-term contract last week to remain with Dallas.\nWith veteran champion and Doncic mentor J.J. Barea also in the mix, the Mavericks should be better built to weather possible Doncic absences in the condensed 2020-21 season.\nDorian Finney-Smith vs. Maxi Kleber\nThe two emerged as the Mavericks' primary defenders against the Clippers' stars in last season's playoff series.\nNow, they could combine for time in the area the Mavericks need options most: in the frontcourt, especially as Kristaps Porzingis misses the first few weeks of the season while rehabbing from meniscus surgery.\nFinney-Smith, who's developed into one of the Mavericks' most consistent 3-and-D players, slots more as a small forward. But the draft-night trade for small forward Josh Richardson from the 76ers makes Finney-Smith's versatility a bonus as Dallas turns to an uncertain frontcourt group early in the season.\nKleber, who also played some center last summer in Porzingis' absence, started throughout the playoffs.\nThe 28-year-old just recorded, by far, his best season of his three in Dallas, averaging 9.1 points, 5.2 rebounds and 1.1 blocks a game with some of his best defensive performances coming against some of the NBA's biggest names. Zion Williamson isn't likely to have forgotten the trouble Kleber gave him at the rim last March.\nWith Porzingis coming off knee surgery, the Mavs will need reinforcement in the frontcourt.\nWillie Cauley-Stein vs. Boban Marjanovic\nThe Mavericks will also be short-handed at center to start the season.\nPorzingis played his best when lining up at the five last season. Dwight Powell is also a natural fit there, but he'll be just 11 months removed from right Achilles surgery when the season starts in late December, so the Mavericks could be cautious with working him back into live competition.\nThat leaves Cauley-Stein and Marjanovic as two options to see an early increase in playing time.\nMarjanovic shined against some playoff-bound competition last season. Who can forget his career-best 31-point, 17-rebound show against the Nuggets on March 11?\nThe Mavericks have turned to Marjanovic when the matchups benefit his size and offensive style. They may have to be less selective to start the season if Cauley-Stein's development doesn't outpace Marjanovic's.\nCauley-Stein joined the Mavericks last January via trade from the Warriors to help fill the void from Powell's injury. But he played just 13 games with Dallas, including two starts, because of a personal matter in February and his decision to opt out of the restart this summer.\nThe former first-round pick has the potential to be a strong fit in the Mavericks' spaced offense and on pick-and-rolls with Doncic.\nJosh Green vs. Tyrell Terry\nIn the NBA's most chaotic offseason, the Mavericks' top two rookies, along with the rest of their 2020 draft class, will have to navigate the quickest professional introduction in history.\nGreen (No. 18 overall) and Terry (No. 31) won't play the same roles if and when they earn time in the Mavericks' rotation.\nA freshman out of Arizona, Green is known for his defensive prowess and athleticism. He struggled at times shooting from 3 in college, but Dallas coveted his upside and maturity in the first round.\nTerry, meanwhile, was one of the strongest shooters in the draft. He made 48% of his catch-and-shoot 3s as a Stanford freshman last season and shot 40.8% from 3 overall.\nWhether the two emerge as potential contributors early in the season probably will depend on whether they can acclimate to the NBA level without summer league or the traditional weeks of pre-training camp scrimmaging.\nStill, the development of two promising young players on one of the Western Conference's most talented young rosters will be key to the Mavericks building the depth and diversity they hope will propel deeper playoff runs.\nMavs' top draft pick Josh Green talks about joining Dallas, nod to Kobe Bryant with his new jersey number\nCallie Caplan, Staff Writer. Callie Caplan covers the Dallas Mavericks, high school football and Olympic sports. She has also written for The Washington Post, USA Today and The Baltimore Sun and graduated from the University of Maryland in 2017.\ncallie.caplan@dallasnews.com @CallieCaplan","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
+{"text":"Dad Makes App That Can Freeze Your Kids Phones Until They Answer Your Texts\nFiled Under:Local TV, Talkers\nWEST WICKHAM, England (CBS Local) \u2014 It could be the best app ever invented for parents who worry when their kids ignore their texts.\nNick Herbert said he was tired of his 13-year-old son, Ben, ignoring his text messages. So the project manager from West Wickham, England, developed an app that would effectively lock down the teen's phone until he responded.\nAnd if the phone is on silent, the ReplyASAP app sets off an alarm to get the user's attention.\n\"He is always playing games and has the phone on silent. It drives me crazy,\" Herbert told the Daily Mail in 2017. The British father noted that he and Ben now have a mutual understanding that the app will be used, \"only for important things and not because he needs new batteries for his xbox controller.\"\nThe technology not only gives parents a direct line to hard-to-reach children in an emergency, but it can also help co-workers communicate in a crucial situation, help friends gather to search for something that's been lost.\nThe app has been downloaded more than 75,000 times since it was launched back in August 2017.\nIt's currently only available on Android, but an IOS version is in the works and coming soon.","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
+{"text":"Home News Report: Insurance red tape costs firms more than 50% extra\nReport: Insurance red tape costs firms more than 50% extra\nCILEx Regulation calls for LSB to direct regulators to eliminate barrier when switching regulator\nCILEx Regulation, the independent regulator of specialist lawyers, has submitted a report to the Legal Services Board (LSB) asking for a review of the anti-competitive repercussions that run-off insurance is having on legal entities.\nCurrently law firms must have six years of run-off insurance cover in the event they close down. However the same rule applies if they were to switch regulator, despite still being in business.\nThe report, compiled following discussions and submissions from insurers and legal businesses, demonstrates that entities looking to change regulator will be adversely affected.\nWills Jacobsen Legal Ltd, a law firm that switched regulator to CILEx Regulation, had to incur the additional costs. Clare Wills, the owner, said: \"In the end we bit the bullet and made the change knowing it was the right thing for our business \u2013 but if this additional burden hadn't been there, it would have made the switch quicker, simpler, and cheaper. There would also have been additional funds to market the business as a new entity. After payment of run-off these funds were not available.\"\nMr Chivers stated his firm, Stilwell and Singleton Solicitors, explored transferring regulator. He said \"Disappointingly we had to make the difficult decision to opt against transfer due to the financial burden of run-off, which is currently acting as a mechanism to constrain the free movement of legal entities between regulators. We would transfer regulator immediately if the unnecessary financial burdens were removed.\"\nJohn Kunzler, a senior vice president in the Financial and Professional Practice at Marsh, the insurance broker and risk adviser working with CILEx Regulation, commented: \"Based on the research the requirement to take run-off appears to be a significant financial hurdle to the average firm changing regulator. The research indicated that no discount off the normal run-off cost was likely to be given, even though the entity would be ongoing with a new regulator. Although the premium as a CILEx entity is lower, the amount of the reduction appears insufficient to make it practical to fund the cost of the change out of cash-flow, for example, from the premium reductions over approximately three years.\n\"From the costings obtained it appears it would be approximately seven years before overall savings are achieved from making the change, and in the short term the run-off premium is a significant expense.\"\nThe requirement also increases the risk of 'double insurance', where a firm takes run-off insurance but works on a continuous retainer under a new insurer. If something goes wrong the two insurers may question responsibility and dispute claims, ultimately leaving consumers and entities in a vulnerable situation.\nCILEx Regulation Chair, Sam Younger said: \"We have had several law firms wanting to switch from their current regulator to CILEx Regulation, but are unable to because of the prohibitive run-off costs. This is a rule made by the regulators, and it prevents legal businesses choosing the regulator that is right for their business model, their specialism, and their consumers.\n\"We asked insurers what they would charge, and although premiums for a business regulated by CILEx Regulation might be lower these firms would have to pay on average 52.5% more insurance premium over a six year period; in effect ruling out a switch for most firms.\"\nIn January 2015 CILEx Regulation became a regulator of entities delivering reserved legal activities. CILEx Regulation has developed a single proposal form, meaning applicants will not have to complete multiple forms to get PII quotes from insurers, but that all insurers signed up to the QIA will accept, and quote off, a single form. CILEx Regulation supports innovation and looks at opportunities to reduce red tape.","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
+{"text":"JAIME ARON ASSOCIATED PRESS\nticket city bowl\nDALLAS - Tommy Tuberville knew better. The last two onside kicks he called this season were returned for touchdowns. The most recent came in this very stadium.\nThe thing is, he just couldn't help himself.\nLeading Northwestern by three touchdowns late in the third quarter, the Texas Tech coach tried it again - and it backfired again, setting up an exciting finish.\nThe Wildcats rallied to get within a touchdown twice in the fourth quarter and were driving for a tie or win when the Red Raiders intercepted a heave on the final play, preserving a 45-38 victory and allowing Tuberville to joke about his risky move.\nTaylor Potts threw for 369 yards and four touchdowns and scored another on a trick play, and Eric Stephens ran 86 yards for a TD to help Tech close its first post-Mike Leach season at a solid 8-5.\nNorthwestern (7-6) lost its eighth straight bowl game, extending a drought that dates to 1949. Coming close after being down by 22 points wasn't much solace because the Wildcats were close the last two postseasons, dropping both in overtime.\nThe consolation prize is coach Pat Fitzgerald is now counting on the guys who've endured three straight crushing bowl losses to come out hungry as seniors next fall. He challenged them with a fiery opening statement to his postgame news conference that's certain to be replayed all offseason.\n\"It's time they step up,\" he said. \"If we want to win championships and we want to win these types of football games, that class has got to step up. They have to start making more plays. They have to start leading. They have to be the catalyst for us to get where we want to get. I challenged them to step up at the beginning of bowl prep. ... If we want to go where we want to go, it's time for that class - their senior year - to lead us there.\"\nFreshmen quarterbacks Evan Watkins and Kain Colter led Northwestern's second-half rally with three straight touchdown drives and Jordan Mabin, part of that junior class, returned an interception 39 yards for a touchdown with 5:37 left.\nThe Wildcats' defense kept the Red Raiders from running out the clock, but Watkins had only 24 seconds and no timeouts to go 75 yards. LaRon Moore caught the final throw, ending a game that featured 927 yards of total offense and 53 points scored in the second half.\nThe Wildcats surprised the Red Raiders with an in-game switch to an option offense. They ran for 229 yards, their most since 2008. Colter led the way with 105 yards and two touchdowns.\n\"Throughout the week, our coaches had a great game plan to show Texas Tech some different looks,\" Colter said. \"We kept them a little off guard.\"","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
+{"text":"Free Coal\nGeorge Chapman\t(1908\u20131993)\nLlyfrgell Genedlaethol Cymru \/ The National Library of Wales\n\u00a9 the artist's estate. Photo credit: Llyfrgell Genedlaethol Cymru \/ The National Library of Wales\nH 32.2 x W 46 cm\nPG04988\npurchased from Mr and Mrs T. Evans, 1994\nAberystwyth, Ceredigion SY23 3BU Wales\nThis venue is open to the public. Not all artworks are on display. If you want to see a particular artwork, please contact the venue.\nThe Red Van National Museum Wales, National Museum Cardiff\nThe Bridge National Museum Wales, National Museum Cardiff\nStreet Scene with Children Llyfrgell Genedlaethol Cymru \/ The National Library of Wales\nTerraced Houses Llyfrgell Genedlaethol Cymru \/ The National Library of Wales\nLandscape Llyfrgell Genedlaethol Cymru \/ The National Library of Wales\nA Steep Road Fry Art Gallery\nOld Farm Cart Bradford Museums and Galleries","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
+{"text":"Mazda Cx-5 Estate 2.0 Sport Nav+ 5dr\n7\" touchscreen with multimedia commander and Aha and Stitcher app Driver Convenience\nAdvanced blind spot monitor with rear cross traffic alert Driver Convenience\nCruise control Driver Convenience\nSpeed limiter Driver Convenience\nStart\/stop system Driver Convenience\nTFT display screen Driver Convenience\nRadio\/CD Entertainment\nUSB\/iPod\/auxiliary input connections Entertainment\nAutomatic headlights with dusk sensor Exterior Features\n40:20:40 split folding rear seat Interior Features\n60\/40 split folding rear seat Interior Features\nFront head restraints Interior Features\nIndependent rear seat recline Interior Features\nLeather upholstery - Black Trim 0 0\nEC Directive 1999\/100\/EC Applies Fuel Consumption - ICE Yes\nWLTP - FC (l\/100km) - Extra High Fuel Consumption - ICE 8\nCoin Series General Sport Nav+\nEmissions Test Cycle Test Cycles NEDC Correlated\nThe second generation version of Mazda's CX-5 mid-sized SUV has been lightly improved. As before, it's a good compromise between a Nissan Qashai-style family Crossover and a Toyota RAV4-style SUV, offering good driving dynamics, efficient running costs and decent practicality. This may not be the first car you consider in this sector, but try one and you might just think it to be the best.\nThe CX-5 has proved to be a crucial car for Mazda. Launched in 2012 relatively early on in the current craze for mid-sized SUV and Crossover models, it's since sold prodigiously. To the point where this model line now accounts for a quarter of all the Japanese brand's global sales. Over 1.5 million CX-5s have been sold worldwide, with 32,000 examples having found UK owners. Will those people continue to like this sharp-looking second generation version, now usefully revised? It'll be interesting to see. The engine-ware has been lightly updated as part of the minor update we're looking at here, with improvements in efficiency and refinement. Plus there's better infotainment provision and this CX-5 is now better connected. All of which this car will need to stay competitive in the face of crowded competition for sales of cars of this kind. Let's judge this Mazda on its merits.\nLet's cover what's different with the lightly revised CX-5 under consideration here. Mazda reckons that NVH (Noise, Vibration and Harshness) has been significantly improved on this enhanced CX-5. And all AWD variants now get an Off-road Traction Assist system. The base 2.0-litre 165PS SKYACTIV-G petrol version (offered with manual or auto transmission) still can't be had with AWD, but as part of the updates, this engine gains what Mazda calls 'steering vibration counter-measures' and now features a cylinder deactivation system. You can now have a petrol-powered CX-5 that does have AWD though - a freshly introduced 2.5-litre 194PS SKYACTIV-G powerplant at the top of the range, which only comes in 4x4 form. Most CX-5 folk though, still defiantly choose the brand's 2.2-litre SKYACTIV-D diesel unit, now uodated for RDE2 compliance. As before, this diesel engine is offered with either 150 or 184PS forms, can be specified with auto transmission and (in 184PS form) with AWD too. Like many new-era Mazda models, this one's a product of the company's 'Jinba-Ittai' 'car-and-driver-as-one' philosophy which aims to deliver more focused levels of levels of driver engagement and comfort. This time round, particular attention has been paid to reducing noise and vibration within the cabin. Plus a 15% improvement in torsional body rigidity, along with refinements to the steering, suspension and brakes, all contribute to an improvement in the handling precision that marked out the previous model. Further helping in this regard is a freshly introduced 'GVC' 'G-Vectoring Control' torque vectoring system that transfers traction to the wheel most needing it when you're going at speed through tight corners. And off road prowess? Well, as with the systems employed by most of its rivals, this car has a set-up in which the torque is automatically split according to the terrain you're on, so it can direct 100% of drive to the front wheels in normal conditions, with up to 50% then directed to the rear wheels if slip is detected.\nNothing much has changed with the look of this second generation CX-5 - but then, nothing much needed to. This MK2 model takes its cues from the stunning 'RX Vision' concept car the brand displayed at the 2015 Tokyo Motor Show and offers a sharp and mature design that British buyers seem to like. There's a sleek profile and a reatively low roofline that underscore this SUV's solid stance and elegant proportions. Under the skin, the body structure has been created under the concept of what Mazda calls 'Refined Toughness'. Inside, changes to this updated model include the integration of a new larger, faster and clearer 10.25-inch centre display screen, more intuitive Mazda Connect Commander operation and an expanded range of Connected Services operable by the latest MyMazda App. Other minor changes include the addition of LED interior lighting, a redesigned key and the availability of black half-leatherette seats on plusher variants. In terms of overall quality, the cabin finish is now almost up there with a rival Volkswagen Tiguan - and it's certainly an improvement over what you'd get in competitors like Ford's Kuga and Kia's Sportage. In the back, there's plenty of legroom, despite the provision of a decently-sized 506-litre boot, extendable to 1,620-litres on retraction of the rear bench.\nList pricing sees CX-5 ownership pitched much as before, with prices ranging in the \u00a327,000 to \u00a340,000 bracket. There are three trim levels - 'SE-L', 'Sport' and 'GT Sport' and now four engines, 2.0-litre 165PS and 2.5-litre 194PS petrol units and 150 and 184PS versions of the familiar 2.2-litre diesel. AWD is mandatory on the 2.5-litre petrol model - and a \u00a31,500 option on the top 184PS version of the 2.2-litre diesel. All models feature a generous standard equipment tally that includes LED headlights, auto power-folding door mirrors, dual-zone climate control, a DAB radio and a 10.25-inch colour touch-screen display with Mazda's integrated navigation and 'Apple CarPlay\/'Android Auto' smartphone-mirroring. 'Sport Nav' cars add to this with a reversing camera, an 8-way power adjustable driver's seat and Smart keyless entry, plus heated front seats and steering wheel, a power lift tailgate and a new head-up display that projects directly onto the windscreen and features Traffic Sign Recognition. As part of the revised line-up, this model gets even more active safety equipment as standard, including an updated version of the CX-5's 'Advanced Smart City Brake Support' system, which incorporates night-time pedestrian detection for the first time. This Advanced SCBS set-up uses a forward-sensing camera to detect vehicles and pedestrians ahead and help avoid collisions or mitigate damage in the event one does occur. There's also Mazda Radar Cruise Control, Advanced Blind Spot Monitoring with Rear Cross Traffic alert, High Beam Control and Lane Keep Assist with Lane Departure Warning standard across the range. In addition, the optional safety pack on 'Sport' models features a 360-degree view camera and Adaptive LED Headlamps.\nThe CX-5's unexpectedly imperious progress continues when it comes to cost of ownership and this is where the SKYACTIV technology really pays off. Let's get to the WLTP figures. The 2.2-litre 150PS diesel variant many will choose returns up to 49.6mpg in manual form (or 43.5mpg as an auto) and up to 151g\/km (171g\/km). For the 2.2 184PS diesel, the figures are 42.8mpg (39.8mpg) and 175g\/km (186g\/km). The 2.0-litre petrol model now manages up to 154g\/km (33% BiK tax group) - or up to 164g\/km in auto form (36%). The 2.5-litre 194PS SKYATIV-G petrol delivers 182g\/km of CO2 (37% BiK tax group). Clever use of low compression ratios for the SKYACTIV-G petrol and SKYACTIV-D diesel engines means that ignition takes longer, ensuring a better mixture of air and fuel. This approach also enables the engines to run with less mechanical stress, which allows the use of lighter weight materials, in turn meaning that the finished vehicle will need less energy to move through the air. And no energy at all of course when it comes to a temporary stop, say at the lights or in traffic. At that point in this Mazda's case, an 'i-stop' engine stop\/start system (the fastest-reacting set-up of its kind on the market) will cut in, reducing fuel consumption by up to 10% all on its own. As for peace of mind, well given the reliability of Mazda products, you'd have thought the company might have wanted to improve upon its usual three year\/60,000 mile package and take on the Korean brands. Not so. That familiar standard warranty remains in place for this car.\nThe CX-5 isn't one of those cars that jumps out at you on first acquaintance. But as with many Mazdas, its modesty hides a product packed with innovation. The result is excellent packaging, strong economy and emissions and driving dynamics that are amongst the best in this sector. Add in a high specification and competitive pricing and you've a compelling proposition, especially with the minor refinements made to this updated model. In summary, what we've got here is yet another example of Mazda going its own way, doing things differently. Which means? Well something quite simple really. If you're looking for a car of this kind, make sure you also try this one.\nFill out the simple form below to get a quote for this Mazda Cx-5 Estate 2.0 Sport Nav+ 5dr lease.","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
+{"text":"Andre Jacques Garnerin, French aeronaut, 1802.\nAlcock and Brown's Vickers Vimy biplane, 1919.\nCharles Green, English aeronaut, 1839.\nPlan of the Crystal Palace and grounds, Sydenham, 1911.\nBOAC Concorde, London Heathrow Airport, 1968.\nThe planet Jupiter, Voyager 1979.\n'Cockatoo', bird in flight, c 1872-1885.\nThe first balloon ascent with animals, 19 September 1783.\nThe 'Spirit of St Louis' in flight, 1927.\nCody aeroplane No1, portrait view of engine and controls, 1908.\nGreat Red Spot on Jupiter, 1979.\nBlanchard and Jeffries crosing the English Channel, 1785.\nAmy Johnson, British aviator, c 1930s.\nIo, one of the moons of Jupiter, showing a volcanic eruption on the rim, 1979.\nClose up of the Red Spot on Jupiter, photographed by Voyager 2, 1979.\nBleriot crosing the Channel, 25 July 1909.\nThe rings of Jupiter, photographed by Voyager 2, 1979.\nFull Page of illustrations of bats.\nBeetles and other insects, South America, 1775-1781.\n'Tour de Calais'; the ascent of De Rozier's 'Royal Balloon', 15 June 1785.\nMrs Sage's balloon, 1785.\"\nDetail from a painting of 'Mrs Sage', first lady balloonist., c 1785.\nMiranda as seen by Voyager 2\nSchoolboys with a model of a seaplane, Schoolboys' Exhibition, December 1933.\nBoats on a miniature lake, Gamages Department Store, London, 1920s.\nWings For Victory\nSpitfire, c 1942.\n\"Aerial Navigation, Liebig trade card, c 1910.\"\n\"Two British airships, Liebig trade card, c 1910-1920.\"\n\"Three French airships, Liebig trade card, c 1910. \"\n'Children Playing', about 1895\n1075 images in total\n4 8 12 16 20 24 28 32 36 40 44 48 52 56 60 64 68 72 76 80 84 88 92 96","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
+{"text":"Review History\nA third-generation dispersion and third-generation hydrogen bonding corrected PM6 method: PM6-D3H+\nTo increase transparency, PeerJ operates a system of 'optional signed reviews and history'. This takes two forms: (1) peer reviewers are encouraged, but not required, to provide their names (if they do so, then their profile page records the articles they have reviewed), and (2) authors are given the option of reproducing their entire peer review history alongside their published article (in which case the complete peer review process is provided, including revisions, rebuttal letters and editor decision letters).\nNew to public reviews? Learn more about optional signed reviews and how to write a better rebuttal letter.\nThe initial submission of this article was received on April 4th, 2014 and was peer-reviewed by 3 reviewers and the Academic Editor.\nThe Academic Editor made their initial decision on May 17th, 2014.\nThe first revision was submitted on May 30th, 2014 and was reviewed by the Academic Editor.\nThe article was Accepted by the Academic Editor on June 4th, 2014.\nVersion 0.2 (accepted)\nJiri Vondrasek \u00b7 Jun 4, 2014 \u00b7 Academic Editor\nYou answered all the questions of referees and suggested changes to your manuscript were implemented. As a result your paper has been accepted to PeerJ.\nDownload Version 0.2 (PDF) Download author's rebuttal letter - submitted May 30, 2014\nVersion 0.1 (original submission)\nJiri Vondrasek \u00b7 May 17, 2014 \u00b7 Academic Editor\nMinor Revisions\nDear authors\nAs you can learn both reviewers have their comments to the submitted article and suggested minor revision of it current version. Please concentrate on misleading statements and add some of the suggested and relevant works. Respond also on the critics that you used numerical derivative of the dispersion energy for the gradient, as the analytical form has been available since 2010.\nI hope you can send the revised manuscript soon to be published at PeerJ\nJiri Vondrasek\nReviewer 1 \u00b7 Apr 29, 2014\nBasic reporting\nThe work fulfills all requirements. However, this is a methodological computational study with little overlap with biology and I am not sure that it fits in the scope of PeerJ (Biological Sciences, Medical Sciences, and Health Sciences).\nValidity of the findings\nSome of the conclusions may not be appropriately stated, see below.\nThis ms presents an implementation of a slightly modified empirical correction to PM6 method, D3H+. The correction is implemented in GAMESS code.\nIn my opinion this work is well performed, clearly written and suitable for publication in PeerJ. However, there are two points that should be addressed before publication:\n1. Misleading statement.\nIn the abstract, the authors say \"The main difference is that the geometry optimizations of 88 complexes result in 82, 6, 0, and 0 geometries with 0, 1, 2, and $\\ge$ 3 imaginary frequencies using PM6-D3H+ implemented in GAMESS, while the corresponding numbers for PM6-DH+ implemented in MOPAC are 54, 17, 15, and 2.\"\nThis may imply that the D3H+ correction implemented in GAMESS is in this respect better than the DH+ correction implemented in Mopac. However, this is not the case, because the difference comes from the quality of optimization algorithms and convergence criteria. Later in the text they clarify the results, stating that:\n\"However, we show that PM6-D3H+ implemented in GAMESS results in vibrational analyses with significantly fewer imaginary frequencies than PM6-DH+ implemented in MOPAC[12, 13], due mainly to differences in geometry optimization algorithms and convergence criteria.\"\nIn my opinion the authors should make it clear in the abstract and also in the conclusions that the reduced number of imaginary frequencies is not due to quality of their modified method, but due to quality of the optimizers and convergence criteria. They should either remove the misleading statement from the abstract or clarify it. The misleading statement should be clarified also in Conclusions.\n2. Some relevant works are not cited.\nIn 2012 another correction to PM6 method has been published (PM6 D3H4), which showed very good results. It would be fair to compare the new PM6 D3H+ parameterization with the previously published results. If this is technically too complicated, the work should be at least cited.\nMinor points:\nIt is not clear what is meant by \"pentamer-monomer, and trimer-trimer\" in Table 3 and I could not find any explanation in the text.\nOn page 8, authors write \"\u2026 on going from the dimer to the pentamer-trimer more than other methods.\" but there is no reference to \"pentamer-trimer\" anywhere in the text. Perhaps a typo?\nAnother typo on the same page: \"to CCSCD(T)\/CBS\"\nCite this review as\nAnonymous Reviewer (2014) Peer Review #1 of \"A third-generation dispersion and third-generation hydrogen bonding corrected PM6 method: PM6-D3H+ (v0.1)\". PeerJ https:\/\/doi.org\/10.7287\/peerj.449v0.1\/reviews\/1\nIn the MS 'A third-generation dispersion and third-generation hydrogen corrected PM6 method: PM6-D3H+' the authors\npresent a new combination of already established methods, namely the emiempirical PM6 method, the DFT-D3 dispersion correction and the H+ hydrogen bonding correction for semiempirical methods. The method is also implemented into the\nGAMESS program, and tested for various systems. While the method performs similarly to its predecessors (PM6-DH2 and PM6-DH+), the main improvement is the combination with the geometry optimization algorithm present in GAMESS, which is much more efficient than the one implemented in MOPAC, the program package that features PM6-DH2 and PM6-DH+. On the other hand, the MOPAC-implementation of PM6 (which is the time-consuming step in those calculations) is about 10 times faster than the implementation in GAMESS, which makes MOPAC the overall more efficient choice.\nHowever, it is also stated that the GAMESS implementation results in better convergence of the molecular geometry, which is a very desirable property, expecially when thermochemical data is needed.\nOverall, the data presented in the paper, including the newly proposed PM6-D3H+ method, ist certainly worth publishing. However, there are several scientific and formal issues that have to be adressed prior publication:\n1.The statement that semi-empirical methods yield interaction energies that rival those computed with Density Functional Theory is clearly too general. While it is certainly clear that this can be the case for some systems (as provided in the references), there are many more examples where this is just not true.\n2. In section 3.2, the authors claim that DFT-D3 was implemented in GAMESS by Peverati et al. and give a literature reference from 2008. This is clearly not possbile, as the originial DFT-D3 publication is from 2010.\n3. It is not clear why the authors use a numerical derivative of the dispersion energy for the gradient, as the analytical form has been available since 2010 and should be preferred for the sake of efficiency and numerical accuracy.\n4. In section 5.2, the second part of the third paragraph is not very clear. The authors not that 'PM6-DH+ underestimates the decrease in interaction energy on going from the dimer to the pentamer-trimer more than other methods'. While there is no pentamer-trimer in table 3, this sentence also does not make any sense if one substitutes pentamer-trimer with trimer-trimer or pentamer-monomer, as the data present in the table do not support this claim.\n5. In section 5.3, the authors write that 'the convergence criterion appears to be a change in [...]'. The convergence criterion is of high importance when discussing the convergence behavior of different optimizers, thus a more accurate statement\nis in order here.\n6. The discussed oscillating behavior that can appear in the H+ correction is quite alarming. While the authors claim that this is only the case for highly symmetric hydrogen bonds and thus 'unlikely to cause problems in most application', it can in principle occur in every interaction with e.g. water or ammonia. As they claim that 'the numerical stability could be increased by changing the definitions of some dihedral angles' in the conclusion, the question remains while this was not done in the course of the work done for this publication.\n7. The term CCSD(T)\/CBS is used quite often in the MS; as these are clearly estimations of the CCSD(T)\/CBS energies in all cases, this should be made clear (e.g. mention it in the text or use 'est. CCSD(T)' in the text).\n8. There are several orthograpic mistakes in the paper, which should be adressed. Here is a (probably incomplete) list:\nGrimme et al. misses the full stop after 'al' in the abstract\n'analyse' should read 'analysis' on page 2\n'resent' should read 'recent' on page 5\n'criteria' should read 'criterion' on page 5\n'an convergence' should read 'a convergence' on page 12\n'Figure 5 and 6' should read 'Figures 5 and 6' on page 14\nMichael Gilson \u00b7 May 18, 2014\nThis paper reports a useful contribution to computational chemistry software. The new code provides users with the means to energy minimize molecules and supramolecular complexes with the PM6 semi-empirical model, coupled with empirical hydrogen-bonding and dispersion terms, in a more complete manner than was hitherto possible. By allowing the use of a more powerful energy-minimization algorithm, the code reduces the number of negative eigenvalues remaining at local energy minima, and hence facilitates thermochemistry calculations based on normal mode analysis. This capability will be useful for binding energy and other chemically and biomedically relevant applications. This is a solid contribution.\nI have one substantial recommendation to improve this paper. Given that a central purpose of the study is to develop a method that gives energy minima of small proteins with fewer negative eigenvalues, it would seem to be of central importance to report the numbers of negative eigenvalues for the energy-minimized structures in Table 6, for both MOPAC and the new method.\nPage 15, first line. The text says there is no improvement in speed after 4 cores, but GAMESS does show improvement on going from 4 to 8 cores (Figure 7).\nA few suggestions for improving clarity are presented below.\nPage 2, line 2: It's not clear in what respect the PM6xxx energies rival those from DFT. How about \"rival in accuracy those computed\u2026\"?\nPage 2, pgph 3: There is a non sequitur between the first and second sentences. Why would implementing a new variant of PM6xxx test whether the problem of imaginary frequencies could be solved by using a different optimizer? I think the answer becomes reasonably clear on further reading, but it would be very helpful to readers if the text could, at this point, clarify that MOPAC doesn't have any more advanced optimizers, so the authors decided to reimplement PM6xxx in GAMESS, so that its more powerful optimization methods could be used. Also, this paragraph is written in a rather roundabout manner which makes it hard to figure out exactly how the new method relates to prior ones. A crisp statement that PM6 is as before, D3 is as in Grimme, and H+ is a modified version of the prior H+ (or something like this) would be helpful. By the way, given that the present H+ evidently differs somewhat from the prior one, it may avoid confusion if the authors could give it another name; e.g., H*.\nPage 4: It would be helpful if the legends of Figures 1 and 2 could state how the R1 and R2 substituents are distinguished, even though this information is eventually found in the text (page 12). Also, it seems odd that the two figures have identical legends. Given that the figures are different, presumably the legends should also be.\nPage 4, middle of the page: the sentence beginning \"In the original implementation, optimization problems\u2026\" mentions a problem with \"target angle estimation\", but it isn't clear what a \"target angle\" is, why it is estimated instead of computed, or what the torsion angle of the NR3 group has to do with it. It would be helpful to either clarify this, or else perhaps describe it in more general terms that don't raise these technical questions.\nPage 5, penultimate line: was = were.\nPage 6, line 3: parametetrized= parameterized\nPage 8, second paragraph: it would be interesting to know which dimers gave the greatest errors. Also, did the same dimers give trouble across all models, or did different models run into trouble for different cases?\nPage 8, paragraph 3: it would be good to provide a bit more information on the systems not in the training set. Are these drawn from BEGDB? On what basis were they selected, in any case?\nPage 11, paragraph 2: what is meant by \"a deviation in the planarity structure of 0.1 Angstrom was needed\u2026\"?\nPage 11, paragraph 3: what are \"trust radius issues\"? Also, what does it mean for convergence to fail after 140 steps, for example? Would convergence have succeeded if more steps had been carried out?\nPage 11, last paragraph: it would be nice to provide readers with a sense for why MOPAC has so much trouble with these minimizations. Are you saying there is something problematic about the energy model, or would minimization succeed if MOPAC had the LBFGS optimizer?\nPage 12, second paragraph line 2: it = is\nPage 12, third paragraph: it would be helpful if the authors could shed some light on what kind of cases require the LBFGS optimizer. Is it just that MOPAC, for uncertain reasons, fails to eliminate negative eigenvalues for some systems? If so, then it might be clearer to say these are the systems the authors have in mind; they may then state that LBFGS is helpful in such cases. My point, in part, is that these are not so much systems that require the LBFGS optimizer, as hard-to-optimize systems that require an optimizer better than the one in MOPAC. It is probable that an optimizer other than LBFGS would also work, so characterizing these as systems where LBFGS \"must be used\" is a bit imprecise.\nPage 14, third paragraph: there is a sentence which says MOPAC requires significantly less CPU time and then that it is far faster than GAMESS; this seems repetitive.\nPage 14, third paragraph: Based on the data in Table 6, I disagree with the statement that the difference in CPU is larger for optimization in bulk solvent; this holds for chignolin but not for Trp cage.\nPage 14, third paragraph, last sentence: either delete \"practically, since it seems to say the same thing as \"feasible\"; or else edit the sentence to say something more precise.\nGilson M (2014) Peer Review #3 of \"A third-generation dispersion and third-generation hydrogen bonding corrected PM6 method: PM6-D3H+ (v0.1)\". PeerJ https:\/\/doi.org\/10.7287\/peerj.449v0.1\/reviews\/3\nDownload Original Submission (PDF) - submitted Apr 4, 2014\nAll text and materials provided via this peer-review history page are made available under a Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
+{"text":"The COVID-2019 Thread\nPage 342 of 342 First ... 242292332334335336337338339340341342\nThread: The COVID-2019 Thread\nharrybarracuda\nOriginally Posted by panama hat\nYou can't read, can you . . .\nNot very well. He's not very bright you know.\nmisskit\nNepal chooses India over China for vaccines\nNepal's Foreign Minister Pradeep Kumar Gyawali is in New Delhi for talks. Nepal is choosing Indian vaccines over Chinese shots. This comes after a trial in Brazil found that a Chinese vaccine was just 50.4% effective.\nVIDEO Gravitas: Nepal chooses India over China for vaccines, Gravitas News | wionews.com\nPhilippines Clears Pfizer Vaccine for Emergency Use\nPhilippine drug regulators on Thursday cleared a U.S.-made COVID-19 vaccine for emergency use, the first such approval in a country among the worst hit by the virus in East Asia.\nThe Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine, developed by American pharmaceutical giant Pfizer, is 95 percent effective against the coronavirus disease, the head of the Philippine Food and Drug Administration said, citing interim data from Phase 3 trials.\n\"After a thorough review of the currently available data by medical and regulatory experts, the FDA is granting Emergency Use Authorization to Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine,\" Rolando Enrique Domingo, the agency's director general, announced in a statement.\n\"The benefit of using vaccines outweighs the known and potential risks,\" Domingo said, noting that scientists so far had no \"specific safety concerns\" about the drug made by Pfizer, which had applied to the Philippine FDA three weeks ago for the emergency-use authorization (EAU).\nDomingo did not say when mass inoculations in the Philippines would start, how many doses of vaccine would be delivered, or when.\nIn the Philippines, nearly half a million people have been infected with the coronavirus disease and almost 10,000 have died of it since the pandemic began here in early 2020. The country has the second highest number of cases and deaths from COVID-19 in East Asia, next to neighboring Indonesia, according to data from Johns Hopkins University in the United States.\nThe approval for the Pfizer drug came a day after Philippine health authorities confirmed that a highly contagious variant of the virus \u2013 first traced to the United Kingdom and known as B.1.1.7 \u2013 had been detected in a Filipino traveler who arrived here last week on a flight from the United Arab Emirates.\nAs for the safety of the Pfizer vaccine, Domingo said the government would \"closely monitor\" any adverse reaction to it.\n\"The roll out of the vaccine and use in more than 5 million people worldwide has identified severe allergic reaction in a few individuals. Therefore, the vaccinations must be done by health professionals trained to recognize and manage adverse reactions, and they should have resources at hand to adequately respond,\" Domingo said.\nSeparately, his agency has received EAU applications for vaccines developed by British-Swedish firm AstraZeneca and Russia's Gamaleya Research Institute of Epidemiology and Microbiology. The Chinese state-owned drug firm Sinovac Biotech had not yet completed its application for an emergency-use authorization for its vaccine, Domingo said.\nEarlier this week, Harry Roque, the spokesman for President Rodrigo Duterte, said the government had secured a deal to buy 25 million doses of vaccines from Sinovac and that these would be arriving in batches, beginning in February.\nLast month, President Rodrigo Duterte revealed that soldiers in the country had been inoculated against the coronavirus with shots of a vaccine developed by Sinopharm, another Chinese firm, although the FDA had not approved it for use.\nAfter news broke that members of Duterte's body guard \u2013 which is made up of military personnel \u2013 had received doses of the Chinese vaccine, FDA head Domingo urged the public not to use vaccines supplied through the black market.\nThe Senate, which is dominated by Duterte allies, had threatened to investigate the revelation but it dropped this plan after Duterte warned them against doing so, saying this could cause friction between his administration and the legislature. The Senate then dropped the plan.\nDuterte this week also defended the reputation of Chinese-made vaccines, although news reports said that authorities in Brazil had downgraded the effectiveness of Sinovac's COVID-19 vaccine to only 50.4 percent.\nThey are \"as good as any other vaccines invented by the Americans or the Europeans,\" the Philippine president said in a taped message, which aired late Wednesday.\n\"The Chinese do not lack brains. The Chinese are bright,\" Duterte said. \"And they would not venture if it's not sufficient \u2013 if it's not safe, sure, and secure.\"\nCOVID-19: Philippines Clears Pfizer Vaccine for Emergency Use \u2014 BenarNews\nNo they're not.\nYes they would.\nRecord daily German COVID deaths spark Merkel 'mega-lockdown' plan - Bild\nBERLIN, Jan 14 (Reuters) - Germany recorded a new record number of deaths from the coronavirus on Thursday, prompting calls for an even tighter lockdown after the country emerged relatively unscathed in 2020.\nChancellor Angela Merkel wanted a \"mega-lockdown\", mass-selling newspaper Bild reported, shutting down the country almost completely for fear of fast-spreading variant of the virus first detected in Britain.\nShe was considering measures including shutting down both local and long-distance public transport, though such steps had not yet been decided, Bild reported.\nWhile Germany's total deaths per capita since the pandemic began remain far lower than the United States, its daily per capita mortality since mid-December has often exceeded that of the United States.\nGermany's daily death toll currently equates to about 15 deaths per million people, versus a 13 U.S. deaths per million.\nThe Robert Koch Institute (RKI) reported 25,164 new coronavirus cases and 1,244 fatalities, bringing Germany's total death toll since the start of the pandemic to 43,881.\nGermany initially managed the pandemic better than its neighbours with a strict lockdown last spring, but it has seen a sharp rise in cases and deaths in recent months, with the RKI saying people were not taking the virus seriously enough.\nRKI president Lothar Wieler said on Thursday restrictions were not being implemented as consistently as they were during the first wave and said more people should work from home, adding that the current lockdown needed to be tightened further.\nGermany introduced a partial lockdown in November that kept shops and schools open, but it tightened the rules in mid-December, closing non-essential stores, and children have not returned to classrooms since the Christmas holidays.\nHospitals in 10 out of Germany's 16 states were facing bottlenecks as 85% of intensive care unit beds were occupied by coronavirus patients, Wieler said.\nA meeting of regional leaders planned for Jan. 25 to discuss whether to extend the lockdown into February should be brought forward, said Winfried Kretschmann, the premier of the state of Baden-Wuerttemberg.\nMerkel was due to speak to ministers on Thursday about ramping up production of vaccines.\nSo far only about 1% of the German population has been vaccinated, or 842,455 people, the RKI reported.\nGermany has so far recorded 16 cases of people with the fast-spreading strain of the virus first detected in Britain and four with the strain from South Africa, Wieler said, although he admitted gene sequencing of samples was not being done broadly.\nWieler urged people who were offered a COVID-19 vaccination to accept it.\n\"At the end of the year we will have this pandemic under control,\" Wieler said. Enough vaccines would then be available to inoculate the entire population, he said.\nRecord daily German COVID deaths spark Merkel 'mega-...\nWe have passed 2,000,000 deaths.\nIn around 8 days we will pass 100,000,000 infections.\nIn the EU\n^^ Bavaria is enforcing the wearing of FFP2 (KN95) masks on public transport and stores starting Monday. Only grocery and pharmacy stores open since the week before Christmas.\nAreas with new infections greater than 200\/100k over the last 7 days are being limited to 15km travel. Locally it was over 200 last week but dropped below this week. As a comparison, Cheltenham is currently around 300\/100k and is a below average for the UK.\nEveryone is waiting to see what the numbers are like at the end of the month. There won't be any High Street shops left by the time this pandemic finishes, even the big department stores have closed down.\nYesterday, 11:18 PM #8533\nIndian Prime Minister Narendra Modi kicked off one of the world's largest vaccination drives with two locally-produced Covid 19 shots which will go into the arms of healthcare workers in the first phase of a vast exercise to inoculate millions by mid-summer.\n\"Never before such an enormous inoculation drive been attempted in the world,\" Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi told paramedics at 2,934 medical centers, where 300,000 healthcare workers were listed for Saturday's inaugural jabs.\nAround 30 million healthcare and frontline personnel would get priority shots followed by 270 million others in the first leg of India's Covid-19 immunization program, set to be completed by July.\nIndia flags off 'world's largest' vaccination drive against Covid 19 pandemic\nToday, 04:46 PM #8534\nWell the UK is ramping things up, 10 new mass vaccination sites are to be opened this week and they are looking at vaccinating up to 2m a week, supplies permitting.\nMore mass vaccination centres opening as target to reach 2m jabs a week appears within reach | UK News | Sky News\nNorway has concerns about vaccinating the old and weak after several deaths...\nNorway Raises Concern Over Vaccine Jabs for the Elderly\nNorway expressed increasing concern about the safety of the Pfizer Inc. vaccine on elderly people with serious underlying health conditions after raising an estimate of the number who died after receiving inoculations to 29.\nThe latest figure adds six to the number of known fatalities in Norway, and lowers the age group thought to be affected to 75 from 80. While it's unclear exactly when the deaths occurred, Norway has given at least one dose to about 42,000 people and focused on those considered most at risk if they contract the virus, including the elderly.\nUntil Friday, the vaccine produced by Pfizer and BioNTech SE was the only one available in Norway, and \"all deaths are thus linked to this vaccine,\" the Norwegian Medicines Agency said in a written response to Bloomberg on Saturday.\nOfficial reports of allergic reactions have been rare as governments rush to roll out vaccines to try to contain the global pandemic. U.S. authorities reported 21 cases of severe allergic reactions from Dec. 14-23 after administration of about 1.9 million initial doses of the Pfizer vaccine. The first Europe-wide safety report on the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine is due to be published at the end of January.\ncontd...\nhttps:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/articles\/2021-01-16\/norway-vaccine-fatalities-among-people-75-and-older-rise-to-29\nI heard this on Thai news yesterday but didn't have a news link at the time.\nI'm still not convinced that vaccinating the elderly first is such a good idea. Essential services and workforce carried out at workplace facilities might be a better approach. At least in that way those that are out and about are vaccinated.\nHansum Man!\nWay, Way South of the border now - thank God!\nOriginally Posted by harrybarracuda\nAnd NZ is still trying to decide when to start . . . April maybe? Gen pop around August? Screw Jacinda and co\n\u0e04\u0e27\u0e32\u0e21\u0e23\u0e39\u0e49\u0e25\u0e36\u0e01\u0e25\u0e31\u0e1a\nSeems to be rather late as the general trend shows the world over.\nBut who are we to judge, as NZ was one of the countries [primarily Asia] that managed well and continued to do so throughout this creepy year.\nMany are into [or will be soon] their first round of vaccinations for essential folks, elders and those with assorted health risks.\nAnd general population vaccines to be available by mid-to-late March.\nOriginally Posted by Troy\nshould really read:\nNorway Raises Concern over Vaccine Jabs for the Elderly with serious underlying health conditions\nBecause it's not specifically the elderly is it?\nIt's those that are probably close to death anyway.\nIn fact the Post's report yesterday said: \"Covid-19 vaccines may be too risky for the very old, frail and terminally ill, say health regulators in Norway\".\nI would question the value of using what are currently scarce vaccines on the terminally ill. Are they hoping it will cure them?\nQuick Navigation Thailand and Asia News Top","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
+{"text":"Research and Development Trends of Millimeter-wave Short-range Application Systems\nToshio IHARA Keiji FUJIMURA\nIEICE TRANSACTIONS on Communications Vol.E79-B No.12 pp.1741-1753\nType of Manuscript: INVITED PAPER (Special Issue on Millimeter-wave Short-range Application Systems Technology)\nmillimeter-wave, short-range application, communications, sensing,\nFull Text: PDF(1.9MB)>>\nThis paper gives an overview of the research and development trends in millimeter-wave short-range application systems, such as communication systems and sensing systems, in Japan and other countries. Frequency management trends are also described. Major research and development efforts in Japan have currently been concentrated on the 59-64 GHz band. The first major achievement resulting from those efforts was the allocation of the 60-61 GHz band to the automotive radar systems. Test productions of automotive radars in this band have already started. Further technological developments to reduce the cost and size of radar products are, however, required in order for such radar systems to be widely used. Development of broadband wireless LAN systems has also been intensively made in the 60 GHz band. In addition, technical issues related to standardization of millimeter-wave wireless LAN systems in the 60 GHz band have been examined at the Association of Radio Industries and Businesses. The application areas of millimeter-waves in the future are expected to become more diverse. Research and development trends of future application systems, such as broadband mobile communication systems and imaging radar systems, are also described. These systems require more advanced millimeter-wave technologies, such as smart antennas, low power-consumption devices, and more sensitive detectors. Efforts to develop these technologies must be strengthened.","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
+{"text":"Aramis Gutierrez \u2013 Order of Sorcery \u2013 April \u2013 May, 2015\nBig Pictures Los Angeles is pleased to announce Order of Sorcery, an exhibition of new paintings by Aramis Gutierrez. An opening reception will be held on April 4th from 5:00pm until 9:00pm.\nThe word Sorcery is derived from Latin term Maleficium, which was associated with harmful magic like poisoning, necromancy and illusions. So it comes as no surprise that in our modern times the notion of sorcery conjures up suspect affiliations. This semantic is reinforced in contemporary personifications of Sorcerers and Sorceress like Sauron, Saruman and Maleficent who, contextualized by the genre of \"historical\" cinema, imply inordinate doom or the corruption of those whose who are undisclosed.\n\"We're living like skeletons, because we're feeling like skeletons\"\n-The Sound.\nRevisionist tropes have recently dominated the conversation surrounding the practice of contemporary painting. Aramis Gutierrez's new cycle of paintings consisting of images of sorcerers and sorceresses proposes a critical stance against the outsider market forces, decentralized decision-making and ambivalence that dominate the simulacra of aesthetics like specters. This posture is advanced through untimely, and possibly inappropriate, \"painterly magic\" joined with imagery derived from disjointed cinematic stills, to generate a generous quandary of abstraction by means of no inherent narrative and with the intent of facilitating the experiential of sorcerer and apprentice.\nAramis Gutierrez (b. 1975) has exhibited internationally with solo exhibitions at David Castillo Gallery, Legal Art (now Cannonball) and most recently Spinello Projects. He has been included in group exhibitions at the Perez Art Museum, the Art and Culture Center of Hollywood and the Museum of Contemporary Art, North Miami. In 2008-2009 he was awarded the Studio Residency Program at the Deering Estate at Cutler. He co-founded Guccivuitton an artist gallery\/group in 2013 in Miami, FL.\nLink to checklist\nPress on show\nLos Angeles Times Review by David Pagel\nMiami Rail Review by Cara Despain\nRead The Miami Herald's \u2013 A collision of art and commerce\nAramis Gutierrez - Order of Sorcery - April - May, 2015 Tuesday, April 7, 2015 Doug Crocco","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
+{"text":"Tech Ticker\nYou are here: Home \/ Mobile Phones \/ Samsung Cetus (SGH-i917) will run Windows Phone 7 OS\nSamsung Cetus (SGH-i917) will run Windows Phone 7 OS\nJuly 30, 2010 By Samsung Hub Leave a Comment\nWe first heard of Cetus (albeit with a different model number) from a purported leaked UK mobile phones roadmap. Now new details have surfaced about Cetus, courtesy Bluetooth SIG which obviously holds more legitimacy than the leak before.\nAlthough we're not sure if it will be the first one, Cetus or SGH-i917 will run on Windows Phone 7 OS. Amongst other features, the phone will be more or less at par with Galaxy S and feature a 4-inch WVGA AMOLED screen (we presume Super AMOLED), GPS, Wi-Fi 802.11n, FM Radio, microUSB port, 5MP rear camera with front-facing VGA camera. The only difference we've found is the Bluetooth version, which is Bluetooth v2.1 in Cetus.\nNo details on the availability but we'd guess it should be around the time Microsoft releases WP7.\nNote: This post has been republished from Samsung Hub. For more Samsung news, head over to Samsung Hub.\nLG Optimus 7 (E900) WP7 press pictures leaked\nLive Pictures of HTC Spark running WP7 leaked\nLG E900 WP7 phone leaked, features 1.3GHz Snapdragon chip\nSamsung Windows Phone 7 running Cetus found in the wild\nFiled Under: Mobile Phones\nWorth a read\nLenovo Yoga 9i laptop with 13th Gen Intel CPU comes to India\nJanuary 16, 2023 By Apurva Leave a Comment\nIntel's 13th Gen processors have been out for a while for desktops but Lenovo has just become the first brand to launch a laptop powered by Intel's latest generation of processors. The Lenovo Yoga 9i is a thin and light convertible laptop with a 14-inch touchscreen OLED PureSight display and Dolby Vision with up to [\u2026]\nLenovo launches Tab P11 with 5G support\nJanuary 13, 2023 By Manav Leave a Comment\nAndroid tablets are still far away to offer an experience similar to the Apple iPads and now Lenovo is taking a stab at it with the launch of their first premium tablet in the Indian market. The Tab P11 5G supports the sub-6GHz 5G band that will allow users to carry out their tasks with [\u2026]\nMarshall launches Gen III Home Speaker lineup\nDecember 17, 2022 By News Team Leave a Comment\nMarshall has announced a newer generation of its home speakers, which now come with improved sound quality and a better soundstage. Acton, Stanmore and Woburn speakers are re-engineered in a way that features outward-angled tweeters and updated waveguides, allowing the speakers to deliver wide sound that will fill the biggest of the rooms. Moreover, there's [\u2026]\nEA, Marvel Entertainment announce a multi-title collaboration, starting with Iron Man\nOctober 31, 2022 By Kinjal Sangoi Leave a Comment\nEA has announced a long-term deal with Marvel Entertainment that will see the gaming company release \"at least\" three new action-adventure games designed for consoles and PC. The first game to be developed under this collaboration is a single-player, third-person, action-adventure Iron Man. EA says the game is under early development at Montreal-based Motive Studio [\u2026]\nSony increases PS5 price in select markets due to inflation\nAugust 26, 2022 By Manav Leave a Comment\nA general rule of thumb with respect to pricing for any tech product is that it goes down as the time passes. But for Sony's PlayStation 5, it's the other way around. Already struggling with supply issues, Sony today announced that the price of both the PS5 SKUs \u2013 digital and disc \u2013 will increase [\u2026]\nIntel's 11th Gen CPU powers Honor MagicBook X14 laptop\nApple users can now self-service their devices in Europe\nWhatsApp rolls out Avatars\nMore Stories Select Month January 2023 December 2022 October 2022 September 2022 August 2022 July 2022 June 2022 May 2022 April 2022 March 2022 February 2022 January 2022 December 2021 November 2021 October 2021 September 2021 August 2021 July 2021 June 2021 May 2021 April 2021 March 2021 February 2021 January 2021 December 2020 November 2020 October 2020 September 2020 August 2020 July 2020 June 2020 May 2020 April 2020 March 2020 February 2020 January 2020 December 2019 November 2019 October 2019 September 2019 August 2019 July 2019 June 2019 May 2019 April 2019 March 2019 February 2019 January 2019 December 2018 November 2018 October 2018 September 2018 August 2018 July 2018 June 2018 May 2018 April 2018 March 2018 February 2018 January 2018 December 2017 November 2017 October 2017 September 2017 August 2017 July 2017 June 2017 May 2017 April 2017 March 2017 February 2017 January 2017 December 2016 November 2016 October 2016 September 2016 August 2016 July 2016 June 2016 May 2016 April 2016 March 2016 February 2016 January 2016 December 2015 November 2015 October 2015 September 2015 August 2015 July 2015 June 2015 May 2015 April 2015 March 2015 February 2015 January 2015 December 2014 November 2014 October 2014 September 2014 August 2014 July 2014 June 2014 May 2014 April 2014 March 2014 February 2014 January 2014 December 2013 November 2013 October 2013 September 2013 August 2013 July 2013 June 2013 May 2013 April 2013 March 2013 February 2013 January 2013 December 2012 November 2012 October 2012 September 2012 August 2012 July 2012 June 2012 May 2012 April 2012 March 2012 February 2012 January 2012 December 2011 November 2011 October 2011 September 2011 August 2011 July 2011 June 2011 May 2011 April 2011 March 2011 February 2011 January 2011 December 2010 November 2010 October 2010 September 2010 August 2010 July 2010 June 2010 May 2010 April 2010 March 2010 February 2010 January 2010 December 2009 November 2009 October 2009 September 2009 August 2009 July 2009 June 2009 May 2009 April 2009 March 2009 February 2009 January 2009 December 2008 November 2008 October 2008 September 2008 August 2008 July 2008 June 2008 May 2008 April 2008 March 2008 February 2008 January 2008 December 2007 November 2007 October 2007 September 2007 August 2007 July 2007 June 2007 May 2007 April 2007 March 2007 February 2007 January 2007 December 2006 November 2006 October 2006 September 2006 August 2006 July 2006 June 2006 May 2006 April 2006 March 2006 February 2006 January 2006 December 2005 November 2005 October 2005 September 2005 August 2005 July 2005 June 2005 May 2005 April 2005 December 2004 November 2004 October 2004 September 2004 August 2004 July 2004 June 2004 May 2004 December 0\n\u00a9 Copyright 2018 Tech Ticker \u00b7 All Rights Reserved \u00b7 Privacy Policy \u00b7 Terms of Use","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
+{"text":"JMP Hong Kong\n14\/F Cityplaza 4, Taikoo Shing, Hong Kong\nContact: jmpchina@sas.com\nAnalytics speeds time to market in high-tech manufacturing\nSemiconductor manufacturer SMIC observes dramatic time and monetary savings\nDeliver advanced technical capability among an audience of varying technical abilities.\nInstall JMP and JMP Pro, a product that meets engineers' demand for an easy-to-learn, easy-to-use tool while simultaneously offering powerful graphics and analytic functionality.\nSMIC reports improved quality, speed to market, time and monetary savings.\nCompetition is fierce in the semiconductor industry, especially in integrated circuit manufacturing. Success depends entirely on speed to market for Semiconductor Manufacturing International Corporation (SMIC), one of the leading semiconductor foundries in the world and the largest and most advanced foundry in mainland China.\n\"We're developing a new generation of technology for semiconductor products, and trying to develop it \u2013 from researching the technology to fabricating the products \u2013 in the shortest cycle time,\" explains Siyuan Frank Yang, Corporate Member of Technical Staff at SMIC.\nSpeed in data analysis saves money and time\nTo stay ahead in a fast-paced industry like high-tech manufacturing, SMIC sought to simplify its experimentation and data mining processes. Complicated and expensive experiments had slowed progress and consumed huge costs.\nThe end goal? To develop a tool that delivered an advanced technical capability while also fulfilling engineers' criteria: The software must be easy to learn and use in everyday processes.\nSo SMIC leadership tapped JMP to resolve obstacles like the technical learning curve without sacrificing elevated analytic functionality. \"SMIC continues to innovate and succeed because we're open to new technologies like JMP,\" Yang says.\nToday, Yang reports that between 80 and 100 SMIC engineers are using JMP in design of experiments (DOE), modeling and fit models on a regular basis within the organization. \"We're even using JMP for advanced DOE, prediction for some circuit performance using WAT data before circuit performance is measured and analysis of highly correlated and highly dimensional data.\"\nCollaboration drives innovation\nOne of SMIC's corporate values is innovation. SMIC uses innovation to continuously and actively undertake product technology research and development, increase productivity and optimize work procedures.\nOne of the ways SMIC delivers on its innovation value is through a research and development collaboration group using JMP Scripting Language (JSL) to code a custom platform for multiple users to perform their daily device data analysis. \"This group's collaboration leads to greater innovation. We find that the more our engineers know about JMP \u2013 and the more they share their findings with each other \u2013 the more frequently they use JMP and the better use they make of it,\" Yang explains. \"Most engineers here prefer JMP because it is easy to use and has powerful graphing techniques.\"\nSMIC encourages such collaboration because it improves quality and consistency \u2013 another of its corporate promises. By building comprehensive quality and reliability assurance and control systems into its processes and services, from technology development to production, SMIC ensures a consistent level of quality and flexibility for its customers.\nSMIC decides to add JMP\u00ae Pro to its analytics toolkit\nWith demonstrated ROI from SMIC's new approach to DOE, there was little hesitation when Yang suggested SMIC also adopt JMP Pro for more advanced analyses. \"We wanted additional advanced techniques for big data analysis,\" Yang says. JMP Pro provides all the superior capabilities for interactive data visualization, exploration, analysis and communication that are the hallmarks of JMP, but with an additional library of expert analytics resources.\n\"There are many very useful features in JMP Pro \u2014 in particular, I've found some regularization methods very useful in dealing with highly dimensional and highly correlated data,\" he notes.\nIn addition, JMP Pro offers a multitude of sophisticated techniques: predictive modeling with cross-validation using a number of different methods, modern modeling techniques, model compari\u00adson and averaging features, advanced multivariate techniques, reliability block diagrams, covering arrays, mixed models, uplift models and advanced computational statistics methods.\nThe benefits of analytics trickle down to the customer\nSMIC touts marked savings from equipment performance improvement with the use of the DOE capabilities of JMP, and time savings in data processing, data analysis and graphing.\n\"We have saved both money and time by using JMP,\" Yang reflects. \"The outcome\u2014and the motivation for all of this \u2014 is that our customers benefit. The quality of our products has improved, and our products are now released from R&D stages to manufacturing much faster.\" And Yang suggests that using analytics wisely can fuel growth, speed and efficiency. \"The more our engineers know about JMP, the more it pays off for the company and for our customers in the long run,\" he says.\nDr. Siyuan Frank Yang, an industrial statistician, is responsible for industrial statistics applications for SMIC in Shanghai, China. He leads metrology methodology development, statistical consultation and writing, and provides statistical training to SMIC companywide. Yang's earlier work at SMIC was in the area of processing development and industrial statistics. He works alongside an MS graduate in applied statistics who focuses on JMP scripting language (JSL) programming and some statistical training.","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
+{"text":"Nearest Airport to Tocumen, Panama\nClosest airport to Tocumen is Tocumen International Airport (PTY). Distance from Tocumen International Airport to Tocumen is 1.2 miles \/ 2.0 kilometers.\nTocumen \u2013 Airports nearby\nTocumen International Airport (1.2 miles \/ 2.0 kilometers)\nChitr\u00e9 Alonso Valderrama Airport (103.6 miles \/ 166.8 kilometers)\nTocumen International Airport is located approximately 1.0 miles \/ 1.6 kilometers southeast of Nuevo Bel\u00e9n and about 1.2 miles \/ 2.0 kilometers south of Tocumen. IATA airport code is PTY.\nDistance from Albrook \"Marcos A. Gelabert\" International Airport to Tocumen is 14.3 miles \/ 22.9 kilometers. Albrook \"Marcos A. Gelabert\" International Airport is located approximately 0.7 miles \/ 1.1 kilometers west of Curund\u00fa and about 1.0 miles \/ 1.5 kilometers north of Anc\u00f3n. IATA airport code is PAC.\nDistance from Enrique Adolfo Jim\u00e9nez Airport to Tocumen is 37.9 miles \/ 61.0 kilometers. Enrique Adolfo Jim\u00e9nez Airport is located approximately 2.2 miles \/ 3.6 kilometers east of Col\u00f3n and about 2.4 miles \/ 3.9 kilometers west of Cativ\u00e1. IATA airport code is ONX.\nDistance from Chitr\u00e9 Alonso Valderrama Airport to Tocumen is 103.6 miles \/ 166.8 kilometers. Chitr\u00e9 Alonso Valderrama Airport is located approximately 36.9 miles \/ 59.4 kilometers south of Penonom\u00e9 and about 40.0 miles \/ 64.4 kilometers east of Santiago de Veraguas. IATA airport code is CTD.\nMap of airports near Tocumen\nA Tocumen International Airport (PTY) 1.2 2.0\nB Albrook \"Marcos A. Gelabert\" International Airport (PAC) 14.3 22.9\nD Chitr\u00e9 Alonso Valderrama Airport (CTD) 103.6 166.8\nClosest airport to Nuevo Bel\u00e9n\nClosest airport to Vista Hermosa\nClosest airport to La Colorada\nClosest airport to Cabra N\u00famero Uno\nClosest airport to Nueva Esperanza\nClosest airport to Cerro Azul\nClosest airport to Pacora","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
+{"text":"Ep 31.5: Go Fact Yourself opens for Judge John Hodgman\nPosted Fri, 03\/15\/2019 - 13:43 by Julian Burrell | 0 comments\nJ. Keith van Straaten, John Hodgman, Jesse Thorn, Helen Hong\nGo Fact Yourself\nJesse Thorn\nOur regularly scheduled episode has been moved to next week for the #MaxFunDrive. This mini-episode of Go Fact Yourself was recorded as part of a live open for Judge John Hodgman.\nFirst, Bailiff Jesse Thorn gives a warm welcome to the audience.\nThen J. Keith and Helen will share some laughs and get to know members of the crowd.\nAfter that, the games begin: Two rounds of \"What's the Difference?\" featuring the following topics:\nWhat is the difference between a cruise ship and an ocean liner?\nWhat is the difference between a casket and a coffin?\nFinally, we'll finish with a round of Fast Facts!\nAppearing in this episode:\nJ. Keith van Straaten\nHelen Hong\nGo Fact Yourself was devised by Jim Newman and J. Keith van Straaten, and produced in collaboration with Maximum Fun.\nTheme Song by Jonathan Green.\nMaximum Fun's Senior Producer is Laura Swisher.\nThe show is edited by Julian Burrell.\nJJH\no J. Keith van Straaten\nJudge John Hodgman Episode 383: Requesting an Immediate Ingestion\nPosted Wed, 09\/26\/2018 - 08:01 by Jennifer Marmor | 0 comments\nJean Grae\nMatthew brings the case against his wife, Angie. In their family, it's the rule that they all remain at the dinner table until everyone is done eating. But, Angie is a notorious slow eater. Matthew says he is constantly entertaining their small children for too long, while she finishes her meal. But, Angie thinks he is exaggerating how bad it is. With Guest Bailiff Jean Grae!\nClick HERE to check out Matthew's spreadsheet and box plot detailing the family's dinner finishing times.\nThank you to Carol Sanchez for naming this week's case! To suggest a title for a future episode, like Judge John Hodgman on Facebook. We regularly put out a call for submissions.\nSUBSCRIBE TO THIS PODCAST in APPLE PODCASTS or the RSS FEED\nfletcherism\nJJHo\nslow eater\nslow eaters\nslow eating\nJudge John Hodgman Episode 375: Swipe Right to Remain Silent\nPhillip brings the case against his girlfriend, Rachel. The two of them met on a dating app. Rachel wants to tell people they met another way, but Phillip thinks they should just be honest. With Guest Judge Cristela Alonzo!\nWe were thrilled to have Guest Judge Cristela join the court on this week's episode. You can find her on Twitter @Cristela9. Her standup special, Lower Classy, is on Netflix. And of course, don't miss her on Bubble, MaxFun's scripted sci-fi comedy show!\nThank you to Anne Mandola Jones for suggesting this week's case! To suggest a title for a future episode, like Judge John Hodgman on Facebook. We regularly put out a call for submissions.\nJudge John Hodgman Episode 374: Statute of Celebrations\nMonte Belmonte\nRick brings the case against his wife, Sarah. When Sarah's birthday month rolls around, she likes to plan different celebrations with various groups of people in her life. Rick thinks it's too many birthday events and would like to set a two-celebration limit. With Summertime Funtime Bailiff Monte Belmonte!\nHuge thanks to Monte for joining us again this summer! You can catch him on the airwaves in Northampton, MA on 93.9 WRSI The River!\nSUBMITTED BY RICK:\nClick here for Rick's birthday stats and graphs.\nSUBMITTED BY SARAH:\nThank you to Jordan Welch & Jennifer Milner for suggesting this week's case! To suggest a title for a future episode, like Judge John Hodgman on Facebook. We regularly put out a call for submissions.\nbirth week\nbirthmonth\nbirthweek\njoel mann\nJudge John Hodgman Episode 373: Much Ado About Clothing\nJason brings the case against his friend, Francisco. They run a community Shakespeare theatre group together. Jason would like to try doing more contemporary and experimental Shakespeare adaptations, but Francisco is opposed. With Summertime Funtime Bailiff Monte Belmonte!\nAffidavit from Marie, costume designer on 2018's Henry the Fourth, a \"Generic Old Timey Shakespeare Land\" production:\nThis past February I was a Co-Costume Designer for Francisco's production of Henry the IV Pt. 1. During that time, it became clear to me that the practice of doing non-descript\/non-specific period dress for every production, semi-affectionately referred to as \"old timey Francisco land\", was wearing on the designers as well as Madison Shakespeare Company. While there are a number of reasons that this has caused some very stressful situations, the larger share of stress and discomfort has been caused by these core elements.\n- A fundamental misunderstanding of the resources available to costume designers and coordinators for period dress. When discussing initial designs and resources, it was mentioned that there were a number of resources available to us to find the necessary garments, via costume shops and other companies in the area. This turned out to not be the case and most of the items that ended up in the show were either hand made by us or bought. Very few, in comparison, were borrowed.\n- Underestimation of the time needed to complete designs, garments and garment acquisition for non-descript period clothing. Costumes often become an afterthought until about 3-4 weeks prior to opening night. By then, many options are no longer available to us and the cost, workload, and stress begin to pile up. Typical build\/acquisition timelines run at least 6 weeks or more.\n- Cost is borderline prohibitive. Period costumes cost a lot of money... especially when there is a very short build\/acquisition timeline.\n- Consistent unclear communication regarding the desired historical period style and general mood of the clothing. When you are not specific about the time period for the production, it is 10x harder to find the necessary garments. Please do not leave us hanging out in a non-specific mood that gives us no real information about what you are looking for. We want to make you happy, please just tell us what you want.\n- Unwillingness to consider other, more awesome, modern\/post-modern dress design concepts. I would be SO willing to do a modern, post-apocalyptic or even a futuristic design concept, were we not stuck in \"Old-Timey Francisco Land\"!\n- Inevitable use of heavy, synthetic fabrics and the subsequent discomfort of the actors who must wear them. I realize none of us really care how the actor's feel, still . . . It's worth noting. Less time for design means crappier fabric and garment choices.\nAffidavit from Bridget, costume designer on 2018's Henry the Fourth, a \"Generic Old Timey Shakespeare Land\" Production:\nI love me some old-timey Authentic Period Shakespeare as much as the next gal, but one should consider limiting the annual number of productions involving houppelandes, hozen, and paned slops when time, funding, and costume resources are all limited. Do you know anyone who has a spare set of full plate armor that they can loan out for free for a month or so? Have any friends who collect replica medieval turnshoes in a wide range of sizes? Are your sewing skills so mad that you can crank out a corset or ruff collar in a couple of days and still have time to sleep?\nDo you enjoy making costumers weep hysterical, hopeless tears into half-cut bolts of upholstery fabric at 2 a.m.?\nNo? You don't? Then think about a nice contemporary-themed show with stage blacks and some spiffy props and makeup.\nWilly Shakes would understand. He was a broke actor, too.\nThank you to Chris Ubben for suggesting this week's case! To suggest a title for a future episode, like Judge John Hodgman on Facebook. We regularly put out a call for submissions.\nmadison shakespeare company\nJudge John Hodgman Episode 371: Into the Teal\nJudge John Hodgman and Bailiff Jesse Thorn are in chambers this week to clear the docket! They talk about bedroom wall colors, loud clappers, meat cooking utensils, holiday cards, locking doors, and millenials.\nHere is the video Bailiff Jesse mentioned that shows Harry Connick Jr. tricking his audience into clapping on the 2s and 4s:\nAnd here's the video Judge Hodgman described that shows Sting applauding for Bruce Springsteen:\nclearing the docket\nJudge John Hodgman Episode 370: Live From Chicago 2018, Part 2\nJudge John Hodgman is live in Chicago again, at Thalia Hall for the Onion Comedy and Arts Festival! \"Amendment to the Constellation\" plus Swift Justice disputes about dogs, farts and a special pair of newly married litigants! Plus, music from OHMME!\nOHMME's first full-length album, Parts, is coming out on August 24, 2018 on Joyful Noise Recordings! They'll also be at West Fest in Chicago on July 8th.\nThank you to Colan Kennelly for suggesting this week's case! To suggest a title for a future episode, like Judge John Hodgman on Facebook. We regularly put out a call for submissions.\nJudge John Hodgman Episode 369: The Booth, the Whole Booth, and Nothing But the Booth\nSophie is filing suit against her parents, Toby and Thor. If they are out to eat and seated at a table they don't like, Toby and Thor will ask to sit elsewhere. Sophie thinks that her parents should just deal with the table they've been given. Who's right? Who's wrong?\nThank you to Ian Brodie for suggesting this week's title! To suggest a title for a future episode, like Judge John Hodgman on Facebook. We regularly put out a call for submissions.\nJudge John Hodgman Episode 368: The Whistle Throne\nAlison Becker\nJudge John Hodgman and Bailiff Jesse Thorn are in chambers this week to clear the docket with special guest, Alison Becker! They talk about whistling, serving pizza at your wedding, the beginning of Spring, ordering food to go at a sit-down restaurant, and eating bacon with a fork!\nAlison Becker is one of the stars of Maximum Fun's brand new scripted serial podcast, BUBBLE! Make sure to check it out now, wherever you listen to podcasts.\nbacon with fork\npizza at wedding\nto go food\nJudge John Hodgman Episode 364: Wedding Clashers\nLaura brings the case against her fianc\u00e9, Zach. Laura would like to elope but Zach thinks that they should have a bigger, more traditional wedding. Who's right, who's wrong?\nClick here for the video Laura sent of their cat, Ru, playing fetch.\nMusic in this week's episode:\nFaceoff Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)\nThank you to Nora McCaffrey Glaser for suggesting this week's title! To suggest a title for a future episode, like Judge John Hodgman on Facebook. We regularly put out a call for submissions.","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
+{"text":"Dr. John McLeod BASc, MSc, PhD Associate Professor, Soochow University\nCurrent Affiliation:\nAssociate Professor, College of Nano Science and Technology, Soochow University 199 Ren-Ai Road, Suzhou Industrial Park, Suzhou Jiangsu 215123, P. R. China\nB.A. Sc. (Engineering Physics)\nM. Sc. (Physics)\nPh.D. Physics\nX-ray Transitions in Broad Band Materials\nThe general application of soft X-ray spectroscopy in the study of the electronic structure of materials is discussed, with particular emphasis on broad band materials. Several materials are studied using both soft X-ray spectroscopy and density functional theory to provide experimental and theoretical electronic structures, respectively. In particular, bonding, cation hybridization, and band gaps for several binary oxides (the alkali oxides: BeO, MgO, CaO, SrO, BaO; the post-transition metal oxides: ZnO, CdO, HgO; and the period 5 oxides In2O3, SnO, SnO2, Sb2O3, Sb2O5, and TeO2) are studied. The technique of using the peaks in the second derivatives of an X-ray emission and an X-ray absorption spectrum to estimate the band gap of a material is critically analyzed, and a more accurate ``semi-empirical'' method that involves both measured spectra and theoretical calculations is proposed.\nThe techniques used in the study of binary oxides are then applied to a more interesting (and industrially relevant) group of ternary oxides based on TiO2 (PbTiO3, Sn2TiO4, Bi2Ti4O11, Bi4Ti3O12, and ZnTiO3), and a general rule for the band gaps of these materials is suggested based on empirical data. This research may help direct efforts in synthesizing a hydrogen-producing photocatalyst with a band gap that can efficiently harness the bulk of the solar spectrum.\nFinally, several layered pnictide superconductors and related compounds (CaFe2As2, Co-, Ni- and Cu-doped BaFe2As2, LiFeAs, LiMnAs, CaCu1.7As2, SrCu2As2, SrCu2(As0.84Sb0.16)2, SrCu2Sb2, and BaCu2Sb2) are studied. The X-ray spectra provide rather strong evidence that these materials lack strong on-site Hubbard-like correlations, and that their electronic structures are almost entirely like those of a broad band metal. In particular, it is shown that the notion that the transition metals are all divalent is completely wrong for copper in a layered pnictide, and that at best in these systems the copper is monovalent.\nM.Sc. Thesis\nStructural Characterization of Arsenic-Doped Amorphous Selenium\nAmorphous selenium has recently found commercial application in modern direct conversion X-ray imaging detectors (DCXID) used in medical facilities. Amorphous selenium is used to directly convert an X-ray signal into an electrical signal - similar to the process in a digital camera. These DCXIDs have faster imaging capabilities and lower costs then traditional X-ray imaging devices. Additionally, there is theoretical justification for extremely high resolution X-ray images.\nUnfortunately, amorphous selenium is unstable, and it spontaneously crystallizes. Even partially crystallized selenium is useless for DCXIDs. Doping with arsenic can retard rate of crystallization, but the exact mechanism for this process is unknown. Unfortunately adding arsenic increases charge-trapping, which reduces the resolution of the DCXID.\nUsing synchrotron-excited X-ray spectroscopy I have studied the structural and electronic properties of arsenic-doped amorphous selenium. I have identified spectral features which coincide with increasing crystallinity, and increasing arsenic concentration. Further study of this system is on-going.\nThis research is supported by an NSERC Strategic Grant.\nAdvanced Oxides\nMultiferroics\nPyroxenes\nBinary metal-oxides\nOxygen is a key element in many correlated materials, and is an excellent element for soft X-ray spectroscopy. Many metal-oxide systems exhibit interesting properties such as (anti)ferromagnetism, (anti)ferroelectricity, and ferroelasticity.\nI am using synchrotron-excited soft X-ray spectroscopy (SXS) and density functional theory (DFT) calculations to study the properties of many multiferroics, pyroxenes, and binary metal-oxides.\nIron Pnictide Superconductors\nA new class of superconductors was recently discovered based on Fe-As layers. I am using SXS and DFT to study the electronic structure of these materials, helping to identify electron correlation effects, the influence of transition metal dopants, and the physical structure of these materials.\nAromatic Adsorption in Porous Silicon\nPorous silicon can trap airborne aromatic molecules in nano-scale pores. These molecules change the surface electronic properties of the silicon. I am using SXS to study the impact of different nitroamide aromatics on the surface electronic structure of porous silicon. This research is aimed at developing solid-state detectors for explosives.\nNSERC CGS D3 (September 2010)\nNSERC Summer in Taiwan Scholarship (July 2010)\n\"Local structure of Fe impurity atoms in ZnO: bulk versus surface\"\nJ. A. McLeod, D. W. Boukhvalov, D. A. Zatsepin, R. J. Green, B. Leedahl, L. Cui, E. Z. Kurmaev, I. S. Zhidkov, L. Finkelstein, N. V. Gavrilov, S. O. Cholakh, and A. Moewes J. Phys. Chem. C, 118(2014) 5336-5345.\ndoi: 10.1021\/jp411219z\n\"Structural defects induced by Fe-ion implantation in TiO2\"\nB. Leedahl, D. A. Zatsepin, D. W. Boukhvalov, R. J. Green, J. A. McLeod, S. S. Kim, E. Z. Kurmaev, I. S. Zhidkov, N. V. Gavrilov, S. O. Cholakh, and A. Moewes J. Appl. Phys. 115 (2014) 053711.\n\"X-ray Spectroscopic Study of the Conduction Band of K3:Anthracene and K3:Phenanthrene\"\nA. L. Pitman, J. A. McLeod, E. Khozeimeh Sarbisheh, E. Kurmaev, J. Muller, and A. Moewes J. Phys. Chem. C 117 (2013) 19616-19621.\n\"Electronic structure of copper pnictides: Influence of different cations and pnictogens\"\nJ. A. McLeod, E. Z. Kurmaev, I. Perez, V. K. Anand, P. Kanchana Perera, D. C. Johnston, and A. Moewes Phys. Rev. B 88 (2013) 014508.\n\"Predicting the band gap of ternary oxides containing 3d10 and 3d0metals\"\nJ. A. McLeod, A. Moewes, D. A. Zatsepin, E. Z. Kurmaev, A. Wypych, I. Bobowska, A. Opasinska, and S. O. Cholakh Phys. Rev. B86 (2012) 195207.\n\"Chemical bonding and hybridization in 5p binary oxides\"\nJ. A. McLeod, N. A. Skorikov, L. D. Finkelstein, E. Z. Kurmaev, and A. Moewes, J. Phys. Chem. C 116:45 (2012) 24248-24254.\ndoi: 10.1021\/jp3077134\n\"Interplay of Ballistic and Chemical Effects in the Formation of Structural Defects for Sn and Pb Implanted Silica\"\nR. J. Green, A. Hunt, D. A. Zatsepin, D. W. Boukhvalov, J. A. McLeod, E. Z. Kurmaev, N. A. Skorikov, N. V. Gavrilov, and A. Moewes, J. Non-Cryst. Solids 358 (2012) 3187-3192.\ndoi:10.1016\/j.jnoncrysol.2012.09.014\n\"Band-gap engineering in TiO2-based ternary oxides\"\nJ. A. McLeod, R. J. Green, E. Z. Kurmaev, N. Kumada, A. A. Belik, and A. Moewes, Phys. Rev. B, 85 (2012) 195201\ndoi:10.1103\/PhysRevB.85.195201\n\"Oxygen-vacancy-induced ferromagnetism in undoped SnO2 thin films\"\nG. S. Chang, J. Forrest, E. Z. Kurmaev, A. N. Morozovska, M. D. Glinchuk, J. A. McLeod, A. Moewes, T. P. Surkova, and N. H. Hong,Phys. Rev. B, 85 (2012) 165319\n\"Effect of 3d-doping on the electronic structure of BaFe2As2\"\nJ. A. McLeod, A. Buling, R. J. Green, T. D. Boyko, N. A. Skorikov, E. Z. Kurmaev, M. Neumann, L. D. Finkelstein, N. Ni, A. Thaler, S. L. Bud'ko, P. C. Canfield, and A. Moewes J. Phys.: Condens. Matter, 24(2012) 215501\ndoi:10.1088\/0953-8984\/24\/21\/215501\n\"Selective Response of Mesoporous Silicon to Adsorbants with Nitro Groups\"\nJ. A. McLeod, E. Z. Kurmaev, P. V. Sushko, T. D. Boyko, I. A. Levitsky, and A. Moewes Chem. Eur. J., 18:10 (2012) 2912\ndoi:10.1002\/chem.201102084\n\"Spectroscopic characterization of a multiband complex oxide: Insulating and conducting cement 12CaO7Al2O3\"\nJ. A. McLeod, A. Buling, E. Z. Kurmaev, P. V. Sushko, M. Neumann, L. D. Finkelstein, S.-W. Kim, H. Hosono, and A. Moewes, Phys. Rev. B 85 (2012) 045204 (This manuscript was an Editors' Suggestion as a paper of particular importance, interest, and\/or clarity.)\n\"Nature of the electronic states involved in the chemical bonding and superconductivity at high pressure in SnO\"\nJ. A. McLeod, A. V. Lukoyanov, E. Z. Kurmaev, L. D. Finkelstein, and A. Moewes, JETP Letters, 94:2 (2011) 146\ndoi:10.1134\/S0021364011140098\n\"The electronic structure of lithium metagallate\"\nN. W. Johnson, J. A. McLeod, and A. Moewes J. Phys.: Condens. Matter, 23 (2011) 445501\n\"Valence Structure of Alkaline and Post-Transition Metal Oxides\"\nJ. A. McLeod, R. J. Green, N. A. Skorikov, L. D. Finkelstein, M. Abu-Samak, E. Z. Kurmaev, and A. Moewes,Proc. SPIE 7940, 79400R (2011) Invited Talk.\ndoi:10.1117\/12.881181\n\"Band gaps and electronic structure of alkaline-earth and post-transition-metal oxides\"\nJ. A. McLeod, R. G. Wilks, N. A. Skorikov, L. D. Finkelstein, M. Abu-Samak, E. Z. Kurmaev, and A. Moewes, Phys. Rev. B 81 (2010) 245123\n\"Electronic structure of BiMO3 multiferroics and related oxides\"\nJ. A. McLeod, Z. V. Pchelkina, L. D. Finkelstein, E. Z. Kurmaev, R. G. Wilks, A. Moewes, I. V. Solovyve, A. A. Belik, and E. Takayama-Muromachi, Phys. Rev. B 81 (2010) 144103\n\"Correlation effects in Ni 3d states of LaNiPO\"\nA. V. Lukoyanov, S. L. Skornyakov, J. A. McLeod, M. Abu-Samak, R. G. Wilks, E. Z. Kurmaev, A. Moewes, N. A. Skorikov, Yu. A. Izyumov, L. D. Finkelstein, V. I. Anisimov, and D. Johrendt, Phys. Rev. B 81(2010) 235121\n\"Valence Band Structure and X-ray Spectra of Oxygen-Deficient Ferrites SrFeOx\"\nV. R. Galakhov, E. Z. Kurmaev, K. Kuepper, M. Neumann, J. A. McLeod, A. Moewes, I. A. Leonidov, and V. L. Kozhevnikov, J. Phys. Chem. C 114:11 (2010) 5154\ndoi:10.1021\/jp909091s\n\"Metal-insulator transition in NiS2\u2212xSex\"\nJ. Kune\u0161, L. Baldassarre, B. Sch\u00e4chner, K. Rabia, C. A. Kuntscher, Dm. M. Korotin, V. I. Anisimov, J. A. McLeod, E. Z. Kurmaev, and A. Moewes, Phys. Rev. B 81 (2010) 035122\n\"Electronic properties of pyroxenes NaCrSi2O6 and NaFeSi2O6\"\nS. V. Streltsov, J. McLeod, A. Moewes, G. J. Redhammer, and E. Z. Kurmaev, Phys. Rev. B 81 (2010) 045118\n\"Contribution of Fe 3d states to the Fermi level of CaFe2As2\"\nE. Z. Kurmaev, J. A. McLeod, A. Buling, N. A. Skorikov, A. Moewes, M. Neumann, M. A. Korotin, Yu. A. Izyumov, N. Ni, and P. C. Canfield, Phys. Rev. B 80 80 (2009) 054508\n\"Structural models of FeSex\"\nE. Z. Kurmaev, J. A. McLeod, N. A. Skorikov, L. D. Finkelstein, A. Moewes, M. A. Korotin, Yu. A. Izyumov, Y. L. Xie, G. Wu and X. H. Chen, J. Phys.: Condens. Matter 21 (2009) 435702\n\"Identifying valence structure in LiFeAs and NaFeAs with core-level spectroscopy\"\nE. Z. Kurmaev, J. A. McLeod, N. A. Skorikov, L. D. Finkelstein, A. Moewes, Yu. A. Izyumov and S. Clarke, J. Phys.: Condens. Matter21 (2009) 345701","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
+{"text":"News MERS Online Auction\nMERS Online Auction\nartbydi \u202221\/03\/2019News\nThis year I will be donating a 18\u2033x24\u2033 Limited Edition Canvas print of 'Returning Home' (my painting featuring two orcas cruising the Pasley Islands at sunset) to the Marine Education and Research Society Online Auction\/Fundraiser. Visit the Online Auction Webpage to view all the amazing items up for bid! Auction is open March 29 \u2013 April 7 2019.\n\"The Marine Education and Research Society (MERS) is a registered Canadian charity dedicated to promoting conservation and understanding of marine ecosystems through scientific research, environmental education, and marine wildlife response. We are based on northern Vancouver Island, British Columbia and incorporated in 2010.\nMERS formed in order to bring together existing marine research and education projects as well as to provide a platform from which to conduct further work.\nOur efforts focus on Humpback Whales and Minke Whales off British Columbia's coast. Priorities are studying entanglement rates and foraging strategies. Additional work includes studying Killer Whale foraging success. Education is key to our strategy to reduce risks to marine species. Our work includes the See a Blow? Go Slow! campaign to reduce the risk of collision between whales and boaters and How to Save a Whale which educates about whale entanglement. We conduct workshops for marine naturalists and provide public presentations to increase engagement and positive action for marine life.\"\nhttps:\/\/www.mersociety.org\/\n'Polly's Cove'\n'Pacific Madrone'\nAll content is Copyright \u00a9 Art By Di 2019","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
+{"text":"July 5, 2019 | 15:47 \u00bb 16:07\nCroatia made the first step to enter the euro zone\nEurozone member countries and Denmark are expected to discuss a letter of intent at the upcoming Eurogroup meeting\nFoto: Freeimages.com\/kipcurr\nCroatia sent a letter of intent to enter the European Exchange Rate Mechanism (ERM II) to eurozone members, Denmark and the European Union institutions, making it the first formal step on the way to introduce the euro as the official currency, the Ministry of Finance and the Croatian National Bank (CNB).\nThis is the most unusual bus station in the Balkans: In the Croatian village, they made a real library from the bus station (PHOTO)\nWith a letter of intent, the action plan was delivered where the reforms were described in detail.\nIt is expected that the eurozone member states and Denmark will discuss the letter of intent at the upcoming Eurogroup meeting.\nWith successful participation in the exchange rate mechanism for at least two years, Croatia should formally meet the exchange rate criterion of nominal convergence. Other criteria - price stability, the sustainability of public finances and the convergence of interest rates - Croatia has been satisfying for a while, and a prudent monetary and fiscal policy should ensure that it remains, according to the announcement.\nIn agreement with the EU institutions, Croatia in its letter of intent pledged to implement reforms in six areas: further strengthening the supervision of the banking system by establishing close cooperation between the CNB and the European Central Bank; strengthening the framework for the implementation of macro-prudential policy by introducing an explicit mandate for measures aimed at borrowers; strengthening the framework for the prevention of money laundering; improving the system for collecting, processing and publishing statistical data; improving public sector governance; and the reduction of administrative and financial burden for the economy.\nAll measures listed in the letter of intent and Action Plan Croatia are to be implemented by mid-2020, after which the EU institutions will assess whether they have been adequately implemented, and it is expected that after gaining a positive assessment, Croatia will start participating in the exchange rate mechanism, reads the Ministry's press release Finance and CNB.\n(Telegraf.co.uk \/ Tanjug)\nNo entry for Serbian officials is fake news! Haradinaj confirmed to Ana Brnabic (VIDEO)\nNo entry for all Serbian officials in Kosovo! The new crazy decision of Pristina\nTouching video of American embassy about Serbian genius: He conquered the Moon and saved astronauts\nThis is my son Balsa. I want you to look at his eyes: He is now using only 15 words\nEnglish | 0 shares\nHe did a powerful tattoo over terrible scars: He was found dead on Drina river several days later\nHe is a bear Milos, he is over 200 kg and he has another 19 friends on this mountain\nLatest from english category\nA man snorted cocaine in the waiting room in the Community Health Center, he was arrested\nConfession of a man who almost bought a baby in Belgrade: 10.000 marks for one child, 15.000 twins\nAna Brnabic at the Summit of the Western Balkans in Poznan: Haradinaj's arrival is announced\nTags: Balkan news, Croatia, Daily news, East Europe, EURO, European Union, Eurozone, Intent","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
+{"text":"Honey Cake & Latkes: Recipes from the Old World by the Auschwitz-Birkenau Survivors\nAuschwitz-Birkenau Memorial Foundation\nWe're awaiting word from the publisher about a reprint date for this book.\nProceeds from the sale of this book benefit the Auschwitz-Birkenau Memorial Foundation.\nOut of the tragedy of WWII concentration camps came stories of survivors. Many of them passed down memories of those who were lost\u2014and ways of life which vanished\u2014which were anchored in stories of food and meals.\nHere, in more than 100 recipes, survivors share their stories, or are remembered by their children and grandchildren for the dishes that became their signatures.\nEugene Ginter says his mother invented a sandwich of chocolate, black bread, and butter because when she found him after the war he was emaciated and she was trying to fatten him up. Eva Szepezi's Hungarian pancakes with apricot jam recall an apricot tree under which she played with a brother and cousins who did not come back from Auschwitz.\nOther recipes are more forward-looking. Eva Kerenyi's cold strawberry soup was a reinvention of cherry soup from her childhood, taking advantage of fruit that was more abundant in America. And it is a recurring theme that the recipes shared here have become centerpieces of family holiday meals.\nMost recipes come from Hungarian or Polish families, but there are contributions as well from Ukraine, Romania, Czechoslovakia, the Netherlands, and Germany. An album of the survivors includes photos from the pre-war era as well as more recent portraits.","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
+{"text":"Indole-3-Carbinol for Menopause\nby Vorst Canada October 28, 2022\nDisclaimer: This content has been produced purely for informational and educational purposes only and is never intended to be used as a substitute for professional medical guidelines including diagnosis, advice, and treatment.\nMenopause is challenging that has a ripple effect on all bodily functions when a number of unpleasant symptoms like hot flashes, insomnia, mood swings, and much more occur. The use of indole-3-carbinol for menopause is believed to be beneficial in balancing hormone levels and alleviating menopausal symptoms both in terms of intensity as well as frequency. But does it really help? Keep reading to learn more.\nIn this article, we'll be exploring the benefits of taking indole-3-carbinol for menopause along with necessary safety precautions. But before we get into how indole-3-carbinol can help with menopause, it's worth knowing the fundamentals of menopause a little bit more. So, let's get started.\nSymptoms of menopause\nCauses of menopause\nWhat is indole-3-carbinol?\nPotential benefits of indole-3-carbinol for menopause\nHow to use indole-3-carbinol\nMenopause is a phase of a woman's life that indicates the end of menstrual cycles. It's a naturally occurring biological process that each and every woman experiences when she reaches her 40s or 50s.\nIn a menopausal transition, a woman experiences a natural decline in reproductive hormones, particularly estrogen, causing various physical and emotional symptoms such as hot flashes and mood swings that also affect sleep, energy level, and mental health.\nDietary supplements such as indole-3-carbinol that help improve estrogen metabolism, and lifestyle modification may provide significant relief.\nIt takes several months or years for a woman to get into menopause, this phase is called perimenopause. Signs and symptoms may vary from one woman to another and the intensity and frequency may also differ as well.\nFrom perimenopause to menopause, a woman may experience various physical and emotional symptoms including:\nChanges in moods\nSlowed metabolism\nWight gain\nLoss of fullness in breasts\nMenopause is typically a result of the natural biological process in which the production of reproductive hormones, such as estrogen and progesterone that regulate menstruation as well as fertility, declines at the age of late 30s or 40s. But certain uncommon causes may also involve in menopause, including:\nPrimary ovarian insufficiency - a condition where premature menopause occurs before the age of 40 due to the inability of the ovaries to produce enough reproductive hormones.\nOophorectomy - a surgical procedure in which the ovaries are removed.\nCancer therapies - such as radiation or chemotherapy may induce menopause, especially when these therapies are directed at the ovaries.\nIndole-3-carbinol (I3C) is a plant compound that is naturally present in cruciferous vegetables such as kale, cabbage, broccoli, and others. When consumed by humans, it is broken down by stomach acid and gets converted into DIM (diindolylmethane), which is a metabolite that is more efficient and better absorbed in the body.\nBoth I3C and its metabolite DIM can hugely help with relieving a whole variety of female symptoms involved in menopause.\nDuring menopause, the pattern of reproductive hormones, especially estrogen begins to change. Estrogen metabolism is a complex process where the body acts on and modifies estrogen molecules and forms various types of estrogen metabolites. The characteristics of estrogens are immensely changed after they are metabolized. Some of these metabolites show inflammatory, unhappy, reactive, and proliferative effects and are called \"bad\" estrogens, while others show anti-inflammatory, friendly, calm, and antiproliferative effects and are known as the \"good\" ones.\nAlthough estrogen starts to decline in menopause, \"bad\" estrogen metabolites can cause epigenetic changes in DNA, raise inflammation, and alter divisions in cells, all of which contribute to developing a wide range of undesirable menopausal symptoms such as hot flashes and increased fat storage.\nI3C and its metabolite DIM can positively regulate the metabolism of estrogen by lowering the amount of \"bad\" estrogen metabolites and increasing the amount of \"good\" ones. This can help reduce the negative influence of estrogen and hugely help improve menopausal symptoms.\nMoreover, the anti-inflammatory properties of I3C can help reduce high levels of inflammation which is also a leading culprit of menopausal symptoms. It can counteract the activities of inflammatory estrogen metabolites and therefore, help prevent and reverse menopausal symptoms induced by inflammation.\nCurrently, there is no official standard recommendation for I3C supplements. Typically, I3C or DIM supplements come in 200 mg to 400 mg capsules. Starting with a lower dose is always preferred to avoid side effects associated with these supplements, such as headaches and gastrointestinal issues.\nWork with a certified naturopathic doctor to determine whether these supplements are right for your specific health conditions or what would be your best method of use.\nBoth indole-3-carbinol and DIM are generally considered safe and well-tolerated when taken as recommended. Side effects are uncommon and easy to reverse. The most common side effects include stomach upset and symptoms of allergic reactions such as skin rashes and swelling. In higher doses, some people may also experience nausea, tremor, or balance issues.\nBesides, like with all dietary supplements, indole-3-carbinol and DIM may impact the way certain medications work, especially those that are broken down by the liver. Therefore, always consider asking a licensed natural medicine expert before starting I3C or DIM supplements, especially if you're on medications for any underlying health conditions.\nIndole-3-carbinol (I3C) is a plant chemical that is naturally present in high in cruciferous vegetables such as broccoli, Brussels sprouts, cabbage, kale, and many others. The benefits of indole-3-carbinol for menopause seem to come from its estrogen-balancing and anti-inflammatory effects.\nIt can hugely help relieve menopausal symptoms such as hot flashes and weight gain by improving estrogen metabolism, more specifically by increasing the amounts of favorable estrogen metabolites and limiting the undesirable ones. Consider working with a licensed naturopath to determine whether it is right for you and what would be the best dose.\nHere you can see Vorst's pure and natural Indole 3 Carbinol I3C 400 mg Vegan Capsules\nHere you can see Vorst's pure and natural DIM 200 mg Vegan Capsules\nhttps:\/\/drbrighten.com\/dim-supplement\/\nhttps:\/\/menolabs.com\/blogs\/menolife\/how-dim-may-help-menopause\nhttps:\/\/www.optimumhealthvitamins.ca\/blogs\/health-wellness\/menopause-hot-flashes-dim-diindolylmethane-can-really-cool-things-down\nhttps:\/\/www.mayoclinic.org\/diseases-conditions\/menopause\/symptoms-causes\/syc-20353397\nhttps:\/\/www.floliving.com\/dim-supplements\/\nhttps:\/\/drannagarrett.com\/dim-magic-potion-perimenopause-symptoms\/\nhttps:\/\/www.dietvsdisease.org\/dim-supplement\/","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
+{"text":"Writer\/Director Darren Bousman Talks 11-11-11, MOTHER'S DAY, THE DEVIL'S CARNIVAL and His Upcoming Jersey Devil Monster Movie,\u2026\nby Christina Radish April 23, 2012\nThe horror thriller 11-11-11 from writer\/director Darren Bousman (out on DVD on April 24th) follows famed American author Joseph Crone (Timothy Gibbs) who travels to Barcelona, Spain, after the tragic death of his wife and child, to reunite with his \u2026\nTheatrical Trailer for Darren Lynn Bousman's 11-11-11\nby Adam Chitwood June 1, 2014\nThe theatrical trailer for the horror film 11-11-11 has been unveiled. From Saw II director Darren Lynn Bousman, the pic tells the story of how at 11:11 on the 11th day of the 11th month, the 11th gate of Heaven \u2026\nTeaser Trailer for SAW Director Darren Lynn Bousman's 11-11-11\nby Dave Trumbore June 1, 2014\nLet's talk about numbers for a minute. People can become obsessed with them, like Jim Carrey in The Number 23 or Sean Gullette in Pi. Sometimes, those numbers refer to dates, as in 666 for the 2006 remake of The \u2026\nTrailer for Darren Lynn Bousman's 11-11-11\nby Jason Barr June 1, 2014\nWriter\/director Darren Lynn Bousman (Saw II) has released the first trailer from his upcoming horror\/thriller 11-11-11. Starring Michael Landes, Wendy Glenn, and Timothy Gibbs, the pic takes place on 11-11-11 and features an otherworldly entity that comes to Earth through \u2026\nSaw II, III, and IV Director Darren Lynn Bousman to Helm 11 11 11\nDirect Lynn Bousman (Saw II, III, and IV) is set to helm the horror-thriller 11 11 11, which is about the \"11:11 phenomenon\". According to Heat Vision, \"The 11:11 movement is centered on the emergence of that number in people's \u2026","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
+{"text":"LISTING OF THE DAY\nA Magical Castle on the Cliffs of Maine\nThe historic home offers private oceanfront property and secret gardens\nBy Isabel Schwab\n| Originally Published On October 16, 2017 | Mansion Global\nThe home is often listed as being one of the most haunted sites in Maine, with the ghost of Beckett said to revisit the castle and cause mayhem.\nLocation: Cape Elizabeth, Maine\nPrice: $3.35 million\nRoyalty may never have lived in this castle, but that doesn't make it any less impressive.\nCalled \"Beckett's Castle,\" after the eccentric man who built it, the seaside home recently hit the market for the first time since 1981.\nThe owner, Nancy Harvey, passed away last year and her family is selling the estate. Harvey paid $150,000 for the property, records show, buying it at auction after its previous owner left it in disrepair. According to the listing broker, Tish Whipple of Town and Shore Real Estate, Harvey poured money and love into the home, which was her summer residence. She added a master bedroom suite on the first floor, a carport outside and converted the carriage house into a guest cottage.\n\"She brought the property back to life,\" Ms. Whipple said. \"She saved it.\"\nConstructed in 1874, the home was the creation of Sylvester Beckett, a Portland-based lawyer and literary figure, who built most of it himself from local stone, according to a 1974 report nominating it to the National Register of Historic Places. The most prominent feature of the building is its 30-foot tower, which serves as its entrance.\nPrivate Island Near Portland, Maine, Asking Nearly $8 Millionhttps:\/\/t.co\/vlqhjgrcE8 pic.twitter.com\/OhcoLsdYOW\n\u2014 Mansion Global (@MansionGlobal) July 8, 2017\nThe rest of the home has more of a cozy, cottage feel, with delightful little details like a painted refrigerator in the kitchen and tons of nooks and crannies that Whipple says any child would find \"magical.\"\n\"It's almost like a fantasy,\" she said. \"This castle in the woods.\"\nThe stats\nThe home comes in at 1,981 square feet, and offers three bedrooms and three bathrooms. There is also a guest home\/artist's studio on the property, which has an additional bedroom and bathroom. It sits on a one-acre lot.\nHarvey was an avid gardener, and the rose garden she added to the home was featured in books by the British rosarian, Peter Beale. In addition, the home comes with 350 feet of deeded ocean property, which is accessed from the main house by granite steps.\nMore:House Island, One of a Cluster of Islands Off Portland, Maine, is An Oasis with a Storied Past\nThe home is often listed as being one of the most haunted sites in Maine, with the ghost of Beckett said to revisit the castle and cause mayhem, taking sheets off beds, opening doors and ripping paintings off the walls.\nMs. Whipple said those reports mainly came from its former owner, Robert Lins, who lost the house after failing to pay his taxes. Harvey never had any problems with ghosts, so Ms. Whipple believes \"if there is a spirit there, it's benevolent.\"\nAgent: Tish Whipple of Town and Shore Real Estate\nView the original listing.\nWrite to Listing of the Day\nShares the stories you may have missed from the world of luxury real estate\nMAINE CASTLE SINGLE FAMILY HOME\nDelivers the most important property news around the world to your inbox each weekday\nRead Next Story\nFor the optimum Mansion Global experience, please turn off any ad blockers and refresh this page.","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
+{"text":"Home Education Malala Yousafzai's Life Story: The Fearless Activist Who Challenged Terrorism With Education\nMalala Yousafzai's Life Story: The Fearless Activist Who Challenged Terrorism With Education\nJenny Medeiros\nMalala Yousafzai has become a global icon for her fearless efforts advocating for every child's right to education, even while living under increasingly dangerous circumstances.\nAs a girl born and raised in a country where only boys were allowed an education and the Taliban dominated the law, Malala had very few people on her side as she raised her voice in protest against the extremist force oppressing her people.\nAfter the Taliban attempted to silence her with violence, Malala rose up and chose to fight back with words. This is the awe-inspiring story of a school pupil with a relentless belief in her power to change the world.\nPosted by Goalcast\nGrowing up with a love of words\nOn July 12, 1997, Malala Yousafzai was born in Mingora, a city in the Swat District of Pakistan. Her first breath was drawn at home, since her family couldn't afford a hospital birth. She was named \"Malala\" after Malala of Maiwand, a national folk hero who led local fighters to victory in Afghanistan. Little did her parents know that their daughter would also become a hero for her people in the years to come.\nMalala grew up in awe of her father, an activist who believed the lack of education was the root of all of Pakistan's problems. She attended a public school founded by her father and developed a thirst for knowledge from an early age. She adored books and decided she wanted to become a doctor.\nBut her father sensed early on that his daughter had a gift for something beyond medicine. He encouraged her to think openly and express her political opinions freely. After he had sent her two younger brothers to bed, he and Malala would stay up discussing politics late into the night.\nDefying the Taliban as a child\nIn 2007, when Malala was only ten years old, her beloved hometown began to change as Taliban militants inched closer. Violence soon spread across the Swat Valley and threats rained down on girl-only schools.\nAs class attendance dwindled for fear of retribution, Malala refused to renounce her right to an education. Her father noticed her passion for standing up against the Taliban's oppressive campaign and took Malala to Peshawar to speak at the local press club. There, she gave an impassioned speech to an audience of newspapers and TV channels. She asked them, \"How dare the Taliban take away my basic right to education?\"\nDespite her young age, Malala knew that if she joined everyone else in fearful silence, nothing would change. She didn't need to grow up to do it, she could demand change now. So Malala went out and sought bigger platforms where her voice could promote education for girls.\nIn late 2008, her father received a petition from BBC Urdu for a student to blog about their life under the Taliban. No one was willing to take the risk, but he knew his daughter would. So, in 2009, at just 11 years old, Malala began to anonymously document the reign of terror that had befallen her hometown. Every week, she passed her handwritten notes on to a reporter, describing everything from her views on education to the horrors brought on by the Taliban military.\nRaising her voice above the death threats\nDuring her months of blogging, the Taliban's extremist hold intensified. In her notes, Malala described the sounds of gunshots and mortars at night, the destruction of almost 400 girls' schools, the bodies of beheaded policemen in town, and the widespread bans on television, music, and women's education.\nEventually, the Taliban allowed girls to receive a primary education \u2014 but only if they wore burkas. Malala's writing became hopeful, as girls began to trickle back to school. Her blog ended in March 2009. By that time, her experiences had received global attention and she was approached by New York Times reporter Adam B. Ellick to be featured in a documentary.\nCameras followed Malala Yousafzai as she and her family were displaced from their hometown while the Pakistani army moved to regain control of their region. She stayed in the countryside, bored without her books, while her father continued protesting and lobbying for support in Peshawar. It was then that Malala decided she would follow her father into political activism instead of becoming a doctor.\nThat same year, the documentary was released and gained international coverage. It was revealed that Malala was the student behind the BBC blog and her profile in Pakistan grew. Over the next three years, she and her father became known throughout the country for their fervent campaigning for change. Malala Yousafzai's voice grew louder and, in 2011, she was awarded Pakistan's National Youth Peace Prize.\nA violent attempt to silence her\nThe Taliban were not deaf to Malala's brazen criticism of them, and began to send death threats. They published warnings in the newspaper and slipped menacing notes under the door of her home.\nHer father panicked and asked Malala to back down to avoid retaliation, but she refused. Her fear of the Taliban wasn't as strong as her courage. In spite of the looming threat, Malala continued to speak out in support of every girls' right to education and call for change in Swat.\nOn October 9, 2012, Malala was riding home from school on a bus with her friends when a masked gunman jumped aboard. He brandished a gun at the children and demanded to know which girl was Malala. As her friends turned to look at her, he fired three shots. One bullet hit Malala on the left side of her head, traveling down her neck and embedding itself in her shoulder. Panic ensued as she collapsed and the gunman made his escape.\nAn ambulance was called and 15-year-old Malala was airlifted to a military hospital in critical condition. After a five-hour operation, the bullet was removed, but she was far from stable. Her organs were failing, an infection had developed, and she was in an induced coma. Offers to treat Malala poured in from around the world, and she was transferred to Germany and then the United Kingdom for treatment.\nIn January 2013, Malala Yousafzai was finally released from the hospital after having her skull reconstructed and receiving a cochlear implant to restore her hearing. Her life after the shooting was very different. Malala saw herself faced with a choice: retreat to safety, or continue her fight for human rights. She told herself, \"Malala, you have already faced death. This is your second life. Don't be afraid \u2014 if you are afraid, you can't move forward.\"\nRecovery and renewed activism\nThe murder attempt spurred worldwide outrage and protests across Pakistan. A right-to-education bill was passed in her country for the first time, and she now receives global support when promoting her cause.\nOn July 12, 2013, her 16th birthday, Malala was flown to New York to give a passionate speech at the United Nations, where she urged the world to challenge extremism with education. Later that year, she published her first book, I Am Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Was Shot by the Taliban.\nSince then, Malala has continued her activism with renewed courage. She has spoken at Harvard University and met with world leaders, including Queen Elizabeth and Barack Obama. In October 2014, at age 17, Malala became the youngest person and only Pakistani to receive a Nobel Peace Prize. In her speech, she dedicated the award to \"all the voiceless children who want change.\" The following year, on her 18th birthday, she opened a school for Syrian refugee girls in Lebanon. At the opening, her first words as an adult were a call-to-action for world leaders to invest in \"books, not bullets.\"\nWith over 40 honorary awards to her name, Malala Yousafzai has become a messenger of peace and a leading spokesperson for girls' right to education. Through her own non-profit Malala Fund, the devoted activist has funded education projects in six countries and keeps raising her voice to empower girls to become agents of change in their communities.\nToday, Malala resides in Birmingham, UK, where she has been proudly accepted to Oxford University. There she will study Philosophy, Politics, and Economics to strengthen her influence and further her advocacy for education.\nThroughout her youth, Malala has shown exceptional strength and courage in the face of terrorism. The attempt on her life only served to embolden her belief in a better, more equal world. Her voice has brought education to thousands of children and has inspired millions more. Malala Yousafzai is proof that age has no bearing in the fight for what is right, that anyone can and should raise their voice to improve the world around them.\nPrevious articleStriking the Right Balance Between Underthinking and Overthinking\nNext article11 Scarface Quotes about Ambition Gone Wrong\nhttps:\/\/jennymedeiros.com\/\nJenny is a freelance writer in the areas of tech and productivity. She also enjoys writing unusual stories of success and giving tips to new freelance writers. You can read her useful ramblings on Medium. or find her on Twitter @JenMedWrites.\nThis Deaf Puppy Couldn't Find a Home After Illness, Until His Deaf Owner Came Along and Taught Him Sign Language\nMeghan Markle Is Worth Admiring \u2014 but Not Because She's a Royal\nHow Jim Carrey Inspired Ariana Grande to Be Unashamed of Her Mental Health Struggles\nWhen Billie Eilish's Tourette Syndrome Was Revealed by Fans, She Took Control of Her Own Story\nSurviving Two Brain Hemorrhages Inspired Game of Thrones' Emilia Clarke to Start This Charity for Young People\nHow Zachary Levi's Heroic Mental Health Victory Made Him the Perfect Shazam!","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
+{"text":"You are here: Home \/ Archives for Fighting\nThe Matrix Path of Neo Free Download PC Game Full Version\nThe Matrix Path of Neo is the third spin of the video game from the Matrix series. With this game, the player can participate in many of the most important action scenes in the movies. Most of these series, chosen by the film directors themselves, were taken from the first film in the series. At the beginning of the game, the player is hooker Thomas Anderson, and does not have \u2026 [Read more...]\nMark of the Ninja Free Download PC Game Full Version\nMark of the Ninja is a side-scrolling stealth video game. Mark of the Ninja consists of stealth-oriented 2D platforming. The character is expected to sneak through a series of environments while staying outside guards and performing silent assassinations. Levels are divided into areas of light and darkness; the player's character is visible to enemies in \u2026 [Read more...]\nFatal Fight Free Download PC Game Full Version\nFatal Fight is a computer battle game. System = Pentium IV CPU 1.7 GHz RAM = 512 MB Size = 484.5 MB Video memory = 64 MB OS = Windows 98 ME 2000 XP Vista 7 and Windows 8Download links hereQuickBooks Pro Free Download Full Version 3Ds MAX Plugins Collection Free Download Windows 10 Free Download Full Version \u2026 [Read more...]\nZack Zero Free Download PC Game Full Version\nZack Zero In this 3D platform, Zack helps Zero save his beloved Marlene, captured by the evil Zulrog, as part of an evil plan to exchange her for the Celestinia, a unique material with the power to travel on time. Travel to the world of Zulrog and cross the wild areas of the planet's surface, enter the dangerous and well-defended enemy base, explore the dark and mysterious \u2026 [Read more...]\nMortal Kombat X Free Download PC Full Game\nMortal Kombat X is a warring computer video game. In this game, two players fight each other with a variety of attacks, special draws and gruesome deaths. The energy meter, first introduced in the previous Mortal Kombat game, allows players to perform techniques such as special X-Ray movements. The face of masked killer Jason Voorhees has never been revealed \u2026 [Read more...]","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
+{"text":"FMI Quarterly\nIndustry Outlooks\nView all results.\nI'm here to...\nPosition our business\nfor growth\nAcquire, sell or transition\nDevelop our people\nRegister for professional development programs\nAccess industry\nGain new insights\nFMI Outlook\nFMI Webinars\nPrefabricated construction\nTech Adoption\nTechnology Spotlights\nLeadership & organizational development\nCustomized training & talent development\nBoard effectiveness\nCompensation design\nESOP Advisory\nArchitecture, Engineering & Environmental\nContractor & Construction Services\nEnergy & Industrial Services\nEnergy Solutions & Cleantech\nUtility Transmission & Distribution\nFMI History\nFMI People\nIndustry Focus. Powerful Results.\nNews\/March 22, 2016\nFMI Releases Quarterly Publication: The Talent Challenge \u2013 Winning in the New Reality\nBy FMI Corporation on March 22, 2016\nRaleigh, North Carolina \u2013 March 22nd, 2016. FMI Corporation, the leading provider of management consulting, investment banking and people development services to the engineering and construction industry, is pleased to announce the release of its first Quarterly issue for 2016. The publication (co-sponsored by Zurich) comprises a collection of industry insights and strategies focused on one of the engineering and construction industry's biggest challenges: its people.\nChris Daum, FMI's CEO, states, \"Today's engineering and construction industry talent challenges are not new. However, we are at a critical inflection point: Ten thousand baby boomers are retiring daily across the U.S., leaving behind an incredible void of knowledge and experience in our industry. And there is no magic bullet to solve this problem anytime soon.\"\nThe Quarterly presents a variety of approaches and strategies for confronting talent challenges at different organizational levels. Article topics are organized around four key industry issues:\nAttracting and retaining a young workforce\nLack of skilled workers\nRetiring boomers and succession planning\nThe increase in human risks (opioid abuse)\nSabine Hoover, FMI's content director and chief editor for the Quarterly explains, \"The solutions and strategies that we present in this Quarterly are intended to help and inform readers as they deal with talent challenges in their daily conversations and decision-making. This is by no means an exhaustive list of solutions but instead a springboard for starting an industry-wide conversation on how to tackle this serious problem.\nAbout FMI\nFounded in 1953 by Dr. Emol A. Fails, FMI is the leading management consulting, investment banking and people development firm dedicated exclusively to the engineering and construction industry. FMI professionals serve all sectors of the industry and combine 60+ years of industry context and leading insights to achieve transformational outcomes for our clients.\nFMI has subject matter experts in the following practice areas and serves clients through the U.S., Canada and Internationally:\nM&A Representation\nValuation & Fairness Opinions\nPrivate Capital Placement\nOwnership Transfer Planning\nTraining & Talent Development\nFor more information, please visit http:\/\/hale.sg-host.com. Follow FMI on LinkedIn.\nRebecca Esler\nREsler@fminet.com\n2021 and Beyond: Why Operational Excellence Matters\n2020 has been incredibly difficult due to the pandemic, economic recession and many other COVID-19-related disruptions to everyday life and\u2026\nFMI's North American Engineering and Construction Outlook: Third Quarter 2020 Report\nThe Outlook offers comprehensive construction forecasts for a broad range of market segments and...\nView U.S. Forecast\n2021 CIRT Sentiment Index: First Quarter Report\nDiscover insights from executives in the top engineering, construction and architectural firms in our...\nFMI Releases CIRT Sentiment Index, First Quarter 2021 Report\nRALEIGH, N.C. \u2013 January 20, 2021 \u2014 FMI Corporation,...\nFMI Capital Advisors Announces Interstate Highway Construction Sale to...\nInvestment Banking Firm Advises Diversified Airport, Heavy...\nFMI content","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
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+{"text":"Homepage :: J. Statements\/Communiqu\u00e9s\nFull Viet Nam-Czech Republic Joint Statement\nVGP - Viet Nam and the Czech Republic have issued a Joint Statement on the occasion of Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc's official visit to the European country from April 16-17, 2019.\n1. At the invitation of Prime Minister Andrej Babis of the Czech Republic, Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc of the Socialist Republic of Viet Nam paid an official visit to the Czech Republic from April 16-17, 2019. Within the visit, Prime Minister held bilateral talks with Prime Minister Andrej Babis, had bilateral meetings with President Milos Deman and Speaker of the Czech Chamber of Deputies Radek Vondracek, attended the Viet Nam-Czech Republic Business Forum, and met with representatives of the Vietnamese community in the Czech Republic.\n2. The bilateral meetings took place in the atmosphere of friendship and mutual understanding. At the talks, the two Prime Ministers informed each other about recent politic and economic situations and priorities of foreign policies of respective countries, exchanged on concrete measures to boost the bilateral ties and discussed on regional and international issues of mutual interest.\n3. Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc affirmed Viet Nam always attaches importance to fostering the friendship and multi-faceted cooperation with traditional friends in the central Europe, especially the Czech Republic. Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc acknowledged the national development achievements gained by the Czech Republic . Prime Minister Andrej Babis highly valued Viet Nam's achievements in economic development and international integration, affirming the Czech Republic's strong desire to promote the friendly and mutually beneficiary relations with Viet Nam.\n4. The two sides appreciated the traditional friendship and the positive developments of the two countries' multi-faceted cooperation and pledged to coordinate closely in organizing activities to mark the 70th founding anniversary of the two countries' diplomatic ties (1950-2020) while standing ready to maintain and enhance the exchange of high-level delegations as well as ministerial and local-level delegations in a bid to deepen the bilateral cooperation across fields.\n5. The two sides were delighted at the growth of the bilateral trade, affirming to further strengthen cooperation to improve trade balance. The two sides stressed on the important role of the Viet Nam-Czech Republic Joint Committee on economic cooperation in tapping the economic, trade and investment cooperation opportunities between the two countries. The two sides affirmed that they will thoroughly prepare for the 7th meeting of the Joint Committee which is scheduled to take place in Prague in 2020.\n6. The Czech side reiterated support for early signing of the EU-Viet Nam Free Trade Agreement (EVFTA) and the EU-Viet Nam Investment Protection Agreement (EVIPA). The two sides concurred that these agreements will help foster the Viet Nam-EU relations in general and the Viet Nam-Czech Republic in particular.\n7. The two Prime Ministers said they will press ministries, agencies and partners to promote cooperation in agriculture, science and technology, environment, climate change adaptation, energy, education and training, human resource development in the digital era, culture, tourism, justice, and law, etc. Both sides welcomed the signing of a Memorandum of Understanding on geology and mining cooperation and a Memorandum of Understanding on standardization, measurement and quality between Viet Nam and the Czech Republic on the occasion of the visit.\n8. The two sides highly valued their sound cooperation in defense-security and vowed to further foster cooperation in this area.\n9. The two Prime Ministers underlined the significance of opening a direct air route between the two countries and spoke highly of the sides' efforts in launching the route as planned, contributing to beefing up tourism exchange-a potential cooperation sector between the two countries. They expressed their belief that the early signing of a comprehensive agreement on air transport between the Association of the Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) and the EU will generate fresh opportunities for the sides' airlines and passengers.\n10. The two sides affirmed their commitments to the United Nations multilateral rule-based order and voiced strong support for multilateralism and multilateral trading system. The two sides will strengthen coordination at regional and international organizations and fora, especially the United Nations and the Asia-Europe Meeting. Both sides underlined the importance of maintaining peace and stability, promoting security, safety and freedom of aviation and navigation in the East Sea, and settling disputes through peaceful means in accordance with international law, particularly the United Nations Charter and the 1982 United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea (UNCLOS).\n11. Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc extended thanks to the Czech side for caring for and supporting the Vietnamese community in the Czech Republic. Prime Minister Andrej Babis appreciated the contributions of the Vietnamese community in the Czech Republic to promoting the friendship between the two countries. The two sides pledged to pay greater attention to their entry and exit procedures.\n12. The two sides expressed their pleasure at the outcomes of the official visit to the Czech Republic by the Vietnamese Prime Minister, considering it as an important political event to foster the traditional friendship and multi-faceted cooperation between Viet Nam and the Czech Republic.\n13. Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc extended sincere thanks to the warm and gracious hospitality from the Czech side. On the occasion, Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc invited Prime Minister Andrej Babis to make an official visit to Viet Nam. 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+{"text":"PHP Date Create: Guide to Perfectly Using the Functions\nPHP date create is a primary mechanism that can be executed easily with the usage of certain functions that comprise the date_create, mktime() and strtotime() functions. This article will specifically take a look at all the components of these functions that play a role in creating dates.\nFurthermore, we will also discuss a wide range of examples for you to develop an understanding of the exact methods to use these functions according to various tasks.\nKeep reading this ideal article to learn about perfecting the PHP date create mechanism.\nDate_create in PHP\n\u2013 Function: Syntax, Parameter Values, and Return Value\n\u2013 Function: Example Usage for a New DateTime Object\n\u2013 Example Usage for a New DateTime Object With Time Zone\nCreating a Date Using the mktime() Function\n\u2013 Mktime() Function: Syntax, Parameters, Return Value and Exceptions\n\u2013 Example Usage of the mktime() Function\nCreating a Date From a String\n\u2013 Syntax, Parameter Values, and Return Value\n\u2013 Example Usage of the strtotime() Function\nDate_create is an inbuilt function in PHP that can be used to create a DateTime object with the involvement of a date\/time string and time zone. Keep in mind that the default value of that date\/time string is the current date and time for the date_create function. This is a valuable function as it can be used to add any day, month, and year to date and time.\nThe syntax of the date_create function is date_create (time, timezone) and it accepts two parameter values in the PHP create date mechanism. The first one is \"time\" which is an optional parameter value and is involved in the specification of a date\/time string. It is important to note here that its default value corresponds to the current date and time.\nThe second parameter value, on the other hand, is \"time zone\" which is also an optional parameter value. It is involved in the specification of the time zone for the relevant time. The default value for this parameter value is the current time zone. The return value of this PHP date function is a new DateTime object that is involved in the specification of the relevant date.\nLet's take a look at a simple example in which the date_create function is used to return a new DateTime object. The implementation starts with defining a specific date involving the date_create function. After that, the echo statement and date_format function are used systematically to return the new DateTime object in a specific format:\n$date = date_create (\"2007-07-19\");\necho date_format ($date, \"Y\/m\/d\");\nIn this example, the date_create function is used to return a new DateTime object along with a relevant time zone. For this, a specific date is defined including an appropriate time zone with the usage of the date_create function. Following this, the echo statement is used along with the date_format function to return the new DateTime object and the time zone in a specific format:\n$date = date_create (\"2007-07-19 06:00:00\" , timezone_open (\"Europe \/ Oslo\"));\necho date_format ($date , \"Y\/m\/d H:iP\");\nAs an inbuilt function, the mktime() function creates a date by returning the UNIX timestamp for that date in the PHP make date mechanism. A UNIX timestamp involves a long integer that shows the number of seconds that have passed between the UNIX Epoch and the relevant time.\nThe UNIX Epoch corresponds to the date January 1st, 1970 00:00:00 UTC. It was arbitrarily selected by UNIX engineers as they had to decide a uniform date to start the time for UNIX systems.\nThe syntax of the mktime() function is int mktime ($hour, $minute, $second, $month, $day, $year, $is_dst). This syntax shows that seven parameter values are accepted by this date function in PHP to create a date and all of them are optional.\nThe first parameter value is $hour which is involved in the specification of the relevant hour. The $minute parameter value comes after that and specifies the relevant minute before $second which is involved in the specification of the relevant second.\nIt is followed by the $month, $day, and $year parameter values which are involved in the specifications of the relevant month, day, and year respectively. The last parameter value is $is_dst which is set to 1 when the time is set according to the daylight savings time and 0 when it is not.\nThe return value of the mktime() function is an integer UNIX timestamp for the created data if the implementation is successful whereas it returns FALSE on error. Exceptions in the implementation include an E_DEPRECATED error in the 5.3.0 version upon the usage of $is_dsta and an E_NOTICE alert to a date\/time upon an invalid time zone.\nThe following example shows how the mktime() function can be used to create a date using its parameter values. Primarily, the mktime() function is placed to enter the values for its parameter values. After that, the echo statement and the date() function are used to return the created date based on the values entered:\n$date = mktime (18, 26, 31, 06, 23, 2008);\necho \"Here is your created date: \" . date (\"Y-m-d h:i:sa\", $date);\nYou can execute the PHP create date from string mechanism by using the strtotime() function in PHP. It is an inbuilt function that works by converting an English textual date\/time description to the relevant UNIX timestamp. In this way, it converts a string that is readable by humans into a date in the form of its relevant timestamp.\nThe syntax of the strtotime() function is strtotime (time, now) which shows that it accepts string parameter values in English for the representation of the description of date\/time. These are two-parameter values out of which one is mandatory and the other one is optional.\nThe mandatory one is \"time\" which is involved in the specification of the English textual date\/time description. This description is a representation of the date\/time created that has to be returned in seconds from the string which is parsed by the function.\nThe optional parameter value is \"now\" which is involved in the specification of the timestamp to create the relevant date. The usage of that timestamp formulates the calculation of the return value. Keep in mind that the output of this function varies as the date\/time is not static. The time returned for the created date contains the total seconds corresponding to the UNIX Epoch.\nSingle Date Created\nIn the following example, a single date is created with the usage of the strtotime() function. It starts by defining the string with the function and involves the echo statement to return the output. In addition, the date() function is also used so that the English textual date\/time can be returned in date format:\n$d = strtotime (\"06:00am December 26 2008\");\necho \"Your created date is \" . date (\"Y-m-d h:i:sa\" , $d);\nDates by Defining Multiple Values\nThis example explains the usage of the strtotime() function in creating multiple dates in a single execution. For this, the implementation defines multiple values so that the relevant strings can be converted to their respective dates. In the end, the echo statement is used so that those dates can be returned:\n$d = strtotime (\"+2 Months\");\necho date (\"Y-m-d h:i:sa\" , $d) . \"<br>\";\n$d = strtotime (\"yesterday\");\n$d = strtotime (\"next Wednesday\");\nPlacing Created Dates in Ranges\nThere is also a way with which you can place a PHP new date in a range in PHP. In this specific example, the created dates are placed in a specific range that corresponds to a specific date in the future. It involves two values that are defined out of which the first one is the reference date for the range. The second value corresponds to the number of days passed between the current and reference dates:\n$d1 = strtotime (\"September 26\");\n$d2 = ceil (($d1 \u2013 time()) \/ 60\/60\/24);\necho \"You have \" . $d2 .\" days left before 26th of September.\";\nThis article was all about creating dates and it covered some important functions that are used for that purpose. Here are some of the vital points that were discussed about them:\nThe date_create function creates dates in the form of DateTime objects by involving the relevant date\/time string and time zone.\nThe mktime() function also creates dates by returning their UNIX timestamps as long integers that show the number of seconds elapsed since the UNIX Epoch.\nDates can further be created from their relevant strings with the usage of the strtotime() function.\nThis function creates dates by converting English textual date\/time descriptions to their respective UNIX timestamps.\nThis is an insightful article for you to practice creating dates in PHP using a range of functions.\nAttributeError: 'str' Object Has No Attribute 'decode' - January 31, 2023\nWhat Is the __pycache__ Folder in Python Documents and Files? - January 30, 2023\nISO C++ Forbids Variable Length Array: The Ultimate Debugging Guide - January 30, 2023\nPHP array_multisort: Every Aspect That You Must Know\nHTML del Tag: Understanding and Using This Tag More Effectively\nAttributeError: 'str' Object Has No Attribute 'decode'\nWhat Is the __pycache__ Folder in Python Documents and Files?\nISO C++ Forbids Variable Length Array: The Ultimate Debugging Guide","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
+{"text":"Volume 16, Number 7\u2014July 2010\nZoonotic Transmission of Avian Influenza Virus (H5N1), Egypt, 2006\u20132009\nAmr Kandeel, Serge Manoncourt, Eman Abd el Kareem, Abdel-Nasser Mohamed Ahmed, Samir El-Refaie, Hala Essmat, Jeffrey Tjaden, Cecilia C. de Mattos, Kenneth C. Earhart , Anthony A. Marfin, and Nasr El-Sayed\nAuthor affiliations: Ministry of Health, Cairo, Egypt (A. Kandeel, E.A. el Kareem, A.-N. M. Ahmed, S. El-Refaie, H. Essmat, N. El-Sayed); US Naval Medical Research Unit 3, Cairo (S. Manoncourt, H. Essmat, J. Tjaden, C.C. de Mattos, K.C. Earhart, A.A. Marfin); US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, Georgia, USA (A.A. Marfin)\nDemographic and exposure characteristics for persons with confirmed avian influenza (H5N1), Egypt, 2006\u20132009\nNo. (%) persons\nTotal confirmed cases 63\nDeaths 24 (38.0)\nAge group, y\n0\u20134 23 (36.5)\n5\u201314 11 (17.5)\n2 (3.0)\nExposure (no. persons)*\nExposure to a confirmed human case before illness (63) 4 (6.3)\nOccupational (63) 4 (6.3)\nExposure to likely infected backyard flocks (63) 57 (90.5)\nNo known exposure (63) 2 (3.2)\nConsumption of raw or undercooked poultry products (61) 0\nExposure to likely infected backyard flocks (41)\nRecently purchased domestic poultry from market\/seller (41) 12 (29.2)\nRecently purchased poultry became ill (12) 7 (58.3)\nNoted illness or death among their birds (41) 33 (80.5)\nBred birds (27) 14 (51.8)\nSlaughtered birds in past 10 d (27) 13 (48.1)\nDefeathered birds in past 10 d (27) 13 (48.1)\n*Denominators vary for each exposure because data were not available for all persons.\nPage updated: March 02, 2011\nPage reviewed: March 02, 2011\nJuly 2010expand\nZoonotic Transmission of Avian Influenza Virus (H5N1), Egypt, 2006\u20132009expand","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
+{"text":"Mendix release updated version low-code platform\nThe software development company, Mendix, announces the release of an updated version of its low and no-code platform.\nIt's hoped that the new platform, aimed at citizen developers and IT professionals alike, will enable users to collaborate with each other and build on their skills in businesses and projects.\nThe integrated development environment has been named Mendix Studio and Studio Pro.\nLow and no-code application allows anybody to have access to software development, regardless of skill-set. It also encourages a quicker development process in the outcome of work.\n\"Developing our application on Mendix was about giving our customers the self-service access to their finances on every channel they use without having to write and maintain multiple code bases,\" said Joost Landman, business architect at Rabobank.\nThe development of the app\nMedix Assist has also been built into their update. This is a second-generation AI-enabled development tool that boasts 95% accuracy to improve software quality, whilst also streamlining professional developer productivity.\nThe progress in the algorithm for this app came from data taken from 5 million application models in 15 companies over 10 years.\nBuilding a native mobile app\nThe company has also made the ability to foster a native mobile app using low code in a world first. The platform allows anyone without software training to develop apps for mobile devices.\nMendix is able to complete this expansion by incorporating low code ideas of iOS, Android, Java, and Objective-C programming into Mendix Studio Pro.\nBy enabling users to have this ability, Mendix hopes that it will drive innovation and give power to the workforce as well as increasing customer engagement.\nThe company wants to collaborate and develop skills in chatbots, native mobile, virtual reality, conversational apps, a range of augmented and virtual reality, and wearables.\nHow low code helps the professionals\nPart of development in the software of this nature is to not just help with untrained citizens, but with those that work in IT too.\nThey claim that the benefit for trained software developers with version 2.0 is that they can quicken repetitive tasks and avoid errors.\n\"What Mendix is doing with AI-assisted development is where we see the future of low-code going. It's not just about helping new developers, it's another path to accelerating enterprise application delivery,\" said Frank DeGeorge, CTO & partner at Impact Networking.\nMendix says that with IT professionals lacking the time, staff and recourses to deal with the growing demand for digital application, low code enables people of any knowledge to grow their own skillset in software development. Ultimately, helping to close the gap with technical and non-technical businesses and bring forth empowerment.\n\"With Mendix, we're able to include people from across our organization in building the software we need. We're not limited by siloes. Business users and professional developers collaborate on one platform to build the solutions we need,\" said Steve Ledwith, vice president of engineering, eXp Realty.","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
+{"text":"ContentBox (BOX)BOX\nContentBox\nContentBox (BOX)\nBOX Price\nBOX Price Chart\nHistorical BOX Data\n0x63f58...33e007f\nhttps:\/\/contentbox.one\/\nContentbox is an open-source decentralized blockchain cryptocurrency project focused upon audio and video content. It s...Read more\nContentBox Price (BOX)\nBOX Daily Performance\nAs of today, the last reported BOX price is $0.000224. ContentBox's last market cap was $208,268. 24 hour BOX volume is unknown. It has a market cap rank of unknown with a circulating supply of 928,531,445 and max supply of 3,000,000,000. ContentBox is traded on exchanges. ContentBox had an all-time high of $0.316082 about 4 years ago. Over the last day, ContentBox has had 0% transparent volume and has been trading on 22 active markets with its highest volume trading pairs being .\nWant Daily BOX Price Updates?\nContentBox Statistics\nContentBox Price (24hr)\nAbout ContentBox\nContentbox is an open-source decentralized blockchain cryptocurrency project focused upon audio and video content. It solves the problem of monetizing the content, which is a very problematic issue for all content creators.\nWhen Contentbox started to cooperate with CastBox in 2018, the project gained a great promotion which helped to raise the startup to a higher level. CastBox is an audio platform with over 50 million pieces of audio content and 15 million users from 135 countries. Being the founding member of the platform, it significantly contributes to the development of Contentbox. Contentbox plans to create a dApp of Castbox, which is designed to find, save, download, and listen to podcasts.\nContentbox Foundation Ltd. is a company standing behind the project. It's a non-profit entity founded in Singapore in 2018 by a former Google's app monetization expert Renee Wang. The location was chosen due to the friendliness of Singapore's regulations towards blockchain projects. Renee Wang sold her home to fund the company.\nThe goals of the project\nThe problem Contentbox is trying to solve appeared due to explosive growth of the digital content industry and subsequent development of content platforms. Taking into account a huge share of audio and video streaming in all the Internet traffic (70%!), the industry can't develop properly until numerous questions are solved including fairness issues. The creators of digital content and their distributors, advertisers, and consumers always face challenges of this kind, so they need a solution to deal with them - this is exactly what ContentBox offers.\nThe Contentbox platform\nUsers of the ContentBox ecosystem will gain the following features: a shared content pool, a shared user pool, and a unified payout system. A highly demanded digital infrastructure is created on the basis of the platform. The system alleviates innovation, cooperation and development issues for its stakeholders. The company offers a more efficient method for web and mobile applications to share digital content efficiently, while all payments are made directly without intermediaries. The platform alleviates negotiation over the payment terms giving 15% of income to content creators and sharing the rest of the revenue between the streaming platforms, for instance, Facebook or YouTube.\nThe platform creates the system of financial rewards for activities promoting the content on the platform and making it more visible for other members.\nContentBox mainnet was launched at the end of 2019 to function as a decentralized marketplace offering transparency, lower costs caused by the lack of third parties and better payment liquidity thanks to automated blockchain-based processing. The tokenization of incentives helps to promote the content. The platform can also be utilized as a crowdfunding service that can help independent content creators raise funds for the production of films and other types of content.\nThe Contentbox technology\nContentBox includes the following components: BOX payout provides security and speed of multiparty payments; BOX passport is an identity and attribution service based on blockchain that operates between different apps; BOX Unpack is an app interface developed for partners who work over the digital content apps.\nCross-service on-demand video player is another product developed to be used on the platform. Apart from usual functionality, the media player is provided with the capability to search among movies registered on the platform. Box tokens are charged for live streaming. Smart contracts make it possible to distribute earnings immediately among participants.\nThe Contentbox ICO and other financial details\nBOX is a native utility token of the Contentbox Platform and a core component of the ecosystem. It is designed to be a fuel for the platform. BOX was issued as an ERC-20 coin. When the main net of BOX Payout will be launched, the ERC20 token will be converted to the chain token at a 1:1 ratio.\nThe Contentbox ICO started on June 1, 2018. The company hit the hard cap of 30,000 ETH in about 3 weeks via private sale, therefore, no public ICO\/crowdsale was arranged. It was funded by 12 major investors including Sora Ventures, Sky9 Capital, LinkVC, Dimension11, IDG Token Fund, SIG Token fund and Iconic Shen Bo (one of the founders of Fenbushi Capital). The company distributed the cap evenly among investors (500 ETH per investor), therefore there is no lead investor in the company.\nThe BOX token\nBOX is a utility token that is used for purchasing services within the ContentBox ecosystem. The tokens can be earned via Bounty and Airdrop programs. With its help, it's possible, for instance, to buy a premium membership and to participate in contests within the app. Also, the content creators can use their coins to promote their own content. Tokens are available for purchase on Bitfinex, Huobi Global, DDEX, Yobit, Idex, and ZBG.\nBOX allocation\n25% is used for presale and targets investors with a locking period of up to 6 months. 15% goes to the R&D team that gets rewards and to the open-source contributors with a four-year vesting period. 30% is given for ecosystem incentives to motivate the participants. 20% goes to the foundation intending to protect the BOX token from speculation and to support the Foundation operations. 10% is allocated for bounty programs and backing of partnerships with audio\/video sites or mobile apps.\nAs for the proceeds, the resources are allocated in the following way: 50% for R&D, 25% - for marketing and promotion, 15% - for legal, auditing and compliance issues and 10% - for general and administrative expenditures.\nThe Contentbox Team\nContentBox was founded by Renee Wang, a founder, and CEO of CastBox. She launched CastBox in 2016 and gathered a team of 60 talented specialists. She also worked at Google's global mobile advertising team.\nThe key figures in the company are highly experienced specialists with entrepreneurial, academic and technical backgrounds. The team includes the personnel from CastBox, for instance, Alex He (CTO), a co-founder of CastBox.Previously, he acquired huge experience working for such global giants as Motorola, Xiaomi, and Borqs, where he managed the teams of over 100 employees and was engaged in mobile software research and developments.\nHu Gang, Chief Crypto Officer, and Contentbox CTO is a system architect and engineer with immense experience in building web and mobile applications. Dr. Xiaohui Liu, a blockchain scientist, the owner of one patent and 9 papers in international premier conferences, specializes in distributed networking protocols. 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+{"text":"Christine Rains\nFantasy Worth Reading: Ravage of the Revenants #BookReview #LitRPG #fantasybooks #booklovers\nBook Review, Fantasy, Science Fiction Books \/ By M Pax \/ July 18, 2022 June 14, 2022\nRavage of the Revenants by Christine Rains is the second book in the Khthonia series. Like the first, this novel transported me to a magical land with elves, giants, orcs, dwarves, fae, humans, and creatures. If you're looking for an escape and an enjoyable one, get this book on your Kindle today.\nThe characters are well-formed with flaws and strengths. And, as it turns out in this sequel, they don't all have the same goal. Not everyone in Nora's party wants to get home. They take us through the land and troubles of Khthonia through their stories.\nAs in any enthralling story, the plot thickens and builds to a fantastic battle. I doubt the author wrote this story with my favorite game world in mind (as mine is a computer game and not a tabletop game), but that's what I picture as I read, and I love that. Which means, you don't have to be a gamer with dice to easily follow this story and the nuances.\nThe ending is satisfying and leaves a large crack for the next book in the series. I can't wait for it! So, yes, I recommend this book.\nEveryone knows if you split the party, the players will die.\nBut what if it's the only way to discover who the villain might be?\nNora Quinn has spent years honing her mystery solving skills, and when the game calls for several days of gathering information, she's excited to uncover who the evil necromancer is. She plays Essaerae, an elven bard who is at home with the aristocrats of Willowbright Woods and political maneuvering. Yet her friends are not. They're enjoying their new lives trapped in the dark fantasy world of Khthonia and finding the way home is no longer a priority, especially if it means hours of tedious investigating.\nAssassins set their sights on the heroes and undead attack the city. Someone on the esteemed Council is likely the necromancer, and to end the curse on Khthonia, the players must unmask them. Nora's left to figure the puzzle out on her own. The problem is, if she splits from the party, she will die.\nA fantasy LitRPG\/GameLit for fans of table-top role-playing games.\n#Fantasy Worth Reading: A Shudder of Specters #BookReview\nBook Review, Fantasy, Science Fiction Books, Speculative Fiction \/ By M Pax \/ March 15, 2022 February 26, 2022\nIf you're looking for a delicious escape, Shudder of Specters: A Fantasy LitRPG Adventure by Christine Rains is a novel you'll want to add to your Kindle ASAP.\nThe story is fun and fast-paced, and it was easy to place myself in the setting. The characters and plot caught my attention from page one and didn't let go. Eagerly, I returned to this book every night and turned the pages longer than I should have (on a work night).\nThe premise: A usual game night turns into most players' fantasy-actually living in the game world.\nA fan of the Elder Scrolls, it was easy for me to slip into the world and envision the monsters, the adventure, and the characters. I've not read a book in this genre before but now I will look for more.\nAnd great news! I know Christine Rains is about to publish the second book in this series. Awesome for me and my Kindle.\nSo, yes, I would recommend this book. A lot. Well, if you want to actually enjoy what you're reading. You can find it on AMAZON\nIn every one of their games, the bard dies first.\nBut this time, she may be the only one who can save them all.\nNora Quinn wants to play a bard like no other seen before, and the newest table-top role-playing game is the perfect chance to show off her skills. Yet when Nora and her friends find themselves in the dark fantasy world of Khthonia, she struggles to be any type of bard at all. There, things aren't as straightforward as the games she's used to playing.\nIf she and her friends want to get back to the real world, then Nora has to lift the curse plaguing Khthonia for over a century. The fate of the realm and their way home rest in Nora's hands, but will she survive when the bard is always the first to die?","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
+{"text":"Get our headlines by email\nNew Mexico In Depth\nRepublish our work\nTell us your COVID-19 Story\nReport: Redistricting NM 2021\n2019 Capital Outlay Allocations\nNew Mexico In Depth - Smart. Investigative. Journalism for New Mexico.\nNew Mexico In Depth (http:\/\/nmindepth.com\/2020\/06\/11\/as-lujan-grisham-pledges-to-tackle-racial-justice-shes-slow-to-release-nm-prisoners-amid-new-virus-outbreak\/)\nAs Lujan Grisham pledges to tackle racial justice, she's slow to release NM prisoners amid new virus outbreak\nBy Jeff Proctor, New Mexico In Depth | June 11, 2020\nMore on Covid-19\nSubscribe to Covid-19\nGov. Michelle Lujan Grisham speaks with State Rep. Sheryl Williams Stapleton, the Rev. Donna Maria Davis of Grant Chapel A.M.E. Church and Alexandria Taylor of the New Mexico Coalition of Sexual Assault Programs, at a June 4 announcement of the creation of a new advisory Council for Racial Justice.\nHundreds of nonviolent New Mexico prison inmates, including people convicted of drug possession, remained behind bars last week, even as COVID-19 killed its first state prisoner and infected one in three inmates at the Otero County Prison Facility near the southern border.\nGov. Michelle Lujan Grisham, who has won national praise for how she's led New Mexico through the pandemic, is facing questions over why she hasn't moved more aggressively to ensure more of the state's 11 prisons don't become viral hotspots.\nSince March, her administration has freed about 50 inmates \u2014 less than 1% of the state's prison population \u2014 through an April 6 order that requires her to commute sentences rather than using a law already on the books that would allow hundreds of prisoners to be released early.\nThe minimal prisoner releases pale next to what some states have done to ease crowding in \u2014 and the 30% reduction New Mexico counties have accomplished in the state's 27 jails.\nLujan Grisham's approach has given some pause, especially given the first-term Democrat's advocacy for legalizing recreational cannabis and her recent creation of a Council for Racial Justice in response to protests that spilled into New Mexico streets over the killing by police of George Floyd, a black man in Minneapolis.\nAbout one quarter of those locked up in New Mexico's prisons are in for nonviolent drug offenses, including many, some long-time criminal justice watchers say, who were prosecuted for possessing marijuana \u2014 an offense that would be legal if New Mexico green-lighted recreational cannabis as Lujan Grisham has lobbied. Hispanic and black people are disproportionately incarcerated in New Mexico, as they are nationwide.\nState Sen. Jerry Ortiz y Pino, D-Albuquerque, believed the pandemic represented a \"golden opportunity\" for the Lujan Grisham administration to try a different approach besides prison, but he's \"very disappointed,\" he said.\n\"They basically haven't dented the prison population, and now there is an outbreak which anyone could have predicted,\" Ortiz y Pino said. \"I have been concerned about why we have these kinds of low-level drug offenders locked up for a long time, and I am even more concerned now.\"\nMark Donatelli, a longtime criminal defense and civil rights lawyer based in Santa Fe, wants to know why the governor hasn't released prisoners using the Community Corrections Act.\nIn the 1980s, Donatelli lobbied for passage of the statute, which gives governors and their Corrections Department secretaries the power to release anyone within 12 months of the end of their prison sentence, provided they weren't locked up for a gun crime.\nAt the time, Donatelli and others helped convince the Legislature that the law would accomplish three goals seen as essential: ease overcrowding in the prisons as required by a federal consent decree, give inmates a structured path to reentry into society and save taxpayers millions in incarceration and new prison construction costs.\nBut the law never was used.\nWhen the pandemic hit in early March, Donatelli saw an opportunity.\nHe dashed off an email to Matt Garcia, Lujan Grisham's general counsel and himself a former civil rights lawyer, reminding Garcia about the controlled release program.\nControlled release would free up space in the prisons and, hopefully, reduce the risk of an outbreak of COVID-19, Donatelli wrote. Freedom for large numbers of inmates under the law would also accomplish those original goals \u2014 cost savings and recidivism reduction.\n\"It was like, now's the time to jump on it for god's sake,\" he told New Mexico In Depth in a recent telephone interview. \"And sometimes it takes a crisis like the coronavirus for people to reevaluate their options and see the logic, saying, oh, we're not just doing this because we're worried about people getting sick in prison and driving up the medical costs; it really would help the public to get these people out earlier and get them support so that they don't end up victimizing someone else or ending up back in prison. I really thought that would happen.\"\nIt didn't.\nGarcia didn't respond, Donatelli said. Neither did anyone else in Lujan Grisham's administration.\nBased on a fall 2019 report by the New Mexico Sentencing Commission, which NMID wrote about in April, nearly 300 people could be released over a 12-month period.\nDonatelli contacted New Mexico In Depth after publication to say the real number, under a plain reading of the statute, is closer to 300 people a month.\n\"Even if you limit it to nonviolent offenders, which isn't required under the law, if you back it up to 90 days (before the end of someone's sentence), you could eliminate 500 people in prison,\" he said. \"If you back it up 180 days, then you've got a thousand. You could close entire prisons, do you follow me? You're shutting down prisons.\"\nNMID dove into prison population statistics provided by the Corrections Department to examine who is locked up in New Mexico.\nSeveral figures stood out.\nThe Corrections Department did not separate drug possession from drug trafficking offenses in the breakdown it provided, but officials said in an email that 1,712 people were locked up as of mid-May on \"drug crimes, nonviolent.\"\nThat's more than a quarter of the state's roughly 6,400 prison inmates.\nFurther, an annual prison population forecast compiled by the Sentencing Commission last year showed that 8% of new male admissions were for drug possession; 13% for women.\nThe statistics don't break down the prison population by substance, but Donatelli and other longtime criminal justice system watchers say many are behind bars for marijuana related charges.\nLegalizing recreational cannabis, which Lujan Grisham supports, would make legal many of those now criminal actions.\n\"If there was ever a time for wishful thinking, I wish we had passed recreational cannabis because that was $100 million,\" she said at an April news conference. \"Those are pre-COVID-19 estimates, but $100 million in the budget. And I am very sad about that.\"\nAsked to square the governor's stance on legalization with the large number of prisoners still locked up for nonviolent drug crimes during the pandemic, spokesman Tripp Stelnicki responded with a question of his own.\n\"How does anyone square it?\" he wrote in an email response. \"We live in the world we live in until things can be changed for the better. The governor pushed very hard for legalization this year because it would be an economic game-changer and, at least equally if not more importantly, would be the right thing to do.\"\nCorrections Department figures also show racial disparities among those in the state's prisons.\nThe data are incomplete and likely skewed \u2014 there is no state requirement that race and ethnicity data be kept in any corner of the criminal justice system \u2014 but by the department's accounting, 448 African Americans were incarcerated as of mid-May.\nThat's 7% of the prison population, while black people make up about 3% of the state's overall population.\nPeople listed under the label \"Hispanic white\" made up 58% of the prison population, while Hispanics account for about 47% of people in New Mexico.\nLujan Grisham clearly has an eye on racial disparities in criminal justice. In a June 4 news release announcing her new Council for Racial Justice, she offered a stark assessment.\n\"Our country is in a dark place right now, but it has long been a dark place for so many voiceless and powerless and poor and systemically disadvantaged people and families,\" the governor said in the release.\nEarlier in the day, the release said, Lujan Grisham ordered state flags to half-staff to commemorate George Floyd and \"all other victims of systemic racism and police violence.\"\nOrtiz y Pino said the pandemic should have forced a high-level, public discussion about New Mexico's incarceration rates for nonwhite and drug offenders \u2014 \"things people would not have even gone to jail for if they were white, let alone prison.\"\n\"I am hesitant to say the governor doesn't want to appear soft, but that has been the case for every governor here,\" he said. \"But at this point, I still don't sense any real momentum from the administration on releasing people.\"\nDonatelli points out that nonwhite people are at particularly high risk if they contract COVID-19.\n\"You have a high percentage of at-risk populations\" in prisons, he said, adding that nonwhite people have higher indicators for poor health than whites.\nBetween hepatitis C, diabetes, poor diets in prison, obesity and other issues, it's a recipe for illness and even death, Donatelli said.\n\"I just wish the governor would tour one of these facilities and see the men and women stacked up in close quarters and know that social distancing is impossible,\" he said. \"All it takes is one staff member to come in who's positive, and it will be nuclear in these populations. I'm just holding my breath every day.\"\nDonatelli's fears came true over the past two weeks.\nOn June 1, the state announced the first death of a prison inmate from COVID-19 \u2014 an inmate who had been housed at the Otero County Prison Facility. The next day, officials announced 116 new cases of the coronavirus in the state's portion of the privately run prison.\nToday, the total number of prison inmates who have tested positive stands at 224, according to the governor's office, in addition to the 385 federal detainees in New Mexico who have tested positive.\nIn emailed responses to questions for this story, Stelnicki made it clear the governor is not considering controlled release to ease prison populations.\nThe Legislature, he said, has never properly funded the reentry programs necessary to make the program effective and that the governor's executive order provides for a \"safe place\" for released inmates to go after release.\nThe order requires only a \"parole plan\" for people within 30 days of the end of their sentence who meet certain criteria, such as not being convicted of violent crimes, some DWI offenses and other exclusions.\nStelnicki said commuting sentences under the executive order is the safest way to release people during the pandemic. That's because, in part, community corrections programs are not funded, he said.\nDonatelli wondered why the administration, during two legislative sessions, has not asked the Legislature to fund programs under the law.\n\"Don't they get to submit a budget every year?\" he said. \"Why have they not asked for the money to fund this infrastructure? And in any case, Community Corrections does not require these programs anyway, if you read the statute. Plus, all of these people are going to get out eventually anyway, and they're all going to the same place: parole. It makes no sense to delay that during a pandemic.\"\nPlease republish our work. See our guidelines here.\nNew Coronavirus: Covid-19\nThe Justice Project\nSubscribe for New Mexico In Depth stories and news direct to your inbox\nNew Mexico In Depth thanks our members and sponsors.\nNew Mexico In Depth is funded by donations from organizations and individuals who support our mission. Please consider contributing by becoming a member or making a one-time donation.\nCriminal Justic\nAlbuquerque Hospital's Secret Policy Separated Native American Newborns From Their Mothers\nThis article was produced in partnership with ProPublica, a nonprofit newsroom that investigates abuses of power. New Mexico In Depth is a member of the ProPublica Local Reporting Network.\nTweets by @NMInDepth\nEnter your e-mail address to get our headlines and news about New Mexico In Depth.\n\u00a9 Copyright 2012-2013 by New Mexico In Depth, Inc.","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
+{"text":"Why Do Kids Say \"Search It Up?\"\nTuesday, February 14th 2017\nI've been teaching various programming classes through Saturday Academy the past few months. It's been particularly interesting to get the kids perspective on web-related things. Questions like \"What's the difference between an app and a website?\" yield curious answers and suggest the distinction is surprisingly blurry.\nThe most curious thing to me though is the phrase kids use when they talk about searching for things on the internet. If you ask them how they find games on the internet it's never \"I'll do a search for games\" or \"I'll search for games.\" It's always \"I search it up.\"\n\"Search it up\" shows up time and time again in my classes but I cannot figure out the etymology surrounding it. I found this Urban Dictionary definition, which is in-keeping with how I hear the kids use it. I can also find plenty of discussions surrounding whether or not it's grammatically correct, but nothing that seems like a definite origin for the expression.\nTrying to be too clever for my own good, I did a Google Trends search for \"search up\" which produced an interesting graph:\nIt's certainly looks like its use might be on the rise, but this isn't a very scientific study and it might not mean anything.\nThe earliest reference I stumbled across was this post in a forum from 2006. It's also achieved novelty t-shirt status on Amazon\u2014a paragon of authority in any field \ud83d\ude44.\nFinally I came across a series of videos from a company called Azoomee \u2014 specifically one entitled Internet Safety with Search it Up.\nThat's my best guess \u2014 this series must've been used in the schools around here when teaching about internet safety. It also seems to be British, which is funny to me only because \"search it up\" sounds like bad English to my ears.","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
+{"text":"Home \u00bb News \u00bb FOX SPORTS DOCUMENTARY NOW AVAILABLE TO WATCH\nFOX SPORTS DOCUMENTARY NOW AVAILABLE TO WATCH\nWatch the documentary in full right now\nPosted on December 26, 2017 by cpdtonpentreafc in News \/\/ 0 Comments\nKevin Richards (behind Brett Davey on the ball) playing for Ton Pentre in Europe against Heerenveen.\nBack in April we reported that Ton Pentre were the subject of a documentary that was to be broadcast in the Netherlands.\nThe Dutch documentary was about the Bulldogs UEFA Intertoto Cup match against sc Heerenveen in 1995.\nThe 30 minute documentary appeared on national television in the Netherlands on Fox Sports NL. You can watch it in full below.\nA huge thank you is due to Ian Johnson (Twitter: @ianjamesjohnson) who has kindly provided a translation for the Fox Sports documentary.\nUsing Ian's translation below, you can follow the video and read what the Dutch contributors are saying.\nRob Dowling\nNarrator: It's the 1994-95 season. SC Heerenveen are having a good year \u2013 the stadium is full, the football is flowing. With the introduction of the renewed Intertoto Cup it's possible to achieve European football outside of the major competitions.\nWilco Hellinga (former player): Of course, it's something you want, but it was a huge surprise. When you're from a small, but fast growing club, with the advantages of a new stadium and everything that comes with it \u2013 you get better players, finish higher up, so we came seventh and that meant European football. For us that really meant something.\nJohan Hansma (former player): It was a tournament organised so you could qualify for European football \u2013 I think they called it Europa Cup 3 at that time and you could play official European football, even if it was in the preliminaries. Something we'd never done before.\nRiemer van der Velde (former chairman): There was a structure for qualification if you wanted to participate, so after the clubs had qualified for the major competitions then the others had the opportunity, with one or two per country, so for a few years we had some great experiences.\nHansma: I arrived two years earlier, from Zwolle where I'd been playing in the Jupiler League, the first division, and then came to Heerenveen and played in the Premier Division, so having the chance to play in those games in another country, well, that was just amazing.\nLize Crossen (fan): You had to register, you know, sign up. There was never any doubt, though, we had to be there. So I was there with a group, seven or eight of us who always to go to Heerenveen games, usually at the back of the supporters bus, so we all rang each other up to ask what we were doing and, you know, put our names down on the list.\nNOS Studio Sport (24 June 1995). Advert says 'You and Heerenveen \u2013 off to Europe together!'\n(There is another slogan in Frisian as well, 'The Frisians are flying out!')\nNewsreader: Heerenveen today begin their European mission and the Frisian club have taken out an advert in the regional papers to show they're taking it seriously \u2013 calling on fans to support the club in their European football quest. Tonight was the first game but the Abe Lenstra Stadium wasn't full for the first game in Group 4 against Danish club Naesteved IF.\nCommentary: The ball falls to Hellinga\u2026(goal). Hellinga and a chance for Tammer (goal). Erik Tammer in the penultimate minute\nNarrator: The first opponents in European competition were Naestved IF. Heerenveen win the match 2-1 and later travel to Wales to take on Ton Pentre.\nEvert ten Napel: Ton Pentre. Well, it won't mean much to most people but Ton Pentre is a small village in Wales, the birthplace of Tom Jones, by the way.\nVan der Velde: They were a modest, traditional club. I understand they've had a tough time of it since, because of the travel costs that came with it, but Ton Pentre was the start of our European adventures.\nHansma: Yes, this was the first European international away match so we had to go to Wales to play a big club away.\nJames (Paul) Willoughby\nNarrator: Ton Pentre, a small historic village in the heart of the Rhondda Valleys in south Wales. Ton Pentre has one local football club, Ton Pentre FC, also known as the Rhondda Bulldogs. The Bulldogs were promoted in 1993 to the Welsh Premier League and surprisingly finished third two seasons running, placing them in 1995 in the Intertoto Cup position. That Ton Pentre were in a position to play in European football is quite remarkable \u2013 the players are amateur, the club hasn't a penny to rub together and the stadium is seriously ageing.\nBrett Davey\nNarrator: And so on 25th June 1995, Ton Pentre became the hosts for an official European competition match, but, not entirely unexpectedly, Ton Pentre's traditional Ynys Park was rejected by UEFA, leaving the Rhondda Bulldogs to search for another venue to play their home matches.\nNarrator: Cardiff, Wales's capital with almost 350,000 residents. Right in the centre is Cardiff Arms Park, the stadium for the Cardiff Blues rugby club. The Arms Park is right next to the Millennium Stadium, the national stadium for Wales' football and rugby teams.\nHansma: [laughing] We saw the large stadium, the national stadium, a fantastic ground that I think is where they play rugby. We played in the stadium next door, but that was still an improvement on Ton Pentre's home ground.\nHellinga: We got there, the whole team, and thought 'wow, that's impressive!', looking through the gates, but something wasn't right \u2013 the gates were all locked up, but we could see the pitch through them, and were like 'wow', but we pretty soon realized it was the ground next door! That was a bit of a disappointment [laughs], so the rugby ground, the 80,000 seater stadium, that wasn't for us!\nNarrator: The Little Arms Park, right next to the rugby stadium of the same name, of Cardiff RFC. Just before six o'clock local time the Heerenveen players are warming up. Here are the fans arriving at the ground, after hours en route, 120 of them in total getting to Cardiff on three buses.\nCozens: We left Heerenveen in the afternoon. Went to Oostende in Belgium where we had a hotel overnight. We had a 7am departure and weren't waiting for anybody. But we went out and had a big party, and then we were supposed to be off. But there was a fan who wasn't there and we were like, well, we can't wait, so we went. We went down to Calais, and got on board the boat, and had lovely views of Dover on our arrival there, and the buses drove off the boat and I think we were around London when we heard this huge noise alongside us and everyone turned to look and there was a taxi with a Heerenveen scarf flying out the window, and it was him \u2013 the guy we'd left behind. He'd got a ticket for the boat and then got a taxi, all paid for by himself. So they rode up next to us and the bus pulled in and he got on board. Great story. Brilliant. And then soon after we were in Cardiff.\nNarrator: The Ton Pentre team in new shirts ready for their first big European match.\nEvert ten Natel: I was working for NOS (Dutch TV channel) and sent there to commentate on the match and also to make an 'atmosphere' background piece in advance. So I thought, I've got to get something out of this as it could be a big win as they were not a well-known club. So, you know what's in your head, what's on your mind. So we went up to get some images in Ton Pentre, in Tom Jones' birth house and around there, and then I was like 'do you want to come to the pre-match team talk' and they were all 'can we?', and I was like 'Sure, bring your cameras, film what you want and make of it what you can!'\nFoppe de Haan's team talk compares Ton Pentre with Dutch Amateur clubs.\nHansma: We knew nothing about them. We knew they had 11 players and their home ground had been rejected by UEFA and they were playing in another ground. And that was it.\nNarrator: Heerenveen quickly put Ton Pentre under pressure with a quick passing game, a deep lying forward, Pieter Bijl, and three blocks of three behind. Here's the first chance, in the first minute, for the Dane, Tomasson.\nHalsma: Tom Sier, left back; Michel Doesburg, he played right back. In goal was L'Ami. Alex Pastoor, Tomasson, Jan de Visser and of course Roelofsen. Regtop, yeh, Erik Regtop, Erik Tammer, Romeo Wouden. Yeh, at that time we had a pretty special team.\nNarrator: The corner was taken by Regtop himself, the chance made by the defender and so in the 9th minute, Heerenveen take the lead against Ton Pentre in Cardiff through Johan Hansma. The Welsh amateurs make a series of mistakes. Ellacott started to come, but hesitated, saving Regtop's first shot but, a minute after Hansma's opener, it's 2-0 to Heerenveen, thanks to Regtop.\nMarty Ellacott\nNarrator: The free kick from Johan Hansma is struck precisely through the gap between Ellacott's hand and the goalpost. It's already 3-0 to Heerenveen, with Hansma's second goal.\nHellinga: We knew early on in the game that we could take them apart. It was clear, not just from the final result but throughout the game that we would get a lot of chances, and that's how it ended up a convincing victory.\nNarrator: Halsma just about keeps the ball in, but a terrible challenge from Davey \u2013 probably not deliberate but maybe more acceptable on Wales' cabbage patch pitches.\nNarrator: A concerned look on Foppe de Haan's face, who gets young central defender Schumacher to warm-up. But Hansma returns after some brief treatment.\nAn attack from De Visser and then back of the net from Erik Tammer. 4-0 to Heerenveen.\nTomasson and a blunder from Ellacott. Tomasson. Thank you very much, scores his second, and that's 5-0 to Heerenveen.\nImpressive attack from Tomasson and it's 6-0.\nNarrator: Here an example of the Welsh team tiring. Heerenveen play the ball out quickly out, through Erik Regtop playing on the right this half. Wouden is now also on the pitch and Regtop fires home to make to seven and Heerenveen win their first proper European away game, in Cardiff, against Ton Pentre, 7-0. The travelling support are appreciative.\nHansma: I think 7-0 is, in Heerenveen's history, still the biggest ever European victory.\nCozens: As a fan, you go to matches like this with a certain sense of expectation, so 7-0 was, well, a bit of an anti-climax, but, yeh, for the first European away game and you're up against an amateur team then 7-0, well done, lads, we've done what was needed.\nHansama: Another of my memories is that the victory was a big one, 7-0, and that the players they honoured us by lining up and we walked past and took the applause from the players. That's now pretty much unimaginable.\nHansma (interviewed at the time): We did well from the corners and the free-kicks. The corner went in and then the free kick went in. I'm very pleased.\nInterviewer: You were also part of an incident and took a bit of a knock\u2026\nHansma: Yes, I kept the ball in play, and then I tried to\u2026 it was an awful challenge, both legs outstretched, I wasn't really able to get out the way but luckily it wasn't too bad\"\nHansma: Ha, yes, I saw the footage and thought, \"that's a totally different era\". You wouldn't do that now.\nHellinga: Crazy, eh?! Standing in the middle of the dressing room, with Doctor Wiesman behind you and totally naked men standing there. These days you'd never do that. It would all be done outside.\nFoppe de Haan (at the time): I thought we played well and kept the ball. We had a good win. But we're sporting people, we didn't want to humiliate them.\nHansma: A night out on the town! Sierk Kooistra was the reserve keeper but he didn't have anything appropriate to wear so went out in his club suit on, but by the following morning he'd lost half of it!\nNarrator: After the big win at Ton Pentre, Heerenveen won almost all the other ties and were group winners. Eventually Heerenveen lost the semi-final to Bordeaux, later UEFA Cup finalists with players such as Zinadine Zidane and Richard Witschge. SC Heerenveen's first European adventure is a huge success.\nHellinga: I think the club made a lot from it. Playing Bordeaux brought a lot of people on board. Commercially it was good for the club. I think the club made a lot of money. I think it gave a good push towards the Champions League, which is bigger, much much bigger, I think.\nHansma: I think this was Heerenveen's second year in the Premiership and the whole club grew and developed through this and eventually wound up second in the Premiership and went from the Intertoto to reaching the Champions League. That was a great time.\nNarrator: But while the Intertoto adventure was the stepping stone for SC Heerenveen's later success, for Ton Pentre it was a step too far. The Intertoto costs put Ton Pentre in serious financial problems. The club was on the brink, but survived. From a sporting perspective, the Heerenveen match remains the highpoint in the club's history.\nNarrator: Ton Pentre may not be one of Heerenveen's biggest opponents, but certainly one that will never be forgotten. The Intertoto competition wasn't a success for them, but the south Wales village fought hard to play in European football, and, who knows, maybe Ton Pentre will once again play familiar opponents \u2013 SC Heerenveen.","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
+{"text":"My Grandfather, The Butcher\nMy grandfather escaped from Russia in 1916. \u00c2 His family was in the meat business and provided beef for the Russian army. \u00c2 Because of this, my 16 year old grandfather received a couple of deferments. \u00c2 But that didn't stop the recruiting teams from scooping him up and putting him in pen with other young and old men to be shipped off to the front. \u00c2 His father had given him a leather jacket, which he was able to toss over the barbed wire topping the fence so that he could scale it and get away. \u00c2 After this happened for the second time, his father decided enough was enough. \u00c2 The front was chewing up young men like a meat grinder. \u00c2 The untrained replacements, growing younger and younger weren't provided with so much as a rifle and were instructed to wait until one of their compatriots with a rifle was killed so they could fight. And so it was off to America.\nForty years later, still in the meat business, he was the proud owner of a meat market in Milwaukee Wisconsin. \u00c2 America had been good to him and he had a twinkle in his eye and a gentle sense of humor.\nOne day while standing behind the counter and helping a customer he spied a woman in a long coat standing next to a rack of sausage strings. \u00c2 Out of the corner of his eye, he saw her stuff a string of wieners under her coat.\nWhat she didn't realize was that the string was longer than her coat and that some of the sausage string was hanging beneath the coat's hem.\nMy grandfather came out from behind the counter with a knife in his hand and approached the woman, whose eyes grew wide at the approach of the bushy-eye-browed, knife-wielding butcher. \u00c2 He calmly reached down with the knife and trimmed off the portion of the sausage string that was visible. \u00c2 He held it up and smiled, patting her on the shoulder and said in his heavily accented English, \"That don't look so good.\" \u00c2 He walked away and let the woman leave with her prize.\nUPDATE: \u00c2 My mother read this and told me:\n\"The end of that story is that she was a customer until the day she died.\"\nHypothetical Pizza\nAw, Cut It Out Already \u2026\n1 Ann Herzer { 02.04.16 at 10:53 am }\nI loved the story. Is it actually true? If so, I think I would have liked your grandfather.\nFebruary 4th, 2016 at 12:52 pm\nIt is a true story.\n2 Jeff Edelman { 02.04.16 at 9:35 pm }\nYeah. But, was she a paying customer?\n3 George Archibald { 02.06.16 at 6:58 pm }\nThe Founders would love this story, the \"sin factor\" being as prevalent as today but human frailty not hypocritically judged as \"pointy-nosed\" observers are wont to do presently. A book project I have under way is a different look at Thomas Jefferson's \"common law\" love relationship and children with slave Sally Hemings, which prompted a Muslim volunteer in our local public library to denounce me for not \"hating Jefferson.\" The lady's teenage son had robbed a local bank at gunpoint with several cohorts 12 years earlier and was helped to be released from prison by local officeholders whose equanimity for the lady was comparable to your Jewish grandfather's. God's grace blesses all who follow the path spelled out in Isaiah 1:16 through 20.\nMike Reply:\nHe was a Russian Grandfather. You have to read.\n4 George Archibald { 02.07.16 at 12:58 pm }\nHe was a Russian Butcher. You have to like blood, red meat, and read on the toilet. Anything else?","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
+{"text":"Global Alliance for Tibet & Persecuted Minorities\nHuman Rights | Freedom | Equality | Democracy\nChina committing \"cultural genocide\" in Tibet, a 15-year old British Tibetan student told the Resist CCP Day Rally in London\n(GATPM, London | 2nd October 2021)\nPolitical and human rights activists from Hong Kong, Tibetan and Uyghur communities and NGOs slated the CCP regime as a real threat to global peace and security as China celebrates its 72nd founding anniversary of the People's Republic of China in London.\nResist the Chinese Community Party Day \u2013 Joint London Rally, was held in central London on 1st October, showing unity among British Hongkonger, Tibetan and Uyghur Communities in the fight for freedom, justice, human rights and democracy.\nThe protest started off in Piccadilly Circus and finished in front of the Chinese Embassy. Protesters chanted loud slogans of \"Free Tibet\", \"Free Hong Kong\", \"Free East Turkistan\" and \"Shame Shame Xi Jinping\".\nProminent British, Hong Kong, Tibetan and Uyghur activists addressed the rallies.\nBenedict Rogers, Co-founder and CEO of Hong Kong Watch, said, \"It is time now for the free world, for our governments of democracies around the world, to stand up to the CCP, to take action to hold them to account, to sanction them, to stop trading with them, to stop kowtowing to them, and to do everything possible to end these 72 years of bloody repression.\"\nAndrea Venzon & Colombe Cahen-Salvador, co-founders of Atlas also spoke at the Piccadilly Circus rally. Andrea Venzon said, \"A threat from an authoritarian regime impacts democracy at large. We have a duty to stand up for the hundreds of millions of people living in captivity under the CCP rule. Democracy is a fundamental right, and we will not back down.\"\nFinn Lau, Founder of Hong Kong Liberty, addressed the rally. He said, \"We have witnessed genocide and severe crackdowns in East Turkestan, Tibet and Hong Kong in that Beijing is wiling to do whatever it would cost to sustain the one-party tyranny. The ambition of the CCP is also being reflected by its infiltration into the international academic, business sector and even intergovernmental organisations like the UN with the tactic called United Front. In light of its ascent as a global threat to human rights and universal values, the free world has to stand firm against the CCP.\"\nAfter the national anthems of East Turkistan, Hong Kong and Tibet were played, the protesters marched to the Chinese Embassy via Regents Street, Oxford Circus and the BBC. Some protesters burned a Chinese flag, a sign of defiance against the CCP regime for its actions right in front of the Chinese Embassy.\nSpeakers outside the Chinese Embassy:\nIn his opening remarks, Tsering Passang, Founder and Convener at the Global Alliance for Tibet & Persecuted Minorities, said, \"Resistance against the CCP regime is growing within China and around the world.\n\"Exactly 72 years ago, the Chinese Communist Party and its regime under Mao Tsetung's dictatorship, announced the illegal invasion of Tibet and the Republic of East Turkistan. Mao Tsetung called the illegal invasion of Tibet a \"peaceful liberation\". That so-called \"peaceful liberation\" has cost millions of lives of Tibetan and Uyghur people amongst others.\"\nPassang further added, \"For the Tibetan and Uyghur victims under the Chinese regime's military occupation and repressive policy, there is nothing to celebrate so long as China continues to illegally occupy Tibet and East Turkistan.\n\"For the people of Hong Kong, there is nothing to celebrate so long as Beijing disregards the UK-China Joint Declaration and the universal basic rights are not restored in Hong Kong.\n\"For the people of Taiwan, there is nothing to celebrate when their democratic country faces the imminent threat of military invasion from the Chinese regime.\n\"There is nothing to celebrate so long as the Southern Mongolians cannot maintain their own language and Buddhist culture.\n\"Certainly, there is nothing to celebrate so long as the Falun Gong followers as well as other religious and faith groups cannot practice their devotions. And the list goes on\u2026 including lack of democracy and freedom of speech.\"\nRahima Mahmut, UK Director of World Uyghur Congress and Executive Director of Stop Uyghur Genocide, addressed the rally. She said, \"Today we marched against the persecution of Uyghur people over not just the past 5 years, but the entire 72 years of CCP Government. Celebrations in Beijing cannot drown out the pleas for freedom from across the world today, from communities that continue to be denied their human rights. Our people are facing torture, rape, and genocide \u2013 it is time for the international community to stand tall against the CCP's crimes.\"\nBasil, Representative of Power to Hong Kongers, also spoke outside the Chinese Embassy in Cantonese language.\nA 15-year old British Tibetan student from the Tibetan Community in Britain addressed the rally outside the Chinese Embassy. She said, \"China hopes to eradicate Tibetan identity. It is robbing a generation of Tibetan children their rights to their language, culture, and heritage. This is cultural genocide. And we have seen what happens when those inside Tibet speak, even amongst themselves. China silences those voices, because they know that when people speak up about injustice, they can bring about change.\"\nTom, from the Hong Kong Aid addressed the rally. He said, \"The CCP is a friend of terrorism. The CCP is the threat to the whole world. We must keep on fighting for the freedom of Hong Kong. Step out! United and Resist!\"\nSam Walton, CEO of Free Tibet, addressed the rally. He said, \"Chinese Communist Party's aggressive expansionism is a threat to democracy, human rights and freedom around the world. Bootlicking world leaders are as good as inviting China to wipe Tibet, Hong Kong and East Turkestan off the map, It's time for everyone who cares about human rights to stand up to the Chinese Communist Party.\"\nNational anthems of East Turkistan, Hong Kong and Tibet were played once again before Tsering Passang gave his concluding remarks. He said, \"We know that the CCP regime poses a real threat to global peace and security.\n\"Xi Jinping and his regime must immediately end their brutal crackdown on innocent people across China and its occupied territories, who are entitled to basic rights as enshrined in the Universal Declarations of Human Rights. It is about time China ends the colonisation of its neighbours and discrimination against the minorities.\n\"As Mao Tsetung once said, \"where there is oppression there will be resistance\". So, we the people of Tibet, East Turkistan, Hong Kong, Southern Mongolia, Taiwan as well as all those oppressed groups such as the Falun Gong practitioners, will continue to defy and resist the Chinese Communist regime and its repressive rule.\"\nThis year protest was jointly organised by:\n\u2013 Atlas\n\u2013 Free Tibet\n\u2013 Hong Kong Aid\n\u2013 Hong Kong Liberty\n\u2013 Power to Hongkongers\n\u2013 Uyghur Community UK\n\u2013 World Uyghur Congress\n\u2013 Tibetan Community in Britain\n\u2013 Global Alliance for Tibet and Persecuted Minorities\nAuthor: Tsering Passang (Tsamtruk)\nNGO Professional | Activist | Author | Founder and Chairman, Global Alliance for Tibet & Persecuted Minorities (GATPM)\tView all posts by Tsering Passang (Tsamtruk)\nAuthor Tsering Passang (Tsamtruk)Posted on October 2, 2021 October 3, 2021 Categories Uncategorized\nOne thought on \"China committing \"cultural genocide\" in Tibet, a 15-year old British Tibetan student told the Resist CCP Day Rally in London\"\nPingback: China committing \"cultural genocide\" in Tibet, a 15-year old British Tibetan student told the Resist CCP Day Rally in London \u2013 Tsamtruk Network\nPrevious Previous post: Resist the CCP National Day 2021 held in London\nNext Next post: China: Threat to Global Peace and Security?\nGlobal Alliance for Tibet & Persecuted Minorities Blog at WordPress.com.","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
+{"text":"Difference between revisions of \"Johnny B. Goode\"\nIn 1969, Berry released the album ''Concerto In B Goode,'' but the title track is an 18 minute instrumental.\nMr. Goode gets a mention in Ricky Nelson's 1972 hit song \"[https:\/\/www.straightdope.com\/columns\/read\/2173\/in-ricky-nelsons-garden-party-who-is-mr-hughes\/ Garden Party]\":\n<blockquote>Someone opened up a closet door and out stepped Johnny B. Goode\nPlaying guitar like a-ringing a bell and lookin' like he should.\nMore impressive are the balls of the band Devo, who killed off Goode in their song \"[http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=JbvXPYwzkvY Come Back Jonee]\" from their 1978 album ''Q: Are We Not Men? A: We Are Devo!'':\n<blockquote>\"Johnny jumped into his Datsun. Drove out on the expressway. Went head on into a semi. His guitar's all that's left now.\"<\/blockquote>\n[[Category:Songs|Goode, Johnny B.]]\n[[Category:1958|Goode, Johnny B.]]\n[[Category:1958|Goode, Johnny B.]][[Category:Songs|Goode, Johnny B.]][[Category:Rock|Goode, Johnny B.]]\nEarly rock and roll star from the Chuck Berry song of the same name. Berry wrote the semiautobiographical \"Johnny B. Goode\" in 1955, but it was not recorded and released until 1958.\nWhat you probably don't know is there's more to it than that. Goode appears in other Chuck Berry songs:\n\"Bye Bye Johnny\" (1960), where Momma says bye to Johnny as he goes to Hollywood to make some motion pictures. Johnny falls in love there, and promises to build his momma a mansion after he's married.\n\"Go Go Go\" (1963, from the album Chuck Berry on Stage. Johnny starts going jazz! \"Backed up by a jazz band, layin' on the wood, Mixin Ahmad Jamal in my Johnny B Goode. Sneaking Errol Garner in my Sweet Sixteen, Now they tell me Stan Kenton's cutting Maybelline.\"\n\"Johnny B. Blues\" ?\nIn 1969, Berry released the album Concerto In B Goode, but the title track is an 18 minute instrumental.\nMr. Goode gets a mention in Ricky Nelson's 1972 hit song \"Garden Party\":\nSomeone opened up a closet door and out stepped Johnny B. Goode\nMore impressive are the balls of the band Devo, who killed off Goode in their song \"Come Back Jonee\" from their 1978 album Q: Are We Not Men? A: We Are Devo!:\n\"Johnny jumped into his Datsun. Drove out on the expressway. Went head on into a semi. His guitar's all that's left now.\"\nRetrieved from \"https:\/\/www.fakebands.com\/wiki\/index.php?title=Johnny_B._Goode&oldid=16004\"","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
+{"text":"How NITDA is driving NASSE in Nigeria\nBy Business Hilights On Apr 1, 2021\nThe National Information Technology Development Agency (NITDA), as part of its Nigeria Smart Initiative in the Education Sector, is partnering with sub-national Governments at the grassroots to deploy digital education platform to aid remote teaching and learning thereby preparing the nation for the future of education.\nNASSE is an implementation of Nigeria Smart Initiative by the National Information Technology Development Agency (NITDA) in the education sector, in collaboration with relevant stakeholders, as a policy directive of the Federal Ministry of Communications and Digital Economy led by Dr Isa Ali Ibrahim Pantami to aid implementation of National Digital Economy Policy and Strategy (NDEPS) for a digital Nigeria. As part of our strategic objectives, we are to support every sector of the economy to succeed at this digital age.\nNDEPS, as the main driver of digital Nigeria, is in support of the global Sustainable Development Goals (SGDs) in education, especially the Goal 4 on \"Quality Education\" and the campaign promise of President Muhammadu Buhari-led administration in education. NASSE is designed to accelerate the achievement of this global and national agenda by smartly engage in \"building and upgrading education facilities that are child, disability and gender sensitive with provision of safe, nonviolent, inclusive and effective learning environments for all\".\nThe first pilot scheme is in partnership with Abuja Municipal Area Council (AMAC). This has led to the selection of the Junior Secondary School (JSS) Karshi. The pilot scheme is adopting the current JSS 2 students that will be promoted to JSS 3 in a short while. Adopting JSS 2 will provide a better means of measuring learning outcomes against students' performance into Senior Secondary School 1 in 2022.\nThe following are the benefits:\n1. Indigenous Cloud based Digital Education Platform for smart teaching and learning;\n2. National Educational Research Development Council (NERDC)-based curriculum and contents;\n3. Digital literacy capacity building for more than 500 students and teachers;\n4. Free WiFi (unlimited contents download and upload) for students and teachers;\n5. Renewable Energy System;\n6. Smart Education Devices (Tablets and android-enabled screen)\nNCC open to strategic partnerships for Human Development \u2013 Danbatta\nTwo months NIN extension ruling should start from April 6\u2014Barr Ubani\nDanbatta Bags Vanguard's Regulator of the Year Award\nJust in: NITDA, Hajj Institute of Nigeria team up for digital hajj exercise","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
+{"text":"July 9, 2013 February 11, 2016\nMarlin raises $1.6 billion for fourth private equity fund\nLOS ANGELES, July 9, 2013 \u2013 Marlin Management Company, LLC (\"Marlin\"), a global investment firm, is pleased to announce the first and final closing of Marlin Equity IV, L.P. (\"Fund IV\"), with $1.6 billion of capital commitments. Fund IV completed its fundraise at its hard-cap in just over four months and was more than three times oversubscribed from its initial $1 billion target.\nConsistent with Marlin's predecessor funds, Fund IV will invest in businesses that can benefit from the firm's significant capital base, deep industry relationships and extensive network of operational resources. It will focus on industries where Marlin has developed extensive domain expertise, including technology, business services, healthcare, consumer and manufacturing, among others.\nMarlin has closed four private equity funds since its inception in 2005 and has more than $2.6 billion of capital under management. The limited partners in Fund IV include some of the world's largest and most sophisticated investors, including leading sovereign wealth funds, public and private pension funds, endowments and foundations, insurance companies, fund of funds and family offices.\n\"We are pleased with the extraordinary level of support that we received from such a prestigious group of global investors,\" said David McGovern, Managing Partner of Marlin. \"The successful fundraise is a clear endorsement of our operationally focused investment strategy and reflects our ability to deliver superior returns to our investors and partners.\"\nPeter Spasov, a Partner at Marlin, added, \"In just over three years, we have more than doubled our assets under management. To have accomplished this in a difficult fundraising environment speaks to the quality of our team, our innovative and disciplined investment strategy, and the strength of our past performance across economic cycles.\"\nThe closing of Fund IV follows a very active year for Marlin. Since the beginning of 2012, Marlin has acquired over 15 businesses, including six corporate divestitures, and has achieved five successful exits to strategic buyers. Additionally, the firm established a London office to further strengthen its European presence.\nBruce Ettelson and Karin Orsic of Kirkland & Ellis LLP served as legal counsel and Credit Suisse Securities (USA) LLC acted as an advisor and exclusive placement agent for Fund IV.\nMarlin Equity Partners is a global investment firm with over $2.6 billion of capital under management. The firm is focused on providing corporate parents, shareholders and other stakeholders with tailored solutions that meet their business and liquidity needs. Since its inception, Marlin, through its group of funds and related companies, has successfully completed over 65 acquisitions. The firm is headquartered in Los Angeles, California with an additional office in London. For more information, please visit www.marlinequity.com.","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
+{"text":"PBPN Battled Fast Moving Wildland Fire\n3.4.21 \u2013 A wildland fire crests the hill heading toward the area of 182nd and E Roads after crossing over the PBPN reservation boundary into Jackson county Kansas.\nThe Prairie Band Potawatomi Tribal Fire Department responded to a report of an out-of-control burn during the late afternoon of Thursday, March 4, 2021, ultimately resulting in over 1,000 acres of land burned in multiple jurisdictions.\nThe fire originated in the northwest quadrant of the reservation near 166th and G roads on privately owned land, just west of Our Lady of the Snows Church. Upon response, PTFD noted the fire had initially impacted an estimated 100 acres of land, roughly the size of 75 football fields. The fast-moving wildland fire traveled along a northwest route toward the corner of 182nd and E roads burning across trust land and additional private lands. Spurred on by winds, low relative humidity conditions, and natural fuel sources such as grasses and shrubs, the fire was unstoppable through direct attack.\n3.4.21 \u2013 This map details the approximate fire area of 1,000 acres, with the green line delineating the western boundary of the Prairie Band Potawatomi Nation Reservation.\nDuring containment efforts, several surrounding agencies were called in for assistance including the Kansas Forest Service which was able to provide the use of their air tanker and deployed three water drops on the head of the fire. Defenses were established at the natural barriers of 182nd road and E road with multiple brush trucks deployed to stop the fire from jumping E road. Several homes and structures were saved, and no one was injured during the fire.\nIn all, the Potawatomi Tribal Fire Department, Potawatomi Tribal Police and Dispatch, Jackson County Sherriff, Jackson County Sheriff Dispatch, Jackson County EMS, Mayetta Fire, Hoyt Fire, Delia Fire, Soldier Fire, Holton Fire, Netawaka Fire, Whiting Fire, Silver Lake Fire and the Kansas Forest Service responded to the incident and played a part in containment.","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
+{"text":"Obama to ease immigration rules on millions of undocumented - source\nAnti-deportation protesters chant in front of the White House in Washington August 28, 2014. REUTERS\/Kevin Lamarque\/Files (Reuters)\nBy Richard Cowan\nBy Richard Cowan WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. President Barack Obama is poised to give relief from deportation to millions of undocumented immigrants who are parents of U.S. citizens or of permanent legal residents, according to a source familiar with White House deliberations. Obama has promised to lay out the details of an executive order on immigration. The action could come as early as this week. The source, who asked not to be identified, said some details were not yet available on which parents of citizens or permanent residents would be included. The Obama administration, the source said, had been looking at options including those parents who have been living in the United States for five years or 10 years. A top Obama aide is scheduled to have lunch with Senate Democrats on Thursday on Capitol Hill. White House chief of staff Denis McDonough, who will discuss the state of the economy and the post-election legislative agenda, is likely to be pressed on the immigration issue in the closed-door luncheon. On Monday, in an interview with Univision, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, a Democrat, said that Obama should move on immigration \"now.\" Obama is expected to take actions to allow some undocumented people to live here at least temporarily without the threat of deportation and to hold jobs in the United States. Obama's executive order could also include further border security steps, according to sources. Obama is expected to stress that he wants to focus efforts on deportations of illegal residents with serious criminal backgrounds. Obama repeatedly has warned that he would take steps to fix immigration problems because Republicans in Congress have refused to pass legislation. He also has said that even with his unilateral steps, Congress could still replace his measures with permanent legislation. For the past two weeks, Republicans in Congress have been looking at ways to stop Obama from carrying out these anticipated actions, arguing that only Congress should initiate such moves through legislation. While the Senate in 2013 passed sweeping bipartisan immigration legislation, Republicans in the House of Representatives have blocked such a bill, saying they first want to concentrate on further securing U.S. borders. (Reporting By Richard Cowan; Editing by Steve Orlofsky)\nEx-Chicago grad student sentenced to 8 years in prison for spying for China\nNextShark\nTed_Bogner_retires_from_Bogner_Construction.\nTrump calls for principals to be elected by students' parents","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
+{"text":"The Dignity Project\nThe Dignity Days\nThe Dignity Bags\nDignity Trips\nSince its formation in 2016, the Dignity Project has reached thousands of girls across Africa, Asia and South America. With plans to reach other nations in the near future, our goal is to reach 20,000 girls by the end of 2020. Will you join us? We are looking for volunteers a passion for fighting human trafficking and standing up for oppressed women across the developing world.\nFor UK delegates, trips are inclusive of flights and cost \u00a31,300.\nFor USA and other delegates, on-the-ground costs total $700. Flights must be booked separately, although One By One will provide assistance when booking.\nFor group bookings, e-mail admin@onebyone.net.\nIf traveling isn't your thing, how about helping raise fund for the Dignity Project? It costs just \u00a310 to put one girl through the Dignity Project. How many girls can you help us reach?\nCopyright 2023 - Company - All rights reserved. Powered by WordPress.","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
+{"text":"Roger Federer's schedule for 2018\nRoger Federer during an interview in Basel, Switzerland\/ - Image credit - ATPWorldTour | YouTube\nThe Swiss has one more stop left in 2017 before heading into another season.\nby Christian F.\nNovember 1, 2017 at 8:52 AM November 1, 2017 at 8:52 AM\nRight after winning his eighth title at the Swiss Indoors Basel, Roger Federer held an interview to clear some things up. The announcement that he won't travel to Paris for the last Masters 1000 of the season held in Bercy venue didn't' come as a shock. It was an expected move for him to make, and only that potential world No.1 seat could've influenced his decision. However, when it comes to Federer planning his schedule, with age comes greater game responsibility. His speech has acquired a philosophical feature somewhere along the way. Probably that six-months hiatus from tennis handed him the perfect opportunity to reflect better on which point of his career he was standing, and more importantly, how to proceed onward.\nRanked second in the world, Roger Federer has booked himself a spot for the Nitto ATP Finals in London. He will lead one group at the O2 Arena with another clash with Rafael Nadal looming for the semis or the final, depending on how they'll handle things in the Round Robin stage.\nRoger Federer wants to keep it short and simple\nAsked about his plans for the next season, Federer made it clear that his only chance to keep himself relevant is to go for a shorter schedule with the focus on Grand Slams and Masters 1000 events. The only thing yet to be determined is whether or not he will choose to skip the entire clay court swing of 2018 as he did this year. Although a risky move, this strategy paid off as Federer returned to dominate the entire grass court swing with a minor flaw at Stuttgart in the beginning.\nThere are some certainties too, with Roger Federer having booked two appearances for January 2018. The warm-up prior to the 2018 Australian Open will be at the Hopman Cup, an exhibition event that comes with no strings attached, which is good for the mindset. It's the same path Federer walked on earlier this year before entering that marvelous campaign at Melbourne Park.\nLearning from mistakes of the previous season\nIn 2017, following his success at the Australian Open, Federer headed to Dubai where he unexpectedly lost to Evgeny Donskoy. it was a simple flaw that didn't hamper his efforts at Indian Wells and Miami where he went on crushing competition, including two wins over Rafael Nadal. For the 2018 schedule, Dubai might be left off the table, with Federer focusing on the Sunshine Double once again.\nThen, the clay court swing will probably give him an extended break prior to the grass court tennis festival. Depending on how things work out at the time, Federer will adjust his schedule for the summer swing on the hard court, in a way to reach a peak of intensity at the 2018 US Open. Earlier this year, his decision to play in Canada ost him greatly as he was later forced to skip Cincinnati while the US Open turned into ashes pretty fast.\nA carefully nourished schedule might give Roger Federer a chance to clinch at least one more Grand Slam before thinking about retirement.\nBuccaneers' offseason moves to center around Tom Brady\nChristian F.\nHe is an avid sports fan in general, he has a specific taste for tennis and all that revolves around this particular field. He's also interested in politics, economics and he won't say no to a good TV series.\nRead more on the same topic from Christian F.:\nRoger Federer at the 2019 Wimbledon Championships: The case of an outstanding athlete 'This Is Us' may go into a slump without a strong presence from Milo Ventimiglia 2019 French Open: Roger Federer may actually win the title\nJane Flowers\nFollow jane on Facebook Follow jane on Linkedin Follow jane on Instagram\nBlasting News recommends Rob Gronkowski weighs in on Brady's future: TB12 will pick Bucs over Raiders Daddy duty for Tom Brady as he spends quality time with daughter Vivian Ex-teammate Kyle Van Noy shows love for Tom Brady, calls him the 'best ever' Rob Gronkowski, Devin McCourty both believe Tom Brady will return for 24th season Astros vs Dodgers Game 7: World Series set for classic ending, game odds, pick Cavaliers held team meeting to address team's struggles","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
+{"text":"Japan expects to reap \u00a5437 billion in economic benefits from hosting Rugby World Cup\nTeammates Shota Horie (left), Michael Leitch (center) and Kenki Fukuoka show off Japan's new national team uniform for the Rugby World Cup, which gets underway Sept. 20. | KYODO\nby Junko Horiuchi\nOrganizers say they expect the Rugby World Cup to bring \u00a5437.2 billion in economic benefits, pinning their hopes on the 400,000 foreign visitors who are projected to visit Japan for the tournament.\nAs that estimate only takes into account the impact before and during the tournament, and not afterward, real success depends on whether the Japanese rugby community, sports-related companies and host cities can carry on the effects to boost budding businesses, analysts say.\nAn economic impact report by the Japan organizing committee of the Rugby World Cup, released in March 2018, says that the tournament to be hosted in Asia for the first time since the inaugural edition in 1987 could attract up to 1.8 million fans, including 400,000 from overseas.\nThe World Cup, taking place in 12 venues in 12 cities from Sept. 20 to Nov. 2, will generate an estimated total of \u00a5437.2 billion, resulting in a boost in Japan's gross domestic product worth \u00a5216.6 billion, an increase in tax revenue valued at \u00a521.6 billion and the creation of 25,000 jobs, according to the report.\n\"Fans from faraway countries tend to stay longer, with some staying as long as several weeks,\" the report said. \"Visitors who come to Japan for the tournament are expected to spend an average of \u00a520,000 per day, giving their stays a sizeable economic impact.\"\nTakayuki Katsurada, senior vice president in the regional planning department at the Development Bank of Japan, said the organizers' estimated total output can only be achieved if the inbound travelers spend as much as expected.\n\"The key is whether Japan can offer convenient and attractive services for foreign travelers that encourage them to stay and spend,\" Katsurada said. \"There is a language barrier and foreigners also still tend to have an image that Japan is prone to natural disasters and (therefore) unsafe.\"\nA survey conducted last fall by the Japan Tourism Agency found that local governments face such problems as too little in the way of hotel accommodations or emergency preparedness, as well as overcrowding and poor behavior by visitors in areas with popular tourist destinations.\nAccording to analysts, regardless of whether the projected economic impact of the Rugby World Cup comes true, initiatives to link sports to businesses need to be further strengthened if Japan wants to maximize the benefits from the Rugby World Cup.\nJapan, which has traditionally put an emphasis on the educational and cultural aspect of sports rather than the economic potential, has seen little growth in sports-related markets, prompting the government to push for a boost in investments in the industry as part of its growth strategy.\nThe government has set a target to expand the sports-related sector, estimated to be worth \u00a55.5 trillion in 2015, to \u00a510 trillion by 2020 and \u00a515 trillion by 2025, by hosting world-class sports competitions and promoting sports-related businesses both at home and overseas.\n\"While the sports boom may continue through the Rugby World Cup and the 2020 Tokyo Olympics, it is certain to lose its attraction afterward,\" Katsurada said.\n\"For sustainable growth, it is important that Japan proactively puts out a message that sports can be a new business,\" he said.\nHe cited hospitality services for VIPs, stadium and arena management, sports-related tours and the offering of high-tech devices, such as sound and display systems for viewing sports as potential areas of expansion.\ntourism, rugby, Rugby World Cup, 2019 Rugby World Cup","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
+{"text":"How to cook salmon in the oven\nbaking salmon in the oven,recipe for cooking salmon fillet\nWhy Did Ryan Have To Leave The Voice,'Station 19\u2032: Alberto Frezza on Ryan's Fate and Why It Was|2020-12-04\nThe Real Reason Evan Peters Is Leaving AHS\nI found out this morning that Adam Levine personally called my mother and said he will pay for the funeral and her plane flight, and I was blown away.They plug into the wall & help keep cats calmer.Sharon Tate as Janet Trego.But, what an incredible performance from two legends.Ryan let her popularity go to her head.The media will ask them about it\/it will become a major pop culture topic.His approval numbers have taken a hit, and there are plenty of political observers who think Ryan is not doing enough to check the Trump presidency.(Gouge says the amount of time might vary based on a product's active ingredient and the level of ventilation in the room.The youngest of four boys, Reynolds \"was a really nervous kid,\" he told GQ magazine.Note, that most stores have reduced hours on Sundays.It's ultimately a private matter, so we'll leave it to him to share more details once he feels like it is appropriate to do so and he did say that more details are forthcoming.SIGN UP for Gold Derby's free newsletter with latest predictions.\nWhy Did Cody Ray Raymond Leave The Voice? Singer Explains \u2026\nThe woman in the bandages was played by Maxine Stuart.That is what Thanksgiving is about, such a wonderful story.Host Carson Daly made a brief announcement regarding Hannah's departure from the show during the episode.Christina Aguilera, who hadn't had a hit in nearly a decade, saw sales of her duet with A Great Big World, Say Something, skyrocket a whopping 1,761 percent within one week after performing the song on The Voice.Update: In a new post on his Instagram Stories, Gallagher made it clear that everyone within his family was fine \u2014 not only that, but that it wasn't his decision to drop out of the show.Walmart noted: \"Each savings event will begin online at Walmart.She was exactly as the previous posters have said \u2013 gracious, delightful, tireless in taking photos and signing autographs.\tI alsohave tried, repeatedly, to do the migration process every few days.Irene was lonely in New York City.Last night, I got the standard error I've seen \" Oops something went wrong\", on the first step of the process.\nRyan Reynolds \u2013 Movies, Wife & Age \u2013 Biography\nI only heard Donna speak about Irene Ryan and it was with great fondness and reverence.Five years later, Kelsie had to quit performing altogether to finally begin the healing process.This is why dating a coworker is always a risky move.Target will not be operating with holiday hours this Thanksgiving holiday weekend.But then again, I was very OK with the way the storyline of the show was going to go.She had one line; they thought they'd have to dub in Maxine Stuart's voice, but she did such a good imitation of it that they didn't have \u2026.Tanner probably has a better shot at winning.But it looks like Peters and Roberts have finally gone their separate ways.\"I want to assure everyone that I am well; I still have my voice \u2026.Earlier formulations of Lysol contained cresol, a compound that can induce abortions, and it was widely used by women who could not otherwise obtain legal abortions in the United States, although the medical community was relatively unaware of the phenomenon for the first half of the 20th century.\nRULE No. 9 And The Mike Pence Envelope \u2013 Q\nLater that year, Reynolds was honored with a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.Traveling with a friend, Reynolds moved to Los Angeles in the late 1990s.Shooting for Dark Phoenix already wrapped in the fall of 2018, so it's not like production would interfere with shooting the next season of AHS.Irene was always full of herself and let the entire cast know.Though there have been no plans announced for rescheduled dates, with Jonas now free the band could play the city whenever Vegas concerts begin to take place again.Then [Grey's Anatomy executive producer] Krista Vernoff, who then came on and took over as the showrunner, she ended up calling me and we had a lengthy conversation on the reason why she was doing this, the idea that she had, the storyline that she wanted to create to make this transition for the show and also for Ryan's ultimate death.During the sit-down for Gwyn's \"In Goop Health\" event, the two stars talked candidly about working in Hollywood and Meg's decision to quit acting a few years ago.\nWhy Is Adam Levine Leaving The Voice? \u2013 Why Adam Levine \u2026\nI once ruined Buddy Ebsen's credit rating.\" One shared, \"Marisa was great but glad Ryan was saved; he was my favorite in this battle.Ryan was pretty much a nobody as far as the public was concerned until BH.Take Our Poll How do you feel about the movie's take?.R12 is pulling shit out of his ass.He graduated from Chaminade College Preparatory School (California) in 2003 and enrolled at the University of Southern California, where he majored in film and television studies, graduating in May 2007.Christina Aguilera, who hadn't had a hit in nearly a decade, saw sales of her duet with A Great Big World, Say Something, skyrocket a whopping 1,761 percent within one week after performing the song on The Voice.Hinton said he's been quarantining for two weeks so he and Dench can have an in-person, socially-distanced meal together.With the singing show winding down, now may be a good time to browse our summer premiere schedule in search of something new.Hopefully everything turns out okay, and there will be some opportunities to hear him perform again down the road.\n'The Voice': Why Nick Jonas Is Leaving The Show And Who Is \u2026\nLet's do a once-a-week thing.0 Unported License.Bolger was cast as the Tin Man, but he passionately wanted to play the Scarecrow.The singers with the lowest number of votes will be sent home each week.\"To have an undeniable victory and steal the show.\"Between Live with Kelly and Ryan, American Idol, On Air with Ryan Seacrest, and the Disney Family Singalong specials, he has been juggling three to four on-air jobs over the last few weeks and he's in need of rest.Some features on this site require registration.Drysdale, who was kind of a dick, apparently.I loved the line she said to Jed when she talked of how urgent it was to get Ellie Mae a husband: I can't keep telling people she's thirteen forever!.Ebsen sat this out mostly.She revealed that \"so long as it's agreed upon by two consenting adults.He ended up in an iron lung and could have died.He claims to be 34 years old in The Diddly-Bops.Donna was the star of that infamous Eye of the Beholder Twilight Zone episode, but they dubbed all of her dialogue.\n1.Fear The Walking Dead,Fear the Walking Dead: Season Six Ratings \u2013 canceled|2021-01-02\n2.When Does Season 3 Start In Fortnite,Fortnite: Battle Royale: When Does Season 3 Begin? 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+{"text":"engrXiv Blog\nengrXiv\nThe blog for the Engineering Archive.\n2019 State of the Server\nUpdate to Engineering Archive's legal status and announcing the Membership Circle\nSwitching to pre-moderation and a new withdraw feature\nA great 2018 at engrXiv\nEngineering Archive now integrated with Hypothesis\nengrXiv.org\nEmail: info@engrxiv.org\nOct 26, 2019 - Update to Engineering Archive's legal status and announcing the Membership Circle\nUpdate to our legal status\nEngineering Archive started as and has remained a grassroots effort, by researchers, for researchers. As Engineering Archive has grown, it has become increasingly necessary to create an entity that is capable of managing its own finances and have its own legal status. Up to this point, Engineering Archive has been almost entirely financed by Director Devin Berg in addition to the in-kind contributions of the Center for Open Science.\nWith that in mind, Devin launched Open Engineering Inc. to search as an umbrella organization, and legal entity, over the top of Engineering Archive. Open Engineering is:\na 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization for the promotion of open practices in the engineering field. We are working towards increased awareness of open practices as well as providing tools to better enable engineers to be more open. We also provide resources and trainings that allow engineers to develop open workflows and participate more fully in the open dissemination of engineering knowledge.\nUnder Open Engineering, we now have the ability to accept tax-deductible donations and use other forms of generating income such as Amazon Smile.\nIntroducing the Membership Circle\nFinancing a grassroots effort such as Engineering Archive has always been, and probably will always be, a challenge. To this end, Engineering Archive has launched a new funding mechanism called the Membership Circle for libraries and institutions interested in supporting open engineering scholarship. We hope that in the shifting landscape of academic publishing, academic libraries and institutions will be able to find room in their budgets to support open access efforts such as Engineering Archive. At risk of sounding self-serving, we feel that efforts such as Engineering Archive are critical for increasing the availability of research and knowledge to the general public, particularly when the generation of that knowledge is publicly funded. This is especially important in engineering, a field where when applied correctly can have significant positive societal impact.\nYour help needed!\nWe hope that all our Engineering Archive advocates will consider supporting these efforts by either helping us with a direct donation to Open Engineering or by advocating at your own institutions for them to support Engineering Archive and open engineering scholarship by joining the Engineering Archive Membership Circle.\n\u00a92020 engrXiv Blog. All content licenced under Creative Commons Attribution","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
+{"text":"Op-Ed: Why Ontario PC leader Tim Hudak must step down to beat Liberals\nBy Andrew Moran Sep 10, 2012 in Politics\nToronto - Before you know it, the Ontario Progressive Conservative Party could become the second Official Opposition party behind Andrea Horwath's New Democrats. If Tim Hudak stays on any longer as the provincial Tory leader, this could be the party's fate.\nI was only in junior high school when Dalton McGuinty was put into office by getting his party to win 72 seats. My science teacher at the time was thrilled over McGuinty's win, while a friend's father was also ecstatic. He said at the time, \"No more waste of my money!\" As a conservative-later-turned-libertarian, I highly doubted it, but I wasn't much of a follower of provincial politics at the time.\nAfter eight years of Ontario Premier Dalton McGuinty's scandal-laden, promise-breaking and debt-ridden Liberal government, it was thought that Tim Hudak and the Progressive Conservatives would win at least a minority government during last year's provincial election.\nIn the summertime, before the election campaign officially got underway, polls indicated a Hudak win. Following two terms that was marred with a $1 billion eHealth scandal and new taxes, it was certainly a given that the PCs would establish a new government. However, the opposite occurred and McGuinty was nearly given another majority government.\nFast forward a year later, the premier held two by-elections in Kitchener-Waterloo and Vaughn. This time, the PCs and NDP worked hard to avoid the Grits from getting those seats to secure a majority government. Hudak attempted to get these two seats. What happened? He lost both; the Liberals held on to Vaughn with Steven Del Duca defeating the PC's Tony Genco and the NDP's Paul Donofrio and the NDP's Catherine Fife surprisingly beat the Liberal's Eric Davis in Kitchener-Waterloo.\nHudak claimed that the Kitchener-Waterloo by-election was bought by the unions.\nAlthough Hudak generated 78 percent of the vote from delegates at the party's Annual General Meeting earlier this year, it could be about time that those who really want to beat the Grits in the next election and avoid a fourth Liberal term urge Hudak to step down as leader.\nHow could anyone lose to a governing leader with this kind of record?\n-\tHealthcare premium: One of the biggest tax hikes in Ontario, which was done after McGuinty promised not to raise taxes.\n-\t$1 billion (and counting) eHealth scandal: the Auditor General called it a waste after it was revealed how much money consultants were paid and how they abused taxpayers' funds.\n-\tORNGE: The Toronto Star uncovered controversy at the province's air ambulance service. Taxpayers' money was wasted, yet again, on compensation to executives, including $1.4 million to President and CEO Chris Mazza.\n-\tBonuses: It was reported that the Liberals gave bonuses to 98 percent of managers, costing the province $35.6 million\n-\tPower Plant Cancellation: Finance Minister Dwight Duncan admitted in July that the government cancelled construction of a Mississauga power plant days before the fall election. This cost taxpayers more than $190 million.\nPlease note, this is just the tip of the iceberg of the scandals that McGuinty and company produced.\nDuring last year's election, Digital Journal brought extensive coverage to you and I received a number of emails explaining that the PCs didn't have much a platform and just consistently reminded voters of McGuinty's failure as premier. Indeed, our readers were correct in their analysis. Ontarians already knew what McGuinty did with his government, but they wanted a change. So why repeat these utter malfunctions of our esteemed provincial officials?\nIt doesn't look as if Hudak will step down anytime soon. If he did, who would be a possible replacement that could reinvigorate the conservative base and finally defeat the governing Liberals or even the growing New Democrats?\nAnyone who will not blow it again.\nThis opinion article was written by an independent writer. The opinions and views expressed herein are those of the author and are not necessarily intended to reflect those of DigitalJournal.com\nMore about ontario progressive conservatives, Tim hudak, Liberals, Dalton McGuinty, Andrea Horwath\nontario progressive ... Tim hudak Liberals Dalton McGuinty Andrea Horwath","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
+{"text":"design critique: model + code\nDesign Computing: 3D Modeling in Rhinoceros with Python\/Rhinoscript\n13K Students Enrolled\nWhy should a designer learn to code? As our world is increasingly impacted by the use of algorithms, designers must learn how to use and create design computing programs. Designers must go beyond the narrowly focused use of computers in the automation of simple drafting\/modeling tasks and instead explore the extraordinary potential digitalization holds for design culture\/practice. Structured around a series of fundamental design problems, this course will show you Python code in terms of its rules and syntax, and what we can do with it in its application and design. So, by the end of this course, you will know the fundamentals of Python and Rhino script, but importantly, through the lens of their application in geometrically focused design lessons and exercises. Subjects covered in this course - An introduction to Design Computing as a subject and why designers should learn to code. - The fundamentals of coding in the Python scripting language. By the end of the course students will be familiar with the basic structure and syntax of this language. - The understanding and application of Rhinoscriptsyntax, a native coding language in Rhinoceros that's imported into Python, which allows one to create and control geometries through authoring code. - The application of Procedural Logics - the structuring of coding systems to produce variable geometric form. - The output of geometries in still and animate forms.\nVery good course. Explains the usefulness of Python scripting in CAD Application.\nit is really helpful course. perfect pace and perfect teaching by Glenn Wilcox\nThe Building Blocks\nFollowing an introduction to the fundamentals of the interface and explaining what code does, we will look at Variables and Points, the building blocks of code and geometry.\ndesign critique: model + code17:36\nGlenn Wilcox\nAssociate Professor in Architecture\nSelect a languageEnglishFrenchRussianSpanishptPt\nSo really unique part of this course is the gallery tool. So this is an environment in which you're going to be sharing your own work, whether it's still images or animations, or even the code that you're working on. And you're also going to be able to see work of other learners. And we think this is a really important part of this course, to have this kind of exchange of information. And also to be able to comment on each other's work, and peer review each other's work. I think that's a really important part of learning to be able to talk about somebody else's work in a constructive way. And I know it's been a really important part of my learning throughout my career, to be able to teach and comment on people's work. So I wanted to use this video to talk a little bit about some of the guidelines for doing that and maybe demonstrate a little bit how we can talk about work. What we've done with each assignment is, not only giving you the assignment, but we've also given you a commenting rubric that's specific to each assignment. Although it does share a common three part scheme, three different ways in which you might start to think about the work. So there's design, presentation and code. Design has to do with, how they're, you're going about designing the elements that you're producing within the course. How much does it vary from some of the things that I'm showing in the tutorials. Is somebody really starting to do something that you can't really figure out sort of how they're doing it. But it sorts of peaks your interest, and they're doing something unique. So, how are they pushing the limits of the design aspect of a presentation has to do with, how are they showing that. Are they using presentation to show a variety of different types of geometries that can be produced with the code that they've made. And there is a kind of crossover I would say between design and presentation. Oftentimes, you can't completely separate representation from the thing you're representing, that those things can often be very closely tied to each other. The last part is code, and code is really about how the code is presented, how it's organized. It's not always about the originality in the code, but it's about its legibility related to some of the things that I'm going over in the course. And also in terms of how it's commented, how clear is it. To understand what somebody is doing with the code. Now, commenting on work, and also receiving comments on work, is going to be an important aspect of the course. It's not about commenting on the person themselves, but it's about commenting on their work. So it's important to be very inclusive, and open, and helpful, and constructive within your criticism. It's also important not to take the criticism personally. What I tell my residential students is, don't put yourself between the commenter and your work. That means don't be in a position of defending your work. You want to be open to comments. You want to be frank about what you're doing, and you want to have a discussion about it. So don't be defensive. Now there's tools for commenting, and one of my favorites is the like, wish method. So, I like to start by talking about what I liked about a project, and starting it with like. And not just saying that I like it, but why do I like it? What are the certain aspects of it that I like? If I don't like something about a project, I don't use terms like hate, or that I really don't like that. But instead, I try to use the term wish. That I wish they had explored this a little bit further. I wish they had maybe shown more variation in this. So, it's a way of using language, to be more constructive, and more engaging with the other learners. And that's a really important part of this. It's not about attacking someone for something, but it's about helping them and helping yourself. Now what I'd like to do is show a couple of projects, and talk a little bit about what I think is, the qualities that I like within the projects. And maybe what they could have worked on, a little bit more. These are projects that might be round the level, that you might get. They're working with a 3D point matrix to create variable geometry. So, this first one I would say is about in the upper middle level of work. I think it's these four illustrations are really demonstrating very well, how they're producing variation, within the system. That it goes from a sort of more ordered, rigorous system that's adhering to the grid and that slowly sort of breaks down. I think the way they chose the the representation that they chose, this kind of almost drawing like I think is works very well with these angular forms. I don't think the project diverges to a really great degree, in terms of its the design coding, from what I showed in the tutorials. So that those aspects might have been pushed further, but it's not, it's a fairly good project. This project is, I would say not as strong as that last project. The things that I like about, it I like their use of color. I like the levels of transparency in the project. I don't think the three images I wish they had shown maybe some different angles of the project. It's difficult to understand what it is that they're varying within the geometry. All these three images all sort of share the same angle, so I wish they might have shown it from different perspectives, might have given different sort of views, and a different understanding of the project. This one is is not as strong as those other two, so I would say this is on the sort of weaker side of the projects. Although I think it it accomplishes a number of a number of things in terms of addressing the assignment. I think it does show some variety in the types of geometry produced, but probably not enough. I don't think it goes far enough, that I wish it had gone much, much further. Things that I like about it are, these sort of umbrella like forms which seemed to float in space. I don't think the six illustrations are going to showing enough variety or change in the geometry. I think the quality of the presentation is a bit sort of standard. It's a standard, rendering in rhino, and so those aspects of it haven't really been pushed that much and they could be pushed a bit further. This project, I would say is on a higher level than the ones we've seen so far. It does show a good variety in form. This is only one illustration of a number of illustrations that the students submitted for this project. You wouldn't recognize it at this point, but they're doing something very sophisticated with the code, in order to get the matrix to generate this specific types of form. So at a design level, it's a bit more advanced. I think they could have done more with the presentation. And the different sort of angles in which ways, in which they showed the work, but it is a strong project for these other reasons. This last project, I would say it's not as strong as that last project, in terms of the coding that was involved in producing it. The coding wasn't as complex, but I think in this case, the level of presentation, trumps the complexity within the coding. I think it's an extremely sort of evocative project. I really like the way that they're using both solid rendering and linework that there's this kind of delicacy within the project, but then there's also a weight to it. I think the absence the actually absence of color within the project actually thinks works better for it, gives it this kind of austere quality. And they presented a number of illustrations of it, that showed it in different varieties that were produced from the code. I think to also, what I really like about this project is, it shows the complexity possible, with doing something through code. If you could imagine, if you had to manually model this and produce these variations within these illustrations. It would probably take you weeks and weeks to do that, to do a single illustration. And so it really represents the power available within coding to produce that kind of complexity and variation. And so I think it is for this level, I think it is a really extraordinarily illustrated project. So the last issue is the code, and so as I said, you you're not going to be inventing completely from scratch new code, what you're really doing is working with the code that I'm giving you. Maybe editing a bit adding certain parts to it. So, commenting about it isn't about commenting about a completely invented new code, but it's more about its organization, how is it presented, and its legibility. And that has to do with a couple things. One of them is the use of variable names. So, can you clearly understand sort of the mnemonic structure of the variables? Where they're important, where they're holding. So, that's one aspect of it. So, looking at this code, it's very clearly organized. They have this area where they're declaring all their empty lists, and everything is really well commented which is all these green text parts. They tell me exactly what these individual things are. They have comments at the beginning of sections of the code here. Which really explicate, you know what the code is doing. So if I've never seen this code before, it's fairly easy for me to go through it and understand it. What it's doing, and how it's working because of the clarity of the variables, and also the clarity of the comments. Now, this is probably at this point, this is a lot more complex code than what you're used to seeing. And it has a number of different elements in it like functions, and iteration. And a whole bunch of things that maybe we haven't gone through yet. But that's okay, I mean, you could sort of look at it, and probably see that it's how it's clearly organized. The other aspect of the code is that in some assignments, I will be asking you to do certain things in the code. So, in some of them are asking, I'll say specifically, you should use conditionals in this or you use iteration in this or you should use a dictionary structure in this. So the other issue around the code is, are you using those things which are required within the assignment? And so if we look at a code, that's another code that works just fine. So and it's actually doing some interesting things in terms of its design. I would say I wish that it did things better was in its commenting and also perhaps in the way that some of the variables are named. They're not really telling me. Too much about what they're doing. I don't know, this is a conditional part of the code. I don't exactly know what that's doing because it's not commented out. I don't know this is definitely creating geometry here, but I don't know exactly what for and so. I will have to spend sometime picking through the code to figure out what's it doing. And that would have been helped by more comments within the code to make those things legible. So that's what I'm talking about when I'm talking about code. So I hope this video has helped you understand a little bit about the critiquing process and a little bit about what we're looking for in some of the assignments.","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
+{"text":"THE LAND OF RAPE AND HONEY\nMinistry successfully combined industrial Heavy Metal and electronic beats with a punk attitude. The Land Of Rape And Honey was their breakthrough album released in 1988, which laid the foundation for a series of successful 'Tech Metal' albums that appealed to alternative audiences all over the globe.\nMore MINISTRY\nCatalog # : MOVLP651 Format : 1 LP, 180 gram Releasedate : 2012-11-22\nBarcode : 8718469531813 Sleeve : 3mm Original Release : 1988\n1. Stigmata\n2. The Missing\n3. Deity\n4. Golden Dawn\n5. Destruction\n1. The Land Of Rape And Honey\n2. You Know What You Are\n3. Flashback\n4. Abortive\nMinistry successfully combined industrial Heavy Metal and electronic beats with a punk attitude. The Land Of Rape And Honey was their breakthrough album released in 1988, which laid the foundation for a series of successful 'Tech Metal' albums that appealed to alternative audiences all over the globe. Drawing heavy on the sampler, synthesized sounds and thick layers of distorted guitars, this group preceded highly successful acts such as Fear Factory and Nine Inch Nails. Highlights on The Land Of Rape And Honey include the songs \"Stigmata\", \"The Missing\" and \"Flashback\" - all examples of the band's distinctive signature sound.\nOfficial website: http:\/\/ministryband.com\/\nView Complete Catalog\nWISCONSIN DEATH TRIP\nBEG TO DIFFER\nDARK SIDE OF THE SPOON\nASTRO-CREEP: 2000\nSTILL CYCO AFTER ALL THESE YEARS\n2003 LN Haarlem\ninfo@musiconvinyl.com\n\/ musiconvinyl\n\/ themusiconvinyl\nA world of vinyl at your fingertips.\nReceive the weekly e-mail with our latest releases and news.\nHip Hop \/ RnB","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
+{"text":"Cement and AdhesivesCOVID-19Infection ControlOTC GuideRestorative Dentistry\nEquipment & SuppliesProductsRestorative DentistryTechniquesTechnology\nModern Hygienist\nHygiene ProductsPatient CareProfessional Development\nDental Lab Products\nCAD\/CAMLab ProductsMaterials\nFront OfficeMarketingSoftware\nAll NewsIndustry News\nProdpodVideos\nDental Lab ProductsDental Products Report\nE-BooksJob BoardOTC GuideSponsored\nENEWSLETTERSDental Lab ProductsDental Products Report\n\u00a9 2021 MJH Life Sciences and Dental Products Report. All rights reserved.\nCement and Adhesives\nOTC Guide\nModern HygienistSee All >\nDental Lab ProductsSee All >\nDental Practice ManagementSee All >\n\u00a9 2021 MJH Life Sciences\u2122 and Dental Products Report. All rights reserved.\nTeeth fight back\nAnnemarie Mannion\nDental Products Report, Dental Products Report-2011-04-01, Issue 4\nA recent study demonstrating that odontoblast cells are part of the immune system and launch their own response when attacked by bacteria paves the way for possibly reducing the number of unnecessary root canals and shows that these cells are a critical weapon in the fight against dental disease.\nThe 2010 study was done at the University of Washington in Seattle by dentists Dr. Orapin Horst, along with her husband, Dr. Jeremy Horst, and colleagues.\nOdontoblast cells lay between the pulp and enamel within a tooth and produce a layer of dentin that supports the enamel structurally and forms an extra barrier to protect the pulp from infection.\nWhen bacteria attack, the Horsts' research showed that odontoblast cells trigger their own immune response, combating the infection by using antimicrobial peptides, which fight the infection directly. The cells also use protein messengers (chemokines) to recruit white blood cells that bring an inflammatory response to the infection site - but only to the odontoblasts and not the rest of the pulp.\n\"The study showed how the cells respond to deep cavities and how they fight infection,\" Jeremy Horst said. \"It (the odontoblast cell layer) doesn't need the rest of the body to fight infection. It can fight it on its own. Only when inflammation spreads through the pulp is there real trouble.\"\nIt has long been accepted that teeth can protect themselves from bacteria, to some degree, but the inflammation within a tooth can be harmful and, if left untreated, will lead to the demise of the tooth and a spreading abscess.\nThe study has implications for how tooth infections should be treated.\n\"We found that we can trust the odontoblast layer much more than we realized,\" Jeremy Horst said. \"Maybe we don't need to do as many root canals. There are cheaper, more efficient ways to treat local infection.\"\nHe said the way dentists today determine if a root canal is needed is imprecise and is based on whether the patient has lingering pain that lasts more than 20 seconds or experiences sudden pain without cause - or simply that a cavity is too deep.\n\"Right now, there's a lot of guesswork in our drilling and filling,\" he said. \"But there is a desire (among dentists) to increase our knowledge base and do the best for our patients. This study gives the first molecular basis for not doing root canals simply because a cavity is too deep.\"\nAnother use intended for this study is the development of a diagnostic test of the inflammatory markers, to be used by dentists to determine if a deep cavity will only need a simple filling, or if the tooth really does need an expensive root canal.\n\"This study tells us that the tooth has its own antibiotics and maybe we don't need such invasive treatment,\" Jeremy Horst said. \"We were surprised that both the microscopy and the molecular markers indicated that these teeth with very deep cavities, more than 2\/3 of the way to the pulp, could have been saved with simple fillings.\"\nHe said the next step is to repeat the test in patients who have been determined to need a root canal, because of sudden or lingering pain, in order to pinpoint the markers of inflammation that cause the pulp to die.\nThe Horsts, who currently are working at the University of California at San Francisco, are applying for grants to fund the next steps in the study.","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
+{"text":"Criterion's April slate, plus Legion, Fear the Walking Dead, Last Jedi artwork & more on HDR & physical media\nWe've got another Blu-ray review for you today from Tim: A look at Warner Archive's new Blu-ray release of Freebie and the Bean. You can find that here.\nWe've also updated the Release Dates & Artwork section with all the latest Blu-ray, DVD and 4K Ultra HD cover artwork and Amazon.com pre-order links. You'll find that here.\nMeanwhile, the big news today is that Criterion has just announced their April Blu-ray release slate, which is set to include Leo McCarey's The Awful Truth (Cat #917 \u2013 Blu-ray and DVD) and Sergei Parajanov's The Color of Pomegranates (Cat #918 \u2013 Blu-ray and DVD) on 4\/17, and Sofia Coppola's The Virgin Suicides (Cat #920 \u2013 Blu-ray and DVD) and Jim Jaramusch's Dead Man (Cat #919 \u2013 Blu-ray and DVD) on 4\/24. They're also releasing Eclipse Series 46: Ingrid Bergman's Swedish Years on DVD on 4\/10, including The Count of the Old Town (1935), Dollar (1938), Intermezzo (1936), Walpurgis Night (1935), A Woman's Face (1938), and June Night (1940). [Read on here\u2026]\nStar Wars: The Last Jedi 4K\nCES 2018 update\nBDA 4K update\nDolby Vision HDR\nDigital Entertainment Group\nCriterion April slate\nThe Virgin Suicides\nFear the Walking Dead: Season 3 BD\nLegion: Season 1 BD\nFreebie and the Bean BD review\nRelease Dates & Artwork update\nEclipse Series: 46: Ingrid Bergman's Swedish Years\nKnightfall: Season One BD\nWho Killed Tupac?\nThe Flight of Dragons\nTeen Titans: The Complete First Season BD\nphysical media sales decline in 2017","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
+{"text":"Mike Roeder muses over things musical\nDJ Shadow Bio\nIntroduction: Confessions of a Music Trivia Savant\nTag Archives: Thundercat\nThe It's Time to Play B-Sides Top 20 Albums of 2015\nPosted on January 2, 2016 by mike\nWe've made it through another year of music. 2015 was another year of the music industry trying to figure out the future. Heavy hitters like Taylor Swift and Adele removed their music from online streaming services like Spotify\u2013 which might be interpreted as an ego move on both parts. Jay-Z's Tidal enjoyed a bit of press due to Prince releasing two albums exclusively on it, though I still don't know anyone who is using it. Adele's last-quarter release of her much-anticipated 25 album has just surpassed 5 million copies sold. There is a lot of debate about the significance of this as it applies to the general health of the industry. Ultimately, though, I don't think you can use this as any kind of barometer\u2013 certainly not an indicator of \"rebounding.\" One thing is for certain, though, her 50+ date tour in 2016 will be the top grossing.\nIn other re-warmed news, a reformed Grateful Dead with Trey Anastasio as \"Jerry\" played some high-grossing shows in LA and Chicago showing that baby boomers and Gen X'ers are willing to shell out lots of money to recapture even a brief glimpse of their youth. The shows seemed like a fitting celebration of 50 years and a kind of closure to the promise of the remainder of the band getting back together. The following \"Dead and Friends\" tour with John Mayer as \"Jerry\" has been benefiting from the exposure and in my opinion are an improved version of the Dead. His vocals and guitar work are top-notch and add a real polish to the proceedings.\nLooking this list over, it shows that I spent most of 2015 listening to local artists. Iowa has really been stepping up its game for music and we've got some of the best music around. There were a lot of notable releases outside of Iowa, but I just didn't find myself putting any of them on repeat. It says a lot\u2013 you don't have to go far from your back yard to get world-class music.\nLooking over other Best of Lists, I see some albums that I listened to and thought were good, but they just didn't stick with me: The Decemberists \u2013 What A Wonderful World, What A Terrible World, Sufjan Stevens \u2013 Carrie & Lowell, Father John Misty \u2013 I Love You Honeybear, Kendrick Lamar \u2013 To Pimp A Butterfly, Alabama Shakes \u2013 Sound & Color.\nHere is the list in no particular order\u2013\nDickie \u2013 Self Titled : Dick Prall moved back to Iowa and started a new project with Kristina Priceman crafting a wonderful string-wrapped package of retro-inspired pop rock. Somewhere between the Beatles, Roy Orbison and Buddy Holly sits this collection of autobiographical songs with heart.\nYounger \u2013 Self Titled : This one from the new Iowa City band Younger was a late discovery for me, but no less brillant. Former members of The Wandering Bears and Emperors Club have put out a Riot Grrl-ish album that people are drawing comparisons to The Breeders and Bikini Kill. To me it sounds more like Pylon and Throwing Muses. In any event, a fantastic record that I'll be spinning a lot in 2016, I expect.\nCourtney Barnett \u2013 Sometimes I Sit And Think, And Sometimes I Just Sit : Yep. More edgy Riot Grrlish rawk. On almost everyone's list for 2015.\nNathaniel Rateliff and the Night Sweats \u2013 Self Titled : I've been a fan of Nathaniel Rateliff ever since I saw him on the Daytrotter Barnstormer shows back in 2010 along with Delta Spirit. I'm a sucker for his well-crafted folk albums to date, but his transformation into an R&B powerhouse and seeing the nearly-universal embrace of it is pretty unexpected. Fantastic record and the return of Stax Records!\nHoly White Hounds \u2013 Sparkle Sparkle : Des Moines band Holy White Hounds are gaining momentum by word of mouth. These guys make some pretty fantastic rock coupled with a great live show. Kind of 90's throwback metal\/grunge reinvented for the new century.\nPhil Cook \u2013 Southland Mission : Hiss Golden Messenger sideman, member of Megafaun, producer and all-around great guy Phil Cook releases his first solo album with him singing. Due to a stupid security issue at Eaux Claires Festival this year, I missed his set, though it's on YouTube. Rootsy, bluesy gospel-influenced boogie rock. I could put this album on every day and it puts the same dumb grin on my face every time.\nTom Jessen \u2013 Hunting Season : Former Iowa musician Tom Jessen released his first album in years\u2013 and that pent-up potential created what has to be the best snapshot of current American dystopia ever. Pretty damn fantastic portrait of how fucked up things are. LISTEN TO THIS ALBUM.\nHunting Season by tom jessen\nCharlie Parr \u2013 Stumpjumper : Speaking of Phil Cook, he produced the latest album from Minnesota retro blues and folk historian Charlie Parr. He was picked up by Red House Records which is a good home for him. This is the first album he's done with a full band and the fleshing out of his sound really benefits the proceedings. \"Over The Red Cedar\" gives me goosebumps every time I play it.\nCalexico \u2013 Edge of the Sun : Calexico tends to swing back and forth between full-on Latin-influenced albums and albums that lean a little more towards Americana-rock. This one ends up being more the latter. For me, I welcome the changes the band goes through\u2013 continually pushing the identity of what Calexico is.\nRyan Adams \u2013 1989 : I did listen to this one a lot as soon as it appeared. It's a really great album, but it seems like it is just an extension of last years self titled release\u2013 which isn't bad at all. I like it, but I just about didn't include it on the list because, for me anyway, Ryan Adams is a complete musician and songwriter, so I prefer to have more complete work rather than covers. I suppose some of this feeling is due to my relative unawareness of Taylor Swift's blockbuster album it's based on.\nDagmar \u2013 Afterlight : I can't say enough about this Iowa duo. Atmospheric and sublime harmonies with unique counterpoint and rhythm. Jawdroppingly gorgeous album\u2013 somewhere between Philip Glass and Sufjan Stevens sits this baroque choral folk.\nPieta Brown \u2013 Drifters EP : The \"lost\" tracks from 2014's fantastic Paradise Outlaw album. Brown is using this to launch her own \"underground\" imprint Lustre Records. Includes a remix from Justin Vernon!\nThe Pines \u2013 Pasture: Folk Songs EP : A kind of surprise drop from The Pines this year in the form of an EP of covers from Joe Price, Mance Lipscomb, Iris Dement, Mason Jennings & Greg Brown. No new ground broken here, but is a tribute to the songs that The Pines have included in their sets over the years.\nJim Viner's Incredible B3 Band \u2013 COMANGO! : Jim Viner\u2013 Iowa drummer extrordinaire\u2013 assembled a collection of musician friends to create a retro B3-driven album with influences from The Meters and Booker T and the MGs. A really fun album that recalls the pre-Diplomette-vocals days of The Diplomats of Solid Sound. Destined to be part of the soundtrack to a cable TV show near you!\nKamasi Washington \u2013 The Epic \u2013 If I have any complaint about this sprawling masterpiece of Jazz, it's that it can't reasonably be digested in one sitting. But, if you're willing to dedicate the time, this album is impressive in its diversity. I consider myself a fan of Jazz, but I don't listen to much contemporary Jazz as I haven't found much that really keeps my attention. I hope this signals a new generation of jazz artists who are willing to explore and innovate.\nThundercat \u2013 The Beyond\/Where the Giants Roam \u2013 Thundercat works with Flying Lotus and Kamasi Washington, and all three worked on the Kendrick Lamar album How To Pimp A Butterfly \u2014 noted for its adventuresome approach to the music. His short album (16 minutes, but Flying Lotus said it's an album, not an EP) from this year featured him front-and-center singing and leading most of the music with his jazz and funk bass riffs.\nAero Flynn \u2013 Self Titled \u2013 Justin Vernon raves about Josh Scott as a songwriter. After a lot of years not performing music, he comes back with Aero Flynn. Atmospheric and swirling it sounds like a distant cousin of Radiohead when they made more straightforward songs (OK Computer, maybe).\nBeth Bombara \u2013 Self Titled \u2013 Beth is back with her most polished and accomplished record to date. She continues her shuffling, pining folk and country. Dusty and awesome.\nJason Isbell \u2013 Something More Than Free : Brilliant record\u2013 literary and scenic songwriting. Isbell continues to impress with one of the great records from this year\u2013 almost unanimously agreed.\nLyrics Born \u2013 Real People \u2013 Lyric Born has never been shy to work with live band. He did one tour with a full band behind him (documented on the Overnite Encore Live album), he contributed vocals to the 2007 Galactic album From the Corner to the Block. His new album Real People includes members of Galactic as well as a who's who of New Orleans musicians including Ivan Neville, Corey Henry, Trombone Shorty, the Revivalists' David Shaw and the Preservation Hall Jazz Band. Typically upbeat and tongue in cheek the album is a funk overload. Great record\u2013 not sure why more people aren't calling it out (see what I did there?).\nPosted in Bands\/Artists, Music, Out and About, Personal History\t| Tagged 1989, Aero Flynn, Afterlight, Beth Bombara, Calexico, Charlie Parr, Courtney Barnett, Dagmar, dick prall, Dickie, Holy White Hounds, Incredible B3, Iowa City, Jason Isbell, Jim Viner, Kamasi Washington, Lyrics Born, Nathaniel Rateliff, Night Sweats, Phil Cook, Pieta Brown, Real People, ryan adams, The Pines, Thundercat, Tom Jessen, Top 20 of 2015, Younger\t| Leave a reply\nA New R&B Holiday Classic \u2013 Kelly Finnigan \u2013 A Joyful Sound on Colemine Records \u2013 A Deeper Dive (into the snowbank)\n(Upcoming Release) Aimee Mann \u2013 Bachelor No. 2 : 20th Anniversary Edition for Black Friday RSD \u2013 A Deeper Dive\n(Upcoming Release) New West Records Reissues Seminal Pylon Albums and Limited Pylon Box Out 11\/6\/2020 \u2013 A deeper dive\n(Upcoming Release) TWINS \u2013 Dream On \u2013 New single \"So Far Gone\"\n\"Sometimes It Snows In April\" \u2013 Parade (1986) | thisisnotmusicthisisatrip on B-Sides in the Bins #41 \u2013 Wendy & Lisa Interview\nIowa City Weekender: January 28-February 1 | Little Village on Upcoming Show: Mountains at The Picador in Iowa City 2\/1\/10\nJohn C. 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+{"text":"Princess Anicia Juliana\nby fljustice | May 25, 2021 | Essays\/Research, History, Theodosian Women, Wonderful Women\nRoman Princess Anicia Juliana\nPatron of the arts.\n(b. 462 d. 527\/8)\nToday brings us to Princess Anicia Juliana, the last of my Theodosian Women. Although we don't know if she ever received the title noblissima puella (\"Most Noble Girl\"\u2014the Latin title closest to modern \"princess\"), she was the daughter of Emperor Ancius Olybrius and Empress Placidia the Younger. I consider her the last Theodosian because, even though her family continued through several generations among the nobility of the Eastern Constantinople court, Juliana and her descendants identified with her father's ancient Roman family the Anicii rather than the upstart Theodosians from the provinces.\nBorn in the year after her mother and grandmother's release from the Vandals, Juliana led a rich, comfortable, and privileged life. We can assume she was well-educated and grew up on family stories of barbarian invasions, assassinations, and family betrayals; which may have pushed her toward the arts rather than politics. Her father Olybrius died in office of natural causes when she was ten. Her mother Placidia the Younger passed when she was twenty-two and already married. But her grandmother Empress Licinia Eudoxia was there through her early marriage and motherhood, dying at the ripe old age of 71 when Juliana was thirty-three.\nJuliana was considered one of the wealthiest and most aristocratic women of the Constantinople court. The source of her wealth came from both sides of the family. Theodosius provided well for his sons and daughter and the imperial members of the family accumulated additional properties and sources of income which came down to their sole surviving descendant Juliana. In addition, the Anicii were known from the time of the Roman Republic through late imperial times for producing men of distinction and power who held numerous titles such as consul and prefect in each generation\u2013a legacy that was literally crowned with her father's elevation to Emperor.\nIn other words, Juliana was a catch. The man who caught her had the impressive (and redundant) name Flavius Areobindus Dagalaiphus Areobindus. He was a general with a distinguished Gothic and Alan warrior lineage. They married in 478 and had a least one son named after his grandfather Anicius Olybrius. Juliana came close to imperial distinction\u2014twice. During an urban riot in 512, her husband was proclaimed emperor, but he went into hiding (at the urging of Juliana?) to avoid being seen as a usurper. Her son Olybrius, the younger, married Emperor Anastasius I's niece Irene and had imperial ambitions, but was passed over upon the emperor's death when Justinian I took the diadem.\nJuliana seemed to keep her head down in order to not have it cut off. She was best known as one of the first non-reigning female patrons of the arts, particularly in building churches and personally directing their style and adornment. This is noted in the oldest known surviving donor portrait (see image) in history: The Anicia Juliana Codex, an illuminated manuscript copy of Pedanius Dioscrides' De Materia medica\u2014one of the most lavishly illustrated manuscripts still in existence.\nThe illustration shows Juliana enthroned and surrounded by the personifications of Magnanimity and Prudence with a female labeled \"Gratitude of the Arts\" kissing her hand. The historian Theophanes Confessor dates the codex to 512 when the people of Hororatae gave Juliana the codex in gratitude for building a church dedicated to Theotokos (Mother of God) in their town. She died in 527\/8 at age 65\/66 ending the remarkable line of Theodosian women that stretched across six generations and nearly two centuries of turbulent Roman history.\nFun Fact: Juliana is the great granddaughter of Galla Placidia, my protagonist in Twilight Empress. Her husband is the great-grandson of General Aspar who helped Placidia take Western Rome back from a usurper after the death of her brother Honorius. In my story, Aspar has a crush on the charismatic Placidia which he doesn't act on, but he publicly mourns her death in the companion book Dawn Empress. It tickles me that the actual descendants of these two people found each other and married.\nImage of the donor portrait of Anicia Juliana is in the Public Domain, licensed through Creative Commons. https:\/\/commons.wikimedia.org\/w\/index.php?curid=95348025\nEmpress Placidia, the Younger\nRoman Empress Placidia, the Younger\nTaken by the Vandals during the sack of Rome.\n(b. 439\/40, d. 484, Empress July \u2013 November 471)\nEmpress Licinia Eudoxia's second daughter didn't fare much better than her tragic sister, Princess Eudocia. Empress Placidia the Younger, didn't have the chance to live up to her formidable grandmother's reputation. Her reign as Empress of the West lasted only three months and she probably spent those in Constantinople\u2013not enough time to cement the crumbling Western Empire back together. We're well into the beginning of \"The Fall\" of Western Rome which saw nine emperors in twenty-one years with some interregnums.\nWe know little about Placidia the Younger's childhood, but can assume she was well educated and schooled for a future role. Her grandmother Empress Placidia probably had a significant influence on her for the first ten years of her life, if only through her day-to-day example. It's uncertain what influence her father Valentinian exerted, but he didn't live up to his mother's example of good ruler or good Christian. As it became clear that he would have no son, he schemed to use his youngest daughter to secure the succession in the West.\nAfter his mother's death in November 450, Valentinian III turned his resentments toward his most successful general. Aetius had played the barbarians off against one another for over two decades, enjoying enormous favor among the Roman nobles and people, as well as his army. Valentinian knew the Romans wouldn't accept the Vandal Prince Huneric, his eldest daughter's betrothed, as ruler. He looked for a suitable successor\u2014other than Aetius\u2014and landed on Majorian, a talented army man in Aetius' command as a possible husband for Placidia and successor.\nThe General got wind of the possibility and sent the young Majorian home to his estates. Aetius then pressed Valentinian to marry the young princess to his own son Gaudentius. A noble named Petronius Maximus, who had imperial ambitions of his own, whispered to Valentinian that if Placidia married Gaudentius, Aetius had plans to assassinate him and put his son on the throne. Valentinian struck first and killed Aetius. He then recalled Majorian and gave him several honors. Maximus, resentful at being shut out, arranged for Valentinian's assassination in 455.\nImmediately after the emperor's death, the players made their bids for the throne. Empress Eudoxia backed Majorian as Valentinian's choice. Maximus literally took the diadem from the Emperor's dead head and had Aetius' still-resentful army proclaim him Emperor. He forced Eudoxia to marry him and married the Princess Eudocia to his son Palladius.\nThis royally ticked off the Vandals who invaded, sacked Rome, and carried off the Empress, her two daughters, and Gaudentius. Placidia and her mother languished in Carthage for seven years until Leo I of Constantinople ransomed them. Leo's predecessor, Emperor Marcian had tried and failed to get the Empress and princesses released several times. I'm sure they lived in despair of ever being free of their captors.\nWhen they finally arrived in Constantinople, Empress Eudoxia immediately set about finding a suitable husband for her twenty-two year old daughter. She found a man of impeccable Roman lineage and imperial ambitions. Anicius Olybrius had fled the chaos of the West and settled in Constantinople. He and Placidia had a daughter Anicia Juliana in 462.\nOlybrius had his own shot at the diadem in 472. The West had had five emperors in the seventeen years since Valentinian's death. Most were \"appointed\" by the Goth General Ricimer who became the de facto ruler of the West, pulling the strings of his puppet emperors.\nOlybrius must have ticked off the Eastern Emperor at some point because he sent Placidia's husband to the West to be murdered. Ricimer thwarted the assassination and made Olybrius Emperor in July 472. In August, Ricimer died coughing blood and Olybrius died of dropsy in November, leaving Placidia\u2014Empress for three months\u2014in Constantinople with a ten-year-old daughter to raise.\nSide note: Majorian did become emperor in 457 under the sponsorship of Ricimer. He ruled for four years and was generally considered one of the better of the nine short-lived emperors before the West fell. Ricimer grew jealous of his popularity and had him assassinated in 461.\nComing next: Anicia Juliana, Empress Placidia's daughter and the last of the Theodosian Women.\nImage of bust sometimes reputed to be Empress Placidia the Younger, but might be her grandmother Empress Galla Placidia. Available through Creative Commons licensed by Fabian Zubia. In the Public Domain, https:\/\/commons.wikimedia.org\/w\/index.php?curid=1750609\nPrincess Eudoxia, the Younger\nRoman Princess Eudoxia, the Younger\nMarried a Vandal Prince. Mothered a Vandal King.\n(b. 438, d. 466-474?)\nAs we move into the fourth\/fifth generation (things get complicated when cousins marry) of Theodosian Women, the warrior's blood gets thin and the political capabilities get thinner. The eldest child of Valentinian III and Eudoxia followed more in the footsteps of the ineffective Empresses Maria and Thermantia than those of her formidable grandmothers Placidia and Athenais (aka Eudocia). Princess Eudocia's future was traded away at age three in a peace treaty with King Gaeseric following a disastrous war with the Vandals.\nThe combined military might of the Eastern and Western Empire could not oust the Vandals from Northern Africa where they established a vibrant Arian Christian kingdom and persecuted orthodox Nicene (Catholic) Christians. Valentinian ceded the African territory and pledged his baby daughter's hand in marriage to Gaeseric's son Huneric. At that point Valentinian probably expected to have son of his own and his daughter was typical political currency.\nThirteen years later, Maximus assassinated Valentinian and forced the widowed Empress to marry him and Eudocia to marry his son. The Vandals invaded Italy at the request of Empress Eudoxia, sacked Rome for a two full weeks and carried off the twice-widowed Empress and her two daughters to Carthage where they supposedly were treated with great honor\u2014but still held hostage.\nSometime between 455 and 460 the Roman Princess Eudocia, married the Vandal Prince Huneric. It was not a happy marriage and successful only in that they had one child, a son Hilderic born sometime in the early 460's.\nSometime after her son's birth, Eudocia either escaped or got permission to separate from her hated Arian husband. Huneric didn't become King until 477, so Eudocia never ruled the Vandal people as Queen. Her mother and sister had been ransomed by Emperor Leo I of Constantinople in 462 and currently resided there. For some reason (religious? resentment of her mother?), Eudocia decided to relocate to Jerusalem where her maternal grandmother Athenais had property and was buried in 460.\nEudocia's son Hilderic, didn't become King upon his father's death in 484. He didn't want to persecute his mother's co-religionists and the Vandal nobles rejected him in favor of a number of cousins. Hildric finally took the title King of the Vandals and Alans in 523 when he was well into his sixties or seventies. His reign was known for it's good relations with the Constantinople court.\nIt's a sign of her obscurity that there's no image of Eudocia on coins or statuary. The image I use in this post is of \"an unknown young Roman woman.\" There's also some confusion about when she died, but the unfortunate princess died young. The dates range from 466 to 474, well before her mother. She was buried in her grandmother's mausoleum in Jerusalem.\nNext up: Empress Placidia, the Younger, Empress Licinia Eudoxia's second daughter.\nImage of unknown Roman woman licensed through Creative Commons by Jacques Roug\u00e9, mus\u00e9e Saint-Raymond \u2013 Phototh\u00e8que du Mus\u00e9e Saint-Raymond, mus\u00e9e039;arch\u00e9ologie de Toulouse, CC BY-SA 4.0, https:\/\/commons.wikimedia.org\/w\/index.php?curid=84817013\nEmpress Licinia Eudoxia\nRoman Empress Licinia Eudoxia\nMarried the man who murdered her first husband.\n(b. 422, d. 493, Empress 437-455)\nEmpress Licinia Eudoxia (named after her infamous grandmother Aelia Eudoxia) was two when her parents betrothed her to her five-year-old western cousin (once removed) Valentinian III. As was customary, this was a political arrangement.\nEmpress Placidia, exiled from her brother's court in Ravenna on trumped up treason charges, had taken refuge with her children in Constantinople at her nephew Theodosius II's court. The old feud between his father Arcadius and Placidia made things a bit chilly between the two imperial families, but they soon thawed when Honorius suddenly died and a usurper took the Western throne. The descendants of Theodosius I couldn't tolerate an outsider taking over part of the Roman Empire. Theodosius recognized Placidia's son Valentinian's right to rule as co-Emperor in the West, declared Placidia regent, and provided troops to oust the usurper. To seal the deal, he agreed to marry his daughter Eudoxia to Valentinian.\nEudoxia disappears from the record for several years but we can assume she grew up observing the strife caused by her parent's losses and her aunt Pucheria's extreme religiosity. Athenais most certainly saw that her beloved daughter was educated in Greek and Latin literature. Theodosius and Pulcheria probably stamped her with strong Christian values. By the time of her marriage in October 437, she may have been eager to move to her husband's court\u2014or not. We have no insight into her life at this time, but as a beautiful young girl of fifteen she might very well have fallen in love with her handsome husband. They had two children, both girls: Eudocia the Younger born in 438 and Placidia the Younger (named after their grandmothers) born in 439 or 440. As part of a peace treaty with the Vandal King Gaeseric, young Eudocia was betrothed to his son Huneric.\nUnfortunately, Valentinian had a bad rep for being a rake and most certainly disappointed his Christian bride. Eudoxia was pregnant or recovering from birth for the first three years of their marriage, giving him ample opportunity to play the field. There were no more pregnancies. There are tons of possible reasons for this. Eudoxia might have rejected him for his infidelities or used contraception. She might have sustained some injury while giving birth that kept her from conceiving. Valentinian might have grown tired of his religious bride or contracted some disease that impaired his sexual function or hers. We'll never know the true reason, but it had significant consequences. The male line of Theodosius died with Valentinian's death by assassination in March 455. His cousin Theodosius II had died five years earlier from a fall from a horse.\nMeanwhile, Western Rome fell into chaos. Placidia had held the Western empire together until her death in 450. The Roman General Flavius Aetius defeated the Huns at Chalons in 451 to great acclaim and joy from the Roman populace. A jealous Valentinian personally assassinated Aetius in 454 which, in turn, brought on his own assassination by Aetius' supporters in 455.\nIt's generally acknowledged that a Roman nobleman named Petronius Maximus orchestrated the deaths of both men, then immediately claimed the widowed empress as his bride. He forced Eudoxia to marry him giving Maximus a legitimate claim to the diadem. He then proceeded to consolidate that connection by marrying seventeen-year-old Eudocia to his son Palladius, considerably angering the jilted Vandals.\nEmpress Eudoxia did not submit willingly. She had several examples of imperial women fighting back during her lifetime. Unfortunately for Rome, she chose Honoria's and called on King Gaeseric for assistance in rescuing his perspective daughter-in-law. Unlike the Huns, the Vandals were successful. They invaded from Northern Africa, thoroughly sacked Rome, carrying off anything of value including Eudoxia, her daughters, and Aetius' son Gaudentius.\nAn angry Roman mob murdered Maximus and likely his son as they tried to escape the oncoming destruction. Emperor Leo I of Constantinople ransomed Eudoxia and her youngest daughter Placidia from the Vandals seven years later in 462. Eudoxia died a rich widow at age 71 in the city of her birth. The fate of her oldest daughter is the subject of my next post\nNext: Princess Eudocia the Younger, consort to a Vandal prince.\nMedallion image licensed by Creative Commons By Clio20, CC BY-SA 3.0, https:\/\/commons.wikimedia.org\/w\/index.php?curid=596551\nEmpress Justa Grata Honoria\nRoman Empress Justa Grata Honoria\nAttila the Hun invaded Rome for her hand.\n(b. 418, d. 452-455?, Empress 426-450)\nEmpress Honoria is another of my favorite Theodosian Women. First born to Empress Placidia and Emperor Constantius III, she led a troubled life with a couple significant mysteries. She grew up in the shadow of her mother ruling in the West and with the example of her aunt Pulcheria ruling in the East. By all accounts she was intelligent, ambitious, beautiful, and probably bored and frustrated. She had to sit on the sidelines as her feckless younger brother Valentinian (guided by their mother Placidia) ruled the roost. Honoria was forbidden to marry because her spouse might be a threat to her brother\u2014the same reason her cousins Pulcheria, Arcardia, and Marina (voluntarily) became celibate.\nSo what's a rich bored girl to do? Honoria had an affair with her chamberlain Eugenius and likely got pregnant. Rumors that she conspired with her lover to overthrow her brother reached Valentinian. He had Eugenius executed, Honoria betrothed to a \"safe\" roman noble Herculanus Bassus, and shipped her off to Constantinople to live under the austere tutelage of Pulcheria and her chaste women. The child's fate is unknown.\nThe historical mystery lies in when this happened. One ancient historian claims Honoria was only sixteen and she was exiled to Pulcheria's court for fourteen years. Another seems to indicate she was thirty or thirty-one when sent to Constantinople and immediately engaged in a second treasonous act. Modern historians split on the dates. My personal preference is for the later date. It makes for a better story.\nThe scorned Empress Honoria did not go quietly into exile. In 450, she sent money and a ring to King Attila of the Huns asking for his assistance in preventing the hated marriage to Bassus. Attila claimed this was a proposal of marriage and demanded half of Western Rome as Honoria's dowry. He threatened invasion on her behalf. Emperor Theodosius sent Honoria back to his cousin with the advice to hand her over to the Hunnish king and let her live out her days as one of his many wives.\nFurious, Valentinian stripped Honoria of her titles and threatened execution. Only Placidia's pleas saved her daughter's life. Valentinian married her off to Bassus who kept her under close guard. He was rewarded with the 452 consulship. Attila continued to demand Honoria's hand in marriage several times during the next two years, so we can assume she was still alive during that period.\nValentinian informed Attila that Honoria was married to another and that she had no portion of rule in the empire. However, the Hunnish King used that as an excuse (among others) to invade the Roman Empire. After destroying the city of Aquileia, the Huns fell victim to a plague and retreated. Attila died at his own wedding to another bride in 453\nThe second mystery is when and how Honoria died. There is no mention of her in the record after 452. She's not among the imperial hostages taken by the Vandals in 455, so historians assume she died sometime between those dates. However, she wasn't necessarily present in Rome during the sack. Bassus could have kept her in close confinement at a remote\/rural property.\nAfter Placidia's death in late 450, Valentinian may have taken the opportunity to rid himself of his troublesome sister. Or Honoria might have died of natural causes anytime after 452. I proposed a more fanciful end for the wayward Empress Honoria in Twilight Empress. That's the fun part of writing historical fiction\u2013filling in the blanks.\nFun facts: Sophia Loren played Honoria in a 1954 movie starring Anthony Quinn as the titular Attila. A 2001 two-part TV series also called Attila starred Gerard Butler as the Hunish king and Kirsty Mitchell as the lasvicious Honoria.\nNext up: Empress Licinia Eudoxia, Athenais' beloved daughter and Honoria's sister-in-law.\nImage of Empress Justa Grata Honoria on a coin available through Creative Commons licensed by Classical Numismatic Group, https:\/\/commons.wikimedia.org\/w\/index.php?curid=308162\nEmpress Aelia Eudocia (Athenais)\nRoman Empress Aelia Eudocia (Athenais)\nLove story or political pawn?\n(b. 400\/1, d. 460, Empress 421-460)\nEmpress Aelia Eudocia married Empress Pulcheria's brother Theodosius II. She was born Athenais, the only daughter of a pagan Greek philosopher named Leontius who taught at the Academy in Athens. He educated his daughter and she later became known for her poetry and literature, some of which survives today. Athenais is also the protagonist in my work in progress\u2014the third book in the Theodosian Women series. How did a beautiful, but poor, pagan girl attract the attention of the Most Christian Emperor Theodosius II?\nThe fanciful love story some ancient historians (writing a hundred years after the fact) tell goes like this: When Leontius died, he left his fortune to his sons Gessius and Valerius leaving only one hundred coins to Athenais because \"her good fortune, surpassing that of all other women, will be enough.\" (The assumption being that \"good fortune\" in this phrase refers to her beauty.) She asked her brothers to share, but they refused.\nAthenais then went to Constantinople to live with an aunt and uncle and take her case to a higher magistrate. Supposedly, Empress Pulcheria observed Athenais make her case and was impressed, not only with the girl's beauty, but her brains and elocution. Since she was on the lookout for a suitable wife for her brother she brought Athenais to his attention and it was love at first sight.\nAthenais was baptized and took the Christian name Aelia Eudocia in tribute to Theodosius' mother. (An aside: She used her Christian name only on formal occasions. She preferred Athenais among her family and intimate associates. I use Athenais to break up the Eudoxia\/Eudocia confusing line of names.) In the love story, her wicked brothers fled after hearing she was marrying the Emperor, thinking Athenais would punish them. She recalled them and showered them with honors, showing her Christian charity and forgiveness for their sins. And everyone lived happily ever after\u2014a romantic rags to riches story with moral themes to suit the times.\nKenneth G. Holum in his Theodosian Empresses: Women and Imperial Dominion in Late Antiquity tells a more probable story. The Hellene faction, including Theodosius' boyhood friend Paulinus, were likely behind finding a more secular bride to counter Pulcheria's strict religious influence at court. Pulcheria certainly wouldn't want a sister-in-law who came with a raft of male relatives that could rival her own influence with her brother or even challenge him for the throne. Valerius, Gessius, and the uncle were given high offices and honors just before the wedding and for years after.\nThe previously pagan Athenais and saintly Pulcheria continued to clash over myriad political policies and church doctrine, but primarily over the big prize: influence over Theodosius. The fact that Athenais could produce a son gave her a leg up on Pulcheria until it became clear that no male heir was forthcoming. Athenais gave birth to one child who survived into adulthood, a daughter Licinia Eudoxia. A second daughter Flacilla died in childhood, and a son Arcadius was still born or died in early infancy snuffing Athenais' fertility as a source of power.\nBut Athenais was smart as well as pretty. She learned the ins and outs of court politics and learned to wield her own sources of power which shifted over the years. How she did that and her fate at court is the subject of my next book. Watch for it!\nComing next: Empress Justa Grata Honoria, Placidia's wayward daughter.\nImage of mosaic showing Empress Aelia Eudocia (Athenais) licensed as Creative Commons By Elena Chochkova \u2013 Own work, CC BY-SA 3.0, https:\/\/commons.wikimedia.org\/w\/index.php?curid=4485258","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
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+{"text":"Home Law United States law and policy on transitional justice : principles, politics, and pragmatics\nImplicit Unconditional Amnesty\nThe USG resisted sending troops into the Balkans to arrest suspected atrocity perpetrators, even after many of those suspects were indicted by the ICTY. In a policy described by Carl Bildt, the former prime minister of Sweden who served as the civilian representative under the Dayton peace accords on Bosnia, as \"benign neglect,\"110 the USG refused to command its forces to apprehend these individuals, despite having as many as 60,000 of its own and NATO troops already deployed in the Balkans.111 During this time, Karadzic, Milosevic, Mladic, and other suspected atrocity perpetrators remained in office or in hiding.112\nUSG officials insisted that prevailing orders required that if any of their troops \"encounter people who they know to be indicted war criminals they are to detain them for transfer to civilian authority so they may be arrested and then turned over to The Hague for prosecution.\"113 Some observers argued that this particular mandate prevented the USG and its allies from more aggressively pursuing indicted war criminals.114 Others note that the passive arrest policy was rooted in fear of provoking violence among the local population, especially toward American and other NATO peacekeepers themselves.115 Consequently, when NATO (including U.S. troops) did not confront an indicted war criminal, which was most of the time, those individuals remained free. Similarly, NATO left other indicted war criminals, such as Milosevic, who held high office, to carry out their business.","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
+{"text":"DOCS DOCKED\nMedics quit as Scots island's only specialist kids' doctors over \u00a315,000 unpaid wages row\nThomas Hornall\nA COUPLE quit as an island's only specialist kids' doctors after a \u00a315,000 unpaid wages row.\nTushar and Antima Banerjee lost out on \u00a345-an-hour overtime as a boss thought they would do it for free.\nDrs Tushar and Antima Banerjee quit as the Isle of Lewis' only specialist children's doctors over \u00a315k unpaid wages\nThe paediatricians left Western Isles Hospital in Stornoway, Lewis, over the \"unlawful\" error.\nThe medical couple were the only child health specialists working at the hospital on the island, which is home to around 20,000 people, between August 2018 and December 2020.\nBut Mr Banerjee was awarded \u00a37,538, and his wife \u00a37,895, as a tribunal ruled Western Isles Health Board had breached their contracts.\nThe judgement said Dr Frank McAuley, the then-new medical director, was unfamiliar with their terms of employment.\nDue to a mix-up, he thought they weren't due overtime between March and September 2020.\nThe experienced consultants then quit to work for NHS England in the East Midlands.\nStrict hospitality rules finally lifted as vaccine passport updated\nEmployment judge Brian Campbell said there had been an \"unlawful deduction\".\nHe added: \"The respondent breached the claimants' respective contracts of employment by not paying them for out-of-hours work.\n\"The respondent also made an unlawful deduction from the claimants' pay.\n\"Clearly the central issues arose out of a combination of circumstances involving the arrival of Dr McAuley in post just as the Covid-19 pandemic was taking hold.\n'UNLAWFUL DEDUCTION'\n\"The lack of detailed job plans for the claimants did not help.\n\"The respondent is liable to pay the claimants the revised net amounts sought, which can be categorised both as damages for breach of contract and as compensation for an unlawful deduction from wages.\"\nScottish Labour's health spokeswoman Jackie Baillie said it was a \"worrying ruling\" which raised \"serious questions for the health board\".\nTesco workers to strike days before Christmas\nShe added: \"It is difficult enough for rural health boards to recruit without driving out and short-changing staff.\n\"This case must act as a wake-up call for the board.\"\nAnd Lib Dem rural communities spokeswoman Molly Nolan warned that people living in more remote areas \"should not be disadvantaged\" by the saga.\nNHS Western Isles insisted it provides \"24 hour, seven days a week paediatrician availability\".\nthomas.hornall@thesun.co.uk\nShop worker sensationally quits job over the TANNOY \u2013 slamming his 'Lucifer' colleagues in sweary rant\nNHS Scotland\nGANGSTER GRANNIES\nGlasgow grans jailed for dealing after being snared with \u00a324k of cocaine\nHissy fit\nTerrified Scots schoolboy 'chased by large venomous snake' at football pitches","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
+{"text":"Despite some lack of trust in the Honduran government, Miamians to send supplies after Eta\nBy Jimena Tavel, Miami Herald on Nov 14, 2020\nPublished in Weather News\nMIAMI \u2014 Comparing the massive destruction Hurricane Eta caused in Honduras last week to that of Hurricane Dorian in the Bahamas in 2019 and that of Hurricane Maria in Puerto Rico in 2017, Miami Mayor Francis Suarez pleaded with South Floridians on Friday for supplies to send to the wrecked Central American country, which has another hurricane brewing on the horizon.\n\"What we're seeing in Honduras today is a tragedy,\" said Suarez at a news conference held at Miami Fire Station 7 in Little Havana. \"So we're asking all Miamians to do what they've always done, to really search deep in themselves and to compassionately donate.\"\nEta, an \"extremely severe\" Category 4 storm with winds as strong as 140 mph, first rammed into Nicaragua Nov. 3 and then pummeled across Honduras, gravely affecting 16 out of 18 of its departments.\nThe hurricane, the worst natural disaster for Honduras in more than two decades, has killed 62 people so far and displaced tens of thousands. Some people are still missing or are incommunicado, and rescue missions are still under way. Millions still don't have power or access to clean water.\nThe already bleak situation, described by Hondurans as a \"humanitarian catastrophe,\" could soon worsen if, as experts predict, another hurricane arrives soon. Tropical Storm Iota, which formed in the central Caribbean Sea Friday afternoon, could deliver even more devastation early next week as a major hurricane, after making landfall in La Mosquitia in the eastern coast of Honduras.\nOn Friday, Suarez spoke in front of a firetruck with Honduran leaders in South Florida, including the Jose Roberto Diaz Aleman, the general consul of Honduras in Miami, and Brenda Betancourt, the president of the Calle 8 Inter-American Chamber of Commerce.\n\"We're just going to drop it off to make sure it gets there and then come back,\" said Betancourt, a native of La Ceiba. \"Whatever you have at home that is not being used and that you think you can donate, please bring. Just touch your heart.\"\nNonprofits and groups of people across the U.S. have already sent donations to Honduras. Other countries, like Colombia, the United Kingdom and Taiwan, have also helped.\nHowever, Hondurans inside and outside the country have raised concerns about the country's customs process and how public officials have distributed the much-needed provisions, citing unnecessary bureaucracy and questionable protocols.\nIris Verdial, who migrated from Tela to Miami about 30 years ago, said she plans to donate to the Miami fire stations, even though she has no trust in the Honduran authorities. She said she still recalls how months after Hurricane Mitch, Hondurans found large containers abandoned in the northern coast with supplies that were never handed out.\nAlthough she lost her job at a local hospital because of the pandemic, Verdial said she already did a Costco run for items to send to her home country. She gave them to a friend who organized the drive. She added that her friend in Miami and her sister in Alabama had to pay for private transportation to send the boxes.\n\"The government is offering to take it for free to Honduras, but who knows if it will actually get there or if when they deliver them, they'll claim it's from the government instead of us,\" Verdial said.\nWhen asked about that, Diaz Aleman said the government tries to ensure all humanitarian aid can be used before allowing it inside the country.\n\"We have our process, like all other countries, to check that all products and medicines entering are in perfect condition. Can you imagine if an expired medicine caused someone's death?\" he said.\nHe suggested anyone who has \"the tiniest doubt\" about how the products will be distributed can donate money directly to Hondurans or send it through other organizations, like churches.\nKaren Pineda, a resident of El Hatillo, a mountainous community in Tegucigalpa, described the Honduran government customs regulations as \"the cherry on top of the sundae.\"\nShe cited a controversy earlier this week that erupted after the government of El Salvador tried to send 124 trucks full of humanitarian aid but couldn't get across the border, because the Honduran immigration authorities said they didn't have the necessary paperwork. The next day, the trucks went through and hundreds of Hondurans celebrated with fireworks and a caravan at the border, according to local reports.\n\"This is scandalous,\" said the owner of an events business. \"The government should be speeding up the customs process, not the opposite. If it wasn't for the private sector and for other citizens, for the international aid, this country would be lost.\"\nThat sentiment has been echoed by many in Honduras, who have adopted as their motto the popular Latin American saying \"Solo el pueblo salva al pueblo,\" or \"Only the people save the people.\"\n(c)2020 Miami Herald\nMore Weather News\nTropical Storm Iota, 30th storm of historic season, expected to strengthen into hurricane\nWeather News \/ November 14, 2020\nFORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. \u2014 This has already been the most active hurricane season in recorded history, but 2020 isn't done yet. 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+{"text":"The Mountain Knows No Expert\nGeorge Evanoff, Outdoorsman and Contemporary Hero\nMike Nash\nThe Mountain Knows No Expert epitomizes George Evanoff's philosophy towards the outdoors, while presenting an intriguing contrast with the man himself. Widely regarded as an \"expert,\" he was a knowledgeable, experienced, and practical outdoorsman, teacher, and mentor, yet ironically lost his life in the mountains in an encounter with a grizzly. Son of a Macedonian immigrant family, George was raised in Alberta, and went on to become a mountaineer, guide, avalanche specialist, and pioneer in ecotourism in British Columbia's North Rockies.\nThe many themes embedded in Evanoff's life experiences encompass self-propelled backcountry travel, outdoor safety, avalanche safety and rescue, ski patrol leader, exploration and discovery, outdoor ethics, and public involvement with respect to land and resource use. George Evanoff was honoured in several tangible ways after his death, culminating in the naming of Evanoff Provincial Park in the Hart Ranges of the Rockies.\nDundurn Press Limited\nMore Books by Mike Nash\nOutdoor Safety & Survival\nHandbook of Public Protection","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
+{"text":"Taiwan Industry Updates \/ Auto Parts & Accessories \/ Insiders' Views\nIndustry In-Focus\nInsiders' Views\nOmniEyes' AI Technology Paves the Way for Traditional Industries' Digital Transition\nDec 15, 2020 | By Tingyu Chao\nThe COVID-19 pandemic has accelerated the industries' timeline for implementing digital transformation. However, the how's and what's of applying new technologies and improving the added value to existing products and services can be daunting.\nThree professors from the National Taiwan University College of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science founded the startup company \"OmniEyes,\" basing their core technology on automated AI image detection and analysis and machine learning capabilities to monitor street view footage from dashcams. The technology allows for on-time analysis and street view detection, advancing imaging data, and traffic.\nHaving accumulated over a decade of experience in their respective fields, OmniEyes CEO and Cofounder Chun-Ting Chou remarked that coming out to found a startup is an advantage with their academic background. Such a company would have a more robust and forward-thinking R&D capability, Chou said.\nOmniEyes began as a project under an initiative Ministry of Science and Technology in 2018. Its promising results propelled the team to seek out investors and found the company \"OmniEyes.\" Two years have passed since its inception, OmniEyes now has two mature services built on its core technologies of AI automated imaging detection and machine learning-- MyFleet and CityWatcher, with a third product slated for launch next year.\nIn recent years, the emergence of competitors like UBER and Food Panda, and changing consumer behavior, such as the \"stay-at-home economy,\" have traditional industries such as taxi services and logistics on edge. Take one of OmniEyes' clients, for example, Taiwan Pelican Express, which employed MyFleet on its vehicle fleet. With the AI imaging capabilities fitted inside the dashcam on the delivery trucks, the equipment would capture the delivery drivers' footage, and MyFleet software would extract the data from the video to determine situations, such as whether the drivers have been driving dangerously or other applications.\nOmniEyes CEO and Co-Founder Chun-Ting Chou. (Photo courtesy of OmniEyes)\nMyFleet can serve as a consulting basis, Chou said, as vehicle fleets can use the footage to counsel the drivers when dangerous driving occurs. On the other hand, the software offers more precise, accurate fleet management, helping pinpoint potential or existing traffic issues to improve or maintain a company's brand image.\nOther applications of the data derived from MyFleet can benefit the drivers as well. Chou said most workers seeking jobs could outline their working experiences on a resume. However, for logistics companies, hiring a new driver could be a gamble, as they do not have an objective assessment of a potential driver's abilities. Through MyFleet's data, Chou said drivers could create their own drivers' resume.\nA New Page for Video Footage and the Traditional Industry\nHow would one turn applications of video information from a passive to a proactive process? The second product under OmniEye's umbrella is CityWatcher, often used conjunctively with MyFleet. Using CityWatcher allows those who have the MyFleet system to employ the fleet's dashcam footage and create a real-time video database, Chou said, considering it one of the better advantages over its competition, Google Street View. Chou pointed out that their images are often one to even two years old due to Google Street View fleet size, leading to slower updates. However, with so many delivery trucks on the road each day throughout Taiwan, Chou said this helps create a video database that provides timely data.\nUnlike GPS navigation, CityWatcher can auto-detect and analyze dashcam footage of road conditions. Another application of CityWatcher could pave the way for governments to use the footage data and keep track of public infrastructure maintenance conditions or construction progresses.\nCreating such a footage database has a huge potential for consumer applications as well. Chou said they are working on the OMNI APP, built on CityWatcher's foundations and slated for release in 2021. The idea of OMNI APP is to fit CityWatcher into a user's smartphone, turning it into a smarter version of Google Street View. Aside from the usual audio navigation, Chou said they are also working on visual navigation functions, which would point out road signs on the screen to help drivers quickly find indicators to turn.\nEasing the Digital Transition\nTraditional industries looking to implement digital transition in their business models have an uphill battle ahead. Chou pointed out that costs among the top concerns, as the equipment suitable for newer technologies can be costly. However, more precise management and warding off future competitors with better technology are both attractive factors that can persuade clients quickly enough.\nOne of the contributing elements that make OmniEyes' job easier is that Taiwan is known for its hardware prowess. They are currently working with several hardware suppliers to test and certify software compatibilities to fulfill clients' needs for smooth hardware and software integration. 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+{"text":"school term dates 2021\nAll content is available under the Open Government Licence v3.0, except where otherwise stated, Find before and after school and holiday clubs, Education and attendance information from your council, Coronavirus (COVID-19): guidance and support, Transparency and freedom of information releases. 2021\/22; Setting school term dates; 2020\/21 *Please note that these dates are those recommended by the Local Authority. School term dates and holidays. Christmas holiday: 22 December 2021 - 4 January 2022. The information below is relevant to Western Australia state schools. To help us improve GOV.UK, we'd like to know more about your visit today. School term dates: 2020 to 2021. ... during term time. Don't worry we won't send you spam or share your email address with anyone. For instance, it is common for the first day back at school to be a Tuesday for students rather than the Monday. Last updated: 12 February 2020. Friday. Friday 18 December 2020. February. Term 1. starts between Monday 1 February and Tuesday 9 February; ends Friday 16 April; Term 2. 2021. to. Staff meetings and INSET: Tuesday 1st and Wednesday 2nd September. Find your child's school term, half term and holiday dates on your local council's website. Also \u2026 School Terms for 2021 *The last day of the final school term for schools which will be used as venues for the GCE O Level written examinations will be Friday, 29 October 2021. The information below is relevant to South Australia state schools. Students start the school year on Monday 1 February 2021 and end the school year on Thursday 16 December 2021. Term 1 \u2013 New students start school on Monday 1 February 2021. Documents. Term dates \/ holidays Year 2020 \/ 2021: Planning and preparation days will take place at the start of term to review risk assessments to be assured that individual schools can welcome pupils back safely. Term 1 concludes on Thursday 1 April 2021. Download 2021 to 2022 printable calendar. School holiday dates. Second Half Autumn Term. Starts. We'll send you a link to a feedback form. School term and holiday dates vary across the UK. Check how the new Brexit rules affect you. Autumn Term 2020. Check if your child attends an urban or remote school. Note that the dates below represent official term dates however many schools elect to start the students back on slightly different dates. Term dates for urban and remote schools differ at the beginning and end of the school year. Pupils spend 190 days (38 weeks) in school each year; 5 of the 195 days are reserved for training teachers and support staff. Spring Holidays 2021. School term and holiday dates vary across the UK. 2021 to 2022 Northamptonshire term dates (PDF 280KB) Academic year 2022 to 2023 proposed dates . 2021. Half term. February. Find your child's school term, half term and holiday dates on your local council's website. January. Christmas holiday. Here you can find the dates for all School Holidays 2021 in the UK per country Summer Holidays Autumn Holidays Christmas Holidays Spring Holidays Easter Holidays May Holidays. Half term holiday: 25 October 2021 - 29 October 2021. \u2026 2021 SA SCHOOL HOLIDAY INFO. Teachers commence on Friday 29 January 2021 (Pupil free day). School term dates and holidays for academic year 2020 to 2021 for community and voluntary controlled schools in Essex In addition to the dates below, each school can award an extra inset day for its students\/pupils, in order to facilitate a Professional Development Day (PDD). Some specific groups of learners might need to be prioritised during the first two weeks of term and a 'phasing in' approach taken. To view the term dates 2019-2021, please click here. Term dates for 2021 Autumn term. Half term holiday: 14 February 2022 - 18 February 2022 Independent and Catholic schools do base their terms on the state school dates but their term dates can vary from school to school. There are 195 school days in each year (39 weeks). Boarders term dates The information below is relevant to NSW state schools. Independent and Catholic schools do base their terms on the state school dates but their term dates can vary from school to school. Public and school holiday dates. Monday. Our school term dates and holidays from Autumn 2019 to Summer 2021 can be found here. Term dates include school development days at the start of Terms 1, 2 and 3, and the last 2 days of the school year in NSW public schools. School year 2020 to 2021. Holidays and mandatory half-days are statutory requirements for state and integrated schools and kura. Attached files. Get ahead of the curve by finding out when the school holidays are for 2021. 2021 WA SCHOOL HOLIDAY INFO. All schools \u2013 27 April, 28 April, 20 July, 17 December, 18 December 2020. The school year starts in September. If your child attends a non-government school, you must check the term dates with the school. We use cookies to collect information about how you use GOV.UK. The term dates for both divisions are identical with the exception of term 1. Next school year (2021\/22) Start of term: 1 September 2021. There are six school development days where students do not attend: Two of these days are before the school year starts for students, and one day is \u2026 School Calendar - January 2021 Please note: Training dates will be decided by the individual school within their consortium. It is also common for students to finish term 4 in the days prior to the final Friday. Schools will advise parents and carers of this additional PDD day. Dates will be added once made available. Monday 26 October 2020 to Friday 30 October 2020. Gunbalanya School has flexible term dates to recognise activities in the community. The next school holiday is Spring half-term holiday. 2021 Spring term Term starts Wednesday 6 January Half \u2026 We use this information to make the website work as well as possible and improve government services. Independent and Catholic schools do base their terms on the state school dates but their term dates can vary from school to school. School Year 2020 to 2021 Autumn Term 2020 There is then a short break before returning for final exams (HSC) which start mid-October and end around the same time in November. Absence from School. You've accepted all cookies. You should check directly with the relevant school to find out the correct term date information. In NSW term dates are broken into Eastern Division and Western Division. Term starts: Monday 4 January Half term: Monday 15 February - Friday 19 February Term ends: Thursday \u2026 Tue 20 Jul 2021 \u2013 Fri 24 Sep 2021 Colleges start on Mon 19 July. Here you find the dates for the Spring Holidays 2021 \u2026 Friday 27 November (INSET DAY) Friday 18 December (INSET DAY) Christmas Holiday: Monday 21 December 2020 - Friday 1 January 2021 You should check directly with the relevant school to find out the correct term date information. School term dates 2020\/21 (PDF 6.23Kb) Opening in a new window . For all enquiries regarding these dates please contact the school . Term and school holiday dates calendar 2020-2021 (pdf format, 100Kb) Term and school holiday dates calendar 2021-2022 (pdf format, 100Kb) School term and holiday dates are determined in accordance with the legal requirement, which require that there should be 190 pupil days and 5 teacher available for work days (INSET days). Monday 2 November - Friday 18 December. Friday December 18, 2020 - Monday January 25, 2021 Term 1 Tuesday January 26 - Wednesday March 31, 2021 The first day of term 1 is a student free day. However, please note the Boarding Houses are generally open during term time and closed from the afternoon of the last day of term. First day: Thursday 3rd September Half term: Saturday 17th October to Sunday 1st November Term ends: Wednesday 16th December This page provides the term dates for all States schools until July 2024. For specific dates and times for Boarders to use when making travel plans for each Term please click on the link below. Part of: School terms, holidays and closures; First published: 12 February 2020. 19. Each school is responsible for nominating its own non-pupil dates and occasional holidays. 2021 Queensland term dates ; Term: Date: Length: Term 1: Wednesday 27 January\u2013Thursday 1 April: 10 weeks: Term 2: Monday 19 April\u2013Friday 25 June: 10 weeks: Term 3 The consultation on term dates for the 2022 to 2023 school year is now closed Term 4 2021 Mon 11 Oct 2021 \u2013 Thu 16 Dec 2021 Check with your college to confirm finish date. Year 12 only goes for 3 terms and graduate late September\/early October. Approved school term dates 2021 to 2022. Don't include personal or financial information like your National Insurance number or credit card details. 15. School Holidays 2020 School Holidays 2022 >. Summer holiday: 23 July 2021 - 31 August 2021. So planning ahead for 2021 seems to be at the front of most plans with the hope that fewer travel restrictions will be in place. Inset day: Tuesday 1 September (students are not in school) Term starts: Wednesday 2 September (students return) Half term: Monday 26 October - Friday 30 October Term ends: Friday 18 December Holiday: Monday 21 December - Friday 1 January Spring Term 2021. Friday, 2 April 2021: Sunday, 18 April 2021 Term 2: Monday, 19 April 2021: Friday, 25 June \u2026 Term 2 \u2013 Monday 19 April to Friday 25 June 2021; Term 3 \u2013 Monday 12 July to Friday 17 September 2021 2021. to. The term dates relate to all schools within the Berkhamsted School's Group. Term Dates for 2020-2022. It will take only 2 minutes to fill in. Tuesday 1 September 2020. Term Time: Monday 7 June 2021 to Wednesday 21 July 2021 These Term Dates are published by City of Wolverhampton Council following consultation. Find a postcode on Royal Mail's postcode finder. Local authorities agreed the dates with schools and provided them to Welsh Ministers. For the 2021 to 2022 academic year, the dates of all five teacher training days will now be set by Northamptonshire schools. Monday. Friday, 2 April 2021: Sunday, 18 April 2021: Term 2: Monday, 19 April 2021: Friday, 25 June 2021: 10 weeks: School Holidays: Saturday, 26 June 2021: Sunday, 11 July 2021: Term 3: Monday, 12 July 2021: Friday, 17 September 2021: 10 weeks: School Holidays: Saturday, 18 September 2021: Monday, 4 October 2021: Term 4* Tuesday, 5 October 2021: Friday, 17 December 2021: 10 weeks: School \u2026 PDF School year 2020 to 2021 .ics (for Outlook, calendar apps) Spring term. If, under exceptional circumstances, parents wish to take pupils out of school at the beginning or end of a term or a half term, contact should be made with Mr Martin Davies, Pastoral Director in good time preferably at least three weeks before the proposed absence. Ends. Visit the school information website to find individual school term dates for 2020\/21. Download options. 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+{"text":"Rockets news: James Harden says Houston hasn't done anything yet\nBruno Manrique\nThe Houston Rockets are coming off a franchise-first clinching of the top seed in the West, following a Golden State Warriors loss to the Milwaukee Bucks \u2014 but to MVP frontrunner James Harden, the team hasn't done much yet without their regular season accolades translating to the playoffs.\n\"It's good. Our main focus is keeping guys healthy and making sure we're ready to go,\" Harden said, according to Jonathan Feigen of The Houston Chronicle. \"I think our focus level is always there because we haven't done anything yet. Just making sure we're healthy, making sure each guy has a rhythm and a good feeling going into the post-season.\"\nThe Rockets have smashed their previous season record of 55 wins, having won 61 with seven games left in the season. To top it off, Houston is on yet another double-digit victory run, having won 10 straight heading into tonight's game against the Phoenix Suns.\nYet despite all the glamour that has come with this splendid season, the Rockets are viewed as flameouts during the postseason, seemingly getting closer every time, but unable to close the deal when it counts.\n\"We've been together all year so we know what to expect from each other,\" said Harden. \"No matter who we play, it's going to be that same mentality. I think that's going to help us in the post-season because it doesn't change for us.\"\nSecuring the top seed and home court advantage throughout the entire postseason is a start, giving them the edge over any team in the league, but this core will have to test their mettle with a very competitive West before any championship aspirations come within grasp.\nThe post Rockets news: James Harden says Houston hasn't done anything yet appeared first on ClutchPoints.","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
+{"text":"Confederate memorial almost ready in East Texas town draws concern, 'but we can't stop it'\nCity: 'We can't stop' Confed. memorial\nORANGE - A Confederate memorial with flags and columns will soon stand on private property on Interstate 10 despite objections from some local residents in the East Texas city of Orange.\nFunded by the Sons of Confederate Veterans, the memorial will feature 32 waving flags representing Texas regiments of the Confederate army, along with 13 columns for each Confederate state.\nThe columns already stand on land near Interstate 10, visible to drivers entering Texas from Louisiana.\n\"I don't like it. I think it's a bad idea,\" Orange City Attorney Jack Smith told the Beaumont Enterprise in a story published Sunday.\nWhile some residents complained about allowing the memorial to go forward, city officials said they could not have stopped the memorial without inviting a lawsuit.\n\"Sometimes we don't like somebody's free speech,\" Smith said. \"But we can't stop it.\"\nOrange is 100 miles east of Houston.\nMarshall Davis, a spokesman for the Sons of Confederate Veterans' Texas division, estimated the cost of the memorial at $50,000, raised through private donations, including memorial bricks purchased by local residents whose ancestors fought in the Civil War.\nWhile some residents say the memorial evokes an ugly legacy of violence and discrimination, defenders say it's important to preserve the South's history.\n\"The more education about the South and what they were fighting for, the more compassion people will have for the Confederates and what they did,\" Davis said two years ago when the monument was being planned.","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
+{"text":"Stella's Restaurant Location On 50th Street to Be Under New Ownership, Stella's to Eventually Reopen in New Spot\nJan Miller\nJan Miller Published: July 24, 2019\nStella's (Google Street View)\nStella's Restaurant will not exactly be closing its doors at its current location as some had expected. Instead, they will be transitioning to new ownership at 4646 50th Street in Lubbock after today.\nThe owner of Stella's, Billy Rizzo, plans to reopen at a new location soon, we were told by the restaurant. The new owners of the location, however, will be transitioning to new recipes and eventually changing the name of Stella's to Parma Italian Restaurant.\nStella's Restaurant has been a landmark for fine Italian dining in Lubbock since 1998. According to Stella's website, the original location opened on 14th Street across from Texas Tech University. Three years later, the restaurant was renovated and moved to its current spot at 50th and Utica.\nThe owner of Stella's, however, expects to reopen the business at a new location in the beginning of next year. That location has not yet been announced.\nYou can follow this link to their Facebook page for some of their latest news! We look forward to seeing them reopen soon!\nDownload our app, get more Lubbock news\nSee more Lubbock openings and closings\nFiled Under: Openings and Closings","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
+{"text":"NDSU\nBiological Sciences Navigation\nGiving to Biological Sciences\nAlumni and friends provide essential support for the Department of Biological Science's teaching and research missions contributing to solutions to some of society's most pressing environmental and health problems and educating the problem solvers of the future. Through annual unrestricted support and major gifts designated for special purposes, your generosity plays a critical role in our ability to fulfill our mission and is not only deeply appreciated but also greatly needed.\nYour unrestricted gift provides the Department with flexibility to support whatever areas are most in need. Recent gifts have supported our annual Darwin Day celebrations, improvements to the course-based undergraduate research experiences (e.g., BIOL 270, 271, and 272), and new microscopes for the histology lab.\nHelp ensure that the problem solvers of the future receive the best training and education possible by supporting field trips, research opportunities, teaching laboratory equipment, and undergraduate fellowships and awards.\nSupport graduate education and the future research capabilities of our State and Nation with gifts for graduate fellowships, research travel, research supplies and equipment, attendance at symposia, and tuition support.\nFaculty, Research, and Facilities\nThe excellence of the Department depends on gifts that support Symposia and Distinguished Lecture Series, Postdoctoral Fellowships, research equipment, and renovation or replacement of facilities, and named Teaching rooms and Laboratories\nYour Donations at Work\nYour donations provided a critical foundation for the Baviary, a new facility for studying birds, bats and small mammals at the Red River Zoo!\nCampus address: 201 Stevens Hall\nPhysical\/delivery address: 1340 Bolley Drive, 201 Stevens Hall Fargo, ND 58102\nMailing address: Biological Sciences, Dept. 2715, North Dakota State University, PO Box 6050, Fargo, ND 58108-6050\nLast Updated: Wednesday, February 26, 2020 2:37:45 PM","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
+{"text":"Join us at the LA Art Show from Wednesday January 11th to Sunday January 15th. With fine art lectures, artist performances, an opening night premiere party, and various art exhibits including Masterwork's, the show offers a full weekend of activities and exploration. The LA Art show is held at the Los Angeles Convention Center across the street from Staples Center.\nWe will be showcasing a curated selection of works from the many modern and contemporary masters in our gallery including greats such as Marc Chagall, Pablo Picasso and Joan Mir\u00f3 all the way to the wonderful Sam Francis, Frank Stella, Roy Lichtenstein and Damien Hirst. The show is sure to be a hit from the colorful romanticism of Chagall's La fl\u00fbte enchant\u00e9e (The Magic Flute), 1967 to the abstract canvas of Sam Francis's grand Untitled, 1983.More abstraction and surrealism comes to the table in Mir\u00f3's majestic works like the stunning Souris Rouge a La Mantilla (Red Mouse with Mantilla), 1975. Blocks of bold colors interspersed with portions of stark black make for a complex visual in Le Bagnard et sa Compagne, 1975. Linocuts, lithographs, and ceramics from Picasso's substantial oeuvre join these works. Fabulous compositions like Les Demoiselles d'Avignon (The Young Ladies of Avignon), 1955 sit alongside technically stunning works like Picador debout avec son cheval et une femme (Picador, Woman, and Horse), 1959 \u2013 both a feast for the eyes. Frank Stella makes a mark with his monumental work The Pacific, 1988, from The Waves I, 1985-1989.\nThe LA Art Show is an annual fair that has been running for three decades in the heart of Los Angeles. The show was so successful in 2016 with almost 70,000 attendees that the showgroup has pushed even harder to make this year more innovative and exciting. Art fairs are becoming places of intersection for the many facets of the art world, including artists, galleries, curators and collectors, as well as casual appreciators. The LA Art Show strives to be a meeting place for these types of interactions. The creative energy and hard work of many people has come together to bring the public new performances and more. The LA Art Show endeavors to be on the cutting edge of contemporary and modern art, while upholding and promoting their values of integrity.\nEmail Rod@masterworksfineart.com for complimentary passes","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
+{"text":"CIA interrogators sought 'truth serum' for 9\/11 prisoners\nWASHINGTON: CIA interrogators sought a truth serum to use on Al-Qaeda prisoners in addition to waterboarding and other torture techniques after the Sept 11, 2001 attacks, according to formerly top secret documents released Tuesday.\nDesperate to get information about possible future attacks from Abu Zubaydah, who was believed to have helped plot the 9\/11 attacks, interrogators reached back decades to the agency's 1950s experiments with mind-altering drugs like LSD and also to Russian testing of alleged truth serums in the 1980s.\nIn \"Project Medication,\" the CIA doctors weighed barbiturates like sodium amytal and psychotomimetics, which create symptoms of psychosis. They were particularly interested in a drug trade-named Versed, or midazolam, a sedative that can cause loss of memory while in effect.\nThe idea came to officials of the CIA's Office of Medical Services (OMS) amid frustration that Abu Zubaydah \"showed remarkable resilience\" despite being put through vicious treatment, including stress positions and sleep deprivation.\n\"The intensity and duration of AZ's interrogation came as a surprise to OMS and prompted further study of the seemingly more benign alternative of drug-based interviews,\" said the report.\nBut they found an absolute lack of historical evidence that drugs could induce a subject to give up information.\n\"No such magic brew as the popular notion of truth serum exists,\" said a 1961 intelligence review.\n\"It seems likely that any individual who can withstand ordinary intensive interrogation can hold out in narcosis,\" it said.\nStill, the interrogators considered the drugs could trick a prisoner into thinking that he had done so.\n\"Such drugs, although widely regarded as unreliable sources of 'truth,' were believed potentially useful as an 'excuse' that would allow the subject to be more forthcoming while still saving face,\" the interrogators reasoned.\nBut they faced a prohibition on agency medical research on prisoners that came after the agency's 1950s MKULTRA program in which mind-altering drugs were tested on humans. One man who was secretly given LSD in that program subsequently committed suicide.\nAfter having stretched legal limits to get permission to use torture techniques on prisoners, the CIA's legal office \"did not want to raise another issue with the Department of Justice,\" the report said.\nThe 90 page report on the OMS record in post 9\/11 interrogations was released after a court battle led by the American Civil Liberties Union.\nThe ACLU said the entire report showed how medical doctors were critical to the torture program and helped legitimize it.\n\"One of the most important lessons of the CIA's torture program is the way it corrupted virtually every individual and institution associated with it,\" said ACLU attorney Dror Ladin. \u2014 AFP\nTagged911CIAinterrogatorsprisonersserumsoughttruth\nIndonesia to begin local production of Covid-19 antiviral pills\nPrevious Article Tackle poverty and birth rate to end Boko Haram\nNext Article Serious kidney injury common during cancer chemotherapy","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
+{"text":"Canadian Jewish Record | News, Commentary, Lifestyles\nCanadian Jewish Record is a not-for-profit online publication including community, food, rabbinic, editorial, obituary and opinion sections.\nRabbinic Reflections\nTag: Bahrain\nCanada Votes at the UN: A Response to Jon Allen\nBy MICHAEL MOSTYN\nIn his Nov. 25 defence in the CJR of Canada's recent vote for what is, in fact, an anti-Israel resolution at the United Nations, Jon Allen failed to properly address a number of key issues.\nFirst, it is surprising to see Mr. Allen express consternation at the idea of Canada changing its vote from last year, when Canada altered its vote in favour of the same resolution. Since the days of the Liberal government under Paul Martin, Canada decided against voting any longer for one-sided, polemical anti-Israel resolutions at the UN. Last year's vote for the resolution in question was a shocking departure from that principled policy, and so Canada's vote against the resolution this year would have been an expected course-correction.\nSecond, we should not pretend that the problem with the resolution is its support for Palestinian self-determination or a Palestinian state. Israel itself has recognized the inevitability of that proposition on multiple occasions, including making generous offers in 2000, 2001, and 2008 for the creation of a Palestinian state. Tragically, the Palestinian leadership consistently rejected these offers because \u2013 bottom line \u2013 they refuse to accept the idea of a Jewish state. The persistent Palestinian rejection of Jewish self-determination is the core of the conflict, which this UN resolution only exacerbates.\nThe resolution makes peace far less likely by pre-determining that all areas east of the June 4, 1967 lines (also called the \"Green Line\") are \"the Occupied Palestinian Territory, including East Jerusalem,\" which therefore \u2013 absurdly \u2013 includes the holiest sites in Judaism: the Western Wall and Temple Mount, plus the Jewish Quarter of the Old City; and everything else, east to the Jordan River.\nCrucially, and contrary to what Mr. Allen writes, Canada's support of this resolution contradicts a key element of our own foreign policy. After all, in its official policy on \"Support for a Comprehensive Peace Settlement,\" Canada declares adherence to UN Security Council Resolutions 242 and 338, which call for negotiations between the parties to determine the status of the territories. Since its self-defensive war in 1967, Israel has abided by 242 and 338 as the internationally accepted formula for peace-making.\nHowever, the controversial UN resolution Canada just supported (co-sponsored by North Korea!) violates this formula, thereby contradicting our own policy against prejudging the outcome of negotiations. Oddly, Mr. Allen, a former Canadian ambassador to Israel, has failed to acknowledge this glaring inconsistency.\nThird, Mr. Allen ignores the context in which this resolution was presented at the UN. It was part of a suite of 17 resolutions targeting the world's only Jewish state, compared to just seven resolutions dealing with the rest of the world. Our government has repeatedly recognized that this anti-Israel obsession at the UN is harmful to the cause of peace, which renders its partial participation with its \"yes\" vote on this one highly controversial resolution all the more galling.\nIronically, while peace and normalization between Israel and its Arab neighbours \u2013 the United Arab Emirates, Bahrain and Sudan \u2013 being just the latest examples \u2013 are moving in one positive direction, typical anti-Israel forces in the West, including at the UN, insist on moving in a negative direction.\nMr. Allen is also mistaken that a significant portion of Canadian Jews shares his views. Rather, the position of B'nai Brith and the other major Jewish Canadian organizations represents an overwhelming consensus in our community, as shown by the hard data.\nIn 2018, the last year in which Canada opposed this resolution, a survey of Canada's Jewish population by Environics, the University of Toronto and York University found that 45 percent of Canadian Jews felt that Canada's support for Israel was \"about right\"; 36 percent felt it was not supportive enough; and just six percent felt it was too supportive (13 percent did not know or did not answer).\nOn this particular issue, Mr. Allen has positioned himself among that six percent. At B'nai Brith Canada, we are proud to represent the more than eight in 10, and we will continue to do so, advocating for our government to adhere, consistently, to its espoused principles.\nMichael Mostyn\nMichael Mostyn is CEO of B'nai Brith Canada.\nAuthor Canadian Jewish RecordPosted on December 3, 2020 December 1, 2020 Categories CommentaryTags anti-israel, Bahrain, East Jerusalem, Green Line, Jewish Quarter, Jon Allen, occupied palestinian territory, Paul MArtin, Sudan, Temple Mount, UAE, UN, UN General Assembly, Western Wall\nTrump's Muddled Foreign Policy Examined at FSWC Event\nBy STEVE ARNOLD\nDonald Trump did not make the world safer for Jews, or anyone else, say two prominent officials who worked directly with the soon-to-be former American president.\nJohn Bolton, former national security advisor to the president, and David Petraeus, former director of the CIA and retired four-star general, told a Friends of Simon Wiesenthal Centre event on Nov. 9 that Trump's often incoherent foreign policy did nothing to counter the threats of terrorism, a nuclear Iran, or Chinese aggression.\nThe speakers were the feature attractions at FSWC's State of the Union fundraiser. They told their virtual audience that while the Trump era did produce some promising results, such as the Abraham Accords peace agreements between Israel, Bahrain and the United Arab Emirates, the safety of the world remains threatened.\nThe Middle East agreements, they said, were more driven by domestic politics in the Arab world than by American leadership.\n\"Both of these agreements reflect changes that are tectonic in their effect in this region,\" said Bolton, adding that the move to peace could be attributed to a decreased concern over Palestinian issues, rising concern about a nuclear Iran, and concerns about American staying power as an influence in the region.\nThose forces will result in more peace agreements \"sooner rather than later.\"\nPetraeus, who commanded American military efforts in both Afghanistan and Iraq, said that another major piece that brought the deals together was Israel's agreement to halt settler incursions into disputed land, at least temporarily.\n\"There are lots of pluses here, it is clearly a positive step forward,\" he said. \"The question is, can it stick? There's not much else here for the Palestinians.\"\nPetraeus added those small gains are the best that can be hoped for now. Anything more will have to wait for new leadership in Israel and the Palestinian Authority.\n\"Now isn't the time to be swinging for the fences,\" he said. \"This is the time to hit singles and doubles, no home runs.\"\nThere are also potential benefits to the region from some parts of the so-called Deal of the Century, Petraeus noted. Among those are the creation of a 25-mile long tunnel between the West Bank and Gaza Strip; allowing travel between the regions without having to pass through Israeli checkpoints; ideas about developing the Red Sea-area Egyptian Riviera that could bring economic benefit to Palestinians; and Israel's prospects of becoming an energy superpower through the development of natural gas.\nThat's all in addition to potential benefits from Israel's already strong, and growing economy.\n\"The start-up nation is becoming the scale-up nation,\" Petraeus said.\nBolton added a political restructuring in the region is needed.\nRather than the one or two-state solutions that have been so bitterly debated for years, he suggested a three-state deal that would see the Gaza Strip become part of Egypt while Israel and Jordan jointly rule over the West Bank.\nHovering over those potential promises, however, is the continued threat of Islamic terrorism.\nBolton said the radicalization driving some young Muslims to strap bombs to their bodies in the hope of killing Israelis is continuing to spread through both the Sunni and Shiite branches of Islam.\n\"The West seems to forget how deeply religious feeling can go toward motivating political action,\" Bolton said.\nThat concern is heightened, he added, as American and allied troops are pulled out of Afghanistan, leaving room of Taliban terrorists from Pakistan to return to the region.\nThe soldier and the security advisor both said China remains a particular concern to world peace, one Trump failed to handle.\n\"There was simply no coherent Trump Administration policy on China,\" Bolton said. \"China is a huge question we have to face and we are not ready for it.\"\nBeyond seeking trade deals to sell American grain to China, Bolton said the Trump Administration ignored China's growing economic strength \u2013 a strength he said is based on stolen intellectual property and is used to build a military machine.\nHow the situation changes once President-Elect Joe Biden takes office in January is an open question, they said.\n\"Right now there's just no clear indication of where Biden wants to go,\" Bolton said.\nDespite Trump's current allegations of voter fraud, both agreed the transfer of power will take place.\n\"It will happen, but there may be some wild rhetoric first,\" Bolton said. \"A president has to operate on the basis of facts, but this president does not.\"\nThe State of the Union event raised $3.3 million.\nAuthor Canadian Jewish RecordPosted on November 13, 2020 November 12, 2020 Categories NewsTags Abraham Accords, Bahrain, China, CIA, David Petraeus, Deal of the Century, Donald Trump, Friends of Simon Wiesenthal Centre, Gaza, Jews, Joe Biden, John Bolton, Middle East, Nuclear Iran, State of the Union, Trump, Trump administration, UAE, west bank\nThe Abraham Accords: Winners and Losers\nSept. 24, 2020 \u2013 By JON ALLEN\nThe recent UAE-Israel-U.S.A. agreement takes the immediate prospects of Israel's illegal annexation of part of the West Bank off the table in exchange for full diplomatic relations with the United Arab Emirates. Bahrain has followed suit, and others \u2013 Oman, Sudan and Morocco \u2013 could soon. These accords have been variously described as breakthrough peace agreements, an arms deal, and a stab in the back of the Palestinian people.\nClearly, where one stands on this agreement depends on where one sits. For the UAE, the U.S. and Israel, this is a good deal, with multiple benefits. For Turkey, Saudi Arabia, Iran and the Palestinians it's either unwelcome or very bad news.\nFor the UAE, the accords bring into the open a relationship with Israel that, until now, has flown under the radar. The deal will allow the transfer of strategic defence and intelligence equipment, technology and training that could reinforce its credibility as a leading Gulf state, and help defend itself against its existential enemy, Iran.\nThe accord also puts the UAE in the good books of the U.S. Congress, the Trump Administration, and Joe Biden. In return for helping Donald Trump dig himself out of his failed Israeli-Palestinian peace deal, and depending on the will of the next Congress, the agreement could pave the way for the sale to the UAE of F-35 stealth fighter jets, radar scrambling aircraft, and other American defence equipment.\nFor the U.S., the agreements are also a plus. By diverting attention from Trump's \"deal of the century\" that was going nowhere, and by helping Israel obtain two breakthrough recognition agreements, Trump solidifies his support among the right wing of the U.S. Jewish community and among American evangelicals. The billions that the UAE may spend on F-35s and other materiel are bonuses.\nFinally, by taking annexation off the table, the deal removes potential acrimony between the Netanyahu government and the Biden campaign, and between Biden and the right wing of the Jewish community.\nThat said, foreign policy issues rarely play a major role in U.S. elections, and these accords are unlikely to give Trump much of a bump in the polls or a fast track to the Nobel Peace Prize that he so desperately seeks.\nFor Israel, establishment of full relations with important Gulf states \u2013 and the legitimacy that confers \u2013 and the hope that more could follow, is huge. If the accords lead to a strategic relationship centred on confronting Iran, that development could signal an even greater shift in the region. And that could come without Israel having to negotiate a peace agreement with the Palestinians \u2013 the previous sine qua non to any recognition by Arab states.\nFinally, the deal was a personal victory for Netanyahu and a brief respite at a time when he is being criticized at home for his failure to manage the economy and the COVID crisis.\nPossible downsides of the agreement for Bibi include incurring the wrath of the pro-annexation settler movement. For Israel, a concern is the possible shifting of the strategic balance in the region as a result of the sale of sophisticated equipment to the UAE and other Gulf states that could potentially challenge Israel's qualitative military edge.\nIn the medium term, if the agreement convinces Israelis that they can now somehow ignore the Palestinian question, such a notion could pose an existential threat to the nation's future as a democratic state and the home of the Jewish people.\nAs mentioned, Turkey, Iran and Saudi Arabia lost ground as a result of the accords. Turkey, which has had diplomatic relations with Israel since 1949, attacked the UAE for its act of recognition. Turkey also is in conflict with the UAE in both Libya and Yemen, and finds common cause with Iran on various issues, including support for Hamas and the Muslim Brotherhood. The deal clearly poses challenges on all these fronts.\nOf course, Iran is Israel's strongest and most vocal enemy. By boosting Israel's legitimacy, breaking ranks among Arab and Muslim nations, and allowing the UAE to enhance its defence capabilities, the deal poses a direct threat to Iran's credibility in the region at a time when U.S. sanctions, COVID, and a failing economy are already weakening Iranian leadership.\nSaudi Arabia and its Crown Prince, Mohammad bin Salman, also lost some ground. The Saudis' disastrous forays into Yemen and Libya, coupled with the Jamal Khashoggi assassination, had already put the prince in the U.S. Congress' bad books. The UAE departed Yemen last year in part to disassociate itself from the Saudis. By offering recognition to Israel without meeting the Arab Peace Initiative's preconditions, the UAE further disassociated itself from the Saudis. Finally, if Congress does approve the sale of weapons and planes, the UAE will have an enhanced strategic relationship with both the U.S. and Israel that could leave the Saudis playing second fiddle for a time.\nAs suggested, however, this agreement bodes the worst for the Palestinians. To this point, the quid pro quo for any Arab recognition of Israel was a peace deal between Israel and the Palestinians based on the Arab Peace Initiative. The Abraham Accords instead trade removing the threat of annexation \u2013 an illegal act that was heavily criticized by the international community \u2013 for full diplomatic relations.\nTo add insult to injury, all efforts by the Palestinians to bring the issue before the Arab League and the Gulf Cooperation Council failed miserably. No consensus on criticizing the agreements could be achieved. Palestinian hopes that the Arab street in the UAE, Bahrain, Jordan, and Saudi Arabia might react strongly also were dashed. The only notable protests occurred in the Territories themselves.\nIndeed, the only two positive elements of the accords for the Palestinians are that they united Palestinians (Hamas, Fatah, Islamic Jihad) in their opposition to them, and that they staved off legislated annexation, at least for now.\nThe accords' long-term prospects are harder to predict when it comes to the Palestinians. The UAE and Bahrain claim that they have not forgotten the Palestinians. Will they and others now pressure Israel to begin negotiations with the Palestinian Authority on realistic terms? Will they oppose further settlement expansion? What role will Mohammed Dachlan, a pretender to PA President Mahmoud Abbas' throne and an important adviser to the UAE, play in the future?\nI agree with some who say it is crucial for the Palestinian Authority to replace its sclerotic leadership with new blood through open and transparent elections, to bring forward its own proposals for a two-state solution, and to dispel the notion that the Palestinians are only able to say no.\nI disagree, however, with those who suggest that the time is now ripe for such a move. No legitimate proposal for a two-state solution that requires compromises on both sides will be negotiated as long as Netanyahu remains prime minister. He has made clear more than once that Palestinian statehood will not happen on his watch. Moreover, the blatantly pro-Israel terms of Trump's so-called peace plan belies any hope that his Administration might act as an honest broker in such a negotiation.\nRather, the Palestinians should reform their political class, develop a serious draft peace proposal, consult with key Arab states and American allies on the substance and the process going forward, and act boldly once both Trump and Bibi have left the scene.\nJon Allen is a Senior Fellow at the Munk School of Global Affairs and Public Policy, and served as Canada's ambassador to Israel from 2006 to 2010.\nAuthor Canadian Jewish RecordPosted on September 24, 2020 September 23, 2020 Categories CommentaryTags Abraham Accords, annexation, Bahrain, Bibi, Biden, Fatah, Gulf Cooperation, Gulf States, Hamas, Iran, Islamic Jihad, Jamal Khashoggi, Joe Biden, military, Mohammed bin Salman, Morocco, Netanyahu, Nobel Peace Prize, oman, PA, Palestinians, Saudi Arabia, Sudan, Trump, Turkey, UAE Israel, United Arab Emirates, west bank\nSupport the CJR\nArchives Select Month December 2020 (56) November 2020 (69) October 2020 (62) September 2020 (54) August 2020 (57) July 2020 (63) June 2020 (63) May 2020 (47)","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
+{"text":"Twitter Is Laying Off 336 Employees\n7:31 am October 14, 2015 By Roland Hutchinson\nEarlier this month Twitter appointed Jack Dorsey as their CEO and he has already started to make some changes at the company.\nTwitter has announced that they are laying off 336 employees which is about 8% of their total workforce.\nMade some tough but necessary decisions that enable Twitter to move with greater focus and reinvest in our growth. http:\/\/t.co\/BWd7EiGAF2\n\u2014 Jack (@jack) October 13, 2015\nJack Dorsey sent out a letter to Twitter Employees letting them know that the 336 people who will losing their jobs will receive 'generous exit packages' and will be given help finding a new job.\nThe majority of the jobs will apparently go from the company's product and engineering teams, the company will pay out between $10 a $20 million as part of the restructuring.\nSource The Verge\nFiled Under: Technology News","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
+{"text":"Good news for the Google Chromecast owners \u2013 Apple music update is here after the long wait of 4 years\nThere is big news for Chromecast owners as Apple Music update is here after 4 years long wait. There's no doubt that Apple has been sincerely working on its updates since its existence. After four long years, it came up with the update of the Apple Music Streaming app and Android users cannot keep calm.\n(Image: Apple\/Google)\nYou can now listen to the Apple music on your Android Cast-enabled devices. Play the latest tracks, have your playlist and do much more without purchasing an iPhone.\nThe best part about it is, you can connect it to your Google Home Max device or, can even plug it in your speaker or TV set for setting a party mood.\nWhen enquired further about the update, it came to the surface that the iPhone manufacturers had worked on the implementation of the idea for quite a long time. They went through several technical tests and experiments before settling for this one.\nApple had aimed to provide something which can stand against the features of its own AirPlay solutions. Just as the iPhones, Mac devices and iPads can send music to connected speaker systems, they wanted the Apple Music app to perform the same.\nHowever, iOS users will still have to wait for the day when Apple brings an update for them. Even if you have a Cast-enabled iOS device, you cannot avail the opportunity and it has been kept restricted for the Android users only.\nGood news for the Google Chromecast owners \u2013 Apple music update is here after the long wait of 4 years was last modified: October 18th, 2019 by Kimberly George\nTagsAndroid Apple iPhone\nKimberly is an MBA in Marketing and had worked with various media houses for over 5 years. Due to the love for being an entrepreneur than being an employee, she gave up on her job and started Mobilegearz.com for sharing the latest news from the world of Gadgets and Technology along with various other news headlines. She heads the team as well, and sometimes she writes news from the tech world.\nYou can now listen to YouTube Music without downloading it in your new device\nThe latest iOS 13.1.1 can solve your problems with Siri and battery life problems","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
+{"text":"Israel assures Belarus that closing of embassy does not reflect on importance of ties\nFive Israeli representations worldwide are to be shuttered in cost-saving measures.\nBy HERB KEINON\nPublished: JANUARY 11, 2016 01:32\nBelarus President Alexander Lukashenko\nIsrael's decision to close its embassy in Minsk is neither a reflection of the importance it attributes to ties with Belarus nor an attempt to harm those ties, but only a cost-saving measure, a Foreign Ministry spokesman said on Sunday.\nThe spokesman's comments followed Belarus's angry reaction last week to Israel's decision to include the embassy in Minsk on the list of five of its representations abroad that Jerusalem plans to shut down.\nThe others are the embassy in San Salvador, the consulates in Philadelphia and Marseilles, and the position of the roving ambassador to the Caribbean, stationed in New York.\nAccording to Russian media reports, Belarus Foreign Ministry spokesman Dmitry Mironchik issued a statement on Thursday \u2013 shortly after Israel's decision was announced \u2013 saying, \"We are sorry to confirm that considering the decision to close the Israeli Embassy in Minsk, Belarus was forced to take a series of measures to terminate the activities of its diplomatic mission in Tel Aviv based on the principle of reciprocity.\"\nMironchik was quoted as saying that Israel was making a mistake, and recalled that Israel closed its embassy in Minsk already once before, in 2003, only to reopen it a year later.\n\"We are confident that the relations between Belarus and Israel at the ambassadorial level is an objective necessity, and the resumption of their activities is only a matter of time,\" he was quoted as saying.\nFormer foreign minister Avigdor Liberman (Yisrael Beytenu), who was instrumental in first opening an embassy in Minsk, was quoted as calling the move to close it \"ridiculous\" during an interview with the Russian-language Channel 9 last week. He said the move would cause bureaucratic headaches for some 130,000 immigrants from Belarus in Israel, who will now find it much more difficult to obtain official documents than in the past.\nThe term of Israel's envoy to Belarus, Yosef Shagal, expired in August, and no replacement was named.\nIsrael and Belarus signed a visa-free agreement for tourists in November, and in 2014 the countries did some $55 million worth of trade.\nTags international news","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
+{"text":"Local meteorologist teaches students broadcasting\nRylie Daniel\nArts & Features Writer\nPhoto By Emily Arismendy\nChief Meteorologist at WLOS news station Jason Boyer advises UNCA Junior Angela Gambino on her stance and positioning during her broadcasting project.\nBroadcast media expands as interest grows among students across the country, local Chief Meteorologist Jason Boyer said.\nBoyer said UNC Asheville needs to continue the broadcasting meteorology class in order to be competitive with other universities' atmospheric science programs.\n\"I think it is a field that many of the atmospheric science students are interested in, or might be interested in at some point, so I think it's a good litmus test, if you will, for them to take the course, see if they are cut out for that or they think they could be,\" he said.\nBoyer teaches a broadcast meteorology class at UNCA with a lecture portion on Mondays and lab portion on Fridays. He said the lab provides a space for his students to practice what they have been learning with the use of a greenscreen.\n\"The more reps you get in, the more familiar you're going to feel with your shows and the more confidence you're going to build. That's key,\" Boyer said. \"Having the confidence to feel like you can connect with the viewers but also get through the information and the story you want to tell.\"\nHe said the lab uses simplified versions of the forecasting technology used at the WLOS news station.\n\"It's more PowerPoint-driven and simplified here in the lab. The computers that we use are very expensive. What we have at our hands and fingertips through PowerPoint is an ability to show templates, make templates, simplified weather graphics, words, seven day forecast, daily planners, things like that,\" he said.\nThe class teaches main ideas essential to broadcast meteorology, the meteorologist of 20 years said.\n\"The lectures involve lecturing about the topics of how to start in broadcast meteorology,\" Boyer said.\nSocial media acts as a new facet of the field allowing meteorologists to connect with their viewers on another level, according to Boyer.\n\"You want to use those platforms to keep your viewers and followers up-to-date on certain things that are happening, weather events, factoids on weather, interesting weather information, things like that,\" Boyer said. \"You let people into your life a little more. You show off maybe your pets or your interests.\"\nGeography plays a huge role in broadcast meteorology and the students need to learn how to navigate the complexity of the topic, he said.\n\"You got to know where you're talking. You got to know where mountain chains are, you know, cities,\" he said. \"That is just the tip of the iceberg, knowing where the Appalachians are. There's so much geography involved.\"\nBoyer said the class also delves into how the science of forecasting becomes simplified for broadcasting.\n\"You're going to go into your job at some point and have to tell a weather story every day. You have to take complex subject matter; jet streams, air mass, how things interact from the atmospheric side and make it presentable to an audience,\" Boyer said. \"You have to keep it conversational, yet informative and use your expertise all in one package.\"\nBoyer said the key to broadcast meteorology and television lies in keeping the audience engaged.\nBoyer applies his 20 years of experience to his teaching, giving his students a lense into what the job consists of.\n\"He's a professional, so it helps. He gives you all the little pointers and he gives you information about job opportunities and what they're looking for and how you have to present yourself, so it's definitely very beneficial to have him here,\" senior Jacob Evans said.\nUNCA alumna Ingrid Allstaedt works as a meteorologist at local news station WLOS.\n\"I'm the morning and noon meteorologist, so I create my own forecast and then present them live on television,\" she said.\nAllstaedt began her career at the station around 10 years ago as a news anchor with her mass communication degree from UNCA and since transitioned to weather as a meteorologist.\n\"The opportunity presented itself because I always thought I wanted to be a news anchor, but someone one day said you should try weather and I did and I had been filling in doing weather for years and it was just so much fun,\" she said. \"Some days I would be like, 'I wish I could fill in today doing weather,' and then you think, 'Well, maybe this is what I should be doing full time.\"\nAllstaedt encourages everyone to try new things and find a job that brings joy.\n\"Whatever you decide to do, enjoy it. Find joy in it and then you will do well at it. If you don't like it or love it, then you probably won't be doing a good job and you probably won't do that for very long,\" Allstaedt said.","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
+{"text":"Ashford UniversityBA\/Communication Studies\nKaplan UniversityBS in Communication\nUniversity of PhoenixAA in Communications\nBusiness Writing Schools in Auburn, Alabama\nThere are two schools around Auburn, AL offering business writing programs. In 2010, four students graduated from programs at Auburn business writing schools. Two of all these students graduated with masters degrees and with certificates.\nSix students graduate from programs in this municipality in business writing, on average, per year. This accounts for two-thirds of the students who schools in the state of Alabama graduate from business writing programs. More specifically, two students graduated with business writing certificates and two with a master's level degree.\nTwo business writing schools are in Auburn. Out of these, two schools are public. Tuition at a public business writing school is $7,900.\nAverage tuition for programs in business writing is $7,900.\nAuburn business writing schools offer certificates and masters degrees.\nBusiness Writing Program Completions 2006 - 2010 in Auburn, Alabama\nMaster 2006: 6\nBusiness Writing Program Availability in Auburn, Alabama\nAuburn schools offer a total of three programs in business writing. Of these programs, around 66% are certificate level programs. The remaining programs are degrees at the masters level.\nMaster: 1\nTechnical Writing Schools in Auburn, Alabama\nAuburn technical writing schools offer certificates and masters degrees. Two students graduated with certificates in technical writing. Two students graduated with a master's level degree in technical writing. Technical Writing Schools in Auburn, Alabama\nNearby Cities Offering Business Writing\nBusiness Writing Schools in Decatur, Alabama\nAverage tuition for a business writing program at the University of Alabama at Huntsville is the cost. Typically, public tuition at business writing schools in the state of Alabama is $7,696. UAH offers certificates in business writing. Business Writing Schools in Decatur, Alabama\nBusiness Writing Schools in Madison, Alabama\nThe number of students who graduated with degrees in business writing dropped by approximately 80% from 2008 to 2010. The number of students which certificate programs graduate went down by four students. The University of Alabama at Huntsville offers a total of one business writing program. Business Writing Schools in Madison, Alabama\nBusiness Writing Schools in Gadsden, Alabama\nOn average, eight students graduate from programs in Gadsden, AL in business writing per year. 17 students graduated with certificates in business writing in 2010. Georgia Northwestern Technical College is a public school. Business Writing Schools in Gadsden, Alabama\nBusiness writing schools in Auburn, AL offer certificates and masters degrees. Two students graduated with business writing certificates. Two students graduated with a master's level degree in business writing. Business Writing Schools in Auburn, Alabama\nBusiness Writing Schools in Huntsville, Alabama\nThe University of Alabama at Huntsville is a public school. Average tuition for a business writing program at this university is the cost. On average, public tuition at business writing schools in the state of Alabama is $7,696. Business Writing Schools in Huntsville, Alabama\nOnline Business Writing Schools\nBA\/Communication Studies\nBA\/Social Science - English\/Language Arts\nBS in Communication\nAA in Communications\nBachelor of Arts in English\n1. Auburn University\nAuburn- Alabama\nAuburn University, which is located 30.7 miles from neighboring Columbus, is just a short commute away from within Auburn. It offers two programs in business writing. Specifically, students are offered one business writing certificate by this university and one master's level business writing degree. AU is a public, 4-year, research institution and it is the only institution in Auburn, AL offering business writing.","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
+{"text":"Department aide raises TCU kids\nSince her graduation from TCU more than 26 years ago, Terri Cain has continued a Horned Frog tradition with her children.Cain, a secretary for the athletics department in the Justin Athletic Center, is part of a household where purple is the color of choice. Cain has three children: a daughter who graduated from TCU's nursing program in December 2004, a son who is a senior business major and a daughter who will attend TCU in fall 2006.\nCain and her husband Frank, who have been married for 28 years, are both graduates of TCU. Her husband is an attorney with ShannonGracey law firm.\nCain said that because of the tuition benefits offered to employees, her children can attend TCU without having to pay tuition.\n\"TCU has been very good to me and to my family,\" Cain said. \"We love TCU, but one of the reasons I came to work at TCU was we had all these tuitions coming up.\"\nCain said that before coming to work at TCU she spent most of her time with her children.\n\"For many years I stayed home with my kids; it was fun,\" Cain said.\nThe Cains' son, Ben, said he came to TCU in part because of his parents' opinions about the university.\n\"My parents spoke very highly of TCU,\" Cain said. \"So it was a real pleasure to get accepted and carry on the tradition.\"\nCain said his mother is always looking to help others.\n\"It's good to know that she is there if I ever need her,\" Cain said. \"She is not a bad cook either.\"\nAfter attending the University of North Texas from 1971-1973, Terri Cain came to TCU to finish her degree in English. Cain, who graduated from TCU in August 1979, said her friends motivated her to finish college.\n\"When I looked around and realized that all my friends had graduated from college and I hadn't finished, I decided to come to TCU,\" she said.\nCain, who has been part of the athletics department for five years, said the athletes make the job rewarding.\n\"Working in the athletics department is a lot of fun; there are great people here,\" she said. \"Athletes are good kids, so it's nice being around the kids.\"\nCain said her daily routine consists mostly of answering the phone and making sure there are enough supplies in the office, but her job also allows her to meet athletes.\nAthletics Director Danny Morrison said Cain does a good job of greeting people as they come in.\n\"She has a great attitude, is a hard worker and is really good with people,\" Morrison said. \"That's a pretty busy area, and she's kind of the front door of the administration offices.\"\nRoss Bailey, associate athletics director, said Cain is always cheerful.\n\"I don't know that she ever has a bad day,\" Bailey said. \"She is always pleasant and uplifting to be around.\nPrevious articleDay of Silence comes to campus\nNext articleClass gets firsthand lesson in investing","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
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Teuteberg, MD and Lara Danziger-Isakov, MD, MPH\n8:00 AM Welcome\/Program Chair Report\nLara Danziger-Isakov, MD, MPH, Children's Hospital Medical Center, Cincinnati, OH, USA\n8:10 AM Thoracic Registry Report\nJosef Stehlik, MD, MPH, University of Utah School of Medicine, Salt Lake City, UT, USA\n8:20 AM IMACS Registry Report\nDaniel J. Goldstein, MD, Montefiore Medical Center, Bronx, NY, USA\n8:30 AM Journal Editor's Report\nMandeep R. Mehra, MD, FRCP, FACC, FESC. Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, MA, USA\n8:40 AM President's Report\nJeffrey J. Teuteberg, MD, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, CA, USA\n8:55 AM (1) Clinical Outcomes by Intended Goal of Therapy in the MOMENTUM 3 Clinical Trial: Final Analysis of the 1028 Patient Full Cohort\nD. Goldstein1, M. R. Mehra2, MOMENTUM 3 Investigators2. 1Dept of Cardiothoracic Surgery, Montefiore Medical Center, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, NY, 2Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, MA\n9:10 AM Expert Interactive Discussant for Clinical Outcomes by Intended Goal of Therapy in the MOMENTUM 3 Clinical Trial: Final Analysis of the 1028 Patient Full Cohort\nRobert Kormos, MD, University of Pittsburgh Medical Center, Pittsburgh, PA, USA\n9:15 AM (2) INSPIRE: A Phase 3 Open-Label, Multicenter Study to Evaluate the Safety and Tolerability of LIQ861 in Pulmonary Arterial Hypertension (PAH) (Investigation of the Safety and Pharmacology of Dry Powder Inhalation of Treprostinil NCT03399604)\nN. S. Hill1, J. P. Feldman2, S. Sahay3, D. J. Levine4, R. F. Roscigno5, T. A. Vaughn5, T. M. Bull6. 1Tufts Medical Center, Boston, MA, 2Arizona Pulmonary Specialists, Ltd, Phoenix, AZ, 3Weill Cornell Medicine, Institute of Academic Medicine, Houston Methodist Lung Center, Houston Methodist, Houston, TX, 4University of Texas Health Sciences Center at San Antonio, San Antonio, TX, 5Liquidia Technologies, Morrisville, NC, 6Anschutz Medical Campus, University of Colorado Denver, Aurora, CO\n8:55 AM Expert Interactive Discussant for INSPIRE: A Phase 3 Open-Label, Multicenter Study to Evaluate the Safety and Tolerability of LIQ861 in Pulmonary Arterial Hypertension (PAH) (Investigation of the Safety and Pharmacology of Dry Powder Inhalation of Treprostinil NCT03399604)\nJean-Luc Vachiery, MD, Erasme University Hospital, Brussels, Belgium\n9:35 PM Lifetime Achievement Award Recipient Lecture\nJohn Wallwork, FRCS, Papworth Hospital, Cambridge, UK\nPoster Mount Session 1 (Timor, Banda, Gardenia, Hibiscus)\nPress Office Open (Philippine Sea)\nExhibit Hall Open (Oceana 6-12)\nCoffee Break (Oceana 6-12)\nIndustry Theater Open (Oceana 2)\nPoster Hall Open (Timor, Banda, Gardenia, Hibiscus)\nSESSION 01 (ORAL): The Next Frontier in Thoracic Transplantation: Diagnostics and Therapies (Pacifica 1-2)\nPrimary Audience: BSTR\nSecondary Audience: LTX, PEDS, PATH\nChairs: Marilia Cascalho, MD, PhD and Matthew G. Hartwig, MD\n10:30 AM (5) Early Detection of Post-Transplant Lymphoproliferative Disorder Using Circulating Tumor DNA\nJ. Soo, J. Schroers-Martin, A. Garofalo, D. Kurtz, N. D'Emilio, H. Luikart, A. Alizadeh, K. Khush. Stanford University, Stanford, CA\n10:45 AM (6) Distinct Heart Failure Phenotypes Identified by Myocardial Transcriptome Sequencing: Targets for Reverse Remodeling\nP. Shah1, W. Zhu2, S. Navankasattusas3, D. K. Ramadurai3, S. S. Desai1, I. Taleb3, I. Efimov4, R. Singh5, N. Aliyev3, R. K. Iyer2, O. Wever-Pinzon6, S. McKellar7, W. T. Caine8, C. R. deFilippi9, J. Zhu10, S. Drakos6. 1Heart Failure and Transplantation, Inova Heart and Vascular Institute, Falls Church, VA, 2Inova Translational Medicine Institute, Falls Church, VA, 3University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT, 4George Washington University, Washington, DC, 5Cardiac Surgery, Inova Heart and Vascular Institute, Falls Church, VA, 6Heart Failure and Transplantation, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT, 7Cardiac Surgery, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT, 8Cardiac Surgery, Intermountain Medical Center, Salt Lake City, UT, 9Inova Heart and Vascular Institute, Falls Church, VA, 10Mokobio, Rockville, MD\n11:00 AM (315) Exosome Proteomics and Machine Learning Identify Novel Biomarkers of Primary Graft Dysfunction\nN. Giangreco1, G. Lebreton2, S. Restaino3, M. Farr3, P. C. Colombo3, E. Zorn4, N. Tatonetti1, P. Leprince2, J. Kobashigawa5, B. Fine3. 1Biomedical Informatics, Columbia University, New York, NY, 2Chirurgie Thoracique et Cardiovasculaire, Piti\u00e9-Salp\u00eatri\u00e8re University Hospital, Paris, France, 3Division of Cardiology, Columbia University, New York, NY, 4Center for Translational Immunology, Columbia University, New York, NY, 5Cedars-Sinai Heart Institute, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, Los Angeles, CA\n11:15 AM (8) Engineered Mesenchymal Stromal Cell Therapy during Pig Ex Vivo Lung Perfusion and Transplant\nA. I. Nykanen1, A. Mariscal1, M. Takahashi1, A. Duong1, A. Ali1, M. Chen1, A. Takahagi1, H. Gokhale1, C. Estrada2, T. Martinu1, S. Juvet1, J. Yeung1, T. K. Waddell1, M. Cypel1, M. Liu1, J. E. Davies3, S. Keshavjee1. 1Toronto Lung Transplant Program, University Health Network, Toronto, ON, Canada, 2Tissue Regeneration Therapeutics, Toronto, ON, Canada, 3Institute of Biomaterials and Biomedical Engineering, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada\n11:30 AM (9) Hydrogen-Rich Preservation Solution Attenuates Lung Ischemia-Reperfusion Injury after Prolonged Cold Ischemia in a Canine Left Lung Transplant Model\nH. Kayawake1, T. F. Chen-Yoshikawa1, M. Saito1, S. Hirano2, R. Kurokawa2, H. Yamagishi1, R. Okabe1, F. Gochi1, J. Tokuno1, S. Ueda1, Y. Yokoyama1, M. Ikeda1, H. Oda1, Y. Yamada1, Y. Yutaka1, D. Nakajima1, A. Ohsumi1, M. Hamaji1, H. Date1. 1Department of Thoracic Surgery, Kyoto University, Kyoto, Japan, 2MiZ Company Limited, Kamakura, Japan\n11:45 AM (10) Atorvastatin Preserves Cardiac Contractility via Reducing Matrix Metalloproteinase-2 Isoforms Expression in a Diabetic Heart Model\nH. Lee1, S. Lee1, S. Song2, S. Bae3, S. Kim4, J. Choi5. 1Cardiology Department, Pusan National University Hospital, Busan, Korea, Republic of, 2Nephrology Department, Pusan National University Hospital, Busan, Korea, Republic of, 3MRC for Ischemic Tissue Regeneration and Department of Pharmacology, Medical Research Institute, Pusan National University Hospital, Busan, Korea, Republic of, 4Endocrinology Department, Pusan National University Hospital, Busan, Korea, Republic of, 5Department of Cardiology, Pusan National University Hospital, Busan, Korea, Republic of\n12:00 PM (11) Triptolide Attenuates Graft Inflammation During Ex Vivo Lung Perfusion\nS. Burki, K. Noda, B. Philips, P. G. Sanchez, A. Kumar, J. D'Cunha. Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery, University of Pittsburgh Medical Center, Pittsburgh, PA\nSESSION 02 (SYMPOSIUM): Future Shock: Great Debates in Cardiogenic Shock (Pacifica 7)\nVisit the ISHLT2019 Online Program Viewer to see the full details for this session\nPrimary Audience: HF\/HTX\nSecondary Audience: MCS\nSession Summary: The incidence of cardiogenic shock is increasing, leading to an emerging focus on refining our approach to shock. This symposium will provide a framework for understanding goals of treatment, defining phenotypes and profiles of shock, exploring geographical differences in management, and reviewing trends in use of temporary MCS.\nChairs: Teresa De Marco, MD and Richard Cheng, MD\n10:30 AM CASE PRESENTATION: 'Gimme Gimme Shock Treatment': Acute Cardiogenic Shock Patient Transferred for Advanced Heart Failure Therapy\nAdriana Torres, MD, LosCobos Medical Center, Bogota, Colombia\n10:35 AM DEBATE 1: 'Culture Shock': Tissue Perfusion is More Important than Hemodynamics in Managing Cardiogenic Shock (PRO)\n10:50 AM DEBATE 1: 'Culture Shock': Tissue Perfusion is More Important than Hemodynamics in Managing Cardiogenic Shock (CON)\nJennifer Cowger, MD, MS, Henry Ford Hospitals, Detroit, MI, USA\n11:05 AM DEBATE 2: 'Shock Rock': One Treatment Fits All in Cardiogenic Shock (PRO)\nShelley Hall, MD, Baylor University Medical Center, Dallas, TX, USA\n11:20 AM DEBATE 2: 'Shock Rock': One Treatment Fits All in Cardiogenic Shock (CON)\nRebecca Cogswell, MD, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN, USA\n11:35 AM DEBATE 3: 'Shock Treatment': All Patients Should Receive Temporary MCS in Cardiogenic Shock to Maximize Survival (PRO)\nPascal Leprince MD, H\u00f4pital de La Petie Salpetriere, Paris, France\n11:50 AM DEBATE 3: 'Shock Treatment': All Patients Should Receive Temporary MCS in Cardiogenic Shock to Maximize Survival (CON)\nDavid A. Baran, MD, Sentara Heart Hospital, Norfolk, VA, USA\n12:05 PM 10-min Panel Discussion\nSESSION 03 (ORAL): Chronic Lung Allograft Dysfunction: Anything New? (Pacifica 10-12)\nPrimary Audience: LF\/LTX\nSecondary Audience: BSTR, PATH\nChairs: Selim M. Arcasoy, MD, MPH and Mark Greer, MB Bch\n10:30 AM (12) Diffusing Capacity for Carbon Monoxide (DLCO): A Predictor of CLAD and Death after Lung Transplantation in a 20-Year Longitudinal Study\nD. R. Darley1, J. Ma2, E. Huszti2, R. Ghany1, M. Hutcheon1, C. Chow1, J. Tikkanen1, S. Keshavjee1, L. G. Singer1, T. Martinu1. 1Toronto Lung Transplant Program, Toronto General Hospital, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada, 2Biostatistics Research Unit, University Health Network, Toronto, ON, Canada\n10:45 AM (13) Molecular Analysis of Transbronchial and Mucosal Biopsies in Patients with CLAD\nM. Parkes1, P. F. Halloran1, J. Chang1, K. S. Famulski1, J. Reeve1, R. Hachem2, P. Jaksch3, S. Juvet4, W. Klepetko3, S. Keshavjee4, D. Kreisel2, A. Roux5, G. I. Snell6, E. Trulock2, I. L. Timofte7, G. P. Westall6, K. M. Halloran1. 1University of Alberta, Edmonton, AB, Canada, 2Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, MO, 3Medical University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria, 4University Health Network, Toronto, ON, Canada, 5H\u00f4pital Foch, Surenes, France, 6Monash University, Melbourne, Australia, 7University of Maryland, Baltimore, MD\n11:00 AM (14) Predictive Biomarkers for Bronchiolitis Obliterans\nV. Kaza1, C. Zhu1, L. Feng1, A. Reddy2, C. Lacelle3, L. Terada1, M. Manish1, S. Bollineni1, A. Banga1, F. Torres1, J. Mullins1, Q. Li4. 1UT SW Med Ctr, Dallas, TX, 2Southwest Pulmonary Associates, Dallas, TX, 3UT Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, TX, 4Ut SW Med Ctr, Dallas, TX\n11:15 AM (15) Chest CT Has Prognostic Value at BOS Diagnosis after Lung Transplantation\nA. Van Herck1, A. Sacreas1, T. Heigl1, J. Kaes1, A. Vanstapel1, S. E. Verleden1, B. M. Vanaudenaerde1, W. De Wever2, G. M. Verleden1, R. Vos1. 1Lung Transplant Unit, Department of Chronic Diseases, Metabolism & Ageing, University of Leuven, Leuven, Belgium, 2Department of Radiology, University Hospitals Leuven, Leuven, Belgium\n11:30 AM (16) Regulatory T Cells in Asymptomatic ISHLT Grade A1 Rejection and the Risk of Chronic Lung Allograft Dysfunction\nM. White, L. Levy, S. Moshkelgosha, G. Zehong, S. Keshavjee, T. Martinu, S. Juvet. Toronto Lung Transplant Program, Toronto General Research Institute, Toronto, ON, Canada\n11:45 AM (17) Emergence of a Specific Intrapulmonary CD4+ T Cell Subset Prior to the Onset of Lung Allograft Dysfunction\nS. Moshkelgosha1, L. Levy1, T. Martinu1, R. Zamel1, C. Guidos2, S. Keshavjee1, J. Yeung1, S. C. Juvet1. 1Toronto Lung Transplant Program, Latner Thoracic Surgery Research Laboratories, University Health Network, Toronto, ON, Canada, 2The Hospital for Sick Children (SickKids), Toronto, ON, Canada\n12:00 PM (18) Increased Hazard of Chronic Lung Allograft Dysfunction in the Presence of Persistent and Complement Fixing Donor-Specific Antibodies\nC. J. Iasella1, C. R. Ensor2, M. Marrari3, M. Mangiola3, C. A. Moore4, M. R. Morrell5, J. M. Pilewski5, J. D'Cunha6, P. Sanchez6, J. F. McDyer5, A. Zeevi3. 1Department of Pharmacy and Therapeutics, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, 2Department of Pharmacy, Florida Hospital, Orlando, FL, 3Department of Pathology, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, 4Department of Pharmacy, University of Pittsburgh Medical Center, Pittsburgh, PA, 5Department of Medicine, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, 6Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA\nSESSION 04 (ORAL): So Wrong It's Right: The Right Ventricle and MCS (Pacifica 6)\nPrimary Audience: MCS\nSecondary Audience: PH, PHARM\nChairs: Bastian Smack, MD and Brent Lampert, MD\n10:30 AM (19) Right Ventricular Strain as a Predictor of Post-LVAD Early Right Ventricular Failure\nL. W. Liang, E. Y. Birati, C. Justice, Y. Han. Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA\n10:45 AM (20) Serial Assessment of Pulmonary Artery Pulsatility Index Provides Incremental Risk Assessment for Early Right Ventricular Failure after Left Ventricular Assist Device Implantation\nM. H. Gonzalez1, J. Wagener1, A. Aggarwal2, T. Buda1, V. Menon1, M. Jacob1, W. Tang1, E. Hsich1, M. Tong3, E. Soltesz3, R. Starling1, J. Estep1, E. Joyce1. 1Cardiology, Cleveland Clinic Foundation, Cleveland, OH, 2Internal Medicine, Cleveland Clinic Foundation, Cleveland, OH, 3Cardiothoracic Surgery, Cleveland Clinic Foundation, Cleveland, OH\n11:00 AM (21) Bridging Biventricular Failure to Successful Heart Transplants: HVAD BiVAD versus TAH\nA. Salimbangon1, R. Chand1, C. Lum1, D. Vucicevic2, E. DePasquale1. 1UCLA, Los Angeles, CA, 2Newark Beth Israel, Newark, NJ\n11:15 AM (22) New Insights into Right Ventricular Function among Patients with Left Ventricular Assist Devices Using High Fidelity Conductance Catheters to Generate Real Time Pressure Volume Loops\nW. K. Cornwell1, G. Coe2, A. Levy2, T. Tran2, M. Bradley2, K. O'Gean2, M. Ostertag2, M. Spotts3, S. Laing2, J. Lawley4, C. DeSouza5, B. Stauffer2, A. Ambardekar2, J. Pal2, G. Wolfel2, W. Kohrt2. 1University of Colorado, Denver, CO, 2University of Colorado, Aurora, CO, 3Aurora, University of Colorado, Denver, CO, 4University of Innsbruck, Innsbruck, Austria, 5University of Colorado, Boulder, CO\n11:30 AM (23) Early and Late Right Heart Failure Following LVAD Implantation: Epidemiology, Natural History and Outcomes. An Analysis of the STS INTERMACS Database\nC. J. Kapelios1, L. H. Lund2, C. H. Selzman3, S. L. Meyers4, A. Koliopoulou3, J. Stehlik3, O. Wever-Pinzon3, A. G. Kfoury5, J. C. Fang3, J. K. Kirklin4, S. G. Drakos3. 1National and Kapodestrian University of Athens, Athens, Greece, 2Karolinska University Hospital, Stockholm, Sweden, 3University of Utah Health & School of Medicine, Salt Lake City, UT, 4Kirklin Institute for Research in Surgical Outcomes, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, AL, 5Intermountain Medical Center, Salt Lake City, UT\n11:45 AM (24) Pectoralis Muscle Attenuation Improves the Prediction of Right Ventricular Failure after LVAD Implantation\nH. Shah1, T. Murray2, J. Estep3, R. Araujo4, A. El Rafei5, B. Trachtenberg4, L. Teigen6, J. Schultz1, R. John7, C. Martin1, R. Cogswell1. 1Cardiology, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN, 2Biostatistics, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN, 3Cardiology, Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, OH, 4Cardiology, Houston Methodist, Houston, TX, 5Internal Medicine, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN, 6Gastroenterology Hepatology and Nutrition, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN, 7Cardiothoracic Surgery, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN\n12:00 PM (25) Oral Milrinone for the Treatment of Right Ventricular Failure in LVAD Patients\nN. Uriel1, D. Burkhoff2, G. Kim1, T. Silverstein1, J. Raikhelkar1, B. Smith1, C. Juricek1, V. Jeevanandam1, R. M. Lang3, G. Sayer1. 1University of Chicago, Chicago, IL, 2Columbia University, New York, NY, 3University of Chicago Medicine, Chicago, IL\nSESSION 05 (SYMPOSIUM): Limiting the Invasiveness of the VAD Therapy: Alternative to Limited Surgical Approaches (Grand Caribbean 1-7)\nSession Summary: The ISHLT 2018 Annual Meeting included the highest number of abstracts on less invasive VAD implantation approach. This symposium will evaluate the potential advantages of minimal invasive approaches for VAD implantation, the usage of ECMO instead of CPB, and the feasibility and advantages of adding minimal invasive and off-pump techniques.\nChairs: George M. Wieselthaler, MD and Marian Urban, MD\n10:30 AM Influence of the Surgical Technique on Post-Operative Outcome: Is Minimal Invasive Approach the Way to Go?\nVictor Pretorius, MD, UCSD Medical Center, San Diego, CA, USA\n10:45 AM Q&A\n10:50 AM The Alternative Approach: Should We Be Using ECMO Instead of CPB?\nJulia Riebandt, MD, Medical University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria\n11:10 AM Going 'Off-Pump': Does It Make a Difference?\nDiyar Saeed, MD, PhD, Leipzig Heart Center, Leipzig, Germany\n11:30 AM Going 'BIVAD': Acute Pitfalls and Long-Term Threats\nEvgenij V. Potapov, MD, PhD, Deutsches Herzzentrum, Berlin, Germany\n11:50 AM Out with the Old: Pump Replacement\/Upgrade Decommissioning Explant\nCarmelo A. Milano, MD, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, NC, USA\n12:05 PM Q&A\nSESSION 06 (ORAL): Pediatric Donor Utilization, MCS, Readmissions and More (Pacifica 3-5)\nPrimary Audience: PEDS\nSecondary Audience: HF\/HTX, MCS\nChairs: Jonathan N. Johnson, MD and Francesco Parisi, MD\n10:30 AM (26) Donor Utilization in the Australian National Paediatric Heart Transplant Program: Stretching the Limits\nJ. Wacker1, A. Shipp1, I. Konstantinov2, J. Brink2, R. Weintraub1, J. Mathew1. 1Cardiology, The Royal Children's Hospital Melbourne, Parkville, Australia, 2Cardiac Surgery, The Royal Children's Hospital Melbourne, Parkville, Australia\n10:45 AM (27) Regional Variation in Donor Refusal Rates Correlates with Poor Wait List Outcomes\nR. R. Davies1, R. Butts2, M. Bano2, R. D. Jaquiss1, R. C. Kirk1. 1Pediatric Cardiothoracic Surgery, UT Southwestern - Children's Health Dallas, Dallas, TX, 2Pediatrics (Cardiology), UT Southwestern - Children's Health Dallas, Dallas, TX\n11:00 AM (417) Toward a New Strategy for Pediatric Heart Allocation: High Risk Organs for Less Ill Patients?\nA. K. Morrison1, C. Gowda2, R. Gajarski1, D. Nandi1. 1The Heart Center, Nationwide Children's Hospital, Columbus, OH, 2Department of Pediatrics, Division of Infectious Diseases, Nationwide Children's Hospital, Columbus, OH\n11:15 AM (29) Anti-Coagulation Management in Pediatric Ventricular Assist Device: A Quality Improvement Target\nC. VanderPluym1, M. O'Connor2, A. Lorts3, M. Ploutz4, D. Peng5, S. Law6, M. Zinn7, R. Niebler8, D. Rosenthal9, J. Conway10, S. Auerbach11, D. Sutcliffe12, M. Mehegan13. 1Boston Children's Hospital, Boston, MA, 2Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, PA, 3Cincinnati Children's Hospital, Cincinnati, OH, 4Phoenix Children's Hospital, Phoenix, AZ, 5C.S. Mott Children's Hospital, Ann Arbor, MI, 6Morgan Stanley Children's Hospital of New York Presbyterian, New York, NY, 7Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, 8Children's Hospital of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, WI, 9Lucile Packard Children's Hospital, Palo Alto, CA, 10Stollery Children's Hospital, Edmonton, AB, Canada, 11Children's Hospital Colorado, Aurora, CO, 12Children's Health Dallas, Dallas, TX, 13Children's Hospital St. Louis, St. Louis, MO\n11:30 AM (30) Role of ECMO as Bridge to VAD Therapy in Critically Ill Pediatric Patients - An Analysis of the STS Pedimacs Database\nS. M. Peer1, D. A. Koehl2, R. S. Cantor2, R. A. Jonas1, P. Sinha1. 1Cardiac Surgery, Children's National Health System, Washington, DC, 2Kirklin Institute for Research in Surgical Outcomes, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, AL\n11:45 AM (31) Hospital Readmission Following Pediatric Heart Transplantation\nW. T. Mahle1, K. Mason2, A. Dipchand3, M. Richmond4, C. Canter5, D. Hsu6, T. P. Singh7, R. Shaddy8, B. Armstrong2, A. Zeevi9, D. Ikle2, H. Diop10, J. Odim10, S. Webber11. 1Children's Healthcare of Atlanta, Atlanta, GA, 2Rho, Chapel Hill, NC, 3Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto, ON, Canada, 4Columbia Presbyterian, New York, NY, 5St. Louis Children's, St. Louis, MO, 6Montefiore Children's Hospital, New York, NY, 7Boston Children's Hospital, Boston, MA, 8Los Angeles Children's Hospital, Los Angeles, CA, 9Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, 10NIH, Bethesda, MD, 11Vanderbilt University School of Medicine, Nashville, TN\n12:00 PM (32) Slowed Progression of Maximal Intimal Thickening by Intravascular Ultrasound after Initiation of Sirolimus\nA. Putschoegl1, L. Pyle1, M. Everitt1, S. Miyamoto1, B. Pietra2, S. Auerbach1. 1Children's Hospital Colorado, Aurora, CO, 2University of Florida Health, Gainesville, FL\nSESSION 07 (SYMPOSIUM): Making Co-Morbidities Great Again: Practical Updates in Co-Morbidity Management (Coral Sea)\nPrimary Audience: PHARM\nSecondary Audience: HF\/HTX, LF\/LTX\nSession Summary: This symposium will review management of comorbidities and primary care needs that affect heart and lung transplant recipients before and after transplant including diabetes, dyslipidemia, osteoporosis, psychiatric disorders, complimentary\/alternative medicine, and immunizations\/travel. Best practices and recent guideline recommendations will be presented for each topic. New and novel medications available and any pros or cons for use in the transplant population will be discussed.\nChairs: Patricia Ging, PharmD and Nicole L. Casciello, PharmD, MBA\n10:30 AM What to Do When the A1C is 'BIGLY': An Update on the Management of Post-Transplant Diabetes\nJennifer L. Day, PharmD, Baptist Health Heart Failure and Transplant Institute, Little Rock, AR, USA\n10:45 AM Good Lipoproteins on Both Sides: Optimizing Treatment of Dyslipidemia and Obesity\nJill C. Krisl, PharmD, Houston Methodist Hospital, Houston, TX, USA\n11:00 AM Skeletons in the Closet': Diagnosis, Prevention and Treatment of Osteoporosis\nDavid Iturbe, MD, Hospital Universitario Marques de Valdecilla, Santander, Spain\n11:15 AM 'Stable Genius': Managing Mental Health After Transplant\nMelissa Sanchez, BSc, Hons, Royal Brompton & Harefield NHS Foundation Trust, Harefield, Middlesex, UK\n11:30 AM Combating 'Alternative Facts': Complementary and Alternative Medicine in Transplant\nTeena Sam, PharmD, Baylor University Medical Center, Dallas, TX, USA\n11:45 AM 'Fake News': Immunization Practices and Travel Prophylaxis\nMichele Estabrook, MD, St. Louis Children's Hospital, St. Louis, MO, USA\nCOUNCIL MEETING: Basic Science and Translational Research (Pacifica 1-2)\nCOUNCIL MEETING: Nursing, Health Sciences and Allied Health (Pacifica 3-5)\nCOUNCIL MEETING: Pharmacy and Pharmacology (Coral Sea)\nJunior Faculty Mentor Lunch (South China Sea)\nCOMMITTEE MEETING: IMACS Registry (Admiralty Boardroom)\nSESSION 08 (ORAL): ISHLT Spotlight: Heart Transplantation in Latin America (Pacifica 7)\nSecondary Audience: EEP, ID, PATH\nChairs: Are M. Holm, MD, PhD, Howard Eisen, MD and Victor Rossel, MD\n12:45 PM (33) Sequential Measurement of Trypanosoma cruzi Parasitic Load in Endomyocardial Biopsies for Early Detection and Follow-up of Chagas Disease Reactivation After Heart Transplantation\nL. A. Benvenuti1, A. Rogg\u00e9rio1, A. S. Nishiya2, S. Mangini1, J. E. Levi2. 1Heart Institute (InCor), Hospital das Cl\u00ednicas da FMUSP, S\u00e3o Paulo, Brazil, 2Funda\u00e7\u00e3o Pr\u00f3-Sangue, Hospital das Cl\u00ednicas da FMUSP, S\u00e3o Paulo, Brazil\n12:57 PM (34) The Paradigm of Gender: Mismatch and Its Influence on Short and Long-Term Outcomes after Heart Transplantation\nM. D. Gilbert1, P. A. Morej\u00f3n2, M. F. Renedo2, E. F. Giordanino2, L. E. Favaloro2, R. D. Ratto2, D. O. Absi1, R. R. Favaloro1, A. M. Bertolotti1. 1Cardiovascular, Thoracic Surgery, and Intrathoracic Transplantation, Hospital Universitario Fundaci\u00f3n Favaloro, Buenos Aires, Argentina, 2Heart Failure and Heart Transplantation, Hospital Universitario Fundaci\u00f3n Favaloro, Buenos Aires, Argentina\n1:09 PM (35) Incidence of Right Ventricular Dysfunction in Adult Patients Submitted to Heart Transplantation According to the Presence of Pre-Transplant Pulmonary Hypertension\nM. M. Lensi, A. S. Ramos, J. Xavier Junior, L. B. Seguro, S. Mangini, M. S. \u00c1vila, I. W. Campos, A. P. Duque, F. Gaiotto, S. P. Steffen, F. Bacal, F. G. Marcondes-Braga. Heart Transplant Department, Heart Institute - InCor HC FMUSP, S\u00e3o Paulo, Brazil\n1:21 PM (36) The Effect of Donor-Recipient Heart Mass and Size Matching in Primary Graft Dysfunction Development after Heart Transplantation\n1:33 PM (37) Endomyocardial Biopsy after Heart Transplantation. When is Too Late?\nL. M. Guerrero Cepeda, F. G. Marcondes-Braga, D. M. Costa, R. M. Mendes, S. Duarte, J. C. Oliveira, I. Wosniack, L. F. Seguro, S. Mangini, F. Gaiotto, R. H. Santos, M. S. Avila, F. Bacal. Heart Transplantion, Instituto do Cora\u00e7\u00e3o INCOR, S\u00e3o Paulo, Brazil\nSESSION 09 (SYMPOSIUM): Re-Focusing the Blurry Vision: Biomarkers of Thoracic Allograft Rejection (Pacifica 1-2)\nSession Summary: The goal of this symposium is to review advances in molecular diagnostic assessments and novel biomarkers in thoracic (both heart and lung) organ transplantation. This will include approaches that are being applied clinically and others that are investigational but that can provide greater insight into the pathophysiology and immunology of allograft rejection.\nChairs: Daniel Kreisel, MD, PhD and Tereza Martinu, MD\n2:00 PM Donor-Derived Cell Free DNA as a Marker of Allograft Injury\nHannah Valantine, MD, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD, USA\n2:15 PM Q&A\n2:20 PM Monitoring Immune Responses\nGlen Westall, MD, PhD, Alfred Hospital, Melbourne, Australia\n2:40 PM MicroRNA and Exosomes\nP. Christian Schulze, MD, PhD, University Hospital, Jena, Germany\n3:00 PM Through the Looking Glass: Advances in Histology\nMartin Goddard, FRCS, MRCPa, Papworth Hospital, Cambridge, UK\n3:20 PM Gene Expression Signatures to Monitor Graft Rejection\nJean-Paul Duong Van Huyen, MD, Hospital Necker, Paris, France\nSESSION 10 (ORAL): Heart Donor Management and Allocation: Setting It Up For Success (Pacifica 7)\nChairs: Victor Rossel, MD and Jamila Kremer, MD\n2:00 PM (38) Non Ischemic Heart Preservation \u2014 Results from the Safety Study\nJ. Nilsson1, V. Jernryd2, G. Qin3, A. Paskevicius3, T. Sj\u00f6berg3, P. H\u00f6glund4, S. Steen3. 1Skanes University Hospital Cardiothoracic Surgery, Lund, Sweden, 2Clinical Sciences Lund, Cardiothoracic Surgery, Lund University, Skane University Hospital, Lund, Sweden, 3Clinical Sciences Lund, Cardiothoracic Surgery, Lund University and Skane University Hospital, Lund, Sweden, 4Laboratory Medicine, Lund, Clinical Chemistry and Pharmacology, Lund University and Skane University Hospital, Lund, Sweden\n2:15 PM (39) Donation after Circulatory Death in Heart Transplantation May Increase the Donor Pool by 20% in the U.S\nO. K. Jawitz1, V. Raman1, A. Devore2, R. Mentz2, C. B. Patel2, M. Hartwig1, M. Daneshmand1, J. Schroder1, C. Milano1. 1Department of Surgery, Duke University School of Medicine, Durham, NC, 2Department of Medicine, Duke University School of Medicine, Durham, NC\n2:30 PM (40) DCD Donor Hearts Recipients Compared to DBD Donor Heart Recipients Present with Comparable Systolic Left Ventricular Function and Better Myocardial Strain at 1 Year Follow Up\nA. Ciarka1, A. Page2, S. Messer2, E. Pavlushkov2, S. Colah2, R. Axell2, B. Parizkova2, S. Tsui2, J. Parameshwar2, S. Large2. 1Cardiovascular Diseases, Catholic University of Leuven, Leuven, Belgium, 2of Transplantation, Papworth Hospital, NHS Foundation Trust, Cambridge, United Kingdom\n2:45 PM (41) A Data-Driven Framework for Monitoring and Improving Organ Donation Awareness among Minorities Using Optimal Social Network Intervention\nD. Pinheiro1, M. Murphy2, R. Iyengar2, J. Lazareff3, J. Choi4, R. Menezes5, M. Cadeiras1. 1Department of Internal Medicine, University of California, Davis, Sacramento, CA, 2Department of Medicine, University of California, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA, 3Center for World Health, University of California, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA, 4Department of Sociology, State University of San Diego, San Diego, CA, 5Department of Computer Science, University of California, Davis, Exeter, United Kingdom\n3:00 PM (42) The Impact of DCD Heart Transplantation on the Waiting List: A Single Centre Experience\nA. Page, R. Duehmke, S. Messer, S. Barra, M. Berman, S. Bhagra, J. Parameshwar, S. Tsui, P. Catarino, S. Pettit, S. Large. Papworth Hospital NHS Foundation Trust, Cambridge, United Kingdom\n3:15 PM (43) The Benefit of Heart Transplant Among Candidates Assigned Lower Priority in the New 6-Status US Heart Allocation System\nW. F. Parker1, E. S. Huang1, R. D. Gibbons2, A. S. Anderson3, M. M. Churpek1. 1University of Chicago Medicine, Chicago, IL, 2Public Health Sciences, University of Chicago Medicine, Chicago, IL, 3Northwestern Medicine, Chicago, IL\n3:30 PM (44) Clinical Factors Associated with Left Ventricular Recovery in Brain Dead Cardiac Donors\nJ. R. Peacock, J. Ji, A. Bhatia, J. C. Hartupee, G. A. Ewald. Washington University in St. Louis, St. Louis, MO\nSESSION 11 (ORAL): Chronic Lung Allograft Dysfunction: Overcoming the Hurdle? (Pacifica 10-12)\nChairs: Edward R. Garrity, Jr., MD and Cynthia J. Gries, MD, MSc\n2:00 PM (45) Increased Frequency Of regulatory CD127low T Cells and of IL2+ T Cells Early after Lung Transplant is Associated with Improved Graft Survival\nF. Ius1, J. Salman1, A. Kn\u00f6fel1, T. Nakagiri1, W. Sommer1, T. Siemeni1, C. Kh \u00fcn1, T. Welte2, C. S. Falk3, A. Haverich1, I. Tudorache1, G. Warnecke1. 1Department of Cardiothoracic, Transplant and Vascular Surgery, Hannover Medical School, Hannover, Germany, 2Department of Respiratory Medicine, Hannover Medical School, Hannover, Germany, 3Institute of Transplant Immunology, Hannover Medical School, Hannover, Germany\n2:15 PM (46) Prognostic Significance of Mesenchymal Cell Colony Forming Units in Bronchoalveolar Lavage Fluid for Restrictive Chronic Lung Allograft Dysfunction\nM. P. Combs1, M. Xia2, D. S. Wheeler1, E. A. Belloli1, D. M. Lyu1, N. M. Walker1, S. Murray2, V. N. Lama1. 1Department of Medicine, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, 2Department of Biostatistics, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI\n2:30 PM (47) Intragraft IgG Levels and Donor-Specific anti-HLA Antibodies in Different Phenotypes of Chronic Lung Allograft Dysfunction\nA. Sacreas1, J. Taupin2, A. Van Herck1, J. Kaes1, T. Heigl1, A. Vanstapel1, M. Emonds3, L. Dani\u00ebls3, R. Vos1, G. M. Verleden1, B. M. Vanaudenaerde1, A. Roux4, S. E. Verleden1. 1Leuven Lung Transplant Unit, Department of Chronic Diseases, Metabolism, and Ageing (CHROMETA), KU Leuven, Leuven, Belgium, 2Laboratoire d'Immunologie et Histocompatibilit\u00e9, Saint-Louis Hospital, Paris, France, 3Histocompatibility and Immunogenetics Laboratory, Belgian Red Cross-Flanders, Mechelen, Belgium, 4Service de Transplantation Pulmonaire, Foch Hospital, Suresnes, France\n2:45 PM (48) Airway Transcriptome Analysis and Immune Proteome Profiling of the Lung Allograft Reveals Novel Immune Signatures in Chronic Lung Allograft Dysfunction\nC. J. Iasella1, A. Hoji2, Y. Zhang2, W. Xu2, K. Chen2, M. Brown2, E. Lendermon2, B. A. Johnson2, S. Kilaru2, M. R. Morrell2, J. M. Pilewski2, J. F. McDyer2. 1Department of Pharmacy and Therapeutics, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, 2Department of Medicine, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA\n3:00 PM (49) Host miRNA Profile of Aspergillus Colonization Resulting in CLAD in Lung Transplant Recipients\nW. Gohir1, W. Klement2, L. G. Singer3, S. M. Palmer4, S. Keshavjee3, S. Husain1. 1Multi Organ Transplant Unit, Division of Infectious Diseases, University Health Network, Toronto, ON, Canada, 2Organ Donation and Transplantation, Canadian Blood Services, Ottawa, ON, Canada, 3Toronto Lung Transplant Program, University Health Network, Toronto, ON, Canada, 4Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, Duke University, Durham, NC\n3:15 PM (50) Identification and Characterization of Patients With a Mixed Phenotype of CLAD\nS. E. Verleden1, J. Von der Thusen2, A. Van Herck1, B. Weynand1, E. Verbeken1, J. Verschakelen1, A. Dubbeldam1, B. Vanaudenaerde1, D. Van Raemdonck1, R. Vos1, G. Verleden1. 1KU Leuven, Leuven, Belgium, 2Universitair Medisch Centrum Rotterdam, Rotterdam, Netherlands\n3:30 PM (51) Exploring Chronic Lung Transplant (LTx) Allograft Dysfunction (CLAD): The Potential Clinical Prognostic Relevance of Single Bite Transbronchial Biopsy (TBB) Microarray\nG. I. Snell1, G. Westall1, Y. Cristiano1, B. J. Levvey1, L. Sullivan1, K. Halloran2, P. Halloran3. 1Lung Transplant Service, Alfred Hospital, Melbourne, Australia, 2Lung Transplant and Pulmonary Medicine, University of Alberta, Edmonton, AB, Canada, 3Department of Medicine, University of Alberta, Edmonton, AB, Canada\nSESSION 12 (ORAL): When Short-Term Becomes Long-Term: Transition from Temporary to Permanent Mechanical Support (Pacifica 6)\nChairs: Maria M. Mountis, DO and Christopher T. Salerno, MD\n2:00 PM (52) Outcomes of Patients Supported with ECMO as a Bridge to Durable Mechanical Circulatory Support: An Analysis of the STS Intermacs Database\nR. Y. Loyaga-Rendon1, T. Boeve2, J. Tallaj3, S. Lee1, M. Leacche2, D. A. Koehl4, R. S. Cantor4, K. Lotun5, D. Acharya5. 1Cardiology Division, Spectrum Health, Grand Rapids, MI, 2Cardiothoracic Surgery Division, Spectrum Health, Grand Rapids, MI, 3Cardiovascular Division, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, AL, 4Kirklin Institute for Research in Surgical Outcomes, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, AL, 5Cardiovascular Diseases Division, University of Arizona Sarver Heart Center, Tucson, AZ\n2:15 PM (53) Comparison of ECMO Patients Bridged to LVAD vs Bridged to Transplantation\nC. Lui, C. D. Fraser, A. Suarez-Pierre, X. Zhou, K. J. Zehr, C. W. Choi, A. Kilic. Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD\n2:30 PM (54) Short and Long-Term Adverse Events in Patients on Temporary Circulatory Support before LVAD: An IMACS Registry Analysis\nV. Ton1, J. A. Hernandez-Montfort2, R. Xie3, B. P. Meyns4, T. Nakatani5, M. Yanase6, S. Shaw7, S. Pettit8, I. Netuka9, J. Kirklin10, D. J. Goldstein11, J. Cowger12. 1University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, 2The University of Texas Medical Branch-Galveston, Galveston, TX, 3The University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, AL, 4Gasthuisberg University Hopital, Leuven, Belgium, 5National Cardiovascilar Center, Osaka, Japan, 6National Cerebral and Cardiovascular Center, Osaka, Japan, 7Wythenshawe Hospital, Manchester, United Kingdom, 8Royal Papworth Hospital, Cambridge, United Kingdom, 9IKEM - Institute for Clinical and Experimental Medicine, Prague, Czech Republic, 10University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, AL, 11Montefiore Medical Center, New York, NY, 12Henry Ford Health System, Detroit, MI\n2:45 PM (55) Longitudinal Impact of Temporary Mechanical Circulatory Support on Durable Left Ventricular Assist Device Outcomes: An IMACS Registry Analysis\nJ. A. Hernandez-Montfort1, V. Khue Ton2, R. Xie3, A. Fisher4, B. Meyns5, T. Nakatani6, I. Netuka7, S. Pettit8, S. Shaw9, M. Yanase10, J. K. Kirklin11, A. Rowe12, D. J. Goldstein13, J. Cowger14. 1The University of Texas Medical Branch - Galveston, Galveston, TX, 2University of Maryland, Baltimore, MD, 3IMACS, Birmingham, AL, 4Newcastle University, Newcastle, United Kingdom, 5UZ Leuven, Leuven, Belgium, 6Maki Hospital, Osaka, Japan, 7Institut Clinical and Experimental Medicine, Prague, Czech Republic, 8Papworth, Cambridge, United Kingdom, 9Manchester University NHS Foundation Trust, Manchester, United Kingdom, 10National Cerebral and Cardiovascular Center, Osaka, Japan, 11University of Alabama- Birmingham, Birmingham, AL, 12ISHLT Headquarters, Addison, TX, 13Montefiore, Bronx, NY, 14Cardiology, Henry Ford Hospital, Detroit, MI\n3:00 PM (56) Transition from Short-Term to Durable Mechanical Circulatory Support Systems. Outcome and Patient Selection. On Behalf of ECMO-VAD Study Group\nD. Saeed1, E. Potapov2, A. Loforte3, M. Morchius4, D. Schibilsky5, D. Zimpfer6, J. Riebandt6, F. Pappalardo7, M. Attisani8, A. Haneya9, F. Ramjankhan10, D. Donker10, U. Jorde11, R. Wieloch1, R. Ayala12, D. Tsyganenko2, J. Cremer9, A. Lichtenberg1, J. Gummert4. 1Cardiovascular Surgery, Heinrich-Heine University Dusseldorf, Dusseldorf, Germany, 2Deutsches Herzzentrum Berlin, Berlin, Germany, 3Bologna University, Bologna, Italy, 4Herz und Diabetes Zentrum NRW, Bad Oeynhausen, Germany, 5Cardiovascular Surgery, Freiburg University, Freiburg, Germany, 6Medical University Vienna, Vienna, Austria, 7Cardiovascular Surgery, San Raffaele Hospital, Milan, Italy, 8Cardiovascular Surgery, University of Turin, Turin, Italy, 9Cardiovascular Surgery, University Hospital Schleswig Holstein, Kiel, Germany, 10Cardiovascular Surgery, University Medical Center Utrecht, Utrecht, Netherlands, 11Montefiore Medical Center, Bronx, NY, 12Freiburg University, Freiburg, Germany\n3:15 PM (57) Risk Factors for Bleeding and Thrombosis Events on Veno-Arterial Extracorporeal Life Support: An ELSO Analysis\nF. R. Cabezas1, E. W. Grandin1, R. Kociol1, M. R. Mehra2. 1Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Boston, MA, 2Advanced Heart Failure, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, MA\n3:30 PM (58) Impact of Temporary Mechanical Circulatory Support Prior to Implantation of a Ventricular Assist Device with a Follow-Up of 1 Year- A EUROMACS Analysis\nD. Schibilsky1, T. de By2, J. Gummert3, F. Ramjankhan4, J. Wolfinger1, E. Potapov5, I. Netuka6, F. Beyersdorf1, M. Siepe1. 1Department of Cardiovascular Surgery, University Heart Center Freiburg, Bad Krozingen, Freiburg Germany and Medical Faculty of the Albert-Ludwigs-University Freiburg, Germany, Freiburg, Germany, 2EUROMACS, Windsor, Germany, 3Department of Cardiovascular Surgery, Heart and Diabetes Center NRW, Bad Oeynhausen, Germany, 4Department of Cardiovascular Surgery, University Medical Center Utrecht, Utrecht, Germany, 5Department of Cardiothoracic and Vascular Surgery, German Heart Institute Berlin, Berlin, Germany, 6Department of Cardiac Surgery, Institute for Clinical and Experimental Medicine, Prague, Czech Republic\nSESSION 13 (SYMPOSIUM): They Tell Me I Am Irregular: Why Do They Care? Arrhythmias in LVAD Recipients (Grand Caribbean 1-7)\nSession Summary: CF-LVAD patients are living longer, and cardiac implantable electronic devices and arrhythmia management have assumed a significant role. More data is available to guide management, and expert speakers including MCS & EP specialists will discuss existing data and provide recommendations regarding appropriate management of ICD\/CRT and arrhythmias in LVAD recipients.\nChairs: Michael M. Givertz, MD and Stephan Schueler, MD, PhD, FRCS\n2:00 PM Atrial Fibrillation and Flutter in LVAD Patients: Incidence, Significance and Management\nSean P. Pinney, MD, Mount Sinai Medical Center, New York, NY, USA\n2:20 PM Optimal Device Programming and Role of Catheter and Surgical Ablation in Arrhythmia Management Post-LVAD\nJoshua D. Moss, MD, UCSF Medical Center, San Francisco, CA, USA\n2:40 PM DEBATE: All VAD Patients Should Have ICD and All VT Should Be Ablated (PRO)\nAnique Ducharme, MD, MSC, Montreal Heart Institute, Montreal, QC, Canada\n2:55 PM DEBATE: All VAD Patients Should Have ICD and All VT Should Be Ablated (CON)\nShashank S. Desai, MD, Inova Fairfax Hospital, Falls Church, VA, USA\n3:10 PM DEBATE: BiV Pacing Improves Outcomes in LVAD Patients (PRO)\nGabriel Sayer, MD, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL, USA\n3:25 PM DEBATE: BiV Pacing Improves Outcomes in LVAD Patients (CON)\nJens Garbade, MD, University of Leipzig Medical Center, Leipzig, Germany\nSESSION 14 (SYMPOSIUM): Part of (Their) World: Discharging Patients Home with a New Device (Pacifica 3-5)\nPrimary Audience: NHSAH\nSecondary Audience: MCS, PEDS\nSession Summary: A successful discharge for patients with VAD or other supportive therapies (continuous infusions for pulmonary hypertension and heart failure patients) requires thoughtful planning and education. This symposium addresses topics geared towards helping patients successfully discharge to (and remain) home, including self-management\/self-efficacy, discharge medications, avoiding readmission, preparing caregivers of patients with devices, and addressing the issues most important to patients: driving, showering, drinking, sex and traveling.\nChairs: Sarah E. Schroeder, ACNP-BC, MSN, RN, AACC and Mark E. Puhlman, DNP, ANP-C\n2:00 PM I Can Go the Distance: Building Self Care and Self-Empowerment in Patients\nJesus Casida, PhD, RN, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, USA\n2:20 PM You've Got a Friend in Me: Preparing Caregivers\nJodie Lantz, MSN, RN, PCNS-BC, Children's Health Dallas, Richardson, TX, USA\n2:40 PM A Spoonful of Sugar Makes the Discharge Medications Go Down\nCassandra Vale, PharmD, The Prince Charles Hospital, Queensland, Australia\n3:00 PM How Far I'll Go: Preventing Returns to the Hospital\nNicola Robinson Smith, RN, Freeman Hospital, Newcastle Upon Tyne, UK\n3:20 PM The Bare Necessities: The Do's and Don'ts of Living with a New Device\nWendy Gin-Sing, CNS, Hammersmith Hospital, London, UK\nSESSION 15 (ORAL): Pharmacotherapy in Transplantation: Reading the Tea Leaves to Improve Outcomes (Coral Sea)\nChairs: Adam B. Cochrane, PharmD and Keyur B. Shah, MD\n2:00 PM (59) Omega-3 Suppresses Gastrointestinal Bleeding by Reducing Angiopoietin-2 Expression in LVAD Patients\nT. Imamura, A. Nguyen, D. Nitta, S. Kalantari, B. Smith, J. Raikhelkar, N. Narang, B. Chung, I. Ebong, L. Holzhauser, T. Fujino, C. Juricek, P. Combs, D. Onsager, T. Song, T. Ota, V. Jeevanandam, G. Sayer, G. Kim, N. Uriel. University of Chicago, Chicago, IL\n2:15 PM (60) Effect of Methylene Blue Administration on Vasoplegia Following Left Ventricular Assist Device Implantation\nA. Saha1, D. L. Jennings2, J. Sanchez1, A. Melehy1, M. Yuzefpolskaya3, P. C. Colombo3, M. A. Farr3, H. Takayama4, Y. Naka4, K. Takeda4. 1Columbia University Vagelos College of Physicians and Surgeons, New York, NY, 2Department of Pharmacy, Columbia University Irving Medical Center, New York, NY, 3Department of Medicine, Division of Cardiology, Columbia University Irving Medical Center, New York, NY, 4Department of Surgery, Division of Cardiac, Thoracic & Vascular Surgery, Columbia University Irving Medical Center, New York, NY\n2:30 PM (61) Comparative Efficacy of Bortezomib and Carfilzomib Desensitization Protocols in Highly Sensitized Cardiac Transplant Candidates\nM. Sobhanian1, J. Saltarrelli2, P. Weeks1, S. Nathan2, R. Radovancevic2, B. Kar2, I. Gregoric2. 1Memorial Hermann Hospital - Texas Medical Center, Houston, TX, 2The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston, Houston, TX\n2:45 PM (62) Mycophenolic Acid Area under the Curve Monitoring via Limited Sampling Strategy in Pediatric Heart Transplant Recipients\nS. A. Crow, S. H. Dahl, J. N. Johnson. Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN\n3:00 PM (63) Association between Cumulative Pre-Transplant Amiodarone Dose and Post-Transplant Outcomes after Heart Transplantation\nL. M. Lourenco1, K. Lang1, P. Simone1, S. Patel1, J. Powers2, T. Riley2, C. Murks2, B. Smith2, S. Kalantari2, J. Raikhelkar2, N. Sarswat2, G. Kim2, G. Sayer2, N. Uriel2. 1Pharmacy Services, University of Chicago Medicine, Chicago, IL, 2Cardiology, University of Chicago Medicine, Chicago, IL\n3:15 PM (64) Retrospective Nested Case Control Study of the Impact of Immunosuppression on Post Transplant Malignancy among Adult Heart Transplant Patients\nS. A. Crow, R. J. Bubik, N. L. Pereira, K. C. Mara, R. A. Dierkhising, S. S. Kushwaha. Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN\n3:30 PM (65) Past is Not Prologue - Immune Function Assay Results as a Predictor of Malignancy Post-Heart Transplant (HT)\nT. Khuu1, M. Kamath2, M. Moore1, A. Salimbangon1, T. Daun1, A. Chang1, L. Sweet1, E. DePasquale2, A. Nsair2, R. Ardehali2, A. Baas2, M. Deng2, M. Cadeiras3, A. Ardehali4. 1Transplant Services, UCLA, Los Angeles, CA, 2Medicine, Cardiology, UCLA, Los Angeles, CA, 3Medicine, Cardiology, UC Davis, Davis, CA, 4Surgery, UCLA, Los Angeles, CA\nSESSION 16 (ORAL): Junior Faculty and Trainees Clinical Case Dilemmas: The Best of the Best (Coral Sea)\nChairs: Ryan Butts, MD and Lavanya Bellumkonda, MD\n4:15 PM (66) Stop the Leak! Transcatheter Aortic Valve Replacement in Pediatric VAD Patient\nH. P. Tunuguntla1, I. Adachi2, A. Khan1, B. A. Elias2, S. Choudhry1, A. G. Cabrera1, J. F. Price1, W. J. Dreyer1, S. W. Denfield1, J. A. Spinner1, A. Jeewa3, A. M. Qureshi1. 1Pediatric Cardiology, Texas Children's Hospital, Houston, TX, 2Congenital Heart Surgery, Texas Children's Hospital, Houston, TX, 3Pediatric Cardiology, The Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto, ON, Canada\n4:20 PM Expert Discussant for Stop the Leak! Transcatheter Aortic Valve Replacement in Pediatric VAD Patient\nChristopher Almond, MD, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, USA\n4:25 PM Discussion\n4:32 PM (67) The Utility of CardioMEMS Implantable Hemodynamic Monitoring Device in Heartware HVAD Patient with Recurrent Gastrointestinal Bleeding\nH. Singh1, V. Kittipibul2, R. Flowers2, S. V. Chaparro3. 1University of Miami Miller School of Medicine, Miami, FL, 2Department of Medicine, University of Miami Miller School of Medicine, Miami, FL, 3Cardiovascular Medicine Division, University of Miami Miller School of Medicine, Miami, FL\n4:37 PM Expert Discussant for The Utility of CardioMEMS Implantable Hemodynamic Monitoring Device in Heartware HVAD Patient with Recurrent Gastrointestinal Bleeding\nRobert L. Kormos, MD, University of Pittsburgh Medical Center, Pittsburgh, PA, USA\n4:49 PM (68) Inverted Lung Transplantation: Interposition of Pericardial Conduit for Pulmonary Venous Anastomosis\nH. Yamamoto1, K. Miyoshi2, T. Kurosaki1, S. Otani1, M. Okazaki1, S. Sugimoto1, M. Yamane1, S. Toyooka1, T. Oto1. 1General Thoracic Surgery, Organ Transplant Center, Okayama University Hospital, Okayama, Japan, 2General Thoracic Surgery, Okayama Medical Center, Okayama, Japan\n4:54 PM Expert Discussant for Inverted Lung Transplantation: Interposition of Pericardial Conduit for Pulmonary Venous Anastomosis\nChristopher H. Wigfield, MD, FRCS, Advocate Christ Medical Center, Chicago, IL, USA\n5:06 PM (69) Successful Bacteriophage Therapy for Treatment of Multidrug-Resistant Pseudomonas aeruginosa Infection in a Cystic Fibrosis Patient\nN. Law1, C. Logan1, C. Furr2, S. Lehman2, S. Morales2, F. Rosas2, A. Gaidamaka2, I. Bilinsky2, P. Grint2, R. Schooley1, S. Aslam1. 1University of California, San Diego, San Diego, CA, 2AmpliPhi Biosciences Inc, San Diego, CA\n5:11 PM Expert Discussant for Successful Bacteriophage Therapy for Treatment of Multidrug-Resistant Pseudomonas aeruginosa Infection in a Cystic Fibrosis Patient\nNicolas Mueller, MD, University Hospital Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland\n5:23 PM (70) Tocilizumab for Antibody-Mediated Rejection in the Setting of Cardiac Allograft Vasculopathy\nS. January1, A. Pottebaum1, D. Raymer1, K. Lavine2. 1Barnes-Jewish Hospital, St Louis, MO, 2Washington University School of Medicine, St Louis, MO\n5:28 PM Expert Discussant for Tocilizumab for Antibody-Mediated Rejection in the Setting of Cardiac Allograft Vasculopathy\nJon A. Kobashigawa, MD, Cedars-Sinai Heart Institute, Los Angeles, CA, USA\n5:40 PM (71) Expanding Benefits from Cardiac Resynchronization Therapy to Exercise-Induced Left Bundle Branch Block in the Setting of Advanced Heart Failure: A Case Report\nF. L. Scolari, W. R. Menegazzo, A. D. Silveira, A. C. Mendes, M. Pimentel, N. Clausell, L. Goldraich. Hospital de Cl\u00ednicas Porto Alegre, Porto Alegre, Brazil\n5:45 PM Expert Discussant for Expanding Benefits from Cardiac Resynchronization Therapy to Exercise-Induced Left Bundle Branch Block in the Setting of Advanced Heart Failure: A Case Report\nSharon A. Hunt, MD, Stanford University Medical Center, Stanford, CA, USA\nSESSION 17 (ORAL): Tolerance Is All We Need in Thoracic Transplantation (Pacifica 1-2)\nSecondary Audience: HTX, LTX, PATH\nChairs: Fabio Ius, MD and Thalachallour Mohanakumar, PhD\n4:15 PM (72) 31 Day Xeno Lung Recipient Survival - Progress towards the Clinic\nL. Burdorf1, C. Laird2, S. Sendil2, N. O'Neill2, T. Zhang2, D. Parsell2, I. Tatarov3, Z. Abady1, B. M. Cerel1, S. Pratts1, C. J. Phelps4, D. L. Ayares4, A. M. Azimzadeh1, R. N. Pierson III1. 1Surgery, Center for Transplantation Sciences, MGH, Charlestown, MA, 2Surgery, University of Maryland, Baltimore, MD, 3Surgery, University of Maryland, Baltimore, MA, 4Revivicor, Blacksburg, VA\n4:30 PM (73) Tolerance Induction by Myeloid Progenitor Cells Does Not Require Lethal Preconditioning or Hematopoietic Stem Cell Transplantation\nY. Li1, A. Sedello2, J. Domen1. 1Ward Family Heart Center, Children's Mercy Hospital and Clinics, Kansas City, MO, 2Cellerant Therapeutics, San Carlos, CA\n4:45 PM (74)IL-22 Regulates Induction of Foxp3-Rich Tertiary Lymphoid Organs in Tolerant Lung Allografts\nS. Tanaka1, J. M. Gauthier1, A. Fuchs1, W. Li1, R. Higashikubo1, A. Y. Tong1, A. S. Krupnick2, A. E. Gelman1, D. Kreisel1. 1Department of Surgery, Washington University in St. Louis, St. Louis, MO, 2Department of Surgery, The University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA\n5:00 PM (75) Intrapulmonary Immune Regulation by Pre-Transplant Infusion of Recipient-Derived Regulatory T Cells in a Rat Model of Ex Vivo Lung Perfusion Followed by Transplantation\nE. Miyamoto, T. Martinu, D. Hwang, A. Ohsumi, K. Boonstra, B. Joe, M. Umana, M. Liu, M. Cypel, S. Keshavjee, S. Juvet. Latner Thoracic Surgery Research Laboratories, University Health Network, Toronto, ON, Canada\n5:15 PM (76) PI3-Kinase Inhibition Promotes Tolerogenic CD8+ T Cell Function in Lung Transplant Recipients with a History of Cigarette Smoke Exposure\nK. J. Patel1, Q. Cheng2, D. P. Allen1, C. Li1, C. Wallace1, A. Alawieh1, L. Cardenas3, J. Kilkenny1, S. N. Nadig1, M. Goddard4, J. Christie5, C. Krieg3, C. Atkinson1. 1Surgery, Medical University of South Carolina, Charleston, SC, 2Department of Surgery, Tongji Hospital, Wuhan, China, 3Microbiology and Immunology, Medical University of South Carolina, Charleston, SC, 4Pathology, Royal Papworth Hospital NHS Trust, Cambridgeshire, United Kingdom, 5Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA\n5:30 PM (77) Donor T and NK Cells are Derived from the Donor Lung Parenchyme and Represent Tissue-Resident Memory Cells - An Important Feature for Tolerance Development\nR. Bellm\u00e0s Sanz1, A. Hitz1, B. Wiegmann2, K. Bl\u00e4sing1, F. Ius2, A. Kn\u00f6fel2, I. Tudorache2, M. Avsar2, D. Jonigk3, A. Haverich2, G. Warnecke2, C. Falk1. 1Institute of Transplant Immunology, Hannover Medical School, Hannover, Germany, 2Department of Cardiothoracic, Transplantation and Vascular Surgery, Hannover Medical School, Hannover, Germany, 3Institute of Pathology, Hannover Medical School, Hannover, Germany\n5:45 PM (78) Cardiac Allograft Vasculopathy is Linked to Impaired Generation of Regulatory M2 Macrophages\nL. Holzhauser, T. Imamura, K. A. Arnold, A. Schroeder, C. Murks, J. Powers, T. Riley, G. Kim, J. Raikhelkar, B. Smith, A. Nguyen, S. Nathan, B. Chung, V. Jeevanandam, N. Narang, I. Ebong, G. Sayer, N. Uriel, A. Francis. University of Chicago, Chicago, IL\nSESSION 18 (ORAL): Ex-Vivo Heart Perfusion and Preservation: Some Like It Hot - or Not! (Pacifica 7)\nChairs: Luanda P. Grazette, MD and Maryl R. Johnson, MD\n4:15 PM (79) Successful Utilization of Extended Criteria Donor (ECD) Hearts for Transplantation - Results of the OCS\u2122 Heart EXPAND Trial to Evaluate the Effectiveness and Safety of the OCS Heart System to Preserve and Assess ECD Hearts for Transplantation\nJ. N. Schroder1, D. D'Alessandro2, F. Esmailian3, T. Boeve4, P. Tang5, K. Liao6, I. Wang7, A. Anyanwu8, A. Shah9, K. Mudy10, E. Soltesz11, J. W. Smith12. 1Duke University Medical Center, Durham, NC, 2Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA, 3Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, Los Angeles, CA, 4Spectrum Health, Grand Rapids, MI, 5University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, 6University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN, 7Indiana University, Indianapolis, IN, 8Mount Sinai, New York, NY, 9Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN, 10Minneapolis Heart Institute, Minneapolis, MN, 11Cleveland Clinic Foundation, Cleveland, OH, 12University of Washington, Seattle, WA\n4:30 PM (80) Ex-vivo Perfusion on Marginal Donors in Heart Transplantation: Clinical Resuts and Pathological Findings\nS. Sponga1, V. Ferrara1, A. P. Beltrami2, A. Bonetti2, C. Cantarutti2, A. Caragnano2, F. Ortolani2, A. Lechiancole1, R. Esposito1, C. Di Nora1, V. Tursi3, C. Nalli1, U. Livi1. 1Cardiothoracic Department, Udine University Hospital, Udine, Italy, 2Medical Area Department (DAME), Udine University Hospital, Udine, Italy, 3Udine University Hospital, Udine, Italy\n4:45 PM (81) First to 50: Early Outcomes Following Heart Transplantation at Royal Papworth Hospital from Donation after Circulatory Determined Death (DCD) Donors\nS. Messer, A. Page, M. Berman, S. Colah, J. Dunning, E. Pavlushkov, P. Kaul, J. Parameshwar, Y. Abu-Omar, S. Pettit, C. Lewis, A. Kydd, S. Bhagra, A. Cockell, R. Quigley, J. Baxter, C. Ellis, D. Jenkins, C. Sudarshan, A. Ali, S. Tsui, P. Catarino, S. Large. Transplant Surgery, Royal Papworth Hospital, Cambridgeshire, United Kingdom\n5:00 PM (82) Cardiac Transplantation in Higher Risk Patients: Is Ex Vivo Heart Perfusion a Safe Preservation Technique? A Two Center Experience\nS. V. Rojas1, F. Ius1, D. Schibilsky2, T. Kaufeld1, W. Sommer1, C. Benk2, T. Goecke1, T. Siemeni1, R. Poyanmehr1, S. R\u00fcmke1, A. Mogaldea1, D. Bobylev1, J. Salman1, M. Avsar1, I. Tudorache1, C. Bara1, F. Beyersdorf2, A. Haverich1, M. Siepe2, G. Warnecke1. 1Department of Cardiothoracic-, Transplantation- and Vascular Surgery, Hannover Medical School, Hannover, Germany, 2Department of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery, University of Freiburg, Freiburg, Germany\n5:15 PM (83) Keeping It Cool: Extended Myocardial Protection with Topical Cooling to Reduce PGD\nS. Avtaar Singh1, S. Das De1, K. Morcos1, Y. Hegazy1, H. Al-Haideri1, S. Nair1, J. Dalzell2, H. Doshi1, N. Al-Attar1, P. Curry1. 1Cardiothoracic Surgery, Golden Jubilee National Hospital, Glasgow, United Kingdom, 2Scottish National Advanced Heart Failure Service, Golden Jubilee National Hospital, Glasgow, United Kingdom\n5:30 PM (84) The First Clinical Use of a Novel Cold Storage System of Donor Hearts\nN. Naito1, M. Funamoto1, R. Pierson1, M. Villavicencio1, W. Riley2, G. Lewis3, D. D'Alessandro1. 1Cardiac Surgery, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA, 2Perfusion Services, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA, 3Cardiology, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA\n5:45 PM (85) Heart Ablation Avoiding Asystolia with an Always- Beating Heart\nI. G. Berra1, M. L. Berra2, M. A. Lewis3, S. Berra4, A. O. Irusta5, G. Berra6, P. A. Takeuchi5. 1Heart, Lung and Kidney Transplant Team, Hospital Nacional de Pediatr\u00eda JP Garrahan, Moron, Argentina, 2Clinica Medica, Hospital Nacional Alejandro Posadas, Mor\u00f3n, Argentina, 3Vice President, Lew Insumos e Innovaciones, Moron, Argentina, 4Facultad de Ingenier\u00eda, Universidad de Buenos Aires, Buenos Aires, Argentina, 5Design Team, Lew Insumos e Innovaciones, Moron, Argentina, 6President, Lew Insumos e Innovaciones, Moron, Argentina\nSESSION 19 (SYMPOSIUM): Chronic Lung Allograft Dysfunction (CLAD): The End of the Beginning? (Pacifica 10-12)\nSession Summary: The recognition that not all cases of lung allograft dysfunction could be described accurately within the bronchiolitis obliterans syndrome (BOS) terminology led to the development of a new overarching descriptor (CLAD) to embrace both obstructive and restrictive allograft dysfunction. How to detect, diagnose, and manage suspected cases is described based on sound physiological and radiological principles. Exclusion criteria are discussed as well as special circumstances.\nChairs: Christian Benden, MD and Sofya Tokman, MD\n4:15 PM CLAD: Definition and Beyond\nGeert Verleden, MD, Univ Hospital Gasthuisberg, Belgium, Belgium\n4:30 PM CLAD Phenotypes: Why Split?\nJamie Todd, MD, Duke University, Durham, NC, USA\n4:45 PM Restrictive Allograft Syndrome: Definition and Diagnosis\nMasaaki Sato, MD, University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan\n5:00 PM Restrictive Allograft Syndrome: Pathology\nJan H. von der Th\u00fcsen, MD PhD, Erasmus Medical Center, Rotterdam, Netherlands\n5:15 PM Risk Factors and Prognosis of Restrictive Allograft Syndrome\nGregory I. Snell, MBBS, FRAP, MD, Alfred Hospital, Melbourne, Australia\n5:30 PM CLAD Treatment: The Kingdom of the Near Dead?\nLianne G. Singer, MD, FRCPC, Toronto General Hospital, Toronto, ON, Canada\n5:45 PM 15-min Panel Discussion\nSESSION 20 (ORAL): The Beat Goes On: Arrhythmias and Pacing During MCS (Pacifica 6)\nSecondary Audience: NHSAH\nChairs: Melana Yuzefpolskaya, MD and Joseph Rogers, MD\n4:15 PM (86) Atrial Fibrillation is a Predictor of Poor Physical Capacity 6 Months after Implantation of a Full Magnetically Levitated Left Ventricular Assist Device: An Analysis from ELEVATE\nK. K. Mirza1, F. Gustafsson1, Y. Pya2, S. Shaw3, A. Diegeler1, I. Netuka4, J. Lavee5, J. Garbade6, M. Morshuis7, J. Heatley8, D. Saeed9, E. V. Potapov10, J. Schmitto11, D. Zimpfer12. 1Department of Cardiology, Rigshospitalet, Copenhagen, Denmark, 2National Research Center for Cardiac Surgery, Astana, Kazakhstan, 3Southmoor Road, M23 9LT, Manchester University NHS Foundation Trust, Manchester, United Kingdom, 4Institute for Clinical and Experimental Medicine, Prague, Czech Republic, 5Heart Transplantation Unit, Leviev Heart Center, Sheba Medical Center and Sackler Faculty of Medicine, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv, Israel, 6Struempellstr. 39, 4289, Department of Cardiac Surgery, Heart Center Leipzig, University of Leipzig, Leipzig, Germany, 7Georgstrasse 11, 32545, Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery, Herz- und Diabeteszentrum NRW, Bad Oeynhausen, Germany, 8Abbott, Chicago, IL, 9Str\u00fcmpellstrasse 39, 04289, University Department for Cardiac Surgery, Leipzig Heart Center, Leipzig, Germany, 10Department of Cardiothoracic and Vascular Surgery, German Heart Center Berlin; DZHK (German Centre for Cardiovascular Research), Partner Site Berlin, Berlin, Germany, 11Department of Cardiothoracic, Transplantation and Vascular Surgery, Medizinische Hochschule Hannover, Hannover, Germany, 12Department of Surgery, Waehringer Guertel 18\u201320, Division of Cardiac Surgery, Medical University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria\n4:30 PM (87) Impact of Atrial Fibrillation on Mortality and Thromboembolic Complications after Left Ventricular Assist Device Implantation\nV. Blumer1, M. Ortiz2, G. Hernandez3, A. Gage4, E. Joyce5, S. Chaparro1. 1University of Miami, Miami, FL, 2University of Iowa, Io, IA, 3Univ. of Miami, Miami, FL, 4Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, OH, 5Mater Misericordiae University Hospital, Dublin, Ireland\n4:45 PM (88) Peak Left Atrial Appendage Emptying Velocity Remains Reduced in Atrial Fibrillation during Continuous Flow Left Ventricular Assist Device Support\nA. Rahman1, E. Tam1, L. ZHeng1, J. Fontes1, S. Forest2, S. Vukelic1, D. Sims1, J. Shin1, S. Patel1, D. J. Goldstein2, U. P. Jorde1, O. Saeed1. 1Medicine (Cardiology), Montefiore Medical Center, Bronx, NY, 2Cardiothoracic Surgery, Montefiore Medical Center, Bronx, NY\n5:00 PM (89) Comparison of Amiodarone and Beta Blockers to Suppress Tachyarrhythmias in Patients with Left Ventricular Assist Devices\nB. El-Sabawi1, J. V. Hull2, H. Tun3, A. S. Vaidya3, J. E. Rahman3, K. Pandya3, L. Grazette3, M. W. Fong3. 1Department of Medicine, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN, 2Keck School of Medicine of the University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, 3Division of Cardiology, Keck School of Medicine of the University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA\n5:15 PM (90) Functional Status, Quality of Life and Ventricular Tachyarrhythmias Improve with Right Ventricular Pacing Compared to Biventricular Pacing in LVAD Patients\nB. Chung1, J. Grinstein2, S. Weatherford1, S. Tayazime1, D. Rodgers1, A. Nguyen1, N. Narang1, G. Kim1, J. Raikhelkar1, U. Jorde3, C. LaBuhn1, V. Jeevanandam1, G. Sayer1, N. Uriel1. 1University of Chicago, Chicago, IL, 2MedStar Health, Washington, DC, DC, 3Montefiore Medical Center, New York City, NY\n5:30 PM (91) Acute Hemodynamic Effects of Different Pacing Strategies in LVAD Recipients\nG. Gulati1, M. Brisco-Bacik2, C. Madias1, S. Joseph3, A. Kilic4, J. Rich5, I. Gosev6, M. Kiernan1. 1Cardiology, Tufts Medical Center, Boston, MA, 2Cardiology, Temple University Hospital, Philadelphia, PA, 3Cardiology, Baylor University Medical Center, Dallas, TX, 4Surgery, Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions, Baltimore, MD, 5Cardiology, Northwestern University, Chicago, IL, 6Surgery, University of Rochester, Rochester, NY\n5:45 PM (92) Ventricular Arrhythmias in Patients with Biventricular Assist Devices\nA. Lin, H. Tran, J. Hsu, K. Hoffmayer, G. Feld, E. Adler, V. Pretorius, D. Krummen, G. Ho. University of California San Diego, San Diego, CA\nSESSION 21 (SYMPOSIUM): Short Term Mechanical Support: Taking the Next Leap Forward (Grand Caribbean 1-7)\nSecondary Audience: HF\/HTX\nSession Summary: This symposium will focus on short term mechanical support with a view to optimizing results, whether as a bridge to recovery, long term mechanical support or transplant. Current and future management trends will be discussed to identify best practices for these complex patients.\nChairs: Bart Meyns, MD, PhD and Luciano Potena, MD, PhD\n4:15 PM IABPs Work, But in Whom?\nJerry D. Estep, MD, Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, OH, USA\n4:35 PM In It for the Long Haul? What is the Role of ECMO in Short-Term Support?\nMartin Strueber, MD, Newark Beth Israel Medical Center, Newark, NJ, USA\n4:55 PM DEBATE: Six Months After the Change in the US Allocation System: It Still Makes Sense to Transplant Patients Off ECMO (PRO)\nDanny Ramzy, MD, PhD, Cedars-Sinai Med Ctr, Los Angeles, CA, USA\n5:10 PM DEBATE: Six Months After the Change in the US Allocation System: It Still Makes Sense to Transplant Patients Off ECMO (CON)\nJose Gonzalez-Costello, MD, Belvitge Hospital, Barcelona, Spain\n5:25 PM Debate Rebuttal (PRO) - Danny Ramzy, MD, PhD\n5:30 PM Debate Rebuttal (CON) - Jose Gonzalez-Costello, MD\n5:35 PM Do All Roads Lead to Rome? Access Strategies for Temporary Percutaneous Mechanical Support\nJennifer A. Cowger, MD, MS, Henry Ford Hospitals, Detroit, MI, USA\nSESSION 22 (SYMPOSIUM): What Do We Do? Burning Platforms in Pediatric Thoracic Transplant (Pacifica 3-5)\nSecondary Audience: HF\/HTX, NHSAH\nSession Summary: The goal of the symposium is to address the challenges we are currently facing within the field of pediatric thoracic transplant. From donor selection to indications for transplant in the failing Fontan population, a potpourri of topics will be covered.\nChairs: Melanie D. Everitt, MD and Tajinder P. Singh, MD, MSc\n4:15 PM Pediatric Heart Donors with Low Ejection Fraction - How Low Can You Go?\nClaire A. Irving, MBChB, MRCPCH, MD, Children's Hospital Westmead, Sydney, Australia\n4:30 PM But It's Legal Here: Addressing Legalized Marijuana and Illicit Drug Use with Thoracic Transplant Patients\nCarol K. Conrad, MD, Lucille Packard Children's Hospital, Palo Alto, CA, USA\n4:45 PM How Low Should We Go? Outcomes of Infant VAD and Transplant\nKathleen Simpson, MD, Washington University\/St Louis Children's Hospital, St. Louis, MO, USA\n5:00 PM Practical Strategies for Transitioning Our GenZ Patients\nJo Wray, PhD, Great Ormond Street Hospital, London, UK\n5:15 PM Routine Use of mTOR inhibitors in Pediatric Thoracic Transplant Recipients: Show Me the Evidence\nKevin P. Daly, MD, Boston Children's Hospital, Boston, MA, USA\n5:30 PM When to Refer: Advanced Cardiac Support for the Failing Fontan\nKurt R. Schumacher, MD, CS Mott Children's Hospital, Ann Arbor, MI, USA\nExhibit Hall Opening Reception (Oceana 6-12)\nCouncil Networking Receptions\nBasic Science & Translational Research (Hibiscus 1 & 2)\nPathology (Hibiscus 1-2)\nNursing, Health Sciences & Allied Health (Gardenia 2)\nPharmacy & Pharmacology (Gardenia 1)\nPOSTER SESSION 01\n(BSTR) Poster Numbers: 573-604, 606-634\nEconomics, Ethics, Public Policy (Gardenia 2)\n(EEP, HTX, LTX, MCS) Poster Numbers: 635-642\nHeart Transplantation (Adult) (Timor Sea 1 & 2)\n(HTX) Poster Numbers: 643-737\nJunior Faculty Clinical Case Reports: Mechanical Circulatory Support, Infectious Diseases, Pediatrics (Banda Sea 2)\n(MCS, ID, PEDS) Poster Numbers: 1245-1289\nJunior Faculty Clinical Case Reports: Mechanical Circulatory Support, Pulmonary Hypertension (Banda Sea 1)\n(MCS, PH) Poster Numbers: 1290-1336\nNursing, Health Sciences, Allied Health (Gardenia 2)\n(NHSAH) Poster Numbers: 738-754\nPathology (Hibiscus 2)\n(PATH) Poster Numbers: 605\nPharmacy and Pharmacology (Gardenia 1)\n(PHARM) Poster Numbers: 755-763\nMINI ORAL 01: Deciphering the Role of Antibodies and Inflammation in Thoracic Rejection (Pacifica 1-2)\nChairs: Yoshito Yamada, MD, PhD and Sebastian G. Michael, MD\n6:15 PM (357) Downregulation of Alloimmunity in Lung Allograft by Eosinophils is Orchestrated by PD-L1 Dependent Contact with CD8+ T Cells\nO. O. Onyema1, Y. Guo1, B. Mahgoub1, A. Manafi1, Q. Wang1, S. Criswell2, J. Lannigan3, E. A. Jacobsen4, A. E. Gelman5, D. Kreisel5, A. S. Krupnick1. 1Department of Surgery and Carter Immunology Center, University of Virginia, Charlottesviile, VA, 2Department of Cell Biology and Advanced Microscopy Core Laboratory, University of Virginia, Charlottesviile, VA, 3Flow Cytometry Core Facility, University of Virginia, Charlottesviile, VA, 4Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Mayo Clinic, Scottsdale, AZ, 5Department of Surgery, Washington University, St Louis, MO\n6:20 PM (358) Donor-Derived Factors Influence NK Cell Effector Activity in a Model of Antibody-Mediated Chronic Rejection\nC. M. Lin1, B. Mehrad1, R. G. Gill2. 1Medicine, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL, 2Surgery, University of Colorado, Aurora, CO\n6:25 PM (359) Proteomic Profiling of Extracellular Vesicles during Acute Cellular Rejection\nO. Gidl\u00f6f, I. Sukma Dewi, J. \u00d6hman, M. Evander, T. Laurell, G. Smith. Lund University, Lund, Sweden\n6:30 PM (360) Recipient CD103+ Classical Dendritic Cells Enhance Acute Rejection in Response to Airway Inflammation after Mouse Lung Transplantation\nT. Watanabe, T. Martinu, K. Boonstra, J. M. Umana, M. Horie, Z. Guan, D. Hwang, M. Liu, S. Keshavjee, S. Juvet. University Health Network, Toronto, ON, Canada\n6:35 PM (361) Development of Novel Murine Antibody Mediated Rejection Model after Orthotopic Lung Transplant\nY. Shiina, H. Suzuki, T. Kaiho, A. Hata, T. Yamamoto, J. Morimoto, Y. Sakairi, H. Wada, T. Nakajima, I. Yoshino. Department of General Thoracic Surgery, Chiba University Graduate School of Medicine, Chiba, Japan\n6:40 PM (362) Recipient HLA-G Single Nucleotide Polymorphisms Predict Post-Lung Development of Donor Specific Antibodies\nD. C. Birriel, A. Ulahannan, J. Ma, J. Lazarte, T. Martinu, L. Singer, V. Rao, S. Keshavjee, D. Delgado, J. Tikkanen, S. Juvet. UHN, Toronto, ON, Canada\n6:45 PM (363) Alpha1-Antitrypsin Therapy Suppresses Acute Rejection in an Orthotopic Murine Lung Transplantation Model\nT. Nakagiri1, A. Kn\u00f6fel1, S. Janciauskiene2, P. Zardo1, S. Wrenger2, T. Welte2, A. Haverich1, G. Warnecke1. 1Cardiothoracic, Transplantation, and Vascular Surgery, Hannover Medical School, Hannover, Germany, 2Respiratory Medicine, Hannover Medical School, Hannover, Germany\n6:50 PM (364) Circulating Exosomes with Lung Self-Antigens, K\u03b11Tubulin and Collagen V, and Immune Responses to Lung Self-Antigens Precedes Histological Evidence of Chronic Rejection Following Orthotopic Murine Lung Transplantation\nM. Rahman, M. Sharma, W. Liu, M. A. Smith, R. M. Bremner, T. Mohanakumar. Norton Thoracic Institute, St. Joseph's Hospital and Medical Center, Phoenix, AZ\n6:55 PM (365) Reconstruction of Transcriptional Programs of Monocyte to Macrophage Sequential Cell Fate Transition Using Single Cell RNA Sequencing in Sex Mis-Matched Lung Transplantation\nB. O'Sullivan1, J. Powell2, S. Lukowski3, M. Tan1, P. Hopkins1, D. Chambers1. 1Queensland Lung Transplant Research, Brisbane, Australia, 2Garvan Institute, Sydney, Australia, 3Institute for Molecular Bioscience, Brisbane, Australia\n7:00 PM (366) Clonal Composition and Single-Cell Characterization of T-Cell Infiltrates in Cardiac Allograft Vasculopathy\nM. V. Habal1, A. Myung2, S. Rao2, S. See2, R. R. Shihab2, P. Roy2, C. Marboe3, S. Restaino1, A. S. Han2, M. Givertz4, J. C. Madsen5, L. J. Addonizio6, M. Farr1, E. Zorn2. 1Cardiology, Columbia University, New York, NY, 2Columbia Center for Translational Immunology, Columbia University, New York, NY, 3Pathology & Cell Biology, Columbia University, New York, NY, 4Cardiology, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, MA, 5Surgery, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA, 6Pediatric Cardiology, Columbia University, New York, NY\n7:05 PM (367) The Frequency of Tissue-Resident Donor T and NK Cells in Peripheral Blood after Lung Transplantation is Modulated by Normothermic Ex Vivo Lung\nC. Falk1, B. Wiegmann2, A. Hitz1, R. Bellmas-Sanz1, K. Bl\u00e4sing1, F. Ius2, C. K\u00fchn2, M. Avsar2, I. Tudorache2, A. Haverich2, G. Warnecke2. 1Institute of Transplant Immunology, Hannover Medical School, Hannover, Germany, 2Department of Cardiothoracic, Transplantation and Vascular Surgery, Hannover Medical School, Hannover, Germany\n7:10 PM (368) Persisting Donor Alveolar Macrophages Have Increased Expression of Scavenger Receptor CD206 Compared to Graft-Infiltrating Recipient-Derived Macrophages Following Lung Transplantation\nM. E. Snyder1, S. P. Weisberg2, T. Connors3, L. Benvenuto4, L. Shah4, H. J. Robbins4, J. L. Hook4, F. D'Ovidio5, J. Sonett5, S. Arcasoy4, D. L. Farber5. 1Medicine, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, 2Pathology, Columbia University, New York, NY, 3Pediatrics, Columbia University, New York, NY, 4Medicine, Columbia University, New York, NY, 5Surgery, Columbia University, New York, NY\nMINI ORAL 02: Cardiac Donor Selection: More Than Meets the Eye (Pacifica 7)\nChairs: Steven SL Tsui, MD, FRCS and Alanna A. Morris, MD\n6:15 PM (369) How Big is Too Big? An Analysis of Morbidly Obese Heart Donors in the UNOS Database\nE. D. Krebs, J. P. Beller, J. H. Mehaffey, N. R. Teman, J. L. Kennedy, G. Ailawadi, L. T. Yarboro. University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA\n6:20 PM (370) Label-Free Proteomics Approach Characterizes Plasma Protein Signature of Donor Brain Death\nJ. Lukac1, M. Saraswata2, S. Joenv\u00e4\u00e4r\u00e4a2, E. Holmstr\u00f6m1, K. Dhaygude3, R. Krebs1, A. Nyk\u00e4nen1, R. Renkonen2, K. Lemstr\u00f6m1. 1Cardiopulmonary Research Group, Transplantation Laboratory University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland, 2Mass Spectrometry Group, Transplantation Laboratory University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland, 3Cardiovascular Research Group, Transplantation Laboratory, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland\n6:25 PM (371) Donor Hormonal Thyroid Therapy is Associated with Increased Risk of Primary Graft Dysfunction after Heart Transplantation\nY. Peled, J. Lavee, E. Nachum, Y. Kassif, M. Arad, A. Kogan, D. Freimark, E. Ram. Sheba Medical Center Tel Hashomer and Tel-Aviv University, Ramat Gan, Israel\n6:30 PM (372) Matchmaking Just Got Easier: Impact of Phenotypic Donor-Recipient Likeness in Open Heart Transplantation\nB. D. Lo, A. Suarez-Pierre, X. Zhou, C. Lui, M. F. Hunt, G. J. Whitman, C. W. Choi, A. Kilic. Division of Cardiac Surgery, The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD\n6:35 PM (373) Oversizing Donors - Is It Necessary for ACHD Patients?: An Analysis of the United Network for Organ Sharing Registry\nD. E. Clark1, R. D. Byrne2, D. S. Burnstein3, M. R. Danter4, R. Fowler1, B. P. Frischhertz1, J. Lindenfeld1, J. A. Mazurek5, B. A. Mettler6, A. Opotowsky7, T. L. Richardson2, E. M. Sandhuas1, K. H. Schlendorf1, J. Schmeckpeper1, A. S. Shah4, A. J. Weingarten8, S. Zalawadiya1, J. N. Menachem1. 1Cardiovascular Medicine, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, TN, 2Internal Medicine-Pediatrics, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, TN, 3Cardiology, Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, PA, 4Cardiac Surgery, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, TN, 5Cardiovascular Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, 6Pediatric Cardiac Surgery, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, TN, 7Cardiology, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, 8Cardiovascular Medicine, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN\n6:40 PM (374) Mitigating the Impact of Gender Mismatch in Heart Transplantation Using BMI and BSA Ratios\nY. D. Barac, O. Jawitz, V. Raman, M. Hartwig, J. Klapper, J. Schroder, M. Daneshmand, C. Patel, C. Milano. Duke University Medical Center, Durham, NC\n6:45 PM (375) Characteristics and Short-Term Outcomes of Hepatitis C Antibody Positive Organs for Heart Transplantation: UNOS Analysis\nE. M. DeFilippis, R. C. Givens, A. R. Garan, F. Latif, S. W. Restaino, Y. Naka, K. Takeda, H. Takayama, P. C. Colombo, M. A. Farr, V. K. Topkara. Columbia University Medical Center, New York, NY\n6:50 PM (376) Heart Transplant Recipient and Donor Age: Should the Younger Recipient Be Matched with the Younger Donor?\nY. Ravi1, N. Srikanth2, I. W. Paul3, B. A. Whitson4, S. Emani5, C. B. Sai-Sudhakar1. 1Cardiac Surgery, Scott & White, Texas A&M, Temple, TX, 2Medical Student, Saveetha Institute of Medical Sciences, Chennai, India, 3Medical Student, Sree Mookambika Institute of Medical Sciences, Kulasekaram, India, 4Cardiac Surgery, The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH, 5Internal Medicine, The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH\n6:55 PM (377) Impact of Donor to Recipient Size Match on Survival after Heart Transplant Bridged with Continuous Flow Left Ventricular Assist Device\nR. Yanagida1, A. Okoh2, S. Fugar3, M. Camacho4, M. Strueber4, M. J. Zucker2. 1Newark Beth Israel Medical Center, Newark, NJ, 2Department of Medicine, Newark Beth Israel Medical Center, Newark, NJ, 3Department of Medicine, Rush University Medical Center, Chicago, IL, 4Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery, Newark Beth Israel Medical Center, Newark, NJ\n7:00 PM (378) Older Donors Portend Worse Survival in Older and Younger Recipients after Heart Transplant: A UNOS Database Analysis\nV. Raman, O. K. Jawitz, C. White, M. Daneshmand, J. Schroder, C. Milano, M. Hartwig. Duke University Medical Center, Durham, NC\n7:05 PM (379) Cardiac Allografts from Overdosed Donors: An Underutilized Resource?\nN. K. Ranganath1, K. G. Phillips1, J. Malas1, B. E. Lonze2, D. E. Smith1, Z. N. Kon1, C. G. Gidea3, A. Reyentovich3, N. Moazami1. 1Cardiothoracic Surgery, NYU Langone Health, New York, NY, 2Surgery, NYU Langone Health, New York, NY, 3Medicine, NYU Langone Health, New York, NY\n7:10 PM (380) Donors after Circulatory Death at the Medical College of Wisconsin and Potential for Increased Volume in Cardiac Transplantation\nA. Cole1, A. Mohammed2, L. Durham1, N. Gaglianello2, D. Ishizawar2, L. Joyce1, R. Kursel2, M. Saltzberg2, D. Joyce1. 1Cardiothoracic Surgery, Medical College of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, WI, 2Advanced Heart Failure, Medical College of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, WI\nMINI ORAL 03: Chronic Lung Allograft Dysfunction (Pacifica 10-12)\nSecondary Audience: BSTR, PATH, PHARM\nChairs: Joshua Mooney, MD and Tanya J. McWilliams, MD, PhD\n6:15 PM (1030) Early Shift of Lung Perfusion to the Unilateral Lung Predicts the Development of Unilateral Chronic Lung Allograft Dysfunction after Bilateral Living-Donor Lobar Lung Transplantation\nH. Yamamoto, S. Sugimoto, T. Kurosaki, S. Otani, M. Okazaki, M. Yamane, S. Toyooka, T. Oto. General Thoracic Surgery, Organ Transplant Center, Okayama University Hospital, Okayama, Japan\n6:20 PM (382) Bronchoalveolar Lavage Pentraxin 3 Levels during Clinically-Stable Minimal Acute Rejection are Associated with CLAD and Death Risk\nL. Levy1, E. Huszti2, R. Ghany1, M. Ahmed1, S. Hunter1, K. Zhang1, K. Boonstra1, W. Klement1, S. Moshkelgosha1, J. Tikkanen1, L. Singer1, S. Keshavjee1, S. Juvet1, T. Martinu1. 1Toronto Lung Transplant Program, Toronto, ON, Canada, 2Biostatistics Research Unit, University Health Network, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada\n6:25 PM (383) Impact of mir21 Expression in Chronic Lung Allograft Dysfunction after Lung Transplantation\nN. Miyahara1, A. Benazzo1, F. Oberndorfer2, P. Jaksch1, W. Klepetko1, K. Hoetzenecker1. 1Thoracic Surgery, Medical University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria, 2Pathology, Medical University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria\n6:30 PM (384) Quantiferon\u00ae-Monitor: A Potential Biomarker of Immunosuppression in Lung Transplantation\nB. J. Gardiner1, Y. Cristiano2, B. J. Levvey2, G. I. Snell2, A. Y. Peleg1, G. P. Westall2. 1Infectious Diseases, Alfred Hospital & Monash University, Melbourne, Australia, 2Respiratory Medicine & Lung Transplantation, Alfred Hospital & Monash University, Melbourne, Australia\n6:35 PM (385) Lung Bacterial Burden is Increased Following the Onset of Chronic Rejection\nM. P. Combs, D. S. Wheeler, J. Luth, N. M. Walker, R. P. Dickson, V. N. Lama. Department of Medicine, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI\n6:40 PM (386) The Impact of Pharmacogenomics on Tacrolimus Dosing and Levels among Lung Transplant Recipients\nA. W. Brown1, J. Peterson1, M. Fregoso1, M. Nayyar1, A. Cochrane1, J. Pluhacek1, M. Lemma1, S. Aryal1, O. A. Shlobin1, C. S. King1, R. Iyer2, J. F. Deeken2, S. D. Nathan1. 1Inova Advanced Lung Disease & Transplant, Fairfax, VA, 2Inova Translational Medicine Institute, Fairfax, VA\n6:45 PM (387) Extracorporeal Photopheresis (ECP) in the Management of Chronic Lung Allograft Dysfunction\nY. Furuya1, C. Witt1, E. P. Trulock1, D. Byers1, H. Kulkarni1, L. K. Tague1, P. Aguilar1, D. Kreisel2, V. Puri2, A. Gelman2, R. Hachem1. 1Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, Washington University School of Medicine, Saint Louis, MO, 2Division of Cardiothoracic Surgery, Washington University School of Medicine, Saint Louis, MO\n6:50 PM (388) Five-Year Results of an IgA and IgM-Enriched Human Immunoglobulin G-Based Therapy for Early Anti-HLA Donor Specific Antibodies in 158 Lung-Transplanted Patients\nF. Ius1, M. Verboom2, W. Sommer1, C. M\u00fcller3, M. Hallensleben2, J. Salman1, T. Siemeni1, C. K\u00fchn1, M. Avsar1, D. Bobylev1, N. Schwerk3, A. Haverich1, I. Tudorache1, G. Warnecke1. 1Department of Cardiothoracic, Transplant and Vascular Surgery, Hannover Medical School, Hannover, Germany, 2Department of Transfusion Medicine, Hannover Medical School, Hannover, Germany, 3Department of Paediatrics, Hannover Medical School, Hannover, Germany\n6:55 PM (389) Donor-Specific Antibodies and Antibody-Mediated Rejection after Alemtuzumab Induction Therapy: A Retrospective Analysis of a High-Volume Lung Transplant Center\nA. Benazzo1, S. Schwarz1, S. Geleff2, D. Weber3, G. Murakozy1, C. Lambers3, B. Moser1, J. Matilla1, G. Lang3, S. Taghavi1, W. Klepetko1, K. Hoetzenecker1, P. Jaksch1. 1Thoracic Surgery, Medical University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria, 2Clinical Institute of Pathology, Medical University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria, 3Division of Thoracic Surgery, Medical University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria\n7:00 PM (390) Extravascular Lung Water Quantification in Donor Lungs\nK. S. Ayyat1, T. Okamoto1, H. Niikawa1, Y. Itoda1, S. Dugar1, S. Q. Latifi1, D. J. Lebovitz2, A. Moghekar1, K. R. McCurry1. 1Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, OH, 2Lifebanc, Cleveland, OH\n7:05 PM (391) Precision Proteomics as Protein Biomarker Discovery in Detecting Chronic Lung Allograft Dysfunction\nH. Ghaider, M. Fakhro, S. Lindstedt. Cardiothoracic Surgery, Lund University Hospital, Lund, LUND, Sweden\n7:10 PM (392) Mid-Term Results of Lung Transplantation (LTx) after Bridging with Extracorporeal Membrane Oxygenation - Influence of Concomitant Invasive Mechanical Ventilation (iMV\nM. Monteagudo Vela1, D. Garcia Saez1, P. Mohite1, A. Reed2, F. De Robertis1, U. Stock1, B. Mahesh1, M. Carby2, A. Simon1, B. Zych1. 1Cardiothoracic Transplantation and Mechanical Circulatory Support, Harefield Hospital, London, United Kingdom, 2Respiratory Medicine, Harefield Hospital, London, United Kingdom\nMINI ORAL 04: A Focus on Stroke (Coral Sea)\nChairs: Paolo C. Colombo, MD and Anique Ducharme, MD, MSC\n6:15 PM (393) Pulmonary Effective Arterial Elastance and Pulmonary Artery Capacitance after Left Ventricular Assist Device Implantation is Associated with Hemocompatibility-Related Adverse Events\nD. Nitta, T. Imamura, T. Fujino, A. Nguyen, B. Chung, D. Rodgers, J. Raikhelkar, B. Smith, L. Holzhauser, N. Narang, I. Ebong, C. Juricek, V. Jeevanandam, G. Kim, G. Sayer, N. Uriel. University of Chicago, Chicago, IL\n6:20 PM (394) Decoupling between Pulmonary Artery and Wedge Pressure is Associated with Hemocompatibility-Related Adverse Events Following LVAD Implantation\nT. Imamura, S. Kalantari, B. Smith, D. Rodgers, J. Raikhelkar, G. Kim, A. Nguyen, N. Narang, B. Chung, I. Ebong, L. Holzhauser, D. Nitta, T. Fujino, C. Juricek, P. Combs, D. Onsager, T. Song, T. Ota, V. Jeevanandam, G. Sayer, N. Uriel. University of Chicago, Chicago, IL\n6:25 PM (396) Hemocompatibility-Related Adverse Events: Is the Burden Different among Available Centrifugal Flow Pumps?\nK. A. Holst1, M. P. Weber2, V. Tchantchaleishvili2, S. Dunlay1, S. Maltais1, R. Daly1, J. Stulak1. 1Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN, 2Thomas Jefferson University, Philadelphia, PA\n6:30 PM (397) Digoxin is Associated with Decreased Survival Free from Hemocompatibility-Related Adverse Events in LVAD Patients - A Propensity Score Matched Analysis\nA. Pinsino1, A. Gaudig2, K. L. Hoffman3, D. D'Angelo3, E. A. Royzman2, G. M. Mondellini2, F. Castagna2, A. M. Zuver2, A. R. Garan2, H. Takayama4, K. Takeda4, Y. Naka4, R. T. Demmer5, M. Yuzefpolskaya2, P. C. Colombo2. 1Jacobi - Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, NY, 2Department of Medicine, Columbia University Medical Center, New York, NY, 3Healthcare Policy and Research, Weill Cornell Medicine, New York, NY, 4Department of Surgery, Columbia University Medical Center, New York, NY, 5Epidemiology and Community Health, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN\n6:35 PM (398) Influence of Device Type on Stroke Risk in Women Undergoing LVAD Implantation\nR. J. Vela1, J. Pruszynski1, A. Amin2, M. Drazner2, L. C. Huffman1, M. Peltz1. 1Cardiovascular & Thoracic Surgery, UT Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, TX, 2Internal Medicine, UT Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, TX\n6:40 PM (399) Concentrated Factor Administration and Subsequent Stroke Rates on HeartMate II LVAD Support\nJ. Schultz1, A. Shaffer2, J. Misialek1, H. Shah1, R. John2, C. Martin1, T. Thenappan1, T. Alexy1, F. Kamdar1, R. Cogswell1. 1Department of Medicine, Division of Cardiology, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN, 2Department of Surgery, Division of Cardiovascular Surgery, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN\n6:45 PM (400) Current Smoking and Increased Risk of Stroke in Patients with Left Ventricular Assist Device\nS. Sherazi1, I. Goldenberg1, S. McNitt1, V. Kutyifa1, I. Gosev2, K. Wood2, L. Chen1, S. Polonsky1, H. Vidula1, J. Alexis1. 1Cardiology, University of Rochester Medical Center, Rochester, NY, 2Cardiothoracic Surgery, University of Rochester Medical Center, Rochester, NY\n6:50 PM (401) Carotid Artery Blood Flow and Its Association with Stroke during Left Ventricular Assist Device Support\nM. E. Kiyatkin1, A. M. Zuver1, A. Gaudig2, M. Tiburcio1, B. J. McDonnell3, M. Yuzefpolskaya1, P. C. Colombo1, E. J. St\u00f6hr4, J. Z. Willey1. 1Columbia University Irving Medical Center, New York, NY, 2University of M\u00fcnster, M\u00fcnster, Germany, 3Cardiff Metropolitan University, Cardif, United Kingdom, 4Cardiff Metropolitan University, Cardiff, United Kingdom\n6:55 PM (402) Different Risk Factors for Ischemic and Hemorrhagic Stroke on Continuous Flow Left Ventricular Assist Device Support\nH. K. Lamba1, M. Kim1, L. Hart1, B. Chou1, C. Rao1, S. Chatterjee1, S. Sattee2, F. Cheema1, A. Civitello1, R. Delgado1, A. Nair1, A. Shafii1, G. Loor1, T. Rosengart1, O. Frazier1, J. Morgan3. 1Division of Cardiothoracic Transplantation and Mechanical Circulatory Support, Texas Heart Institute at Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX, 2Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX, 3Texas Heart Institute at Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX\n7:00 PM (403) Strokes in LVADS. Insights from Modelling Flow in the Circle of Willis\nK. Balakrishnan1, R. Krishnakumar2, S. Krishna2. 1Fortis Malar Hospital, Chennai, India, 2Engineering Design, Indian Institute of Technology, Madras, Chennai, India\n7:05 PM (404) Does Left Atrial Appendage Occlusion in LVAD Patients Impact Outcomes: A Single Centre Study\nF. Yu1, J. Alvarez1, R. Ribeiro1, M. B. Adamson1, F. Amin1, M. Degen1, F. Foroutan2, J. Duero Posada2, T. Yau1, R. Cusimano1, F. Billia2, C. Alba2, M. Badiwala1, V. Rao1. 1Cardiovascular Surgery, Toronto General Hospital, Toronto, ON, Canada, 2Cardiology, Toronto General Hospital, Toronto, ON, Canada\nMINI ORAL 05: Do It Quick and Do It Now: ECMO Update (Pacifica 6)\nChairs: Hire Takayama, MD and Alastair Proudfoot, MBChB\n6:15 PM (405) Use of Extracorporeal Membrane Oxygenation (ECMO) in Acute Myocarditis - Insights from a National Inpatient Database\nM. S. Panhwar1, A. Karim1, M. Ginwalla2. 1Internal Medicine, Case Western Reserve Univ\/Univ Hospitals of Cleveland, Cleveland, OH, 2Division of Cardiology, Case Western Reserve Univ\/Univ Hospitals of Cleveland, Cleveland, OH\n6:20 PM (406) Assessing Left Ventricular Unloading and Wall Tension to Predict the Need for Durable Mechanical Circulatory Support after Peripheral VA-ECMO\nA. Prasad1, C. E. Brehm2, M. Goldenberg3, A. Ghodsizad4, M. M. Koerner5, A. El Banayosy5, K. Singbartl6. 1Anesthesiology and Perioperative Medicine, PennState Health, Hershey, PA, 2Heart and Vascular Institute, PennState Health, Hershey, PA, 3PennState College of Medicine, Hershey, PA, 4Miami Transplant Institute, University of Miami, Miami, FL, 5Advanced Cardiac Care and Transplant Institute, INTEGRIS Baptist Medical Center, Oklahoma City, OK, 6Critical Care Medicine, Mayo Clinic, Phoenix, AZ\n6:25 PM (407) Bridging VA ECMO to Durable MCS: Keys to Success\nA. M. El Banayosy, M. M. Koerner, D. A. Horstmanshof, A. Phancao, B. V. Jassman, C. Elkins, J. W. Long, A. El Banayosy. INTEGRIS Baptist Medical Center, Oklahoma City, OK\n6:30 PM (408) Hematological Complications of Impella as an Unloading Device in Patients with Cardiogenic Shock and Veno-Arterial ECMO. A Systematic Review and Metanalysis\nJ. E. Pino1, E. Grajeda1, F. Ramos-Tuarez1, S. Sundaravel1, S. Sehatbakhsh2, E. Donath1, R. Chait2. 1Medicine, University of Miami\/ JFK Medical Center, West Palm Beach, FL, 2Medicine, University of Miami\/ JFK Medical Center, Atlantis, FL\n6:35 PM (409) Lactate Predicts Mortality 12 Hours after VA ECMO Initiation\nA. Melvin, B. C. Ayers, K. Wood, S. Prasad, B. Barrus, I. Gosev. University of Rochester, Rochester, NY\n6:40 PM (410) Prognostic Value of Neutrophil Lymphocyte Ratio for Early Renal Failure in ECMO Patients\nM. Sargin, M. T. Mete, S. B. Erdogan, H. Kuplay, M. Bastopcu, S. Akansel, M. Acarel, S. A. Aka. Cardiovascular Surgery, Siyami Ersek Hospital, Istanbul, Turkey\n6:45 PM (411) Differences in Post-Thoracotomy Outcomes in Patients Implanted off ECMO\nJ. D. Schmitto1, M. Ozbaran2, C. Engin2, A. Simon3, V. Horvath4, J. Roussel5, M. Pac6, U. Kervan6, S. Klotz7, F. Wagner8, T. Schloeglhofer9, D. Zimpfer9. 1Cardiac Surgery, Hannover Medical School, Hannover, Germany, 2Cardiac Surgery, Ege University Medical Center, Izmir, Turkey, 3Cardiac Surgery, Royal Brompton and Harefield Hospital, London, United Kingdom, 4Cardiac Surgery, Center for Cardiovascular and Transplant Surgery, Brno, Czech Republic, 5Cardiac Surgery, University of Nantes, Nantes, France, 6Cardiac Surgery, Turkiye Yuksek Ihtisas Education & Research Hospital, Ankara, Turkey, 7Cardiac Surgery, University Hospital Luebeck, Luebeck, Germany, 8Cardiac Surgery, Uniklinik Hamburg Eppendorf, Hamburg, Germany, 9Cardiac Surgery, Medical University Vienna, Vienna, Austria\n6:50 PM (412) Mid Term Survival after VA ECMO Weaning\nA. Vincentelli1, N. Rousse1, V. Loobuyck1, M. Moussa2, A. Mugnier1, J. Soquet1, E. Robin2, F. Juthier1, C. Goeminne1, C. Banfi1. 1Cardiac Surgery, Centre Hospitalier Universitaire Regional de Lille, Lille, France, 2Cardiac Surgery, Anesthesiology, Centre Hospitalier Universitaire Regional de Lille, Lille, France\n6:55 PM (413) Does Transport Time or Distance from Hospital Affect Survival in Extracorporeal Membrane Oxygenation (ECMO) Patients?\nJ. S. Nelson, A. Eisenbeiss, E. Stauder, K. Graham, R. Alharethi, W. Caine, H. Smith, B. Reid, M. McCulloch, B. Rasmusson, V. Hebl, B. Kfoury. Intermountain Medical Center, Murray, UT\n7:00 PM (414) Predictors of Survival to Discharge and Ventricular Recovery after VA-ECMO Support for Acute Myocardial Infarction Complicated by Cardiogenic Shock\nJ. A. Fried1, M. Cevasco2, L. Witer2, A. Masoumi1, D. Brodie3, J. Griffith1, V. Topkara1, K. Clerkin1, A. Zuver1, D. Karmpaliotis1, A. Kirtane1, H. Takayama2, M. Yuzefpolskaya1, Y. Naka2, P. Colombo1, K. Takeda2, A. R. Garan1. 1Cardiology, Columbia University Medical Center, New York, NY, 2Cardiothoracic Surgery, Columbia University Medical Center, New York, NY, 3Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, Columbia University Medical Center, New York, NY\n7:05 PM (415) Effect of Time from Cardiogenic Shock to Initiation of Complete Cardiovascular Support on Survival: \"Shock to Support Time\"\nA. Scatola1, A. Singh1, K. Singh2, N. Singh2, P. Meraj1. 1Cardiology, Donald and Barbara Zucker School of Medicine at Hofstra\/Northwell, Manhasset, NY, 2New York Institute of Technology, New York, NY\n7:10 PM (416) Risk and Causes of 30-Day Readmissions Following Extracorporeal Membrane Oxygenation Support for Cardiogenic Shock\nN. Tashtish1, S. Al-Kindi2, M. Karnib1, C. Di Felice3, E. Zanath4, G. Oliveira2, F. Lytle4, C. Elamm2. 1Internal Medicine, University Hosptials Cleveland Medical Center, Cleveland, OH, 2Cardiovascular Medicine, University Hosptials Cleveland Medical Center, Cleveland, OH, 3Pulmonary and Critical Care, University Hosptials Cleveland Medical Center, Cleveland, OH, 4Department of Anesthesia, University Hosptials Cleveland Medical Center, Cleveland, OH\nMINI ORAL 06: Pediatrics (Pacifica 3-5)\nSecondary Audience: HTX, MCS\nChairs: Jacob Matthew, MD and Beth Kaufman, MD\n6:15 PM (1203) Expanding the Donor Pool for Transplant Candidates with Congenital Heart Disease: Use of Recipient Total Cardiac Volumes\nS. B. Shugh1, N. A. Szugye1, C. R. Villa1, F. Zafar2, R. Bryant III2, A. Lorts1, D. L. Morales2, R. A. Moore1. 1Pediatric Cardiology, The Heart Institute, Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center, Cincinnati, OH, 2Cardiothoracic Surgery, The Heart Institute, Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center, Cincinnati, OH\n6:20 PM (418) Transplant Center Refusal Rate and Waitlist Outcomes in Pediatric Heart Transplantation\nN. Baez1, R. Davies2, R. Kirk2, M. Bano2, D. Sutcliffe2, R. Jaquiss2, R. Butts3. 1Children's Medical Center, Dallas, Dallas, TX, 2Pediatric Cardiology, Children's Medical Center, Dallas, Dallas, TX, 3Pediatric Cardiology, Children's Medical Center, Dallas, Coppell, TX\n6:25 PM (419) Pediatric Heart Transplant Recipients Bridged with Biventricular Assist Device Have Worse One-Year Graft Survival: An Analysis of the United Network of Organ Sharing Database\nK. Watanabe1, A. Joong1, P. T. Thrush1, N. Srdanovic2, M. C. Monge1, E. Pahl1. 1Ann and Robert Lurie Children's Hospital, Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, Chicago, IL, 2Biostatistics Collaboration Center, Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, Chicago, IL\n6:30 PM (420) Variability in Donor Selection among Pediatric Heart Transplant Providers - Results from an International Survey\nJ. Godown1, R. Kirk2, A. Joong3, A. Lal4, M. McCulloch5, D. M. Peng6, J. Scheel7, R. Davies8, A. I. Dipchand9, O. Miera10, J. G. Gossett11. 1Pediatric Cardiology, Monroe Carell Jr. Children's Hospital at Vanderbilt, Nashville, TN, 2Pediatric Cardiology, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, TX, 3Pediatric Cardiology, Ann and Robert H Lurie Children's Hospital of Chicago, Chicago, IL, 4Pediatric Cardiology, Primary Children's Hospital, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT, 5Pediatric Cardiology, University of Virginia Children's Hospital, Charlottesville, VA, 6Pediatric Cardiology, C.S. Mott Children's Hospital, Ann Arbor, MI, 7Pediatric Cardiology, St. Louis Children's Hospital, St. Louis, MO, 8Pediatric Cardiothoracic Surgery, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, TX, 9Pediatric Cardiology, The Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto, ON, Canada, 10Deutsches Herzzentrum Berlin, Berlin, Germany, 11UCSF Benioff Childrens' Hospitals, San Francisco, CA\n6:35 PM (421) Non-Infant, Single Ventricle Patients Enjoy the Same Post-Transplant Survival as Other Congenital Heart Patients\nK. W. Riggs1, J. T. Broderick1, F. Zafar1, C. Chin2, R. Bryant III1, D. L. Morales1. 1Cardiothoracic Surgery, Cincinnati Children's Hospital, Cincinnati, OH, 2Pediatric Cardiology, Cincinnati Children's Hospital, Cincinnati, OH\n6:40 PM (422) Lifetime Achievement and Quality of Life in Adult Survivors of Pediatric Heart Transplant\nN. T. Stanford1, J. McAllister2, L. Addonizio2, M. Richmond2, S. Law2, T. Lee2, M. Farr3, M. Gibbons2, K. Jensen2, H. Lee2, A. Rothkopf2, R. Jackson3, W. Zuckerman2. 1Department of Pediatrics, Columbia University Medical Center, New York, NY, 2Division of Pediatric Cardiology, Columbia University Medical Center, New York, NY, 3Division of Cardiology, Columbia University Medical Center, New York, NY\n6:45 PM (423) De Novo Development of Antibodies to Cardiac Myosin and Vimentin in Pediatric Heart Transplant Recipients: A Single Center Pilot Study\nS. Zangwill1, M. Ploutz1, S. Bansal2, T. Mohanakumar2. 1Cardiology, Phoenix Children's Hospital, Phoenix, AZ, 2Norton Thoracic Institute, St. Joseph's Hospital and Medical Center, Phoenix, AZ\n6:50 PM (1185) Antithymocyte Globulin Induction is Associated with Complement Deposition in Pediatric Cardiac Transplant Biopsies\nS. Ghaleb1, H. Martinez1, S. Wittekind1, D. Witte2, T. Hengehold3, C. Chin1. 1Pediatric Cardiology, Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center, Cincinnati, OH, 2Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center, Cincinnati, OH, 3University of Cincinnati College of Medicine, Cincinnati, OH\n6:55 PM (425) Retransplantation: An Underutilized Resource or Only for a Select Few?\nM. Vazquez Alvarez1, E. Pruitt2, D. Nandi3, M. S. Kemna4, S. Urschel5, S. C. West6, K. Y. Lin7, H. M. Lim8, T. Allain-Rooney1, A. I. Dipchand1. 1Labatt Family Heart Center, Hospital for the Sick Children, Toronto, ON, Canada, 2University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, AL, 3The Heart Center, Nationwide Children's Hospital, Columbus, OH, 4Seattle Children's Hospital, Seattle, WA, 5Stollery Children's Hospital, Edmonton, AB, Canada, 6UPMC Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, 7Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, PA, 8C.S. Mott Children's Hospital, Ann Arbor, MI\n7:00 PM (426) First Clinical Experience of Jarvik 2015 in North America: The New Era of Pediatric-Specific VAD Support\nI. Adachi1, J. A. Spinner2, Z. Spigel1, H. Tunuguntla3, B. Elias1, E. O. McCullum1, A. G. Cabrera3, S. Tume4, W. J. Dreyer3, H. Justino3, J. S. Heinle1, C. A. Caldarone1. 1Congenital Heart Surgery, Texas Children's Hospital, Houston, TX, 2Pediatrics, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX, 3Pediatric Cardiology, Texas Children's Hospital, Houston, TX, 4Critical Care, Texas Children's Hospital, Houston, TX\n7:05 PM (1204) Heterogenerous Outcomes of Liver Disease after Heart Transplantation for a Failed Fontan Procedure\nA. M. Ybarra1, G. Khanna2, Y. P. Turmelle1, J. M. Stoll1, C. D. Castleberry1, J. N. Scheel1, V. Exil3, R. Ameduri4, C. E. Canter1, K. E. Simpson1. 1Pediatrics, Washington University in Saint Louis School of Medicine, St Louis, MO, 2Radiology, Washington University in Saint Louis School of Medicine, St Louis, MO, 3Pediatrics, University of Iowa Carver College of Medicine, Iowa City, IA, 4Pediatrics, University of Minnesota School of Medicine, Miineapolis, MN\n7:10 PM (428) Real World Data from the ACTION Quality Improvement Network - Preliminary Experience with a Magnetically Levitated Ventricular Assist Device in US Pediatric Centers\nM. J. O'Connor1, A. Lorts2, C. Mascio3, D. Sutcliffe4, R. Davies4, S. Law5, P. Chai5, D. Rosenthal6, K. Maeda6, D. Nandi7, P. McConnell7, D. Morales2. 1Division of Cardiology, The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, PA, 2Cincinnati Children's Hospital, Cincinnati, OH, 3The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, PA, 4Children's Medical Center Dallas, Dallas, TX, 5Morgan Stanley Children's Hospital, New York, NY, 6Lucile Packard Children's Hospital Stanford, Palo Alto, CA, 7Nationwide Children's Hospital, Columbus, OH\nPoster Session 1 Removal (Timor, Banda, Gardenia, Hibiscus)\n*This schedule at a glance is updated each Friday to reflect any changes in information, including room names, session times, speaker information\nInternational Society\nfor Heart and Lung Transplantation\n\u00a9 International Society for Heart & Lung Transplantation | Terms & Conditions | Privacy Policy | Sitemap","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
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Find more ordering information here.\nSupport our web site using PayPal!\n- Write to Congress\n- Write to Congress by State\n- Write to Senate by state\n- White House switchboard: 1-202-224-3121\n- Capitol tollfree: 1-888-355-3588\n- Complete White House telephone directory\nRecommended Bush Books\nCheckout this good David Corn book\nEntertaining and informative book from this populist author\nAvailable Now!- Bushwacked: Life in George Bush's America by Molly Ivins\nGlobal Warming is Now a Weapon of Mass Destruction: It Kills More People Than Terrorism, Yet Blair and Bush do Nothing\nby John Houghton\nPublished on Monday, July 28, 2003\nby the Guardian\/UK\nIf political leaders have one duty above all others, it is to protect the security of their people. Thus it was, according to the prime minister, to protect Britain's security against Saddam Hussein's weapons of mass destruction that this country went to war in Iraq. And yet our long-term security is threatened by a problem at least as dangerous as chemical, nuclear or biological weapons, or indeed international terrorism: human-induced climate change.\nAs a climate scientist who has worked on this issue for several decades, first as head of the Met Office, and then as co-chair of scientific assessment for the UN intergovernmental panel on climate change, the impacts of global warming are such that I have no hesitation in describing it as a \"weapon of mass destruction\".\nLike terrorism, this weapon knows no boundaries. It can strike anywhere, in any form - a heat wave in one place, a drought or a flood or a storm surge in another. Nor is this just a problem for the future. The 1990s were probably the warmest decade in the last 1,000 years, and 1998 the warmest year. Global warming is already upon us.\nThe World Meteorological Organization warned this month that extreme weather events already seem to be becoming more frequent as a result. The US mainland was struck by 562 tornados in May (which incidentally saw the highest land temperatures globally since records began in 1880), killing 41 people. The developing world is the hardest hit: extremes of climate tend to be more intense at low latitudes and poorer countries are less able to cope with disasters. Pre-monsoon temperatures this year in India reached a blistering 49C (120F) - 5C (9F) above normal.\nOnce this killer heat wave began to abate, 1,500 people lay dead - half the number killed outright in the September 11 attacks on the World Trade Center. While no one can ascribe a single weather event to climate change with any degree of scientific certainty, higher maximum temperatures are one of the most predictable impacts of accelerated global warming, and the parallels - between global climate change and global terrorism - are becoming increasingly obvious.\nTo his credit, Tony Blair has - rhetorically, at least - begun to face up to this. In a recent speech he stated clearly that \"there can be no genuine security if the planet is ravaged by climate change\". But words are not enough. They have to be matched with adequate action. The recent announcement of a large-scale offshore wind generating program was welcome, but the UK still lags far behind other European countries in developing renewables capacity.\nThe latest report on energy and climate change by the royal commission on environmental pollution addressed the much more demanding global reductions in greenhouse gas emissions that will be required over the next 50 years (in addition to the Kyoto agreement) and how these could be achieved. Given that the UK needs to take its share of the global burden the commission recommended that we should aim for a cut in these emissions of 60% by 2050.\nIt also pointed out the urgent need for an adequate mechanism for negotiating each country's emission target and advocated a globally implemented plan known as \"contraction and convergence\". The energy white paper published earlier this year accepted the royal commission's 60% reduction target, but it is disturbing that it provided no clarity on UK policy regarding the framework for international negotiation.\nAny successful international negotiation for reducing emissions must be based on four principles: the precautionary principle, the principle of sustainable development, the polluter-pays principle and the principle of equity. The strength of \"contraction and convergence\" is that it satisfies all these principles. But it also means facing up to some difficult questions.\nFirst, world leaders have to agree on a target for the stabilization of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere at a sufficiently low level to stave off dangerous climate change. Second, this target, and the global greenhouse gas budget it implies, has to form the framework for an equitable global distribution of emissions permits, assigned to different countries on a per-capita basis. Countries with the largest populations will therefore get the most permits, but for the sake of efficiency and to achieve economic convergence these permits will need to be internationally tradable.\nThis is the only solution likely to be acceptable to most of the developing world, which unlike us has not had the benefit of over a century of fossil fuel-driven economic prosperity. And it also meets one of the key demands of the United States, that developing countries should not be excluded from emissions targets, as they currently are under the Kyoto protocol.\nNowadays everyone knows that the US is the world's biggest polluter, and that with only one 20th of the world's population it produces a quarter of its greenhouse gas emissions. But the US government, in an abdication of leadership of epic proportions, is refusing to take the problem seriously - and Britain, presumably because Blair wishes not to offend George Bush - is beginning to fall behind too. Emissions from the US are up 14% on those in 1990 and are projected to rise by a further 12% over the next decade.\nIt is vital that Russia now ratifies the Kyoto protocol so that it can at last come into force. But while the US refuses to cooperate, it is difficult to see how the rest of the world can make much progress on the much tougher longer-term agreements that will be necessary after Kyoto's mandate runs out in 2012.\nNor does the latest science provide any comfort. The intergovernmental panel on climate change has warned of 1.4C to 5.8C (2.5F to 10.4F) temperature rises by 2100. This already implies massive changes in climate, and yet the current worst-case scenarios emerging from the Met Office's Hadley Center. envisage even greater rises than this - a degree and speed of global warming the consequences of which are hard to quantify or even imagine.\nSo Blair has a challenge. The world needs leadership, and the British prime minister is well placed to stand at the head of a new \"coalition of the willing\" to tackle this urgent problem. He is also uniquely placed to persuade Bush to join in this effort, given their joint commitment to making the world safe from \"weapons of mass destruction\".\nBut even if he fails to persuade him, there are other allies who would still respond to his leadership - even if this means opposing the US until such time as it no longer has an oilman for president. If Blair were to assume this mantle, history might not only forgive him, but will also endorse Britain's contribution to long-term global security.\n\ufffd Sir John Houghton was formerly chief executive of the Meteorological Office and co-chair of the scientific assessment working group of the intergovernmental panel on climate change. He is the author of 'Global Warming: the Complete Briefing'.\n\ufffd Guardian Newspapers Limited 2003\nFair Use Notice: This site contains copyrighted material the use of which has not always been specifically authorized by the copyright owner. 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+{"text":"Mattioli's Dioscorides illustrated by Cibo (Discorsi by Mattioli and Cibo)\nBladder cherry (Physalis alkekengi), f. 4r\nThere is also another species of solanum, properly called halicababum. It has leaves like those of the first solanum but broader. Its little stalks bend towards the earth after they have grown. It has fruit in round pods similar to reddish bladders, which is round and smooth, like the grapes used in wreaths. It has the same virtues as the garden solanum and is used in the same way, but not in cooking. Its fruit has a diuretic effect and cures jaundice. The juice is squeezed from either of these plants, dried in the shade and kept for these uses (f. 7v).","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
+{"text":"Hypocrisy Update August 19, 2021:\n#109: Pritzker attends visitation for slain police officer Ella French\nIf I was a Democrat and especially a bigwig like Illinois Governor J.B. Pritzker I'd be too ashamed and embarrassed to show up at a visitation for a slain police officer. I'd think about the no cash bail law I signed not too long ago. I'd think about my party's anti-police narrative. I might even consider the urban battleground that Democrat-controlled Chicago has become, a city so besieged by criminals and violence that even the expressways surrounding it are no longer safe.\nPerhaps these kinds of conscience-devouring thoughts are why I could never be a Democrat. Pritzker is, though. Whatever ails Illinois will never be his fault any more than the sad state of affairs in Chicago will be the fault of Mayor Lori Lightfoot. They know the jargon to spew to the public. They are insulated from the bloodshed. Pritzker certainly has no familiarity with what it means to risk your life for the salary Officer French made. He does know how these appearances work. Make a few scripted comments if anyone is listening. Look sympathetic. Hope you get the deceased's name right.\nAs much as Democrats like to point their finger at Republicans for being in the same party as Donald Trump, Pritzker is a leader in the party of defund the police. Showing his face at a police officer's visitation is the height of hypocrisy. Democrats' anti-police narrative tells the nation that the police are brutal, racist thugs and opens the door for an open season on cops just like Illinois' no cash bail bill means an open season on law-abiding residents.\n#110: Democrats still silent on Biden's 25th Amendment incapacity\nWhat Americans and the world witnessed yesterday was a prima facie example of why we have a 25th Amendment. During his afternoon appearance following the deaths of 13 Americans and an untold number of Afghans President Biden seemed stupefied and was obviously struggling to get his words out. The president was correct. It was a very bad day. Bad days are when we need presidential leadership more than ever. We don't have it.\nNo leadership from Biden, but plenty of reasons to be fearful\nNot only do Americans not have the leadership we need during this crisis created by a stumbling White House, we have every reason to be fearful of what is wrong with our president and what this might mean for the security of our nation. By all appearances President Biden is clearly \"unable to discharge the powers and duties of his office.\"\nPelosi: four physicians and four psychiatrists to judge Trump\nAll Donald Trump had to do was get up in the morning and he faced cries for his removal. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi used the \"unable to discharge\" language in October 2020 when she demanded the 25th Amendment be used against a clearly competent president. She joined Rep. Jamie Raskin (D-MD) to establish a \"Commission on Presidential Capacity to Discharge the Powers and Duties of Office.\" The anti-Trump duo suggested members of Congress choose four physicians and four psychiatrists to get the job done.213\nThat didn't happen. Trump was clearly on top of his game.\nPelosi again demanded that we apply the 25th amendment after the January 6, 2021 riot because of Trump's alleged \"unspeakable assault on our nation and our people.\"214 She tried to impeach him twice and would probably do it again if private citizens could be impeached.\nCawthorn letter demands Democrats invoke 25th Amendment\nYesterday Congressman Madison Cawthorn (R-NC) sent a letter to Vice President Kamala Harris and members of Biden's Cabinet requesting that they invoke the 25th Amendment:\nWhen I look to our commander in Chief, I do not see someone who maliciously makes poor decisions. And yet, today we witnessed devastating, heartbreaking American carnage as a direct result of his inept and incompetent actions.215\nWill this go anywhere? Will Biden be removed by the 25th Amendment? Absolutely not. Democrats will turn Afghanistan into a victory over terrorism. They will turn the 13 U.S. casualties into heroes which they are, but they will do it falsely to make themselves look good with no admission whatsoever that the reason these Americans died was an incompetent president in the White House.\nAmerica's survival should not rely on partisan politics. History will judge the Democrat Party harshly for not invoking the 25th Amendment and removing Biden from office now. Of course, that leaves us with President Kamala Harris and the consequences of another dangerous Democrat Party decision.\nBiden never says it, but I will. God bless the United States of America. With Joe Biden still at the helm we need that blessing now more than ever.\n#111: was Ashli Babbitt a victim of racism, Trump hatred, or both?\nNow that the story of Ashli Babbitt's killing by Capitol Police is out we can see very clearly the hypocrisy behind Democrats' attacks on the police.\nIn a just world use of force by the police is about right and wrong and protecting the public and the police. In Democrat Land the dividing line between right and wrong is skin color. Nothing hammers that point home better than the shooting of Ashli Babbitt.\nLast night I listened to a local news report about the Capitol officer who was cleared for killing \"a rioter.\" This dehumanizing phrase was tossed out several times before Babbitt's name was mentioned. Various news outlets including CNN refer to Babbitt as a \"pro-Trump rioter.\"216 Can you imagine the media or any Democrat referring to George Floyd as a criminal suspect?\nBabbitt was a real, live, breathing person. Turning her into a thing makes it a lot easier to accept the hypocrisy implicit in forgiving her killing.\nYou probably know where I'm headed with this. The narrative in the wake of the George Floyd killing became so extreme that there is never justification for a police officer to use force against a non-white offender. Even when use of force is unavoidable riots break out, stores are looted, fires start, and the unfortunate officer is pilloried by attention-seeking activist politicians, the media, and the court of public opinion long before the facts are revealed.\nThe police did not have a policy to shoot looters, rioters, or arsonists last summer. They were reined in by liberal public officials wringing their hands over slavery while their cities burned.\nWhat happened on January 6 was different. Granted, Babbitt should not have been where she was but she was unarmed. How many times have you heard the phrase \"unarmed black man\" since George Floyd's killing?\nBabbitt was an unarmed white woman. All Democrats unconditionally agree that shooting unarmed Americans is fundamentally wrong and deserving of punishment if the victim has some political value. That usually means not being white.\nUnfortunately, Ashli Babbitt was a \"pro-Trump rioter.\" That entitles her to nothing from the left but derision and hypocrisy from Democrats ready to pounce on the next police-involved shooting of an unarmed person of color.\n#112: Biden and Pelosi commemorate Women's Equality Day and forget one very important thing\nHow do you mock Women's Equality Day? You pat yourself on the back for advancing women's equality while you hope no one will mention what you just did to doom millions of women and girls who can now forget about equality and start worrying about staying alive.\nAnecdotal accounts poured in of the Taliban's attacks on women and girls while President Biden and House Speaker Pelosi commemorated Women's Equality Day by insisting we protect voting rights by not protecting them.\nWomen in Afghanistan don't have to concern themselves with voting rights thanks to Biden's disastrous U.S. withdrawal.\nDuring Pelosi's public appearance on Thursday we heard about \"the pride we take in Vice President Harris, that's for sure\" and \"the Biden agenda for women.\"217\nWe also heard from the White House:\nI call upon the people of the United States to celebrate and continue to build on our country's progress towards gender equality, and to defend and strengthen the right to vote.218\nThere was not a single word about the millions of Afghan women and girls under Taliban control. It's not America's responsibility to protect these women in perpetuity, but Biden's abrupt withdrawal and his massive gift of the American military hardware left behind will add to the bloodshed to come.\nThe president abruptly cancelled much of Donald Trump's legacy in favor of his own damaging policies while choosing to blame Trump for what went wrong when he pulled out our troops. For Biden to shift the blame after he put so many women and girls in harm's way while calling on the U.S. to strengthen gender equality stinks of narrative hypocrisy and the White House's continuing refusal to accept any responsibility for the consequences of Biden's actions.\nThe president chose the coward's way out and blamed Trump for what has happened instead of standing up straight and explaining to the nation why he didn't do more to make sure women and girls were protected despite our withdrawal. Biden is the command-in-chief. He has already proved he can and will do whatever he wants.\nUnfortunately for Afghan women and girls \"whatever he wants means not doing anything. Biden didn't even mention Afghanistan on Women's Equality Day. Neither did Nancy Pelosi. Perhaps that was wise. They used the occasion to misrepresent voting rights in America. No need to add another layer of lies to further mock women's rights.\n#113: proclaiming Overdose Awareness Week while illegals and fentanyl flow across our border\nThe president has been signing proclamation after proclamation lately, as if taking a position on something equates to action. It doesn't. Nowhere is this more obvious than Biden's recent \"Proclamation on Overdose Awareness Week, 2021:\"\nDuring Overdose Awareness Week, we recommit to taking bold actions to prevent overdoses and related deaths, and enhance our support for individuals with substance use disorders.219\n\"Recommit to taking bold actions\" probably sounded clever to White House media hacks, but what does it really mean? According to Customs and Border Protection it means this:\nDespite the slight drop for February, CBP is seeing a drastic increase in fentanyl seizures this fiscal year \u2013 more than 360 percent higher than this same time last year. For all Fiscal Year 2020, CBP intercepted more than 4,700 pounds. Just five months into this year, CBP has seized nearly 5,000 pounds.220\nThat was from CBP's February 2021 Operational Update. A few months later the situation didn't sound much improved:\nCBP continues to see a surge in fentanyl seizures; seizures in Fiscal Year 2021 through June are 78 percent higher than all of Fiscal Year 2020.221\nWhat's the difference between 2020 and 2021? Joe Biden.\nA July 27, 2021 Homeland Security & Governmental Affairs hearing discussed what Biden's border policies brought to the U.S.:\nSenator Portman highlighted that Customs and Border Protection (CBP) agents are overwhelmed by the surge of migrants at our southern border as well as the record amounts of illicit deadly drugs, like fentanyl, coming across the border and into the United States.222\nThe proclamation announcement hit all the right notes. The president even included \"racial disparities in responding to the overdose epidemic.\" The sorry truth is the choice comes down to whether we slow the rush of illegals to staunch the influx of lethal drugs or make empty promises about stopping the overdose epidemic. We already know which one Biden chose.\nHypocrisy Update September 3, 2021:\n#114: Biden voters got what they asked for, so why the low approval?\nWhat stands out about President Biden's historically awful approval rating is not how low it is, but the blatant hypocrisy behind the number of disapproving Americans who must also have voted for him.\nPew Research reports that only 26% say Biden \"has done an excellent or good job\" in Afghanistan. 42% rate his performance \"poor.\"223\nSo why is the president's overall approval rating hovering just over 40%? Have Biden voters already lost faith in just eight months?\nWhat happened in Afghanistan, what's happening at the border, and what's about to happen to our economy if the president does what he promised during the election is what Biden voters asked for. They got what they wanted. Biden delivered. It doesn't require a woke political scientist to figure out that a Biden presidency was a catastrophe waiting to happen. If you voted for Joe, rest assured that more of the same is on the way.\nSo I'll ask again. Why such a low approval, Biden voters? Did you make a big mistake?\n#115: Opposing anti-Semitism while your party gives it safe harbor\nJoe Biden spoke out against anti-Semitism in today's Rosh Hashanah commemoration. He insisted that America's to-do list includes:\nTo give hate no safe harbor, and speak out with clarity and conviction against antisemitism wherever and however it manifests.224\nDid no one tell the president that anti-Semitism is alive and well within his own party and has been for quite some time with no action from Democrats who refuse to punish the same behavior in their ranks that they condemn in the harshest terms when it comes from anyone who isn't a Democrat?\nIn June Republican lawmakers introduced a censure resolution to address anti-Semitic remarks from Reps. Ilhan Omar (D-MN), Rashida Tlaib (D-MI), Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) and Ayanna Pressley (D-MA):\nLast week, Congresswoman Ilhan Omar compared the United States and Israel to Hamas and the Taliban,\" said Rep. Tenney. \"Sadly, this is not out of character for 'The Squad,' who have made a habit of trafficking in anti-Semitic rhetoric. Their actions have been completely unchecked by Democratic leadership in the House, even as vile attacks against Jewish Americans are rising.225\n15 pages of anti-Semitic and anti-Israel remarks supported their resolution. 24 House Republicans cosponsored the effort. Not a single Democrat stepped up.\n2019 H. Res. 241 fared no better with no Democrats agreeing to cosponsor language condemning anti-Semitic remarks made by Rep. Omar.\nThis is not to say that Democrats were silent. They issued weak press releases as if their empty words were the same thing as dealing with their anti-Semitism problem. In February 2019 Adam Schiff (D-CA) said this of repeat offender Omar's anti-Semitic comments:\nIt's never acceptable to give voice to, or repeat, anti-Semitic smears.226\nIt may not be acceptable, but it's certainly tolerated by Democrats. Biden talks about no safe harbor for hate. Anti-Semitism found that safe harbor within his own party.","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
+{"text":"Trump Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross says he doesn't 'understand' why federal workers lining up at food banks\nJanuary 24, 2019\tNational News\nWin McNamee\/Getty Images\nWin McNamee\/Getty Images(NEW YORK) \u2014 As the partial government shutdown stretches into day 34 and some of the 800,000 federal workers are set to miss their second paychecks starting Friday, Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross is downplaying the effects on government employees and the overall economy.\nAsked in an interview with CNBC Thursday about workers who have been seen lining up at food banks and homeless shelters, Ross, a multi-millionaire, appeared to advise them to take on new debt.\n\"Well, I know they are and I don't really quite understand why,\" Ross said. \"Because as I mentioned before, they \u2013 the obligations that they would undertake, say, borrowing from a bank or a credit union, are in effect federally guaranteed.\"\n\"So the 30 days of pay that some people will be out, there's no real reason why they shouldn't be able to get a loan against it,\" Ross added.\nDemocratic lawmakers immediately pounced on the comments to frame the administration as tone-deaf, as multiple polls continue to show Americans largely blame President Trump and congressional Republicans for the record-long shutdown.\n\"Anybody who's at the top of the food chain is totally tone-deaf,' Democratic Sen. Joe Manchin told reporters Thursday. \"If that's where they are, they've been out of touch with reality for that long, because I can tell you, I've been all over West Virginia. People are hurting.\"\nSenate Minority Leader Sen. Chuck Schumer admonished Ross from the Senate floor Thursday morning.\n\"Those comments are appalling, and reveal the administration's callous indifference towards the federal workers it's treating as pawns,\" Schumer said. \"Secretary Ross' comments are the 21st century equivalent of 'let them eat cake.'\"\nEven Republicans swiftly panned Ross' comments.\n\"I can't relate to the Secretary's comments because I have been hearing directly from Alaskans and non-Alaskans,\" GOP Sen. Lisa Murkowski of Alaska told reporters Thursday. \"I have been hearing them tell me what it's like to be a proud member of a Coast Guard family \u2026 that is proud to serve. And to know that they have to go the food bank in order to get necessary food to tide them over until the next time they get paid \u2026 I hear very directly.\"\n\"They have Wilbur Ross saying he 'doesn't understand why' when he was asked about people going to food lines and pantries,\" House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said in remarks at her daily news conference. \"He doesn't understand why they have to do that. Is this a 'let them eat cake' kind of attitude or 'call your father for money?'\"\nTrump appeared to misinterpret Pelosi's comments as he later tweeted attacking Pelosi, suggesting she was referring to the border wall and not the comments by Ross.\nIn the same interview, Ross also downplayed the effect on the broader economy from the estimated 800,000 workers not receiving pay.\n\"You're talking about 800,000 workers,\" Ross said. \"And while I feel sorry for the individuals that have hardship cases, 800,000 workers if they never got their pay \u2014 which is not the case, they will eventually get it, but if they never got it, you're talking about a third of a percent on our GDP [Gross Domestic Product] so it's not like it's a gigantic number overall.\"\nThe comments come one day after President Donald Trump's daughter-in-law and campaign adviser, Lara Trump, faced criticism for her own comments regarding government workers.\n\"This is so much bigger than any one person,\" Lara Trump said. \"It is a little bit of pain, but it's going to be for the future of our country, and their children and their grandchildren and generations after them will thank them for their sacrifice right now.\"\nThe president himself was criticized early on in the shutdown when he was similarly pressed on whether he could sympathize with workers who have to go without pay as he continued to demand Congress fund his proposed wall along the U.S.-Mexico border.\n\"I can relate,\" Trump said. \"I'm sure the people that are on the receiving end will make adjustments. They always do. People understand what's going on. Many of those people that won't be receiving a paycheck, many of those people agree 100 percent with what I'm doing.\"","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
+{"text":"Uttar Pradesh panchayat\nUP government to plant 22 crore saplings this season\nSapling distribution will start next week and the whole process has to be completed by August 15.\n67 killed in Bihar floods as situation remains grim, over 46 lakh affected\nDeath toll in the Bihar flash floods, caused by torrential rainfall in the catchment areas of Nepal over the weekend, soared to 67 on Wednesday.\nUN's top development official in awe of India's efforts\nUN Development Programme Administrator Achim Steiner spoke highly of India's projects like eVIN (Electronic Vaccine Intelligence Network) that helps deliver immunisation to the last mile by digitising vaccine stock data and monitoring the temperature through a smartphone application that were being exported to other countries.\nCow deaths in UP: Yogi Adityanath suspends 8 officials, warns criminal action in future\nYogi Adityanath addressed district magistrates (DM) and other officials via video conferencing on Sunday over the recurring incidents of cow deaths in various districts of the state.\nRajasthan's environment friendly village leads the way with its unique initiative\nIn a remarkable feat, 111 trees are planted on the birth of every girl child in Piplantri village in Rajsamand district of Rajasthan.\nBJP activist beaten for chanting Jai Shree Ram in Bengal, dies\nKrishna Debnath, the saffron party activist from Swarupnagar in Nadia district's Nabadwip, was rushed to a local hospital after family members found him lying by the road side on Friday evening.\nUpdated : July 6, 2019, 5:56 pm\nNitish Kumar's battle against AES\nOf the almost 130 children who have died of AES in Bihar, the majority, 85, have been girls, less likely to be fed adequately in poor families than their brothers.\nUpdated : June 28, 2019, 12:55 pm\nJaagte Raho: UP police siren gets new tune\nThe Uttar Pradesh Police have now adopted the slogan and all Dial 100 vehicles will play \"Jaagte Raho\" instead of the routine siren.\n2 killed as groups clash during panchayat meeting in Uttar Pradesh's Shahjahanpur\nWhile one of them was shot dead, the other died of injuries sustained after being beaten with sticks. He succumbed while undergoing treatment at a hospital, police said.\nModi, Shah Reign Again | BJP\nThe duo get their names inscribed in history books by crafting a spectacular win, decimating a determined opposition and proving traditional political theories wrong.\nUpdated : May 27, 2019, 12:39 pm\nSmriti Irani's aide shot dead in Amethi: FIR lodged against 5 persons\nSmriti Irani asked party workers to exercise restraint, even as she targeted Rahul Gandhi over his \"take-care-of-Amethi-with-love\" remark, saying she had got the message \"loud and clear\".\nUpdated : May 27, 2019, 9:34 am\nAmit Shah: BJP's Chanakya who strategised and delivered Modi wave 2.0\nA man with avowed aim of having the BJP rule from \"panchayat to Parliament\", Amit Shah has built his party into a formidable army that has been forever marching on since he took charge as its president in July 2014, turning India more saffron than it has ever been.\nUpdated : May 23, 2019, 8:12 pm\nBJP had nothing to do with Congress MLA Aditi Singh's accident: UP Deputy CM Dinesh Sharma\nDenying Aditi Singh's claims in a statement, Uttar Pradesh Deputy Chief Minister Dr Dinesh Sharma said Aditi Singh was never attacked.\nIn Mamata Banerjee vs Narendra Modi fight, why BJP is so combative in Bengal this Lok Sabha election\nBengal has witnessed fierce election campaign from the first to the last phase of the Lok Sabha polls. The BJP has emerged as the main challenger to the TMC, which has dominated polls in Bengal since 2011.\nUttar Pradesh: Stray dogs maul seven-year-old girl to death\nThe girl, Deviki, was reportedly walking towards her house with a bag of food when dogs attacked her.","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
+{"text":"EU Researchers achieve breakthrough in nano-scale c-Si\nA team of scientists representing the photoNvoltaics project, funded by the European Union, has been able to develop a crystalline silicon cell with an effective thickness of just 830 nano-meters.\nAugust 31, 2017 Mark Hutchins\nLongi silicon ingot\nImage: Longi\nEuropean researchers have become the first successfully integrate a nanophotonic structure into a crystalline silicon solar cell, boosting its light absorption and greatly reducing silicon use. This breakthrough, the researchers say, sets a pathway for scaling down the texture of crystalline solar cells from the micro to the nano-scale.\nThinner crystalline cells could allow new applications not currently possible with c-Si technology, such as flexible solar modules or semi-transparent cells for use in solar glass and building integrated solar projects.\n\"We strived to enable the development of a new and disruptive solar cell generation, resulting from the marriage of crystalline silicon PV with advanced light-trapping schemes from the field of nanophotonics,\" states project leader Valerie Depauw of the Belgium based Imec institute. \"The main applications of our thin c-Si solar cells could be in buildings as windows and skylights, where they will bring more freedom for integration, and possibly lighter and thinner module designs.\"\nAdding nanophotonic structures to the surface of c-Si cells has been a major stumbling block for researchers \u2013 while the structures boost light absorption, the texturing often damages the electrical efficiency of the cell, causing major losses.\nThe photoNvoltaics researchers were able to create a monocrystalline cell with 8.6% efficiency at just 830nm thickness. This was achieved by combining amorphous ordered nanopatterning with an advance surface passivation. \"This prompts the development of highly efficient, flexible and semitransparent photovoltaics, based on the industrially mature monocrystalline silicon technology, state the researchers in their study Sunlight-thin nanophotonic monocrystalline silicon solar cells, published in the journal Nano Futures.\nThe researchers used a kerfless technique to separate a micron thick film from a standard mono wafer. The researchers then used reactive ion etching to imprint a nanotexture onto surface of the cell.\nSilicon costs make up the largest portion of a solar module's overall costs, so creating thinner cells, and reducing the amount of silicon wasted in production are key areas for improvement in the eyes of manufacturers. Replacing sawing with kerfless wafer processes, and texturing surfaces to absorb more light are already recognized as two methods with the potential to further produce c-Si production costs.\nThe photoNvoltaics project takes this a step further, and while the cells it has produced here have not yet achieved commercially viable efficiency levels, the breakthrough could be a stepping stone towards new applications for c-Si technology, one that could see the technology applied in growing areas such as energy efficient buildings and transparent solar cells.\nMark Hutchins\nMark Hutchins joined pv magazine in September 2016 as production editor of the monthly global title. Mark also works online reporting on upstream technology and markets, as well as newly emerging solar regions.\nMore articles from Mark Hutchins","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
+{"text":"Eat Drink RI The Show with guest Russell Spellman of Incred-A-Bowl\nEat Drink RI The Show with guests Kelley McShane and Nick Carr\u2026\nEat Drink RI The Show with guest Georgina Sarpong of Abundance Farm\nEat Drink RI The Show with guest Alexandra Georgiou of Yoleni's\nEat Drink RI The Show with guest Jessica Wood of Umelt, Salty's\u2026\nSubscribe as a Podcast\nPOSTPONED 2020 Festival\nFood & Beverage Jobs\nMarketing & PR Services\nPlease Support Eat Drink RI through Patreon\nThe best local food and beverage information in Rhode Island\nHome Tags Posts tagged with \"Newport Lobster Shack\"\nNewport Lobster Shack\nchefs & restaurantsfarmsnewswine & drinks\nRestaurants with Online Ordering and Take Out\nby David Dadekian March 18, 2020\nwritten by David Dadekian\nDue to the ongoing COVID-19 crisis many of Rhode Island's restaurants are trying to promote their online ordering and take out, and even moving to take out only. This page will attempt to be updated regularly with links to their ordering page or menu and phone numbers when online isn't available.\nResource Links for Small Businesses During COVID-19 Crisis including all federal, state & municipal funding options, plus health links.\nLooking for local groceries, markets, food, drink, gift cards, apparel and all kinds of other merchandise?\nLooking for locally brewed beer? We have a full update from RI Breweries right here.\nConcerned about whether take out and delivery is safe during this pandemic? It is safe! Read all about it.\nIf you would like your restaurant to be added to this page, please send a message through our contact form. I'm happy to add ANYONE, just please send through the form so I don't lose track of anyone.\nHere's some tips to ordering from your favorite restaurant:\nCheck a restaurant's Facebook page\/Instagram\/web site for updates. Things are very much in flux right now and they may have to stop, start or change hours on take out or delivery.\nAlways try to order directly from a restaurant first, via phone or their own online ordering before using a 3rd party delivery service (unless they recommend you use the service).\nBuy a gift card. The restaurant gets the money now and you get to dine later for \"free!\" (Don't think about it.)\nIf a restaurant you love is closed completely, make sure you head in to eat when they open back up. These are hugely trying times for any small business and they'll need sales.\nWith that in mind, when you do dine-in again one day, tip well and tip often.\nBuy a gift card. They make great gifts!\nDuring this crisis restaurants are allowed to sell bottles & cans of wine & beer. Please support that as well.\nThat's not to say you shouldn't support your small business liquor store either, though I'm thinking we're all doing that as much as we can.\nDid I mention buy a gift card?\nWhat's Up Newp has got a page dedicated to places in Newport County, so rather than duplicate that, go check out their page.\nEvery restaurant in this list offers take out:\nA Take Out or Delivery link means you can order online.\nA phone number means click on the restaurant name to take you to their site where you can view the menu and call the restaurant take out or delivery.\nThe entire list is now in a sortable and searchable spreadsheet.\nRhode Island Restaurants with Online Ordering and Take Out\nRestaurant - click name for more\nOnline Take Out\nThank you, eat well and remember Food Will Help RI Grow\u00ae\n0 FacebookTwitterPinterestLinkedinTumblrRedditStumbleuponWhatsappEmail\nShop Local Food & Drink Businesses Online\nDue to the ongoing COVID-19 crisis many of Rhode Island's food & drink businesses are trying to promote sales of their products, from food and beverages to gift cards and apparel. This page will attempt to be updated regularly with links to their online storefronts.\nCheck out the Restaurants with Online Ordering and Take Out page and get some take out or delivery!\nHope & Main has got an excellent #EatStrongRI page dedicated to their members who sell online, so rather than duplicate that, go check out their page.\nIf you would like your business to be added to this page, please send a message through our contact form. I'm happy to add ANYONE, just please send through the form so I don't lose track of anyone.\nThe entire list is now in a sortable and searchable spreadsheet. Looking for something in particular? Type \"grocery\" or \"seafood\" or \"gift card\" into the search box.\nchefs & restaurantscookingnews\nNews Bites: Newport Lobster Shack Kitchen, The Pizza Gourmet, Papa Razzi\nby David Dadekian September 1, 2014\nGrand Opening at the Newport Lobster Shack Kitchen\nCurrent news releases\u2014Eat Drink RI is not the source for these items\u2014please follow any links for more information.\nFishermen in Newport Celebrate Grand Opening of Lobster Shack Kitchen at State Pier Nine in Newport\nNew Waterfront Eatery on the State Pier Offers Steamed Lobster Dinners, Fresh Lobster Rolls, Lobsterman's Bisque and More Made from Lobsters Landed Right in Newport at Pier Nine on Long Wharf\nThe Department of Environmental Management, in partnership with the Fishermen in Newport, hosted a grand opening and ribbon-cutting event today at State Pier Nine in Newport for the new Newport Lobster Shack Kitchen.\nThe Kitchen is an outgrowth of the popular Newport Lobster Shack Cooperative at the state pier on Long Wharf, where the Fishermen in Newport have been selling their catch \u2013 lobsters, crabs and conch \u2013 directly to the public since 2010. Now, with the new kitchen facility, the public has an opportunity to purchase a variety of freshly cooked items made directly from lobsters landed at Pier Nine. Visitors to Newport can now enjoy an affordable, local seafood meal 'picnic-style' under the shade pavilion on Newport's working waterfront.\nAccording to DEM Director Janet Coit, the Newport Lobster Shack Cooperative is a powerful model for the survival of local fisheries. By selling their catch directly to the public, the fishermen can earn better value for their product, while ensuring that visitors have a stellar Rhode Island seafood experience.\n\"I am pleased that economic and environmental sustainability were addressed with this innovative idea to support Rhode Island's hard working fishermen,\" Governor Lincoln D. Chafee said. \"I thank Director Coit and her staff for their work to support our environment and economy.\"\nDEM Director Coit noted that this collaborative initiative with the Fishermen in Newport is one of DEM's efforts to add economic value to the Rhode Island fishing industry. \"All of the Kitchen's menu items including fresh steamed lobster, lobster rolls, lobster bites, lobster cakes, and hand-picked local lobster meat come straight from the lobsters plucked by fishermen in local waters and landed right here at State Pier Nine. You can't get any fresher than that!\"\nLobster typically ranks as Rhode Island's second most valuable commercial fishery, behind squid. Lobster landings in Rhode Island (including dockside sales) in 2013 totaled 2.1 million pounds for a value of $9.7 million. Approximately 645,000 pounds were harvested by Newport fishermen for a value of $3.1 million. As Rhode Island-landed lobster are processed and move into the wholesale and retail markets, the total value of the fishery increases substantially \u2013 likely approaching $28 million \u2013 making it a crucial part of the state's economy. Rhode Island has approximately 250 lobster fishermen, with 45 landing lobster in Newport.\n\"I want to congratulate the Newport Fishermen's Cooperative and all the fishermen here at State Pier Nine for coming together to make the Newport Lobster Shack Kitchen a success. This endeavor is really their vision supported by their investment of time, hard work, funding, and resources. I hope it will be a boon to their businesses and that continues to draw even more people to the Newport waterfront to enjoy some locally caught, fresh off-the-boat-fresh lobster and seafood,\" said U.S. Senator Jack Reed, who has worked with Rhode Island lobstermen over the years to secure federal funding for lobster gear exchanges and an ongoing lobster data collection project led by the Commercial Fisheries Research Foundation. Reed has also been a champion of the \"eat local\" and tide-to-table movement in Rhode Island and led efforts at the federal level to help local growers, fishermen, and farmers market and sell their products.\nToday, Senator Reed, a senior member of the Appropriations Commerce, Justice, Science Subcommittee, announced that the U.S. Department of Commerce will be providing another $190,000 in federal funding for URI, in cooperation with the Rhode Island Lobsterman's Association and others, to design and test new types of lobster and crab gear.\nHouse Speaker Nicholas Mattiello said, \"I have focused my energy since becoming Speaker earlier this year on improving our state's economy. The fishing industry is a very important industry, and I am proud to support efforts such as this one to promote our hard-working fishermen and women.\"\nPresident of the Senate M. Teresa Paiva Weed said, \"This is a creative partnership that helps keep jobs in Rhode Island. The Newport Lobster Shack Kitchen supports an important industry, enabling fishermen to market locally harvested and locally prepared seafood direct to consumers. It wouldn't have been possible without Director Janet Coit, and the Senate appreciates her commitment to working with the state's fishermen to help maintain this vital industry.\"\n\"I visit the fishing pier regularly and I am very excited to see this new facility being opened that will be so helpful to our local fishermen,\" noted Representative Peter Martin of Newport. \"As a former commissioner on the Atlantic States Fisheries Commission, I truly value the importance of Rhode Island's fishing industry.\"\nRepresentative Deborah Ruggiero of Jamestown added, \"The fishing industry is so important to our state's economy and I am thrilled about the opening of the Newport Lobster Shack Kitchen. I buy lobsters year-round at the pier and it's exciting to see the expansion from retail sales to a restaurant. I encourage everyone in our state to buy local and eat fresh!\"\nIn addition to the Lobster Shack and Lobster Shack Kitchen, Pier Nine is the site of a farmers' market that opened in collaboration between DEM and the Pier Nine fishermen in 2011. Located at the edge of Newport Harbor, the market is open Fridays from 2 p.m. to 6 p.m. through October.\nThe family-friendly Newport Lobster Shack Kitchen is open daily from 12 p.m. to 6 p.m. and is offering several grand opening specials through Labor Day.\nThe Pizza Gourmet Kicks Off Season at Fall Venues\nWood Grilled Pizza Stars At Sports Stadiums and Events Nationwide\nFrom Rhode Island across the nation, The Pizza Gourmet is adding to football fans' enjoyment this new season. The Pizza Gourmet real wood grilled pizza is being served from pregame to the final gun at pro football venues including Gillette Stadium in Foxboro, Massachusetts. The specialty pizza made only from hand-stretched dough grilled at 1800 degrees over real oak and maple wood is served to VIP guests at games as well as in the clubhouse.\nBaseball fans enjoy The Pizza Gourmet as well at the home of Cleveland's big league club, Progressive Field.\nAnd this fall and winter, hometown fans will have the advantage at the University of Rhode Island where a Pizza Gourmet-themed concession stand will open in the Ryan Center. URI's athletic department and fraternity\/sorority foodservice is featuring the real wood-grilled pizza as well.\nThe Pizza Gourmet and The Catering Gourmet will unveil their brand new food truck, The G Truck, at the Peace & Providence Festival September 6th at the Roger Williams National Memorial in Providence. The G Truck will be at select events throughout New England serving The Pizza Gourmet's original wood-grilled pizzas and a full menu of food that can only be described as casual and fun. At the Festival, the Catering Gourmet will be located in eight food tents and will be featuring BBQ, doughboys, sandwiches such as sausage and peppers, wraps, ice cream and house made potato chips and fries.\nAt this year's Newport Mansions Wine and Food Festival, the Pizza Gourmet will be joining the scores of celebrity chefs and winemakers who come to this world-class tasting and education weekend. The Pizza Gourmet's wood-grilled pizza will be served at the Grand Tasting at Marble House September 20th and 21st.\nWeekly Specials at Papa Razzi\nMangia Monday (Every Monday, All Day 11:30 a.m. \u2013 10 p.m.)\nAll entr\u00e9es are $15.99 all day on Mondays\nAdd an appetizer, pizza or antipasto or salad for only $7.99\nAdd a glass of our house red or white wine for only $5.99\n*Purchase of entr\u00e9e required to receive special pricing on appetizers & wine\nBrunch & Bubbly (Every Saturday and Sunday from 11:30 a.m. \u2013 3 p.m.) (*Also on Monday Holidays at the same time)\nJoin us all weekend long and Monday holidays for our classic Papa Razzi brunch offerings.\nWith purchase of a brunch entr\u00e9e, your first drink is on us, with your choice of a Bellini or Mimosa.\nSpaghetti Notte (Every Wednesday, All day 11:30 a.m. \u2013 10 p.m.)\nJoin us Wednesday for your choice of four signature pastas, soup, salad or pizza for $19.99\nWith a bottle of red or white wine $29.99\nSeasonal promotions cannot be combined with any other offers\nfarmsnews\nInterested In Something Besides Turkey? It's Lobster Season Too\nby David Dadekian November 23, 2011\nOn Thanksgiving everyone thinks of turkey and then the December holiday table usually revolves around beef or ham (or another turkey!), but what about a very local sea creature that is delicious and in abundance this time of year? The Newport Lobster Shack, a non-profit cooperative built in 2009 by the Fishermen of Newport Association, asks that you consider the lobster for your holiday feasts.\n\"Lobstering is a more than just a summer fishery and lots of people don't know that,\" says David Spencer, manager of the Newport Lobster Shack. \"We have lots of fresh lobsters coming into the shack from Thanksgiving all the way to New Years! But people aren't thinking about lobster in November.\"\nThough lobstering is a year-round industry, there are peak times determined by the lobsters themselves. Lobsters molt, or shed their hard shells as they outgrow them, twice a year. To gain the nutrients it needs to harden its new shell, a lobster eats much of the old shell and anything else it can find, including bait. These bi-annual eating sprees happen in late June and mid-November, filling the tanks at the Newport Lobster Shack to bursting just in time for Thanksgiving and the December holidays.\nThe Shack, explains Spencer, is on the commercial pier at the end of Long Wharf. On any given day it can be filled with up to 1,200 pounds of fresh lobster. There are approximately twenty-five fishermen who dock there and contribute their catch daily until the tanks are full, creating a space where the public can buy \"off the boat.\" According to the Shack, their lobsters are not subject to retailer mark-up, making them consistently less per pound than elsewhere. The Shack also claims that the average length of time that their fresh-caught lobsters are out of the ocean before being purchased is about 48 hours, compared to weeks at a supermarket.\nSpencer and his peers hope that consumers interested in eating local also remember that in the Ocean State local means seafood. For Newport's fishing fleet to survive, fresh caught items like lobster need to be on plates year-round. Spencer added, \"Lobsters were served at the first Thanksgiving.\"\nThe Newport Lobster Shack is open the day before Thanksgiving from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. The regular business hours are Thursdays & Fridays from 1 \u2013 5 p.m., Saturdays & Sundays from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. (closed on Thanksgiving). Updated information, including any extended holiday hours, can be found on their Facebook page. David Spencer can be reached at drspencer1@gmail.com or at 401-465-9669.\nMoniker Brewery Opens in Providence\nHolidays 2020 Takeout\nThe Rhode to Recovery: RI Food and Drink, Part 4 of 4\nFood Trucks:\nFour Time RI Monthly Best of RI Winner for the Eat Drink RI Festival\n2019 Rhode Island Inno Blazer Award Winner & Two Time 50 On Fire Winner\nRhode Island Foundation 2014 Innovation Fellow\nCopyright \u00a9 2010-2020 Eat Drink RI LLC. All rights reserved.\nTerms and Conditions \u2013 Privacy Policy","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
+{"text":"BBPPKS Regional II Bandung\nGALER\nWhich is the best degree for university students?\nSurrey Education Welfare is the largest university education welfare agency in Australia and offers a wide range of degrees and programmes for people with learning difficulties, including education and work experience.\nIt provides education and training to students with learning challenges in all academic areas, from high school through to university, and also provides support for those who cannot complete their studies or who do not have the resources to study full-time.\nIt also provides training and support for individuals with learning problems and their families.\nThere are many different options for students to pursue their education in the US, Canada and Europe, and for international students to study in Australia.\nIn the UK, there are a number of universities that offer courses, including University College London (UCL), Oxford University, the University of Manchester and the University College, London.\nFor those who want to learn English, the Universities of Manchester offer English Language Learners (ELLE) courses, while the University at Oxford offers its own programme for the English language learners.\nThe University of Sydney has a variety of English language courses.\nA variety of courses are available to students who need to complete their university education and want to pursue further education in English.\nFor example, the UK offers a range of English Language Learning (ELL) programmes that students can choose from, including: English Language and Literature (ELLI) \u2013 A short course in English to prepare for university, including language courses in reading and writing and some online teaching in addition to the usual classroom instruction.\nEnglish Language (EL) \u2013 An online language course, with English content and grammar lessons.\nEnglish As A Second Language (EASL) \u2013 a standardised programme for English learners that includes a weekly language test.\nEnglish as a Second Language: Language & Literacy (ELLSL) (English as a second language: language) \u2013 also called English Language Development (ELDL) \u2013 provides a standardisation programme for learners of English.\nEnglish-As-A-Second-Language (EASTL) courses are taught in a classroom environment and require students to read and speak English to complete the course.\nEnglish (non-native) language courses offer a range or topics, including linguistics, history, science, art, music, literature and politics.\nThe courses at the University are designed for a range, and include English as an International Baccalaureate (IBE) or A Level English course, as well as an Advanced English level course (AEL).\nThe University's courses also provide a wide variety of practical and social activities, such as work placements, social clubs, volunteering, volunteering and social media, among others.\nStudents can choose their degree from the University's online courses or from their individual degree programs.\nStudent-led projects are also offered in English-language courses, as are opportunities to take part in a club, social club, or other group activity, including a local club.\nStudents who are in the UK who wish to study English as another language must first complete an English Language Acquisition (ELA) course, which is offered at the same level as their English language requirements.\nFor students from overseas, English language studies courses at University are offered in a range formats including an online course and a course at home.\nThere is also a range to choose from of language-based study, such that students may take part either as a full- time student, as a part-time learner or as a graduate student.\nStudents from overseas who wish more English language study options should visit their nearest UK university.\nA range of other programmes are available at universities in Australia, including English language programs, English as the second language (E2L) and bilingual language programs.\nStudents with disabilities can also apply for accommodation and support.\nStudents interested in English can find out more about accommodation and other services available for people living with disabilities.\nThe number of English learners in the United Kingdom has grown by about 25 per cent over the last five years, according to the Office for National Statistics (ONS), with more than half of the total growth coming from those aged 18-24.\nWhile the number of students with a university degree is on the rise, it is not a new trend.\nThe ONS reported in 2009 that the number had reached a high of 11.5 million, with more people than ever having a university education, and about one in four people in the country with a degree.\nThe UK is now home to about 1.4 million English speakers, and the country is expected to overtake Australia as the world's largest exporter of speakers of English and Spanish by 2025.\nMany universities offer English language programmes in their programmes.\nIn many countries, there is a shortage of English speaking students, or students who cannot speak English.\nHowever, there have been significant changes in the way that English has been taught in recent years, and this has created a significant opportunity for students.\nFor instance, in England, the number one reason that students drop out of university is language,\nPosted in CONTACTTagged education welfare degree, surrey education welfare, welfare clause education\nHow to get a better grade in your university exam: What you need to know\nHow the GOP has created a national identity crisis: 'We can't get a grip on this country without Trump'\nHow to use the welfare clause to help your child with autism\nWhy the 'education welfare' bill could cost you your job\nHow education aid helped Trump win the 2016 election\nanimal welfare education animal welfare educator army welfare education barnsley education welfare bmbc education welfare 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+{"text":"Tag: toxic cleanup\nEpa Declares Love Canal Clean\nIts discovery 25 years ago led to the creation of the EPA Superfund Program for the cleanup of toxic waste sites. Now, the Environmental Protection Agency says cleanup work is finished at the infamous Love Canal dumpsite in Niagara Falls, New York. The Great Lakes Radio Consortium's Bud Lowell has more:\nhttps:\/\/environmentreport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2004\/03\/lowell_032904.mp3\nIts discovery 25 years ago led to the creation of the EPA Superfund Program for the cleanup of\ntoxic waste sites. Now the Environmental Protection Agency says cleanup work is finished at the\ninfamous Love Canal dumpsite in Niagara Falls, New York. The Great Lakes Radio\nConsortium's Bud Lowell has more:\nThe Love Canal neighborhood became a national symbol for the problems of toxic waste in 1978.\nNine hundred families were evacuated. An elementary school and two streets of homes were\nbulldozed. The remaining landfill was sealed off.\nToday, EPA says the 70-acre site can come off the Superfund List but Mike Schade with a\nBuffalo-based group called the Citizens Environmental Coalition isn't so sure. He says about 22-\nthousand tons of World War II era chemical byproducts remain buried at the Love Canal site.\n\"Now, while the EPA and Occidental are monitoring the landfill, time will prove that landfill will\neventually leak. It's really, inevitable.\"\nSchade believes the EPA announcement seeks to defuse criticism of a recent U.S. Senate vote.\nThat vote blocked reauthorizing a law taxing oil and chemical companies to support the\nSuperfund program.\nFor the Great Lakes Radio Consortium, I'm Bud Lowell.\nMore on the Love Canal site from EPA\nCritical remarks from the Citizens Environmental Coalition\nAuthor Bud LowellPosted on March 29, 2004 Categories News SpotsTags epa, landfill, landfills, new york, niagara falls, toxic cleanup, toxic waste\nCleanup of Toxic Sites in Limbo\nMonsanto has agreed to clean up one contaminated site of hundreds that need to be cleaned up. The toxic site cleanups have been in limbo because of a recent bankruptcy. The Great Lakes Radio Consortium's Tom Weber explains:\nhttps:\/\/environmentreport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2004\/03\/weber_030804.mp3\nMonsanto has agreed to clean up one contaminated site of hundreds that need to be cleaned up.\nThe toxic site cleanups have been in limbo because of a recent bankruptcy. The Great Lakes\nRadio Consortium's Tom Weber reports:\nMonsanto contaminated this one site in southern Illinois with dioxins, PCB's and other toxic\nchemicals for 40 years.\nLegal questions arose because Monsanto created a company called Solutia in 1997. Solutia took\nresponsibility for Monsanto's chemical clean ups. But Solutia went bankrupt last year. And it\nrefused to clean any of the 300 sites across the country while in bankruptcy.\nGlenn Ruskin is a Solutia spokesman. He says Solutia can't clean up the site, but Monsanto's\ndecision to do so offers hope for people who live at the other sites.\n\"It just indicates that there are parties out there who are still in existence that are willing and able\nto do that clean up.\"\nThe matter is even more complex because much of Monsanto was bought by Pharmacia. Pfizer\nthen bought Pharmacia.\nA bankruptcy judge will ultimately decide who has to clean which sites.\nFor the Great Lakes Radio Consortium, I'm Tom Weber.\nMore about the Monsanto cleanup from the St. Loius Post-Dispatch\nAuthor Tom WeberPosted on March 8, 2004 Categories News SpotsTags chemical, chemicals, contamination, dioxin, dioxins, health concern, health concerns, human health, illinois, monsanto, pcb, pcbs, public health, toxic chemicals, toxic cleanup, toxic waste, toxins","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
+{"text":"Essentials >>\nRepentance Baptism The Holy Spirit Communion\nand Rose\nrepentance? by Bob\nThe nature\nand purpose\nof baptism. by Bob\nyou wanted\nto know. by Bob\nThe im-\nportance\nSacrament.\nA Tribute to Ronald Reagan\nWritten by Rose Weiner\n- by Bob and Rose Weiner\nThe Forerunner - Jan\/Feb 1989\nThou, too sail on, O ship of State!\nSail on, O Union, strong and great!\nHumanity with all its fears,\nWith all the hopes of future years,\nIs hanging breathless on thy fate!\nWe know what Master laid thy keel,\nWhat Workmen wrought thy ribs of steel,\nWho made each mast, and sail, and rope,\nWhat anvils rang, what hammers beat,\nIn what a forge and what a heat\nWere shaped the anchors of thy hope!\nFear not each sudden sound and shock,\n'Tis of the wave and not the rock;\n'Tis but the flapping of the sail,\nAnd not a rent made by the gale!\nIn spite of rock and tempest's roar,\nIn spite of false lights on the shore,\nSail on, nor fear to breast the sea!\nOur hearts, our hopes, are still with thee,\nOur hearts, our hopes, our prayers, our tears,\nOur faith triumphant o'er our fears,\nAre all with thee, - are all with thee!\n\"The Building of the Ship\"\nWhat exactly has happened in the United States over the past eight years since the Reagan presidency began? What was this thing that has been called by some the \"Reagan Revolution?\" Have things really changed that much? Did the presidency of Ronald Reagan really make a difference?\nSome of his critics propose that Ronald Reagan just \"made everyone feel good.\" It is true that he was not able to accomplish all that he had hoped for, yet in some respects he accomplished more than he ever dreamed was possible.\nMr. Reagan has remarked that after he referred to the Soviet Union as an \"evil empire,\" he never dreamed he would one day stand on the steps of Moscow State University, in front of the mural of the Bolshevik Revolution, and talk to Russian university students about what it means to be a free nation. It was then, he said, that he sensed on the horizon a great possibility that the nations would indeed one day live together in peace without the threat of war.\nPerhaps he was thinking of the age old prophecies from the book of Isaiah: \"They will hammer their swords into plowshares, and their spears into pruning hooks. Nation will not lift up sword against nation and never again will they learn war\" (Isaiah 2:4). If this was his thinking, his thoughts were flowing along the same stream as our founding fathers. Perhaps nowhere is the idea of world peace expressed so well as in one of early America's best loved carols, \"It Came upon a Midnight Clear,\" written by Isaac Watts:\nAnd lo, the days are hastening on,\nBy prophets, bards, foretold.\nWhen through the ever encircling years\nComes round the age of gold.\nWhen peace shall over all the earth,\nIt's ancient splendor fling,\nAnd the whole world give back the song,\nWhich now the angels sing.\nIt was the widespread belief of early Americans that their new experiment in free government would replace the old order of tyranny and bring the world into a new order of things - which would ultimately bring the nations of the world into universal freedom, peace, prosperity, and brotherhood. President Reagan showed his agreement with the intentions of the founding father generation in his last State of the Union message. He observed:\n\"We've seen such changes in the world in seven years: as totalitarianism struggles to avoid being overwhelmed by the forces of economic advance and the aspiration for human freedom, it is the free nations that are resilient and resurgent. As the global democratic revolution has put totalitarianism on the defensive, we have left behind the days of retreat - America is again a vigorous leader of the free world, a nation that acts decisively and firmly in the furtherance of her principles and vital interests.\"\nThat belief was expressed by Isaac Watts in another Christmas carol, \"Joy to the World\":\nNo more let sin or sorrow grow,\nNor thorns infest the ground.\nHe's come to make His blessings flow,\nFar as the curse is found!\nThe Beginning of a New World\nConcerning the early settlers of this land, historian Samuel Morrison wrote, \"doubting nothing and fearing no man, they undertook to set all crooked ways straight and create a new heaven and new earth. If they were not permitted to do that in England, they would find some other place to establish their city of God.\" America was that place.1\nJonathan Edwards, early America's greatest theologian, wrote concerning this belief that God was instituting a new order of things here in America. He believed that this nation was destined to usher in a new era for the human race. Speaking of the First Great Awakening, he wrote,\n\"It is not unlikely that this work of God's Spirit, so extraordinary and wonderful, is the dawning, or, at least, a prelude of the glorious work of God, so often foretold in Scripture which ... shall renew the world of mankind. God has made two worlds here below, two great habitable continents, far separated one from the other ...This new world is probably now discovered too, that the new and most glorious state of God's Church on earth might commence there; that God might in it begin a new world in a spiritual respect, when He creates the new heavens and new earth.\n\"The other continent hath slain Christ, and has from age to age shed the blood of the saints and martyrs of Jesus and has often been deluged with the Church's blood. God has probably reserved the honor of building the glorious temple to the daughter that has not shed so much blood, when those times of the peace, prosperity, and glory of the Church, typified by the reign of Solomon, shall commence.\n\"And it is worthy to be noted, that America was discovered about the time of the reformation or but little before: which reformation was the first thing that God did towards the glorious renovation of the world, after it had sunk into the depths of darkness and ruin, under the great anti-Christian apostasy.\n\"It seems to me ... that the light will rise in the west, till it shines through the world like the sun in its meridian brightness. The same seems also to be represented by the course of the waters of the sanctuary in Ezekiel 47 which was from west to east; which water undoubtedly represented the Holy Spirit in the progress of His saving influences, in the latter ages of the world ... And, if these things be so, it gives us more abundant reason to hope that what is now seen in America ... may prove the dawn of that glorious day ... that God intends it as the beginning or forerunner of something vastly great ...\"2\nThose were heady days in colonial America. It was this divine sense of destiny that enabled the founding fathers to carve out a nation that became the forerunner of a new order of things in the history of the world.\nReferring to his practice of drawing on the doctrines and principles of the founding fathers, Reagan commented in his Farewell Address, \"I won the nickname of 'The Great Communicator.' But it wasn't so much the style, it was the content. I wasn't a great communicator, but I communicated great things. But they didn't spring full bloom from my brow. They came from the heart of a great nation, from our experience, from our wisdom, and our belief in the principles that have guided us for two centuries. They called it the 'Reagan Revolution.' Well I'll accept that, but for me it seemed more like 'The Great Rediscovery,' a rediscovery of our values and our common sense.\"\nPeace Through Strength\nThe doctrine of peace through strength is another one of those values which Reagan helped America rediscover, and he made it a principle cornerstone of his presidency. Just how President Reagan applied this \"Peace through Strength\" doctrine can be readily seen in his own summary of the state of our national defense and the changes he made when he took office:\n\"Our national defense was so weakened that the Soviet Union had begun to engage in wreckless aggression, including the occupation of Afghanistan ... We had military aircraft that couldn't fly for lack of spare parts and ships that couldn't leave port for the same reason or for lack of crew. Our embassy in Pakistan was burned to the ground and one in Iran was stormed with all Americans held as hostages. The world began to question the constancy of the U. S.; President Carter said our people were at fault, they had lost their confidence, a malaise had set in...\n\"But in January of 1981 we focused on hope, not despair ... Together we pulled out of a tail spin ... We rebuilt our armed forces. We liberated Grenada from the Communists and helped to turn that island to democracy. We struck a firm blow against Libyan terrorism. We've seen the growth of democracy in 90 percent of Latin America. The Soviets have begun to pull out of Afghanistan. The bloody Iran\/Iraq War is coming to an end and for the first time we have the prospects of peace in Southwest Africa. And in the 2765 days of our administration not one inch of ground has fallen to the Communists. Today we have the first treaty in world history to eliminate an entire class of U.S.\/Soviet nuclear missiles, we are working on SDI to defend ourselves against nuclear terror, and American and Soviet relations are the best they've been since World War II.\"4\nTo see that Reagan's strengthening of our defenses was a bedrock principle of the founding fathers, one has to look no further than the Preamble to the Constitution, a small paragraph of introduction which was at one time memorized by every American schoolchild. It states:\n\"We the people of the United States, in order to form a more perfect union, establish justice, insure domestic tranquility, provide for the common defense, promote the general welfare, and secure the blessings of liberty to ourselves and our posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America.\"\nAllocating money to provide for the common defense to make sure that our military is strong and properly maintained is fundamental to the Constitution and one of the few purposes for which our government was founded.\nIn his Farewell Address, Reagan said, \"I have been reflecting on what the past eight years have meant and mean - and the image that comes like a refrain is a nautical one - a small story about a big ship and a refugee and a sailor. It was back in the early '80s ... A sailor was hard at work on the carrier Midway which was patrolling the South China Sea. The crew spied on the horizon a leaky little boat and crammed inside were refugees hoping to get to America.\n\"The Midway sent a small launch to bring them to the ship and safety. As the refugees made their way through the chopping seas, one refugee saw the sailor standing on deck and called out to him, 'Hello, American sailor! Hello, Freedom Man!' A small moment, but a big meeting ... When I heard the story I couldn't get it out of my mind, for that was what it was to be an American in the 1980s. We stood again for freedom!\n\"I know we always have, but in the past few years the world again and, in a way, we ourselves 'rediscovered' it ... The fact is from Grenada to the Washington and Moscow summits, from the recession of '81 and '82 to the expansion that began in late '82 and continues to this day, we've made a difference.\"\nReagan stated that the two greatest triumphs for which he was the proudest was the economic recovery in which Americans created and filled 19 million new jobs, and the recovery of our morale. \"America is respected again in the world and looked to for leadership,\" President Reagan noted.\nReferring to the economic recovery and what it meant to the world, Reagan related the following account: \"In 1981 I was attending my first big economic summit held that year in Canada. The opening meeting was for the heads of government for the seven industrialized nations. Well, I sat like a new kid in school and listened. They dropped titles and spoke to one another on a first name basis. I sort of leaned in and said, 'My name is Ron.'\n\"That same year we began the actions that we felt would ignite an economic comeback, cut taxes and regulations, started to cut spending, and soon the recovery began. Two years later there was another economic summit. At the opening meeting we all got together. All of a sudden, just for a moment, I saw everyone was looking at me. Then one of them broke the silence and said, \"Tell us about the American miracle.\"\nTo understand why the leaders of the free world called America's economic recovery a miracle we only need to do a little remembering - and look at how bad things use to be. Summing that up in New Orleans this August, Reagan explained:\n\"Eight years ago America was in economic chaos ... I took office after the two worst back to back years of inflation America had suffered in sixty years. ... Interest rates had jumped to over 21 percent, the highest they had been in 120 years. ...The average weekly wage plunged 9 percent. The median family income fell 5-1\/2 percent. Congress had passed the single highest tax bill in our 200 year history. Auto loans went up to 17 percent. Factories shut down. Fuel costs had doubled. People waited in gas and unemployment lines. The misery index, a combination of unemployment and inflation rates, had risen to 21 percent. Inflation was 19 percent in 1980. It has been reduced to 3-1\/2 to 4 percent. Interest rates are less than half of what they were ...\"5\nIn a tribute to Ronald Reagan, British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher said, \"Mr. President, the free world thanks you!\" Following Reagan's lead, Mrs. Thatcher has led England in deregulation and privatization of many of England's nationally owned enterprises. This alone has transformed England from a failing socialist economy to a nation that is thriving on free enterprise.\nYasuhiro Nakasone, former Prime Minister of Japan, remarked, \"I once called him the 'Great Architect.' He put the tumble-down house called the Free World back in shape again, shoring up the pillars and tightening the loose bolts. Finally he managed to persuade the Soviet Union to come out with a new harmonious foreign policy.\n\"When people asked me why I liked him, I said, 'Because I'm a fan of John Wayne.' Mr. Reagan projects the image of a brave man with great compassion. I also said, 'He is a gentleman who displays all the American virtues and remarkably few of what we might see as negative American traits. I often said to Mr. Reagan, 'You are the pitcher and I am the catcher. Throw me a good pitch ... If the Reagan legacy continues, the pitcher-catcher relationship between the United States and Japan will last, with mutual trust and cooperation for the foreseeable future.\"6\nAddressing the Republicans this August, Reagan explained, \"In 1902 Teddy Roosevelt told Americans not to hold back from dangers ahead but to rejoice with our hearts lifted, with the faith that unto us and to our children it shall be given to make this republic the mightiest among the peoples of mankind.\n\"In 1980 we needed every bit of that kind of faith. That year it was our dream that we could rescue America and make a new beginning, to create anew that 'shining city on the hill.' The dream we shared was to reclaim our government, to transform it from one which was consuming our prosperity ... A dream of making our nation strong enough to preserve world freedom and to recapture our national destiny.\n\"We made a determination that our dream would not be built on a foundation of sand, something called 'trust me' government, but we would trust instead the American spirit. And, yes, we were unashamed to believe that this dream was driven by a community of shared values, family work, neighborhood, peace, and freedom. On July 17, 1980, we left with a mutual pledge to conduct a national crusade to make America great again. We had faith because the heroes in our midst had never failed us before...\"\nChange in Soviet Policy\nPerhaps the most far reaching effects of the Reagan Revolution and the rebirth of America was the response of the Soviet Union. Reporting on Gorbachev's latest visit to the U. S., U.S. News and World Report correspondent Roger Rosenblatt observed, \"Among several stunning propositions in Mikhail Gorbachev's speech to the U.N. last week, the most dizzying was that his country could no longer live a lie. We (the United States) may be stumbling about a bit, having learned that the Soviet Union appears to wish to remove itself from the top of our Enemies List ... but one ought not lose sight of the fact that, if last week represented a brief moment of American confusion, it was also a moment of American triumph. Gorbachev has in effect said to his astonished people: 'Sorry. It's all been a terrible mistake. On to new times and new ideas!'\"7\nAnother reporter commented, \"At first, the headlines obscured Gorbachev's deeper message ... But it was his less direct message, emerging between the lines, that was truly breathtaking. Though couched in idealistic, one-world terms, it was directed at the democratic capitalist West: Our system has failed; yours has won. We are reforming. Accept us as a respected partner. Without quite saying so, Gorbachev junked 70 years of 'scientific' Soviet dogma. There was an air of desperation, politely overlooked by official listeners, in the words. But it was a masterful performance, setting the democracies groping for a response that would both test Gorbachev and calm enraptured publics who did not hear the desperation that could foretell his doom.\n\"Nikita Khrushchev was the last Soviet leader to address the United Nations, 28 years ago, in September of 1960. Khrushchev took off his shoe and beat it on the desk and said to the United States, 'We will bury you!' A comparison of his speech with the one delivered last week by Mikhail Gorbachev demonstrates how unreservedly the Soviet Union's current head of state has buried the 'we will bury you' mentality that dominated the Khrushchev era.\n\"The drastic change in ideology is apparent. Khrushchev once stated in regards to communism, 'No force in the world can stop this mighty movement ... The socialist system is replacing capitalism.' Gorbachev reflects: 'Today, further world progress is only possible through a search for universal human consensus. Efforts to solve global problems require a new quality of interaction regardless of ideological or other differences.\n\"On violent revolution Khrushchev stated, 'Ours is the age of the struggle for freedom, when the peoples are shaking the foreign yoke off their shoulders. The peoples want a worthy life and are fighting for it.' Today Gorbachev reflects, 'The understanding of the need for a period of peace is gaining ground and beginning to prevail.\"8\nReflecting perhaps on all these developments, President Reagan commented in his Farewell Address, \"Once you begin a great movement there is no telling where it will lead - we meant to change a nation and instead we changed a world. Countries across the globe are turning to free markets and free speech and turning away from the ideologies of the past. For them \"The Great Rediscovery\" of the 1980s is that, lo and behold, the moral way of government is also the practical way of government. That democracy, the profoundly good, is also the profoundly productive.\"\nSpeaking of the new developments with the Soviets, Reagan advised, \"We must trust, but verify; play, but cut the cards; watch closely, but don't be afraid to say what you see.\"\nReporting on President Reagan's visit to the Soviet Union last spring, and his address at Moscow State University, one correspondent remarked that Reagan appeared to be less a President and more of a preacher, a role the reporter noted that Reagan seems to like the best. In perhaps the greatest speech President Reagan ever made, he explained to the future leaders of the Soviet Union just what freedom means. (An edited text of this speech appears on page 13.)\nReagan remarked that one of the most eloquent contemporary passages on human freedom came from Russian writer Boris Pasternak in the novel Dr. Zhivago: \"He writes, 'I think that if the beast who sleeps in man could be held down by threats - any kind of threat, whether of jail or of retribution after death - then the highest emblem of humanity would be the lion tamer in the circus with his whip, not the prophet who sacrificed himself. But this is just the point - what has for centuries raised man above the beast is not the cudgel, but an inward music - the power of unarmed truth.\"\nConcluding that speech, Reagan said, \"Your generation is living in one of the most exciting hopeful times in Soviet history. It is a time when the first breath of freedom stirs the air and the heart beats to the accelerated rhythm of hope, when the accumulated spiritual energies of a long silence yearn to break free. I am reminded of the famous passage near the end of Gogol's Dead Souls. Comparing his nation to a speeding troika, Gogol asks what will be its destination. But he writes, 'there was no answer save the bell pouring forth marvelous sound.'\n\"We do not know what the conclusion will be of this journey, but we're hopeful that the promise of reform will be fulfilled. In this Moscow spring, this May 1988, we may be allowed that hope - that freedom, like the fresh green sapling planted over Tolstoi's grave, will blossom forth at last in the rich fertile soil of your people and culture. We may be allowed to hope that the marvelous sound of a new openness will keep rising through, ringing through, leading to a new world of reconciliation, friendship and peace.\"\nA Christian View of the Future\nThose who think that this optimism is unfounded need only read the prophet Isaiah, through whom the Lord assures us, \"The time is coming to gather all nations and tongues. And they shall come and see My glory. And I will set a sign among them and will send survivors from them to the nations; Tarshish, Put, Lud, Meshech, Rosh and Tubal and Javan (Meshech, Rosh and Tubal are now the Soviet Union), to the distant coastlands that have neither heard My fame nor seen My glory. And they will declare My glory among the nations ... And it shall be ... that all mankind will come to bow down before Me,' says the Lord.\"\nColumnist George Will recently observed, \"Rhetoric has been central to Reagan's presidency because Reagan has intended his stagecraft to be soulcraft. His aim has been to restore the plain language of right and wrong, good and evil, for the purpose of enabling people to make the most of freedom. In his long career of crisscrossing the country, practicing the exacting ethic of democratic persuasion, he has resembled a political John Wesley. Here then is the crowning paradox of Reagan's career. For all his disparagement of government, he has given it the highest possible purpose, the improvement of the soul of the nation.\n\"Reagan believes the American people are 'lumpy with unrealized potentialities.' The fruits of American talents will be bountiful when Americans are optimistic. When they are optimistic they make the most of freedom ... It is no accident that Reagan rose to the pinnacle of power at a moment when there was a rising wave of intellectual pessimism. Numerous theories were being offered as to why the American experiment has passed its apogee. Reagan's greatest gift to his country has been his soaring sense of possibilities.\"9\nMr. Reagan once said that the reason he entered politics was not because he wanted to make politics a career but because he wanted to protect something precious. \"I went into politics to put up my hand and say stop. I was a citizen politician and it seemed the right thing for a citizen to do. Man is not free unless government is limited.\"10\nOn many occasions, Reagan said that it was his dream to see America recapture her destiny. Explaining that destiny, he said, \"I believe that God put this land between two great oceans to be found by a special people from every corner of the world who had that extra love of freedom that prompted them to leave their homeland and come to this land to make it a brilliant light beam of freedom to the world.\n\"Freedom of association, freedom of worship, freedom of the pursuit of happiness ... that's America. That's why we are a magnet for the world - for those who dodged bullets and gave their lives to come over the Berlin Wall and for others, only a few of whom avoided death coming on tiny boats on turbulent oceans. This land, its people, the dream that unfolds here and the freedom to bring it all together, well those are what make America soar up where you can see hope billowing in those freedom winds.\"\nConcluding his Farewell Address, Reagan eloquently summed up his vision for America: \"The past few days I've thought a lot about the shining city set upon a hill. The phrase came from John Winthrop, who wrote it to describe the America he imagined. What he imagined was important because he was an early Pilgrim, an early 'freedom man.' He journeyed here on what we would call a little wooden boat and like the other pilgrims he was looking for a home that would be free.\n\"I've spoken of the shining city all my political life. What I imagined was a tall proud city built on the rocks, stronger than oceans, windswept, God-blessed, teeming with people of all kinds living in harmony and peace. A city with free ports that hummed with commerce and activity. And if there had to be city walls, the walls had doors and the doors were open to anyone with the will and the heart to get here - that's how I saw it and see it still...\n\"And how stands the city on this winter night? - more happy, more secure, more prosperous than it was eight years ago. But, after two centuries, she still stands strong and true on the granite ridge and her glow is held steady no matter what storm. And she's still a beacon, still a magnet for all who must have freedom, - for all the pilgrims from all the lost places who are hurtling through the darkness toward home.\"\nMeditating on this analogy, one familiar with the Bible cannot avoid the distinct resemblance this city has to the city John saw coming down from heaven in the book of Revelation. In John's vision, he was carried away to a great and high mountain, and shown a city having the glory of God. Her brilliance was like a very costly stone. The foundation stones of the city wall were adorned with every kind of jewel. The twelve gates were twelve pearls. And the city was illumined by the glory of God and its lamp was the Lamb. John wrote that the nations of the world were destined to walk by its light, and that the kings of the earth would bring their glory into it.\nIt was this city that Massachusetts governor John Winthrop had in mind when he and a band of 50 pilgrims knelt at Plymouth Rock and dedicated this nation and those who would inhabit it to God for the furtherance of His kingdom. The vision for this city also fueled Ronald Reagan's hope and optimism in regards to the future. It was for the establishing of this city that Jesus Christ taught his disciples to pray, \"Thy kingdom come, Thy will be done on earth as it is in heaven.\" Our founders believed that the old world and its form and manner of tyranny would be vanquished, and here in this new world God would create a new heaven and a new earth where righteousness would dwell.\nWe see the light of that city beginning to shine. But before America can realize her God-given calling, we must have a spiritual awakening and repent from our immoral way of life. While President Reagan did much to restore some of our basic foundations, let us continue to work to see Christian morality and truth become our strongest cornerstones for the future. Ronald Reagan admonished, \"We lit a prairie fire a few years back. Those flames were fed by passionate ideas and convictions. And we were determined to make them burn all across America. But we can never let the fire go out or quit the fight, because the battle is never over. H. G. Wells wrote, 'the past is but the beginning of a beginning, and all that is and has been is but the twilight of the dawn.'\n\"That's a new day - our sunlit new day - to keep alive the fires so that when we look back at the time of choosing we can say that we did all that could be done, never less.\"\n1 David R. Shepherd, Ronald Reagan, In God I Trust (Wheaton, Illinois: Tyndale House, 1984), p.47.\n2 The Works of Jonathan Edwards,Vol. I (The Banner of Truth Trust), pp. 381-383.\n3 Peter Marshall and David Manuel, The Light and the Glory (Revell Co., 1977), p. 291.\n4 Ronald Reagan, address before the Republican Convention, August 1988.\n6 Yasuhiro Nakasone, \"The Pitcher and the Catcher,\" Newsweek, Jan. 9, l989, p.20.\n7 Roger Rosenblatt, \"He Saw the Past and It Did Not Work,\" U. S. 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+{"text":"Where Vintage L.A. Meets the Sea\nHow to turn a day in San Pedro into a journey back in time.\nBy Cole Ruth\nMost people who visit L.A. go in search of Hollywood. They want to see the sign. They want to go to the Pantages Theatre and step on the handprints of the stars. Then they spend two hours on the freeway and can't find parking, or spend outrageous sums to valet. And they can barely see the sign through the smog. What visitors don't know is that there is a better way to see L.A.\nWhen my parents' cruise ship recently docked in the Los Angeles Harbor, I decided to show them. We met up at the singing fountains outside the terminal. While we waited for the performance, we watched kids play in the pools and bought ice cream-stuffed lemons from a peddler's homemade cart.\nOld Los Angeles\nWelcome to Old Los Angeles \u2014 the one depicted in movies like Chinatownand Pearl Harbor. This is where the city really began. The beach, aquarium, and high school are all named after Juan Cabrillo, the Spanish explorer who landed here in 1542. The first East Coast traders who ventured around Cape Horn stopped here, too. Ever since, this working class town has weathered the ups and downs of the fishing and shipping trades of one of the busiest ports in the world.\nThis is an excerpt only. To read this article in its entirety, pick up the current issue of Porthole Cruise Magazine.\n186\/July\/August 2013\nCruise MagazinePorts\nBucket List: Central America\nBucket List: Central America The five absolute best things to experience in this, the southern-most\nTake a Dive\nTake a Dive The name is synonymous with bringing ocean awareness and conservation into living rooms.\nKids On Cruising\nKids On Cruising If the fun and freedom of cruises can make you feel like a kid again, imagine ho","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
+{"text":"Bigger Threats, Better Defense\nAs the frequency and scale of cyberattacks increase, cloud-based security plays a critical role in protecting enterprises and their customers.\nThe face of cybersecurity is changing in response to constantly morphing attack methods. Criminals are assaulting organizations with attacks designed to knock websites offline, steal sensitive data, or both. Two particular threats \u2014 distributed denial of service (DDoS) and web application attacks \u2014 are becoming larger and more frequent, escalating risk for every business with a digital presence, regardless of size or industry.\nIn this guide, we examine how these attacks increase business risk and explain the core components you need in place to defend against these attacks.\nDefining the Threats\nDDoS attacks have become more sophisticated, using a variety of methods to flood sites with bogus traffic. Designed to overwhelm a website and render it unavailable to users, DDoS attacks can disrupt a company's digital operations and damage its reputation, productivity, and bottom line.\nWeb application attacks are designed to compromise data, in the form of personally identifiable information (PII), credentials, or intellectual property. When data is breached, attackers can steal money, information, or identities. Organizations holding the data can be held legally liable for breaches, in addition to the costs required to mitigate the breach. Data breaches can also significantly impact customer loyalty and brand reputation.\nEssential Defense\nWhen continuous online availability is business-critical, leadership teams need forward-thinking approaches to cybersecurity to ensure that their digital assets are aggressively defended. On-premises defense systems lack the capacity to ward off DDoS and web application attacks that are becoming larger and more complex; organizations must leverage an advanced cloud platform to stay a step ahead in their battle with cybercriminals.\nThe Changing Threat Landscape\nOrganizations are increasingly moving transactions and sensitive data through digital channels, which makes them tempting targets for cybercriminals. Every organization that interacts with customers, suppliers, or employees online is a potential target of malicious actors who have access to powerful tools that can cripple inadequately defended websites and make sensitive data available for exfiltration. The perpetrators can range from lone teenage hackers to state-sponsored organizations.\nMassive DDoS Attacks Threaten Availability\nIn this evolving threat landscape, DDoS attacks are showing a marked increase in scale that raises the threat of business-crippling incidents. The average DDoS attack observed in 2016 was just over 5 Gigabits per second (Gbps), which is large enough to overwhelm most data centers. These incidents, however, pale in comparison to the \"mega-attacks\" of 100 Gbps or more that have become common. One of the largest DDoS attacks Akamai mitigated on behalf of a single customer in 2016 peaked at 623 Gbps. While unusual, it certainly was not an isolated incident. In Q1 2016 and Q3 2016, Akamai mitigated a record 19 mega-attacks exceeding 100 Gbps.\nMoreover, repeat attacks have become the norm. In Q1 2017, attackers targeted the same organization an average of 35 times. The most targeted company was hit with over 350 attacks \u2014 averaging nearly four attacks per day.\nWeb Application Attacks Cause Costly Breaches\nWeb applications that store data are targeted by cyberattackers who work to trick the system into a breach. They will target every input, every parameter, and every cookie in search of a viable compromise that allows them to inject malicious payloads that they leverage to find and exfiltrate data.\nAttackers are eager to steal PII. With the right combination of personal information, cybercriminals can create new credit accounts, make purchases on those credit accounts, and even craft new identities.\nOrganizations must apply consistent application controls to minimize vulnerabilities, but attackers work diligently to uncover and exploit those vulnerabilities. That's why organizations need up-to-date cloud-based solutions to shield web applications from malicious traffic.\nDeploying an Effective Defense\nThe potential costs of a cyberattack should give pause to any C-suite. You'll never eliminate every threat to your business. The goal is to minimize business risk \u2014 for example, stopping attackers before they get their hands on PII data.\nToday's threat landscape is driving scalability requirements, and consequently, adoption of cloud-based security solutions. The best way to protect data and ensure availability is to work with a cloud provider that brings global scale, skills, and a wealth of collective intelligence.\nDetection and Mitigation\nThe ideal platform combines leading-edge threat intelligence and visibility into network traffic with a highly distributed global network of servers supported by data-driven algorithms, automated mitigation strategies, and collective intelligence. These capabilities enable an organization to detect a DDoS assault or an attack on web applications immediately and leverage scale and sophisticated security tools to absorb attack traffic.\nBlocking DDoS attacks: By applying controls in the cloud in response to a DDoS attack, such as DDoS scrubbing solutions, a trusted cloud provider keeps your business safe. A robust defense system reduces the attack surface, segregates legitimate traffic from disruptive DDoS packets, and absorbs malicious traffic with capacity far exceeding that of on-premises devices.\nProtecting applications: For web application attacks, a scalable, continuously updated web application firewall (WAF) pushes the mitigation of application attacks closer to the source and away from your application. A premier cloud provider can support an end-to-end view of requests and responses that enables fast, accurate data correlation. This multilayered defense prevents attackers from getting through to your systems and applications and compromising your data.\nStaying ahead of attackers: A critical means of protection in the ever-evolving threat landscape is to leverage collective intelligence that keeps the network defense a step ahead of ahead of well-armed cybercriminals. Organizations need access to a big data analysis engine that profiles attackers, exploits, and botnets and continuously monitors their activities. This knowledge base is used to identify the latest attacks as they are first used against one customer, for the benefit of other customers.\nOrganizations face a steady threat of DDoS and web application attacks that can disrupt key business operations and put sensitive data at risk. Minimizing the impact of these attacks on your business requires world-class cloud-based security with multiple layers of defense. Robust cloud-based security delivers a highly distributed defense network, a constantly updating firewall, rapid attack mitigation, and collective intelligence that will help your organization reduce risk in an increasingly digital environment.\nRelated CIO Content\nOrganizations face a steady threat of attacks that can disrupt operations, expose sensitive data, and damage reputation, productivity, and bottom line. Given the limited range of traditional perimeter defenses, enterprises must leverage advanced cloud platforms and multiple layers of defense to stay a step ahead in the battle with cyber criminals.\nMassive botnets\nRepeat attacks\nSecure clouds\nAdditional CIO Content\nCIO Main Page\nIdentifying Hazards to Better Prepare for Cyberattacks\nStrong cyber defenses are as focused and formidable as the incoming cyber attacks.\nTaking Enterprise Security to the Next Level\nTo manage business risk, integrate security more directly into the fabric of the business and its infrastructure.\nSecurity Without Compromising Usability\nCloud security must evolve as rapidly as the new threats it encounters.","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
+{"text":"Grand Canyon gap: Arizona national parks need $531 million to fix roads, buildings\nGRAND CANYON \u2013 Arizona national parks and monuments need $531 million to maintain hundreds of roads and buildings. But budget problems put that on hold in Arizona and across the U.S.\nCourt gives tribe, environmentalists new chance to fight uranium mine\nWASHINGTON - A federal appeals court said the Havasupai tribe and environmental advocates can challenge an existing uranium mine on land near the Grand Canyon where mining was recently banned, a partial reversal from an earlier ruling that sided with the mining company.\nLikely closure of coal-fired power plant bringing dramatic change to Navajo Nation\nLECHEE CHAPTER HOUSE, Navajo Reservation \u2013 SRP announced last year it planned to shut down the Navajo Generating Station ahead of schedule because producing electricity from coal is much more expensive and dirtier than natural gas. No other job on the Navajo Reservation pays as well as the Navajo Generating Station. Revenue, taxes and royalties from coal make up about a third of the Navajo operating budget and most of the Hopi Tribe's budget.\nGrand Canyon Park superintendent reassigned while under federal investigation\nPHOENIX \u2013 Grand Canyon National Park's superintendent, Christine Lehnertz, has been reassigned while the Office of the Inspector General investigates undisclosed allegations.\nProp 127's potential to reshape Arizona energy has electrified supporters and opponents\nPHOENIX \u2013 A proposition on Arizona's Nov. 6 ballot would mandate that utility companies get more energy from renewable sources. The state's largest power provider, APS, opposes it.\nWhy do we keep building in fire-prone areas? Money is one reason\nYORBA LINDA, Calif. \u2013 Despite the growing risk of disastrous wildfires in Southern California, thousands of homes are being built in areas that are prone to burning. A proposed development near Yorba Linda offers a look at how such housing projects get approved, and how taxpayers ultimately are on the hook.\nWestern wildfires will increase because of climate change, UA researchers say\nVENTURA, Calif. \u2013 In the past year, California has seen two of its largest wildfires in state history. University of Arizona professor, Don Falk, projects the West will see an increase in area burned by these wildfires within the next two decades.\nTrump plan to boost Western water by easing rules worries advocates\nWASHINGTON - The White House released a plan Friday that it said would improve water reliability and availability in the West by streamlining regulatory processes and conducting expedited reviews on water projects - a proposal that environmentalists said they were \"sure it's a bad idea.\"\nWhy there's a legal fight to protect the native roundtail chub\nThe roundtail chub is a minnow native to Arizona. The Center for Biological Diversity is suing the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service for not protecting it as an endangered species.\nHurricane tag team of Rosa and Sergio set rainfall records for October\nPHOENIX \u2013 After remnants from two tropical systems strike Arizona, Phoenix set a new rainfall record for October.\nThinning effort to restore ponderosa forests to their natural state inches forward\nFLAGSTAFF \u2013 For decades, land managers and ranchers in northern Arizona dealt with forest fires in a way that led to an overpopulation of trees. Now, agencies are working to fix that \u2014 but the sheer number and high cost of doing so is one hurdle they'll have to overcome.\nThe cost of drought: Less water from Lake Mead in 2020, higher rates for consumers\nLAKE MEAD \u2013 Access to one-seventh of Arizona's share of water from Lake Mead could evaporate by 2020 if drought if lake water levels continue to drop. And that could cost consumers.","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
+{"text":"HERS Index\nMy Rey Home\nVillaSol\nLegacy Park\nDesigned For Life\nVeterans Ayana and Dave Powell become Rey Homes homeowners thanks to Heroes' Commons\nAs we close the commemoration of our fallen heroes during Memorial Day weekend, we sit down with Ayana and David Powell; two veterans who were recently chosen for the Heroes' Commons program which provides help for veterans coming from military deployment with financial hardship, unemployment, divorce, and even physical and mental disabilities. The Heroes' Commons at Jefferson Park is an Art for Architecture project that is part of the City of Orlando's initiative to preserve the Parramore district's \"historic traditions while offering easy access to mass transit, healthcare facilities, entertainment options, and world-class sporting venues.\" Heroes' Commons was introduced by members of the Orlando Regional REALTOR\u00ae Foundation, a charitable brand of the Orlando Regional REALTOR\u00ae Association. Ayana and Dave were recently selected by the foundation as one of six chosen families to be given a home in the Orlando area, as an acknowledgement for their heroic contributions to this nation.\nAt Rey Homes, we are working with the Greater Orlando Builders Association on the Powell family's building of their house and making sure that we can create a true home for them. Here we ask about their history as a family, their experience as veterans, and what it means for them to finally be homeowners.\nHow were you selected for the Heroes' Commons program?\nAyana & David Powell's home in construction stages\nAyana: Oh goodness, I don't know where to start, I don't know where exactly to start\u2026 My husband and I were living in Atlanta, Georgia and we had some considerable problems in the home that we were in. We actually had tried previously to purchase a home on our own and because we were in the military, us moving around so much, it made the home mortgage process really difficult because with military you're not always guaranteed to be in the same spot for two years or whatever the mortgage company requires, so that presented a lot of barriers to me actually utilizing my VA home loans.\nWhen my husband got out of the military in 2014 we actually started the process to purchase a home. We thought everything was going great, we had the mortgage lenders, we had our realtor working with us and he actually told us, \"You guys are going to the closing table on this day, you guys need to be here; go ahead and pack up your family.\" So we packed up our family and left from Fort Stewart, GA and moved to Atlanta and we got there and we were in a motel. We had all the funds for us to be in a motel for roughly, three weeks. Basically, when the day came for us to be at the closing table, they told us, \"Not going to happen.\" So they said we have to go with another lender, we have to put it off another week, whatever. Our realtor actually paid for us to the stay in the motel for another week because at this point we're working off of what we saved and we depleted that, being in a motel. We got to the second week, second lender said no. We got to the third week, third lender said no. What it all boiled down to was that we didn't have enough resident history for the underwriters to do what they needed to do for us to get into our home. So that left us homeless. Again, we're living in a motel, we have no funds, and we stay in the motel for another week, eating once a day, basically.\nI told my husband, \"(\u2026) We don't have a shot in the dark but let's just go ahead and apply\"\nThen his sister, my husband's sister, lives in an apartment in Atlanta and she told us to come and apply for an apartment and talk to management. We talked to them and they put us in an apartment, so now we're seven people in a three-bedroom apartment. That was pure hell on earth. We stayed there for roughly about 6 months and then we found a program in Atlanta that said they would help us get in a home, that there would be no barriers, so we went to them and they actually allowed us to rent the home. It was a program where you rent the home for two years and then they let you to go through the process that shows a history for two years that you're paying rent and all that stuff. Anyway, we got into the home and the banisters, the steps started falling apart; we had sewage backed up into the house from, I think, Thanksgiving until February, was when they came. Because of the sewage problem, we had seven people using one bathroom in a four-bedroom house. I started to look for programs to see if anyone could help us because no matter what turn we made, we were always getting shut down, there was no program out there for veterans and I couldn't see us doing this forever, and we have children. So we started looking for resources and we ran across this program here in Orlando and I told my husband, \"You know, we don't have a shot in the dark but let's just go ahead and apply.\"\nWe applied to the program and we thought we definitely wouldn't get it being that we did not live in Florida, but I'm a Florida native so I figured \"apply now\" just to see what happens. We did that and we were already planning to move to Orlando to begin with; my husband had gotten a job offer there so we applied and around April of 2016 we got the phone call that we were actually one of the six families that were selected for a home. That's when everything kicked into overdrive.\nDuring what years were you in the service?\nDavid: I've been in the service for 14 years. I did three tours in Iraq, I did Korea for a year, was in the logistical field\u2026 I've been out for about two years now and just taking it in as a civilian. This is a new experience for me. I'm still feeling myself out as not being in the military. Especially when I got out\u2026 It's just a lot, for me. Being in the military and being military-minded; it's different.\nAyana: I served in the army too. I enlisted for six years but within my first six months in the military I was actually sexually assaulted, and from there I was systematically pushed out of the military with a brand new baby. That's my service.\n\"The feeling that we're a part of a family in this process and it's not just all paper work and numbers is amazing. (\u2026) That makes me feel like you're gaining a family.\"\nHow did you meet and how long have you been together?\nA: We have 5 children. My son Bradley is actually graduating on Saturday, he is 19. Then I have a daughter, she is 17. I have three other daughters that are 15, 12, and 8. So we have four girls and one boy. David and I met right after I got out of the military when he was stationed at Fort Stewart. We have been together since 2003 so we're coming up on our 14th anniversary on July\u2026 He's looking at me, I'm looking at him trying to see if he can say the number [laughs]. July 15th! I know the date, I'm just trying to see if you can say the date [laughs]. We've been together since July 15th 2003.\nMy mother served in the army, my father served in the army, my grandfather served in the army, David's father served in the army, so we're just a full family of military brats and army kids\u2026 Many generations served!\nWhat does it mean for you to be a homeowner?\nD: Being able to just go ahead and take care of everything that needs to be taken care of. Not having to worry about a roof over our heads and providing for our children everything that they need\u2026\nA: It's definitely a wonderful feeling. When David first got out of the military we had that uncertainty because you never really have anyone in the military to sit down with you and explain what life is like after the military, so the transition was very difficult for our family being that we didn't just have one veteran but two veterans, and we have such a large family. In my husband's career and in my career we've moved 14 times in total between 4 states. Just being able to lay down some roots and finally have a foundation, and the kids can finally know what it's like to have a community, not just from the military aspect, but can feel like we're a part of a community again; that's an amazing feeling. It's amazing to know that there are people out there that thought of us, that took the time to actually think of us and say thank you and give back. That's just overwhelming.\n\"Not having to worry about a roof over our heads and providing for our children everything that they need (is a wonderful feeling)\"\nHow has the process of homebuilding been so far?\nA: Honestly, for me, it has been an amazing feeling working with Kim (Rey Homes' Purchasing and Estimating Director); the times we've actually come into the office Alex (Rey Homes' Project Manager) carries a full sunshine around [laughs]. I call him \"Full Sunshine\" because his smile is contagious; Kim's laughter is amazing\u2026 Just the feeling that we're a part of a family in this process and it's not just all paper work and numbers is amazing. When we sit down in that chair with them, they actually take into consideration your family and tell you \"this carpet might not be the best for this many people in the family\" or whatever; there's just so many things that for many cookie cutter homebuilders, it's not that they don't have the time to do it, it's just not cost effective. That makes me feel like you're gaining a family\u2026 you're gaining a home, of course, but you're also gaining a family.\nThis interview has been edited and condensed for clarity.\nGetting to know your new neighborhood\n7 Tips For Choosing A Rocking Chair\nWho's home is it anyway?\n10 Things To Put On Your Kitchen Countertop\nCelebrate the winter holiday with local activities around Central Florida\nCopyright \u00a9 2020 Rey Homes | Orlando \u2013 Kissimmee Home Builders | Villa Sol | Legacy Park\n\u2706 (407) 281-6666 | \u2709 info@reyhomes.com | \u00a9 2012 - 2017 Infiniti Housing, LLC: DBA Rey Homes - License CRC1327471","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
+{"text":"Austria becoming the first country in the European Union to impose a compulsory lockdown on the unvaccinated people.\nNovember 16, 2021 November 16, 2021 adminLeave a Comment on Austria becoming the first country in the European Union to impose a compulsory lockdown on the unvaccinated people.\nAustria is set to tighten its coronavirus restrictions, becoming the first country in the European Union (EU) to impose a compulsory lockdown on the unvaccinated people.\nTo read fearless, unbiased, boldly selected news >>click << here\nAbout two million people not fully vaccinated against COVID-19 in the country have been placed in lockdown with fresh surge in cases, and children aged between 5 and 11 are being inoculated.\nThe decision, coming into effect at midnight on Sunday, prohibits unvaccinated people from leaving their homes except for essential activities such as working, or getting vaccinated.\nThe measure is aimed at slowing the fast spread of the disease in the country.\nChancellor Alexander Schallenberg said the lockdown will initially last for 10 days, with the police checking people on the streets to make sure they are vaccinated.\nAbout 65% of the country's population is fully vaccinated \u2013 one of the lowest rates in western Europe, and the seven-day infection rate is more than 800 cases per 100,000, one of the highest in the region.\nFor more important information \/ news in English >>click<< here\nIn less than two months, daily infection rate in Austria has risen from 2,000 to 12,000, prompting the government to consider new restrictions.\nThe nationwide lockdown in Austria, however, has sparked anger among citizens, forcing hundreds of people into the streets in Vienna to protest against the stringent rules.\n\"This restricts my life, my freedom. It's time that more people spoke up,\" Sabine, a 49-year-old energy consultant, told reporters at the rally, terming the move \"discrimination\".\nEurope is fast emerging as the most seriously affected region by the coronavirus with several countries moving to introduce restrictions amid rising cases.\nNetherlands has already announced the region's first partial lockdown of the winter.\nTo be a part of 'Citizen Journalism' through 'Local News' platform >>Click<< here\nThe development comes in the wake of World Health Organisation's (WHO) latest warning over steep jump in new deaths across Europe.\nAccording to WHO figures, Europe reported almost two million new COVID-19 infections last week, marking the largest weekly case count in the continent since the start of the pandemic.\nTagged COVID-19FOREIGN NEWS\nGovernment of India on target of Kashmiri leaders for using civilians as human shields\ncall on Biden to take further action against Israeli spyware company by US lawmakers\nNovember 7, 2021 November 7, 2021 Ravi Nigam\nTurkish President Erdogan has backed down from his earlier threat of expelling 10 Western ambassadors\nOctober 26, 2021 October 26, 2021 Ravi Nigam\nChina said America should correct the wrong policy of maximum pressure against Iran","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
+{"text":"Premier League 2011-12\nPhil Jones's blunder seals Newcastle win against Manchester United\nThe Newcastle striker Demba Ba, left, celebrates his goal against Manchester United with Shola Ameobi at St James' Park. Photograph: Lindsey Parnaby\/EPA\nKevin McCarra at St James' Park\nWed 4 Jan 2012 18.47 EST\nThe result was the least of it. Manchester United can seldom have been so faint of heart or so short of creativity. They fell at this ground for the first time since 2001 but it is not statistics that will be commemorated. Events here will glow in the minds of the home support and the memory will still warm them a little when the club has to deal with chilly times.\nUnited will not be immune to amnesia over these events either, much as they might yearn for it. Sir Alex Ferguson's team, with that home defeat by Blackburn Rovers, has not just lost twice in succession but done so by conceding three goals on each occasion. Much as the manager will surely claim that the forthcoming encounter at Manchester City can galvanise, the likelihood is that his lineup will be knocked out of the FA Cup on Sunday.\nIt is too soon for United to consider that. The immediate topic for Ferguson must be the way in which Newcastle dominated, with Demba Ba constantly finding space, as United lacked all resilience in defensive midfield. Ferguson has seen and seen off many a crisis but City's three-point lead will make Roberto Mancini's squad feel that they can now go on to regain all the fluency on show earlier in the campaign.\nAt St James' Park the ignominy for United was completed by an own-goal at the end when Phil Jones connected with a long ball and found he had sent it past his goalkeeper, Anders Lindegaard. David de Gea, who is more commonly between the posts, can give thanks for this minor demotion.\nThe damage done to United is nowhere near irreparable and Ferguson's calm remarks, in the presence of a microphone at least, showed the manager retaining a sense of proportion. The arithmetic should not pitch anyone into despair but United cannot afford to be as harmless as this in many of the challenges to come. It was telling that the substitution of Wayne Rooney should look wholly appropriate in the context of the team's wan display.\nThe contrast could not have been more extreme with Ba, the Senegal forward who ensured that memories of him will retain warmth even when he goes to the Africa Cup of Nations later this month. United's centre-backs were at a loss to deal with him, and a central-midfield pairing of Michael Carrick and Ryan Giggs could not cut off the supply line.\nEven so, every United player was powerless at a remarkable opener in the 33rd minute. No one could have anticipated that rather old-fashioned means would succeed where attempted sophistication had failed. The Newcastle goalkeeper, Tim Krul, crashed the ball downfield and the head of the leaping Shola Ameobi flicked it on for Ba to score with a hooked volley before Rio Ferdinand could intervene.\nIt may in practice be an impossibility for Newcastle to be champions this season but there is still fun to be had inconveniencing visitors who arrive with great ambitions. Achieving such an aim, however, must be even harder than it appears. On this occasion, United were comprehensively incapable of regaining the durability that had disappeared at the weekend.\nEncouragement was fleeting. With quarter of an hour gone, Rooney crossed from the left and Dimitar Berbatov's header clipped the outside of post after deflecting off the full-back Davide Santon, although no corner was given.\nNewcastle had heft as well as self-belief then. They had applied themselves, too, when taking a draw at Old Trafford in November. There is a case to be made for saying that Manchester United, entering the throes of a transition period, should expect to meet difficulties. Even so, a trial of temperament lay before Newcastle. They rose to that challenge dramatically. Rather than resisting, they did further harm to the opposition. After Jones had been cautioned for his foul on Ba, Yohan Cabaye flighted the ball high past the right hand of Lindegaard in the 47th minute.\nThe Newcastle lineup combined diligence with incisive attacking. With the Manchester United players giving no indication that they were about to transform themselves, Ferguson sent on Danny Welbeck to replace Berbatov in attack. It was only then that the visitors mounted the onslaught expected of them.\nNewcastle avoided conceding a goal in a remarkable manner. Nani crossed from the right but after Rooney had connected with it in the goalmouth, Danny Simpson was able to block the attempt athletically on the line. There was nothing at least to deter United from wholehearted attacking and Park Ji-sung had to make way for Hern\u00e1ndez.\nPardew's men still mounted attacks and were completely in the ascendant by the close. Ferguson could hardly have wished for the reminder that tough terrain lies ahead of anyone hoping to make their way to the title. The encounter with Manchester City now has even more overtones, that carry a significance beyond the FA Cup tie itself.\nMancini's side have been dealing with life reasonably well, but the defeat of Liverpool was a demonstration of persistence more than virtuosity. There is an incitement now to distress Manchester United come Sunday. Ferguson's squad dare not offer anything less than a display that is far sharper and more resolute than the one they produced at Newcastle.","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
+{"text":"Andrea Z\u00fa\u00f1iga V\u00e1zquez\nAndrea Z\nThe Lighthouse \u2013 Film Review\nIt had only been a few minutes but the sound of the lighthouse was already stuck in my head along with the whooshing of the ferocious gray sea that covered the screen. \"The Lighthouse\" is a film by director Robert Eggers, whose previous project was the acclaimed 2015 film, \"The Witch\". In this film, Eggers presents a story that can be classified as a thriller although it incorporates fantastical and surreal elements. Wake (Willem Dafoe) and Winslow (Robert Pattinson) are two lighthouse workers who arrive at a small desolate rock for four weeks. They are to live together in a tiny shack, while Winslow is in charge of the chores. The resulting dynamic of these two very different lighthouse workers living in the confines of a small house surrounded by the sea is one of constant tensions and arguments.\nRobert Pattinson and Willem Dafoe are problematic roommates who eventually bond over alcohol and over the dreadful weather that hits their tiny piece of land. Slowly but surely, Winslow starts a descent into madness that is made believable through Pattinson's ability to completely let himself go through the performance. Dafoe is no exception as his look of an old sailor with some serious issues regarding his bond to the light adds to the overall somber atmosphere. The black and white cinematography and the movie being shot in square format creates a claustrophobic feeling, where there is no room for extra details. The contrast created allows the viewer to see every tiny detail and crevice in the actor's faces. These dramatic compositions evoke german expressionism through the use of deep shadows and distorted images that create a nightmarish feeling. Sound is another element that stands out in the movie. There is clear attention to detail as many of the sound effects not only function as a mere background but allows the audience to feel part of the setting. The low and deep sounds of the lighthouse, the sea and sometimes, even the sound of screaming, will leave your ears ringing.\nOnce again, Eggers uses an animal as an ominous symbol for impending doom. The seagull in \"The Lighthouse\" can be compared to Black Philip from \"The Witch\", only this time with no words. There is also slight silliness throughout the whole movie, whether it is through humor related to bodily fluids or through the frantic drunk dancing and singing of Winslow and Wake. \"The Lighthouse\" takes itself a bit less seriously than the \"The Witch\" yet it still is able to create a feeling of dread.\n\"The Lighthouse\" is another production by A24, everyone's favorite independent movie house. It was named Best Movie at the Cannes' Critics Week and Directors' Fortnight by the International Federation of Film Critics (FIPRESCI). It also got some of the best reviews from the festival assuring once more A24's vision for a good movie that is also a little bit creepy, interesting and completely fascinating.\n\u00a92021 by Andrea Z\u00fa\u00f1iga V\u00e1zquez. Proudly created with Wix.com","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
+{"text":"Top Regional News: Teacher placed on leave after alleged racist activities\nThe following stories are among today's top news of central Illinois.\nTeacher placed on leave after alleged racist activities\nPEKIN \u2014 A Pekin Community High School teacher has been placed on administrative leave after allegations of racist activities.\nOfficials learned of a website that claimed a PCHS teacher was allegedly involved in racist activities, some of which allegedly happened while the teacher was employed at the district, according to a prepared statement released by PCHS District 303 Superintendent Danielle Owens Friday afternoon.\n\"The teacher has been placed on administrative leave pending an investigation into the matter,\" the press release stated. \"The School District does not condone and will not tolerate racist behavior in any form.\" School representatives will not comment about the matter until the investigation is complete.\nCheck pekintimes.com for more on this story.\nTreasure hunter Scott Heimdal dead at 56\nPEORIA \u2014 Peoria native Scott Heimdal, who became nationwide news when he was kidnapped in 1990 by Colombian guerillas, died Tuesday at age 56.\nHeimdal was found dead from a heart attack in his cabin aboard a treasure-hunting vessel docked near Jacksonville, Florida. He was part of a Blue Waters Ventures excursion to research and dive on the wreck of the Pulaski, which was considered a prestigious ship that carried 200 passengers \u2014 a cross-section of some of the southern America's wealthiest citizens \u2014 when it sank around 11 p.m. June 13, 1838, while bound from Savannah to Baltimore.\nHeimdal was a young adventurer in South America, working for a gold-mining operation in northern Ecuador in 1990, when Marxist militants took him. The militants initially demanded a $1.2 million ransom. They later reduced their demands to $60,000. School children in Peoria collected coins and offered their piggy banks to help pay for his release. Peorians held bake sales, kids operated lemonade stands and the money trickled in. After being held for 60 days, his parents marched into the jungle and rescued their son.\nCheck pjstar.com for more on this story.\nElectronic collection set for Friday\nTOLUCA \u2014 The semi-annual Marshall-Putnam electronics collection day will be Friday afternoon in Toluca.\nOld televisions, computers and related equipment, and numerous other recyclable items can be taken to the city's public works building at 520 W. Railroad St. from noon to 5 p.m. There will be a 10-item limit, and materials will be accepted only from residents of those two counties. The spring collection is scheduled each year to coincide roughly with Earth Day.\nFor details on accepted items or other information, call the Marshall County Highway Department at 246-6401.","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
+{"text":"Music Reviews Soundtrack\nVideo for James Arthur and Anne-Marie In \"Rewrite The Stars\" (Lyrics Review)\nIt would be an understatement to say that \"Rewrite The Stars\" is a beautiful song by two of the most talented people in the industry-Zac Effron and Zendaya. The love-struck song from 'The Greatest Showman' musical had left us wondering how this song could possibly get any better. And then comes the re-imagined cover and music video by James Arthur and Anne-Marie. We are left speechless!\n'The Greatest Showman' musical from 2017 will forever be one of the world's most beloved movies. The Hugh Jackman, Zendaya and Zac Effron production was one of the highest grossing movies of 2017 and one of the better soundtracks in history. The soundtrack album also included some big hits such as \"The Greatest Show,\" \"A Million Dreams\" and \"Come Alive.\"\nThis new rendition of \"Rewrite The Stars\" by James Arthur and Anne-Marie is equally ecstatic. Anne-Marie looks gorgeous in white and James Arthur pulling off the classic musician in a coat, supported by high-energy background dancers, makes this music video a thrilling entertainment.\nWatch \"Rewrite The Stars\" by James Arthur and Anne-Marie\nWe can see amazing chemistry between the two artists who embrace a soulful tone despite the powerful performance.\nThe song is about two people questioning how their destinies are written in the stars and what it would take to change their destinies.\nLyrics Review and Song Meaning of \"Rewrite The Stars\"\nJames Arthur kicks off the song.\nIn this song, we find the guy attempting to keep this relationship alive by saying they could succeed or rewrite their stars if they tried enough. However, Anne-Marie has her own doubts.\n'Written in the stars' usually refer to something being destined. In this song, we find that the couple's destiny is to be away from each other, where the guy is trying to change the stars.\nJames Arthur is heard questioning why she does not believe that their relationship could not work. Her common answer is that their hands are tied to do what they want. It is no secret that she wants to be in this relationship as well. But something keeps her pulling away. She says distance is pulling them apart. But James Arthur assures that as long as they keep each other in their hearts, they will be as close as they could be.\nThe first version of the chorus is sung by James Arthur.\nSo, James Arthur proposes that they could rewrite their destinies if they wanted to. He believes that no one, even the stars, could bother them if they believed in themselves.\nIn the movie, Phillip Carlyle has been slowly falling in love with Anne Wheeler. However, the society frowns upon their relationship because Anne is from a lower cast. Hence, she has high doubts about making this relationship work.\nAnne-Marie vocalizes in \"Rewrite The Stars\" for the first time now.\nThe girl wants to be with this guy. But she also knows how cruel the society can be. She just does not believe that it will be as easy as a song, which Phillip believes it to be.\nShe compares the struggles to 'mountains' and 'locked doors.' Maybe, she is imagining Phillip's home doors being locked to the people of her cast.\nAnne-Marie says that it might be difficult for the guy to understand because within these walls (within the circus) they are free to be whoever they want to be. They perform together, sing together, dance together, eat together etc. But outside the walls of this circus lies the real world which does not take kindly on differently bright stars.\n[polldaddy poll=10177104]\nIn the second chorus of \"Rewrite The Stars,\" we hear the girl questioning everything proposed by the guy in the first chorus. She is baffled and questions how is he going to rewrite what is written on the stars!\nShe also counters James Arthur by saying it is not up to her or him to make this relationship work. Anne believes the outsiders will play a major role in it.\nTowards the end of the song, we do see that the two squabbling lovers finding some middle ground. For an example, in several lines sung by both artists, they go from \"It feels impossible\" to \"It's not impossible\" to \"Is it impossible?\" This is a favourable turn of mindsets towards a working relationship.\nIn this last verse, we find both the artists on the same page. They are going to try to make it work. Even the girl believes that it is up to him and herself to make this work, and the stars that are billions of miles away nor society at the doorstep can pull them apart if they don't allow them to.\n\"Rewrite The Stars\" is a beautiful composition on not giving up on love for each other. You might come from different backgrounds or lives, but they barely matter if the couple trusts in each other to make things work.\nLet us hear what you think about \"Rewrite The Stars\" lyrics and the reimagined music video by James Arthur and Anne-Marie. Leave your thoughts and critiques in the comments below, and make sure to share it with your friends.\nComplete Lyrics to \"Rewrite The Stars\" by James Arthur and Anne-Marie\nRead \"Rewrite the Stars\" by James Arthur & Anne-Marie on Genius\nTags: Anne-Marie, James Arthur\nWatch Panic! At The Disco Cover \"Bohemian Rhapsody\" Live on Tour\nStream Eminem-Produced 'Bodied' Full Movie on YouTube Premium","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
+{"text":"ASOCIATED CLUBS\nE SPORTS TEAM\n60 ANNIVERSARY\nANNIVERSARY NEWS\nLokomotiva v Istra 1961 press conference\nThe press conference was held today about the game of the HT 1st League between Lokomotiva and Istria 1961, scheduled for Saturday, August 10, starting at 9 pm.\nMain coach Ivan Prelec and player Petar Bosancic attended the conference.\n\"We are expecting a match against Lokomotiva, which is an absolute favorite in this game, regardless of the table situation. In the last 3 games, Lokomotiva has presented in a very good light, and for them the next game is very important. We have been doing well through the week, the players are ready and we are waiting for this match.\" says main coach Prelec.\n\"The atmosphere after these three rounds is positive, especially after two consecutive wins and a good start of the season. We will strive to achieve a good result in the match against Lokomotiva. \", says Petar Bosan\u010di\u0107","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
+{"text":"Barnsley photographer shortlisted for prestigious award\nBarnsley photographer Collette Evans is in the running for a Federation of Small Businesses award.\nCollette (pictured), who runs Picture Perfect Photography, is shortlisted in the Scale-up Business category of the FSB's Celebrating Business Awards 2019 regional final.\nThe shortlisting recognises the growth the company has made over the last year, with corporate clients increasing from just two to 100, two extra staff joining the business and a move into new premises near Barnsley town centre.\nCollette, who has been in photography for 16 years, said: \"The last year has just been amazing. Twelve months ago I was busy with wedding photography, but since then it really has gone up a gear and now the diary is full to bursting.\"\nAs well as commercial and wedding photography, Picture Perfect Photography specialises in fitness photography, and is the recommended wedding photographer for South Yorkshire venues Wortley Hall and Aston Hall.\nOne of the new members of staff that Collette has taken on is 16-year-old Alex Hollinworth, who is studying photography at Barnsley College.\n\"He is the same age that I was when I first got interested in photography and I really like the idea of bringing people on in the industry,\" said Collette.\n\"I've also taken on a PA to cope with all the admin behind the scenes, and in the next 12 months I want to take on more staff, including other photographers, and move to a bigger studio.\"\nCollette, who is 31 and lives in Worsbrough, gained an HND in photography from Sheffield College, before working for a photographer in Barnsley and setting up Picture Perfect Photography in 2012.\nOne of the main reasons for the business's growth in the last year has been the introduction of a subscription scheme for corporate clients, who can pay monthly to have up-to-date photographs.\n\"These days a company's visual appearance is so important. Whether it's your social media headshot or photographs of products for the website or a brochure; the first impression really matters in a world where people are making such quick decisions,\" said Collette.\nIf Collette is successful in the Yorkshire and Humber final in York on March 1, she will automatically go through to the national final in London in May.","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
+{"text":"Home \u203a Direct-To-Vinyl Live Session #1013: Jacqueline Paladino\nDirect-To-Vinyl Live Session #1013: Jacqueline Paladino\nCan You Can Tell Me What Love Is? (Take 1) - $ 25.00 USD Can You Can Tell Me What Love Is? (Take 2) - Sold Out Can You Can Tell Me What Love Is? (Take 3) - Sold Out Can You Can Tell Me What Love Is? (Take 4) - Sold Out Can You Can Tell Me What Love Is? (Take 5) - Sold Out Can You Can Tell Me What Love Is? (Take 6) - Sold Out The Wolf, The Sheep and The Girl (Take 1) - Sold Out The Wolf, The Sheep and The Girl (Take 2) - Sold Out The Wolf, The Sheep and The Girl (Take 3) - Sold Out The Wolf, The Sheep and The Girl (Take 4) - Sold Out The Wolf, The Sheep and The Girl (Take 5) - Sold Out The Wolf, The Sheep and The Girl (Take 6) - Sold Out The Wolf, The Sheep and The Girl (Take 7) - Sold Out Love in War (Take 1) - Sold Out Love in War (Take 2) - Sold Out Love In War (Take 3) - Sold Out Love In War (Take 4) - Sold Out Family Portrait (take 1) - Sold Out Family Portrait (take 2) - Sold Out Family Portrait (take 3) - Sold Out Family Portrait (take 4) - Sold Out\nWe were thrilled to welcome NYC's Jacqueline Paladino to cut our 1,013th Direct-to-Vinyl Live Session on December 17th, 2019. Her session was available exclusively via preorder, which has now closed.\nEach of these 21 takes were cut directly to their own individual 7\" vinyl record, and only one copy of each take exists in the world.\nOur limited edition lathe cut record releases are made on a modified antique record cutting lathe from the 1950's. Each record is handmade, one at a time, in real time, by a real person.\nDirect-to-Vinyl Live Session #1247: Adi Sun\nDirect-to-Vinyl Live Session #1233: Matt Krane Trio\nDirect-to-Vinyl Live Session #1232: Jared Dylan\nDirect-to-Vinyl Live Session #1226: Jeremy Adam","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
+{"text":"Dealers openly sell marijuana in busy NYC park\nDrug dealers suspected of unlawfully selling cannabis in New York, on Oct. 26, 2021. (New York Post Screenshot via TheBL\/YouTube)\nDrug traffickers reportedly sold illegal cannabis at a bustling Manhattan park, even though sales will remain illegal for months.\nThe New York Post published several photos of tables filled with pre-rolled joints and pot jars at Washington Square Park on Oct. 24. The encompassing Greenwich Village was full of visitors, locals, families, and students from nearby New York University (NYU).\nFormer Gov. Andrew Cuomo (D) previously legalized marijuana for adult-use. However, the measure only takes effect in March 2022, meaning no cannabis sales will be legal until well into the New Year.\nGhost, one of the ganja peddlers, admitted he broke the rules by selling the drug. The vendor openly sold pre-rolled joints of \"pure marijuana\" for $20 apiece, or two for $30, at his stand.\n\"My strains are Grenadine Purple, Himalayan Gold and OG Kush mixed as one blend,\" he said according to the paper. \"I kick all [of] the shakes together, have a personal roller roll them up, one shot\u2013so you have three flavors in one blend.\"\nGhost also confessed to sampling his own products earlier that same day.\n\"I smoked three rolls this morning,\" he said. \"You will be able to focus at work. If you want to go to sleep just take this\u2013you will be out the whole night.\"\nThe New York Post reported his table was filled with sealed, brilliantly colored plastic bags. They were labeled as apricot gelato, cookies and cream, truffle pie, gorilla cake and other names.\nNYU student Denny bought two joints from Ghost. He claims to buy marijuana from the vendor at least twice a week.\n\"Honestly, it is great,\" the 19 year-old shopper said according to the paper.\nMany more dealers have also started to sell at what is quickly becoming the Big Apple's first open-air cannabis market. Saturdays and Sundays are the busiest days of the week.\nMayor Bill de Blasio (D) previously promised to \"set the right parameters\" and address \"quality-of-life concerns\" in the neighborhood. However, the park continues to be a known hotspot for loud parties, fireworks, underground boxing fights, and other unlawful activities.\nFlorida sheriff's office posted a Facebook post looking to return $2 Million in marijuana to 'rightful owner'\nCalifornia: 37 tons of marijuana seized: Biggest haul in Bay area\nCannabis banking bill advances in US House committee\nTags:New York City Andrew Cuomo Drug trafficking Bill de Blasio Washington Square Park New York University drug dealers greenwich village\nBritish Virgin Islands Premier arrested in Miami on drug trafficking charges\nMazars accountants stop vouching for Trump organization's financial statements\nNew York 02\/15\/22, 12:47\nCourt dismisses former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin's New York Times defamation case\nRep. Ocasio-Cortez curses at Congress's inner workings\nOmicron isn't going to stop us, says Mayor Adams\nFormer Democratic NYC mayor de Blasio rules out race for governor","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
+{"text":"Joshua L. Goldstein, Esq.\nImmigration Lawyer Services\nMandamus Cases\nLos Angeles Times: Asylum Officers are Pushing Back Against Trump Administration's 'Remain in Mexico' Policy\nPosted Nov 21, 2019 by Josh Goldstein | asylum\nOn November 15th, 2019, the Los Angeles Times published a story about an asylum officer who is standing up and fighting back against President Trump's \"illegal\" and \"immoral\" immigration policies. Doug Stephens, a Northern California-based asylum officer, told reporters from the Los Angeles Times that he will no longer implement the Trump Administration's so-called 'Migrant Protection Protocols' (the Remain in Mexico policy). Under that policy, asylum applicants are being sent back to Mexico while their claim is reviewed and processed.\nThe First Asylum Officer to Formally Rebel Against the MPP\nDoug Stephens is the first asylum officer to formally announce that he will not implement the Remain in Mexico policy. Mr. Stephens, a trained attorney, says that he is being given an illegal mandate by the administration\u2014each day he is required to conduct too many interviews. As a result, he is essentially forced to rush asylum seekers through the system. Going forward he says he will not carry out the \"illegal\" policy, even though he acknowledges that he may be fired for standing up for migrant rights.\nIn the first nine months of 2019, the Remain in Mexico policy has affected tens of thousands\u2014with at least 16,000 children being returned to Mexico. Alarmingly, vulnerable migrants are often being sent back to unsafe conditions in Mexico. Not only are there concerns about criminal violence from international drug cartels and other gangs, but there is a lack of adequate medical services and insufficient housing.\nOther Asylum Officers are Informally Fighting Back\nWhile Mr. Stephens is the first asylum officer to outright challenge the system, other asylum officers have also reportedly been rebelling against the Trump Administration in other ways. According to Mr. Stephens and other unnamed officials cited in the report, many asylum officers have been calling in sick, requesting transfers, and taking other more subtle action to slow down the process of returning vulnerable migrants back to Mexico.\nThis American Life Profile: Asylum Seekers Affected By the Remain in Mexico Policy\nRecently, the popular public radio show 'This American Life' did an entire program on asylum seekers who have been sent back to Mexico to await a decision on their application. The episode documents just how difficult the 'Remain in Mexico' policy has made life for so many people, including families with young children.\nNotably, migrants who participated in the program consistently expressed fear about being sent back to Mexico. Sadly, some had already experienced harm or mistreatment in the country. Yet, because of the Trump Administration's policy, asylum officers are all but forced to send migrants back there to wait in dangerous conditions.\nCall Our Los Angeles, CA Asylum Lawyer Right Away\nAt the Goldstein Immigration Lawyers, our Los Angeles asylum attorneys provide diligent, reliable legal representation to clients throughout Southern California. We will help you explore all the available options. For a confidential consultation, please call our Los Angeles law office at 213-262-2000 or send us a message directly through our website.\nJosh Goldstein\nLead Attorney at Goldstein Immigration Lawyers\nBased in downtown Los Angeles, Joshua L. Goldstein is the founding partner of the award-winning, internationally-known immigration law firm, Goldstein Immigration Lawyers. Josh has a proven track record of winning a wide variety of complex immigration cases and is particularly focused on obtaining O and P visas for actors, musicians, athletes and essential support personnel. Josh lives on the east side of Los Angeles with his wife, son, and poodles. He is active in the local community, and when he's not working he enjoys playing tennis at Griffith Park.\nLatest posts by Josh Goldstein (see all)\nFederal Judge Blocks Trump Administration's Last Minute Asylum Restrictions - January 11, 2021\nBiden Administration, Mexican Government, and Others Left to Deal With President Trump's Mess at the Southern Border - January 11, 2021\nReport: Amidst Uncertain Future, California Students are Applying for DACA - January 8, 2021\n811 W 7th Street, 12th Floor\nLos Angeles, CA 90017 Get Directions 213-262-2000\nSchedule a FREE Immigration Consultation Today!\n\u00a9 2021 GOLDSTEIN IMMIGRATION LAWYERS. All Rights Reserved.\nDisclaimer: This website may be considered an advertisement. The content on this site is for informational purposes only and should not be interpreted as legal advice. Consult an immigration attorney for advice regarding your own unique situation. Simply contacting us does not establish an attorney-client relationship. Please avoid sending confidential information to us until such time as a formal attorney-client relationship has been created. Licensed in NY, MA & CA. Practice limited to U.S. immigration and nationality law. Joshua L. Goldstein, 811 W 7th Street, 12th Floor Los Angeles, CA 90017 is the attorney solely responsible for this content. Privacy Policy | Sitemap | Blog TOC","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
+{"text":"SOME FIGURES ON A FANTASY\nBy Lillian Ross\nThe New Yorker, November 8, 1982 P. 48\nONWARD AND UPWARD WITH THE ARTS about moviemaker Francis Coppola and his movie \"One from the Heart\", which was released in Feb., 1982. It took 22 months to make and its cost came to 27 million dollars. Tells about the making of the film, done in Coppola's studio Zoetrope, where sets were made to look like Las Vegas instead of filming on location, which is the usual method today. His financial problems were great and he ran into trouble about distribution. Ultimately it was Columbia Pictures who distributed it. A new way of filming which Coppola calls \"the electronic cinema\" was used. As business was not good enough Coppola decided to withdraw the film and Columbia agreed. Tells about Coppola's life and his views on film-making.\nThis article appears in the print edition of the November 8, 1982, issue.\nLillian Ross (1918-2017) joined the staff of The New Yorker in 1945, during the Second World War, and worked with Harold Ross, the magazine's founder and first editor.\nBanks-Chase Manhattan Bank","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
+{"text":"Behind Nibali's Giro d'Italia Victory\nMay 30, 2016 AFP\nMay 29, 2016 \u2013 Some will call Vincenzo Nibali's dramatic Giro d'Italia victory on Sunday lucky, but it served as a reminder that 'The Shark' is dangerous when in deep water.\nAFP\/Yuzuru Sunada\nThree years after the Italian sealed a maiden pink jersey with an epic ride through the snowy Dolomites mountains, a second Giro triumph looked out of reach when Dutchman Steven Kruijswijk opened up a huge lead in the final week of a thrilling 99th edition.\nOver two intense days in the mountains, pre-race favourite Nibali went from trailing the ginger-haired Dutchman by 41secs to seemingly out of contention at 4min 43sec. But 'Lo Squalo' (The Shark) has a habit of biting back at his rivals. And when Kruijswijk crashed into a snow bank early on the descent of the Colle d'Agnello climb bordering France and Italy on Friday, the race for pink was suddenly back on two days before the finish.\nOn stage 19, Nibali forged ahead to victory on the summit finish at Risoul in France, where he also won on his road to Tour de France triumph in 2014. Like a great white patiently circling his prey, Nibali was unforgiving when he went in for the kill.\n\"Steven Kruijswijk had a good advantage after the Dolomites but I knew the highest mountains were yet to come,\" said Nibali. \"Riding above 2000 meters isn't easy for anyone but I felt comfortable. Kruijswijk crashed\u2026 but towards the summit of the Colle d'Agnello I noticed he was breathing heavily so I put pressure on him climbing and then descending. Had I not, probably nothing would have happened and (Esteban) Chaves would have had an easy ride as well.\"\nLittle Orica team climber Chaves took the race lead with a 44sec lead over Nibali on Friday, but trailed in behind the Italian the next day on the climb to Sant'Anna di Vinadio when Nibali pulled on the pink jersey. On Sunday, Nibali revealed he had been suffering from a stomach bug, news of which he kept to himself.\n\"I had a stomach bug during the Giro but it's better not to tell everything sometimes,\" he said.\nIt is not the first time the Sicilian has fought back from adversity to triumph in one of the world's biggest bike races. He upset pre-race predictions to win the Tour de France in 2014, becoming the first Italian to do so since deceased climbing ace Marco Pantani in 1998.\nAnd when he was excluded from the 2015 Tour of Spain for illicitly hanging on to the back of a team car following a crash, he blew away his shame with a stunning performance to win the Tour of Lombardy one-day classic weeks later.\nShy off the bike, the Sicilian becomes a fierce competitor on it \u2014 although he is known for his sensible side, too. After fighting his way back into victory contention in Risoul, Nibali wept tears of relief and joy as he hung his arms over the handlebars.\nNibali, 31, left his native Sicily for Tuscany as an ambitious 16-year-old to follow his dream, and has become one of the most formidable, and feared stage racers in the world. A strong climber with descending skills that have left more than one rival fearing for his safety, Nibali copes well in tough weather conditions.\nHe secured his maiden pink jersey on the penultimate stage in 2013 when he emerged through a snow blizzard to triumph atop Trois Cimes de Lavaredo in the Dolomites.\nAfter Kruijswijk flew over the handlebars head-first into the snow on Friday, Nibali remarked: \"Descents are just as much a part of racing as climbing.\"\nNext up is the Tour de France, where he is sure to meet tougher opposition in Spaniard Alberto Contador and Britain's Chris Froome, both former yellow jersey champions. Nibali will then focus on Olympic gold in Rio this August.\n2016 Giro d'Italia\nVincenzo Nibali","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
+{"text":"MOTORISTS INNOVATION CENTER\nInterview with Todd Boyer\n\"After that wonderful book you made with the writing that inspired a whole new generation of Motorists employees, they decided to let us in the door and build something,\" Todd joked. WSA Studio was selected to create a master plan for the Columbus campus of Motorists Mutual Insurance Group which aligns with the CEO's objectives for the future, Vision 2021. The innovation center was the first step in the process due to huge demands placed on the IT department, which is the driving force for innovation. Vision 2021 starts with the IT department. The goal was to create a space where each person could work in collaboration with one another. This space played a crucial role in its location. It's along the entrance path for all the employees and visitors, so it energized and enlightened employees on the future of their workplace. \"Everyone could finally see that things were beginning to happen,\" Todd said of the space.\n\"Okay, so\u2026\" I started in.\n\"Don't ask me one of those boring questions,\" Todd mocked.\n\"Hey! I'm not. What makes this space an innovation center?\"\n\"Ohhh! How do you define innovation?\" He asked.\n\"How do you define innovation?\" I quickly countered.\n\"It's not how I define it; it's how Motorists defined it,\" he replied just as quickly.\n\"But how does their definition compare to your definition?\" I asked. \"I'm killing it today.\"\n\"Okay\u2026 I'll give you the old guy answer.\" Todd said he didn't think anything he does with his designs are innovative. It's nothing inventive with the same old materials always used. It's the way the pieces and parts fit together. He told me the existing facility was from the 70s. The model of work place was very traditional and aligned with the era. It hadn't evolved to mirror the Vision 2021 and it didn't support the future of the company. \"Our design supported the way they desired to work and also pushed them to a point they didn't know they'd be comfortable with. You fulfill their requirements and lead them to the next steps they haven't even thought of yet,\" Todd said. \"We worked parallel to their vision.\"\nTechnology is fluid, so providing the IT department with a space that will work for them now as well as in the future is the goal of an innovation center. It's providing an opportunity to innovate. \"We aren't innovative. We foster innovation,\" Todd said.","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
+{"text":"Jefferson County, Alabama\nDowntown Birmingham\nLocation in the state of Alabama\nAlabama's location in the U.S.\nDecember 13, 1819[1]\n1,123.80 sq mi (2,911 km\u00b2)\n11.20 sq mi (29 km\u00b2), 1.00%\n- Density\n592\/sq mi (228\/km\u00b2)\nWebsite jeffconline.jccal.org\/\nJefferson County is the most populous county in the U.S. state of Alabama, with its county seat being located in Birmingham.[1] As of the 2010 U.S. Census, the population of Jefferson County was 658,466. Jefferson County is the principal and most populous county in the Birmingham metropolitan area.\n1.1 2011 Bankruptcy filing\n2 Government\n2.1 Taxation\n2.2 Sewer construction and bond swap controversy\n2.3 Law\n4 Geography and transportation\n4.1 Major highways\n4.2 Railroads\n4.3 Air travel\n5 Cities and towns\n6 Adjacent counties\n8 National elections\nSee also: National Register of Historic Places listings in Birmingham, Alabama, National Register of Historic Places listings in Jefferson County, Alabama, and Properties on the Alabama Register of Landmarks and Heritage by county (Jefferson\u2013Macon)\nJefferson County was established on December 13, 1819, by the Alabama Legislature.[1] It was named in honor of Thomas Jefferson.[1] The county is located in the north-central portion of the state, on the southmost edge of the Appalachian Mountains, in the center of the (former) iron, coal, and limestone mining belt of the Southern United States. Jefferson County is bordered by Blount County, Bibb County, St. Clair County, Shelby County, Tuscaloosa County, and Walker County, in Alabama. Jefferson County has a land area of about 1,119 square miles (2,900 km2). Well-before Birmingham was even founded (in 1871), the county seat of Jefferson County was located at Carrollsville (1819 \u2013 21) and Elyton (1821 \u2013 73), and since 1873 it has been located in Birmingham, which was named for the English city of the same name in Warwickshire. That city had long been a center of iron and steel production in Great Britain. Note that Elyton has long been a part of Birmingham itself, since Birmingham was established by the merger of three towns, and the city has a long history of annexing its neighboring towns and villages, including North Birmingham.\n2011 Bankruptcy filing\nOn November 9, 2011, it became the subject of the most expensive municipal bankruptcy ever in the US, at $4.1 billion, with debts of $3.14 billion relating to sewer work. City and county governments can become bankrupt much as private companies, at 11 USC \u00a7921. The case was filed in the Northern District of Alabama Bankruptcy Court as case number 11-05736.\nJefferson County is one of the eight counties in Alabama with a limited-form of home rule government. It allows the county to be able to set up a zoning system for land use, maintain the sanitary sewer, sewerage systems and highways, provide for garbage and trash disposal, and to enforce taxation (except for property taxes). The county is governed by a five-member commission that combines the legislative and executive duties for the county. The Commissioners are elected by a vote of the districts which they represent, rather than by an \"at large\" election as has been done sometimes[citation needed] in the past. Each county commissioner represents one of the five individual districts in the county. By votes in the commission, the commissioners are given executive responsibilities for the various county departments, which fall under the categories of \"Roads and Transportation\", \"Community Development\", \"Environmental Services\", \"Health and Human Services\", \"Technlogy and Land Development\", and \"Finance and General Services\". The County Commission elects its own President, who is the chairman of all County Commission meetings, and who has additional executive duties.\nSales tax on many items within the county can be as high as 10%. In January 2005, a controversial addition 1% educational sales tax for the funding of construction of education facilities came into effect. This tax was approved by a 3\u20132 vote by the County Commission in October 2004. Commissioners Gary White and Bettye Fine Collins voted against the tax, while Larry Langford, Sheila Smoot, and Mary Buckelew voted in favor.[citation needed] This additional 1\u00a2 has led county municipalities such as Fairfield to have sales tax rates as high as 10%, while other municipalities and incorporated communities saw an increase in their total sales tax rate from 8% to 9%. The educational sales tax as well as the county's limited ability to self-govern has been the subject of an attempted repeal by the Alabama State Legislature during the 2005 regular legislative session though the repeal of either (particularly self-government) is highly unlikely.[original research?] It should be noted that the state of Alabama sales tax is 4% and Jefferson County's is 2% in total. Municipal sales taxes go as high as 4%. The county once charged an Occupational Tax, which was the subject of controversy and was generally considered unconstitutional, therefore it was struck down by Alabama's Supreme Court.\nOn March 16, 2011, the Alabama Supreme Court ruled that Jefferson County's 2009 occupational tax law was passed unconstitutionally, in a decision that dealt a devastating financial blow to a county considering bankruptcy.[1][2]\nSewer construction and bond swap controversy\nTwo extremely controversial undertakings by the county account for the majority of this debt. First was a massive overhaul of the county-owned sewer system, and second was a series of risky bond-swap agreements. Both have been scrutinized by federal prosecutors, with several former county officials convicted of bribery and corruption.[3]\nIn 1995, after a lawsuit was filed by Attorney Bart Slawson on behalf of the Cahaba River Society and some private citizens (Allen Kipp, Edward and Betsy Angwin) Jefferson County entered into a consent decree with the Environmental Protection Agency regarding sewer overflows into the Cahaba River watershed. A total of $3.2 billion of construction was subsequently contracted, both to comply with the consent decree and to expand the system to newly-developing areas and increase the number of ratepayers financing the construction. To comply with the consent decree, the county also had to purchase and repair sewer lines previously owned and maintained by municipalities throughout the county.[citation needed]\nA series of controversial interest rate swaps, initiated in 2002 and 2003 by former Commission President Larry Langford (removed as the mayor of Birmingham after his conviction[4]), were intended to lower interest payments, but have, in fact, had the opposite effect, increasing the county's indebtedness to the point that officials have issued formal statements doubting the county's ability to meet its financial obligations. The bond swaps are at the center of an investigation by the United States Securities and Exchange Commission.[5]\nIn late February 2008 Standard & Poor's lowered their rating of Jefferson County bonds to \"junk\" status. The likelihood of the county filing for Chapter 9 bankruptcy protection has been debated in the press.[6] In early March 2008, Moody's followed suit and indicated that it would also review the county's ability to meet other bond obligations.[7]\nOn March 7, 2008, Jefferson County failed to post $184 million collateral as required under its sewer bond agreements, thereby moving into technical default.[8]\nIn February 2011, Lesley Curwen of the BBC World Service, interviewed David Carrington, the newly appointed president of the commission, about the risk of defaulting on bonds issued to finance \"what could be the most expensive sewage system in history.\" Carrington said there was \"no doubt that people from Wall Street offered bribes\" and \"have to take a huge responsibility for what happened.\" The system was repaired and upgraded a few years ago because of environmental problems. Wall Street investment banks including JP Morgan and others arranged complex financial deals using swaps. The fees and penalty charges increased the cost so the county now has $3.2 billion outstanding. Some county officials have been prosecuted for accepting bribes from bankers and are now in prison or awaiting sentence. Carrington said one of the problems was that elected officials had welcomed scheduling with very low early payments so long as peak payments occurred after they left office. The debt structure now was such that there was no way that 700,000 people could pay it back over 30 years. The job could have been done for somewhere between $1.2 billion and $1.5 billion but shouldn't have cost 3.2 billion. Those selling the bonds weren't interested in whether they could be repaid as they would have moved on. The county was not able to pay its bills and now needed to restructure its debts to avoid bankruptcy. Investors would lose out but hopefully innocent small investors would get 100%. The SEC has awarded the county $75 million in compensation relation to \"unlawful payments\" against JP Morgan and in addition the company will forfeit $647 million of future fees. Carrington said citizens had to elect the right people to avoid a repeat disaster. Officials must identify those responsible, including local investment bankers, and root them out. A characteristic symptom of wrongdoing is unaudited books, the county was three years behind with its auditing, new debts cannot be issued until auditing is complete and this could take 1\u2013 2 years.[9]\nJefferson County is served by the Jefferson County Sheriff's Department. The County Sheriff is chosen by the eligible voters in an \"at large\" election, rather than being hired as a civil service professional, and sheriffs are selected in many other places. The current County Sheriff is Mike Hale. The Sheriff's Department fields about 175 deputy sheriffs who patrol the unincorporated areas of the county, and also all municipalities that do not have their own police departments. The Sheriff's Department has two county jails, one in Birmingham and one in Bessemer that detain suspects awaiting trial (who cannot afford to post bail) and other ones who are serving sentences less than one year in length.\nThere are two judicial courthouses in Jefferson County, a situation dating back to when the state legislature was making preparations to split off a portion of Jefferson County to create a new county, centered around Bessemer. The split never happened because there was no way for the proposed new county to have enough area\u2014a minimum of 500 square miles\u2014to meet the requirement of the Alabama State Constitution. The additional county courthouse and some parallel functions remain in service. The main courthouse is in Birmingham and the second one is located in Bessemer. There are elected officials who maintain offices in the Bessemer annex, such as the county's Assistant Tax Collector, the Assistant Tax Assessor, and the Assistant District Attorney.\nExcept for cities such as Birmingham that have established their own local school districts, all parts of Jefferson County are served by Jefferson County Board of Education. Parts within Birmingham are served by Birmingham City Schools. Other cities in the county that have established their own school systems are Bessemer, Fairfield, Midfield, Trussville, Homewood, Leeds, Hoover, Vestavia Hills, Tarrant, and Mountain Brook.\nGeography and transportation\nAccording to the 2000 census, the county has a total area of 1,123.80 square miles (2,910.6 km2), of which 1,112.61 square miles (2,881.6 km2) (or 99.00%) is land and 11.20 square miles (29.0 km2) (or 1.00%) is water.[10] The county is home to the Watercress Darter National Wildlife Refuge.\nThe Alabama Department of Corrections operates the William E. Donaldson Correctional Facility, a prison for men, in unincorporated Jefferson County, Alabama, near Bessemer. The prison includes one of the two Alabama death rows for men.[11]\nMajor highways\nU.S. Highway 280\nState Route 5\nState Route 25\nState Route 119\nAMTRAK passenger service is provided by the Crescent, which stops in Birmingham. Freight service is provided by BNSF Railway, CSX Transportation, Norfolk Southern Railway, Alabama & Tennessee River Railway, and Birmingham Southern Railroad. There is also one switching and terminal railroad, Alabama Warrior Railway. The county was formerly served by the Louisville and Nashville Railroad, the Seaboard Coast Line Railroad, and the Gulf, Mobile and Ohio Railroad.[citation needed]\nDestinations served by Birmingham-Shuttlesworth as of 2008.\nBirmingham is the location of the Birmingham-Shuttlesworth International Airport, which provides service, either direct or connecting, to most of the rest of the United States. In spite of its name, it offers no direct international flight, although it used to offer a nonstop flight to Montreal, Quebec.\nArgo (part of Argo is in St. Clair County)\nChalkville\nCounty Line (part of County Line is in Blount County)\nGrayson Valley\nHelena (part of Helena is in Shelby County)\nHoover (part of Hoover is in Shelby County)\nLeeds (part of Leeds is in Shelby County and part of it is in St. Clair County)\nMcCalla (part of McCalla is in Tuscaloosa County)\nMcDonald Chapel\nNorth Birmingham\nNorth Johns\nProvidence (west of Hueytown)\nSmithfield (northeast of Ensley)\nSumiton (part of Sumiton is in Walker County)\nSylvan Springs\nTrussville (part of Trussville is in St. Clair County)\nVestavia Hills (part of Vestavia Hills is in Shelby County)\nWarrior (part of Warrior is in Blount County)\nWylam (northwest of Fairfield)\nAdjacent counties\nJefferson County is diamond-shaped, with irregular boundaries. Its neighboring counties are mostly on its northwestern, northeastern, southeastern, and southwestern sides, with two neighbors on its north, two neighbors on its east, two neighbors on its south, and two neighbors on its west. One of Jefferson County's neighbors has only a short boundary with it.\nWalker County Walker County and Blount County St. Clair County\nTuscaloosa County St. Clair County\nTuscaloosa County and (a very short boundary with) Bibb County Shelby County Shelby County\n6,855 \u2014\n7,131 +4.0%\n8,989 +26.1%\n12,345 +5.1%\n88,501 +280.3%\nSources: \"American FactFinder\". United States Census Bureau. http:\/\/factfinder2.census.gov\/faces\/nav\/jsf\/pages\/index.xhtml. through 1960\nWhereas according to the 2010 U.S. Census Bureau:\n42.0% Black\n0.3% Native American\n1.4% Asian\n0.0% Native Hawaiian or Pacific Islander\n1.1% Two or more races\n3.9% Hispanic or Latino (of any race)\nAs of the census[12] of 2000, there were 662,047 people, 263,265 households, and 175,861 families residing in the county. The population density was 595 people per square mile (230\/km2). There were 288,162 housing units at an average density of 259 per square mile (100\/km2). The racial makeup of the county was 58.10% White, 39.36% Black or African American, 0.21% Native American, 0.90% Asian, 0.03% Pacific Islander, 0.59% from other races, and 0.80% from two or more races. Nearly 1.55% of the population were Hispanic or Latino of any race. The largest self-reported European ancestries in Jefferson County, Alabama are English 9.7%(64,016), \"American\" 9.6%(63,015), Irish 8.6%(56,695), German 7.2%(47,690).[13] Those citing \"American\" ancestry in Alabama are of overwhelmingly English extraction, however most English Americans identify simply as having American ancestry because their roots have been in North America for so long, in many cases since the early sixteen hundreds. Demographers estimate that roughly 20\u201323% of people in Alabama are of predominantly English ancestry.[14][15][16][17] There are also many more people in Alabama of Scots-Irish origins than are self-reported.[18]\nThere were 263,265 households, out of which 30.80% had children under the age of 18 living with them, 46.10% were married couples living together, 17.20% had a female householder with no husband present, and 33.20% were non-families. Nearly 28.70% of all households were made up of individuals, and 9.90% had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older. The average household size was 2.45, and the average family size was 3.04.\nIn the county, the population was spread out with 24.80% under the age of 18, 9.60% from 18 to 24, 29.70% from 25 to 44, 22.30% from 45 to 64, and 13.60% who were 65 years of age or older. The median age was 36 years. For every 100 females, there were 89.20 males. For every 100 females age 18 and over, there were 84.50 males.\nIn 2007 Jefferson County had the highest rate of syphilis cases per 100,000 in the US, according to data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.[19]\nThe median income for a household in the county was $36,868, and the median income for a family was $45,951. Males had a median income of $35,954 versus $26,631 for females. The per capita income for the county was $20,892. About 11.60% of families and 14.80% of the population were below the poverty line, including 20.20% of those under age 18 and 12.70% of those age 65 or over.\nJefferson County vote\nby party in presidential elections\n2008 47.2% 149,921 52.3% 166,121 0.5% 1,768\n1992 50.1% 149,832 42.1% 125,889 7.7% 23,163\nAlthough Alabama as a whole voted for John McCain by double digits, Barack Obama carried Jefferson County with 166,121 votes (52%) John McCain received 149,921 votes (47%).[20]\nSpecific references:\n^ a b c d \"Jefferson County Extension Office\". Alabama Cooperative Extension System (ACES). http:\/\/www.aces.edu\/counties\/Jefferson\/.\n^ Mountain Law's Birmingham Business Law Blog: Is Jefferson County's Continued Collection of Its Occupational Tax Valid? from dewaynepope.typepad.com\n^ Former Jefferson County Commissioner Gary White sentenced to 10 years in prison. al.com. Retrieved on 2011-08-12.\n^ Larry Langford Impact \u2013 Page 3 \u2013 - Larry Langford trial | Latest Larry Langford News. al.com. Retrieved on 2011-03-02.\n^ Wright, Barnett (December 18, 2007). SEC wants to force Larry Langford, Bill Blount to testify in Jefferson County bond swap deals. Birmingham News.\n^ Hubbard, Russell (March 2, 2008) \"Jefferson County finance options likely to be expensive.\" Birmingham News\n^ Hubbard, Russell (March 4, 2008). \"Update: Jefferson County finances take another hit\". Birmingham News. http:\/\/blog.al.com\/spotnews\/2008\/03\/update_jefferson_county_financ.html.\n^ Wright, Barnett (March 8, 2008) \"Jefferson County, Alabama sewer debt swap agreement deadline passes.\" Birmingham News\n^ \"Business Daily Alabama's sewerdebt\". BBC World Service. 28 February 2011. http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/iplayer\/console\/p00dy3z5\/Business_Daily_Alabamas_sewer_debts. Retrieved 2 March 2011.\n^ \"Census 2000 U.S. Gazetteer Files: Counties\". United States Census. http:\/\/www.census.gov\/tiger\/tms\/gazetteer\/county2k.txt. Retrieved 2011-02-13.\n^ \"Donaldson Correctional Facility.\" Alabama Department of Corrections. Retrieved on October 8, 2010.\n^ \"American FactFinder\". United States Census Bureau. http:\/\/factfinder.census.gov. Retrieved 2008-01-31.\n^ Jefferson County, Alabama: Selected Social Characteristics in the United States, 2006\u20132008 from the U.S. Census\n^ Sharing the Dream: White Males in a Multicultural America By Dominic J. Pulera.\n^ Reynolds Farley, 'The New Census Question about Ancestry: What Did It Tell Us?', Demography, Vol. 28, No. 3 (August 1991), pp. 414, 421.\n^ Stanley Lieberson and Lawrence Santi, 'The Use of Nativity Data to Estimate Ethnic Characteristics and Patterns', Social Science Research, Vol. 14, No. 1 (1985), pp. 44\u20136.\n^ Stanley Lieberson and Mary C. Waters, 'Ethnic Groups in Flux: The Changing Ethnic Responses of American Whites', Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science, Vol. 487, No. 79 (September 1986), pp. 82\u201386.\n^ Alabama: Selected Social Characteristics in the United States, 2006\u20132008 from the U.S. Census\n^ Birmingham Business Journal,\"Jefferson County tops country for number of syphilis cases\" November 15, 2007.\n^ Dave Leip's Atlas of U.S. Presidential Elections. Uselectionatlas.org. Retrieved on 2011-03-02.\nGeneral references:\n\"Looting Main Street: How the nation's biggest banks are ripping off American cities with the same predatory deals that brought down Greece\", Rolling Stone March 31, 2010\nThe Sewer of Gold and other famous crooks from frtillman.net\nJefferson County Department of Health\nJefferson County Department of Education\nJefferson County Library System\nJefferson County Sheriff's Department\nJefferson County Historical Commission\nWest Jefferson County Historical Society\nJefferson County Historical Association\nv \u00b7 d \u00b7 eMunicipalities and communities of Jefferson County, Alabama\nCounty seat: Birmingham\nAdamsville | Bessemer | Birmingham\u2021 | Brighton | Center Point | Clay | Fairfield | Fultondale | Gardendale | Graysville | Helena\u2021 | Homewood | Hoover\u2021 | Hueytown | Irondale | Leeds\u2021 | Lipscomb | Midfield | Mountain Brook | Pinson | Pleasant Grove | Sumiton\u2021 | Tarrant | Trussville\u2021 | Vestavia Hills\u2021 | Warrior\u2021\nArgo\u2021 | Brookside | Cardiff | County Line\u2021 | Kimberly | Maytown | Morris | Mulga | North Johns | Sylvan Springs | Trafford | West Jefferson\nConcord | Edgewater | Forestdale | Grayson Valley | McDonald Chapel | Minor | Mount Olive | Rock Creek\nCorner | Dolomite | Hopewell | McCalla | Shannon | Watson\nv \u00b7 d \u00b7 e State of Alabama\nMontgomery (capital)\nNational Historic Landmarks\nAtlantic Coastal Plain\nBirmingham District\nCentral Alabama\nCumberland Plateau\nGreater Birmingham\nGulf Coastal Plain\nMobile Bay\nNorthwest Alabama\nRidge and Valley\nRiver Region\nWiregrass Region\nMontgomery Metro Area\nMobile Metro Area\nHuntsville Metro Area\nLarger cities\nCoordinates: 33\u00b035\u2032N 86\u00b052\u2032W \/ 33.583\u00b0N 86.867\u00b0W \/ 33.583; -86.867\nAlabama counties\nBirmingham\u2013Hoover metropolitan area\n1819 establishments in the United States\nGovernment units that have filed for Chapter 9 bankruptcy\nLouis IV\nLamar County, Alabama\nJefferson County (Alabama) \u2014 Jefferson County Courthouse Verwaltung US Bundesstaat: Alabama \u2026 Deutsch Wikipedia\nJefferson County, Alabama \u2014 Verwaltung US Bundesstaat: Alabama Verwaltungssitz: Birmingham Adresse des Verwaltungssitzes: County Courthouse 716 Richard Arrington Jr. Blvd. N. Birmingham, AL 35203 0100 \u2026 Deutsch Wikipedia\nNational Register of Historic Places listings in Jefferson County, Alabama \u2014 Location of Jefferson County in Alabama This is a list of the National Register of Historic Places listings in Jefferson County, Alabama. This is intended to be a complete list of the properties and districts on the National Register of Historic\u2026 \u2026 Wikipedia\nMount Olive, Jefferson County, Alabama \u2014 Mount Olive, Alabama CDP Locat \u2026 Wikipedia\nListe der Eintr\u00e4ge im National Register of Historic Places im Jefferson County (Alabama) \u2014 Die Liste der Registered Historic Places im Jefferson County f\u00fchrt alle Bauwerke und historischen St\u00e4tten im Jefferson County in Alabama auf, die in das National Register of Historic Places aufgenommen wurden. Aktuelle Eintr\u00e4ge Lfd. Nr. Name Bild \u2026 Deutsch Wikipedia\nOak Grove High School (Jefferson County, Alabama) \u2014 Oak Grove High School Address 9494 Oak Grove Parkway Jefferson County; mail via Bessemer, Alabama, 35023 United States Coordinates \u2026 Wikipedia\nJefferson County \u2014 is the name of 25 counties and one parish in the United States: Jefferson County, Alabama Jefferson County, Arkansas Jefferson County, Colorado Jefferson County, Florida Jefferson County, Georgia Jefferson County, Idaho Jefferson County, Illinois \u2026 Wikipedia\nJefferson County Sheriff's Office \u2014 could refer to several sheriffs departments in the United States, including:*Jefferson County, Alabama Sheriff s Office *Jefferson County, Arkansas Sheriff s Office *Jefferson County, Colorado Sheriff s Office *Jefferson County, Florida Sheriff s \u2026 Wikipedia\nJefferson County Schools (Alabama) \u2014 Coordinates: 33\u00b029\u203215.42\u2033N 86\u00b047\u203238.59\u2033W \/ 33.4876167\u00b0N 86.7940528\u00b0W \/ 33.4876167; 86.7940528 The Jefferson Co \u2026 Wikipedia\nJefferson County Board of Education (Alabama) \u2014 The Jefferson County School System is the second largest public school system in the U.S. State of Alabama and serves all of Jefferson County, Alabama except for the city of Birmingham which is served by Birmingham City Schools. 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+{"text":"Frequently misquoted and almost as frequently mis-attributed, William Congreve's lines \"Musick has Charms to sooth a savage Breast, To soften Rocks, or bend a knotted Oak\" from his play The Mourning Bride of 1697, is probably the most famous example of attributing powers to music for which there is scant (if any) evidence. Ever since Congreve (and, indeed, for centuries before) writers have been happy to claim all sorts of special benefits from hearing or from playing music. Some are true, some understate the case and others, like Congreve, have a grain of truth but in reality go far beyond what is credible. We see this sort of thing today in those unthinking commentators who suggest that \"classical music\" and \"beauty\" are synonymous, and that listening to it is a way of stifling aggression.\nThere is no doubt in my mind that some music does have the power to soothe a savage breast, and that it can induce a sense of calm and well-being (much as a drop of alcohol on a flight can do). But, just as with alcohol, too much \u2013 or the wrong type - can have entirely the opposite effect. Does anyone feel calm and unaggressive after Prokofiev's Scythian Suite? One orchestral percussion player told me how he and his colleagues used to get so annoyed by the pre-recorded pre-concert injunction in the hall in which they performed to \"sit back, relax and enjoy the music\" that, when the performance included The Rite of Spring they felt induced to do their bit with excessive savagery.\nMusic has, undoubtedly, powers over the emotions to those receptive to it (and some tests seem to show that it can also trigger behavioural differences among those who attempt to resist it), and its effects can be observed for a period after the music has ceased to play. But, at heart, music is a transitory experience for all, and no matter how frequently we revisit it, I remain unconvinced that any emotional or behavioural consequence of exposure to music can be anything other than temporary.\nWhich is not to say that we should not use music as a tool of peace and good-will; it is unusually well-equipped to have an effect in those areas. That certainly was the thinking behind last night's concert in Palmyra, the Syrian city scene of such appalling barbarism and unbelievable inhumanity in recent months when it came under the control of that pagan and sub-human organisation calling itself The Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant. According to Russia Today, \"A Russian symphony orchestra led by Valery Gergiev has given a unique performance in ancient Palmyra, recently liberated from Islamic State militants. The concert was devoted to the victims of extremists, and intends to instil hope that peace can triumph over war and terrorism\". It went on to quote the Russian Minister of Foreign Affairs; \"The concert in Palmyra is a highly spiritual response to those who wanted to destroy Syria, split the country along national and religious lines, and deprive it of Christian of principles.\"\nThat struck me as a lovely idea; to counter the bestiality and brutality of ISIL with the brilliance and beauty of classical music. And while the animal brutes of ISIL have breasts of such savagery that only total oblivion could ever cure them, the power of music to heal, albeit temporarily, the deep psychological wounds of those directly affected should not be understated. According to the BBC's John Simpson, the performance was given by members of the Mariinsky Theatre Orchestra to an audience mainly comprising Russian and Iraqi soldiers, while Russia Today observed that the music performed was by Bach, Prokofiev and Schchedrin.\nBut we live in a world where even the most generous and brave acts are tainted by political scepticism and national posturing. The New York Times interwove its report of the concert with gruesome details of carnage elsewhere in Syria, implying that the concert was inappropriate while war still raged, and even as John Simpson eloquently recounted the event, he also reported a reaction from some European governments and observers that the concert was, far from being a genuine attempt to use music to negate some of the extremes of physical and mental violence experienced in Palmyra, a bid by President Putin of Russia to highlight Russia's military supremacy. Steve Rosenberg, the BBC's Moscow correspondent put it in a nutshell: \"Moscow will be hoping that images of its classical musicians in Syria will reinforce the message that Russia is a force for good. But Western officials remain suspicious of Russia's intentions. Moscow has faced accusations that it has not done enough to rein in Syrian government forces. The Russians deny that and accuse America of not using its influence with the Syrian opposition to halt the fighting\".\nThe BBC website added this suggestive caption to this image;\n\"Cellist Sergei Roldugin is a close friend of Vladimir Putin\"\nSo what, then, was this concert? Was it a genuine expression of peace and hope using music as a symbolic representation of the triumph of civilization over barbarism, or a cynical political statement using Russian musicians as symbolic representatives of a military super-power in an aggressive piece of international posturing?\nFrankly, whatever the West may think of the Russian government of President Putin, I have nothing but praise for anyone who, like William Congreve over 300 years ago, believes that music can \"sooth a savage breast\" despite all the evidence to the contrary.\nPosted by Marc Rochester at 9:19 AM\nMusic can never sooth the savage beast when heinous crimes and the murders of thousands of civilians are concerned. As if one pathetic performance by a group of so called russian musicians can whitewash the murders and displacement of hundreds of thousands of innocent civilians caught in the crossfire in Syria. Weren't those russian musicians also paid with monies stashed away in BVI or Cayman Islands accounts by Putin and his minion Roldugin, as exposed by the Panama Papers? How does that exercise in Russian HYPOCRISY sooth the savage beast?\nHow does music trigger behavioural differences in those who attempt to resist it? What do you mean? What kind of behavioural differences?\nAs an earlier blog post observed, playing classical music in public subways has been shown to deter vandalism. There is, in fact, a great deal of evidence, much of it drawn from legitimate academic studies, to show that music can change behaviour amongst those who may not choose to seek music out; in other words, amongst those who would normally resist listening to classical music. Behavioural differences include a dissipation of aggression and a more responsive approach to society. Does that help?\nAre you talking about the experiments in which classical music was played in areas where gangs and \"yobs\" tended to gather ? It was found that vandalism was reduced, but wasn't that due to the gangs not liking the music, and so dispersing and congregating somewhere else ? This would be displacement rather than dissipation of aggression.\nYes, it helps to an extent. Ideally classical music should sooth our inner demons. But, can it also feed them? Case in point, Hannibal Lecter chewed off the face of his guard as he listened to Bach's Goldberg variations. Interestingly, classical music functioned as an foil to psychopathology in Silence of the Lambs. So actively resisting classical music may actually sooth the savage beast in that case.\nDo note that Silence of the Lambs is not a documentary - it is a horror fantasy. Unlikely to be an accurate source of insight into human responses to music.\nI think the question we should ask is not whether playing music can or cannot \"sooth emotions\", but what was the intention of performing the music.\nSpontaneous acts by individuals - such as the cellist of Sarajevo, or Rostropovich at the Berlin Wall, or Karim Wasfi recently playing cello at a bomb site in Baghdad (is it only cellists that do this ???) - can be a way for a person to reach out through music to those who are horrified or traumatised by what has happened.\nFlying in an orchestra and instructing them to perform a concert seems a different thing. More of a statement by the person that issued the instruction.\nAnd since that person is Putin, the concert feels a bit more like a demonstration of power than a demonstration of human emotion.\nOr am I missing the caring, conciliatory side of Mr Putin.\nNo. I think you hit the nail on the head. Flying in an orchestra to perform at the ruins of Palmyra smacks of an attempt to replicate what Russia did during the Nazi seige of Leningrad in 1942. Russia is known for using music to shore up morale in the military. Only this time, it is done to distract the people from the realities of the deepening recession in Russia. And, the musicians aren't starving like those who performed the Leningrad Symphony in 1942. Ironically, it is Putin's comrade in graft, Rodulgin, who is taking centrestage. As if anyone can forget he has billions stashed away in offshore accounts, with Putin's \"Papal\" blessing. Frankly I am quite impressed by Roldulgin's ability to multi-task. Tax evasion can be a full-time job, and yet he is able to juggle that with his \"front\" as a musician. Putin actually flew in a bunch of reporters from Moscow to Syria to cover the event. Not a cheap PR campaign. Those criminal proceeds in offshore accounts must have come in handy.\nThanks for the reminder that Hannibal Lecter is fictional. It's Anthony Hopkins played him so convincingly..and my question remains - Do people who deliberately resist listening to classical music and switch to hard rock, become psychotic? Or display behavioural aggression?\nWhy has Dr Rochester stopped writing his blog? Especially when seems there are more comments now to his columns, than there are columns. Indeed the comments seem to have taken on a life of their own. But the anonymous writers need fodder. So please keep writing, and keeping musicians honest. The latter is such a tough job.\nReflecting Dr Rochester's bus-driving past, I think there tends to be big gaps between his articles, and then several arrive in quick succession. Perhaps he only writes when something moves him to do so. Mind the gap !\nHow about the Panama Papers and the role of crooked Russian musicians moonlighting as tax evaders and money launderers? And are SSO's russian and ukrainian musicians involved in this conspiracy? That should be an interesting subject.\nWhat a relief there has been no mention of the Singapore Stupid Orchestra for months by sycophantic reviewers like chang tou liang. Long may it last. If only the SSO collapsed n is obliterated from the face of the earth. Tis'a consummation devoutly to be wished.\nMarc Rochester 09 July, 2016 17:04\nNo it's not, and this blog is not a forum for illiterate imbeciles who believe that the cloak of anonymity gives them free rein to utter their nasty thoughts. I only expunge comments which are offensive to the majority of my literate and sensible readers - who come, I have to warn you, from much further afield than Singapore. If you have a hate against Singapore or its musical life, kindly direct it elsewhere please, otherwise confine your comments to responses to what is published on this blog. - Dr Marc","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
+{"text":"a marketing consultancy specializing in brand strategy, research, and training\nPass the Secret Sauce: Winning Strategies for Senior Marketers Coming this Fall\nBy: Lauren Stradley\nClimbing to the top of the marketing hill isn't easy. And staying there can be even more precarious. We know, because a big part of what we do is to help clients navigate the complex, ever-changing marketing landscape.\nConfronted with a dizzying array of new platforms and constant content consumption, how do we, as successful senior marketers, cut through the din?\nNoetic is built upon a research-based approach that uncovers insights clients need to overcome challenges and achieve goals. It's the heart of what we do\u2014with every client success strengthening our heartbeat. This past year, we set out to do more.\nIntroducing Jack and Jill\nWe launched an effort to augment our focus on company, branding and marketing objectives to include guiding marketing leaders to overcome professional challenges. We applied our IDEA methodology to help senior marketers elevate their careers. That project became a book. And, we couldn't be more excited to announce the upcoming launch of Jack and Jill Went Up the Hill: How Senior Marketers Scale the Heights Through Art and Science, authored by our fearless leader, Nancie.\nTo write Jack and Jill, Nancie drew upon her own 25-year career and insights from Noetic's work with big brands like Nike, Wells Fargo, and Discovery Channel. She reached deep into our team's networks to get firsthand best practices and lessons, and conducted in-depth interviews with more than 50 of the world's best marketers, learning exactly what makes them tick, what drives them, and what helps them stay relevant.\nThe Secret Sauce of Marketing Leaders\nNancie found many commonalities among these marketing rock stars, including an elusive \"secret sauce\"\u2014the uncanny ability to combine what she calls the \"art\" and \"science\" of their discipline. Every tidbit\u2014often straight from the marketers' mouths\u2014is \"news you can use,\" including activation-ready insights and tools, like The Fierce Four, The Noetic 3c, and The Noetic 4p. Jack and Jill also offers a toolkit, featuring a powerful assessment to determine where readers are on the marketing art\/science continuum and help them ascend from there.\nThe book is just several months from release, and we can't wait to share it with you. In the meantime, visit our Jack and Jill page and follow us on Facebook and Twitter to get inspired and start exploring the key themes and career-altering advice of Jack and Jill!\nWhat's Your 2021 Game Plan? Hindsight is 2020.\nGuy Kawasaki: Three Things for Marketers to do in 2021\nMarketing Leader Q&A Series\nCSR: Does Your Brand Take a Stand?\nNoetic Consulting LLC\n4800 Hampden Lane, Suite 200\nBethesda MD 20814\nhello@noeticconsultants.com\nView noeticconsultants's profile on Facebook\nView @NoeticConsults's profile on Twitter\nView noeticconsultants's profile on Instagram\n\u00a9 2002\u20132020 Noetic Consulting, LLC | Privacy Policy","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
+{"text":"Liverpool Car 447, Pier Head\nOur winter view of Liverpool from the Pier Head landing stage is a good example of the card maker, in this case J.Valentine of Dundee, modifying an existing view to form a seasonal card, by the addition of 'snow'. The summer version is based on the original photograph, number 03403, but even this has been retouched, the girder bridge in the background being removed for some reason. There were various versions of this card, more or less retouched, and it was available for many years. Until very recent times, the old established firm of J.Valentine produced thousands of different postcard views from the UK, some parts of Europe, and numerous parts of the British Empire or Commonwealth.\nThe original photograph was taken in the summer of 1903, before the Royal Liver Building was constructed, and shows trams in St. Nicholas Place. Across the back of the scene runs the Liverpool Overhead Railway, the station to the right being Pier Head.\nThe open top trams in the rear (170 and 328) were the standard type at the time, but the car in the foreground, 447, was brand new. It was built in March 1903, being one of a batch of twelve constructed by the Corporation themselves at their Lambeth Road works and numbered 442-447 and 478-483. The electrical equipment and 6 foot wheelbase Brill 21E trucks were supplied by Dick Kerr of Preston. The livery was crimson lake and cream.\nUnlike the rest of the fleet at that time, numbers 442 to 447 were actually built complete with enclosed upper decks, using top covers which were designed by C.R.Bellamy. When first built the roofs had canvas sides, but by the end of 1903 they had been upgraded by Dick Kerr to have glass windows.\nThe Liverpool trams of this era also carried a 'plough' type lifeguard designed by Bellamy, of which the Board of Trade disapproved but allowed at the Corporation's own risk. They remained in use in the city for over twenty years.\nCharles Revill Bellamy was the manager of Liverpool Corporation Tramways from 5th. January 1899 until his death on 23rd. December 1905. 'Bellamy' roofs were fitted to the rest of the Liverpool fleet, 76 percent being completed by 1906. Similar roofs, constructed by Dick Kerr and others, were supplied to many other tramways throughout Britain.","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
+{"text":"Senator Claire McCaskill (D): Who was in charge at the Attorney General's office? \u2013 Press Q and A \u2013 November 1, 2018\nPosted by Michael Bersin in Claire McCaskill, US Senate\nAttorney General, Claire McCaskill, Josh Hawley, Kansas City Star, missouri, U.S. Senate, William Webster\nSenator Claire McCaskill (D) [2018 file photo].\nSenator Claire McCaskill (D) made a brief statement on a press phone call this morning in response to newspaper reports of political consultants operating in and dictating operations in Attorney General Josh Hawley's official state office shortly after he took office in 2017. After her statement she took questions from the press.\nThe transcript of the press Q and A:\nQuestion: \u2026Hawley's defenders are saying that what he did wasn't out of the ordinary for an elected official. And that it's no different than you having political advisors on your campaign payroll as a sitting U.S. Senator and people on your campaign staff who work in your official office and vice versa. What would you say to that? What makes what he, what you understand that he did different?\nSenator Claire McCaskill (D): Well the fact that he is trying to say that shows such a lack judgment. My political consultants have never stepped foot in my official office. I wouldn't allow it. Um, we know, everyone on the staff knows you do not ever cross that line. Um, I think they're trying to confuse people. It is one thing, I'm not criticizing Josh Hawley hiring people in his official office that had worked with him on the campaign, although I might quarrel with somebody who graduated from law school in twenty-sixteen being qualified to take the very important job she did in what is a very large operating law firm. But, um, certainly he has the right to hire people that he thought were competent on his campaign to work in an official capacity.\nThat I not what he did here. He took political operatives and brought them inside the official office. That is illegal. Um, and, you know, the, if I started having meetings with my pollster or meetings with my political consultants in my official office I would expect there to be a criminal investigation.\nQuestion: \u2026Also, part of this is, um, you know, we have documents that show that public business was discussed on private e-mail, um, by some of, uh, the AG staffers and campaign, uh, consultants. Do you have any thoughts about that and the Sunshine Law [crosstalk] aspect of this?\nSenator McCaskill: So, I, I do, um, think that this, all of this sets a new standard for hypocrisy. Um, you know, you can go down the list of some of the hypocrisy, um, that Josh Hawley has shown, but, you know, whether it's him on election night proudly proclaiming to Missourians that th political consultants are gonna be banned, that this is a new era of, of clean, ethical transparent government, um, and then his political consultants were in his official office within ten days of him putting his hand on the Bible and taking the oath of office. Um, and, you know, him taking, uh, lobbyist plane rides and him not doing anything on ethics reform. And, obviously, him having two standards in terms of the Sunshine Law, one for, um, his, his political enemies or others and then he has another standard, um, whether it's the Confide investigation or whether, uh, his selective responses to Sunshine requests to his office. Um, and all of that is troubling. He lacks transparency, the hypocrisy, he's supposed to be enforcing the Sunshine Law, and he does sham Sunshine investigations and tries to avoid, uh, having any of his business of his office ever available to the public. But, that's not as concerning as the incredible lack of judgment of bringing political operatives inside the official office to run the day to day operation, uh, which, to promote him. Um, and that, that is a huge red line that he has crossed. And that is, uh, why I am on this call this morning because the facts are so clear that he crossed that line.\nQuestion: Yeah, um, maybe I'm missing something, but the way I'm reading the statute is that you can't use taxpayer resources for political purposes. But it sounds like he's using campaign resources for taxpayer purposes. Just looking at it[crosstalk] plainly, so\u2026\nSenator McCaskill: He is, well here's, let me make sure that you understand. He is, every member of his staff is a taxpayer resource. Every e-mail they read from his political operatives is using taxpayer resources. When political operatives are in official meetings giving direction, talking about punch lists that is a political operation that he is bringing his state staff to deal with. He is having the political operatives run the taxpayer operated operation. So he is bending taxpayer resources to his political will. That is using taxpayer resources for political purposes. It may not be a copy machine where he's copying flyers, but it is just as significant and, frankly, in some ways more insidious because he has turned official resources into a political operation. That's what violates, uh, not only good judgment, not only does it disappoint Missourians about what the Attorney General's office is supposed to be, but I believe it crosses the line in terms of the law.\nQuestion: \u2026I was around during the [William] Webster years, you don't have to tell me that stuff. Okay, so here's my question, what happens now? What do you want to happen now? Do you expect to run ads highlighting this? Is, I mean, how do you explain this to the average voter?\nSenator McCaskill: Well, hopefully, um, the press coverage of this will do some of that. Obviously it's very late in the campaign, it's very difficult for us to, uh, change, uh, any of our paid communications in the campaign, uh, on the Thursday before the election. Um, I'm assuming that the people who have jurisdiction over this, uh, that would investigate this read the papers like everyone else. I would be very surprised if they're not having meetings about it this morning.\nQuestion: You're referring to the FBI?\nSenator McCaskill: I'm referring to anybody who has criminal jurisdiction. Um, you know, I , I am, uh, I would expect if, if I were ever to bring, when I was State Auditor, if I were to bring my political consultants in to the State Auditor's office and have them start sending e-mails to my employees, giving them directions, talking about budget and staffing issues, how the office should be organized, I would expect to get a call from somebody investigating that, uh, within ten minutes. Because I would assume people who worked for me would have the ethical backbone to stand up and go, wait a minute, we can't be taking direction from Washington, D.C. political consultants. This is a taxpayer office that is supposed to be off limits to politics. So, I'm, I don't know what will happen. Um, but I felt strongly enough about what bad judgment this shows that I wanted to make sure I laid out the facts as I would look at them if I were investigating this.\nQuestion: [\u2026.] I know you had tried to get him to investigate the Veritas secret undercover, you know, video. Well apparently the Democratic candidate for, in, for Governor of Florida just ran into the same issue. Veritas just released some videos late yesterday and are doing so today on undercover stuff they did with his [inaudible]. Um, any thoughts? I mean, just, is this something that you're gonna [crosstalk]\u2026\nSenator McCaskill: Well, once again, I think this is really, and this may be because of my training as a prosecutor \u2013 unlike Josh Hawley I've actually been in a criminal courtroom and handled, uh, so many criminal jury trials and understand inherently how this stuff works. Um, my problem with Veritas was violation of the Merchandise Practices Act in that they are a 501(c)(3) that is raising money in Missouri. And you cannot use fraud as part of your effort to raise money. And the fraud that was committed by Veritas was them fraudulently representing who they were, embedding themselves in our campaign over weeks and months, and most importantly, accessing proprietary information in our computers. Almost twenty hours. This, um, this fraudster was in our computers. W obviously know he wasn't in our computers to help us. And our appeal to Josh Hawley's office for some kind of independent look at this under the Merchandise Practices Act, is imagine if this happened in, in somebody's private office if one of their competitors posed as someone else and came in and began working as a low level employee and then got into their computers and with access to proprietary information. Josh Hawley would have five press conferences in one day if that happened. Meanwhile, this happened and, um, he has the Attorney General's office refer it to his campaign. And he uses this fraud to promote his campaign and raise money with it.\nSo, that's the concern. It cannot be a new normal. And I would feel just as strongly about this if some kind of idiot did this thinking they were helping me. You can't do this. This can't be accepted as, as normal. Um, and, it's just, it's not right. And it's a violation of the law. Um, I'm sure they will stall on the complaint that's been filed until after the election. But, um, I'm, I certainly intend, um, to ask the lawyers we've hired to handle this, to pursue this because I'd like to clean this up for the next governor's race or the next U.S. Senate race, regardless which side you're on. Whether you're a Democrat or Republican, I don't think anybody think this is the right way for us to engage in political discourse in this country.\nQuestion: \u2026Josh Hawley has obviously worked very hard to make this election a referendum, uh, on your position as the Democrat in a, opposed to the president and, uh, a referendum on your time in office. Do you think there's enough time left in the election given this new information and, and the importance that, that you suggest, um, to, uh, change the trajectory of this race in terms of making it a referendum on Josh Hawley and do you believe there are enough undecided voters out there that could sway some, some folks in your favor?\nSenator McCaskill: I will just tell you this. This race is flat tied. Uh, and if anybody tries to work you guys over the next few days, convincing you that it is decided one way or another, uh, you should tell 'em to pound sand. Uh, there is nobody who knows how this race is gonna turn out.\nSo, I think every vote matters. That's the way I've campaigned. My campaign schedule has been, um, something that, uh, I don't think Josh Hawley has ever even envisioned working that hard. Um, and I'm going to continue to work that hard, uh, all the way to the very last moment. And I think my record shows I'm a bipartisan senator, that I have common sense, that I just don't stand on one side of the room and say the other side stinks. Uh, I try to work cooperatively and find common ground. And I think right now our country needs people who want to knit it back together rather than tear it apart. Uh, that's my closing argument to Missourians. I know that, um, I've got some warts but, um, they're in plain view.\nWhat I really think this incident with Josh Hawley shows I that Missourians don't know him well enough. There's obviously things that we don't know and I think, um, I hope voters think about that before they cast their ballot on Tuesday.\nQuestion: \u2026I want to be clear of what you're actually, what you're actually talking, what you actually want us to do here today. Are you calling for a, him to actually, um, uh, appoint a special prosecutor or special counsel to look into that as you did in the previous episode? And secondly, it seemed to me the way you described it early on, with the eye of the prosecutor, there could be Federal Election Commission, uh, issues involved here. Are you, thought about it, are you going to file an FEC complaint?\nSenator McCaskill: Uh, I haven't thought about that part of it 'cause the, the facts struck me so clearly as, um, something so similar to what Bill Webster was convicted of. That was using his official office to promote him politically. Um, he pled guilty to two felonies in that regard. And I, that's what I, I focused on the facts as it relates to, uh, what occurred. Um, and, and this is different, Josh Hawley doesn't have jurisdiction over this. So there would be no role of Josh Hawley's office in this investigation. He does have jurisdiction over the Merchandise Practices Act. That's the difference in the two situations.\nSo, in the Merchandise Practices Act we had to ask for a special prosecutor because we weren't confident that Josh Hawley was going to take a hard look at what happened.\nUh, in this instance there are both state and federal, um, prosecutors that have jurisdiction over the utilization of state resources for political purposes. And, um, that's who I think would, would need to take a look at it.\nQuestion: With what you described earlier would that not be potentially a, uh, an illegal in-kind contribution of use of state resources into a federal campaign? Therefore [crosstalk]\u2026\nSenator McCaskill: Well there's no question, yeah, if, if you want to look at it from that perspective the state employees were contributing to his political effort. Um, now he tried to convince Missourians he was not interested in running for higher office which I thought, which is particularly, I mean it's just, frankly, unbelievable how easy it is for this guy to look in the camera and say stuff. I mean, look at the video of what he said on election night. He would not allow political consultants in the door anymore. Well it turns out they had an office in his official office. I mean, that, I don't know, literally if they had an office, but, to make the point I say clearly he didn't mean any of that. And just like him saying he had no intentions of running until he was talked into it. They were promoting him nationally within a week, within thirty days, within ten days of him taking office. Now why in the world were you getting promoted nationally unless you already have your eye on the [inaudible]. So, you know, this just really exposes, this really pulls back the curtain as to, um, how willing he is to, with all sincerity, and, frankly, he's good at it. This is a guy who's very polished, um, and slick. And, and try and convince Missourians that he somehow is not political, uh, I've never heard of anybody in statewide office or in any important job in politics having DC political consultants in their office holding meetings within ten days of being, taking office. Um, so, it is, it is astounding to me. There may be FEC violations here, but, um, I would more focus on the, the line that was crossed in terms of using state resources illegally to promote someone politically.\nQuestion: \u2026Your staff is here, that's on your senate staff is here now. They're all on vacation. Several have told me last night. But isn't there also an issue involved in here in sort of that as a tradition and also kind of as a practice for the power of incumbency, comingling people on senate staffs, uh, during campaign crunch season like now, probably paid by the campaign, but, you know, a lot of whom still then go back to the campaign staff? Even though you're following the letter of the law, uh, in that circumstance, isn't that sort of breaking the spirit of the law to in the sense\u2026?\nSenator McCaskill: No. No. [Name], there's the law. And you would not believe the lengths we go through to make sure we follow every letter of the law. We do not allow, we won't even allow state staff to pick me up at airports if I'm making one political stop. Um, if, if I fly from, you know, for one appearance from St. Louis down to Springfield, um, and it's, there's gonna be anything political there we won't even let state staff give me a ride. Um, we are very, very careful because we know what the law is.\nSo, it is not the same. You can't just do all this together. I mean, to try and equate someone taking a vacation, not getting paid, um, by the campaign but using their own time to be of assistance is not the same as having political consultants directing your state staff. That is apples and oranges. One is illegal and the other is not.\nQuestion: \u2026So, as you look ahead to the final few days of this campaign as this revelation about Attorney General Hawley's office and the way he ran it, is this the main thing that you plan to talk about with voters across the state as you campaign in the final days, or, or, are you going to be focusing on other issues.\nSenator McCaskill: No. I'm gonna, I'm gonna focus on, um, you know, to the extent that I've focused on his support of dark money, and, um, money behind the curtain and that he thinks that's fine for our Democracy. Missourians have had a front row seat to how ugly and, and hard it is to separate fact from fiction when you have so many people funding ads that are anonymous. Uh, and I'm going to talk about that, but I'm mostly going to talk about health care and Medicare and Social Security and what matters to them. And my ability to get things done and not just yell at the other side. Um, Josh Hawley has decided in this campaign that he is gonna win or lose by being one hundred percent never wavering from President Trump. Ever wavering. Not on [inaudible], not on anything. In fact, he's actually said that. He disagrees with nothing the president has done.\nI'm running this campaign on, um, I'm not here to fight the president I'm here to fight for you. And if that means I agree with the president, great, if not, um, I'm not afraid. And, um, the same thing goes for big pharma, uh, the same thing goes for Chuck Schumer, um, I am not afraid of any of those folks. And that's my closing argument. Is that I'm gonna look after Missouri and not a political party and not any individual.\nJosh Hawley (r): Who did you say was in charge at the Attorney General's office? (October 31, 2018)\nSen. Claire McCaskill (D): Who was in charge at the Attorney General's office? (November 1, 2018)\n7 thoughts on \"Senator Claire McCaskill (D): Who was in charge at the Attorney General's office? \u2013 Press Q and A \u2013 November 1, 2018\"\nPingback: Josh Hawley (r): Ask me no more questions, I'll tell you no more lies\u2026 | Show Me Progress\nPingback: Josh Hawley (r): afraid of playing softball with Chuck Todd | Show Me Progress\nPingback: You think maybe he's just waiting for the subpoena? | Show Me Progress\nPingback: About those political consultants running the Attorney General's office\u2026 | Show Me Progress\nPingback: Josh, we barely knew ya | Show Me Progress\nPingback: Anyone remember Bill Webster (r)? | Show Me Progress\nPingback: Josh Hawley (r): Liar | Show Me Progress","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
+{"text":"Pakistan observes Air Force Day to pay homage to martyrs of PAF\nImportant News Pakistan\nIslamabad (Web Desk): The 54th Pakistan Air Force day is being celebrated across the country today (Saturday) to pay homage to the martyrs of PAF in defending the country during the Indo-Pak War in 1965.\nA notable event of the war was that Pakistan Air Force flying ace Muhammad Mahmood Alam (MM Alam) shot down five planes of Indian Air Force (IAF) in less than a minute.\nWith just two days in the war, PAF fighters had shot down 50 Indian aircraft.\nAddressing the Martyrs' Day ceremony at Air Headquarters in Islamabad, Chief of Air Staff, Air Chief Marshal Mujahid Anwar Khan says Pakistan Air Force is ever ready to protect the blue skies of the country.\nHe said PAF's glaring victory against the enemy during Operation Swift Retort showed to the world the capability of our Shaheens.\nThe Air Chief said sacrifices of our forefathers demand unity and patriotism amongst us.\nTalking about the Kashmir issue, he said we stand shoulder to shoulder with our Kashmiri brothers in their struggle for the right of self-determination.\nLater, Air Chief Marshal Mujahid Anwar Khan laid floral wreath and offered Fateha at the Martyrs' Monument.\nPrincipal Staff Officers and a large number of Airmen attended the ceremony.\nMeanwhile, a wreath laying ceremony was also held at the grave of country's youngest Nishan-e-Haider Pilot Officer Rashid Minhas Shaheed in Karachi in In connection with PAF Day.\nA PAF Contingent led by Air Vice Marshal Ghulam Abbas Ghumman, Air Officer Commanding, Southern Air Command, offered 'Fateha' and laid floral wreath at the grave of Rashid Minhas Shaheed on behalf of the Air Chief.\nThe contingent paid homage to the young pilot who sacrificed his life in the defence of motherland, showing exceptional courage and determination.\nTagged pakistan air force paf neo tv\n12:35 PM, 6 Jan, 2022\nKashmiris observe Right to Self-Determination Day","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
+{"text":"James Taylor And His All-Star Band with Special Guest Jackson Browne to Play Dickies Arena on May 18\nTickets on sale Friday, Feb. 7 at Ticketmaster.com\nFORT WORTH \u2013 Legendary singer\/songwriter James Taylor and his All-Star Band with special guest Rock and Roll Hall of Famer Jackson Browne and his band are coming to Dickies Arena on MAY 18 for one intimate and memorable night! Tickets go on sale Friday, February 7 at 10 am at Ticketmaster.com and make a great Valentine's Day gift.\nAs a recording and touring artist, James Taylor has touched people with his warm baritone voice and distinctive style of guitar-playing for more than 40 years, while setting a precedent to which countless young musicians have aspired. Inducted into both the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and the Songwriters Hall of Fame, the world-renowned artist has sold more than 100 million albums since he was first signed by The Beatles to their Apple Records label, won multiple Grammy Awards, and has earned multiple gold, platinum, or multi-platinum awards. His Greatest Hits album alone sold more than 10 million copies. In 2015, James was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom. In 2016, he was a recipient of the Kennedy Center Honor.\nTaylor has two exciting new projects that will be released in early 2020. The first is an Audible Original spoken-word memoir titled Break Shot, a personal and authentic audio-only memoir detailing Taylor's first 21 years. Taylor will also be releasing a new album of standards on Fantasy Records.\nMore than just a best-selling artist and legendary singer-songwriter, Jackson Browne has become an institution in American music selling over 18 million albums in the United States.\nTICKETS ON SALE FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 7 AT 10 AM AT TICKETMASTER.COM\nAbout Dickies Arena\nDickies Arena is a 14,000 seat, spectacular multipurpose venue located adjacent to the Will Rogers Memorial Center campus in Fort Worth, Texas. The facility is the result of a pioneering public-private partnership between the City of Fort Worth, Tarrant County, the State of Texas and a group of private-sector participants, including foundations, individuals and organizations. The arena is owned by the City of Fort Worth and managed by the not-for-profit operating entity, Trail Drive Management Corp. (TDMC). The state-of-the-art arena hosts concerts, sporting events and family entertainment, and is home to Fort Worth Stock Show rodeo performances. For more information, visit www.DickiesArena.com.","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
+{"text":"Local elections: The death knell for Lutfur Rahman's era as Labour paints Tower Hamlets Council red\nAlex Shaw\nDelighted Labour councillors in Tower Hamlets. Pic: Alex Shaw\nThe Labour Party painted Tower Hamlets red in the local elections, winning 42 out of 45 council seats.\nThey secured nearly one in every two votes (46.1 per cent) to control the borough in a result sounding the death knell for the corrupt Lutfur Rahman era.\nThe council took until 2am on Saturday to declare its results \u2014 the last in England \u2014 which saw the Conservatives win two seats and the People's Alliance one.\nLabour's John Biggs also returned as mayor for a second term with almost 73pc of votes cast.\nSpeaking at the count in the ExCeL centre \u2014 staged outside the borough for security reasons \u2014 Biggs said he hoped the victory signalled an end to the \"divisive, inward looking\" politics of the past, where he first took office after the High Court overturned Rahman's victory in the corrupt 2014 election.\nHis party increased their share of seats by 20 from 2014, stealing 18 from now-dissolved rivals Tower Hamlets First.\nThe count at the cavernous exhibition hall began eight hours after polls closed, owing to pilot scheme to tackle voter fraud.\nMeasures included random identity checks and inspecting ballot boxes to make sure the number of ballot papers matched votes cast against the electoral register.\nFalse names on the register, 'doctored' ballots and voter intimidation at the polls in 2014 were unearthed the following year by an election court banning Rahman from office.\nHis former cabinet member, Rabina Khan (People's Alliance), lost her mayoral bid on Friday but retained her seat at Shadwell ward with 1,565 votes.\nElsewhere, Tory group chairman Peter Golds was re-elected for Island Gardens, alongside party colleague Andrew Wood (Canary Wharf).\nBy 11pm, with nine wards still to declare, Labour readied for victory, having won 22 of the 23 seats needed for a majority.\nSome party supporters called it a night, along with Aspire's Oliur Rahman, who later lost his seat in Stepney Green to Labour's Motin Uz-Zaman by three times as many votes.\nIt took another three hours for the final ward, Whitechapel, to declare, much to the relief of a hoarse returning officer, Will Tuckley.\nCouncil homes to be built on site of former Bow children's home","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
+{"text":"Musings from Molineux\nMy take on the goings-on at Wolverhampton Wanderers. The revolution is being televised\u2026but here's a blog for good measure.\nHow Do You Sum That Up?\nMay 21, 2019 May 21, 2019 \/ gullykular\nThis might sound strange, but I've not been looking forward to this one. I've been mulling over just how I attempt to sum up the season that has just passed and I've come up pretty blank so far. Well, it's pretty fair to say we've not experienced anything like this, so maybe it's fair to be at a bit of a loss right now. Let's just take a look at all of the things we've witnessed for the first time in the Premier League though, just to paint a little bit of a picture of what I mean:\nWolverhampton Wanderers purchased the third most capped Portuguese international in history\nWolverhampton Wanderers were the first team to take points off Manchester City, who subsequently dropped only 16 points all season on their way to clinching the title\nWolverhampton Wanderers broke the record for starting the same line-up in consecutive games from the start of a season\nWolverhampton Wanderers beat all of Liverpool, Chelsea, Tottenham, Arsenal and Manchester United this season\nA Wolverhampton Wanderers player scored a hat-trick in a Premier League game at Molineux\nWolverhampton Wanderers reached their first FA Cup Semi-Final for 21 years\nWolverhampton Wanderers won their first game at Wembley since 1988\nWolverhampton Wanderers broke their transfer record on two separate occasions this season, purchasing a player for more than \u00a330 million\nEvery home league game at Molineux exceeded 30,000 spectators\nWolverhampton Wanderers finished 7th in the league, their highest finish since the 1979\/80 season\nWolverhampton Wanderers qualified for European football for the first time in 39 years\nIf that all feels a little bit surreal, when you condense it into such a list, it's actually mind-boggling when you realise this all happened over the course of one campaign. As a newly-promoted club. It's not always the natural instinct to step back and take stock of such situations. We're on a ride that we're thoroughly enjoying, that is creeping higher and higher and higher. Peeping outside of the carriage to see how far the drop is could be a little disconcerting. I mean, clubs wait years to experience such a roll call of success and achievement and some still never realise those ambitions. Hell, this felt like a pipe dream to most of us, even as recently as Fosun taking over the club,\nBut we've gone from 0-100 in no time at all, the kind of progression many may even call out as unsustainable. The splashing of cash is no newfangled approach to taking on the Premier League challenge, but it has its pitfalls, which have been well documented down on the River Thames. What you really need is a solid foundation of nous, work ethic and all-round quality in a number of areas. This is why we're in good hands.\nFrom social media, to the medical department and on the pitch itself, Wolves have been near class-leading. This is why we should all be believing the hype where this club is concerned. We have improved dramatically in pretty much every single way. I mean, I noticed that they even take card payments in the family enclosure these days.\nBut football clubs are driven by the football and I know for sure if we'd been a more functional, less erudite footballing side, there would have been a little less love in the air. The fact we have such an easy way about us, with style, panache and a whole lot of substance too just creates a sense that we may just be the most content fans in the country.\nI am beginning to feel a little like a broken record now, but this is all strung nicely together by Nuno Espirito Santo. This man, with the velvety voice, the wisdom beard and the commanding presence who oozes confidence and charisma has taken this club into the stratosphere on his and Fosun's shoulders. It's never easy to quite put your finger on what it is about a person in the limelight the way he is that encapsulates the masses. I'm sure Nuno himself doesn't really know, especially because he's not one to actively seek publicity. The training ground, the dugout, the technical area are his sanctuaties, and have been for years given his existence generally as a reserve goalkeeper. It's an awkward existence for a footballer and there have been many occasions of Nuno behaving in such a way when questioned int he media. Yet still, he seems to mesmerize.\nHis players also, seem to be under his spell. I'm loathe to reduce the analysis of this side to numbers and there are plenty of people who will be doing that, but the 3-4-3 and the 3-5-2 isn't even half the story. We've rightly grabbed the plaudits from all and sundry this season for the bewitching way with which we spring into attack, but all good sides lay their foundations at the back. If anything, the goals scored column is the one that requires attention, ahead of the goals against field.\nAt which point we should probably start to look ahead, to gaze into the distance at what lies on the horizon for this famous old club. I liken our journey to climbing a mountain, where you may find a number of beauty spots on the way. I feel like Jeff Shi, Laurie Dalrymple and Nuno are all leading us skywatds, and while we may stop to bask in the glory of the view, they keep foraging their way forward. You really do get the feeling they will not stop until they plant that gold and black flag into the ground at the summit.\nShi has spoken of the 'natural progression' of stepping into Europe for the first time in generations next season. Yes, it extends our season beyond anything we've experienced before. Yes, we'll be clocking up air miles, contesting the dreaded Thursday-Sunday schedule. But he's right \u2013 I mean what else should we be aspiring to? Manchester United have had a dog of a season and there was still a nine-point gap between us and them. The Top Six will be the toughest nut to crack for Fosun, as it should be, but Europe will provide an exciting subplot to it all.\nOne thing we can firmly discount, is that we are not Burnley. This is not a team susceptible to any lack of ambition with regards to this competition and the absolute aim for the Premier League must be another Top 7 finish. Having beaten each and every one of the European finalists this season, who's to say we can't make significant progress? Squad depth will need to be addressed, but players like Ivan Cavaleiro, Adama Traore and Helder Costa are all capable enough of contributing across each of the arenas we'll be operating in next season and the more they play, the more we will get out of them I suggest.\nWhat we cannot afford to disrupt is the equilibrium that clearly exists between all in the squad. We've had our fingers burnt by comparatively big-name, big-money signings in the past and there is always the potential for a signing to derail the kind of harmony we have, fostered over months and years. I have no doubt that the recruitment team will have done their due diligence on any potential targets, but this is the real beauty of players like Raul Jimenez and Joao Moutinho \u2013 they comply with the 'No D***head' policy that is clearly in place.\nEuropean football isn't just about the football of course. This is the next stage of the Wolves branding exercise, something that is already bearing fruit. I have spoken of my travels with work and the high esteem the club appears to be held currently. Waves are being made and this isn't with the backdrop of human rights atrocities or nefarious dealings by the ownership. This isn't the conversation anymore. Wolves are just a good side going about their business in an enviable manner.\nSo how exactly do you look back on this season? Well, you just don't now. On to the next season, otherwise, you're going to get left behind.\nI'll take a more in-depth look at individual performances from this season next week, so keep an eye out for that, which is where I will sign off for the summer.\n\u2190 Higher\u2026Higher\u2026Higher\nWolverhampton Wanderers 2018\/19 \u2013 The Squad \u2192\n3 thoughts on \"How Do You Sum That Up?\"\nHi Gully \u2013 an interesting post from a neutral perspective. You guys must feel a bit discombobulated after the last couple of seasons: but in a good way! It must be a great time to be a Wolves fan. I'm surprised that the media haven't allocated more gaze at Wolves' achievements and I wrote about it here: https:\/\/allthingspremierleague.home.blog\/2019\/05\/15\/wolves-show-their-bite-in-first-season-back-in-the-premier-league-but-where-is-the-credit-they-deserve\/. Let me know your thoughts! All the best, Matt\ngullykular\nAppreciate it Matt, although I disagree, I think we've had plenty of coverage. We're just not quite box office \u2013 yet.\nWhy don't u talk about ur wife anymore","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
+{"text":"5 Amazing Stories of Lost and Found Art Works\nWorks of art are often lost. Sometimes they steal from museums or private collections, and sometimes about the individual works of the great masters do not know even the best art world \u2013 they are found randomly almost in attics or basements. Today we tell 5 amazing stories about lost, but then again found works of art from the most famous authors.\nUnknown sculpture by Michelangelo\nIt often happens that the famous master a long time kept in private collections or in the vaults of the big museums, but no one guesses about their real significance. As an example, recent history, which resulted in the discovery of two new sculptures by famous Italian artist Michelangelo Buonarroti.\nTwo sculptures from the private collection of the British depicting men saddled panthers are known for a long time, at least since the nineteenth century. Even then, some experts have suggested that these works of art owned by the hand of Michelangelo, but no one seriously this version is not considered.\nBut in early 2015 a group of experts came to the paradoxical conclusion \u2013 the author of these sculptures is indeed Michelangelo. The main argument for this was the discovery of pictures of one of the disciples of the great Italian masters. It is believed that this author has copied the outline of his teacher, among which were the images of men on the Panthers.\nThe expert panel examining these sketches and real sculptures, found an exact match to the anatomical proportions between them, but because these works were officially recognized works of Michelangelo.\nAbduction of the Mona Lisa\nPerhaps \"La Gioconda\" would not be considered now the most famous painting in the world, if not the story of her abduction, which began August 21, 1911. Loss of famous works of art from the Louvre lifted to his feet, not only the whole of Paris and the whole of France, but the whole world. Police in search of the \"Mona Lisa\" even closed the country's borders to the picture did not manage to smuggle in another state. As suspected of committing this heinous crime considered, including the poet Guillaume Apollinaire and Pablo Picasso.\nThe buzz about the missing works of Leonardo began and in the press. Journalists around the world have turned this criminal history to the main event of the year, printing almost every day a new article about the situation. This information hysteria and made \"Mona Lisa\" modern \"Mona Lisa\" \u2013 the main painting in the world.\nHowever, the police did not manage to find the thief in hot pursuit. But the December 13, 1913 the owner of the gallery \"Uffizi\" in Florence anonymous caller, who introduced the name Leonardo. The man said that he had stolen painting, and proposed a \"Mona Lisa\" for examination. Police quickly arrested a suspect, they turned out to be an Italian Vincenzo Perugia, who worked at the Louvre specialist mirrors.It is believed that he stole the painting to bring her back to his homeland, Italy.\nThe return of stolen Nazi paintings\nThe Second World War has become a huge disaster not only for mankind, but also for art in particular. A huge number of works have been either destroyed during the fighting, as, for example, when the bombing of Dresden, either missing, being requisitioned by the soldiers of different armies.\nSome of these stolen works of art can sometimes be found in private collections or museum stores around the world. And in 2012 there was a real miracle \u2013 the world got back nearly fifteen hundred lost during the Second World War paintings from the most famous authors.\nThis amazing collection was discovered by chance in fact in 2011. German police took test cases Cornelius Gurlitt, son of the famous art dealer. Penetrated with a warrant to search the house suspected of tax evasion, the old man, law enforcement officers found a huge number of works of art disappeared during the reign of the Nazis in Germany.\nThese paintings were removed from museums and private collections as works of \"degenerate\" art or were expropriated from the Jews persecuted by the authorities. Among the paintings were found work, including Picasso, Matisse and Chagall. The total cost of the findings was evaluated in more than one billion euros.\nUnknown novel by Agatha Christie\nHistory shows that the censorship may be subject not only to the works of authors living in authoritarian or totalitarian countries, but even the most eminent artists work in a relatively free countries. As an example, the novel \"The Taming of Cerberus\" great Agatha Christie, who had lain forgotten for nearly seventy years.\nThis product of a series about detectives Hercule Poirot (not to be confused with the same story from the book \"The Labours of Hercules\") Agatha Christie wrote back in the mid-thirties. As one of the characters in this novel serves a dictator named August Gerttslyayn, an obvious reference to Adolf Hitler. However, the publisher, to cooperate with Christie, refused in 1939 to print this work, not wishing to be bound to the policy. As a result, the author of the manuscript thrown himself into the attic, eventually forgetting about it.\nNew life of the novel \"The Taming of Cerberus\" began almost seventy years later, when his manuscript discovered by John Curran, a renowned expert on the works of Agatha Christie. In 2005 he was invited to make out of paper in the attic of the house died almost thirty years before this writer, and after a while he found fragments of previously unknown manuscript.\nIt took almost three years Curran to collect all the parts of the novel and restore it completely intact. As a result, \"The Taming of Cerberus\" came out in 2009, exactly seventy years after writing.\nUnknown painting by Van Gogh\nVincent Van Gogh is one of the most famous artists and cash in the history of painting, and each picture is worth tens of millions of dollars. That is why the discovery of new works by this author can become a sensation in the art world. The last time this event occurred in 2013, the painting \"Sunset at Montmajour\" discovered the Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam.\nThe picture was painted in 1888 in Arles during a very prolific period in the life of the famous French artist. In 1908 it was bought by Norwegian industrialist Christian Nicolas Mastad, listening to the advice of his friend, the art historian. But the new owner quickly lost interest in buying, after visited at his home, French Ambassador to doubt the authenticity of this work of art. In the early 20th century, there were a great number of fake paintings allegedly belonging written by renowned authors, but because Mastad took to heart these doubts and put \"Sunset at Montmajour\" in the attic. The descendants of Christian Nicolas Mastada twice tried to establish whether the script this picture. They applied to various experts, including in the Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam, it was in 1991. Then the world's best experts on the artist refused to confirm the authorship of the French master. Several years ago, the Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam bought \"Sunset at Montmajour\" to try again to establish the authorship of the work. After spending painstaking work on the colors in the picture, and compared them with paints on an easel Van Gogh period of his life in Arles, the experts came to the paradoxical conclusion that the work \u2013 the real thing. This was the first case since 1928, when the art world has found a new, previously unknown painting by Van Gogh.\nPictures of the Day \u2013 July 25, 2018","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
+{"text":"Killian Donnelly to star as Jean Valjean in Les Miserables\nKillian Donnelly is to play 'Jean Valjean' in the forthcoming UK and Ireland tour of the Boublil and Sch\u00f6nberg musical \"LES MIS\u00c9RABLES,\" arriving onto the Manchester Palace Theatre stage from 19 February \u2013 30 March 2019. Tickets for the highly-acclaimed musical will be on general sale from Tuesday 5th June 2018.\nKillian Donnelly is currently playing the role of 'Jean Valjean' in the West End production of \"Les Mis\u00e9rables\", where his final performance will be Saturday 9 June 2018. Prior to his run in \"Les Mis\u00e9rables\", he played the role of 'Charlie Price' in \"Kinky Boots\" on Broadway, a role he originated at the Adelphi Theatre in the West End in 2015, for which he was nominated for an Olivier Award.\nHis other theatre credits include: 'Jackie Day' in \"Donegal\", a new play by Frank McGuinness, at the Abbey Theatre, Dublin and 'Huey' in the original London cast of \"Memphis\" at the Shaftesbury Theatre for which he was also nominated for an Olivier Award.\nHe created the role of 'Deco' in \"The Commitments\" at the Palace Theatre and has also played 'Tony' in \"Billy Elliot\" at the Victoria Palace Theatre as well as' Raoul' in \"The Phantom of the Opera\" at Her Majesty's Theatre. He first joined the company of \"Les Mis\u00e9rables\" in 2008, going onto play the role of 'Enjolras' from 2009 to 2011. In 2010, he played the role of 'Courfeyrac' in the \"25th Anniversary Concert of Les Mis\u00e9rables\" at The O2 Arena and also played the role of 'Combeferre' in the multi-award-winning film of the show, released in 2012.\nCameron Mackintosh said, \"When I announced the first UK tour of Les Miserables for ten years, I was really delighted that Killian said to me that he would like to continue playing Jean Valjean. No stranger to the original production, having played both Enjolras and Valjean with enormous success, his passionate take on the role will be even greater in the thrilling staging of my new production which has proved to be a worldwide success all over again. He is the first Irishman to play the role since Colm Wilkinson in the original and I'm delighted that from advance bookings, this new tour looks set to be sold out before we open\".\nSince Cameron Mackintosh first conceived this new production of \"Les Mis\u00e9rables\" to celebrate the shows 25th anniversary in 2009, it has taken the world by storm. Modern audiences have embraced this production as Les Mis for the 21st century as it plays to packed houses all over the world in many languages. It also inspired the hugely successful movie version starring Hugh Jackman, Anne Hathaway and Eddie Redmayne. This brilliant new staging has scenery inspired by the paintings of Victor Hugo, and has been seen in North America, South America, Korea, Japan, Canada, Australia, Spain, France, Manila, Singapore, Dubai and Broadway.\nBased on Victor Hugo's classic novel, Boublil and Sch\u00f6nberg's magnificent score of \"LES MIS\u00c9RABLES\" includes the songs, \"I Dreamed a Dream\", \"On My Own\", \"Stars\", \"Bring Him Home\", \"Do You Hear the People Sing?\", \"One Day More\", \"Empty Chairs at Empty Tables\", \"Master Of The House\" and many more. Seen by over 120 million people worldwide in 45 countries and in 22 languages, \"LES MIS\u00c9RABLES\" is undisputedly one of the world's most popular musicals.\nCameron Mackintosh's production of \"LES MIS\u00c9RABLES\" is written by Alain Boublil and Claude-Michel Sch\u00f6nberg and is based on the novel by Victor Hugo. It has music by Claude-Michel Sch\u00f6nberg, lyrics by Herbert Kretzmer and original French text by Alain Boublil and Jean-Marc Natel, additional material by James Fenton and original adaptation by Trevor Nunn and John Caird. The original \"LES MIS\u00c9RABLES\" orchestrations are by John Cameron with new orchestrations by Christopher Jahnke and additional orchestrations by Stephen Metcalfe and Stephen Brooker.\nThe production is directed by Laurence Connor and James Powell, designed by Matt Kinley inspired by the paintings of Victor Hugo with costumes by Andreane Neofitou and additional costumes by Christine Rowland, lighting by Paule Constable, sound by Mick Potter, musical staging by Michael Ashcroft and Geoffrey Garratt, projections by Fifty-Nine Productions and music supervision by Stephen Brooker and Graham Hurman.\nStacey Dooley in conversation this June\nBirmingham Royal Ballet UK Tour\nDan Skinner stars in \"The Walworth Farce'\nDanny Beard announces Liverpool show\nFUEL announces first projects for 2023\nMabel delivers classy performance at the Wardrobe in Leeds\nLiam Payne releases his brand-new single 'Familiar' with J Balvin","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
+{"text":"CHESAPEAKE & POTOMAC TELEPHONE CO. v. UNITED STATES\nCHESAPEAKE & POTOMAC TELEPHONE CO. v. UNITED STATES(1930)\nArgued: Decided: May 5, 1930\n[281 U.S. 385, 386] Messrs. Stanton C. Peelle and C. F. R. Ogilby, both of Washington, D. C., for petitioner.\nMr. Seth W. Richardson, Asst. Atty. Gen., for the United States.\nMr. Justice HOLMES delivered the opinion of the Court.\nThis is a suit under the Dent Act, March 2, 1919, c. 94, 40 Stat. 1272 (50 USCA 80 note), to recover upon a contract said to be implied in fact, to pay the cost of installing a very large telephone switchboard for the War Department during the late war, less the amounts realized from the parts when the switchboard was removed. The Court of Claims dismissed the petition, and a writ of certiorari was granted by this Court.\nThe decision of the Court of Claims went upon the ground that the installation was covered by a written contract between the plaintiff and the Secretary of the Treasury (Act of June 17, 1910, c. 297, 36 Stat. 468, 531, 4, U. S. Code, tit. 41, 7 (41 USCA 7)), and that there was no subsequent contract enlarging the obligation of the Government; it being expressly found that the only persons to whom any suggestion was made that additional pay was expected had no authority to bind the Government, Jacob Reed's Sons v. United States, 273 U.S. 200, 202 , 47 S. Ct. 339; Baltimore & Ohio R. R. Co. v. United States, 261 U.S. 592, 596 , 43 S. Ct. 425, and that the Secretary of War never heard the suggestion or knew that a claim would be made until after the [281 U.S. 385, 387] armistice. We are of opinion that on the findings the decision was right.\nThe contract in force when the work was completed, June 22, 1918, bound the Telephone Company to 'install, equip, and maintain such telephone equipment as may be required in the District of Columbia, and furnish service in connection therewith' at rates set forth, one item being 'common battery private branch exchange switchboards, including one operator's set of telephones for each operator's position, each, per annum , $24.00.' Although it is argued that neither the Act of June 17, 1910, c. 297, nor the contract covered this unusually large switchboard, we think it too plain for discussion that the words used, taken literally, covered it in terms. The only suggestion that needs a short answer is that this work was so wholly outside anything that was contemplated that a special agreement was necessary or at least just. But war had been approaching and large additions had been made without question until after war was declared, April 6, 1917. A little later the present structure was placed in a separate building erected for it by the United States. The understanding of the parties is shown by the fact that a contract with similar terms was made for the next year on September 25, 1918. The plaintiff sent in and was paid bills for rental at the old rate, for increased rates for the lines and stations, and other unquestioned bills, without any attempt to charge for the expenses of the new structure. The explanation of the slight charges for rentals is simple and makes the whole business clear. The settled policy of the Company was to rely for its chief revenue on mileage charges upon station lines, charges for telephone stations, and local messages. Had the war gone on another year probably it would have made a good deal of money. The American Telegraph and Telephone Company regarded the problem of increased telephone service at the War Department as largely its own, and in fact [281 U.S. 385, 388] has more than reimbursed the plaintiff for its loss. When the plaintiff's district manager told his superior officer that the installation ought to be held up until they got a written order, he was told that they wanted to do everything possible for the Government and would take their chances of getting paid.\nThere is nothing upon which the Company can found a claim except that in January, 1918, it advised the person who was in charge of the telephone service of the War Department, but whose salary the plaintiff paid, and another under whose general direction the service was, that it expected the Government to pay the cost of the new switchboard, less salvage. There was no assent to this expectation, nor did these officers have any authority to give such assent, and as we have said there was neither assent nor knowledge on the part of those higher up. The fact that plans of the building to be erected by the Government showing the switchboard and equipment proposed were submitted to the Secretary of War is no help to the plaintiff. Of course they were, whichever was to pay the bills. Neither was the continued use of the structure after the plaintiff had made its claims. The Government had to use it, and had the right to use it, whether the Government was bound to pay, or whether, as the plaintiff's engineer said to its district manager, the Telephone Company took the chances of getting paid. The Government had the plaintiff's contract and would have had the right to rely upon it even if it had been informed that the plaintiff was dissatisfied. It seems to us that the dissent of two of the Judges of the Court below is directed rather to the findings than to the statement of the law upon the findings as they stand. These are not open to question before us.\nJudgment affirmed.\nMr. Justice STONE took no part in the consideration or decision of this case.","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
+{"text":"Ss. Cosmas and Damian, The Unmercenaries icon (1)\n4 X 6 5 X 7 6 X 8 8 X 11 12 x 18 14 x 20\n4 X 6 - $ 21.00 USD 5 X 7 - $ 26.00 USD 6 X 8 - $ 30.00 USD 8 X 11 - $ 38.00 USD 12 x 18 - $ 83.00 USD 14 x 20 - $ 105.00 USD\nOrthodox icon of Saints Wonderworking Unmercenary Cosmas and Damian the Physicians at Rome.\nCommemorated July 1.\nCosmas and Damian were born at Rome, brothers by birth, and physicians by profession. They suffered at Rome in the reign of the emperor Carinus (283-284). Brought up by their parents in the rules of piety, they led strict and chaste lives, and they were granted by God the gift of healing the sick. By their generosity and exceptional kindness to all, the brothers converted many to Christ.\nTheir life of active service and their great spiritual influence on the people around them led many into the Church, attracting the attention of the Roman authorities. Soldiers were sent after the brothers. Hearing about this, local Christians convinced Saintts Cosmas and Damian to hide for a while until they could help them escape.\nUnable to find the brothers, the soldiers arrested instead other Christians of the area where the saints lived. Sts Cosmas and Damian then came out of hiding and surrendered to the soldiers, asking them to release those who had been arrested because of them. At Rome, the saints were imprisoned and put on trial. The emperor summoned the two brothers, formerly his most beloved students, proposing that they should all go together in order to gather various medicinal herbs. Going far into the mountains, he murdered them and threw their bodies into a river.\nThus these holy brothers, the Unmercenary Physicians Cosmas and Damian, ended their earthly journey as martyrs. Although they had devoted their lives to the Christian service of their neighbors, and had escaped the Roman sword and prison, they were treacherously murdered by their teacher.\nReference: O.C.A.","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
+{"text":"My Days as a Country Club Bartender: Nick vs. The Drunk Bridesmaid\n(photo @ artfullyinappropriate )\nThe year before I headed off to live and work in South Carolina, I worked as a waiter\/bartender at a country club in Marietta, GA. It was a fantastic job. The pay was great, the schedule was reasonable, you got a free gym membership, and you saw the same customers every day.\nBy the way, that last part about always seeing the same customers was fantastic 95% of time. But 5% of the time it could be an absolute nightmare.\nluxury-blog\nA tip? Here's tip for you...'the help'\nshould never make eye contact with me.\nSometimes we got a chance to mingle with the general public when we were called upon to work a wedding reception. On what was generally a joyous day for all involved, we often discovered that there are some people that should never be allowed to leave the house. When these folks are given a combination of alcohol and their favorite 90's dance tunes, things can quickly turn very awkward and uncivil.\nOn a May evening in 2003, I was working the outdoor bar at a reception that had a fair number of intoxicated female attendees. I had learned that weddings (and nearly all large social gatherings) that involve alcohol tend to divide women that have had too much to drink into 4 distinct groups:\nGroup 1: The Screamers\nThis group, while very friendly, will also make you strongly consider a life of celibacy. Everything that they say is screamed at an obscenely high decibel level. It is also usually followed with a hearty \"WOOOOOO!\" regardless of the context or appropriateness of such a guttural exclamation.\n\"It's a real shame that Johnny couldn't be here to see his brother get married. \"\n\"I KNOW, RIGHT? CANCER REALLY SUCKS!!! WOOOOOOO!!!!\"\nGroup 2: The Barely Staying Awake\/Upright\nThis group is usually divided into single units around the bar and dance floor. Each one has anchored herself to some type of stationary object so as not to fall flat on her face. They also think that if they keep their eyes half closed while trying to remain conscious, it makes them look \"exotic,\" but they actually look ridiculous.\nGroup 3: The Criers\nThe combination of alcohol, raging hormones, and new marital bliss that does not involve them has turned this group into a sobbing mess. Whether it's due to realizing how much they love everyone, how amazing their friends are, how they may never find true love, or a DJ's unfortunate decision to play Total Eclipse of the Heart, the tears and awkward hugs flow in abundance.\nWhile this group may seem to be filled with kind and tender souls, they will do whatever physical harm to their fellow reception attendees that is necessary to catch the bouquet once it is tossed.\nyourncweddingdj.com\nCatching these dead plants means that a handsome\nprince will finally make a home with me and my 12 cats!\nGroup 4: The Angry Belligerent One\nThis \"group\" is usually made up of one person that already has a fairly abrasive personality to begin with. After a few drinks, you now have a raging psychotic banshee.\nAs luck would have it, young lady fitting this description decided to visit my bar area during the latter half of that evening's wedding reception.\nThe door to the dance area opened and one of the bridesmaids sauntered over to my bar. She looked at me with a mix of contempt and craziness and said \"I need a beer.\"\nI smiled and began to say \"What type of beer would you like,\" but before I could finish my sentence, she barked \"I want an import!\"\nOur bar was fairly well stocked with a variety of beers, so I asked her \"Any particular brand that you would prefer? We have...\"\n\"I SAID I WANT AN IMPORT!\" she screamed with the fury of million exploding suns. I instantly reached down and pulled the first thing I could find, which was an Amstel Light. When I handed it to her, she looked as though she had just been presented with a fresh piece of dog crap.\n\"I said I wanted an import...\" she hissed through gritted teeth. At this point I thought it best not to bring up the fact that Amstel Light is a Dutch beer that is made and bottled in the Netherlands. Instead I reached down and found a Newcastle. This had been a fairly popular beer that evening and it was made and bottled in England. Maybe this was what she was looking for.\nWhen I presented the bridesmaid with the new beverage, she nearly lost it.\n\"I SAID I WANTED AN IMPORT!!! WHY WON'T YOU JUST GIVE ME AN IMPORT???\"\n\"Ma'am, both beers I tried to give you are from Europe...\"\n\"I DON'T CARE!!! JUST GIVE ME A ####ING IMPORT!!!\"\nAt this point I was at a bit of a loss. Perhaps this woman had a bad experience in Europe...or maybe she didn't realize that Europe wasn't part of the United States. The problem was, almost every other beer that we had was from that part of the world. I was deathly afraid that if I offered her a Beck's, I may face physical retribution.\nI decided to try and stick to North America by offering her a Dos Equis. This was a beer made in Mexico, which she probably thought was the 51st state, but I was out of options.\nknowyourmeme\nI don't always hate my job.\nBut when I do, it's because of times like this.\nAs I attempted to hand the irate bridesmaid my final attempt at satisfying her mystifying need for a non foreign imported beer, her eyes filled with rage and her face turned bright red. I'm also fairly certain that she levitated off the ground and began speaking Latin in a deep voice, but at this point I was too confused to be certain of anything.\nAs the sky turned red and the winds increased to nearly unbearable levels of intensity, the bridesmaid glared down at me and bellowed \"WHY THE #### WON'T YOU JUST GIVE ME A ####ING IMPORT?!!\"\nI struggled to hang onto the edge of the bar while her tentacles lashed out near my face. As the earth beneath us was torn asunder and hellfire spewed forth into the sky, I was finally able to complete a desperate sentence: \"Ma'am, every beer that I have tried to give you has been from a foreign country!\"\nmakingfx\nMay I also add that your crazy demon face\neyebrows are in serious need of some maintenance!\nThe bridesmaid slowly floated back down to earth, her eyes went from blood red back to normal, and she curiously cocked her head to the side.\n\"Oh...\" she said with a confused stare. \"Isn't an import...wait...no...I want uh, American....I want an export.\"\nYes, an export.\nI assumed from the context of her previous\/post demonic babbling that she meant a domestic beer. I confidently reached behind the bar and emerged with one of the most American beers possible: A Budweiser. To my shock, her eyes began to glow red again.\n\"I don't want a Budweiser...I want a BUD LIGHT!!!\"\nI'm pretty sure she also said \"Here we go...STRAIGHT TO HELL\"\nI quickly reached behind the bar and emerged with her desired beverage. She snatched the drink out of my hand, whipped around (knocking over a table with the spikes on her tail), and headed back onto the dance floor for what I can only assume was a night of wondering why everyone was avoiding her.\nI realized through my encounter with the bridesmaid from hell that even if you do everything possible to please the customer, copious amounts of alcohol combined with a bad personality can still create an unavoidable confrontation. Maybe I should have just kept a map of the world clearly posted behind my bar.\nanytimecostumes\n...and a priest that can perform exorcisms.","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
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The first names of relatives, who had fought in the Great Patriotic War, were written by the head of the region Dmitry Artyukhov, the coordinator of the interregional project of the Autonomous Okrug \"The Victory Banner\" Dmitry Zharomskikh, a veteran of Yamal, a home front worker and a daughter of a veteran Daria Averina, a participant of military operations in Chechnya Rafael Tachitdinov and a student of the 11th cadet class of school \u21164 Ekaterina Zhernakova. The solemn event was held in school \u21161 named after the hero of the Soviet Union Ivan Korolkov.\nThe patriotic project \"The Victory Banner\" was launched in Yamal in 2015. The first Yamal copy of the Victory Banner was made then, in the solemn atmosphere. Veterans also participated in the work. During the years of existence of the project copies of the Victory Banner visited the most remote corners of Yamal and beyond: Minsk, Brest, Moscow, St. Petersburg, Volgograd, Novorossiysk, Kerch, Sevastopol, Yekaterinburg, Tyumen and Kurgan. They were also sent to compatriots in 13 foreign countries, including Argentina, Bulgaria, Finland, Sweden, Lebanon, and others.\nThis year Yamal copies of the Victory Banner will be set on the highest and most iconic structures and buildings in towns and districts of Yamal-Nenets Autonomous Okrug. They will also appear in oil and gas fields, Vilkitsky and Beliy Islands, the Extreme Eastern point of Europe in the Polar Urals, the highest point of Yamal \u2014 the mount Paiyer and two mountain peaks abroad.\nPreserving traditions of the project, Salekhard launched the new patriotic campaign \"The Yamal Banner of Memory\", which will be held in all municipalities of the region. Every resident of the region will be able to participate in it. On fragments of the banner residents will write names of their relatives and friends, who fought on the battle fronts of the Great Patriotic War. The single \"Yamal Banner of Memory\" will be made of 13 fragments sent from municipalities. On Victory Day, the 9th of May, it will be carried in the parade of \"The Immortal Regiment\" along the streets of Salekhard.\n\"There is no family in our homeland that would not be affected by the war, so our main task is to preserve the memory of the years of our difficult history. Today we are starting a new campaign, in which every citizen of Yamal can enter the name of the hero of their family. And on the most important day for the country we will solemnly carry the single banner of memory of Yamal. It is the great honor for me to include my relatives, who fought at the battle front, in the single banner. Invite all the residents to join the action. This is a very important spiritual bond\", said Dmitry Artyukhov.\nAs it should be noted, in honor of the 75th anniversary of the Great Victory more than 170 festive events will be held in Yamal, among which the interregional patriotic project \"The Victory Banner\" remains one of the most significant.","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
+{"text":"Rage 2 Review An Open World Game, No Load Times, No XP And A Ton Of Fun!\nBy: goukijones Jul 2 (13 days ago) | 1 Comments\nThis is a game that I am recommending to you.\nRage 2 has been the first new game that I've played in a while that I really enjoyed. I wasn't expecting much, but the trailers for the game were getting me hype to play. I did not like the first Rage and I don't recommend it. It felt very linear to me and I don't mix well with hallway-esque gameplay. Rage 2 however, is very different, it's a beautifully open world.\nHow open is it?! Well for some examples; I beat the game without even going to one region on the map. I then found 2 other towns after I had beaten the game. I love that the game is that open. To be honest I was WAAAY over powered going into the final battle. I wasn't expecting it to be the end, but it was. It was a little lackluster too for the final boss, not very challenging. If I were to play through this game again, I would definitely raise the difficulty setting. I played it on HARD and it was Too Easy\u2026.\nRage makes a great tech demo, but a poor game\nBy: BatRastered Nov 3, 2011 | 6 Comments\nThis is not a full-on review, but I fn hated this game. Bethesda 0 for 2 this year, after this and the Brink. I hope Skyrim can save them.\nI don't think you should give a full-on review of a game if you haven't put in enough hours to beat it. I'd make an exception if the game was so hard or broken that I couldn't beat it, but that's not the problem with Rage. The problem is I just don't want to play it anymore. So... this is not really a review, you should take my opinion with a huge grain of salt because I've only played about 4 hours of Rage.\nLet me start off by saying that Rage is beautiful. As a tech demo for id software's new engine, it is amazing. The lighting, the textures, everything looks great even on the now 6 year old Xbox 360. Once you get beyond the game's good looks though, you start to realize that you're not having any fun. This took me about 30 minutes to realize.\nRage looks like it has an open world, but you don't really have anywhere to explore, and the game doesn't offer any rewards to do so (at least not in the first 4 hours). When you talk to the townsfolk to get a mission, Rage doesn't take you into a cinema, but instead dialog takes place in-engine. This is good, but there is no way to skip any of it and the way it works is downright annoying. You push the button to talk, listen to them yap for a minute, then they sit there with a blank look on their face waiting for you to push the button again. You push it again, and they talk for another few minutes and this repeats for the whole conversation... it should be noted that your character doesn't talk, and there are no dialog trees, so these weird pauses serve no purpose other than to annoy.\nWe thought there was a co-op to this game and it'd be sort of like Borderlands, but it turns out the co-op is not the story mode, that's single player only. There is a separate co-op campaign, and it's only two player. The multiplayer for some reason is a racing game (WTF? yes really, a racing game).\nThe missions are sometimes just absurd, they want me to deliver something or pick up something. Instead of just going about my mission the way I want to, I have to do it their way... their way involves doing a favor for someone in order to get some new clothes, put guns on the car, etc. To upgrade the car, you can't use the money you've collected, you have to collect \"race tickets\" by playing the stupid racing mini-game. You have to talk to two different people to enter the racing. Once I started the mission, I just zoomed by all the bad guys anyway, I didn't feel like trying my hand at vehicular combat just yet, but the game wanted me to take out 5 of them to complete some other side mission. Whatever. At this point I'm getting frustrated by the game.\nI'm climbing a ladder in an enemy controlled area; after fighting my way through dozens of enemies I am cautious. I poke my head up and try to get a quick look around the area before committing to fully climbing up there. Rage interprets this motion as me wanting to jump off the ladder to my death. Great, now I have to wait for this loading screen... and I'm back in the first town... WTF? Oh, you didn't know? Rage only auto-saves once in a blue moon. I lost an hour of progress. I'd say the manual save system was something out of the 90's but the truth is there were better save systems back then. I'm now officially done with this game.\nWe promise a full-on golden video review with FnJimmy later (he can't stop playing it), but for now, I'd say don't waste your time with this garbage.\nRage, Here comes another horror style FPS\nBy: DragonKiss83 Oct 17, 2011 | 4 Comments\nId Software has brought us a decent horror FPS, but the timing could have been better.\nIf you are a fan of horror based first person shooters Rage is a game you should check out, when you get the time. FPS games have flooded the market all year long but right now we have Battlefield 3 and Call of Duty Modern Warfare 4 right around the corner it's hard to justify buying another shooter at the moment. And if you look at the pile of recent releases there is a good chance you have picked up a few other fps recently. I personally could wait until Borderlands 2 comes out to buy another shooter.\nThe driving bits are kind of fun and if you are on the four wheeler you can get launched off by running into something, that was great for a laugh. But you do have some races you must do to get through the story and some give you weapons. This is also available for some multiplayer action online.\nI only played for a few hours but the weapons didn't seem to have much variety (Borderlands has spoiled me) you start with a pistol, later you pick up a shotgun, a sniper rifle, an assault rifle you can buy, and this wicked crossbow. You can upgrade the weapons a little, but from the looks of it they are just minor tweaks. With the pistol you also get a couple choices of ammo, so later in the game you could get more choices.\nOverall the game was pretty fun, the story feel a little generic, you are a survivor that was lost in time who wakes up to a world in turmoil. It's not bad, just not original. But in most cases if you are playing a fps it's because you want to shoot shit and there is plenty of that. You do get some boss fights mixed in to give you some variety.\nSo my official verdict is Rent It, but if they could have slipped it into a gap between games it could have got a buy it.\nRage Quitters For The Masses\/Disc Version Of SSF4 Arcade Edition\nBy: starlordtitus Jun 23, 2011 | 11 Comments\nEvery now and then you either do so well that someone is yelling at you for it, or you get angry yourself and decide to call it quits. Take a look at the infamous art of rage quitting xD\nYou're unleashing hell on you're opponent, you've anticipated their every move. Suddenly their dizzied and you're about to unleash either your Ultra that you've earned through focus attacking, or Super. When all of a sudden, the screen reads \"Connection with the other player(s) has been lost\" and you hit OK.\nThere has never been such a chump move in the history of gaming other than hitting pause during a match to mess up your opponent's timing xD\nRage Quitting. It has almost become an art for the many times players have done it. Either in the Street Fighter series or other games. People get salty and say goodbye.\nEven better are the ones that leave angry messages in your mail XD\nBut I love how some people respond to these rage messages XDXD\nRage quitters and raging sore losers are all over the place on XBOX LIVE. They come in all ages, males and females alike. But nobody likes losing, it's true. But the best way to deal with that is to practice. Last night by chance I also played against Cinderkin online. He plays a mean Yun and I am proud to say he is neither a rage quitter or a rage messager :D\nToday the date is 6\/23\/2011, and I recieved my Super Street Fighter 4 Arcade Edition in the mail thanks to Capcom =D! It came with the bobble heads and I'm hyped XD\nRage has Actual Gameplay Footage of The Well\nBy: goukijones Jun 3, 2011 | 5 Comments\nNow this trailer starts off saying \"Actual Gameplay footage\" Bethesda knows to show off the goods. The only problem is ...\nThe only problem is there doesn't look like there is anything special about this game except the graphics. And I don't give a fuck about graphics. Standard guns, you got a boomerang rail tool for your left hand and that's it. The city and the environments look cool and that will probably be enough for me to play Rage. Otherwise it just looks like another FPS still.\nRAGE - The Well Official Gameplay Trailer","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
+{"text":"American Inquiry\nQuality Reading from Chicago\nOn Critical Elections\nIce skates circa 1850\nDec. 20, 2014 By Susan Barsy in Ice-skating Tags: 1850s, 1860s, American History, ice skates, ice skating, innovation, manufacturing, sports, winter\t2 Comments\nThis pair of American-made ice skates, dating from 1840-1859, is part of the collection of the Costume Institute at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. The ice skaters I've been writing about lately would have been wearing skates similar to these.\nWhile these skates were of a style that had been used for centuries, skate design was on the cusp of dramatic change. The 1850s saw many innovations, as ice-skating boomed in popularity. Many different styles of clip-on and strap-on skates were being brought to market, as makers vied to make skates stronger, faster, and more stable. The toe pick and the elongated blade extending beyond the back of the skate, both features of modern figure skates, hadn't yet been thought of. Stopping or turning in these old skates could be tricky! Note the nail sticking up from the platform of the skate, which embedded itself in the heel of the wearer's shoe, as a means of making the skate more stable.\nSkating ahead of the Curve documents the newfangled skates being made at the time. These skates, dating from 1840-60, have taken a leap forward in material and design. Made mainly of metal, including cast steel, they feature a heel cup and thick leather straps that would have attached firmly to a boot or shoe.\nThe heel cup is decorated with a skating scene.\nFor more on 19th-century skates and skating,\nsee \"Ice Skating in the 1860s: A Fashion and a Passion,\"\na wonderful article by Betty Hughes.\nThis is the fourth in an occasional series on ice-skating. Click here to read from the beginning.\n\u00ab Philadelphia on ice\nBoy-powered ice-sweepers \u00bb\nSam Dune says:\nDec. 31, 2014 at 2:28 pm\nA very informative post and timely as well!. . . . I very much liked seeing the pictures. In my minds' eye, I see the ultra-sleek skates that the speed skaters use today\u2013what a comparison. Interesting how in ALL fields \"improvements are made upon improvements which are made upon improvements\" etc, etc, etc.\nSusan Barsy says:\nJan. 8, 2015 at 8:37 pm\nSo true! It is fascinating to look at those periods when a long-familiar object, like a bike, begins to change all of a sudden.\nStay warm on this wintry night, and thanks for writing in!\nIt's free and private and the only way to be sure of receiving every post.\n12.3.20 With hospitalizations and deaths from CoV at an all-time high, the next few months are forecast to be the most difficult in the public health history of the US, CDC chief Robert Redfield says.\n11.23.20 A pivotal day in politics, as Michigan certifies its election results and GSA chief Emily Murphy at last authorizes the start of the formal transition process for president-elect Biden.\nThe Sem Co-op Relief Fund\nOne of the world's best academic bookstores, Hyde Park's Seminary Co-op has been integral to intellectual life in Chicago for over sixty years.\nNow, the Seminary Co-op needs help recovering from financial losses related to the COVID19 shutdown.\nPlease consider giving to the Co-op's relief campaign. It's raised over $240K toward its 250,000 goal. To donate, click here.\nOwned by American Inquiry\nFollow @susanbarsy","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
+{"text":"Share Snowboard Kings 2022\nNinja Run\nSquidly Game\nAmong Shooter Kill Impostor\nEndless Runner 3d\nInterstellar Run\nFalling Ball\nWord Duel\nHomeSnowboard Kings 2022\nSnowboard Kings 2022\nFor some of us, winter means the official start of the season. For others, it's just a few weeks \u2013 and maybe even a few days \u2013 of keeping things 'snowy' while they wait for summer to come back around. Whatever your answer might be, we know that there's something about this time of year that gets everyone's blood pumping \u2013 from skiers to snowboarders and snowboarder parents to snowboarding parents. While we can all enjoy the same winter activities all year round, there are certain seasons where our grownups have their own thing going on. And it's totally fine if that's how you rolls\nThe 2022 Winter Olympics in South Korea are going to be a beast. The organizers have announced that a total of 10,000 athletes from 188 countries will take part in the games. This makes it one of the most-performed sporting events in the world, and one of the only major global gatherings that's still relatively affordable for ordinary people to participate in. If you're wondering how you can get involved, wonder no more. Here's everything you need to know about becoming a snowboard king or queen at the 2022 Winter Olympics in PyeongChang, South Korea. \u2014 By JENNIFER\nThe 2022 Winter Olympics will be a momentous occasion for the sport of snowboarding. The games will take place in PyeongChang, South Korea, and will feature more than a dozen events. There are multiple events for snowboarders of all skill levels. If you're looking to see if snowboarding's future is bright or grim, check out these facts about the 2022 Winter\nHow to play Snowboard Kings 2022\nKey Features 3 mountains with 30 levels Upgrade your skills Boost button for acceleration Simple intuitive controls Instruction Run down the slope and try to avoid all obstacles in your way. Follow the arrows for the perfect path. Use collected coins to upgrade your skills. There's also a boost button for acceleration.\nCategory - Tags\nslopesnowsportssnowboardswintersnowboard\nDiscuss Snowboard Kings 2022","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
+{"text":"Zach Sieler Malcolm Brown Brian Flores William Fuller Tua Tagovailoa Jacoby Brissett Mike Gesicki Brandon Jones Jaylen Waddle Don Shula Sports NFL football Professional football Football\nMiami Dolphins Las Vegas Raiders Indianapolis Colts\nMiami's offense is sputtering, and Dolphins suddenly sliding\nBy TIM REYNOLDS - Sep. 27, 2021 05:37 PM EDT\nMiami Dolphins head coach Brian Flores walks off the field after losing to the Las Vegas Raiders in overtime of an NFL football game, Sunday, Sept. 26, 2021, in Las Vegas. (AP Photo\/David Becker)\nMIAMI GARDENS, Fla. (AP) \u2014 The play absolutely epitomizes how things are going for the Miami Dolphins on offense. Quarterback Jacoby Brissett dropped back and threw the ball across the field to wide receiver Jaylen Waddle, who caught it and was immediately tackled.\nFor a safety.\nEven when things seem to go right for Miami these days, they're not really going right. The safety was among the turning points in the Dolphins' 31-28 overtime loss to the Las Vegas Raiders on Sunday, a game where Miami led 14-0 before that baffling play.\nThe Dolphins fell to 1-2 with the loss, meaning they have a better record than only three teams in the AFC.\n\"Sometimes it doesn't always come together right away. Sometimes it does,\" Dolphins running back Malcolm Brown said Monday. \"It's a long season and I'm definitely still very confident in this team.\"\nThe Dolphins entered Monday 29th in the NFL in yards per game, though a three-game sample size isn't exactly enough to draw absolute conclusions. Only Chicago and the New York Jets have fewer points per game than the Dolphins, who are averaging 15 per contest so far.\nMiami is outscoring opponents 6-2 on its own pass plays this season; one touchdown, one strange safety.\n\"I think every week you're trying to create explosive plays offensively,\" Miami coach Brian Flores said. \"Once you get in the game, you have to take what they give you. Often times, most teams are trying to limit the big plays and you have to have good execution to create explosive plays. Every team wants them. We try to get them and we had a couple opportunities for them. We've got the ball downfield.\"\nThe combined record of Miami's next four opponents is 3-9 \u2014 Indianapolis and Jacksonville are 0-3, Atlanta is 1-2 and reigning Super Bowl champion Tampa Bay is 2-1. And only one of those four games is a true road contest; the Colts and Falcons come to Miami Gardens, the Dolphins go to Tampa Bay and the game with the Jaguars is in London.\nDL Zach Sieler. A rare bright spot for the Dolphins on Sunday \u2014 and this season, really. He made back-to-back tackles on Las Vegas short-yardage plays to set up a turnover on downs that led to Miami's second touchdown and the 14-0 lead, and wound up leading Miami with nine tackles on the day.\nWHAT NEEDS HELP\nThe entire offense, but specifically the passing game. Miami is averaging 5 yards per attempt (31st in the NFL entering Monday) and has one touchdown pass in 120 throws this season. The previous team to throw at least 120 passes in its first three games and manage only one touchdown was the 2007 New Orleans Saints, who turned the ball over 10 times in those games. The Dolphins have only four turnovers so far this season.\nWaddle and TE Mike Gesicki. Hard as this is to believe, Sunday marked the first time that two Dolphins players had 10 or more catches in the same game. Waddle had 12 catches, Gesicki made 10. But to illustrate how much the offense is struggling right now, consider that those 22 catches went for a combined 144 yards \u2014 27 of them on Gesicki's fantastic fingertip grab on fourth-and-20 to extend the overtime drive.\nSTOCK DOWN\nAll those involved in calling or executing the play that ended up as the safety. Throwing a screen to Waddle, who was inside his own end zone when he caught the ball, was simply baffling. Waddle had no chance on the play, getting immediately tackled for Las Vegas' first points of the afternoon.\nStarting QB Tua Tagovailoa will miss at least two more games with the rib fractures. WR Will Fuller was shaken up during overtime, though that was believed to be a cramping issue, and S Brandon Jones \u2014 who had two sacks \u2014 appeared to turn an ankle in the extra session but continued playing.\n45: The Dolphins have 45 points in their first three games. Only nine Miami teams have had fewer at this point in a season. None of those nine finished with a winning record \u2014 the best of the bunch went 8-8 in 1980 \u2014 or made the playoffs.\nThe Dolphins (1-2) are back home on Sunday to take on the Indianapolis Colts (0-3). It'll be a full football weekend in Miami Gardens; Hard Rock Stadium has a celebration of Don Shula's life planned for Saturday, the first public ceremony honoring the former Dolphins and Colts coach since his death on May 4, 2020.","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
+{"text":"I Brought You in This World and I'll Take You Out: How Black Folks' Obsession With Whupping Is Killing Us\nMarch 23, 2017 by Dr. Jason Johnson\nSpare the Kids: Why Whupping Children Won't Save Black America is one of those necessary African-American reads, like Between the World and Me; I'm Judging You; and Coldest Winter Ever. It's not just for dinnertime conversation or deep professional panels, it's for everyone. Spare the Kids, written by Stacey Patton, Ph.D., professor of journalism at Morgan State University, is a searing, challenging and transcendent book that yanks us in the black community out of bed on a Sunday morning, drags us outside into the light and forces us to squint at the sun-radiating truth into the nature of one of our most sacred parenting tools: Whupping.\nWatch the video trailer for the book here. Caution: Images are disturbing.\nNo matter how you try to describe it, whuppings, beatings, spankings or switchings are perceived to be a deeply imbedded part of black culture, a practice defended by sports stars, politicians, comedians and clergy. However, Patton's research shows that whuppings are not a \"black thing\" or part of some larger \"black pathology.\" Whuppings are a practice imposed on the black community, a practice driven and supported almost entirely by white supremacy.\nPatton draws a clear path, starting from the first ships that brought Africans to America to be slaves, through the faith-based ritualized beatings and exploitation of black bodies during Jim Crow, to comedians, like D.L. Hughley, Bernie Mac and Kevin Hart, making light of beating and cursing children, to the racialized praise of the \"Baltimore Mom\" for publicly beating her son during protests in 2015. Black families, through a warped version of Christianity, have been sold the lie that our black children are inherently bad and out of control, and that the only way to bring them to heel, let alone protect them from white violence in the outside world, is to start the abuse at home. The problem is, how is that working out for us? While science, sociology and faith have evolved to show the negative consequences of corporal punishment, many still cling to it. Would an extra beating have saved Trayvon Martin? Or Sandra Bland? Or Tamir Rice? How do we prepare our children to stand strong in a world that may fear and hate them when they are \"instructed\" by violence at home? The Root spoke to Patton about these issues and what drove her to write Spare the Kids.\nTR: What motivated you to write Spare the Kids?\nSP: My own personal experience\u2014growing up in a house where I got whuppings by my adoptive mother. I always knew I wanted to write a book about child abuse, to ask people to be kinder, gentler, and respect the bodies of our kids. I wanted to write a book that I wish someone had given to my adoptive mother before she adopted. To see the potential risks. \u2026 Maybe that could have helped her spare the rod.\nTR: While reading the book, I was amazed to learn that \"Spare the rod, spoil the child\" is actually not in the Bible. And any \"rod\" being referenced was actually a shepherd's staff in the original biblical translation. Shepherds' hooked staffs were to protect, corral and comfort sheep\u2014not beat the hell out of them when they wandered too far. What was the most shocking thing you discovered while researching and writing Spare the Kids?\nSP: That an average of 360 kids are killed a year. Killed. These fatalities largely are not the result of people being sadistic; they hit too hard one time. Or hit them [ kids] in the wrong place. So the data was one thing that was really shocking. Also, looking at the data on enslaved captives that were brought to this country, and finding out that the majority were children.\nPatton went on to explain that the majority of slaves brought to America were actually children and teens who had not been parents in Africa, thus dispelling the myth that whupping kids is \"something we brought over from Africa.\" If anything, her book shows in painstaking detail how whipping, hitting and physical punishment of children was more common in Europe and imposed upon colonialized Africans and slaves in the United States as a means of controlling and breaking the wills of black families. In a twisted extension of respectability politics, African-American families were told that a whupping at home saved children from abuse in the outside world. Further, when the routine abuse of black bodies is reinforced through generations of lynching and police violence, it's easy for an oppressed people to normalize abuse. Is it any wonder that some black parents have taken to YouTube and WorldStar to show them whupping and verbally abusing their children in a vain attempt to dispel the myth of the \"badass\" black kids and the lazy black parent? Patton says the consequences of this long-term cultural practice are damaging in ways we never anticipate.\n\"I interviewed men who said they had avoided intimate relationships with black women because they grew up fearing their mothers,\" Patton went on to say. \"That was hard for me to hear as a black woman, but I began to see the connections.\"\nIn a chapter titled, \"Don't Be a Fast Girl,\" she discusses how repeated beatings, even once a month, whether justified as \"spankings\" or otherwise, actually stunt growth, rewire the brains of children, and can cause accelerated puberty. What's worse, a child who gets whuppings from a parent who then says, \"I do this out of love,\" is much more susceptible to the notion that a man or woman who beats you as an adult can still \"love\" you.\nNeedless to say, there is a tremendous amount of pushback on the book. Patton's Facebook page is riddled with attacks on her and her research. The most common rebuttal to her work\u2014\"Well, I got beatings and I turned out fine\"\u2014quickly descends into bizarre testimonials about how beatings that left people with welts or semiconscious kept them from stealing, having teenage sex or doing drugs. As if violence is the only way those lessons could be achieved.\nTR: Given the backlash you have received from white readers who are angered you place the beating-blame on white supremacy, and African Americans who claim you are pathologizing the black community, is there anyone you feel particular sympathy for after writing this book?\nSP: I feel sorry for the mothers, especially the single mothers, facing jail time for abuse because they don't know another way, because they don't think what they're doing is wrong.\nI don't have sympathy for the people who spend all this time on social media using nasty language to describe our children as problems. I have no sympathy for people who consistently make these dangerous arguments, or comedians who talk about or laugh about beating our kids, or preachers whose sanctuaries are supposed to be places of safety and love who advocate beating our children.\nSpare the Kids: Why Whupping Children Won't Save Black America will start a lively but necessary debate among team #SparetheRod, team #IGotBeatandImFine and team #NoSpank. The book, while laying out the social, psychological, physical, legal and spiritual dangers of whupping black children, manages to never blame black families. In fact, the final chapter is a series of interviews and testimonials from African-American parents who stopped whipping their kids and found other, in many cases more effective, modes of discipline. Hopefully, the lessons from the past will not have to be a part of our parenting in the future.\nThis article originally appeared online at The Root.\nFiled Under: Jason Johnson Weekly Column Tagged With: Baltimore Mom, corporal punishment, spanking, Spare the Kids, Stacey Patton, whupping","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
+{"text":"Mobiles Features\nNokia Chairman Reopens Old Wounds With New Book\nBy Reuters | Updated: 12 October 2018 17:43 IST\nNokia chairman Risto Siilasmaa (c)\nNokia's chairman has pointed the finger at his predecessor over the mobile phone maker's fall from grace in a book that has reopened old wounds in Finland, where the company remains a source of national pride.\nNokia was the world's largest mobile handset maker and Europe's highest valued company at its peak, accounting for about 4 percent of Finland's economic output.\nBut it failed to recognise the threat to its existence posed by the rise of touchscreen smartphones after Apple launched the iPhone in 2007. It has since sold off its handset business, with thousands of jobs lost along the way, and is now focused on telecoms networks and licensing its technology patents.\nNokia's decline was partly down to a lack of entrepreneurial leadership and the failure to face up to bad news, according to the book by Risto Siilasmaa, Nokia's chairman, who joined the company's board in 2008.\nNamed \"Transforming Nokia: The power of paranoid optimism to lead through colossal change,\" the book has made headlines beyond the business world because of its attacks on former Nokia CEO and Chairman Jorma Ollila.\nSiilasmaa said Ollila, one of Finland's best known business leaders who once considered running for president and is also a former chairman of Royal Dutch Shell, was quick-tempered and spread fear in the organisation, which curbed open discussion and led to a reluctance to share bad news.\nSiilasmaa said he proposed Nokia look into choosing Google's Android platform for Nokia's smartphones over the company's own Symbian system in 2009, but a memo he had sent to Ollila was never discussed in the boardroom.\n\"Ruined legacy\"\nSiilasmaa said Ollila also sought to prevent his election as chairman in 2012, and yelled at him over phone when he briefed Ollila the following year about the plan to sell the handset business to Microsoft.\n\"Our conversation followed the usual pattern: I tried to be polite; he exploded and yelled that I had ruined his legacy,\" Siilasmaa wrote.\nOllila, now 68 and retired from frontline business, was Nokia chief executive in the phonemaker's heyday from 1992 to 2006, a year before the iPhone's launch, and then served as its chairman until 2012.\nIn Finland's Helsingin Sanomat daily he said that Siilasmaa, 52, was exaggerating with his accusations and had trouble understanding that running a large global company was different from managing a small company.\nSiilasmaa is the founder of Finnish cybersecurity and privacy company F-Secure.\nUnder Siilasmaa's command, Nokia ended up selling the handset business to Microsoft in 2014.\nNokia then bought control of a joint venture with Germany's Siemens and followed up by acquiring Franco-American Alcatel-Lucent, making itself one of the world's biggest mobile network makers.\n\u00a9 Thomson Reuters 2018\nFurther reading: Jorma Ollila, Risto Siilasmaa, Nokia, Transforming Nokia\nSony Xperia XZ2, Xperia XZ2 Compact Reportedly Receiving Android Pie Update\nPoco F1 to Be Available to Buy Offline in India via Mi Home Stores Starting October 13\nRealme X Hate-to-Wait Sale to Be Held in India Today at 8pm\nVivo Y7s With 4,500mAh Battery, Triple Rear Cameras Launched","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
+{"text":"17th December 2019 1 minute read\nRecruitment International: Green Park the only recruiter to list on Fast Track 100 2019\nThe annual Sunday Times Virgin Atlantic Fast Track 100 is a league table that ranks Britain's private companies with the fastest growing sales. This year, Green Park is the only recruitment agency to rank within this league, achieving high sales of \u00a390.1 million in the last financial year. Green Park ranked 70th place and was one of 18 new London based entrants.\nOver three years, the annual sales growth of the company was 55% and during this time Green Park have placed leaders in over 55 countries. The Fast Track 100 features 29 other companies with headquarters in London. These companies employ 3,810 people and have an average sales growth of 76% a year, totalling \u00a3904.1m over these three years.\nCo-founder and CEO of Green Park, Raj Tulsiani, commented, \"As a passionate advocate of the power of diversity as a source of competitive advantage, Green Park has always placed the promotion of equality, diversity and inclusion at the heart of our business. Internally, we're a living example of the way an organisation that encourages diversity of thought in their workforce will outperform monocultures in turbulent international markets.\"\n\"We believe that the UK's productivity gap can be reduced through the inclusion and engagement of all employees, therefore we have built our proposition around helping organisations build, buy and understand talent in ways that drive increased inclusion, engagement and productivity. In 2018, we placed a diverse leader on a Board every 14 days and this year we placed a diverse leader on a board every 8 days. By 2025, I want to make that a diverse person on a board every single day.\"\nThe above is a summary of an article published in Recruitment International on 4\/12\/19. For the full, Recruitment International article, please click here.\nRetail Week | Addressing the lack of Black talent in the Tech 100 index \u2013 and how to fix it\nThe Guardian | Join the movement for race equality!\nIntentionally inclusive\nGet the latest from Green Park\nPlease enter your details here\nAlready have a Client Area login?","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
+{"text":"\u5b78\u9662\u5225 > \u6210\u529f\u5927\u5b78 > \u7ba1\u7406\u5b78\u9662 > \u570b\u969b\u7d93\u71df\u7ba1\u7406\u7814\u7a76\u6240\u78a9\u58eb\u5728\u8077\u5c08\u73ed\n\u8ad6\u6587\u540d\u7a31(\u4e2d\u6587) The Effects of Organizational Responsiveness on the Internationalization Process: The Moderating Role of Entrepreneurial Orientation\n\u8ad6\u6587\u540d\u7a31(\u82f1\u6587) The Effects of Organizational Responsiveness on the Internationalization Process: The Moderating Role of Entrepreneurial Orientation\n\u7cfb\u6240\u540d\u7a31(\u4e2d) \u570b\u969b\u7d93\u71df\u7ba1\u7406\u7814\u7a76\u6240\u78a9\u58eb\u5728\u8077\u5c08\u73ed\n\u7cfb\u6240\u540d\u7a31(\u82f1) Institute of International Management (IIMBA--Master)(on the job class)\n\u7814\u7a76\u751f(\u4e2d\u6587) \u90b1\u4f73\u9f8d\n\u7814\u7a76\u751f(\u82f1\u6587) Chia-Lung Chiu\n\u5b78\u865f ra795113\n\u53e3\u8a66\u59d4\u54e1 \u53ec\u96c6\u59d4\u54e1-\u9673\u6b63\u5fe0\n\u53e3\u8a66\u59d4\u54e1-\u5f35\u7d39\u57fa\n\u6307\u5c0e\u6559\u6388-\u5433\u842c\u76ca\n\u4e2d\u6587\u95dc\u9375\u5b57 none\n\u82f1\u6587\u95dc\u9375\u5b57 Business performance Internationalization Entrepreneurial orientation Guanxi networks Competitor-related responsiveness Customer-related responsiveness\n\u4e2d\u6587\u6458\u8981 none\n\u82f1\u6587\u6458\u8981 In the past decades, small and medium enterprises (SMEs) have played important roles in the Taiwanese economic development history. Till this moment SMEs are still a major contributor in Taiwanese economy and they are still playing an important role as supply chain members and partners for Taiwanese multinational enterprises (MNCs). Due to nowadays the global environment changes so quickly, more and more competition is coming from worldwide especially from emerging countries or developing countries. These competition and challenges are more severe and totally different from the competition in the early years. Especially, Taiwan is a just small island country owning a very small domestic market, probably the best way for Taiwanese SMEs to compete with worldwide competitors is to invest internationally and then try to utilize foreign resource like foreign human resource, natural resource and money capital. Besides investing internationally, SMEs should also pay more attention on market orientation, especially on the aspect of customer and competitor and also try to utilize guanxi networks to gain more resource from domestic government or foreign countries. However, research on this issue is limited and deserves further evaluation. Thus, this study focuses on how \"customer-related responsiveness and competitor-related responsiveness\" influence SMEs' internationalization and how internationalization orientation influences guanxi networks and firms' performance. In addition, one moderator, \"entrepreneurial orientation\" is proposed to examine the influences of competitor-related responsiveness on internationalization\" and on business performance.\"\nThe data was collected from 153 companies and these respondents are all SMEs in Taiwan. In addition, these survey companies are all doing international business like exporting, etc.\nThe results of this study are summarized as follows: (1) Customer-related responsiveness has significantly influence on outward internationalization, especially for the information generation, dissemination and customer orientation of the affective organizational system. Customer-related responsiveness has significant influence on inward internationalization, especially for information dissemination. (2) Customer-related responsiveness has significant influence on non-financial performance, especially for the information dissemination and customer orientation of the affective organizational system. Customer-related responsiveness has significant influence on financial performance, especially for the information generation and information analysis. (3) Competitor-related responsiveness has significant influence on outward internationalization, especially for the information generation. Competitor-related responsiveness has significant influence on inward internationalization, especially for competitor orientation of the affective organizational system. (4) Competitor-related responsiveness has significant influence on non-financial performance, especially for information analysis. Competitor-related responsiveness has significant influence on financial performance, especially for information storage. (5) Internationalization has significant influence on domestic guanxi networks, especially for inward internationalization. Internationalization has significant influence on foreign guanxi networks, especially for outward and inward internationalization. (6) Guanxi networks have significant influence on non-financial performance, especially for domestic guanxi networks. Guanxi networks have significant influence on financial performance, especially for domestic guanxi networks. (7) EO has moderating effect for the influence of cognitive organizational system of competitor orientation on inward internationalization. (8) Innovativeness of EO has moderating effect for the influence of cognitive organizational system of competitor orientation on non-financial performance. Proactiveness of EO has moderating effect for the influence of cognitive organizational system and non-financial performance.\n\u8ad6\u6587\u76ee\u6b21 ACKNOWLEDGEMENT\tI\nLIST OF TABLES\tX\nLIST OF FIGURES\tXIV\nCHAPTER ONE INTRODUCTION\t1\n1.1 Research Background and Motivation\t1\n1.2 Research Objectives\t4\n1.3 Structure of the Research and the Scopes of the Study\t5\n1.4 Research Process\t6\nCHAPTER TWO LITERATURE REVIEW\t8\n2.1 Small & Medium Enterprise (SME)\t8\n2.1.1 The Definition of Manufacturing Small and Medium Entreprise in Taiwan\t8\n2.1.2 The Development and The Current Status of SMEs in Taiwan\t11\n2.2 Definition of Constructs\t11\n2.2.1 Customer-related Responsiveness & Competirior-related Responsiveness\t11\n2.2.2 Internationalization\t14\n2.2.3 Internationalization Motivation\t15\n2.2.4 Guanxi Networks\t17\n2.2.5 Business Performance\t18\n2.2.6 Entreprential Orientation\t18\n2.3 Relationship Among Research Construct\t20\n2.3.1 The Relationship between Customer-related Responsiveness and Internationalization\t20\n2.3.2 The Relationship between Customer-related Responsiveness and Business Performance\t21\n2.3.3 The Relationship between Competitor-related Responsiveness and Internationalization\t22\n2.3.4 The Relationship between Competitor-related Responsiveness and Business Performance\t23\n2.3.5 The Moderating Effect of Entrepreneurial Orientation on the Relationship between Competitor-related Responsiveness and Internationalization\t23\n2.3.6 The Moderating Effect of Entrepreneurial Orientation on the Relationship between Competitor-related Responsiveness and Business Performance\t24\n2.3.7 The Relationship between Internationalization and Guanxi Networks\t25\n2.3.8 The Relationship between Guanxi Networks and Business Performance\t26\nCHAPTER THREE RESEARCH DESIGN AND METHODOLOGY\t28\n3.1 The Conceptual Model\t28\n3.2 Research Hypothesis\t29\n3.2.1 Customer-related Responsiveness\t29\n3.2.2 Competitor-related Responsiveness\t31\n3.2.6 Entrepreneurial Orientation\t35\n3.3 The Information of Firms and Respondents\t36\n3.4 Hypothesis to Be Tested\t37\n3.5 Sampling Plan\t38\n3.6 Data Analysis Procedure\t38\n3.6.1 Descriptive Statistic Analysis\t38\n3.6.2 Purification and Realiability of the Measurement Variabless\t39\n3.6.3 Relationships between Research Variables\t40\nCHAPTER FOUR DISCRIPTIVE ANALYSIS AND RELIABILITY TEST\t41\n4.1 Descriptive Analyisis\t41\n4.1.1 Response Rates\t41\n4.1.2 Characteristics of Sampling Firms and Respondents\t42\n4.1.3 Measurement Results for Relevant Research Variables\t44\n4.2 Exploratory Factor Analysis\t51\n4.2.1 Customer-related Responsiveness Analysis\t51\n4.2.2 Competitor--related Responsiveness Analysis\t53\n4.2.3 Internationalization Analysis\t54\n4.2.4 Guanxi Networks Analysis\t55\n4.2.5 Business Performance Analysis\t56\n4.2.6 Entrepreneurial Orientation Analysis\t57\n4.3 ANOVA Analysis\t58\nCHAPTER FIVE RESEARCH ANALYSIS AND RESULTS\t62\n5.1 The Influence of Customer-Related Responsiveness on Internationalization\t62\n5.1.1 The Influence of Customer-related Responsiveness on Outward Internationalization\t63\n5.1.2 The Influence of Customer-related Responsiveness on Inward nternationalization\t65\n5.2 The Influence of Customer-Related Responsiveness on Business Performance\t67\n5.2.1 The Influence of Customer-related Responsiveness on Non-finacial Performance\t68\n5.2.2 The Influence of Customer-related Responsiveness on Finacial Performance\t70\n5.3 The Influence of Competitor-Related Responsiveness on Internationalization\t72\n5.3.1 The Influence of Competitor-related Responsiveness on Outward Internationalization\t73\n5.3.2 The Influence of Competitor-related Responsiveness on Inward Internationalization\t74\n5.4 The Influence of Competitor-Related Responsiveness on Business Performance\t76\n5.4.1 The Influence of Competitor-related Responsiveness on Non-finacial Performance\t77\n5.4.2 The Influence of Competitor-related Responsiveness on Finacial Performance\t79\n5.5 The Influence of Internationalization on Guanxi Networks\t81\n5.5.1 The Influence of Internationalization on Domestic Guanxi Networks\t82\n5.5.2 The Influence of Internationalization of Foreign Guanxi Networks\t83\n5.6 The Influence of Guanxi Networks on Business Performance\t85\n5.6.1 The Influence of Guanxi Networks on Non-financial Performance\t85\n5.6.2 The Influence of Guanxi Networks on Financial Performance\t86\n5.7 The Moderating Role of Entrepreneurial on Competitor-related Responsiveness and Internationalization\t88\n5.7.1 The Moderating Role of Entrepreneurial Orientation for the Influence of the Cognitive Organizational System on Outward Internationalization\t88\n5.7.2 The Moderating Role of Entrepreneurial Orientation for the Influence of the Cognitive Organizational System on Inward Internationalization\t89\n5.7.3 The Moderating Role of Entrepreneurial Orientation for the Influence of the Affective Organizational System on Outward Internationalization\t92\n5.7.4 The Moderating Role of Entrepreneurial Orientation for the Influence of the Affective Organizational System on Inward Internationalization\t93\n5.8 The Moderating Role of Entrepreneurial on Competitor-related Responsiveness and Business Performance\t95\n5.8.1 The Moderating Role of Entrepreneurial Orientation for the Influence of the Cognitive Organizational System on Non-financial Performance\t95\n5.8.2 The Moderating Role of Entrepreneurial Orientation for the Influence of the Cognitive Organizational System on Financial Performance\t98\n5.8.3 The Moderating Role of Entrepreneurial Orientation for the Influence of the Affective Organizational System on Non-financial Performance\t99\n5.8.4 The Moderating Role of Entrepreneurial Orientation for the Influence of the Affective Organizational System on Financial Perofrmance\t101\n5.9 The Structure Equation Model (SEM) for the Structure\t102\nCHAPTER SIX CONCLUSION AND SUGGESTION\t106\n6.1 Conclusion 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+{"text":"Roe v Wade: Anti-abortion push rocks reputation of top US court\nWashington, DC \u2013 Late last year, US Justice Sonia Sotomayor asked whether the Supreme Court would survive the \"stench\" of perceived politicisation if it were to revoke the constitutional right to abortion in the United States.\nFor some critics of the top court's conservative majority, the early answer is no.\n\"If we start to no longer believe that the rule of law is founded on principles, rather than the whims of politicians wearing robes, then we're really no longer America any more,\" said Subodh Chandra, a civil rights lawyer based in Cleveland, Ohio.\n\"We're no better than a banana republic at that point.\"\nChandra is amongst many legal experts and women's rights activists who are already questioning the reputation of the high court after a draft ruling indicating the court would overturn Roe v Wade \u2013 the landmark 1973 precedent that made abortions legal \u2013 was leaked to the press on Monday.\nThe court confirmed the draft's authenticity on Tuesday, but said it was not final. Still, the unofficial decision has sparked nationwide anger with critics arguing that overturning Roe would demonstrate that the court's nine justices \u2013 six of whom were appointed by Republican presidents, including three by Donald Trump \u2013 are political actors, not impartial jurists.\nAccording to Politico, which first published the draft decision late on Monday, Justice Samuel Alito \u2013 a George W Bush appointee \u2013 wrote the preliminary decision, which was also backed by conservative Justice Clarence Thomas and Trump's three appointees \u2013 Justices Neil Gorsuch, Brett Kavanaugh and Amy Coney Barrett.\n\"The larger issue that we should all be alarmed by is the sliding back of the US democracy, the dismantling of the rule of law, the slipperiness that now has been invoked within the court in terms of precedent \u2026 having very little meaning,\" said Michele Goodwin, a law professor at the University of California, Irvine.\n'More politicised'\nPolitical makeup\nAlito's draft\nThe leak\nGoodwin said it is difficult to take the court seriously when justices follow such \"dramatically drawn lines\" that align with political parties' ideology.\n\"Part of the American concern right now is that the court has perhaps been infected by the kind of political partisanship that we see in the legislatures,\" she told Al Jazeera. \"And that it's kind of creeped its way into the Supreme Court, which is supposed to be unfazed, unmoved and unmoored or anchored to political party ideology and platform.\"\nGoodwin noted that when Roe was decided in 1973 in a seven-to-two ruling, it was backed by five justices appointed by Republican presidents.\nNearly 50 years later, with \"pro-life\" activism rising to the forefront of the agenda of the Republican Party, right-wing candidates have openly campaigned on appointing anti-abortion rights justices in an effort to overturn Roe.\nAsked during a 2016 presidential debate whether he would want the Supreme Court to overrule Roe v Wade, Trump said: \"If we put another two or perhaps three justices on \u2026 that will happen, and that'll happen automatically, in my opinion, because I am putting pro-life justices on the court.\"\nIn an unusual move earlier that same year, Trump released a list of conservative jurists as his potential picks to the Supreme Court. Supreme Court justices are appointed by the president for lifetime terms. They have to be confirmed by a simple majority in the Senate.\n\"There have been external pressures that the court should become more politicised,\" Goodwin said. \"We saw that in stark terms with the last president, Donald Trump, making quite explicitly that he would bring political ideology into the space of appointing federal judges. The movement wouldn't be about qualifications, the ability to interpret law, about judicial temperament, but then it would be specifically around achieving certain political goals.\"\nThe potential overturning of Roe v Wade comes in the context of a legal challenge to a Mississippi state law that bans most abortions after 15 weeks.\nWhen Justice Sotomayor \u2013 a Barack Obama appointee \u2013 warned about the \"stench\" that revoking the constitutional right to abortion would unleash, she cited Mississippi politicians who had said the state's anti-abortion law would be upheld due to the changing political makeup of the top court.\n\"Will this institution survive the stench that this creates in the public perception that the Constitution and its reading are just political acts? I don't see how it is possible,\" Sotomayor said.\nGoodwin stressed that Roe is not merely a 49-year-old decision, but a precedent that has been repeatedly confirmed, including as recently as 2020 when the Supreme Court struck down a Louisiana state law that aimed to restrict abortion access.\nBut what changed between 2020 and 2022 is that liberal Justice Ruth Bader Ginsberg died and was replaced by Barrett, a staunch conservative. Although conservatives have had a 5-4 majority on the court for years, Chief Justice John Roberts has previously voted to uphold Roe as a precedent.\nEarlier this week, Democratic politicians voiced concern about the standing and future of the court if it rescinds the right to abortion.\n\"Several of these conservative justices, who are in no way accountable to the American people, have lied to the US Senate, ripped up the Constitution and defiled both precedent and the Supreme Court's reputation,\" Speaker of the House of Representatives Nancy Pelosi and Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, both Democrats, said in a joint statement on Tuesday.\nSenator Lisa Murkowski, a moderate Republican, also told reporters that the draft decision \"rocks\" her \"confidence\" in the top court.\nIn his draft opinion, Alito argues that the landmark precedent must be overruled partly because the US Constitution \"makes no reference to abortion\", calling for the issue to be resolved at the state level though the political process.\n\"It is time to heed the Constitution and return the issue of abortion to the people's elected representatives,\" he wrote, according to Politico's leaked draft.\nChandra, the lawyer, dismissed both arguments, stressing that fundamental rights are protected by the Constitution to be shielded from political shifts and tyrannical majorities. \"The whole point of rights is there are certain things governments can't take away from us,\" he told Al Jazeera.\n\"There are certain liberties the government can't take away from us and subjecting ourselves to the prejudices of the tyrannical majority is precisely what the founders caution against. It's why they created the Bill of Rights and why they referred specifically to unenumerated rights.\"\nThe Bill of Rights \u2013 the first 10 amendments to the US Constitution \u2013 is meant to assert individual, legal and political rights. The Ninth Amendment states that not all rights are listed in the Constitution. It says: \"The enumeration in the Constitution, of certain rights, shall not be construed to deny or disparage others retained by the people.\"\nChandra added that overturning Roe and leaving abortion matters to the states would make fundamental rights unequal across the country.\n\"We'll have a situation where someone in Texas is less free than someone in California, and Texas can retaliate against their own residents for daring to travel across state lines to exercise freedoms in California. That's where this is all headed,\" he said.\nFor her part, Goodwin said the \"overwhelming majority of rights that we hold dear\" are not articulated specifically in the Constitution.\n\"The Constitution [enshrines] equality amongst all citizens,\" she said. \"Women and girls are citizens of this country and are to be afforded equality; they are to be afforded substantive due process and the recognition of their fundamental rights.\"\nJustice Samuel Alito was appointed to the top US court in 2006 by then President George W Bush [File: Erin Schaff\/The New York Times via AP]\nWhile women's rights advocates have focused most of their anger this week on the potential overturning of Roe v Wade, Republican ire has centred on the leaking of the draft opinion, which is unprecedented.\nGOP Senator Ted Cruz said he was \"flabbergasted\" by the leak, speculating \u2013 without offering evidence \u2013 that \"some angry left-wing law clerk\" is behind it.\n\"This is the consequence of the Democrats' rabidly partisan effort to undermine the court, to attack the court,\" he told Fox News on Tuesday.\nChandra said the leak demonstrates how politicised the court has become, but he stressed that the real story is the draft ruling itself, not the fact that it was prematurely made public. \"They are shouting 'squirrel', trying to distract us from just how odious the opinion is,\" he said.\nLynne Rambo, a professor emerita at Texas A&M University School of Law, said the leak \"increases the likelihood that the court will be seen as a political institution\".\n\"And that's very bad for us \u2013 because the court is supposed to be an institution that's free of political and public pressure,\" she told Al Jazeera in a TV interview.\n\"Whether it will affect the justices' deliberations in this case, I think there's not a great likelihood of that, but in the future they will be aware that they are at risk of this kind of exposure and I do think that inhibits their discussion and ability to deliberate.\"\nPrevious Diets high in protein, zinc and vitamin B3 boost heart health, study finds\nNext Are Sweden and Finland under threat?","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
+{"text":"Podcast Interview with CIO Kevin Wiese, Part 2: \"We End Up Learning From Our Non-IT Staff.\"\nKevin Wiese, CIO, BestSelf Behavioral Health\nWhen you have timelines in place and milestones to meet, as CIOs always do, the last thing you want is to delay them. But when disaster strikes \u2013 and poses a strain on your team's resources \u2013 difficult decisions have to be made; projects need to be put on hold and expectations need to be adjusted.\nIt's a difficult scenario for any organization; particularly one specializing in behavioral health, where \"patients can be even more distressed and have more anxiety and worry.\" For BestSelf, which was formed by the merger of Child & Adolescent Treatment Services and Lake Shore Behavioral Health, meeting this needs of this population is one priority that cannot be put on hold, according to Kevin Wiese. Recently, he spoke with healthsystemCIO about how his team worked to ensure care continuity during the pandemic, all while ensuring a major EHR migration stays on track, and how he has been able to leverage his previous experience in project management. He also discussed the key challenges in going through a merger, how the organization is looking to improve security, and what he enjoys most about working in the behavioral health setting.\nEHR training with super users\nLeading technology integration during the merger\nMigrating records: \"We planned thoroughly and had the right people involved.\"\nThe \"large & lengthy project\" of merging data centers\nFrom the vendor to the provider side\nValue of executive support \u2013 \"That goes a long way in helping me do my job.\"\nTelehealth's potential impact in behavioral health\n\"We don't want these to be IT projects.\"\nLISTEN HERE USING THE PLAYER BELOW OR SUBSCRIBE THROUGH YOUR FAVORITE PODCASTING SERVICE.\nhttps:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/healthsystemcio\/content.blubrry.com\/healthsystemcio\/Kevin-Wiese-CIO-BestSelf-Chapter-2.mp3\nSubscribe: Apple Podcasts | Google Podcasts | Spotify | Android | Pandora | iHeartRadio | Stitcher | Podchaser | Podcast Index | Email | TuneIn | RSS\nIt took some time, as these things do, but we planned thoroughly on the IT side, and we had the right people involved.\nOur executive team really supports the use of technology, understands the importance of it, and understands the importance of security. That goes a long way in helping someone like me do my job\nOn the IT side, we look at our staff as our customers. We have a thousand customers here at BestSelf; our top priority is to provide the best service to them that we possibly can.\nThe behavior health space tends to have a higher no-show rate for visits than other specialties, and so we're wondering if the convenience of being able to do a telehealth session can help us reduce that rate. Time will tell as we continue to look at the data.\nOftentimes, we end up learning things from our non-IT staff. So, it's important for us to survey those folks and do a thorough job of testing applications before we go ahead and do a mass deployment.\nGamble: A big part of transitioning to any new solution is training. Can you talk about your approach to that?\nWiese: We're lucky enough to have a wonderful training department at BestSelf that will play a large part in coordinating and conducting the training program for the new EHR system. We'll start meeting with them to craft a strategy for how we're going to involve our super users, get them trained, and develop plans to get the rest of the organization up to speed on the product, hopefully by the end of this year.\nWe haven't finalized anything yet, but that will no doubt include things like a training lab where folks can get some hands-on experience with the application. It includes some web-based training as well that makes it easier for folks to attend and view at their convenience, along with some recorded training as well. There will also be an added focus on particular job duties; for example, trainings for counselors, physicians, and administrative office staff.\nGamble: Right. Now, you were at Lakeshore Behavioral Health prior to the merger. What type of role did you have at that point?\nWiese: I was initially hired by Lakeshore as the clinical EMR manager. At the time, Lakeshore had about 250 employees. I was brought in to manage the EHR application; I helped optimize the organization's use of the application, and ensure it was using all the features and functionalities.\nGamble: How did your role change from there?\nWiese: At the time of the merger, I had been promoted to the vice president of information systems, and so I led the technology integration portion. There were two large pieces to that. One was the traditional IT infrastructure piece \u2014 the data center, and the second was the merging of client records in the EMR system. To our advantage, both organizations used the same Cerner EHR platform at the time.\nGamble: I'm sure that made it a bit more manageable.\nWiese: Absolutely. There was a lot less training; in fact, there was very little training that had to take place because of that. The biggest lift was we decided to migrate the active client records from Child and Adolescent Treatment Service' Cerner database, because they were smaller at the time, so they migrated those records into the Lakeshore database.\nGamble: That aside, was it a fairly manageable merger, and far as everything that needed to happen from an IT standpoint?\nWiese: It went well. It took some time, as these things do, but we planned thoroughly on the IT side, and we had the right people involved. It was more challenging probably for the Child and Adolescent Treatment Services staff, just because they were migrating into our EHR system. And so, although there are a lot of similarities, there were also differences in the types of forms, or the appearance of a treatment plan, or the look of a progress note that required some adjustment for the staff. We really merged two data centers into one. That was another large and lengthy project that took probably about a year. One organization had its data hosted by an IT partner here in the Buffalo area, and Lakeshore had its own onsite data center. And so we decided to pick up those two and merge them.\nGamble: You mentioned before having some experience on the vendor side. What made you interested in coming to healthcare, and specifically to behavioral health?\nWiese: I've always enjoyed the healthcare side of things. And actually, prior to my time with the medical software company, I worked at a local hospital in Buffalo. I enjoyed healthcare and I enjoyed technology, and at the time, I decided to move on. Things were changing in the EMR industry. A lot of the practices I was leading already had EMR systems in place, so there wasn't as big of a need on the new implementation side. I had a desire to get involved with a healthcare organization where I could work on the technology side and work for a company that was delivering needed health services in the community. I found that here.\nGamble: What would you say are the biggest challenges of working in the behavioral health space?\nWiese: Funding is always a challenge in the nonprofit sector, but we do a good job here. We have a team that does a great job of managing those funding sources and taking advantage of as many grant opportunities as we can. Our executive team really supports the use of technology, understands the importance of it, and understands the importance of security. That goes a long way in helping someone like me do my job and deliver good services and support to the organization.\nGamble: On the flip side, what are some of the biggest benefits of being in behavioral health?\nWiese: BestSelf is a wonderful organization to work for. Management is very supportive, and there's a lot of autonomy. It's a great place to work from that standpoint. And we provide a great service to the community. Our clients feel that they get a lot of benefit out of the services they receive from our folks.\nEveryone here really cares about the services they provide. On the IT side, we look at our staff as our customers. We have a thousand customers here at BestSelf; our top priority is to provide the best service to them that we possibly can.\nGamble: It's been interesting to see telehealth get the push it needed. And as you pointed out, some patients actually prefer it. What are your thoughts on what we might see as this shakes out, particularly in the behavioral health space?\nWiese: There are a couple of interesting things we're curious about. One thing we're continuing to monitor is staff productivity. Obviously, on the fiscal side, we need to make sure our staff are being productive and that we continue to bring in revenue. We have a lot of dashboards and visualizations that allow us to keep almost a real-time look at that.\nAnother area we're curious about is no-show rates, and whether we'll see an impact there. The behavior health space tends to have a higher no-show rate for visits than other specialties, and so we're wondering if the convenience of being able to do a telehealth session can help us reduce that rate. Time will tell as we continue to look at the data.\nAnother really big effort is our information security program. In addition to the EHR initiative, that's a top priority here in 2020. We've really ramped up our efforts and are looking to make some big gains on the security side here this year.\nGamble: Do you currently have a security officer?\nWiese: That's one thing we've addressed. I'm actually our HIPAA security officer; I've historically managed that piece. We also have a security team that includes our CFO, our IT manager, and our chief compliance officer. But we also recently hired a security compliance analyst, which is going to be a great addition to our organization, and we've partnered with an IT vendor in the area for some managed security services. We really felt that we needed to address those two components of our information security program. One is the technical side and the other is the compliance side. We want to ensure we have the proper policies and procedures in place, and that we're adhering to them.\nWe just completed a comprehensive review and revision of our security policies and procedures. We're getting ready to deploy a multifactor authentication solution, and we've recently deployed a secure management platform which really helps us on the HIPAA security side as well. So there are a lot of important things going on here on the information side and the cybersecurity side.\nGamble: That's so important. Do you think that providers understand why it needs to be done, even though these things can disrupt workflow? Has that been a challenge, or is there an understanding of what needs to happen in terms of security measures?\nWiese: We certainly hope there's an understanding. We have what we think is a pretty good security awareness program where we continually try to train and reinforce threats and things that folks need to be aware of. Like I said, we have good support from the executive team here on these investments.\nIt needs to be integrated into everything our folks do. With our multifactor authentication project, for example, we did a thorough proof of concept with the vendor. We piloted it not only in IT, but also with about 20 of our program managers and directors to get their feedback and see what types of issues they might encounter, and to be able to leverage them for buy-in across the organization.\nGamble: I would think that can really make a difference in getting buy-in and building trust.\nWiese: We hope so. As the saying goes, we don't want these to just be IT projects. We want people to feel included, and we want to give folks an option to express their opinions. Oftentimes, we end up learning things from our non-IT staff. So, it's important for us to survey those folks and do a thorough job of testing applications before we go ahead and do a mass deployment.\nGamble: I'm glad you brought that up \u2014 security is such a key component in every aspect of care delivery.\nWiese: Sure. It's what we're eating and breathing nowadays.\nGamble: Right. Well, this has been great. I want to thank you so much for your time, and I'd like to follow up down the road, especially as you get further into the implementation.\nWiese: That would be great. I'm always happy to talk. I appreciate you reaching out and I look forward to another conversation down the road.\nPodcast Interview with CIO Kevin Wiese, Part 1: \"I'm Just Trying to Guide the Process.\"\nLearning From Leaders\nLearning To Fly\nThe Leadership Learning Curve\nWeathering A Non-Storm\nFiled Under: Behavioral Health, Cybersecurity, Featured, Interviews, Patient Experience, Telehealth Tagged With: BestSelf Behavioral Health, Kevin Wiese, Podcast\nNotify me of followup comments via e-mail. Subscribe without commenting.","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
+{"text":"Home \/ News \/ Construction & Development \/ Abbott Northwestern kicks off $28M renovation\nAllina Health System is planning a two-year renovation of Abbott Northwestern Hospital's emergency department at 800 E. 28th St. in Minneapolis. (Staff photo: Bill Klotz)\nAbbott Northwestern kicks off $28M renovation\nBy: Brian Johnson August 11, 2015 4:06 pm\nHere's a typical treatment room for Abbott Northwestern's emergency department once a $28 million renovation is completed. (Submitted rendering: HGA)\nFor many people admitted to Allina Health System's Abbott Northwestern Hospital in Minneapolis, their stay begins with a trip to the emergency room \u2014 and a long walk to the check-in desk.\nThe emergency department's drop-off area is about 100 feet from the desk, which can be an arduous journey for ailing visitors, said Choy Leow, director of design for Minneapolis-based Allina.\n\"That 100 feet could well be 100 miles from a patient's perspective,\" Leow said in an interview.\nThat will change soon with help from a $28 million emergency department \"redesign\" project that brings the check-in desk closer to the curb and improves the overall operations and patient experience.\nAbbott Northwestern kicked off the project Tuesday with a ceremonial \"wall breaking\" at the hospital, at 800 E. 28th St. in the Phillips neighborhood. The event also included recognition of a $3 million donation for the project from the Rod and Barbara Burwell family.\nThe hospital is one of many upgrading their emergency departments across the state. A recent example is Fairview Southdale Hospital in Edina, which spent $39 million on a project that quadruples the space of its existing emergency department.\n\"You are seeing significant investment in emergency departments so they have a high service capability and operate strategically to attract admissions,\" Allan Baumgarten, an independent analyst with the Minnesota Health Market Review, told Finance & Commerce in 2013. At the time more than three-dozen emergency departments in the state were undergoing renovations and expansions.\nConstruction at Abbott Northwestern is expected to proceed in four phases, with the first phase wrapping up in mid-2016 and overall completion in 2017, Leow said.\nAbbott's emergency department currently serves about 50,000 people each year, and it's expected to reach 60,000 once the renovation is completed. Roughly 40 percent of all hospital admissions come through the department, the hospital said.\nLeow said the space was built in the 1970s and most recently updated in the 1990s. The project will cover about 36,000 square feet of space and include 38 exam rooms, he said.\nThe project is intended to modernize those spaces, improve access, provide faster triage for critically ill patients, expand spaces for mental health crisis care, and create an \"aesthetically healing environment,\" the hospital said.\nMinneapolis-based HGA Architects and Engineers, a prolific health care facilities designer, is working on the project. A builder hasn't been selected yet, but Golden Valley-based Mortenson Construction has provided some pre-construction services, Leow said.\nJennifer Klund, a health care principal at HGA, said the number of exam rooms will increase only slightly, but they will allow for more efficient operations. Future expansion is possible to accommodate 48 rooms, she said.\n\"It's not about the number of rooms per se, but how we deliver care for folks,\" Klund said in an interview.\nThe renovation has been in the works for about 20 years, Leow said. \"It's essentially a customer-friendly project to make sure we are up to current-day patient and family expectations,\" he said.\nThe project comes about three years after completion of another big project at Abbott Northwestern, the $36.5 million, 98,000-square-foot Mother Baby Center, a joint project of Allina Health and Children's Hospitals & Clinics of Minnesota.\nThe Mother Baby Center merged Abbott Northwestern's labor, delivery and newborn nurseries with Children's neonatal intensive care union, special care nursery and infant care center.\nAllina Health is a nonprofit health care system with more than 90 clinics, 13 hospitals, 16 retail pharmacies, and specialty care centers in Minnesota and Wisconsin, according to its website.\nAbbott Northwestern Hospital Allina Health System Fairview Southdale Hospital HGA Architects and Engineers Mortenson Construction Mother Baby Center 4:06 pm Tue, August 11, 2015 Finance & Commerce","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
+{"text":"You are here: Home \/ Console \/ Divinity Original Sin Enhanced Edition Launches On PS4 This Month\nDivinity Original Sin Enhanced Edition Launches On PS4 This Month\nThis week, Larian Studios reported that the Divinity: Original Sin Enhanced Edition is launching on PS4 consoles on October 27. In addition, the studio launched a brand new combat trailer for PS4 in order to provide those interested with a look at what you can expect from the different modes, offline cooperative features and combat within the game.\nThe console version of the new and enhanced RPG edition, originally designed for PC, will offer players everything included in the original version, featuring 12 classes which include a new Inquisitor class to enjoy, alongside new game modes and combat systems to enjoy.\nThe game's developers - Larian Studios the games, revealed more details below:\n\"Today's Combat Trailer introduces a new generation to the combat of Divinity: Original Sin \u2013 Enhanced Edition. 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+{"text":"Home > News > Compliance > Citigroup Ordered to Change Cash Balance Payment Credits\nCompliance November 27, 2007\nCitigroup Ordered to Change Cash Balance Payment Credits\nA federal judge in New York has ordered Citigroup to increase the payment credits in its cash balance plan to comply with minimum accrual rules.\nBy Fred Schneyer\nThe latest ruling from U.S. District Judge Shira A. Scheindlin of the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York followed her order a year ago that the Citigroup cash balance program violated the Employee Retirement Income Security Act's (ERISA) anti-backloading rules (See Court Gives Thumbs Down to Citigroup Cash Balance Plan). The plan, Scheindlin ruled then, relied on a \"fractional test\" for figuring out minimum accruals only when a participant separates his or her service from Citigroup, rather than on a year-by-year basis as required by ERISA.\n\"This proposal best ensures that participants in the Plan receive the benefits to which they are entitled. As a result, this Court orders defendants to increase pay credits as required. To avoid further violation of ERISA, the Plan must make additional payments as required to avoid whipsaws,\" Scheindlin asserted in the latest decision.\nRelating to her earlier ruling that the Citigroup plan violated age discrimination rules, Scheindlin indicated in her latest decision that she would await the outcome of a pending cash balance age discrimination case from the 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals before proceeding on that issue in the Citigroup matter.\nThe latest decision in In re Citigroup Pension Plan ERISA Litigation, S.D.N.Y., No. 05 Civ. 5296, 11\/20\/07, is available here.\n\u00ab SGI Brings on Nationwide Growth Equity Traders","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
+{"text":"10 Powers Spider-Man No Longer Uses\nBy David N. Costello On Aug 24, 2022\nSpider-Man does everything a spider can do, but since his creation in 1962 by Stan Lee and Steve Ditko, he's featured many unique powers. Comic book fans might be most familiar with Spider-Sense, Web-Slinger, and the ability to crawl up walls from Web-Slinger, but Spider-Man has nearly a dozen other powers than the Web-Slinger. he doesn't use very often.\nRELATED: 10 Spider-Man Comics So Gripping You Can't Stop Reading Them\nAmong the abilities the Web-Head has displayed are a handful of powers that seem to have been overlooked, both by Marvel writers and by Spidey himself. Spider-Man may be one of the most well-known and popular heroes, but his power set is still more varied than most fans realize.\nFor a short time, Peter Parker looked even more like a spider, with eight limbs. In a strange moment during The Six Arms Saga from Stan Lee and Gil Kane, Peter takes an experimental formula to get rid of his powers.\nUnfortunately, it didn't go as planned and Peter ended up with four extra arms. While his extra limbs offered him certain benefits, such as being able to multi-task, Peter was not happy. Luckily, Curt Connors, also known as Lizard, helped Peter create an antidote to the original formula, allowing Peter to return to his normal form.\n9 Talking to spiders might be helpful\nIn The other by Peter David, Reginald Hudlin, J. Michael Straczynski, Mike Deodato, Pat Lee, and Mike Wieringo, Peter was given the ability to talk to spiders. During this arc, Peter was cocooned under the Brooklyn Bridge.\nRELATED: 10 Secrets That Ruined Everything For Spider-Man\nWhile there, he heard a strange voice telling him that he was afraid of being Spider-Man and had only focused on the human part, while neglecting the spider part. When Peter emerged from his cocoon, he could communicate with spiders. The other explored Peter's acceptance and coming to terms with his more spider-like powers, but unfortunately his ability to speak with spiders disappeared soon after.\n8 A spider-vampire is a scary thought\nSpider-Man usually deals with neighborhood issues, rarely crossing over into the horror world. However, there are two notable exceptions to this: Spider-Man's battles with Morbius and Morlun, who are both vampires. As unusual as these dangerous foes are in the world of Spider-Man, one day Spidey himself joined the ranks of the undead.\nIn Spider-Man the Vampire Slayer \u2013 by Kevin Grevioux, Roberto Castro, Walden Wong, Sandu Florea, Sotocolor, John Kalisz, Antonio Fabela, Andres Mossa and Dave Sharpe \u2013 Peter is bitten by a vampire. Peter transforms into a vampire and finds himself fighting Blade, instead of helping him. Luckily, Peter's time as a vampire was short and he came back to himself soon after.\nseven Symbiote powers originally came from a suit\nVenom, the alien symbiote, is one of Spider-Man's most well-known villains, but he originally had a different origin. The symbiote's powers originally came from a black suit, and Venom's true origin wasn't revealed until much later in Secret Wars by Jim Shooter, Mike Zeck and Bob Layton.\nWhen Peter donned the symbiote suit, he was able to access an additional set of powers. The suit made him both stronger and faster than normal, and he could shapeshift as well. He created his own webbing and was able to camouflage the suit. All of those extra powers were incredibly useful, but when Peter realized the suit was alive, he quickly got rid of it.\n6 Peter borrowed the powers of sand from an old enemy\nWhen a hero has been around as long as Spider-Man, they accumulate some interesting alternate powers through unique storylines or alternate universes. In one of these unique stories, Peter Parker: The Spectacular Spider-Man #309 \u2013 by Chip Zdarsky, Chris Bachalo, John Livesay, Al Vey, Tim Townsend, Victor Olazaba, Wayne Faucher and Travis Lanham \u2013 Spider-Man teamed up with Sandman.\nRELATED: Spider-Man: Top 10 Sandman Comics\nDuring this story, Sandman gave his powers to Spider-Man, who used them to battle an evil version of Sandman. Spider-Man only used these powers during this story, but it was interesting to see what he could do with them.\n5 Spider-Man Barely Uses His Radiation Resistance\nPeter's origin story remains one of the most famous in comics. Over the years, different authors have slightly modified certain elements, but the main details remain the same. Peter is bitten by a radioactive spider, which transfers his powers to him. An often overlooked item, the spider grants Peter immunity to radiation.\nIn The Amazing Spider-Man #30 \u2013 by J. Michael Straczynski, John Romita Jr., Scott Hanna, Dan Kemp, Richard Starkings and Wes Abbott \u2013 the vampire Morlun tries to feed on Spider-Man. Later, Peter obtains a sample of Morlun's blood and when he studies it, he discovers that Morlun is vulnerable to radiation. Peter charges himself with radiation, so when Morlun bites him again, he will be killed.\n4 Spider-man spits acid\nWhile visiting Savage Land, Spider-Man unlocked the Man-Spider, a mutated, more primitive version of himself. The final stage of Spider-Man's genetic mutation, Man-Spider sported eight limbs and even more strength than the regular Spider-Man. Man-Spider could even spit acid, a power that proved useful, albeit crude.\nThe acid that Man-Spider could spit out was very powerful and deadly. Using this acid, Spidey could melt through metal surfaces in seconds. Since this acid spit isn't part of Spider-Man's usual powers, fans rarely see it often, and many probably don't realize it's one of his abilities.\n3 Spidey's clone realized he could burn people\nAny Spider-Man fan knows that small tendrils extend from Peter's hands that allow him to stick to any surface, helping him scale walls. Peter's clone Kaine or the Scarlet Spider would discover another use for these sticky tendrils.\nKaine realized he could use them to burn his enemies, or even rip their skin off. Since Kaine is a clone of Peter, Peter can do the same. This power proves to be a brutal tool for extracting information or downing enemies in battle. Since it's a darker ability, Peter hasn't used it in a while.\n2 Spiders don't have stingers, unlike Peter.\nDuring The other by Peter David, Reginald Hudlin, J. Michael Straczynski, Mike Deodato, Pat Lee, and Mike Wieringo gave Peter powers closer to those of a real spider, including his ability to communicate with arachnids. However, some abilities Peter gained after his apparent death and stay in the cocoon weren't actually spider powers.\nRELATED: The 10 Most Awesome Spider-Man Suits\nThe other also gave Peter retractable stingers, despite the fact that no species of spider actually possesses them. Peter's darts were sticking out of his hands and looked like knives. He used them to fight Morlun and save Mary Jane. Once the arc is over, the darts are gone.\n1 Spider-Man has super speed\nSuperspeed is a common power in Marvel comics, but it's not one most people associate with Spider-Man. Spidey is best known for being incredibly agile and for his acrobatic skills. Although he can't keep up with the more famous speedsters like the Flash or the Quicksilver, Peter is incredibly fast.\nThe robot's speed helps him dodge bullets, speed through the city, and catch up to enemies on foot if he needs to. While most heroes are fast, Spider-Man's super speed hasn't been explored much in his comics.\nNEXT: 10 Spider-Man Comics That Are (Designally) Funny\nCynical internet providers complicit in child abuse through inaction\nThe global reach of child abuse through ISPs\nReviews | Can journalism get rid of the cheap clicks of bad crime coverage?\nMarvel set to kill Spider-Man and bring back his most vilified character \u2013 Inside the Magic\nYandex's sale of media assets to VK includes yandex.ru homepage \u2013 TechCrunch\nBoston University students can now change degree pronouns and names, school directory\nHow Spider-Man Lost His Powers In 'The Final Adventure'\nAndrew Garfield explains the danger that comes with playing Spider-Man","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
+{"text":"A Blog About Facts of the World\nHome \u00bb Music \u00bb 10 Facts about Amy Winehouse\n10 Facts about Amy Winehouse\nSaturday, January 17th 2015. | Music\nFacts about Amy Winehouse tell you about the English singer and songwriter. She was born on 14 September 1983 as Amy Jade Winehouse. This woman chooses the eclectic mix of music genres which make her famous because of the deep vocals. She often mixes jazz, reggae, blues, and rhythm and blues. Find out more about Winehouse below:\nFacts about Amy Winehouse 1: the debut album\nHer debut album is entitled Frank. It was released in 2003 and she gained a lot of success in UK. Her album Frank got the nomination from Mercury Prize.\nFacts about Amy Winehouse 2: Grammy Awards\nA singer must be proud when she or she can take a Grammy award. Amy got five Grammy awards in 2008 because of her follow up album Back to Black released in 2006. Therefore, she is called as the first female British who could win five Grammy Awards in a single night.\nAmy Winehouse Facts\nFacts about Amy Winehouse 3: other awards\nThere are many other awards that Amy Winehouse has collected. Others include three Ivor Novello Awards, \"Big Four\" awards, and 2007 Brit Award for Best British Female artist.\nFacts about Amy Winehouse 4: death\nIt is very sad to know that the young Amy died. She was a very talented singer and song writer. On 23 July 2011, the sad news broke and Winehouse was found dead because of alcohol poisoning.\nAmy Winehouse Pic\nFacts about Amy Winehouse 5: Greatest Women in Music\nShe took the 26th position in the list of 100 Greatest Women in Music on VH1 in 2012. Find out facts about Alicia Keys here.\nFacts about Amy Winehouse 6: Frank Sinatra\nThe title of her album was Frank. It was taken from Frank Sinatra who introduced Amy to jazz.\nAmy Winehouse Singer\nFacts about Amy Winehouse 7: place of birth\nAmy's parents were Jewish. She was born in Chase Farm Hospital in north London. Her mother is Janis Winehouse who works as a pharmacist. Her father is Mitchell Winehouse. He worked as a taxi driver.\nFacts about Amy Winehouse 8: a sibling\nShe only has one sibling. He is Alex. Her older brother was born in 1979.\nFacts about Amy Winehouse 9: musicians\nThere are many family members of Amy who worked as a professional Jazz Musicians. One of them is Cynthia. She was her paternal grandmother who worked as a Jazz singer. Get facts about Amy Lee here.\nFacts about Amy Winehouse 10: Easy Living Magazine\nAmy wanted to raise the awareness on a breast cancer by appearing in Easy Living Magazine. She appeared naked on the magazines in 2008.\nFacts about Amy Winehouse\nAre you fascinated by reading facts about Amy Winehouse?\ntags: Amy Winehouse, Facts about Amy Winehouse\nRelated For 10 Facts about Amy Winehouse\n10 Facts about Brooke Fraser\nIf you are interested to know Facts about Brooke Fraser, you have to check the following post. She was\n10 Facts about Cuban Music\nIf you want to know the history, type and style of music in Cuba, you need to look at\n10 Facts about Bruno Mars\nFacts about Bruno Mars talk about the notable American singer and songwriter. His real name is Peter Gene Hernandez.\n10 Facts about Cool Jazz\nIf you want to get informed with the style of modern jazz music which appeared after the Second World\n10 Facts about Emile Waldteufel\n10 Facts about Emile Durkheim\n10 Facts about Emiliano Zapata\n10 Facts about Emeralds\n10 Facts about Djembe Drums\n10 Facts about Dave Brubeck\n10 Facts about Blink 182\n10 Facts about China Anne McClain\nCopyright \u00a9 2017 Fact File","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
+{"text":"Out Now: ABSOLUTE. \u2013 Harmony EP\nABSOLUTE.\nThe 'Harmony' EP from Londoner ABSOLUTE. is out now on Twin Turbo. The British producer\/dj has crafted two top notch original cuts and he's joined by the returning Vakkuum on remix duty. Early support from Tiga, The Black Madonna, and more.\nStream\/Download the EP here.\nWhen presented with a young talent with his whole life and a brilliant career ahead of him, we at Twin Turbo feel the only morally acceptable thing to do is to get out of the way and minimize the risk of the least important promotional arm of the music business hindering the otherwise inevitable upswell of positive energy and unmitigated success that lay ahead.\nTiga recently took to the BBC airwaves to declare ABSOLUTE. \"a future star,\" and we're just going to leave it at that, rather than mention something the Twin Turbo label boss may have added about wanting to create an \"animal blockchain\" of up-and-coming talent. It's simply not necessary. The London-based DJ\/producer has earned support from Annie Mac, The Black Madonna and Erol Alkan, a veritable Influencer's Row of venerated tastemakers. On a more personal level, when ABSOLUTE. was younger and owned only one deck, he used to beat match along to Pete Tong's radio sets. That's genuinely charming and relatable, and requires no further embellishment . He also espouses the virtues of a strong work ethic and open-mindedness, and in doing so gives us a glimpse of what dance culture could be like if we could simply erase the miserable baggage of anyone over 24.\nAnd the music? Oh, it'll make you gotta dance all right.","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
+{"text":"As we've been planning for a second store, we've also been evaluating our own answers to questions such as, \"What impact does Willy Street Co-op have on its community?\" Although it would be difficult to attach hard numbers, we have been discussing the tangible and intangible ways in which it does. In doing so, we also realized two things: 1) we do a lot of sustainable things, and 2) they're so much a part of the way we do things, we don't always keep up with telling our Owners all the things we're doing.\nA large portion of our daily practices in sustainability and community education are driven by the Co-op's mission and monitored through the little-known Global Ends Policies, a long list of directions for what staff and management are expected to accomplish. From financial performance to safety and environmental responsibilities to name a few, the complete list of Global Ends Policies can be viewed on our website (willystreet.coop\/Global_Ends_Policy). Our hope in presenting the following information is to create awareness about those things we are doing to reduce our carbon footprint, promote sustainable businesses and organizations, and support the lives of people we serve each day.\nCarbon Happens\nA carbon footprint measures the impact an individual or business has on the environment through the burning of fossil fuels and greenhouse gas emissions generated on a typical day. This includes our heating, transportation and waste, which produce carbon dioxide and are measured in tons.\nGrocery stores generally use enormous amounts of energy to heat or cool products (not to mention the people working and shopping in them). Freezers, coolers, ovens, hot-cases, cold cases and other equipment not only consume a lot of energy, but they typically produce a lot in the form of heat. Rarely does a season go by we don't hear the store is too cold, especially in summer. This unfortunate dynamic is actually part of a plan to reduce power needs for the engines in the store's many freezers and coolers that would be forced to work harder at staying cold if the temperature around them was kept too warm. Meeting a balance that satisfies everyone's needs is our goal, however when extreme or sudden changes in outdoor temperature occur, it can take a while for the temperature in the store to adjust.\nTo offset our use of fossil fuels in the store and in our Production Kitchen, Willy Street Co-op has developed several approaches to meet our high-energy demands and to decrease wasted energy. When the current store building was acquired, designers of the space planned for lighting occupancy sensors in offices and non-retail areas to decrease wasted light energy and they installed high windows to harness day lighting wherever possible. Equipment and appliances bought for the store are Energy-Star certified, and high-efficiency refrigeration systems and a heat reclamation system were installed. Eventually a solar-collection system was installed on the Co-op's roof to offset some of the energy needs, but the scheduled installation of a solar thermal system, which will be used to pre-heat water, is expected to significantly reduce the amount of carbon-based fuels used in daily operations at the store.\nOur local energy provider, Madison Gas & Electric (MG &E) has also been working for decades to research alternative sources for clean energy and the Co-op is pleased to be a partner in their Green Wind Power program which works to expand the sustainable creation of power through the use of wind and wind turbines (windmills). MG&E is also exploring the introduction of electric vehicles in Madison and will provide another opportunity for us to cooperate by housing a charging site for this new hybrid vehicle. Two spaces in our parking lot will be accessible for electric vehicle-charging (but not reserved exclusively) where users can recharge their vehicles using the three-foot high \"pump.\". We are pleased to see MG&E working on these initiatives and hope to see these exciting projects succeed and reduce the use of not-so-green or other traditional energy resources.\nAnother commonality among retail grocery stores is our reliance on reams of paper products. To reduce our environmental impact while providing essential packaging materials, we choose post-consumer recycled paper for store supplies, including shopping bags whenever possible. And the colorful printing on those paper products became more earth-friendly when manufacturers began offering water-based inks on shopping bags and other foodservice items (cups, salad boxes, etc.).\nUntil we discover a revolutionary new plan to replace the cardboard box with a more sustainable product, we'll continue to handle the hundreds of boxes received in the store each week by crushing them together to make large bales, which are then picked up by a local recycler. Some of our vendors have found ways to save money and reduce waste by requesting that their boxes be returned to them for reuse when it's appropriate and wouldn't conflict with safe food handling guidelines. Still, only a fraction of the boxes received on a delivery day are made available for shoppers to also reuse for their groceries or personal use.\nGraduating from plastics\nNext is our use of plastic. It's taken some time, but new innovations in corn-based forks, spoons and knives have finally made it affordable to offer this compostable cutlery instead of unrecyclable plastic. If you're not on-the-go and want to enjoy your prepared foods or salads in the store, the blue plastic plates and bowls and metal cutlery available in the Deli are a good environmental choice and can be left in the dish tub in our Commons area to be washed and sanitized in our Deli kitchen. Or if you're grabbing a cup of coffee and plan to spend some time in the Commons area, let the Juice Bar staff know you'd rather use one of the available mugs or glasses at the Juice Bar.\nWhen a national natural food chain issued a press release announcing they would no longer offer plastic bags in their store, Willy Street Co-op was contacted by local news writers who inquired about our position on the plastic bag issue. We were happy to report that throughout our 35-year history, we have purchased only paper bags. We do, however, offer the reuse of plastic bags, which are dropped off by other customers.\nIn 2005, as the national movement to promote bringing your own canvas or recycled bags to the grocery store started to accelerate, we kicked off the \"Nickel & Dime Us\" campaign to encourage more people to use re-useable bags by issuing a five-cent credit to shoppers for each paper or plastic bag they brought and used or ten cents for canvas or other textile bags. By 2009, nearly 295,000 individual credits were issued for cloth and paper\/plastic bag reuse, totaling $28,388.\nThough we're seeing more and more shoppers using fabric or recycling plastic produce bags from home, our Produce department uses 100 percent post-consumer recycled content bags for customers who need them. Packaging for pre-made dips, grab-and-go food and the Deli case is made from at least 50 percent recycled post-consumer plastic bottles and we continue to seek out and request better options for these essential items from our bag vendors.\nBy the way, if you haven't already seen the clear bins near the front doors of the store, you can now unload your stashes of plastic bags in one of these City of Madison receptacles. As if it wasn't a sweet enough deal to begin with, the city plans to send their own drivers to pick-up the bags and deliver them to the recycling center.\nNuts and bolts and wires and pipes\nWhen it comes time to call a plumber, electrician, architect, or other professional, our first choice is to partner with a local business or service provider. To support an economically vibrant community, we recognize the role this decision plays in retaining and creating local jobs and reducing fuel and transportation costs.\nRighteous garbage\nSometimes things happen just when they're supposed to, and so it was on that serendipitous day when our Kitchen Manager, Josh Perkins, inquired about who we might partner with to compost the hundreds of pounds of organic fruit and vegetable scraps generated in the Willy Street Co-op kitchens each week. A call was placed to the Christie Ralston, Executive Director for Groundworks at Troy Community Farm on Madison's North Side, and they were thrilled to get the call as they were in the final stages of constructing a greenhouse to be used for teaching and sustaining the farm year-round.\nA significant project to create nutrient-rich compost through a process called vermiculture will take up one portion of the greenhouse and essential to creating compost are vegetable and fruit scraps. Christie and Farm Manager Claire Strader were even more thrilled to learn that Willy Street Co-op will also be delivering the scraps to the farm each week.\nGrounds for concern\nWork to prevent run-off from our parking lot from flowing toward Madison's lakes was in the forefront of our thinking when the Co-op's rain garden on Jenifer Street was designed and installed. Absorbing rainwater that's collected from the building's roof, loading dock and parking lot, the main garden consists of a large gulley to temporarily hold all of that water, which is deposited there through drain pipes on each end. Native plantings in the gulley were selected for their beauty and ability to withstand the occasional flooding and act as a natural water filter.\nDuring a downpour, or when melting occurs, salt, gas and oil drippings from cars parked in the parking lot flow toward an intentional dip in the center of the parking lot to allow water to stream toward another rain garden, referred to as the \"snake garden.\" To our knowledge, there are no actual snakes there, but through a series of s-curves dug into the landscape, the run-off is partially dammed, creating an opportunity for the plants to filter the water and inhibit those elements from ending up in the lakes.\nAround the rain gardens and grounds of the Co-op, maintenance staff follows strategic protocols designed to eliminate or reduce waste or pollution. To compost trimmings or foliage from direct weeding, a \"brown\" yard composter was built on the Jenifer St. side of the building.\nAs it would be expected, there are no synthetic pesticides or herbicides used in maintaining the lawns on Co-op property, but taking a cue from our organic farmers, a vinegar and clove-based herbicide is used around the building's exterior as needed during the growing season.\nInside the building, environmentally sound soaps and cleaning agents are used whenever possible, and cleaning and office supplies are bought in bulk to limit the amount of packaging and pollution from transportation. Led by Maintenance Coordinator Jim Jirous, the maintenance team of handy craftspeople also have a knack for finding ways to fix or renovate broken or discarded furniture and display fixtures into useful creations to meet our needs and keep more trash out of landfills. These brave souls are also shepherds of our robust recycling systems which collect paper, packing peanuts, light bulbs, toner cartridges and plastic.\nMore next month\nNext month, this article continues outlining ways in which we participate in our community outside the Co-op walls.","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
+{"text":"Chinese envoy meets Tarin\nNNI Published July 14, 2021\nISLAMABAD: Ambassador of the Peoples Republic of China Nong Rong called on the Federal Minister for Finance and Revenue, Shaukat Tarin in Islamabad on Tuesday. SAPM on Finance and Revenue Dr Waqar Masood and Secretary Finance Division were also present during in the meeting.\nWhile extending a warm welcome to Nong Rong, the Finance Minister stated that China-Pakistan bilateral relationship is an epitome of enduring friendship and brotherhood.\nCPEC has ushered a new era of economic prosperity and is of utmost importance for Pakistan. CPEC will generate abundant employment and investment opportunities in Pakistan and beyond, he added.\nThe Finance Minister commended that Joint Corporation Committee (JCC) has been activated. Working groups have been formed under the umbrella of JCC which would focus on different areas including planning, energy, industrial cooperation, infrastructure, communication, agriculture and overall socio-economic development. The focal persons of each working group would remain in regular contact.\nThe Finance Minister applauded the Chinese model of farming and stated that Pakistan could learn from China for enhancing agricultural productivity in the country. Ambassador welcomed the suggestion and assured of his country's full cooperation in imparting technical know-how and practical orientation to Pakistani counterparts in this regard.\nIn his remarks, Chinese Ambassador said that China is committed to develop the CPEC projects under the vision of shared prosperity and it will further strengthen and expand economic cooperation between both the countries.\nBoth sides underscored the importance of expediting the establishment of Special Economic Zones (SEZs) for creating abundant investment and employment opportunities in identified areas.\nIn his concluding remarks, the Finance Minister affirmed full support and cooperation to Chinese investors and businessmen.\nFinance Division SAPM Dr Waqar Masood Shaukat Tarin CPEC project","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
+{"text":"CHAPTER 300 MANUFACTURE, DISTRIBUTION, AND RETAIL SALE OF CONSUMABLE HEMP PRODUCTS\nSUBCHAPTER A GENERAL PROVISIONS\nRULE \u00a7300.102 Applicability of Other Rules and Regulations\nACTION Final\/Adopted\nHemp manufacturers, processors, distributors, and retailers must comply with all relevant laws and rules applicable to the manufacture, processing, distribution and sale of consumable products, including:\n(1)Chapter 217, Subchapter C of this title (relating to Rules for the Manufacture of Frozen Desserts);\n(2)Chapter 229, Subchapter D of this title (relating to Regulation of Cosmetics);\n(3)Chapter 229, Subchapter F of this title (relating to Production, Processing, and Distribution of Bottled and Vended Drinking Water);\n(4)Chapter 229, Subchapter G of this title (relating to Manufacture, Storage, and Distribution of Ice Sold for Human Consumption, Including Ice Produced at Point of Use);\n(5)Chapter 229, Subchapter L of this title (relating to Licensure of Food Manufacturers, Food Wholesalers, and Warehouse Operators);\n(6)Chapter 229, Subchapter N of this title (relating to Current Good Manufacturing Practice and Good Warehousing Practice In Manufacturing, Packing, Or Holding Human Food);\n(7)Chapter 229, Subchapter W of this title (relating to Licensing of Wholesale Distributors of Prescription Drugs--Including Good Manufacturing Practices);\n(8)Chapter 229, Subchapter X of this title (relating to Licensing of Device Distributors and Manufacturers); and\n(9)Chapter 229, Subchapter GG of this title (relating to Sanitary Transportation of Human Foods).\nThe agency certifies that legal counsel has reviewed the adoption and found it to be a valid exercise of the agency's legal authority.\nFiled with the Office of the Secretary of State on July 13, 2020\nBarbara L. Klein\nDepartment of State Health Services\nProposal publication date: May 8, 2020","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
+{"text":"Unforgettable Moments From Sat..\nTowards Progressive Design Thi..\nby Sam Nichols\nIn the midst of our environmental crisis, WOWOWA is championing an approach to make homes not houses.\n\"Life's too short for boring spaces.\" It's a simple, yet emphatic maxim that Monique Woodward, one of the founding directors of WOWOWA, has embraced to describe the firm's vision.\nCreated in 2011, the Melbourne-based civic and residential architecture firm champions an approach to create homes reflecting their clientele's nuance and personality. And while custom builds may not be a unique business pursuit, WOWOWA's commitment is; refusing to work on any residential project that's not purposed to be lived in for at least five years. \"In our mind, it's a house that's designed to be loved,\" Monique tells Habitus, later adding. \"People need to emotionally buy into the narratives of the architecture. See [its] value, and to love it, to spend money on sustainability.\"\nTiger Prawn. Photography by Shannon McGrath.\nWhile the idea of an emotional buy-in does allow for more conscious decision making \u2013 take a gas-free home for example \u2013 this notion of longevity is interesting, as often, the purpose of our buildings aren't often discussed at length. Especially within the paradigm of sustainability, but there is an impact. According to a 2019 report released by the Australian Industry Group, Australia saw 8 808 private house approvals in February 2019. If you consider the number of resources and land required to build a single home, one built for a short-term profit has an ugly inconsistency about it.\n\"The paradigm of the way we talk about sustainability hasn't worked for a really long time. It's not making the impact that we need it to, so how do you approach it in a different way that's around humour? Because humour's the thing that connects us all,\" Monique emphasises.\nModernist Wonderland. Photography by Martina Gemmola.\nAlmost every industry, to some capacity, has been influenced by this universal need for sustainability, Monique herself suggesting how the next architectural movement will be centred around sustainability, inclusivity and humour. But as she continues, Monique discusses how architecture could not only reduce its impact, it could be a solution. \"\u2026It's how architecture should not be contributing. It needs to help reduce,\" she adds.\nThis mentality reflects a change in the industry's status quo. One championed by newer firms to address both environmentalism and social egalitarianism \u2013 a reality seen by the next National Australian Architecture Conference, Monique herself being one of the event's curators.\nYarra Pools, Melbourne.\nLike any change, it's difficult to know when it'll occur. What is clear though is that WOWOWA's prioritisation for longevity and connectivity reflect how consciousness as a concept is beginning to be embraced, and prioritised, within all architecture. \"I think each generation has their own social concerns and construct. For us, it's starting to see what ours is and to unpack that.\"\nWOWOWA Architecture\nwowowa.com.au\nIl Duomo. Photography by Martina Gemmola. Styling by Ruth Welsby.\nKeano Warehouse. Photography by Martina Gemmola. Styling by Ruth Welsby.\nWe think you might also like Modernist Wonderland by WOWOWA\nTags: Architecture, Australia, civic architecture, design, Home Architecture, Longevity, Monique Woodward, Residential Architecture, WOWOWA\n6 homes that embrace brick\nCharming Melbourne Renovation: A Photo Essay\nA Home Inspired By Melbourne's Caf\u00e9 Culture\nCrop Stool\nRelm Furniture\nSerenity Bath\nElements Round\nFlare Armchair","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
+{"text":"Credit by dailysocial.id | Zilingo\nECONOMY Thailand\nSoutheast Asia Fashion Startup Zilingo Continues Its Meteoric Rise\nPublished April 05, 2018 - 18:02 Jkt\nZilingo \u2013 an online marketplace that connects shoppers with small independent fashion designers across South and Southeast Asia, has raised $54 million in a series C funding round co-led by Belgian investment firm Sofina, Burda Principal Investments, and Sequoia Capital.\nThe capital injection comes just seven months after a series B fundraise that saw the startup net US$17 million.\nZilingo co-founder and CEO Ankiti Bose told Tech in Asia that the fresh funds will be used to accelerate growth in Indonesia \u2013 which the startup has identified as a key growth target \u2013 and to push into other promising Southeast Asian markets including the Philippines.\nZilingo. Image: TechCrunch\n\"The plan is also to further expand the supply base across Cambodia and Bangladesh in addition to our existing ones in ASEAN markets,\" she added.\nThe company started in Thailand in 2015, when it was founded by Ankiti Bose (CEO) and Dhruv Kapoor (CTO). According to Tech Crunch, Bose, a former analyst with Sequoia India and McKinsey, had the idea of bringing traditional sellers online after visiting Bangkok and marveling at the rich variety of fashion items being sold at street markets.\nNow, however, the company has risen above online sales to a position as a platform that caters to merchants, retailers and brands for both B2C and B2B sales. That's been enabled by an early focus on providing basic services for retailers beyond just an online storefront.\nZilingo's e-commerce site sells directly to consumers in Indonesia, Thailand and Singapore, and it ships internationally to four more countries. Its tech team is in India while it has supply bases in Singapore, Thailand, Indonesia, China, Bangladesh, Vietnam and Cambodia.\nAnkiti Bose, chief executive officer of Zilingo. Image: Bloomberg\nThe deal puts Zilingo inside Southeast Asia's top 20 best-funded startups, according to Tech in Asia data. It also makes Zilingo the ninth highest-funded ecommerce portal in the region, and the second highest-funded fashion specialist after Rocket Internet-backed Zalora.\nWomen now comprise half of Zilingo's management, which Bose reckons helps the startup relate to its users.\n\"E-commerce has a significant number of female users most of the time,\" Bose said. to Bloomberg. \"Having a female leader helps with that perspective. So it is a very first-hand experience.\"\nZilingo\nInspired100%","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
+{"text":"City signing Placheta is a poster boy for the new wave of Polish talent\nPublished: 7:05 AM August 15, 2020 Updated: 7:18 PM November 22, 2020\nPrzemyslaw Placheta arrives at Norwich City with a growing reputation in Poland Picture: Krystyna Paczkowska\/SlaskWroclaw - Credit: Slask Wroclaw\nNorwich City recruit Przemyslaw Placheta is part of a golden generation of Polish football talent.\nThe Canaries' swooped for the 22-year-old midfielder after his breakout season for Slask Wroclaw.\nPlacheta had been touted with a full Polish international call-up ahead of upcoming Nations League qualifiers, after catching the eye in last year's European Under-21 Championships.\nBut the speed machine is back with the Under-21s for September games against Estonia and Russia and his U21 coach, Czeslaw Michniewicz, is confident City have a major talent on their hands who will handle the rough and tumble of the Championship.\n\"He is a very conscientious footballer,\" he said. \"There is a lot of talk about the physicality but he takes care of his body. At training camps he was always the first out there on the pitch.\n\"He did a lot of preventative work to avoid injuries before and after each session.\n\"This is a high speed car. If you don't take care of it then it will break down.\n\"He has invested a lot in himself and now he has benefited. I am calm about his future in England. He is hard working.\n\"The one thing I don't know is how he adapts in the changing room. He speaks great German, and I remember his initation song was a German hit.\"\nMichniewicz handed the youngster a debut against eventual champions Spain at the 2019 U21 Euros, in a group stage where Poland claimed the scalps of both Belgium and Italy.\n\"At the last moment he jumped into our team (at the finals). We saw potential in him,\" said Michniewicz, speaking to Polish tabloid Super Express. \"We were looking for a left-sided player and he found it easy to adapt. My only regret is that he did not play as much as we would have liked. Now he has become the main player for the next qualification series.\n\"We took a guy from the Premier (Polish second level) who is already now with an English Championship club.\n\"During our training camp when there were talks about his future I told him to pick a team where he would have the best chance of playing regularly. I know he was close to joining Legia (Warsaw) but for various reasons it did not happen.\"\nPlacheta will meet up with his new club mates next week at Colney for the start of pre-season training.\nCity's campaign gets underway with an EFL Cup tie on September 5, a week before the Championship kick-off, although Placheta will miss the cup fixture after his latest international call up.","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
+{"text":"Zion 100 Race Report: A Win & Unlikely Friendships\nFitting Together\nAt mile 80 Sam's pacer\nAsked me why I do it\nHe runs marathons,\nOne for each state.\nI really don't know right now,\nI answered, ask me when I finish.\nFive of us jogged slowly\nup the highway looking\nfor an arrow that would send us up\nthe last climb in the race.\nWe moved like a centipede,\nMany legs connected\nIn a run-walk dance with the trail.\nAt that moment it occurred to me\nNone of us had met before today\nWe were pieces of a puzzle\nThat the race arranged\nThat together made a picture\nAnd my puzzle piece\nFinally made sense.\nRichard and me running together around mile ~14. Photo by Alex Santiago\nI met Richard on the first climb. I wanted to say, stop talking to me I'm trying to breathe, as a line of runners two miles long pushed me and the other front runners up the steepest and longest climb of the race right out of the gates. Our hands grasped prickly desert brush. Our glutes and calves pressed the loose, fine red dust that Zion was so well known for into the earth. I was feeling introverted and a little grumpy. We still had 98 miles to go and my running groove just wasn't going to happen until we topped off at almost 6,000 feet at the top of Smith mesa. I was looking forward to running, not this hands-on-knees lung collapsing shoot up the mountain.\nVideo pre-race chilling out in Zion National Park\nI walked a flat section and Richard politely passed me. I had a feeling I'd see him later. I didn't realize it at the time, but I was in 1st place when a woman with bleach blonde hair and a tan that could only come from some serious dedication passed me as though she had an extra gear to drive from. Damn, impressive, but somehow I wasn't at all worried. I felt like I'd see her again. I was just trying to chill out and get my legs in a groove while calming my mind with some deep breathing. My body likes to freak out when I begin on a steep climb. The feeling was familiar so I let it pass not giving it any energy.\nGame face. Photo by Alex Santiago\nNear the top, I noticed Keira Henninger, a fellow race director and impressive athlete with some 100 mile wins to her name, had caught up to me on the climb and as we crested the top of the mesa she passed me and we ran together. I could tell there would be some friendly competition here. I stayed with her chatting about life, race directing, and relationships. Cool lady I thought. I hope we get to run together more during the race. We were at Aid #1 at mile 7 before I knew it and wow, I felt gooood. Keira went over to her crew. I hadn't eaten anything or drank any water on the climb, my pack was still full, so I skipped quickly through the aid station and began a fun and fast descent back toward Virgin, UT.\nRichard and me running early on in the race. Photo by Alex Santiago\nRight away I caught up to Richard, but now I was feeling quite cheerful and we chatted like old friends the entire way down, blasting past other runners in what was probably a little fast for so early in a 100. Yet, it was so runnable: a paved steep downhill and I didn't want to over think my pace. I was just trying to go with the flow. I told Richard our pace and he looked surprised as well. We both shrugged, oh well, and I mentioned that I wanted to take chances in this race anyway. I don't always want to play it safe. We clicked off 7 min miles and settled behind the blonde girl with good climbing gears. Apparently my downhill running had leveled the playing field.\nA little after Aid #2, mile 14, Richard took off or I slowed down for a gel. I let him go. I noticed that I was at the 25k distance in just over 2 hours and 30 minutes and again thought, hmmm that's a bit faster than I expected especially with almost 3,000 feet of climbing. Oh well. I caught up to the blonde gear girl again and we chatted. This was her second 100 miler and she was from Utah. Although I wanted to stick around and chat more, the pace was a little slow and so I passed and rode the roller coaster corners down the hill loving every second of it and passing early starters in groups. The early starters had a 1-2 hour head start so that they could make the 32 hour cut off.\nPhoto by Cory Reese from 2013 race, the first climb up Smith mesa\nMile 20 in 3 hours. It was fun to run a \"runnable\" course. I was in 1st place again, and without any crew I was completely unaware of what place I was. I thought I was in 2nd place, but I wasn't worried since it was early in the race. Just before mile 31 and Aid Station #4, the trail shot up a steep 1 mile climb that gained something around 1,000 feet. Wow, that was painful and I had been out of water for the past 3 miles. All I could think about was the pleasure of chugging about 5 glasses of ice cold H20 and 5 glasses of ice cold coke. I climbed one foot after another, hands on thighs steep. I could see that I was getting a sunburn. Shit. Should've gotten some sunscreen on sooner. I considered grabbing dirt and rubbing in on my skin. I decided to wait since I had sunscreen in my drop bag just up the hill. Some people wooped encouragement from the top of the mesa and I hollered back Woohooo!!! Excited to get to the top and despite feeling a bit worn out, I was going to have fun damn it!\nPhoto by Rico Sesto\nUp to this point I'd only been having VFuel gels, coke and a bit of perpetuum in a water bottle. I'd trained on very minimal calories and water the past few months and it seemed as though my body just didn't need much. I've found that for me personally overeating is way more disastrous than under eating. I've gotten pretty good at finding that sweet spot where I am eating just enough without over filling my stomach. Despite this I'd felt a little unsettled in the tummy all day, from the first climb and then on and off. Probably due to the faster pace and more runnable miles.\nComing into Aid Station at mile 31. Photo by Alex Santiago\nI reached Aid #4 at mile 31 and immediately chugged water. One glass. Two glasses, three glasses, four. Coke, more coke. Stupid horrible cupless plastic cups. I think my sports bra drank half the coke. I hurried to my drop bag and applied my sun screen. I'd rather put on sunscreen than a shirt. As I was heading out of the aid station I noticed Keira's crew walking back from the trail and I realized she'd slipped right past me while I was getting sunscreen! I saw her through the desert brush and within a minute I was behind her. I had the feeling that I wasn't supposed to know she'd passed me, but the cat was out of the bag and I felt good. I said hi and since I still had no idea what place I was in I asked Keira. I think she was surprised by the question, and she said, \"We're in first\" as though we were tied for the lead. It was a nice gesture considering that she was a few steps ahead of me. Awkward, though perhaps.\nKeira stepped aside to use the proverbial bathroom and I said, Ok, see you in a bit! I was thinking this would be a fun race and we could push each other to a good finishing time, how exciting! I picked up the pace weaving and rolling through the slick rock. I was going to make her work to catch me! It was fun at first running through the slick rock section but increasingly stressful as the markers were often hard to follow and I did not want to get lost. As a race director I am especially careful to watch for markings and not just blast through an intersection. This was no ordinary trail, it was an up and down roller coaster of rock hopping and a little sand trail running between the large rock slabs. The views were incredible. The climb had been worth it. Every miserable upward step. I was in love with the red striped rocks that exploded from the valley into incredible mesas for as far as the eye could see.\nPhoto by Rico Sesto, unknown runners.\nAfter a few miles Keira still hadn't caught up which I thought was odd, but not too crazy. After all I hadn't seen her from mile 7 to mile 31, so maybe she was chilling out and grooving back there. A short 1 mile out and back to another stunning mesa viewpoint and still no Keira on the way back. That meant she was at least a mile behind me already. Hmmm. Again I was surprised, but I was hoping to win the race, so I thought perhaps I'd just increased the lead with my faster pace.\nThe next 6 miles flew by and I ran with a couple runners who were in the 100k. As it turned out, the man who was running the 100k had seen Keira heading back to the aid station at mile 31 to drop. What??! I was shocked. It turned out that she had fallen and had her hip popped back in place. I sent a little prayer for her and finally understood why she had disappeared. Side note, she is okay, but recovering.\nPhoto by Rico Sesto, Richard running the road section.\nThe next few sections were a bit tedious dirt road running with crew's vehicles kicking up dust much of the way. Around a bend I was super excited to see Richard. He was walking and I jogged up to him. He was going through a low point he said, but then proceeded to run the rest of the way with me to Grafton Aid Station, mile 49 in 9 hours in 15 minutes. The guy was able to turn around his low so quick! We grabbed some soup, coke, and more gels at the aid station. After a slight hesitation I grabbed a burrito. I never eat real food this early in a 100, I told Richard. He didn't appear concerned as he chugged chocolate milk and grabbed two burritos. What the hell. This was supposed to be fun right?\nBummed out after getting significantly off course\nWe jogged out of the aid station to the soon-to-be-infamous unmarked turn. We'd been following pink and green flagging and at a Y in the trail the green flags went to the right and the pink ones went straight. We paused. Which way do we go? We were just far enough from the aid station that we didn't want to go back. Well we were following pink earlier we agreed and so we followed the pink all the way down a big climb and through a few mesas where we ran into two men who told us we were going the wrong way. Shit, fuck, & damn it! They had also gone down the climb, one of them (he'd been in 2nd place) going almost all the way to Eagle Aid Station (4-6 miles) before running into the eventual winner, who told him that he was going the wrong way. The other man, Jan Kriska, had been 1\/4-1\/2 mile ahead of us, and both men were contemplating quitting. At this point my legs felt so shot (it was only mile 52) that I also considered dropping. It was so disappointing to get off course by so much!\nRichard and me coming into Grafton after getting off course. Photo by Alex Santiago\nWe slowly trudged up the technical climb and it was at that point that I knew that Richard and I would finish the race together. I can't explain exactly why, but he wasn't going to let me drop that much I could tell. We finally got back on course and told the aid station about the confusing intersection hoping no one else would make the same mistake. As we were heading out toward Eagle Aid Station, we ran into Jan again, but he was walking back to Grafton, the wrong way. I'm dropping, he said. Just run to the next aid station with us, I encouraged him, We're running together I said pointing to Richard. To my surprise, he said, ok. Wow that was easy!\nThe Trio of Jan Kriska, me, and Richard Kresser leaving Eagle Aid Station. Determination!\nFrom there on we made a silent and strong pact to run together for the rest of the race. And we did for 48 miles we jogged, walked, ran, suffered, and shared a joy that you can only experience with fellow runners, all in it to finish it. It was magical and unique. It was as though we were the same heart, the same legs and we pushed each other and rested with each other in synch. A true gift of running friendship.\nJan Kriska, early on in the race. Picture courtesy J.K.\nJust after nightfall, our posse of 3 caught up with a talented nubie ultra runner, Sam, who was doing his first 100 miler. Sam was a team player too and joined us despite saying from time to time that he would have to walk the next section or that he'd never felt so much pain. The guy was an animal. He kept overcoming his mental and physical obstacles and ran with us for the next 20+ miles along with his pacer, Rahim, a prolific marathoner, who insisted he wasn't ever going to do a 100 miler. Yeah, suuuuure, Richard said. I agreed, yeah right that's what they all say. It was funny but true. Sam and Rahim stayed with our trio, now 5 strong until the last 9 miles where he walked the downhill to appease his painful legs, finishing in a strong 23:30-something.\nRahim, Sam's pacer on the left in orange jacket and Sam on the right in green jacket enjoying some post race beers. Picture courtesy of Rahim.\nJan, Richard and I ran step for step the rest of the way finishing holding hands and embracing in a way that only people who have experienced life on the edge can embrace. I felt like the luckiest girl in the world! After all was said and done, I finished in first place in 23:04, slower than expected, but with at least 4 bonus miles and a 1,500 foot extra climb. It was my most enjoyable 100 miler to date. It was a beautiful picture of friendship and team work.\nA big thank you to race director Matt Gunn, the many, many volunteers, and race sponsors. Big thank you to VFuel Endurance for fueling me to a win at The Zion 100 and Ultimate Direction for their excellent Ultra Vesta, perfect pack for the race. Thanks Pearl Izumi\/Running, Trail N2's helped me navigate the course and performed spectacularly in the desert terrain.\nMost of all, thank you to Richard, Jan, Sam, and Rahim. <3\nA little pre-race yoga in Zion National park the day before the race.\nPhoto by Jason Sung\nI'm an adventurer first and foremost. I am an avid trail runner, student of yoga and crazy for slack lining. I race 100 mile ultra marathons. I like to see the world upside down and I hope my blog helps you see it that way too! Welcome! I love hearing from you.\nPoem, was beautiful\nOmg...I love everything about your recap on so many levels... Congrats C.! No compression socks for you on this one?\nMark April 8, 2014 at 6:15 AM\nWonderful race report! Congratulations on the win!!! I might have to do this one, though it will certainly test me...\nDoug Cassaro April 30, 2014 at 11:55 AM\nNice recap, Candice! Look forward to meeting you at Bryce! Cheers.\nVery cool - I've got my eye on this one for 2016!\nTop 10 Ways to be a Hipster Ultra Runner\nRiding the Tide\nClean Eating & Running 100 Milers\nToday I bought an Orchid\nI'll Never be a Hiker\n10 Minute Core Workout for Ultra Runners\nZion 100 Race Report: A Win & Unlikely Friendships...\nHow to be Tough as Nails Mentally for Your 100 Mil...\nThe Shade was Pinot\nYoga in Zion, with Some Trail Running Thrown In\nYoga for Ultra Runners","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
+{"text":"This 92nd Edition of Justice For All is about the motion some defendants file in an attempt to stop a sentence from being imposed.\nIowa Court Rule 2.24(3) defines a motion in arrest of judgment as \"an application by the defendant that no judgment be rendered on a finding, plea, or verdict of guilty.\" The motion must be granted when \"upon the whole record no legal judgment can be pronounced.\"\nMotions in arrest of judgment are used to challenge the validity of a guilty plea. Whether done in person, for a felony, or in writing, for most misdemeanors, a guilty plea must include a number of things. The plea must inform the defendant of his or her rights and the maximum and minimum punishments for each offense, find a factual basis that the defendant committed the crime(s), determine that the guilty plea is voluntary, and allow the defendant the right to speak to the judge which is called the right of allocution. If any plea proceeding omits one of these requirements the defendant may file a motion in arrest of judgment to void the plea.\nThe deadline to file a motion in arrest of judgment is 45 days after the guilty plea or verdict and no less than five days before judgment is scheduled to be entered. Many defendants waive their right to file a motion in arrest of judgment in order to avoid a delay between the guilty plea and sentencing. This is allowed. However, if a defendant doesn't waive their right to file a motion in arrest of judgment but fails to file it before the deadline their right to challenge the sufficiency of the proceedings is waived and their guilty plea or verdict becomes final.\nMotions in arrest of judgment are rarely filed and when they are it's usually by a defendant who got \"cold feet\" or who has buyer's remorse after a guilty plea. These are not legitimate reasons for filing or granting a motion in arrest of judgment. However, a motion in arrest of judgment can legitimately be used to challenge the application of the law to the facts of the case.\nIn 1981, a Worth County district court judge granted a motion in arrest of judgment filed by Bruce W. Oldfather. Oldfather was found guilty of the crime of terrorism because the facts showed that while driving a station wagon he repeatedly engaged in maneuvers that were calculated to force another vehicle off the road. The judge threw out the jury's guilty verdict because the terrorism statute required that a defendant \"launch a dangerous weapon\" and the defendant's behavior, terrorizing as it may have been to the victim, did not amount to launching his vehicle at another vehicle.\nThe Iowa Supreme Court affirmed the district court's ruling in the Oldfather case but also noted that the district court on remand should determine if there were reasonable grounds that \"some other offense\" had been committed. They did so because winning a motion in arrest of judgment does not mean the defendant is acquitted of all charges, rather, the motion turns back the clock to allow for an opportunity to fix the error that caused the motion in arrest of judgment to be successful. In Oldfather's case, the prosecution would have had the option to charge the defendant with different crimes that fit the facts of the case, or in other words, a second chance to reach justice for all.","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
+{"text":"United States of America (en) | English\nLiebherr Group: Products & Services for United States of America (en)\nEnglish Deutsch P\u0443\u0441\u0441\u043a\u0438\u0439\nOther websites for United States of America (en)\nElectronics on the test bench\nOver the course of their lifespan, electrical parts are exposed to a wide range of external influences. The experts at the Liebherr Test Centre for Electronics in Lindau, Germany use state-of-the-art testing and monitoring equipment to guarantee optimal performance and safety. We interviewed Christian Nuber, the head of the testing lab, to find out more about how electronic parts, some of which are safety-related, are put to the test.\n6 minutes reading time\nMr Nuber, what are the advantages of Liebherr having its own testing lab for electronics?\nLiebherr Electronics is the centre of excellence for all electronic parts produced within the Liebherr Group. At our site, we develop and produce electronic control units and power electronics that are used in all kinds of Liebherr products and technologies. These electronic parts must undergo rigorous testing both during the development stage and before they are approved for batch production. Depending on where they will be used, the parts are exposed to various external influences which they must be able to withstand without loss of functionality. Our various testing processes enable us to verify the quality and reliability of our products. In addition to testing resistance to the usual external influences, we can also conduct individual tests in accordance with international standards, right here at the Test Centre. Since 2012, we have also offered our testing services to external clients.\nWhich electronic parts do you test here at the Test Centre?\nLiebherr's products span across many different industries, from construction machinery, mining and gear technologies, to solutions used in the aeronautics and transport industries. So, we test all kinds of parts here, from operating and display units, to control units and power electronics, which are intrinsically related to product safety. If a control unit fails, for example, as part of a climate control system on board an aircraft, it can have devastating effects. If the control unit fails to properly regulate cabin pressure, it can impact the health of everyone on board, even if these parts are only one small part of the entire structure of the aircraft.\nWhat does the usual testing sequence for an electronic part look like?\nIt's difficult to generalise. There's a lot of variation. The parts all have to meet specific requirements, depending on where they are going to be used. These are defined by many different national and international standards and norms. We use multiple test procedures to prove that the parts meet these requirements.\nThe parts being tested have to be able to withstand specific external influences, such as temperatures, vibrations or electromagnetic waves, all of which are defined by the various standards. So, for example, power electronics that are going to be installed into an offshore crane have to be tested inside a salt-spray chamber, which simulates the salty atmosphere at sea.\nParts are tested for electromagnetic compatibility inside an EMC chamber. An antenna is used to create electromagnetic fields, to test how the electronic parts react to them. We can also test which electromagnetic waves are produced by the part being tested. The chamber is electromagnetically sealed off from the outside world to simulate an open space without interfering, reflecting radiation.\nHow do you test parts for external customers?\nThere's also a lot of variation here. Some of our customers, for example, in the automotive industry, are very familiar with the relevant standards themselves, and only come to us to have specific tests carried out. But there are other customers that need our support throughout the entire approvals process: from selecting the correct standards and norms for their product, to testing it during the development stage, to performing the final tests before batch production. Depending on which industry the client works in, it can be quite difficult to even select the right testing profile.\nWe are not a conventional testing lab. Here, at a single location, we pool our expertise and experience to assist in the development of electronics solutions. We have our own commissioning lab, where assemblies can also be electrically as well as mechanically reworked. We can rely on both of these, for example, when our customers want to undertake minor modifications on their equipment after a test procedure is complete. Sometimes, it can be helpful to discuss a problem with another developer, so we can find an easy solution. That is something we enable our clients to do.\nAre the current megatrends of digitisation and electromobility having an impact on your work at the Test Centre?\nYes, of course we are seeing the impacts of these developments. In terms of digitisation, the topic of increased connectivity within the internet of things (IoT) is especially relevant for us. Liebherr Electronics also makes telematics products, which of course have to be approved according to the latest standards.\nElectromobility is also an important topic for us. Many of our clients from the Lake Constance district in Germany work in the automotive industry. They're primarily concerned with creating control electronics for batteries with even more power, and these still have to be developed and then submitted to the appropriate tests. We are currently unable to test such large electronic parts at our site. We are now exploring the possibility of expanding our Test Centre to keep pace with these developments.\nDifferent test procedures of the Liebherr Test Centre\nStricter mechanical approval standards for electronic equipment require extensive vibration and shock testing. During these processes, the electrical part is mounted on a vibration testing system and shaken at a predefined intensity.\nAfter that, the part can be tested again to see how well it works.\nIn the HALT process (Highly Accelerated Life Test), products are charged in their development phase beyond their specification limits.\nHALT testing\nFluctuating, extreme temperatures of -100 \u00b0 C to + 200 \u00b0 C, temperature changes of up to 70 \u00b0 C per minute and simultaneous 6-axis noise excitation provoke failures, which then help to improve the product.\nSalt accelerates the corrosion of metal, which causes electrical parts to stop working normally.\nSalt-spray chamber\nThe salt-spray chamber uses salt water to replicate the conditions found, for example, on offshore platforms at sea. To perform this kind of testing, the test chamber is filled with salt water.\nThe salt water is then converted into a fine spray, which the electrical part is exposed to over a lengthy period.\nThe part will become encrusted with salt. After that, it is tested again to see if it still works.\nAt the Liebherr testing lab, it is also possible to conduct various electrical tests. A transient response test, for example, uses a generator to produce a spike in current which the electrical part must be able to withstand.\nElectrical tests\nThis is important for control units in engines, for example. During engine start-up, these parts must be able to briefly endure a very high current, much higher than the usual operating current.\nElectrical parts are often just small building blocks that make up a larger system. That is why it is important to test a control unit for a climate control system on board an aircraft in combination with other electronics found on board.\nIndividual Setups\nThis is especially important for safety-related parts, such as this control unit, because it will regulate cabin pressure on board the aircraft, which is essential to the health of every passenger.\nMultiple parts can be combined inside the testing lab to simulate the system as a whole.\nElectric aviation launches\nLiebherr has started conducting major research into electric systems which could revolutionise the field of aviation in the near future. The test center is part of this project.\nLiebherr Electronics Test Center\nLiebherr operates its own Test Center for electronics at Lindau. State-of-the-art testing and measuring equipment guarantees high product quality.\nIn this section you will find several stories around exciting topics from the Liebherr Group.","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
+{"text":"HomePoliticiansBenazir Bhutto: A First Woman Head of State\nBenazir Bhutto: A First Woman Head of State\nIslamic countries always represent a 'benchmark' of male dominance in all spheres of life. Even in today's realities, the vast majority of the Islamic governments indirectly restrict women from leading the country's political life in any vector of development. Nevertheless, Benazir Bhutto illustrated that it was possible to become a woman in politics with significant electorate support long before any other woman, such as Margaret Thatcher, came into power. One of the most significant opportunities for Bhutto was the worldwide liberalization trend that enabled her to promote not only her presidency but also apply significant changes in excessively traditional and outdated laws. In fact, her election as the head of the state's post provided an opportunity for Pakistan's government to promote liberalistic economic and political reforms. These measures gave the impulse to the economy, and Pakistan significantly outperformed their competitors in the long-term perspective. Bhutto emphasized her 'female' role in politics since it was critical to demonstrate significant social shifts even before starting any reforms. When a woman represents the whole Islamic country, it is already evident that the population is ready for considerable changes in its traditions. As a result, it was much easier for Bhutto to liberalize the institutes of family and education so that people gained basic freedom of choice and an effective system of youth population development. Even though Pakistan was promoting a Western approach to political leadership, these modifications were implemented only to adjust the society to the new living trends. By augmenting life standards, Bhutto illustrated that it is possible for the 'third-world' country with the majority of the population that has access to basic and supplementary facilities, internal security, and even career perspectives.\nWe'll deliver a custom Politicians paper tailored to your requirements with a good discount\nHowever, during her political campaign, it was impossible to admit that Bhutto positioned herself as a feminist candidate. This is mainly due to the significant time misalignment of female rights development and actual society preferences. Moreover, even the most developed countries in the 1980s did not present any considerable support of the feminist movement, which is sometimes considered as the worst time for female rights support. In fact, Bhutto was an influential woman in politics from the very beginning of her career since her father, Zulfikar Ali Bhutto, was a successful prime minister of Pakistan. He effectively governed numerous changes in the country's political perspective of the view until his death during the military revolution in 1979 (Shafqat, 2021). Based on this evidence, it might be stated that the most significant difficulty for Bhutto was to continuously struggle with Pakistan's military junta, where the most physically powerful representatives desired to captivate the whole political and force resource. As the main consequence of Bhutto's political governing, Pakistan has become a distinct country of the Islamic world with high living standards. This factor not only developed the country's investment attractiveness but also made it more perceptible for Europeans and Americans who changed their consideration of South Asian countries.\nWithout significant support from western countries and the population, Bhutto would never have become the head of the government. Her first political steps were observed by the whole nation wince Bhutto was the only logical and democratic alternative to the military junta that established severe government regimes throughout the whole region. Even in today's world, such countries as Myanmar or Afghanistan are experiencing the humanitarian crises caused by the military government of the country. Consequently, the most heroic and socially important factor of her governance was the fact that she represented the positive side in the struggle of two polar world visions: liberalistic woman and conservative militaristic junta. Moreover, for female politicians, she was a live example of how a simple woman might become more powerful in the country than the whole army if her political authority is based on trustworthiness and desire to develop her country. Bhutto also demonstrated that women might also be educated in the best universities in the world and use their knowledge in the political sphere. On this background, Margaret Thatcher has many intersections with Benazir Bhutto's story of political success. By providing successful decisions and taking responsibility for her failures, she became a 'workbook' for female political leaders. Her competition has led the country to absolute economic and partially social success on the macro level. However, from an individual perspective, Benazir Bhutto experienced numerous internal crises, her family was eventually demoralized by political intrigues and attempts on life. She was killed by the military junta's representative in 2007, but the results of her governing might be observed until these days when Pakistan is one of the most developed countries in Asia in terms of average individual's life satisfaction.\nShafqat, S. (2021). Civil-military relations in Pakistan: From Zufikar Ali Bhutto to Benazir Bhutto (1st ed.). Routledge.\nNelson Mandela's Leadership Development\nDiscussion of \"A More Perfect Union\" Speech\nDemoEssays. (2023, January 4). Benazir Bhutto: A First Woman Head of State. Retrieved from https:\/\/demoessays.com\/benazir-bhutto-a-first-woman-head-of-state\/\nDemoEssays. (2023, January 4). Benazir Bhutto: A First Woman Head of State. https:\/\/demoessays.com\/benazir-bhutto-a-first-woman-head-of-state\/\n\"Benazir Bhutto: A First Woman Head of State.\" DemoEssays, 4 Jan. 2023, demoessays.com\/benazir-bhutto-a-first-woman-head-of-state\/.\nDemoEssays. (2023) 'Benazir Bhutto: A First Woman Head of State'. 4 January.\nDemoEssays. 2023. \"Benazir Bhutto: A First Woman Head of State.\" January 4, 2023. https:\/\/demoessays.com\/benazir-bhutto-a-first-woman-head-of-state\/.\n1. DemoEssays. \"Benazir Bhutto: A First Woman Head of State.\" January 4, 2023. https:\/\/demoessays.com\/benazir-bhutto-a-first-woman-head-of-state\/.\nDemoEssays. \"Benazir Bhutto: A First Woman Head of State.\" January 4, 2023. https:\/\/demoessays.com\/benazir-bhutto-a-first-woman-head-of-state\/.\nCBT Interview with Maurice Bishop\nThe Characteristics of the President\nDesired Personality Traits in Politicians\nDonald Trump's Leadership Style Critique\nHassan Ali Khayre: The Greatest Prime Minister\nPublic Health's Most Influential Leader: Nancy Pelosi\nBarack Obama as a Leader: Positive and Negative Sides\nGeorge Wallace's Presidential Candidacy and Transformation of American Political Parties\nPolitical Issues for MNE Managers\nObama's Legal Authority to Order Operation Geronimo","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
+{"text":"Did Trump Attend The Inaguration\nDonald Trump is the 45th president of the United States. He was president from 2017 until 2021. He was a TV celebrity before becoming president.\nDonald Trump became the 45th President of the United States on January 20 2017. Trump made significant changes to the American policy during his first term and had an immense impact on the country's economic and social life.\nIn his time in office, he supervised the biggest financial relief package in US history. He also enacted an array of record-breaking regulation cuts. He secured Social Security and Medicare, cut drug prices and lowered corporate tax rates.\nDuring his presidency during his presidency, President Trump was impeached twice by Congress. Both times the House of Representatives approved the article of impeachment. Trump was cleared of all charges during an Senate trial.\nThroughout his presidency during his presidency, President Trump had the challenge of overthrowing a division of opinion within the Capitol. He was met with fierce opposition from the Washington Establishment and special interests. He was able to achieve historic results that included the longest American economic expansion and a major breakthrough for peace in the Middle East.\nTrump was an unambiguous leader after his presidency. He promised to safeguard the nation by reducing taxes and boosting job creation. Among other things, he emphasized a \"America First\" approach to foreign policy and aggressive border control. His administration also prioritized criminal justice reform, the appointment of federal judges and increased budgets for military.\nDonald Trump is one of the most famous figures in the United States. He is a successful businessman and real estate mogul. Trump is also a popular TV personality who was host of The Apprentice which is a reality television show.\nDonald Trump was a rough-and-tumble child who was often in trouble. However, he had several achievements to his credit, including earning a bachelor's degree and attending Fordham University.\nFor some time, Trump also owned a Miss Universe pageant. The pageant later moved to the Grand Hyatt Hotel, New York City. The Trump family also received a 40-year tax exemption for the hotel through this event.\nAnother noteworthy accomplishment was the renovation of the Commodore Hotel near Grand Central Terminal in the year 1976. He had a black-and-white photo taken in 1986 of himself as well as Miss Universe contestants.\nThe image's lackluster detail will make up for its aesthetic. At the time the trust fund's annual income was four times that of the average American family income.\nHe's wearing a suit and tie in the photo. He was actually busy eating hot dogs.\nDonald Trump is a businessman as well as a tv persona. He was the 45th president of the United States, serving from January 20, 2017 until January 2021. The Trump Organization is a real estate conglomerate. It is among the largest conglomerates in the world with assets that amount to hundreds of millions of dollars.\nTrump has a number of golf courses throughout the United States, Ireland and Scotland. His Mar-a-Lago estate can be found in Palm Beach, Florida. He also owns two Virginia homes, located just in front of one of his golf courses. These homes are valued at $2 million.\nDonald Trump has a net worth $3 billion. This number is based upon his assets, liabilities and his personal brand. His net worth isn't an exact figure.\nIn 2006, Forbes valued Trump Tower at $318 million. Today, the 58-floor building is worth anywhere from $400 to 500 million. The top three floors are his personal residence, and it has marble and gold fixtures. There are several retail establishments on the first floor.\nTrump also owns important real estate properties. These include 40 Wall St. in New York and 555 California St. in San Francisco.\nIn 2010, Donald and his brother Fred were among the 400 wealthiest Americans. But financial problems in the 1980s led them to drop off the list.\nA federal House committee found that foreign governments paid millions of dollars to the Trump hotel during the time of President Trump's the White House. These documents raise questions over whether Trump violated the Constitution's foreign clause on emoluments.\nDocuments from Mazars USA, the accounting firm that was once closely associated with Donald Trump, showed that a number of foreign countries paid for hotel rooms. Particularly interesting was the spending of the United Arab Emirates, Saudi Arabia, and Qatar. These three countries had been seeking to influence US policy during the Trump presidency.\nIn reality these countries spent hundreds of thousands of dollars lobbying the Trump administration. The Trump Organization's Washington, DC hotel was an attraction for lobbyists during his presidency.\nThe Trump hotel was also home to an elevator that was considered to be one of the most technologically advanced elevators in the world. It also hosts Trump's \"Trump Kids\" program, which offers free meals and other amenities for children.\nThe hotel had gym facilities, a full-service spa, and a business center. Guests could also enjoy \"lavish rooms\" throughout their stay. But the most important benefit was the \"no-fuss\" concierge service.\nThe pool at the hotel has an elevated deck with spectacular views of the city. Additionally, it comes with a an in-room mini-bar with stocked shelves.\nMelania Trump, the first lady of the United States has become a champion for children. She has had a positive effect on vulnerable communities both in the United States and overseas. This includes work with FEMA, Red Cross, FEMA and the National Park Service.\nMelania was a model before she became First Lady. Her modeling career began at the age of 16 when she started working with Stane Jerko. After her first job, she realized that she would like to make a career by modeling in Europe. In 1996, she relocated to New York City. Her name was later changed to Melania Knauss.\nIn January 2005, the couple appeared on the cover of Vogue on the cover, where they were joined by husband Donald. They later got married in Palm Beach, Florida. She was a naturalized citizen at the time.\nFollowing her husband's election in 2016 Melania was in New York City for a number of months. In the time, she traveled to various countries that included India, Egypt, Finland, Belgium, and Kenya. She was also invited to visit Vatican City.\nFollowing the election of the president Trump She took on more of a public role. She visited children in shelters and participated in natural disaster tours. She also was vocal about addiction to opioids. However she stayed out of the public eye after she left office in January 2021.\nThe next major political event is expected to come in the form of a possible 2024 presidential campaign by former President Donald Trump. The campaign has been running for the past three weeks and the candidate hasn't yet publicly announced his intentions to run.\nWhile Donald Trump has no actual opposition, he does have an aggressive conservative agenda. Alongside that, he would like to take away America's liberties and borders and stifle the American voice.\nHis political website has a list of rally dates before the midterms. The campaign has engaged a number of long-time Republican political operatives. But he has yet to find a campaign manager, or other prominent campaign personnel.\nMany Trump advisers expressed concerns about Trump's 2020 campaign strategy. He's been accused of being low-energy and turning to right-wing bomb-throwers. Others have doubted his capability to get a non-consecutive third term.\nIn the last few months, Trump's stock has suffered. His support has plummeted within the GOP and he's been criticized for his dinner with Nazi supporters. Some likely 2024 Republican opponents expressed doubts about the dinner.\nWhile Trump has been the center of the show, his campaign has also been slowed by legal challenges. One of the biggest scandals involving the Trump Organization was a major tax-fraud scheme.\nRecently President Obama announced that he will be publishing an album of photos. The photos include those that he took during his time at the White House. In addition to the photographs the book also contains captions written by the president Trump.\nThe new book by former president Barack Obama is titled \"Our Journey Together\" and it will be published by Winning Team Publishing, a conservative imprint that was founded by campaign advisor Sergio Gor. The book will be sold on Amazon, Barnes & Noble and 45books.\nThe publisher says that \"Our Journey Together\" will be a collection of more than 300 photos. The photos were chosen by the president himself and he also wrote the captions. Some captions are considered unbridled funny remark on the political enemies.\nThe book isn't an exhaustive analysis of Trump's time in office but it does include beautiful photos. The book's sales have surpassed $20 million in just two months.\nHowever the publisher is facing supply chain issues. They're unable to procure enough paper for printing more copies. The publishing company plans to print 300,000.000 copies more at three locations.\nDespite these obstacles, the book is achieving an astonishing success. As of this writing, the book has sold 200,000 copies. That's not even including signed copies that are selling for thousands.\nTrump Green Screen Scandal\nWhen Does Trump Speak At Cpac\nTrump Georgia Campaign\nDonald Trump Jr. And Elon Musk\nWhy Trump Third Would Be\nWhat Time Is Trump Expected To Speak At Cpac\nOhio Governor Trump","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
+{"text":"From Intern to State Folklorist and Published Author\nIt was a decade ago that CliffMurphy interned with the MCC's Folk Arts & Heritage Program. A graduate student in ethnomusicology at Brown University at the time, Cliff was deep into his research on New England's Country and Western music. I was fortunate to travel with him on a few of the many interviews he conducted with Massachusetts musicians \u2014 key figures like Georgia Mae Harp, \"Jimmie Cal\" Calderone, and yodelling Kenny Roberts.\nHis wonderful new book, Yankee Twang: Country and Western Music in New England was recently published by the University of Illinois Press. Not only is it an engaging and informative read, the book breaks new ground in country music scholarship by challenging the notion that country music is inherently southern. New England Country and Western music is not the same thing as the country music heard across New England on country format radio. It is a homegrown, working-class regional music with deep roots. Read this book and you come to know a once vibrant regional music virtually ignored by the country music industry. Prior to the 1960s, talented performers dressed in country western garb, \"barnstormed\" their way across New England, doing live radio shows, performing community concerts, and playing for social dances. New England's multi-ethnic demographic makeup helped create a distinctive style of country music.\nWe are fortunate to have had Cliff Murphy delve deep into one of New England's core music traditions at a time when many of its exemplary performers were still alive. The documentary work Cliff did in Massachusetts is now safely archived in the MCC's traditional Arts Archive. Cliff has since gone on to be the Director of Maryland Traditions, the folklife program of the Maryland State Arts Council. Massachusett's loss is Maryland's gain.\nListen to WBUR's story about Cliff and Yankee Twang here\nAuthor Heritage8Posted on November 24, 2014 December 23, 2014 Categories Archiving folk material, MusicTags counrry and western music, country western music, Georgia Mae Harp, Kenny Roberts, New EnglandLeave a comment on From Intern to State Folklorist and Published Author","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
+{"text":"Sheridan: \"I'd like us to win games for the supporters\"\nAhead of Saturday's match against Dagenham & Redbridge at the Proact, John Sheridan told the media how important the victory would be for the Spireites.\nSheridan urged his side to continue their good form to the end of the season and praised the players for their efforts since his arrival back at the club.\nHe said: \"It's important we finish the season strongly and get as many wins as we can and it's all down to the players.\n\"For us to look 95% safe, it's a massive achievement and I fully applaud them. With six games to go, we look in a very comfortable position, at the same time we are still wary of what could be.\n\"For us to do what we've done and the players to respond in the way they have, it's down to them. I only pick a team and try to give them a boost.\n\"The biggest thing is that they're enjoying training, they're enjoying coming into work and they're taking it out on the pitch.\"\nThe Spireites boss hopes his side get the win on Saturday which will allow him to give other players an opportunity with safety guaranteed.\n\"Hopefully we get the three points on Saturday and that is us safe. I want to reward the players whose attitude has been spot on.\n\"One or two haven't featured much because we've had a team that has been winning more games than losing so it hasn't been too difficult to pick my side.\n\"If I can, I want to reward the players with a couple of games. At the same time I still want us to win. Three points on Saturday will allow me to juggle with the team. I still want us to win games and have a winning mentality.\"\nSheridan spoke of how vital it is for his team to build on their 3-0 home win against Sutton United last weekend and build momentum at home.\n\"I'd like us to win games for the supporters,\" he said. \"Since I've been in, the home support has been brilliant and they've got right behind the team.\n\"They've been watching too much football where they've been losing so we need to get back to winning ways.\n\"You could tell, even by the atmosphere, the fans enjoyed winning 3-0 at home and I want that to happen on more occasions. We need to be a lot stronger and have much more belief that we will win at home.\n\"Dagenham are a team that can be as good as anyone in the league on their day. That's how this division is. Anyone can beat anyone on the day and it's just that bit of consistency that you need in your game.\n\"I don't think we've played great, but we are consistent with our results and we're a hard team to beat. You can win games without playing teams off the park.\"\nThe Spireites boss confirmed there were not fresh injury concerns, but suggested Jerome Binnom-Williams may struggle to be fit again before the end of the season. \"He's out for about five to six weeks and that was said two weeks ago so he might possibly get a game or be available before.\"","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
+{"text":"Corporate Philosophy & Message from the CEO Company Profile Group visions &Business Domains Medical services business Home furnishing and health business Group Information\nIR Information Financial Information IR Library IR Calendar Dividend Information Stock & Shareholder Information\nSocial Contribution Activities Environmental Activities Business Activities\nFundamental Policies Regarding the Protection of Personal Information\nFRANCE BED HOLDINGS CO., LTD. (\"the Company\") considers it its social responsibility to ensure the protection of information that enables identification of a specific customer (\"Personal Information\") and to appropriately manage such information. The Company sets its Privacy Policy as follows.\nThe Company may request you to participate in a survey, questionnaire, study, etc. The Company aims to reflect such Personal Information in management, business and IR activities after performing statistical processing to maintain an individual's anonymity.\nThe Company shall handle Personal Information collected within the scope of purposes stipulated in advance and shall never disclose nor provide Personal Information to third parties for other purposes.\nThe Company shall step up its efforts to protect Personal Information from unauthorized access, loss, destruction, falsification, leakage, etc.\nThe Company shall faithfully and promptly respond to customers' inquiries about Personal Information and requests for disclosure, among others, of such information.\nThe Company shall ensure that all of its employees understand the Privacy Policy and step up its efforts to protect Personal Information so that you can participate in customer surveys, questionnaires, studies, etc., without anxiety.","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
+{"text":"Company archive\nPilz Automation Technology\nPilz House\nLittle Colliers Field\nNN18 8TJ\nEmail : technicalsupport@pilz.co.uk\nWeb : www.pilz.co.uk\nEditorial archive;\nModular safety gate system expands 20\/05\/2021\nThe modular safety gate system from Pilz now includes the PSENmlock handle module. The gate module has an integrated actuator as well as an integrated escape release. Full Story...\nProtecting controllers from manipulation and unauthorised access 23\/11\/2020\nIf people, machinery and industrial processes are intelligently linked, these networks are also more susceptible to attack. The Pilz SecurityBridge hardware solution is designed to protect the configurable, safe small controllers PNOZmulti and the automation system PSS 4000 from network-based attacks and unauthorised access. Full Story...\nWebinar: Post-Brexit Implications to Machine Safety in the UK \u2013 27 Nov @ 9.30am GMT 17\/11\/2020\nIf you need to get up to speed on what's happening regarding CE \/ UKCA marking on machinery from 2021 onwards, register for this free Webinar from Pilz. Pilz machine safety specialist David Collier will present an overview of the current status, relevant legislation & standards changes and sources of guidance & support. The session will also be recorded and distributed as view on-demand to anyone who registers even if they can't attend live. Full Story...\nSecurely interlinked: taking a smart approach 21\/10\/2020\nThe demand for secure communication \u2013 covering aspects of what we at Pilz refer to as \"safety\" and \"industrial security\" \u2013 is growing in smart, networked production. For both manufacturers and operators, this means taking a different, enhanced approach to security. But how big are the differences, really, and how important is it to take a holistic view of things? Full Story...\nPilz Safety & Industrial Security Webinar \u2013 a look at cybersecurity standard EN62443 06\/10\/2020\n9th Oct at 9.30am. With the rise of the smart factory, manufacturers need not only consider protection of personnel from harm around machinery. Remote access and connectivity create the issue of preventing unauthorised and potentially malicious access into industrial and automation control systems \u2013 including safety systems. This webinar will discuss how to build a 'Defence in Depth' strategy to protect systems from cyberattacks and provide an overview of the cybersecurity standard EN 62443. Full Story...\nModular operating mode and access permission system 22\/06\/2020\nA modular operating mode selection and access permission system from Pilz is said to offer flexibility when implementing safety and security on equipment and processes. Full Story...\nCobots: Putting safety first 25\/06\/2019\nCollaborative robots (cobots) are starting to be accepted within the manufacturing sector. However, safety is still a concern for many. Suzanne Gill finds out how this issue is being addressed. Full Story...\nFlexible interlocking solution 03\/05\/2016\nPilz has added PSENmlock to its range of safety switches to offer safety gate monitoring and safe guard locking for the protection of personnel and processes to the highest levels up to PL e (of EN ISO 13849) in one device. Full Story...\nEN 61800-5-2: more than just Safe Torque Off 19\/01\/2016\nRoss Fenion offers an insight into the application of the safe motion standard EN 61800-5-2. Full Story...\nAll-in-one safety gate system for PL e safety and efficiency 08\/10\/2014\nPilz has launched the PSENsgate 2 safety gate system which combines safety gate monitoring (for prevention of unexpected startup), safe guard locking (to prevent access while hazards are present), various control elements, an emergency stop pushbutton (E-stop) and escape release (for personnel who become trapped in the hazardous area) all-in-one system, up to the highest category PL e as per EN ISO 13849-1 (BS EN ISO 13849-1 in the UK). Full Story...\nPreparing for the arrival of ISO 14119:2013 11\/03\/2014\nThere has been a great deal of discussion about the forthcoming ISO 14119:13 Safety of machinery \u2013 interlocking devices associated with guards. Control Engineering Europe garnered some views about its main requirements. Full Story...\nIndustry prepares for the next 'industrial revolution' 12\/06\/2013\nIndustry 4.0 was high on the agenda of lots of exhibitors at the Hannover Messe this year. Referred to by many as the 'fourth industrial revolution' the concept of Industry 4.0 is to merge the virtual world with the real world, bringing IT and production closer together. Full Story...\nSafeguarding your safety set-up 02\/10\/2012\nDavid Collier, of Pilz Automation Technology, asks whether your safeguards are as safe as you think, and discusses the 'fault-making' phenomenon.... There are many machines fitted with multiple guards which are monitored in one circuit by series connected switches with dual channel wiring to what appears to be Category 3. But, can any of these guards be opened simultaneously? Full Story...\nDecentralised periphery interface module 19\/09\/2012\nThe new interface module PDP20 F 4 mag, from Pilz, is suitable for series connection of safety switches such as tongue interlocks or magnetic safety switches, up to PL e. Full Story...\nHarmonising productivity with machine safety 28\/06\/2011\nSafety gates, protective covers and machine guards prevent hazards associated with moving parts. However, the correct functioning of a safeguard can only be guaranteed by using the appropriate sensor technology. Alex Bryce, sales manager at Pilz Automation Technology, considers the current sensor systems available and the selection criteria that should be considered. Full Story...\nMachinery safety for packaging machines 14\/03\/2011\nFollowing renewed risk assessments that led to an updated machine safety design concept for a servo-driven film wrapping machine, BVM Brunner now has the flexibility to meet a variety of customer requirements while ensuring the safety of machine operators. Full Story...\nAdopt new Machine Safety standards\u2026now 21\/02\/2011\nMachine builders should be adopting the Machinery Directive EN 13949-1 standards sooner rather than later, says Kevin Ives, Machinery Safety Consultant at Pilz Automation Technology. Full Story...\nA safety solution for hand-fed platen presses 30\/11\/2010\nWith the Health & Safety Executive in the UK about to commence on-site inspections of hand-fed platen presses, users of this high-risk machinery need to ensure that their presses meet the required safety standards. CEE finds out about a novel, high integrity safety solution for a hand-fed platen press, which uses light beam sensors and a modular safety control and monitoring system. Full Story...\nPNOZmulti Mini space-saving safety controller 14\/08\/2009\nPilz Automation Pilz Automation Technology is launching the PNOZmulti Mini multifunctional configurable safety controller for applications up to BS EN ISO 13849-1 Ple and BS EN 62061 SIL 3. Full Story...\nPilz launches new automation system 28\/04\/2009\nThis new hardware and software platform, called the PSS4000, brings Pilz into the world of integrated logic, motion, and safety. The system was built from the ground up to incorporate all these control features in a combined architecture to reduce the amount of engineering work needed to commission the system. Full Story...\nA strategy for safe motion 26\/12\/2008\nArmin Glaser, Head of Product Management, and Andreas Hahn, Product Manager at Pilz GmbH addressed an audience at the recent SPS\/IPC\/Drives show in N\u00fcrnberg on the subject of safety in motion control. Full Story...\nPilz opens Technology Centre 30\/11\/2008\nPilz GmbH & Co. KG recently opened the \"Peter Pilz Technology Centre\" as part of its 60th anniversary celebrations. Full Story...\nMachine safety, in smaller packages 07\/07\/2008\nThe safety of machines and systems is one of the most important topics within the automation sector. The reason for this is the new Machinery Directive which will come into effect as of 29 December 2009. Full Story...\nProduct Forum\nTitan Enterprises' NSF-Approved 800-Series Turbine Flow Meters Ideal for Pharmaceutical & Medical Applications\nDiscover future technologies at Industrial Ethernet Week\nDrive industrial transformation at Industrial Ethernet Week\nAccurate, easy-to-clean ultrasonic flowmeter\nMore product forum articles\nHarnessing new power distribution products to design today's control panels\nA new path to operations visualisation\nDeep Learning versus Machine Vision\nUltra-compact Industrial PCs serve as universal IoT gateways","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
+{"text":"Historic Price Lookup\nAutoNation Reports 2018 Fourth Quarter and Full Year Results\nDownload this Press Release PDF Format (opens in new window)\nAutoNation Implements Restructuring and Cost Savings Plan\n- EPS from continuing operations was $1.02, and total revenue was $5.4 billion\n- AutoNation incurred approximately $0.08 per share, or $9 million, in restructuring-related charges during the fourth quarter of 2018\n- The tax reform bill positively impacted fourth quarter 2017 net income from continuing operations by $41 million, or $0.45 per share\n- AutoNation implements corporate and regional restructuring and cost savings plan expected to reduce costs by approximately $50 million annually\nFORT LAUDERDALE, Fla., Feb. 22, 2019 \/PRNewswire\/ -- AutoNation, Inc. (NYSE: AN), America's largest automotive retailer, today reported fourth quarter 2018 net income from continuing operations of $93 million, or $1.02 per share. Restructuring-related charges of $0.08 per share, or approximately $9 million, were incurred during the fourth quarter of 2018. Fourth quarter 2017 net income from continuing operations totaled $152 million, or $1.64 per share. Fourth quarter 2017 EPS from continuing operations included a benefit of $0.45 per share due to the enactment of the federal tax reform bill.\nFourth Quarter Results\nFourth quarter 2018 revenue totaled $5.4 billion compared to $5.7 billion in the year-ago period. Same-store fourth quarter 2018 revenue totaled $5.3 billion compared to $5.5 billion in the year-ago period, a decrease of 4%. Same-store fourth quarter 2018 gross profit of $832 million decreased by 2% compared to $846 million in the year-ago period. Same-store Customer Financial Services gross profit per vehicle retailed was an all-time record of $1,851.\nRestructuring and Cost Savings Plan\nAutoNation previously announced a cost savings plan and a corporate and regional restructuring to improve efficiency and profitability that further positions the Company for long-term success. The Company's plan to reduce costs by approximately $50 million annually includes a reorganization and realignment of its operating structure. A key driver is the consolidation of its regional structure from three regions to two regions. As noted above, AutoNation incurred restructuring-related charges in connection with this plan during the fourth quarter 2018. The Company expects to incur additional restructuring-related charges in the first quarter of 2019 that are currently estimated to be lower than the charges incurred during the fourth quarter of 2018.\nSegment Results\nSegment results(1) for the fourth quarter 2018 were as follows:\nDomestic - Domestic segment income(2) was $55 million compared to year-ago segment income of $67 million, a decrease of 18%.\nImport - Import segment income(2) was $69 million compared to year-ago segment income of $75 million, a decrease of 9%.\nPremium Luxury - Premium Luxury segment income(2) was $91 million compared to year-ago segment income of $106 million, a decrease of 13%.\nFor the full year ended December 31, 2018, AutoNation reported net income from continuing operations of $396 million, or $4.34 per share, compared to net income from continuing operations of $435 million, or $4.43 per share, for the same period in the prior year. AutoNation's revenue for full year 2018 totaled $21.4 billion, which was down slightly compared to $21.5 billion for the same period in the prior year.\nThe fourth quarter conference call may be accessed by telephone at (888) 769-8515 (password: AutoNation) at 11:00 a.m. Eastern Time today or on AutoNation's investor relations website at http:\/\/investors.autonation.com.\nThe webcast will also be available on AutoNation's website under \"Events & Presentations\" following the call. A playback of the conference call will be available after 1:00 p.m. Eastern Time on February 22, 2019, through March 15, 2019, by calling (866) 505-9252 (passcode: 8698).\nAutoNation has three operating segments: Domestic, Import, and Premium Luxury. The Domestic segment is comprised of stores that sell vehicles manufactured by General Motors, Ford, and FCA US; the Import segment is comprised of stores that sell vehicles manufactured primarily by Toyota, Honda, Nissan, and Hyundai; and the Premium Luxury segment is comprised of stores that sell vehicles manufactured primarily by Mercedes-Benz, BMW, Lexus, and Audi.\nSegment income represents income for each of our reportable segments and is defined as operating income less floorplan interest expense.\nAbout AutoNation, Inc.\nAutoNation, America's largest automotive retailer, is transforming the automotive industry through its bold leadership, innovation, and comprehensive brand extensions. As of December 31, 2018, AutoNation owned and operated over 325 locations from coast to coast. AutoNation has sold 12 million vehicles, the first automotive retailer to reach this milestone. AutoNation's success is driven by a commitment to delivering a peerless experience through customer-focused sales and service processes. Through its DRV PNK initiative, AutoNation is committed to drive out cancer, create awareness and support critical research. AutoNation continues to be a proud supporter of the Breast Cancer Research Foundation and other cancer-related charities.\nPlease visit investors.autonation.com, www.autonation.com, www.autonationdrive.com, www.twitter.com\/autonation, www.twitter.com\/CEOMikeJackson, www.facebook.com\/autonation, and www.facebook.com\/CEOMikeJackson, where AutoNation discloses additional information about the Company, its business, and its results of operations.\nThis news release contains forward-looking statements within the meaning of Section 27A of the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, and Section 21E of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended. All statements other than statements of historical fact are, or may be deemed to be, forward-looking statements. Words such as \"anticipates,\" \"expects,\" \"intends,\" \"goals,\" \"plans,\" \"believes,\" \"continues,\" \"may,\" \"will,\" \"could,\" and variations of such words and similar expressions are intended to identify such forward-looking statements. Statements regarding our strategic initiatives, partnerships, or investments, including our brand extension strategies, and expectations for restructuring and cost savings plan, future results and the future performance of our franchises (including with respect to sales of used vehicles and parts and accessories) and the automotive retail industry, as well as other statements that describe our objectives, goals, or plans are forward-looking statements. Our forward-looking statements reflect our current expectations concerning future results and events, and they involve known and unknown risks, uncertainties and other factors that are difficult to predict and may cause our actual results, performance or achievements to be materially different from any future results, performance and achievements expressed or implied by these statements. These risks, uncertainties and other factors include, among others: economic conditions, including changes in interest rates, fuel prices, and tariffs; new and used vehicle margins; the success and financial viability and the incentive and marketing programs of vehicle manufacturers and distributors with which we hold franchises; our ability to successfully implement, and customer adoption of, our brand extension strategies; our ability to identify, acquire, and build out suitable locations in a timely manner; our ability to maintain and enhance our retail brands and reputation and to attract consumers to our own digital channels; our ability to integrate successfully acquired and awarded franchises and to attain planned sales volumes within our expected time frames; restrictions imposed by vehicle manufacturers and our ability to obtain manufacturer approval for acquisitions; natural disasters and other adverse weather events; the resolution of legal and administrative proceedings; regulatory factors affecting our business, including fuel economy requirements; the announcement of safety recalls; factors affecting our goodwill and other intangible asset impairment testing; and other factors described in our news releases and filings made under the securities laws, including, among others, our Annual Reports on Form 10-K, our Quarterly Reports on Form 10-Q and our Current Reports on Form 8-K. 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+{"text":"Best online club \u2013 what it is\nWinning streak we request to participate\n4 Things to know about Online Casinos\nSlot game Options As Per Your Luck: a Sneak Peak\nGuide to playing Togel Plug in Macau\nWhat Is Online Gambling?\nUtilizing an e-casino Free Spins Bonus\npoker guts\nHomeCasinoThe Best Online Access to Our Favorite Slot\nThe Best Online Access to Our Favorite Slot\nposted on Dec. 11, 2020 at 4:14 am December 12, 2020\nHave you heard of slot games already?\nIf you're a fan of casino games, surely you have heard the word slot already. Maybe you have encountered it too. Because slot is considered one of the classic casino games of all time, it means that it is one of the first casino games popularized since the old times. Also, when the popularity of casino arose, slots were already known in society. It's because the game was first developed in 1891. It is the year where the first slot machine was introduced to the people. Since then, it has quickly spread in various parts of New York. Back in that time, we can easily realize its widespread demand because of its high demand from people. In fact, it became so in demand that it led to being found in every bar in New York back then.\nWhen slot machines were introduced in the market, many people quickly became curious about it. They are curious about how to play and win in that simple machine. That became the key to why it quickly spread and popularized in every part of New York. This reality can easily be realized and discovered once you get back on our history. But even if we are already in modern times, we cannot deny that slot has become a huge part of our society. It just proves that casino remain popular up to this time. We can easily realize this once we check and enter the world of casino today.\nNowadays, the famous slot game remains its magic in the lives of many avid players and fans of the casino. That's why this game has been here up this time. Even if we are now in modern times, it remains to be on top of the line when it comes to the best casino games today. But now, the famous slot game has been upgraded to a more exciting and fun way of playing it. Yes, it's true because once you go online today and search for a slot, surely you will find numerous choices where you can access them. These sites have different things to offer, so as a player, you need to be wise on what to choose among the choices that will pop up.\nIf you're still unaware of the best access to slot online today, don't worry because you will already know it. Because the considered on top of all access to online slot today is the Sbobet 88. You will not just experience the convenience of playing the slot game, but also you will have a chance to get big bonuses and prizes that cannot ever be compared to the traditional way of playing it in the land-based casinos. So, hurry now and become part of the growing community of online slot players today. Surely, you would never regret entering the online world of casino today, most especially online slot access. If you have a device, connect it to the Internet connection now. Once you have a secure connection, you will surely have a continuous connection to the best online slot game now.\nPaul Watson December 11, 2020\nChoosing Online Casino Over Land-Based Casino: Revealed!\nLearn the interesting aspects of playing Keno\nChoosing the best online casinos to play slots\nGet to know the best ways to spend this pandemic\nYou have to ask your family's opinion about the settlement.\nReasons to purchase the mega slot\nThe Growing Online Betting Community\nSmart Betting Choices for Your Long term Games\nPaul PetersenJanuary 17, 2021\nPaul PetersenJanuary 4, 2021\nSheri gillDecember 28, 2020\naddictive American appear appropriate roulette cards casino casinos challenge client combined comped decision demonstration depends draw fundamental game games good quality ignore inclination initial installing Instructions internet internet casinos journeys likelihood massive November opportunity perhaps player player's proper etiquette random rooms Roulette Rules strategy study summer tournaments ways written\nCopyright @ 2020 pokerguts.com | All Right Reserved.","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
+{"text":"This is the one suit you should build your wardrobe around, according to the tailor duo who dress celebrities and City of London bankers\nHannah Miles for Jack Davison BespokeJack Stammers and Will Davison of Jack Davison Bespoke.\nChoosing a suit is tough.\nThe owners of Jack Davison Bespoke, Jack Stammers and Will Davison, told Business Insider about the suit you should build your wardrobe around.\nThe tailors have attracted VIP clients, including Rio Ferdinand and the vlogger Jim Chapman.\nDavison said: \"Your first suit needs to be one that's transferable for a lot of occasions.\"\nBuying a suit can be an arduous task for anyone. With the countless styles, patterns, and fabrics offered, it's easy to get lost in the myriad options available.\nFortunately, two tailors from London have divulged what they believe to be the perfect suit to build your wardrobe around.\nJack Stammers and Will Davison are attempting to bring the flair of Savile Row to the City of London, London's historic financial district.\nHannah Miles for Jack Davison Bespoke\n\"We both worked at a well-known tailor in Mayfair,\" Davison said. \"The more we got into it, the more we had visions of what we'd like to do. Then we just noticed there was a big gap in the market.\"\nThe duo opened Jack Davison Bespoke in the heart of the City of London, with the intention of getting professionals \"dressing a bit more excitingly.\"\nJust over a year and a half later, they have attracted celebrity fans, including Rio Ferdinand and the vlogger Jim Chapman.\n@rioferdy5 Wearing His Bespoke Jack Davison Three Piece Suit #facup\nA post shared by Jack Davison (@jack_davison_bespoke) on May 19, 2018 at 8:49am PDT\nThe key to looking good all the time, they say, is to start with a classic grey or navy suit.\n\"I say to my clients, unless they have got something very clear in their heads that they want for their first suit, I'd always encourage someone to go for a classic grey or a classic navy, because that way you're going to get the most wear out of it,\" Stammers said.\n\"The beauty of that is they will go with most shirts too \u2013 whites, blues, stripes,\" he said, adding that the suits are \"really versatile\" and look \"nice with brown or black shoes.\"\nDavison added: \"When you're building your wardrobe, your first suit needs to be one that's transferable for a lot of occasions and just looks really good all the time.\"\nSo if you're heading to the tailor for the first time \u2013 or even buying off the peg \u2013 starting your look in navy or grey will set you on the path to sartorial success.\nbistrategy lifestyle uk men's fashion retail style suit tailors thelife-us","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
+{"text":"Web development has become the dominant approach for building enterprise software. To provide your best on every project, you need to understand the server and browser client worlds. On the server, there's ASP.NET Core with MVC, the new Razor Pages, and support for building services. The browser client is evolving rapidly, with constant changes and updates to JavaScript, TypeScript, Angular, React, and other related frameworks. But more than this, there's now WebAssembly and the ability to run other languages natively in the browser, including C\/C++, C#, and many more. Your need to keep up-to-date with all these technologies has never been greater, and we're here to give you the knowledge you need!\nTopics in this track include:\nAngular 101\nRxJS in Angular\nJavaScript for modern browsers\nFuture of front-end performance\nDeep dive into TypeScript\nJavaScript framework comparison\nSecuring single-page apps\nMVVM and ASP.NET Core Razor Pages\nHOL02 Hands-On Lab: Develop an ASP.NET Core 3 App with EF Core in a Day Sunday October 18 9:00am - 6:00pm\nPhilip Japikse Microsoft MVP, MCSD, CSM, and CSP, Developer, Coach, Author, Teacher\nT01 Angular 101 Tuesday October 20 8:00am - 9:15am\nT05 Modern JavaScript for Modern Browsers Tuesday October 20 9:30am - 10:45am\nSia Karamalegos, Founder and Lead Developer, Clio + Calliope\nT09 RxJS in Angular Best Practices Tuesday October 20 1:30pm - 2:45pm\nT13 The Future of Front-End Performance Tuesday October 20 3:00pm - 4:15pm\nW01 Deep Dive: TypeScript Wednesday October 21 8:00am - 10:45am\nAllen Conway, Web Client Practice Lead, Cognizant Softvision\nW07 Fast Focus: JavaScript Framework\/Library Showdown Wednesday October 21 1:30pm - 1:50pm\nTH01 Securing Single Page Applications (SPAs) Thursday October 22 8:00am - 9:15am\nBen Hoelting, Development Manager, Ent Credit Union\nTH05 MVVM and ASP.NET Core Razor Pages Thursday October 22 9:30am - 10:45am","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
+{"text":"Roll Calls for Tuesday Mar. 23, 2010\nA Resolution designating the month of April 2010 as \"Pennsylvania Community College Month\" in Pennsylvania. (more details)\nA Resolution designating April 7, 2010, as \"National Start! Walking Day\" in Pennsylvania. (more details)\nA Resolution designating the month of March 2010 as \"Music in Our Schools Month\" in Pennsylvania. (more details)\nA Resolution designating March 25, 2010, as \"Helen Phillips CASUAL Day for Colon Cancer Awareness\" in northeastern Pennsylvania. (more details)\nA Resolution designating the month of April 2010 as \"Outdoor Heritage Month in the Pennsylvania Alleghenies.\" (more details)\nA Resolution honoring the Pennsylvania Capitol Police on the occasion of its 115th anniversary on March 26, 2010. (more details)\nA Resolution designating March 3, 2010, as \"Spread the Word to End the Word Day\" in Pennsylvania. (more details)\nA Resolution designating April 6, 2010, as \"Tartan Day\" in Pennsylvania. (more details)\nA Resolution designating the month of April 2010 as \"Child Abuse Prevention Month\" in Pennsylvania. (more details)\nA Resolution designating April 19, 2010, as \"Insurance Fraud Awareness Day\" in Pennsylvania to increase awareness and understanding of the financial harms of insurance fraud. (more details)\n3\/23\/2010 HB 526 PN 3169, CONCUR\nAn Act amending the act of September 2, 1961 (P.L.1232, No.540), known as the Model Act for the Regulation of Credit Life Insurance and Credit Accident and Health Insurance, further providing for ... (more details)\nAn Act amending the act of March 10, 1949 (P.L.30, No.14), known as the Public School Code of 1949, further providing for local wellness policy and for duties of the Department of Education. (more details)\n3\/23\/2010 SB 888 PN 1774, FP\nAn Act designating the bridges on Route 28 in the Boroughs of Etna and Sharpsburg, Allegheny County, as the Chief Warrant Officer Michael J. Novosel Memorial Bridges; and making a related repeal. (more details)\nAn Act amending Title 42 (Judiciary and Judicial Procedure) of the Pennsylvania Consolidated Statutes, in organization and jurisdiction of courts of common pleas, authorizing the establishment of ... (more details)\nAn Act making appropriations to the Trustees of the University of Pennsylvania. (more details)\nA Supplement to the act of July 7, 1972 (P.L.743, No.176), known as the Lincoln University-Commonwealth Act, making an appropriation for carrying the same into effect; providing for a basis for p ... (more details)\nA Supplement to the act of November 30, 1965 (P.L.843, No.355), known as the Temple University--Commonwealth Act, making appropriations for carrying the same into effect; providing for a basis fo ... (more details)\nA Supplement to the act of July 28, 1966 (3rd Sp.Sess., P.L.87, No.3), known as the University of Pittsburgh--Commonwealth Act, making appropriations for carrying the same into effect; and provid ... (more details)\nA Supplement to the act of April 1, 1863 (P.L.213, No.227), entitled \"An act to accept the grant of Public Lands, by the United States, to the several states, for the endowment of Agricultural Co ... (more details)\nAn Act to provide from the General Fund for the expenses of the Executive, Legislative and Judicial Departments of the Commonwealth, the public debt and the public schools for the fiscal year Jul ... (more details)\nA Resolution honoring the work and dedication of the National Congress of Black Women, Inc., and recognizing and celebrating women's historic achievements. (more details)\nA Resolution honoring Blanche Burton-Lyles, the founder of the Marian Anderson Historical Society, for her dedication to assisting and mentoring classical vocal artists in their professional care ... (more details)","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
+{"text":"Vehicular Accident\nHighway Work\nZone Accidents\nProduct Failure\nand Liability\nEvent Data Recorder\nor Black Box\nForensic Metallurgy\nSudden Unintended\nForensic Animation\n\"Human factors refer to environmental, organizational and job factors, and human and individual characteristics, which influence behavior at work in a way which can affect health and safety.\"\n\u2014 Health and Safety Executive, 2009\nHuman factors, then, break down to three topics of concern:\nwhat people are being asked to do (the task and its characteristics),\nwho is doing it (the individual and their competence), and\nwhere they are working (the organization and its attributes).\nResearch has indicated that accidents usually occur for one of three principle reasons \u2014 perceptual error, mental distraction, or failed response. Perceptual error occurs when important information is below the threshold for observation, for example it was too dark or there was a glare. In other cases, the driver makes an error such a misjudging a curve radius or distance. The second reason is basically mental distraction. In this far more common cause, information is detectable but the driver is focused elsewhere. In the third explanation, the driver may correctly assess the information, but fail to choose the right response \u2014 or make the right decision but then fail to execute.\nThe study of human factors uses scientific knowledge of human capabilities, perception and attention, memory, and behavior to understand how people interact with the world. Human factors also include any associations with buildings, computers, medical or other electronic devices, vehicles, or other technology. Studying these elements helps create better environments, and examines the source of error in existing ones. The study of human error remains relevant because it occurs so frequently, and in all aspects of life. Almost all human interactions involve visual perception \u2014 the ability to recognize and assess, then act. Understanding how this happens is often the key to analyzing human choice and behavior, and to understanding accident and trademark confusion.\nThere are three main human failures (unsafe acts) that may lead to accidents. The first, error, is an unintended action that occurs during a routine task. The second, a mistake, involves a lapse in decision-making. The third, a violation, is an intentional act of wrongdoing.\nHow often a human failure will occur is determined by performance influencing factors, such as competence, morale, noise levels, distraction, time pressure, workload, and communication systems. Because these performance factors can be tracked, assessed, and managed, it is possible to predict and control human failure relatively well.\nA comprehensive study of road safety found that human error was the sole cause in 57 percent of all accidents and was a contributing factor in over 90 percent. In contrast, only 2.4 percent were due solely to mechanical fault and only 4.7 percent were caused only by environmental factors. Other studies have reported similar results.\nBuettner, R. and W. Rashbaum. 2008. \"Criminal Inquiry Is Opened in New York Crane Collapse. The New York Times. http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2008\/06\/01\/nyregion\/01collapse.html.\nFriess, S. 2005. \"Laptop design can be a pain in the posture\". USA Today. http:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/tech\/news\/2005-04-12-laptop-pain_x.htm.\nHealth and Safety Executive. 2009. \"Human factors and ergonomics\". http:\/\/www.hse.gov.uk\/humanfactors.\nPasztor, A. and S. Carey. 2008. \"Pilot Fatigue Spurs Calls for New Safeguards\". The Wall Street Journal.\nhttp:\/\/online.wsj.com\/article\/SB122117729872125851.html.\n\u00a9 2011 Armstrong Forensic Engineers, Inc.","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
+{"text":"Previously Unseen Ancient Thracian Weapons Showcased in Special Exhibition in Bulgaria's Danube City of Ruse\nJuly 9, 2019 \u00b7 by Ivan Dikov \u00b7 in Ancient Thrace, Antiquity, Exhibitions\nPart of the official poster for the \"Thracian Armanents from the 1st Millenium BC\" exhibition at the Ruse Regional Museum of History. Photo: Ruse Regional Museum of History\nPreviously unseen Ancient Thracian weapons from the 1st millennium BC discovered in Thracian settlements and burial mounds in Northeast Bulgaria have been showcased for the first time in a special exhibition at the Regional Museum of History in the Danube city of Ruse.\nThe exhibition entitled \"Thracian Armaments from the 1st Millennium BC\" is a guest exhibition put together from experts from the Regional Museum of History in the city of Shumen, also in Northeast Bulgaria.\nThe Ancient Thracian tribes inhabited most of the Balkan Peninsula as of the Bronze Age, after the Proto-Thracians took over the local prehistoric population that gave birth to the Lower Danube Valley civilization, also known as Old Europe.\nWhile probably the most powerful Ancient Thracian kingdom was the Odrysian Kingdom (5th century BC \u2013 1st century AD), dominated by the Odrysae, which was centered in the Valley of Odrysian Thracian Kings in Central Bulgaria with its impressive Hellenistic Era capital Seuthopolis submerged by the Bulgarian communist regime in the 1950s, the Getae (Gets) which inhabited today's Northeast Bulgaria and Southeast Romania probably had the second most power Thracian kingdom.\nThey were either the same as, or closely related with the Dacians north of the Danube, in today's Romania, so much so that scholars often talk of Getae \u2013 Dacians.\nOne of the best-known maps of Ancient Thrace from a book co-authored by the founder of thracology, Prof. Alexander Fol. Photos: TV grabs from Kiss13 TV\nAll of Ancient Thrace south of the Danube, including the remnants of the Odrysian Kingdom, was conquered by the Roman Empire in 46 AD, in a conquest that took two centuries, after which the Thracian aristocracy became well integrated in the Roman imperial system.\nThe Dacians north of the Danube were conquered by the Romans only in the early 2nd century AD, and the Roman domination north of the Lower Danube proved short-lived as the province of Dacia was lost towards the end of the 3rd century AD.\nThe Thracian weapons collection of the Shumen Regional Museum of History consists of nearly 4,000 exhibits, and some of the most intriguing are presented in the newly opened exhibition in the Danube city of Ruse.\nA total of 125 Ancient Thracian armaments have been put on display in the Ruse Museum of History in the exhibition opened on July 9, 2019, the Museum has announced.\nThe displayed Thracian arms include both offensive and defensive weapons but the bulk are from the offensive type.\nSeveral types of Thracian battle axes are shown in the exhibition of the previously unseened Thracian weapons. Photo: Ruse Regional Museum of History\nThe various types of swords, spear tips, and arrow tips from the Ancient Thracians in Northeast Bulgaria. Photos: TV grabs from Kiss13 TV\nLead projectiles for slings that worked similarly to bullets. Photos: TV grabs from Kiss13 TV\nThe offensive Thracian armaments from the 1st millennium BC showcased in the exhibition include makhairai \u2013 a makhaira is curved single-edged sword; acinaci \u2013 an acinaces (akinakes) is a double-edged short sword or dagger; a rhomphaia, a Thracian curved short sword; battle axes; spear tips including of a sarissa; arrow tips; as well as lead sling projectiles some of which even have inscriptions on them.\n\"Artifacts that make an impression are the discovered molds for the casting of bronze arrow tips showing the intensive manufacturing of weapons by the local craftsmen,\" the Ruse Museum of History says.\n\"The offensive weapons in the exhibition include different types of spear [tip]s. One of those is a sarissa, a spear used primarily in the Ancient Macedonian phalanxes which reached up to 7 meters in length,\" explains archaeologist Nikola Rusev from the Ruse Regional Museum of History, as cited by local TV station Kiss13.\n\"Another part of the offensive weapons shown in the exhibition are the swords. We have long swords such as the rhomphaia and long swords from the [Celtic] La Tene culture, curved swords acinaci, a makhaira \u2013 short curved sword, as well as several types of battle axes,\" he adds.\n\"The lead sling projectiles are generally connected with the advances of the Macedon troops against the Thracians, and were an extremely dangerous weapons,\" the archaeologist emphasizes.\n\"Of course, slings from back then didn't resemble today's slings, or the ones that I know from my childhood, they had a different look. And their range was 200 meters, which almost as much as a bow's range. What is more, there were extremely quiet and could inflict severe damages. They were almost like today's bullets, plus they were also made of lead,\" Rusev elaborates.\nDefense armaments from Ancient Thrace in the 1st millenium BC showcased for the first time in the exhibition. Photo: Ruse Regional Museum of History\nDefensive weapons from the new Ancient Thracian exhibition. Photos: TV grabs from Kiss13 TV\nThe exhibition on \"Thracian Armaments from the 1st Millennium BC\" features a smaller number of \"defensive\" in the Ruse Museum features a smaller number of defensive items discovered in Thracian necropolises in Bulgaria's Shumen District.\nThese include bronze and iron helmets, chain armors, and breastplates found in the Thracian necropolises located near the towns of Branichevo, Kalnovo, and Kyolmen.\nMost of the exhibits on display in the exhibition put together by the Shumen Museum of History include Thracian weapons discovered during archaeological excavations in the Shumen District, with many artifacts derived form a very rich archaeological site near the town of Dragoevo.\n\"The Thracian armaments [on display] are impressive with their huge diversity. The influence of neighboring people's is also observed as it was reconsidered by the local [Thracian] warriors and their weapon makers. The making of the weapons reveals the professional craftsmanship of the Thracians, especially in the defensive arms found in Kalnovo and the swords and spears from Dragoevo,\" the Ruse Museum of History notes.\nThe impressive Thracian weapons collection of the Shumen Regional Museum of History partly shown in the new exhibition in Bulgaria's Danube city of Ruse has been collected over the years with the tremendous contribution of late curator Georgi Atanasov, who was in charge of the Museum's Antiquity section for more than 30 years, from 1975 until 2006, and who authored a number of papers dedicated to Ancient Thracian armaments.\nRuse Museum Director Nikolay Nenov (left) and archaeologist Nikola Ruse (right) unveiling the Thracian weapons exhibiion. Photos: Ruse Regional Museum of History\nThe official poster for the \"Thracian Armaments from the 1st Millenium BC\" exhibition in Ruse. Photo: Ruse Museum of History\nThe main building of the history museum in Ruse. Photo: Ruse Museum of History\nThe main building of the Shumen Museum of History. Photo: Shumen Museum of History\nThe Ancient Thracian makhairai, acinaci, spears, arrows, axes and the other weapons in the exhibition of \"Thracian Armaments from the 1st Millennium BC\" of the Shumen Regional Museum of History can be seen in the Knyaz Alexander I Hall of the Ruse Regional Museum of History from July 9, 2019, until the end of October 2019.\nA particularly impressive collection of prehistoric, ancient, and medieval weapons belongs to Plovdiv-based Bulgarian private collector Boyko Vatev, whose exhibition entitled \"From Stone to Gun Powder\" back in 2016 was hosted by the Plovdiv Museum of Archaeology, and generated enormous local and international interest. In particular, his collection of maces is said to be about as rich as that of the British Museum.\nSupport ArchaeologyinBulgaria.com on Patreon\nwith $1 per Month!\nBecome a Patron Now!\nMake One-time Donation via Paypal!\nYour contribution for free journalism is appreciated!\nFollow us on Facebook, Twitter, Tumblr, Pinterest!\nTags: acinaces (akinaka), akinakes, Ancient Macedonians, Ancient Thracians, archaeologist, arrow tip, ax, battle ax, bow and arrow, Boyko Vatev, Branichevo, breastplate, bronze, Bronze Age, burial mounds, chain armor, Dacians, dagger, Dragoevo, exhibition, Georgi Atanasov, Getae, Getae-Dacians, helmet, iron, Iron Age, Kalnovo, Kingdom of Macedon, Krobyzoi, Kyolmen, lead, lead projectile, Macedonian phalanx, makhaira (sword), mold, necropolis, Nikola Rusev, Northeast Bulgaria, Odrysae, Odrysian Kingdom, Odrysians, Philip of Macedon, proto-Thracians, rhomphaia (sword), Romania, Ruse, sarissa, Shumen, Shumen District, sling, slingshot, spear, spear tip, sword, Thracian tomb, Thracian weapons, Thracians, Thraco-Getae, tumuli, tumulus, war helmet, weapons collection\n\u2190 Sealed 16th Century Ottoman Looting Tunnel for Draft Animals Found inside Tower Tomb beneath Bulgaria's Largest Thracian Burial Mound\n30-Year-Old Roman Woman's Grave Found in Bulgaria's Plovdiv near Discovery Site of Tomb with Jesus Christ Murals \u2192","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
+{"text":"Cancer Res. 2018 Sep 1;78(17):4957-4970. doi: 10.1158\/0008-5472.CAN-17-2268. Epub 2018 Jul 5.\nIL-6 Mediates Cross-Talk between Tumor Cells and Activated Fibroblasts in the Tumor Microenvironment.\nKarakasheva TA1,2, Lin EW1,2, Tang Q1,2, Qiao E1,2, Waldron TJ1,2, Soni M1,2, Klein-Szanto AJ3, Sahu V2,4, Basu D2,4,5, Ohashi S6, Baba K6, Giaccone ZT7, Walker SR7, Frank DA7, Wileyto EP8, Long Q8, Dunagin MC9, Raj A9, Diehl JA10, Wong KK7, Bass AJ7, Rustgi AK11,2.\nDivision of Gastroenterology, Department of Medicine, Department of Genetics, University of Pennsylvania Perelman School of Medicine, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.\nAbramson Cancer Center, University of Pennsylvania Perelman School of Medicine, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.\nFox Chase Cancer Center, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.\nDepartment of Otolaryngology - Head and Neck Surgery, University of Pennsylvania Perelman School of Medicine, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.\nSurgery Service, Philadelphia Veterans Affairs Medical Center, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.\nDepartment of Therapeutic Oncology, Graduate School of Medicine, Kyoto University, Kyoto, Japan.\nDepartment of Medical Oncology, Dana Farber Cancer Institute, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts.\nDepartment of Biostatistics, Epidemiology and Bioinformatics, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.\nDepartment of Bioengineering, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.\nDepartment of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Medical University of South Carolina, Charleston, South Carolina.\nDivision of Gastroenterology, Department of Medicine, Department of Genetics, University of Pennsylvania Perelman School of Medicine, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. anil2@pennmedicine.upenn.edu.\nThe tumor microenvironment (TME) plays a major role in the pathogenesis of multiple cancer types, including upper-gastrointestinal (GI) cancers that currently lack effective therapeutic options. Cancer-associated fibroblasts (CAF) are an essential component of the TME, contributing to tumorigenesis by secreting growth factors, modifying the extracellular matrix, supporting angiogenesis, and suppressing antitumor immune responses. Through an unbiased approach, we have established that IL-6 mediates cross-talk between tumor cells and CAF not only by supporting tumor cell growth, but also by promoting fibroblast activation. As a result, IL-6 receptor (IL6R\u03b1) and downstream effectors offer opportunities for targeted therapy in upper-GI cancers. IL-6 loss suppressed tumorigenesis in physiologically relevant three-dimensional (3D) organotypic and 3D tumoroid models and murine models of esophageal cancer. Tocilizumab, an anti-IL6R\u03b1 antibody, suppressed tumor growth in vivo in part via inhibition of STAT3 and MEK\/ERK signaling. Analysis of a pan-cancer TCGA dataset revealed an inverse correlation between IL-6 and IL6R\u03b1 overexpression and patient survival. Therefore, we expanded evaluation of tocilizumab to head and neck squamous cell carcinoma patient-derived xenografts and gastric adenocarcinoma xenografts, demonstrating suppression of tumor growth and altered STAT3 and ERK1\/2 gene signatures. We used small-molecule inhibitors of STAT3 and MEK1\/2 signaling to suppress tumorigenesis in the 3D organotypic model of esophageal cancer. We demonstrate that IL6 is a major contributor to the dynamic cross-talk between tumor cells and CAF in the TME. Our findings provide a translational rationale for inhibition of IL6R\u03b1 and downstream signaling pathways as a novel targeted therapy in oral-upper-GI cancers.Significance: These findings demonstrate the interaction of esophageal cancer and cancer-associated fibroblasts through IL-6 signaling, providing rationale for a novel therapeutic approach to target these cancers. Cancer Res; 78(17); 4957-70. \u00a92018 AACR.\n[Available on 2019-09-01]\n10.1158\/0008-5472.CAN-17-2268\nR21 DE024396\/DE\/NIDCR NIH HHS\/United States\nP30 ES013508\/ES\/NIEHS NIH HHS\/United States","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
+{"text":"Art for Lent (23): 'Christ in the Desert'\n(1872), by Ivan Kramskoi\n'Christ in the Desert' (1872) by Ivan Nikolaevich Kramskoi, Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow\nAs the crisis over Crimea continues, with tensions escalating between the West and Russia, it is worth reminding ourselves that today marks the 160th anniversary of Britain's declaration of war on Russia on 27 March 1854, marking the beginning of the Crimean War.\nWith this in mind, I have chosen as my work of Art for Lent this morning [27 March 2014] 'Christ in the Desert,' also known as 'Christ in the Wilderness' (Russian: \u0425\u0440\u0438\u0441\u0442\u043e\u0441 \u0432 \u043f\u0443\u0441\u0442\u044b\u043d\u0435) by the Russian artist Ivan Nikolaevich Kramskoi (1837-1887).\nKramskoi completed this painting in 1872. It is in oil on canvas, measures 180 cm \u00d7 210 cm, and is in the Tretyakov Gallery in Moscow.\nKramskoi was a painter and art critic, and an intellectual leader of the Russian democratic art movement from 1860-1880. He was born on 8 June (Old Style 27 May) 1837 in Ostrogozhsk into a poor petit-bourgeois family.\nHe studied at the Saint Petersburg Academy of Arts from 1857 to 1863. There he reacted against academic art and was an initiator of the \"revolt of fourteen\" which ended with the expulsion a group of its graduates from the academy. They then organised the Artel of Artists.\nKramskoi was strongly influenced by the ideas of the Russian revolutionary democrats and was one of the main founders and ideologists of the Company of Itinerant Art Exhibitions.\nFrom 1863 to 1868, he taught drawing and created a gallery of portraits of important Russian writers, scientists, artists and public figures, including Lev Nikolaevich Tolstoy, Ivan Shishkin, Pavel Mikhailovich Tretyakov, Mikhail Saltykov-Shchedrin and Sergei Botkin.\nKramskoi's democratic ideals found their brightest expression in his portraits of peasants, with a wealth of character details in representatives of the common people. His paintings show complex and sincere emotions and personalities.\nKramskoi died on 24 March 1887 in Saint Petersburg.\nHis best-known painting is probably this morning's work, 'Christ in the Desert.' His other paintings with Gospel subjects depicting Christ are 'Rejoice,' 'King of the Jews' and 'Herodias.'\nIn this morning's painting, Kramskoi continues Alexander Ivanov's humanistic tradition by treating a religious subject in moral\u2013philosophical terms. His image of Christ is imbued with dramatic experiences in a deeply psychological and vital interpretation, evoking the idea of his heroic self-sacrifice.\nThis painting led to Kramskoi being offered a professorship by the Russian Academy of Arts Council in 1873, despite his earlier expulsion. However, he rejected honour, choosing instead to keep his \"youthful commitment to independence from the Academy.\"\nLater, this became one of the favourite paintings of Pavel Tretyakov, who bought it for his gallery for 6,000 Roubles. He wrote: \"I liked Kramskoi's Saviour very much ... that's why I was harrying up to purchase him, but many people did not appreciate him much and the others did not at all. In my opinion this is the best painting in our school recently; maybe I am mistaken.\"\nThe theme of Christ's temptation alredy attracted Kramskoi in the early 1860s, when he first sketched his composition. The first version of 'Christ in the Desert' is dated 1867, but it was unsuccessful. Kramskoi realised that the choice of vertical format was inappropriate, and so in this later work he opted for the horizontal format and introduced the pallid rocky desert in the background.\nThe horizon divides the canvas plane almost in half, so that the figure of Christ dominates the space and harmonises with the stern wilderness at the same time.\nKramskoy uses primarily cold colours to reflect the chill dawn in the background. The thoughtful figure of Christ, wearing a dark blue cloak and a red tunic, is shifted slightly to the right of centre.\nThese robes are the traditional colours used for Christ's robes in Russian Orthodox icons, representing his divinity and his humanity. The painting emphasizes Christ's human constituent of hypostatic union and portrays his mental anguish rather than his physical suffering.\nChrist sits in agonising doubt, his hands tightly clenched together. As one critic said, the future of the world and of all living beings is concealed in that miserable, small being, in pauper appearance, under the rags, in humble simplicity, inseparable with true majesty and force.\nAs the painter himself wrote: \"There comes a moment in every man's life when he meditates on whether to turn to the right or to the left, whether to sell God for thirty pieces of silver, or to resist the temptation of evil.\"\nTomorrow: 'The Temptation of Saint Anthony' (1946), by Salvador Dal\u00ed (1946), by Salvador Dal\u00ed.\nLabels: Art, Lent 2014, Russia, Theology and Culture, Ukraine, War and peace\nA photograph from Lichfield on BBC Midlands this w...\nArt for Lent (23): 'Christ in the Desert' (1872), ...","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
+{"text":"19-year-old Designs A Bra Named 'Eva' That Detects Breast Cancer at Early Stages After His Mom Dies of This Disease\nPriya Verma\nThese days where teenagers are busy in drinking and partying all night, this 18- year old teenager who is the CEO and co-founder of Higia Technologies, Juli\u00e1n R\u00edos Cant\u00fa has done something which is truly very inspiring for all the women out there, especially those who are surviving with the deadly disease like cancer. He developed Eva, which is an auto-exploration bra that helps women detect breast cancer at an early stage. He told that after losing his mother due to breast cancer, he got the motivation to design something like this bra to save the life of other women who fight against such disease. So, his dedication and his hard work pay him off as he has successfully created Eva for all the women.\nHe further says, \"When I was 13 years old, my mother was diagnosed for the second time with breast cancer,\" The tumour went from having the dimensions of a grain of rice to that of a golf ball in less than six months. The diagnosis came too late and my mother lost both of her breasts and, almost, her life.\nDo you know his device has also won the top prize at the Global Student Entrepreneur Awards finals competition in which 56 student entrepreneurs from 56 countries competed against each other?\nvia: BBC\nCantu's innovative technology equipped Eva also made him earned Mexico's Presidential Medal for Science and Technology in the year 2018. In 2018, he also received a $120,000 investment from Y Combinator to fund his project for further growth. Higia Technologies has also won first place in SXSW's International Pitch Competition and was named one of \"30 Most Promising Businesses of 2018\" by Forbes Magazine Mexico. What a proud moment for the self-made entrepreneur.\nHow does Eva work?\nEva works on its tactile sensors that map the breast surface, and monitor its texture, colour, and temperature. All the users who are using this device to diagnose cancer can see their condition via a mobile or desktop app. He also ensures that whatever data they take is safely stored with them.\nHowever, the invention is just a prototype; it will soon be launched in the market for using it. Creators estimate that it will be certified for use in two years.\nCantu says Eva is safe and sound for all women\nvia: Gizmocrazed\nCantu has told that Eva can be used by women of all age types. The technology used in the bra Eva does not emit any kind of harmful radiation; women of all ages can easily use it without doubt about it. They can even use it regularly to monitor or detect their breast health at their own convenience.\nSadly, Cantu lost his mother due to cancer and he took so much time to come up with this innovative idea to save the women all around the world who die because of this deadly disease. Now, it will become easy for the women to pre-diagnose breast cancer at early stages so that they can save their life. Hats off to you boy. We are proud of you.\nRelated Topics:Auto-exploration braBreast cancerEva BraForbes Magazine MexicoHigia TechnologiesJuli\u00e1n R\u00edos Cant\u00fa\n7 Types of Different Personalities You Have Met When You were Enjoying Your Hostel Life During College Time\n6 Most Amazing Things That You Will Get To Experience When You Will Move Away From Your Hometown\nPriya is a passionate writer, she loves to write about different niches belonging to travel, lifestyle, health, fitness, finance etc. She is looking for new challenges when it comes to writing articles. She has written plenty by now and eager to write more because this is what she enjoys doing, which is why it turns out to be so fascinating! Apart from writing, she also loves cooking and reading different genre novel.","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
+{"text":"Print & mail recognized\nThis article, originally published in @theu on August 9, 2019, was written by Corinne Smart,\nUniversity Print & Mail Services.\nIn an industry based on using paper, sustainable practices are an ongoing challenge for organizations like University Print & Mail Services. But taking that challenge on has proved successful for the department, which has just been awarded bronze certification in the Sustainability Office's Green Office Program.\nConscious of the resources that it uses daily, Print & Mail felt compelled to follow best practices for sustainability and help support the university's mission and goals. This commitment started the department down the path toward achieving the Green Office Certification and completing the requirements was the next step. \u00ad\nThe Sustainability Office observes how campus work environments negatively impact our natural environment. To instigate change, they created the Green Office Certification, a program to teach campus ways to integrate sustainability practices into the workplace through sustainable choices. The Green Office Program has three tiers of certification: bronze, silver and gold. Once departments register, they receive a Green Office Checklist as a guide for success. To celebrate certifications, the Sustainability Office advertises the newly certified department's achievements on their social media outlets.\nOver the course of many months, the Print & Mail team worked to identify areas of improvement and correspondingly, began to check off boxes from the sustainability certification list. Some items were as simple as posting stickers to remind colleagues to turn off office lights at the end of the day; others took more effort, requiring continuous dedication from the entire Print & Mail team to carry the effort forward.\nThe Green Office Program has done more than just help Print & Mail conserve energy and reduce waste, it has influenced Print & Mail's team to adopt a more sustainable lifestyle. Team members have been seen bringing in office plants, making special trips to the recycle bin, using multi-use water bottles instead of disposables and taking public transit to work instead of driving.\nFor those considering joining the certification program, Print & Mail's Green Office Educator Wendy Covert has some advice: \"Come up with a Green Team. It is much easier to get buy-in from the department as a whole if other people are invested.\"\nAt Print & Mail, every team member had a part to play in being more sustainable, from the department purchaser being willing to buy green supplies to printing staff remembering to put scraps in recycling bins. The support and willingness of Print & Mail's entire team were vital to the department's success in acquiring bronze certification.\nDespite its roots in printing, Print & Mail has shown that even in the paper business, being sustainable is more attainable than you think. Beyond their commitment to helping the planet, the team is dedicated to helping the campus community by serving as an excellent resource for eco-friendly paper. Print & Mail prints university business cards on 100% PCW recycled paper and can order recycled paper for your department. Visit Print & Mail online or call 801-581-6171.","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
+{"text":"Diamond Playgirls\nDaaimah S. Poole and Others\nNew to the big city, new to each other, and ready for new beginnings, four young, hip, beautiful women in a Harlem brownstone discover they have more in common than their address. . .\nDior's got a taste for the finer things in life. So far she's got the job and the apartment. Now she needs the man, and she hopes she's met him on the Internet. She'll find out on Valentine's Day. . .. Party promoter Tamara is opening a hot new club--and hoping to break her family's tradition of failed marriages. But is dating three different men the best strategy?. . . Chloe is a BAP on the career track. But just as she's up for a big promotion her boyfriend gives her an ultimatum. . .. Casting director Mona-Lisa avoids relationships. But when a tragedy changes her attitude, she's compelled to spend a special day with a man from her past. Yet she's overlooked some crucial details. . .\nAs these women come together at a local club on Valentine's Day, secrets are revealed that will forever change their lives. . .\nMiasha, also a Philadelphia native, worked as a fashion model before graduating from Temple University with a degree in communications.\nKensington Publishing Corp.\nBentlyprincess , 07\/07\/2013\nDiamond play girls\nIamCynthia , 02\/26\/2014\nEnded Poorly\nI enjoyed looking into the lives of all the different women but it ended very poorly! I couldn't believe I was at the end of the book with some many cliffhangers. It's worth reading.\nAuri Bear , 06\/04\/2011\nNice Fun Read\nVery enjoyable!\nMore Books by Daaimah S. Poole, Miasha, Deja King & T. Styles\nA Rich Man's Baby\nWe Take This Man\nHis Last Name\nPretty Girls in the VIP\nSomebody Else's Man","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
+{"text":"Making Dundee City Centre safe and playful, while supporting the NHS\nDundee City Council is promoting a fun and safe 'Safari' story trail to encourage families to return to the city centre this Summer and help raise funds for the NHS.\nLaunching on Wednesday (July 22) families and households in Dundee will be invited to search city centre streets for 10 cute and colourful MonsterHeroes.\nUsing only smartphones, the Safari allows you to learn each of the MonsterHero's names, stories, and superpowers. Once all 10 MonsterHeroes are found, a free e-book, that tells the story of their first team-up, will be unlocked.\nThe Safari works by using contactless NFC technology and QR codes, without the need for players to download or sign up to anything - they simply need to tap or scan to play.\nCouncillor Alan Ross, Convener of City Development, said: \"As Dundee emerges from lockdown, we are keen to help local businesses and attract families to our city centre.\n\"The safari is designed to get people involved with local outlets who have reopened. We can't have a large event because of obvious safety restrictions, but this trail will allow families to enjoy a fun time out.\n\"I would encourage families to take part and rediscover our city centre as a great place to be.\"\nSeparately, the city council is working on a number of other initiatives that are designed to attract families and shoppers back to the centre.\nThese include a poster take over, artworks brightening up vacant shop windows, street painting and shop window trails. More details will be released soon on these projects.\nAnd only last week, Union Street was closed to traffic part of a council drive to help improve business for outlets as well as safety for shoppers as lockdown eases.\nThe temporary move, which is being funded through the Scottish Government's Spaces for People fund, is being put into place as shops reopen and restrictions on pubs and cafes are loosened.\nThe city's UNESCO City of Design team will also be helping to co-ordinate the decoration of street furniture in Union Street to try and create a fresh feel for the newly pedestrianised area.\nAnd in another bid to boost business, a council hospitality task force has been established to help restaurants and pubs who want to expand outside seating.\nOver 100 towns and cities across the UK are taking part in the MonsterHero Safari project, which has been sponsored by Wild in Art, with the aim of raising over \u00a3100k for NHS Charities Together.\nCoordinating the national project is Martin Blackwell, former CEO of ATCM (Association of Town and City Management) and the Charity Retail Association who said: \"When I heard about the concept it just resonated with me and I knew I had to support it. I loved the idea of heroes; the idea of a \"safari on the high street\"! I just thought, if something fun like this can help make families feel good about going back out onto the high street and raise money for such a worthy cause then let's go for it.\"\nTo learn more about the story-trail please go to www.monsterherosafari.com","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
+{"text":"PAGANI. Supercars inspired by the dreams of a young boy with Italian origins who grew up in the Pampas in Argentina.\nIn just a few moments, his observant glance takes in everything that surrounds him, revealing a man animated by a vibrant curiosity. His carefully chosen words, few in number but loaded with passion, are those of a man driven by his emotions but also, at the same time, by a strong sense of dignity. We meet Horacio Pagani in the futuristic factory-museum of San Cesario su Panaro, created with his own team of designers, to take him back down memory lane and find out how he managed to create the most exclusive tailor's shop for supercars in the world.\nHow did Pagani begin? Can you describe the passions, intuitions and vision that led you to breathe life into this company and this brand which is undoubtedly a household name today when it comes to supercars, in fact one of the most admired and coveted in the world?\nFirst of all, let me say that I have been very lucky. Lucky because, since I was a boy, I have always kindled a passion for art, one for scientific subjects and another one for mechanics, all at the same time. This is an eclecticism that has brought me closer to the automotive world since my childhood, because I realised that all these passions could be used at once. I lived in a very small village in the Pampas in Argentina, Casilda, in the province of Santa Fe. A village strongly influenced by Italian culture, because 70% of the population were families with Italian origins. My grandfather was one of those who came here from Italy, from the Como area, at the end of the 1800s, and he opened a bakery, which is still there today, one hundred and thirty years on. Every so often, a magazine would arrive from Italy and it was when I read these that I learned about an Italian city, Modena, that happened to be home to many companies, such as Maserati, Ferrari, Lamborghini, renowned for producing the most beautiful cars in the world. This was how my great passion for supercars was sparked, and it encouraged me, between the ages of 10 and 12 years old, to create my very first designs, and make them into models of balsa wood or whatever other materials I was able to lay my hands on. Of course, it was all just a game back then, but for me it soon turned into something more, a commitment that I took very seriously.\nThen, as the years passed, you developed a passion for Leonardo Da Vinci. How did that influence what you were doing?\nI believe that studying Leonardo marked a crucial turning point both in my personal life and for my career. Simply because the idea that art and science can go hand-in-hand was his. In this message, I discovered an extremely powerful source of inspiration that has always guided me throughout the years. I realised that I didn't have to choose between my passion for art and my passion for science, but that instead I could combine them, study them both, and even take an interest in other subjects too, such as philosophy. When I was still very young, as well as studying, I was also lucky enough to find a job in a workshop, where I could apply my passion for mechanics to any type of vehicle. This was how I managed to save some money, which I would then use to build my very first car, a racing car. It was my first test bench ever and, more than anything else, it gave me the chance to meet a number of people, including the great Fangio, who helped me get to Modena.\nThe story goes that, when you were only 13 years old, you told your mother that one day you would have come here to Modena to build supercars. Is this true?\nYes, it's absolutely true. Although I lived thousands of kilometres away from here, this land has always drawn me inextricably towards it. The legends of Enzo Ferrari, Ferruccio Lamborghini, the Maserati family and Sergio Scaglietti were truly the candles that would light up my imagination. It is only thanks to them that today the Motor Valley is seen as the ultimate in excellence, renowned, admired and praised all over the world. And so I managed to come here, to Modena, arriving on 15 June exactly 35 years ago, with 2 suitcases and a presentation letter given to me by none other than Fangio, a great man even before he was a Master. After fifteen days, my wife joined me in Italy and the adventure really took off: I worked in a plant nursery, then as a steel welder on building sites until in September 1983 I was lucky enough to land a job as an unskilled worker in the Lamborghini plant. There I started from scratch, succeeding over the years in working my way up and participating in some important projects: first I worked in the bodywork department, then I passed to the composite materials area, before later creating the first supercar chassis in carbon fibre, as well as working on the designs for the Diablo, the P140 and the first Lamborghini SUV. I spent nine years there: nine wonderful, rewarding years of my life in an environment that taught me so much.\nBut your idea, almost an obsession, was to build your very own car.\nYes, that's right! In fact, when I left Lamborghini, I started working on the Zonda design. I had no funding of any kind, and this was in a period of terrible economic crisis, after the First Gulf War. But, even though I was only putting my faith in subjective reasons, I believed in my instinct. I believed that the project would come to life. I was intent on carrying my dreams forward!\nWhen working on the design of the first Zonda, what were the unique, distinctive elements you focused on?\nI have always believed that the designer, or any creative person in general, shouldn't work for themselves but for their customer and aim to meet the customer's functional or emotional needs. However, the first Zonda was inspired by my images of racing cars, especially the ones that took part in the famous 24 Hours of Le Mans, of which I was a great fan. The chassis simply had to be completely made of carbon fibre, a technology that hardly anyone used back then. Moreover, the uniqueness of the car would lie in its exclusive, completely original design. I wanted it to look nothing like the other supercars on the market. I wanted it to generate brand new emotions. We know all too well that anyone who buys a car like this one is driven, above all, by irrational, emotional motivations. So any kind of object used in the car had to be an object of design. Indeed, it had to be stunning all over, inside and out. Of course, it goes without saying that absolute excellence was our goal in every environment, part and detail, even those that are not visible. We have always dedicated a great deal of hard work to the scientific research needed to achieve and maintain this level of perfection: each year we spend 20% of our revenue on research and development, on average 10% more than the amount spent by other companies.\nSo would we be correct in saying that, like a Cesare Attolini jacket or suit, every Pagani is tailor-made to meet the requests and needs of each individual customer?\nHere, the attention we pay to pleasing the customer is everything. Our mission is to make our customers happy, as they are our real employers. Each of our cars is unique: it is built according to a personalised design which is defined by listening to our customers. All of our cars are different from one another. Each Pagani is the result of a true psychological study, geared to understanding the mechanisms that make each customer tick.\nCan you tell us about the future projects you are working on?\nWe are working on a new Roadster, which will be even sportier than before and should come out next year. Whereas in 2021, we will present a new coup\u00e9, which will then be introduced in 2023 in a new fully electric version. At the moment our team of designers is very focused on the automotive product, but it was just as focused when we designed our production facility and showrooms too, so in future we may well consider working in new fields.\nFragments. Inspirations.\nA HISTORY OF TIMEless ELEGANCE.\nSGF SCULTURA\nTHE TIMELESS ELEGANCE OF CESARE ATTOLINI COMES TO MILAN\nANTICA CORTE PALLAVICINA. A charming relais, in the Piantador farm of the master Giuseppe Verdi.","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
+{"text":"Howard Street Rebuild Enters New Phase With Bike Lanes, Streetscape, New Lights And More On The Way\nWork will include rebuilding Howard Street's sidewalks and streetscape, adding new lighting, safer crosswalks and improved bike lanes and bus stops.\n8:00 PM CDT on Apr 7, 2021\nWork to completely rebuild Howard Street will run through Fall 2021.\nShamus Toomey\/Block Club Chicago\nROGERS PARK \u2014 Crews are beginning work on a complete redesign of Howard Street in an effort to improve the street's usefulness to all types of commuters.\nThe second phase of the Howard Street rebuilding project will begin this month, when crews will begin rebuilding the street starting in Rogers Park, officials from Chicago and Evanston announced in a community meeting for the joint-city project. The project spans Howard Street from Winchester Avenue west to Sacramento Avenue. Howard Street is the dividing line between Chicago and Evanston.\nLast year, crews replaced water mains along Howard between Target Access Drive to California and Western Avenue to Ridge Boulevard. With that work complete, the rebuilding of the street can now begin, said Sat Nagar, senior project manager with the city of Evanston.\nWork will include reconstructing the sidewalks and streetscape, adding new lighting, safer crosswalks and improved bike lanes and bus stops, Nagar said.\nNew traffic lights will be installed at Howard and California, and at Howard and Damen Avenue. Six curb \"bump outs\" will be constructed at key Howard Street intersections, giving pedestrians more sidewalk space while crossing the street. The existing bike lanes on Howard east of Western will be turned from shared lanes with cars to protected lanes with a buffer between the two modes of transportation, according to project documents.\nThe rebuilding project will be conducted in three stages, starting with the Rogers Park leg.\nFrom April to May, the section between Winchester Avenue and Ridge Boulevard will be rebuilt. From June to July, work will move to between Ridge and Western Avenue. From August to September, crews will work on the stretch between Western and the Target store access drive near Sacramento Avenue, Nagar said.\nAfter the streetscape is rebuilt, crews will resurface the street and construct the curb bump outs from September to October, when the two-year project is scheduled to wrap up.\nOne portion of Howard Street will remain open in both directions during this leg of work, officials said. Parking on Howard will be restricted, but access to Howard Street businesses will be maintained during the project.\n\"It's really exciting to see this next phase coming along,\" Ald. Maria Hadden (49th) said at a community meeting on the project Tuesday. \"Especially the phase that includes so many of the improvements that will have a direct benefit to neighbors.\"\nDebra Silverstein\nMaria Hadden","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
+{"text":"Princes Park Health Centre \u2013 the story\nNerve November 4, 2020 0\nFundraiser for a book about the 40-year rise, fall and rise of Princes Park Health Centre in Liverpool.\nWe are Katy Gardner and Susanna Graham-Jones, former GPs at Princes Park Health Centre in Toxteth, Liverpool 8. We have written a book about the Health Centre, from its creation in 1977 to 2017, and we need your support. We felt this story needed to be told as there is so much to celebrate and to learn. During these 40 years other radical general practices have come and gone, but none have documented their experience in this way. As Dr Michael Ejuoneatse, our former colleague, put it, \"I think the NHS is increasingly revisiting the values that were once prioritised at Princes Park Health Centre.\" The book will be published online and in print in spring 2021, by Writing on the Wall (www.writingonthewall.org.uk), a Liverpool-based organisation.\nThe book draws on memories from patients, staff, community members and Liverpool health professionals. It is set in the political context of the time and reflects the turbulent history of the National Health Service over the last 40 years. Princes Park Health Centre was founded by Dr Cyril Taylor, a radical and progressive GP and Labour councillor. Cyril's approach to the role of GP was strongly influenced by his sense of social justice. The Princes Park Health Centre team put this into practice, pioneering numerous innovations in holistic primary care and health promotion. Dedicated, imaginative staff not only provided exceptional care to the patient population but worked with local organisations and communities to improve the health of people in Liverpool 8. The practice struggled bravely against Thatcherism, maintaining its focus on social justice throughout the 80s and 90s, but this took its toll on those who worked there. The principled decision to become a salaried practice in 1997 was followed by gruelling times, with loss of autonomy and chaotic NHS reorganisations, when many services were privatised. The later sections of the book chart the rebirth of Princes Park Health Centre, acknowledging the vital role played by patients and the local community.\nThe book will be sold online and in local bookshops, including News from Nowhere, Liverpool's best radical bookshop. We have put our own money into the project, but we need to raise \u00a33000 to pay Writing on the Wall for printing and layout. We hope you can support us in this exciting adventure.\nWe hope you can support us in this exciting adventure.\nWe have set up a GoFundMe page here: https:\/\/www.gofundme.com\/f\/princes-park-health-centre-the-story\nKaty Gardner and Susanna Graham-Jones, former GPs at Princes Park Health Centre, Liverpool.\nPosted in Health, Literature, Local Art News\nPrevious Post: The Florrie Food Union\nNext Post: The Monster Enters \u2013 Covid-19, Avian Flu and the Plagues of Capitalism\nPlease answer this (to remove spam) * \u2212 three = three\nLATEST BOOK & POETRY REVIEWS\nLiverpool: The Postcard Collection\nColin Serjent reviews the book by Alan Spree, Liverpool: The Postcard Collection, which showcases a selection of beautiful old postcards from the late nineteenth century to the 1940s.\nBirkenhead Reflections\nWallasey History Tour\nThe Monster Enters \u2013 Covid-19, Avian Flu and the Plagues of Capitalism\nSpeke History Tour\nSecret Wirral\nWoolton History Tour","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
+{"text":"Search LanguageEN\nResults will be shown on another page\nEurope in my Region\nFirst Vice-President\nProtocol service\nThe State of Regions and Cities in the European Union\nPolitical priorities 2020\u20132025\nConference of Presidents\nCIVEX (Commission for Citizenship, Governance, Institutional and External affairs)\nCOTER (Commission for Territorial Cohesion Policy and EU Budget)\nECON (Commission for Economic Policy)\nENVE (Commission for Environment, Climate change and Energy)\nNAT (Commission for Natural Resources)\nSEDEC (Commission for Social Policy, Education, Employment, Research and Culture)\nInterregional groups\nEnlargement countries\nEastern Partnership (CORLEAP)\nEuro-Mediterranean Regional and Local Assembly (ARLEM)\nEuropean Week of Regions and Cities\nGreen Deal Going Local\nCohesion as an EU value\nYoung Elected Politicians\nEU Councillors\nEuropean Entrepreneurial Region (EER)\nMayor Pawe\u0142 Adamowicz award\nEU organic awards\nCoR Mobile APP\nThe European Committee of the Regions (CoR) is the voice of regions and cities in the European Union (EU). It represents local and regional authorities across the European Union and advises on new laws that have an impact on regions and cities (70% of all EU legislation).\nVasco Alves Cordeiro was elected President of the European Committee of the Regions in June 2022.\nFirst Vice-President First Vice-President\nApostolos Tzitzikostas was born on September 2, 1978. He studied Government and International Relations at Georgetown University, in Washington DC. After graduating in 2000, he had his first working experience at the Office of the President of the Committee on Foreign Affairs of the United States Congress. In 2002 he obtained a Masters Degree on European Public Policy and Economics from the University College of London. Following his studies, he created his own company on the field of production, processing and standardization of dairy products, based on organic standards.\nSecretary-General Secretary-General\nThe Secretary-General of the European Committee of the Regions has overall responsibility for preparing proceedings and implementing decisions taken by the statutory bodies: The Plenary Assembly, the Bureau, the Conference of Presidents and the President himself.\nProtocol service Protocol service\nTenders Tenders\nWork with us Work with us\nJobsAt the CoR, you will have the opportunity to address the future challenges of the EU while thriving in a friendly work environment that respects human diversity and enhances individual creativity.\nTraineeshipsThe CoR is a relatively young institution and, as such, recognizes the importance of giving voice to the ideas of newcomers and younger generations. Involving young people in the EU decision-making process is precisely the aim of the CoR traineeship programme.\nThe European Committee of the Regions (CoR) intervenes at several stages of the EU law-making process. CoR commissions draft opinions on EU legislative proposals and members gather in plenary to vote and adopt those opinions. The CoR also works closely with national, regional and local authorities, making their voices heard and fostering political debate, not only in Brussels, but also in EU regions and cities, outside Europe and online.\nThe State of Regions and Cities in the European Union The State of Regions and Cities in the European Union\nOn 11 October 2022, the Committee of the Regions published its EU Annual Report on the State of the Regions and Cities, as a snapshot of the most pressing challenges faced by regions and cities across the Union, that helps to inform EU policy decisions.\nPolitical priorities 2020\u20132025 Political priorities 2020\u20132025\nLocal and regional authorities, represented in the EU by the European Committee of the Regions, have always been the backbone of European democracy. The recent COVID-19 pandemic showed local and regional leaders as the driving force of local communities, responding during the emergency and leading the EU's recovery. Bringing Europe closer to people through its villages, cities and regions will therefore be the primary mission of our Committee achieved through three main priorities.\nPlenary sessions Plenary sessions\nThe Bureau is a group of CoR members that can be thought of as CoR's political driving force: it draws up its political programme and oversees its implementation. The Bureau meets before each plenary session to coordinate the work of the plenary assembly and the commissions. It also gathers two times a year in extraordinary meetings in the EU country holding the Presidency of the Council of the EU.\nConference of Presidents Conference of Presidents\nThe Conference of Presidents (CoP) consists of the President, the First Vice-President and the Presidents of all political groups. The CoP prepares the work and facilitates the search for political consensus on decisions to be taken by the other constitutive bodies (the Plenary Assembly, the Bureau, and the commissions).The CoP meets ahead of each Bureau meeting, usually on the same day. Extraordinary meetings are also organised in Brussels or abroad, notably twice a year in the EU country holding the Presidency of the Council of the EU.\nOpinions Opinions\nThe European Commission consults the European Committee of the Regions (CoR) at the earliest stage in the European legislative process on policy areas that directly affect the local and regional authorities. The CoR may also proactively adopt a position on a particular issue through an own-initiative opinion.\nCommissions Commissions\nThe legislative work of the European Committee of the Regions is carried by six thematic commissions and cover a broad range of areas which are relevant to local and regional authorities. In the commissions, Members of the CoR produce opinions on UE legislative proposals and initiatives, as well as discuss other issues relevant to the work of Europe's more than one million local politicians.\nCIVEX (Commission for Citizenship, Governance, Institutional and External affairs)Commission for Citizenship, Governance, Institutional and External Affairs, CIVEX, constitutional issues, democracy, devolution, subsidiarity, justice, future of Europe, migration, integration, fundamental rights, enlargement, neighbourhood, development cooperation.\nCOTER (Commission for Territorial Cohesion Policy and EU Budget)In addition to cohesion policy, the COTER commission closely follows the Multiannual Financial Framework and EU Budget, as well as transport policy, territorial development, cross-border cooperation, spatial planning and urban matters.\nECON (Commission for Economic Policy)The Commission for Economic Policy (ECON) coordinates ECON members' input on issues related to economic and industrial policy, such as competition and State Aid policy, public procurement, SME policy and entrepreneurship, economic governance and the European Semester, Sustainable Development Goals (SDG), the internal market and the digital single market. Its activities also encompass economic and monetary policy, taxation policy, international trade and tariffs (including WTO issues) and local\/regional finances.\nENVE (Commission for Environment, Climate change and Energy)The Commission for the Environment, Climate Change and Energy (ENVE) is responsible for coordinating the Committee of the Regions' work in fields related to the European Green Deal, which include the environment biodiversity, circular economy and zero pollution, climate change, energy and space policies. The commission is also responsible for the Green Deal Local Working Group and other networks and platforms such as the Covenant of Mayors National Ambassadors, CoR Climate Pact Ambassadors and the Zero Pollution Stakeholder Platform. At global level, the commission plays a leading role in CoR involvement at UN conferences for climate change and biodiversity.\nNAT (Commission for Natural Resources)The NAT commission brings together over 100 mayors, councillors and regional presidents and covers a wide range of topics related to rural development, health, agriculture, forestry, fishery, civil protection, consumer protection and tourism. The Rural Agenda for Europe and the public health are the leading policy themes in the current mandate.\nSEDEC (Commission for Social Policy, Education, Employment, Research and Culture)The SEDEC commission is in charge of employment, social policies, education, training (including lifelong learning), sports and culture related dossiers. SEDEC is also responsible for equality, social economy and youth files, as well as research, innovation and artificial intelligence.\nInterregional groups Interregional groups\nEstablished as from February 2007, interregional groups are platforms to exchange views and create new ideas between local and regional authorities in the Member States and beyond.\nNetworks Networks\nCoR networks enable regions and cities to contribute to the EU debate and to exchange experiences and best practice in specific EU policies.CoR networks enable regions and cities to contribute to the EU debate and to exchange experiences and best practice in specific EU policies.\nInternational cooperation International cooperation\nEnlargement countriesThe CIVEX Commission of the CoR is responsible for the institutional position on EU enlargement policy.\nEastern Partnership (CORLEAP)Set up by the CoR in 2011, the Conference of Regional and Local Authorities for the Eastern Partnership (CORLEAP) is the political forum of local and regional authorities from the European Union and the Eastern Partnership countries.It is the only EU platform that offers an opportunity to discuss the contribution by cities and regions in the development of the Eastern Partnership.\nEuro-Mediterranean Regional and Local Assembly (ARLEM)The Euro-Mediterranean Regional and Local Assembly (ARLEM) is an assembly of local and regional representatives from the European Union and its Mediterranean partners.\nRegional Hubs Regional Hubs\nThe CoR launched a new generation of its Regional Hubs Network (RegHub). Its members monitor the implementation of EU policies on the ground and make sure that the voices of hundreds of regional and local stakeholders are taken into account when these policies are evaluated at European level.\nNational delegations National delegations\nMembers' portal Members' portal\nThe European Committee of the Regions (CoR) is the meeting place in Brussels for Europe's regions and cities. We welcome about 50,000 visitors a year, participating at the main CoR expert events or at one of the 200 hosted conferences organised by regions, cities or associations.\nEuropean Week of Regions and Cities European Week of Regions and Cities\nThe European Week of Regions and Cities is the biggest annual event dedicated to regional policy. During this annual four-day event, regions and cities showcase their capacity to create growth and jobs, implement European Union cohesion policy, and prove the importance of the local and regional level for good European governance.\nIn the spotlight In the spotlight\nAlliance for UkraineThe European Alliance of Cities and Regions for the Reconstruction of Ukraine was launched by the CoR and its partners, including EU and Ukrainian associations of local and regional authorities, to coordinate their joint efforts directed towards helping the recovery and reconstruction of Ukraine.\nFuture of EuropeAs the European Union's body charged with engaging and representing the one million local and regional politicians across the EU, one of the key aims of the European Committee of the Regions (CoR) is to bring the EU and its institutions closer to its citizens. This is achieved by assisting Members of the CoR to create local dialogues with citizens on European matters, by supporting large-scale initiatives such as the Conference on the Future of Europe and the Network of EU Councillors, and collaborating with other organisations to champion the roll out of innovative methods of citizen participation and engagement.\nGreen Deal Going LocalGreen Deal Going Local is a flagship initiative of the European Committee of the Regions that aims to place cities and regions at the heart of the EU's transition to climate neutrality.\nCohesion as an EU valueOne of the European Committee of the Regions' main priorities for 2020 to 2025 is to demonstrate that cohesion is not (just) money, but a fundamental value of the European Union. Through its own activities and through those carried out with the #CohesionAlliance, the Committee is committed to making sure that economic, social and territorial cohesion is fostered and respected in all EU policies.\nYoung Elected PoliticiansThe Young Elected Politicians programme (YEPs) is a network of politicians who are no older than 40 and hold a mandate at regional or local level in the EU. A call for applications to join the programme is published each year. YEPs will have the opportunity to get in contact with other young politicians through the YEP Community, to attend trainings on EU topics, and to participate in activities organised by the CoR, including meetings with rapporteurs, events and seminars organised by the CoR, and communication activities.\nEU CouncillorsThere are more than one million elected politicians in the regions and cities of the European Union. They deal with European laws, funding programmes and debates on a daily basis. The Network builds on the successful experience with national or local politicians dealing with EU affairs existing, for example, in Austria, France and Germany.\nAwards Awards\nEuropean Entrepreneurial Region (EER)The European Entrepreneurial Region (EER) is a project that identifies and rewards EU regions and cities which show an outstanding and innovative entrepreneurial policy strategy, irrespective of their size, wealth and competences.\nMayor Pawe\u0142 Adamowicz awardfor courage and excellence in the promotion of freedom, solidarity and equality.\nEU organic awardsThe EU organic awards are jointly organised by the European Committee of the Regions (CoR), the European Commission, the European Economic and Social Committee (EESC, COPA-COGECA and IFOAM Organics Europe. These awards aim to recognise excellence along the organic value chain, rewarding the best and most innovative actors in organic production in the EU.\nAccess to documentsThe Treaty of Amsterdam introduced a new Article 255, which provides for a right of access for citizens to documents of the European Parliament, the Council and the Commission. These three institutions have adopted Regulation (EC) 1049\/2001 regarding public access to European Parliament, Council and Commission documents, and subsequently, in a joint declaration, have asked the other European agencies and bodies to adopt similar rules on the matter.\nArchivesThe CoR Archives Service is responsible for organising, protecting, managing, describing and preserving the Committee's documentary resources, and providing them to the public. Once they are delivered to the Archives Service by the originating departments, the archives are repackaged, scanned and put on microfiche so as to ensure their physical preservation. A description of each file is made so that search tools (inventories) can be created.\nCoR Mobile APPThe mobile app of the European Committee of the Regions (CoR) brings you real-time notifications about news, events and opinions on your preferred topics. Save your favourite items and share contents as you go from meeting to meeting via social media and other channels.\nDocumentation centreThe Documentation centre of the European Committee of the Regions (CoR) is the place to be when you are looking for information about Europe from a grass roots perspective.\nConsultations Consultations\nVisit us Visit us\nThe European Committee of the Regions (CoR) organises information visits for members of the public who want to find out more about how the CoR operates and about the role of the regions in shaping the content of European Union legislation.\nYou are here > Go to homepage > Our work > Opinion Factsheet\nOpinion Factsheet\nMultimodal Travel Planning and Information Services\nRapporteur: OSVALD Petr\nto underline the importance of multimodal travel planning and information and integrated ticketing for increasing public transport and contributing towards a better use of the existing infrastructure and a more sustainable transport system, therewith offering significant potential societal, environmental and economic benefits;\nto welcome the fact that the European Commission pays attention to the issue of multimodal passenger transport information and ticketing services and issued an working document which will stimulate the further debate on the issue;\nto feed the concerns of local and regional authorities into the discussion on specific elements, such as access to data, interoperability of data formats, and liability issues.\nThe European Parliament adopted on 7 July 2015 its resolution on \"Delivering multimodal integrated ticketing in Europe\". The rapporteur for this dossier was Mr Dieter-Lebrecht Koch (DE\/EPP).\nThe EP resolution takes on board a number of policy recommendations that have been outlined in the CoR opinion on the matter:\nThe EP resolution highlights the active role and the responsibility of local and regional authorities with regard to the 'first and last mile' of journeys and considers it essential that LRA be involved in implementing individual measures, in supervising their operation and in ensuring that the system as a whole functions effectively, which was one of the key messages of the CoR opinion;\nIt calls on Member States to set up, by 2020, a national updated timetable and fare information systems on the basis of open interfaces linking the travel data for regional and local urban public transport operated by both private and publicly owned companies, and to continue updating such systems on a regular basis. Such national systems were also requested by the CoR opinion as a first step towards a EU wide system, however without a specific deadline;\nThe EP resolution highlights the vital role of global navigation satellite systems (GNSS) and, in particular, the Galileo European navigation satellite system for dynamic data collection that would provide travellers with real time traffic information and possible alternatives, e.g. in case of travel disruption, which was also an important key message of the CoR opinion;\nIn line with the CoR opinion, the EP resolution notes that multimodal transport information systems should be as user-friendly as possible and hence complemented by updated map and geographical data;\nThe CoR request to provide travellers with access to broadband networks in public transport vehicles and at all transport interchanges in order to provide them with dynamic information on the traffic situation in real time, was also taken on board by the EP resolution, which calls on the Commission to prioritise facilitating, encouraging and supporting the wide availability of free or low-cost highspeed digital infrastructures, on all transport modes and at all transport interchanges, via the Connecting Europe Facility, Horizon 2020, EFSI and other relevant funding sources;\nThe CoR call for legislation establishing a European passenger rights scheme for multi-modal transport was reflected in the EP resolution, which urges the European Commission to bring forward a proposal for a Charter of Passengers' Rights, including a separate section on multimodal journeys with clear and transparent protection of passengers' rights in the multimodal context.\nThe EP resolution also considers fair, open and equal access to transport and travel data for all service providers as a prerequisite for an EU wide multimodal travel information system, and calls in this regard on the Commission to circulate a proposal requiring all providers to make available the information needed on fair and equal terms. With this proposal it however does not go as far as the CoR, which called on the relevant operators and authorities to cooperate and make their data available on an open source basis;\nThe EP resolution highlighted the potential of digital 'smartcard' technologies that can be used across the different transport modes, and also for cross-border travel. However, in contrast to the CoR opinion, which explicitly for a new European smart ticketing system to be designed for public transport that would work in all the Member States and for journeys across borders, the EP resolution emphasises that technical solutions should be left to the market and not be imposed at European level.\nLe Comit\u00e9 des r\u00e9gions,\n- fait observer qu'un syst\u00e8me d'information \u00e0 jour et op\u00e9rationnel dans toute l'Europe qui recoupe tous les modes de transport, constitue un instrument clef pour exercer l'une des libert\u00e9s fondamentales proclam\u00e9es par l'UE, \u00e0 savoir la libre circulation des personnes. La r\u00e9alisation de cette derni\u00e8re ne consiste pas seulement \u00e0 \u00e9viter qu'il y soit fait obstacle, mais aussi \u00e0 faire en sorte de la faciliter autant que possible aux citoyens. C'est pourquoi il devrait \u00eatre obligatoire de publier les donn\u00e9es relatives aux horaires et d'autres informations sur les d\u00e9placements et de les rendre pleinement accessibles \u00e0 tous les citoyens de l'UE, sous une forme permettant \u00e0 chacun d'eux de les utiliser de la mani\u00e8re la plus simple et efficace;\n- fait valoir que l'\u00e9tape la plus compliqu\u00e9e du point de vue des informations sur les d\u00e9placements et l'enregistrement est \u00able premier et le dernier kilom\u00e8tre\u00bb, qui correspond \u00e0 la partie du trajet o\u00f9 le transport rel\u00e8ve en r\u00e8gle g\u00e9n\u00e9rale de la comp\u00e9tence des autorit\u00e9s locales et r\u00e9gionales. D\u00e8s lors, il est tout \u00e0 fait essentiel d'associer ces autorit\u00e9s locales et r\u00e9gionales \u00e0 la mise en \u0153uvre et au suivi pour assurer un fonctionnement efficace de l'ensemble du syst\u00e8me;\n- estime qu'il conviendrait, lors de l'\u00e9tablissement des connexions entre les diff\u00e9rents syst\u00e8mes d'information, de s'appuyer non seulement sur les informations statiques que fournissent les horaires fixes, mais aussi sur les vastes possibilit\u00e9s qu'offrent les informations qu'il sera possible d'obtenir gr\u00e2ce aux syst\u00e8mes du GNSS, y compris Galileo;\n- consid\u00e8re qu'il est essentiel que des moyens soient allou\u00e9s, dans le cadre des FSIE, principalement dans les programmes op\u00e9rationnels individuels correspondants, \u00e0 la mise en \u0153uvre concr\u00e8te des syst\u00e8mes et pas seulement \u00e0 la recherche et au d\u00e9veloppement ou autres mesures y aff\u00e9rents;\n- signale qu'il est n\u00e9cessaire de r\u00e9soudre les questions suivantes pour que les collectivit\u00e9s locales et r\u00e9gionales, et les organismes qui en \u00e9manent, puissent participer activement et devenir un moteur du progr\u00e8s de l'ensemble du processus:\na) les aides publiques, \u00e9ventuellement au moyen d'une exemption cat\u00e9gorielle pour ce domaine;\nb) le droit de fournir au secteur priv\u00e9 des informations \u00e0 utiliser, le droit de demander \u00e0 d'autres entit\u00e9s publiques et priv\u00e9es de fournir des informations et le droit de collecter, de traiter et d'utiliser ces informations;\nc) les modalit\u00e9s de financement de l'ensemble du processus et de chacune des activit\u00e9s de mani\u00e8re \u00e0 ce que l'effort d\u00e9ploy\u00e9 dans le cadre de la cr\u00e9ation et de la gestion n'ob\u00e8re pas davantage encore la situation budg\u00e9taire d\u00e9j\u00e0 tendue des collectivit\u00e9s locales et r\u00e9gionales, mais qu'il suscite au contraire des \u00e9conomies et des recettes pour ces budgets.\nThe European Parliament adopted the resolution on \"Delivering multimodal integrated ticketing in Europe\" in Plenary\nVote on the draft own-initiative report on \"Delivering multimodal integrated ticketing in Europe\" in TRAN commitee\nCoR Commission activity\nCOTER external meeting on \"Integrated solutions for mobility and urban development in functional urban areas\" in Riga. The rapporteur chaired the thematic session on \"Innovative solutions for public transport in functional urban areas\".\nPresentation of the draft own-initiative report on \"Delivering multimodal integrated ticketing in Europe\" in TRAN commitee\nCoR Plenary Session\nThe COR Plenary Session adopted the opinion\nCOTER-V-051\nThe EP TRAN Committee appointed Mr Dieter-Lebrecht KOCH (DE\/EPP) as rapporteur for its own-initiative report on \"Delivering multimodal integrated ticketing in Europe\"\nThe EP Committee on Transport and Tourism (TRAN) decided to draw up an own-initiative report on ticketing systems for transport.\nThe COTER commission unanimously adopted its opinion on \"Multimodal Travel Information, Planning and Ticketing Services\"\nRapporteur's activities\nFirst exchange of views of the rapporteur with the European Commission\nThe COTER Commission nominated Mr Petr Osvald as rapporteur for the opinion.\nRapporteur's profile\nPublication of the Staff Working Document on \"Towards a roadmap for delivering EU-wide multimodal travel information, planning and ticketing services\"\nSWD(2014) 194","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
+{"text":"VOLTRON: LEGENDARY DEFENDER Returns to Comics This Fall (Exclusive)\nPosted by Blair Marnell on August 25, 2017\nEarlier this month, the extremely shortened third season of Voltron: Legendary Defender premiered on Netflix, along with word that the fourth season is coming on October 13th. But that's not the only good news for fans of the revived series. We here at Nerdist are thrilled to exclusively announce that Lion Forge Press has a new Voltron: Legendary Defender comic book series launching this fall from two of the series' writers.\nTim Hedrick and Mitch Iverson will co-write the new Voltron: Legendary Defender comic, which will be drawn by Jung Gwan Yoo and Rubine. It's not currently clear when the comic will take place within the timeline of the show, but the new series will be released bi-weekly to comic stores. And that means the opening two-part tale, \"The Pilgrimage,\" will have both installments out in the month of October.\nLion Forge has also passed along a brief description of the first issue, which throws the spotlight on Hunk:\n\"Voltron responds to a distress call, and discovers a group of alien settlers on a mining planet under attack by Galra. While Voltron escorts the convoy of rescued settlers to their new home, Hunk finds himself the center of attention and our team encounters the first challenge: a horrifying monster that requires an unusual solution.\"\nAdditionally, we are exclusively debuting several covers from the first five issues of the series, which you can see in our gallery below.\nAre you excited about the new Voltron: Legendary Defender comic? Form the head in the comment section below and let us know what you're thinking!\nNeed More Voltron in Your Life?\nWe've got a clip that explains its origins and history.\nHere's a look at Prince Lotor.\nAnd finally, the 6 things to look forward to in season 3.\nImages: Lion Forge Comics\ncomics, Lion Forge, voltron, voltron comic, Voltron: Legendary Defender\nThe Origin of VOLTRON Explained\n6 Things in VOLTRON Season 3\nVOLTRON's Full Season 3 Trailer","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
+{"text":"BAE engineers swop shipyard for hospital wards\nVolunteers from BAE Systems were quick to step in when hospitals needed help assembling privacy screens.\nCovid-19 precautions mean wards need fixed screens that are easy to wash down and disinfect.\nApproximately 200 have now been delivered to hospitals in Barrow, Kendal and Lancaster. Constructed of aluminium and steel, they came through the NHS supply chain but required professional assembly and installation.\nBAE Systems Senior Resilience Engineer Paul Birkby said: \"We have been involved in several projects for University Hospitals of Morecambe Bay NHS Trust. The team assembling the screens involved 20 people in all, including engineers and drivers.\n\"We were happy to help. It's nice being able to do something positive during the crisis.\"\nAaron Cummins, Chief Executive of University Hospitals of Morecambe Bay NHS Foundation Trust, said: \"On behalf of University Hospitals of Morecambe Bay NHS Foundation Trust, I would like to thank BAE Systems for the phenomenal support they have given us throughout these unprecedented circumstances and in response to COVID-19.\n\"The quick response by their engineers to help assemble privacy screens has been very much appreciated and by working together the results have been extremely positive. The response I have seen from the local community has been truly fantastic and BAE Systems should be extremely proud of what they have achieved to support our local hospitals.\"","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
+{"text":"Kate Braid's \u200bElemental\nReviewed by Amy Mitchell\nCaitlin Press, 2018\nKate Braid's new collection, Elemental (Caitlin Press), is artistically and conceptually very tight\u2014an impressive feat considering the poems were written over several decades and therefore likely not, originally, composed with this present collection in mind. And yet they work so well together: while the parts are accomplished, the whole is even stronger. Braid groups the poems in thematic units based on the four traditional elements\u2014earth, air, fire and water\u2014and takes the liberty of substituting the Chinese element wood for the Western, mystical ether. The result is a collection of quietly shifting moods that all emphasize the weirdness and the transcendence hiding in plain sight all around us, if we would simply pay attention long enough to see it.\n\"Water,\" which is in many ways representative of the approach in all the sections, is the first one in Elemental, and it veers between the calm, the whimsical and the deeply threatening. There is the quotidian in the wry \"Vancouver Spring,\" which recognizes the joke of celebrating a very wet, grey season on the West Coast:\nSoggy under a glaze of wine,\nthe surreal grace of grass and moss\nand another wet Vancouver sky.\nIt's spring, we say,\nubersweet, as we suffer\none more grey day.\n\u200bThere is meditative calm in the quiet \"Listen,\" which closes the section:\nIt is night. Outside\na light across the blind\nand the wet rubber sound\nof a car passing.\n\"Swimming in Time\" imagines us continuous with dolphins and whales:\n\u2026 With the next long stroke\nI forget about breathing\nwhile my sides sizzle\nwith sapphire green bubbles.\nThe joy in the conceit is mirrored in the delightful consonance of \"sides sizzle\" and in the rhyming final lines:\n\u2026 I twist in a lazy curl\nAnd dive for pearls.\n\u200bBut water also brings death, as \"Tattoo\" acknowledges; the speaker \"Once \u2026 dove off a boat and almost couldn't get back,\" and the glare of the water, even on that boat, is painful and disorienting:\n\u2026 But I'm not making headway\nTry as I might, unanchored, my eyes shut tight,\nBlind from too much aluminum, too much light.\n\u200b...\n\"Water\" would not work nearly as well as a whole without these hints of more sinister aspects, which remind us that the world is a lot bigger, stranger and more significant than we are. This transcendent reality that we only sometimes recognize is the focus of a quiet search for knowledge that permeates the whole collection: a knowledge that is humbling, partial, and spiritual without being religious. Elemental asserts that we can find some contentment in the fact that we fit into this process in a small, messy way, as \"Lava\" in the \"Fire\" section observes:\nand remember\nwe are all transforming\nmore or less slowly,\nmore or less within the lines.\nThose two final lines in \"Lava\" have stayed with me long after finishing each read-through of the collection as a whole.\nThe search for ultimate knowledge\u2014even if only partial and transitory\u2014is most evident in \"Earth,\" the final section of Elemental. In \"Wood Buffalo National Park,\" the speaker's face-to-face encounter with a buffalo that has left its herd to approach her points toward something larger in significance:\nThree steps away, he stops.\nYou can't smell him, only\nfix on the side of his massive head\nwhere one luminous black eye holds you,\na lake, alive with everything\nyou ever wanted to know here.\nMaybe if you wait he will bless you.\nBut no. He moves off, too soon, too\ngraceful for such a huge creature and you\nare left, abject, awkward, stick-thin\nand still not knowing\nbut closer.\nBraid is so good at what she does: the line \"one luminous black eye holds you\" slows the reader right down and fixes their attention on that singular eye, just like the speaker's experience.\nA suddenly-changed perspective on stone provokes a similar and even more complete realization in \"The Door to Rock,\" in which \"you\" initially take large rocks for granted and then realize what they actually represent:\nThese three massive rocks, moss-covered,\nthat you so carelessly sat upon\nfor lunch (hadn't even asked them to be\nyour chair, your table, sandwiches spread)\nsuddenly vibrate, alive.\nyou turn with the others\u2014foolish human--\nand walk as directed into the hall\nwhere you will sit\nshimmering, your hands open\nbecause now you know.\nThis knowledge, whose precise content is elusive but stunning, causes silence and negates the busyness of modern life, both the literal and metaphorical noise that \"Airplane Whine\" in the \"Air\" section captures so hilariously:\nNow it's one cramped seat in front of the other, jostling knees and full combat over who gets to jam all three pieces of their matching luggage plus the precious (monster) vase for Aunt Maud that CAN NOT BE CRUSHED into the tiny overhead bin, first. You pack your carry-on around your feet. Think plaster cast.\nInstead, the \"Earth\" section offers the shocking and silencing experience of floating down a river in a cave in \"Cueva del Indio, Vinales, Cuba,\" only to emerge unable to readjust quickly to the usual:\nShe can't shake this feeling of something familiar. Then a turn and light breaks open her eyes\u2014a long bright slit, leaf-like, framed by darkness. The river floats toward it and the boat on the river and she inside. She cannot change it (her hand on the side of the boat, forgotten). She cannot change anything now as the boat passes through then suddenly it is day and hot here and a man extends one hand to help her from the boat and with his other extends the basket for tips and this time she drops in silver and paper but she still feels oddly lost and a little sad until someone slaps her gently on the bum and says, You can breathe now. You're born again. It's a joke. She laughs. But all the rest of that bright day she feels a little new, a little old, like a cup, fallen, almost shattered but found again, now whole and filled and beautiful.\nThe collection as a whole essentially recreates this interior experience for the reader, and does so very effectively.\nInevitably, Elemental also functions as a kind of personality test: which section\/element speaks to you the most? What does that choice say about you? My personal favorite is \"Wood,\" with its focus on the continuities between the mysticism of the forests, the care of the carpenter, and the taken-for-granted nature of the wood that surrounds us in our daily lives. This section marvels at the science of trees, as in \"For Jude, the Cabinetmaker, In His Shop\":\n\u200bThe forester says\nif disease strikes a tree at one side of the forest, the rest\nsimultaneously make antibodies. Like a cathedral,\none pillar relying on every other to create a sacred space\neach element in touch, alive\u2014moulds to roots to leaves to creatures\nvisible and invisible, trees and mosses, insects and birds.\nIs this what we call holy, this connection of the whole,\neach to every other?\n\"Masters of the Earth\" (an ironic nod to the position we think we occupy, but don't) observes that\nSeismologists can't test during storms\nbecause the movement of tree roots\ndistorts sound.\n\"Wood\" also contains the two glosas in the collection, \"Fairy Tale\" and \"Tree Song.\" A glosa inserts the poet's new work between the lines of existing poetry, creating a kind of poetic hybrid that reverberates back and forth between the two interwoven works. \"Tree Song\" is particularly effective at deploying this form. It begins with the following from John Terpstra's \"Naked Trees\":\nNaked trees extend their complicated praise\nbranches sway, in\na sort of unison\nnot agreed upon\neach their own way\nBraid teases apart these lines to insert between them her speaker's own musings on eternity, the human, and the non-human. The first stanza, for example, is the following:\nMay I be forgiven, may I forgive\nmyself this endless search for someone, some\nthing to explain, give me the reason we're here\nand what lies after and if there's a plan\n(or even better) Planner\u2014if I could only\nknow for sure (just once? a deal? I'll stay\nright here, you whisper in my ear, The Answer \u2026)\nwhile all around me animals carry on\nregardless. Plants and insects don't bother counting days\nand naked trees extend their complicated praise.\nThe trees' \"complicated praise,\" originating in Terpstra's poem, anchors Braid's speaker's existential questions and points towards a kind of answer\u2014not one easily encompassed or explained, but one that is emotionally fulfilling nonetheless, and one that is in keeping with the partial answers suggested in the rest of the collection.\nBraid's two glosas are also examples of her interest in using predetermined poetic forms. The \"Acknowledgements\" section at the end of the collection identifies a variety of these forms for her readers, including palindromes and found poetry. Her formal decisions largely work very well for her. The only slight weaknesses are the two ekphrastic poems based on Japanese art; while they are strong examples of their type, that type is rooted in the modernist fascination with Eastern aesthetics that has been reproduced very extensively, and Braid is at her best when her chosen forms more clearly emphasize her own unique voice and perspective. Her decision more broadly to engage with formal poetry is an interesting one, however, and one that I think fits well with the emotional\/spiritual content of Elemental. The ineffable cannot be said, but it can perhaps be briefly and partially contained\u2014just as the cave, the trees, the rocks and the water are forms that open up brief glimpses of transcendent knowledge, even if the content of that knowledge is ultimately unknowable, so the poetic forms give shape to not-easily-articulated psychological states and insights. The shape pins them down briefly for us to examine and enjoy.\nIt is fitting that the final poem in the collection is both humorous and thoughtful, and expands on the awed silences that the elements inspired in previous poems. The title alone is wonderful: \"You Are a Traveller Standing in Front of a Mountain and Were Just Going To Say Something Important.\" The poem picks right up where the title left off:\nbut it comes out of your mouth\na gravelly sound\nand when you look--\nmere stone\npart of the larger community of rock\nknown for the silence of its speeches\nthe weight of its utterance,\nlong pauses.\nYou of the human shape\ncan't imagine the patience it takes.\n\"You of the human shape\" should consequently be quiet, look around you, and pay attention to the larger and greater things that allow your own shape to briefly hold the meaning it's searching for.\nAmy Mitchell is The \/t\u0190mz\/ Review's social media editor (as well as a writing editor) and a college professor. She holds a PhD in English Literature from Western University. Her reading tendencies have been described as \"promiscuous\"; she is interested in a wide range of fiction and poetry, and particularly enjoys finding new and interesting works in translation.","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
+{"text":"You are here: Home \/ Latest News \/ How Myanmar's Foreign Policy Is Likely to Evolve in the NLD's Second Term\nHow Myanmar's Foreign Policy Is Likely to Evolve in the NLD's Second Term\nNovember 26, 2020 by Thiha\n<a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/pCvYiQYDHcE\" target=\"_blank\"><img src=\"https:\/\/4a2q6smj43891zwv3qaw8h18-wpengine.netdna-ssl.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/doingbusinessinmyanmar-thumbnail2.jpg\" width=\"600\" height=\"250\" \/> <\/a>\nBefore the November election, Myanmar received three high-level visits from China, Japan and India. In October, a US trade delegation also visited, meeting State Counselor Daw Aung San Suu Kyi and senior ministers. The US delegation said it hoped to boost post-coronavirus investment in the country and increase reengagement with Myanmar, given its strategic location.\nThe good news is that Myanmar is no longer an isolated nation, and its foreign policy should be more pro-active under the NLD government during its second term. In its 2015 manifesto, the NLD pledged to pursue \"an active and independent foreign policy, and to establish friendly and close political relations\" with other nations.\nIndeed, the instability in Rakhine State and the government's uneasy and volatile working relationship with the military have posed impediments to and limitations on Myanmar's foreign policy. But one must remain cautiously optimistic that Myanmar will see increasing stability in the coming years.\nRelations with some Western countries soured under the NLD government's first term, due to the Rohingya issue. As expected, China came to the rescue of Myanmar, providing much needed diplomatic coverage and backing Myanmar on the UN Security Council (UNSC). Myanmar, after all, was the first non-communist country to recognize the communist-led People's Republic of China after its foundation in 1949 and supported China's membership in the UN.\nComplex relationship\nChinese President Xi Jinping paid an official visit to Myanmar in January to mark the 70th anniversary of the establishment of diplomatic ties between two countries.\nXi sent a congratulatory letter to the ruling NLD on its landslide victory in the Nov. 8 election and urged State Counselor Daw Aung San Suu Kyi to boost practical cooperation on his ambitious grand infrastructure scheme, the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI), in the country.\nDespite several efforts by China to begin implementation of backbone projects such as the China-Myanmar Economic Corridor (CMEC), the China-Myanmar Border Economic Cooperation Zone, and a special economic zone (SEZ) in Rakhine State, none of the CMEC projects has actually gotten off the ground so far under the current NLD administration. The government continues to take a cautious approach to the projects, saying it has been carefully reviewing them to ensure they are commercially viable and in line with country's development plan.\nAdditionally, the question of China's relations with ethnic insurgents along the country's shared border remains a sensitive one.\nDespite these issues, however, Myanmar remains heavily dependent upon China.\nUnder the NLD, the goal of Myanmar's foreign policy has been to forge friendly relations with neighboring countries, as well as those further afield. Daw Aung San Suu Kyi once said that \"ties between neighbors are always more delicate than those between countries far apart.\"\nUnder the NLD, Myanmar as a member of ASEAN has developed stable and positive relations with Japan, South Korea, India and China.\nNew Delhi's Act East policy is important to Myanmar, with its aim of strengthening relations with Southeast Asia and the greater Asia-Pacific region. Over the past decade, the government and military have made progress on cultivating closer ties with New Delhi. Myanmar leaders do appreciate New Delhi's understanding and pragmatism in Myanmar. The two countries' armed forces have stepped up cooperation on border security and counterinsurgency operations.\nNotably, Myanmar also enjoys stable relations with Thailand; in the past, rebels and the exile community established bases along the border, and long-running border skirmishes destabilized the bilateral relationship.\nThis year, Thai security authorities have informed ethnic insurgent leaders they will not tolerate activities opposed to the Myanmar government on Thai soil. However, Thailand continues to host peace meetings between Myanmar authorities and ethnic insurgents in its northern city of Chiang Mai, and hundreds of thousands of Karen, Karenni and Shan refugees live in camps in Thailand.\nSouth Korean President Moon Jae-in and his wife visited Myanmar in September to promote Seoul's New Southern Policy to engage ASEAN members. South Korea and Myanmar pledged to cooperate in several areas including the health sector, education and human resources development, culture, trade and investment and ICT-driven future industries.\nMyanmar's pivot toward ASEAN could be strengthened. Recently, the country joined China, Japan and 12 other nations in forming the world's largest free trade zone\u2014accounting for about 30 percent of global GDP\u2014hoping the deal will boost trade by drawing investment to the region, expand local SMEs' access to global manufacturing networks and support the country's post-COVID-19 economic recovery.\nChina, Japan, South Korea, Australia, New Zealand and the 10 members of ASEAN signed the Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership (RCEP).\nThe accord aims to liberalize trade and investment across the Asia-Pacific region by removing and reducing tariffs, especially on industrial and agricultural products, and setting out new rules on government procurement, competition policy, e-commerce, trade, data transmission and intellectual property.\nMyanmar State Counselor Daw Aung San Suu Kyi, who witnessed the virtual signing ceremony for the RCEP, said, \"The landmark trade pact will serve as a strong signal to the world that we are committed to maintaining the credibility of regional cooperation architecture, retaining the trust of the business community and contributing to the regional economic recovery.\"\nMyanmar will continue to face criticism on the Rohingya issue, which will likely continue to hijack relations with some Western governments including the incoming Biden administration in the US.\nHowever, it was a Democratic administration, under President Barack Obama, that embraced Myanmar's political opening and reform process; Obama visited Myanmar twice. Unfolding on its doorstep, this rapid fostering of relations between Myanmar and the US surprised and upset China. We saw the rise of Western influence, while China's declined. But Myanmar's strategic realignment has its ups and downs.\nWe began to see China-backed ethnic insurgents become active again along the border, with serious fighting breaking out with the Myanmar military.\nEthnic armed groups in the north along the Chinese border are deeply in the pocket of China. These ethnic rebels are China's bargaining chip against Myanmar. If Beijing is upset with Naypyitaw, it can unleash an armed insurgency and create instability inside Myanmar.\nBut then, as relations between Myanmar and some Western governments soured over the Rohingya issue, we saw China steadily step in and expand its power and influence over Myanmar. Beijing continues to increase its sway among ethnic armed groups in the north and support rebels in Rakhine and along the India-Myanmar border.\nMyanmar is a weak state, and since the 1950s a neutral and independent foreign policy has been maintained; no government has made a drastic turn away from the policy, even under Daw Aung San Suu Kyi.\nThus, China's shadow looms over Myanmar's foreign policy challenges and its realignment of relations with old and new friends. The question is how to handle China, which shares a border of over 2,000 km with Myanmar.\nIndeed, Myanmar government and military officials alike should expect troubled ties with China and another neighbor, Bangladesh. Rohingya refugees live in camps in Bangladesh's Cox's Bazar district, and insurgents and terrorists are believed to have established bases inside Bangladesh.\nAt the UN General Assembly in September, U Kyaw Tint Swe, Myanmar's minister for the office of State Counselor Daw Aung San Suu Kyi, hit out at Bangladesh, blaming the stalled repatriation of Rohingya Muslims on Dhaka's failure to crack down on a militant group and its supporters, who are actively trying to sabotage the process.\nImportantly, we should not forget Japan's role in supporting the peace process in Myanmar.\nJapan has had an increasingly positive influence in Myanmar. In a recent interview with The Irrawaddy, Ambassador Ichiro Maruyama explained the Japanese special envoy's mediation role between Myanmar authorities and the Arakan Army (AA).\nChina similarly promised to broker peace between ethnic armed groups and the Myanmar government and military, but lately Beijing has been absent from this role.\nUnlike his Western counterparts, Ambassador Maruyama was eager to inject some constructive comment into the discussion of the Rakhine issue, saying, \"The Japanese government has always understood that there is a historical issue in Rakhine State. It is a very complex situation, so no one can solve it immediately.\"\nMyanmar people, including some stakeholders in the peace process, generally regard Japan with less wariness than they do China.\nOn the subject of Myanmar's relations with China and Japan, Daw Aung San Suu Kyi once said, \"We see China as a friend, as we see Japan as a friend. And I think it is not right to make people choose between friends.\"\nNevertheless, it is interesting to note that both the government and military have been openly critical of China's growing influence in the country and its arming of ethnic rebels along the border.\nIf the West pushes Myanmar on the Rohingya issue, Myanmar will inevitably seek China's protection, and be pushed into its orbit.\nTherefore, Myanmar and Western governments will have to find common ground and a pragmatic approach to resolve sensitive issues in Myanmar, including those involving the Rohingya. It is important that the West listens to many voices from Myanmar and appreciates the nuances in the country, and not just listen to the handful of groups looking to profit from the Rohingya's plight and those from the human rights industry. No one should condone human rights violations or maltreatment under any armed group.\nUnder the Biden administration, Myanmar should seek opportunities to engage with the US.\nIn discussions of the Indo-Pacific, Biden has introduced a subtle shift in language: instead of using the phrase \"free and open\" to describe Washington's intentions for the region, Biden has employed the formulation \"secure and prosperous\".\nUnder President Donald Trump, some pundits have criticized the US as an unreliable partner with an anti-globalist viewpoint, but under his successor we will see a return to multilateralism, the liberal order and a promotion of \"American values\". If it is to be in effect a \"third term\" of the Obama presidency, we should expect a return to normalcy. Under Trump, we didn't hear about democracy and human rights in Myanmar, or statements expressing \"concern\", but it is important to keep reminding the military and armed groups to be sensitive and to respect human rights and democratic principles. We can expect to hear from the Biden administration on this front.\nIronically, we may well come to miss the Trump era, at least when it comes to his administration's treatment of China. In the region, some countries including Myanmar have enjoyed or benefited from Trump's anti-China policy.\nAs a small and weak neighbor of China, we should wait to see how Beijing tests Biden's policy in the early days of his administration. Countries in the region will feel the effects immediately, and Myanmar should be ready for all possible scenarios.\nLooking ahead, Myanmar will need to be more pro-active in engaging and expanding its relations with ASEAN, other Asian countries and the West, continuing to demonstrate its independence as a sovereign state while broadening economic and diplomatic cooperation.\nSource : The Irrawaddy\nNB: The best way to find information on this website is to key in your search terms into the Search Box in the top right corner of this web page. E.g. of search terms would be \"property research report\", \"condominium law\", \"Puma Energy\", \"MOGE\", \"yangon new town\",\"MECTEL\", \"hydropower\", etc.\nGovernment Technical Institute and the Vocational Education System January 15, 2021\nMandalay to reduce excise duty for restaurants January 15, 2021\nThailand scrambles to contain outbreak, secure vaccines January 15, 2021\nNgapali hotels reopen to small turnout January 15, 2021\nMyanma watermelon to extend foreign market to the UAE, Qatar and Singapore January 15, 2021\nFiled Under: Latest News Tagged With: coronavirus, demonstrate, establishment, Evolve, foreign, instability, NLD, Policy, reengagement","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
+{"text":"Dispatches from the War Against Oblivion\nby Christy Rodgers \/ August 26th, 2010\nHere's the news: a specter is still haunting Europe (which has, since Marx's time, expanded its geographic boundaries and morphed into the \"global North\" in the age of transnational capital). Communism as Marx envisioned it (at least before the spontaneous eruption of the Paris Commune), it is not\u2014or not exactly. Nor is it really a single, unified, totalizing specter of any kind. But the North is haunted. From its fringes to its core, it is beset by ghosts. And the faster and more frenzied its race, via technologically mediated existence, ever-increasing wealth disparities, and compensatory empty spectacle, toward erosion of meaningful identity and the perfection of alienation in human life, the more these ghosts multiply and crowd the edges of its political space and invade the minds of its bewildered inhabitants.\n\"Haunting\" is a fashionable literary term that is often used to describe how a thing that has become absent can retain some effects of its former presence; it has ramifications in personal psychology (neurosis can be seen as a kind of haunting) and in some of the strains of contemporary critical thought that issued from or have been influenced by that questionable source.\nBut it is apt for describing a socio-political phenomenon as well: all systems of rule seek to make their holds more complete by attempting to erase any evidence that they were not eternally pre-existing, benign, and inevitable. The haunting of the human mind, and the corners of empire, by ideas of prior (or potential future) states of being that contradict this idea, and the effects that this haunting has on our individual and collective life, are fundamental aspects of our contemporary experience.\nLiterature has some nice examples of haunting as a political trope: like the struggles of Animal Farm's denizens to recall the original wording of their manifesto of liberation as it is invisibly and relentlessly revised by the new elite, or the thousands of vanished corpses, evidence of a government massacre, that only one inhabitant of the mythical town of Macondo in One Hundred Years of Solitude can ever seem to recall having seen.\nThe EZLN or Zapatista resistance movement that sprang from invisibility into world view from the southeastern Mexican state of Chiapas on January 1, 1994, to protest the consequences of the new neo-liberal world order (represented by Mexico's official absorption on that date into the North American Free Trade zone) has now existed publicly for more than fifteen years. Its international (and Mexican) profile has ebbed and flowed in that time. Arguments about its current relevance beyond a small, isolated population in rural Mexico flare up from time to time in left-wing discourse. It might seem that the vast, world-reshaping events of the last fifteen years have relegated it, along with many other popular uprisings, armed or not, to a relatively minor role in determining how the 21st century world will be experienced by the billions now entering it.\nWhy then, would it be of interest, even pleasurable, to read a book-length analysis of this movement from the seemingly even more marginal perspective of its \"poetics,\" its creation of symbols and messages and imaginative use of them to support and maintain its political project?\nHere is one reason: this is a place where the whole evocative issue of the haunting of the North, and what it means on a personal and a societal level, comes in.\nA Poetics of Resistance: The Revolutionary Public Relations of the Zapatista Insurgency, a new book by Jeff Conant (AK Press, 2010) is, in fact, laudable for a number of reasons, but one of the suggestive ideas it contains is that the EZLN's imaginatively expressed and widely disseminated communiqu\u00e9s, and in fact its whole political project, were designed to counter the factitious aura of inevitability of neo-liberal capitalism (and to forestall the extinction that it threatened for Mexico's indigenous communities) rather than to overturn or replace it.\nSeen through its poetics, the Zapatista project is fundamentally one of re-membering and re-articulating (as opposed to the dismembering, disarticulating project of capital towards its alternatives) other ways than the dominant one. And that work is performed through the carefully crafted symbolism of the Zapatistas' public statements, actions, and displays. One of the resonant names they give their struggle is \"the war against oblivion.\" In Spanish as in English, oblivion means both unconsciousness and non-existence.\nThe book is a substantive, scholarly, but never tendentious or obscure look at Zapatista as a kind of literature, or more comprehensively, a created mythos, that serves to inspire and catalyze diffuse efforts to counter the steamroller effects of capitalism's post-Cold War play for full-spectrum global dominance.\nJeff Conant examines everything from the Zapatistas' chief spokesman Subcomandante Marcos' storytelling to the little masked Zapatista dolls in the markets of the Chiapanecan tourist center San Cristobal from this perspective, and brings in an erudite and historically-grounded understanding of the umbilical link between revolutionary social movements and symbol-making.\nWhile he presents the complicated relationship between poetics and struggle in the Zapatista project with a full awareness of the dangers of romanticizing that it entails, and deals fairly with critiques of its limitations, there are still one or two questionable contentions here, and one of them is in the somewhat cavalier use of the term \"public relations\" to describe what is being done.\nPR and Its Discontents: Public relations grew from the foundational idea that not only are humans not primarily rational beings but that their faint stirrings of rationality ought not to be encouraged\u2014rather their fundamental irrationality and apparently infinite selfishness should be massaged and managed by a self-designated elite that constantly feeds them with the subconscious cues necessary to keep them submissive to it.\nPR, other words, was designed expressly to keep people from knowing not just what they know, but what they are. It is not a tool that is well-suited to the purposes of widespread consciousness-raising to which Conant would like to see it put here. This is another subject of perennial debate on the left: to what degree can the master's tools serve other purposes than the master's? But at the very least, you can't really put the public relations genie back in the bottle by simply inserting the \"right sort\" of symbolism, one that fits our political ideals. Real consciousness-raising, as Marx realized, comes out of direct experience, and is grounded in material conditions. This is why even a revolutionary poetics can trend towards emptiness when it is distanced from its source in direct experience.\nAnd the limitations of Zapatista poetics as a transformative tool, whether you call it public relations or not, may have to do precisely with the meaning of symbolic representation in different cultures. Conant's thesis is that the Zapatista \"brand\" does not alienate the subject from herself and her environment, like corporate branding, but functions to reconnect them. But such reconnection may only really occur in a meaningful way within a culture where symbol has not already been so successfully divorced from substance, where fetishism (the investiture of material objects or symbols with real, living presence) is not discredited as mystification (see \"magical thinking\" or the \"fetishism of commodities\") or a dubious means of personal gratification but has an unbroken historical tradition as socially valuable and accepted fact.\nIn a ceremony described near the beginning of the book, seven objects are invoked and used to invest what would otherwise be merely a simple oath of allegiance into a binding statement of collective identity. This identity is not just informed by its relationship to what in our culture are called \"abstract ideals:\" peace, justice, truth, democracy; it is as inseparable from them as they are from the objects that are called to represent them. And it is the objects' very familiarity, locality and participation in the audience's long-standing traditions (the Mexican flag, corn, earth, for example) that gives this ceremony much of its power of connection. The seven object-ideals are then linked to the seven indigenous peoples joined in the Zapatista cause. The transformation is multi-layered and complete\u2014for that constituency.\nTheir production of such vibrant and integral symbolism has indisputably been useful in profoundly transforming the lives and material conditions of the Zapatista bases. And more diffusively, their ideas and images have recurred in other contexts, many of which Jeff Conant cites, where opposition to predatory capitalism coalesces.\nBut, for the sake of argument, let's say you are a conscientious, even socially engaged, but relatively comfortable reader who lives far from the mountains of southeastern Mexico, enshrouded in the Cartesian world of the North, body separated from mind, individual set against collective, society alienated from nature. Ten generations of your ancestors emerged from within that world, and reified it. You cannot significantly alter your reality merely by consuming someone else's symbolism. The Zapatistas' decades-long struggle for dignified survival, a real, daily path for them, dwindles in your world to a doll on your shelf, a poster on your wall. Your material existence is little if at all affected by it, and though the conscious reminder serves as a goad to some form of increasingly intermittent sympathy, as time goes by and, despite your efforts and the efforts of many others, no profound alteration of power relations or material conditions occurs in your private world, your immediate community or your society, the symbols of social transformation with which you may surround yourself are gradually (although never entirely) emptied of their agency\u2014they become like ghosts.\nAn opening epigraph to A Poetics of Resistance comes from the Nasa people of Colombia: \"Words and action outside of the spirit of community are death.\" Well then, we who were raised in and still live surrounded by the all-encompassing reality of Western Civilization, with its now \"infinite number of ways to die\" as one Zapatista puts it, are ourselves the ghosts and speak and act from the land of the dead. Because the spirit of community referred to here is as alien to us as the moon. The idea of \"community\" is a perfect example of Western conceptual haunting\u2014a word that has been emptied of its significance in this society (the faith \"community,\" the black \"community,\" the online \"community\"\u2014what do these mean?) but is used repeatedly because the remnants of a longed-for, though absent, reality still cling to it.\nHere's an example of how our popular culture captures conceptual haunting\u2014by using the metaphor of real haunting. In contemporary horror movies like The Sixth Sense or The Others, the twist is that sympathetic, protagonistic characters with whom we are meant to identify, and who we actually believe are alive for most of the movie\u2014occupying apartments or houses, having jobs, taking care of children\u2014turn out to be dead. The terminally alienated are the dead, though they move and think and believe they are alive. Indigenous cultures recognize this difference. While their symbolizing is invested with organic, breathing life, ours has been emptied of it, and haunts us with our own longings for un-alienated presence and our confusion as to our own status among the living or the dead.\nThe Postmodern Romance: The other question I would raise has to do with what the author calls the Zapatistas' \"postmodernism,\" which he maintains is a source of their vitality and continued relevance. He underscores their refusal to embrace a single narrative, a dominant ideology, a line of thought or march.\nWhile postmodernism may possibly be a term as emptied by its use as \"community,\" it is possible to identify some qualifying precepts. The postmodern consensus is that rationalism and the Enlightenment, from which, among other things, Marxism and the idea of universally applicable qualities derive, are dead, and this is basically a good thing. Postmodern critical thought helped expose the toxicity of Western hegemony disguised as universal enlightenment, but in doing so it also left us with the vacancy of meaning, the incoherency at the heart of all communication, a triumph, not of the imagination, but of a kind of undifferentiated linguistic universe, the heat death in which humanism and rationalism dissolve.\nIn their place we are given the attractive Zapatista idea of \"one no and many yeses,\" and their struggle for indigenous rights becomes a call for \"the recognition of difference.\" But this is the conundrum at the very heart of any postmodern struggle: how can you call for rights that must be universally recognized to be meaningful at all with one breath and decry universals as oppressive and essentialist with the next? What standards will then apply? How will they be established? If your attitude towards contestation for power is to reject it, what means will you use to make potent those demands without which power concedes nothing?\nIt seems that another ghostly concept that continues to haunt the postmodern, post-Marxist world is the old Enlightenment idea that human history is actually progressive in a meaningful way: towards more human dignity, more harmony, more peaceful cooperation and so forth. This has produced the truism that no matter what else happens, as long as organized protest and resistance movements exist anywhere, they are unquestionable signs that we are still on that path.\nBut what if this is not actually true? What then would prevent \"difference\" from merely being division, fragmentation, incoherence, weakness?\nWhat rescues the Zapatista communications project from these conundra is the real value and necessity of their war against oblivion, whether waged by indigenous peoples, industrial and technological workers or world-weary intelligentsia fighting against a persistent sense of death-in-life on the fringes of an oblivious dominant society.\nOblivion is the place where even the memory and the dream of human equity and solidarity, not to mention vibrant interdependence with the natural world, are gone. It is where \"Oceania has always been at war with Eurasia,\" where all are well-trained dogs who need no whip, where it is not only \"easier to imagine the end of the world than a world without capitalism,\" as the Marxist literary critic Frederic Jameson said, but impossible to imagine that world at all. Where the ghosts of possibility no longer haunt the living.\nIn fact, another good reason to take the time to read this book, besides simply enjoying the wealth of vivid imagination and eloquent analysis it contains, is that the kind of long-form thinking this fifteen-years-in-the-making work presents and requires is itself essential to the war against oblivion it correctly understands as a project fundamental to the survival of alternative social movements in the 21st century. Oblivion is not merely a function of controlled space but of eliminated time as well.\nThe Zapatistas, as a force beyond the autonomous communities in Chiapas, remain bound by the postmodern conundrum, facing the abyss of marginalization that radical anti-authoritarian politics, however visionary and necessary, always risks collapsing into. And the communities themselves, where the real gains of Zapatismo are evident, still live on the knife-edge of extinction confronting land-based peoples around the globe. But the war against oblivion in which they played, and continue to play, a key role, rages on, in every house, on every street. It is one struggle in which there is a place for all of us, through which even the most alienated can regain a place in the nexus that sustains us, that brings us back into life.\nJeff Conant plays his part in that struggle admirably by giving us this thoughtful and impassioned book.\nChristy Rodgers' writings have appeared on Dissident Voice, Truthout, Alternet, Upside Down World, Counterpunch, and Dark Mountain Project. She lives in San Francisco and blogs at What If?: Tales, transformations, possibilities. Read other articles by Christy.\nThis article was posted on Thursday, August 26th, 2010 at 7:59am and is filed under Book Review, Mexico, Resistance, Revolution.\n4 comments on this article so far ...\nMichaelKenny said on August 26th, 2010 at 9:47am #\nI don't see what this has to do with Europe. Practically nobody has ever heard of Chiapas, next to none could tell what country it's in or find it on a map and most would take a guess that Zapatista was part of the World Cup team, since they've heard his name somewhere recently. To that the more intellectual ones would retort that that is because he's prime minister of Spain. Conciousness would be marginally higher in the latter country, but not by very much. Europeans might get worked up if the US wanted them to send soldiers there but beyond that, nobody in Europe is being haunted by Mexican ghosts, friendly or unfriendly!\nDon Hawkins said on August 26th, 2010 at 10:40am #\nPR, other words, was designed expressly to keep people from knowing not just what they know, but what they are.\nNot me Christy and I went to your web site will send ideas from time to time. Am I completely immune from being kept not knowing what I know, and what I are not yet maybe never but I have these glasses and man don't wear them to long what a headache but worth it.\nteafoe2 said on August 26th, 2010 at 3:05pm #\nvery interesting review. I wonder what John Ross or\/and Roberto Vargas might make of it and Conant's book.\nLet me note that I'm one of those Ms Rodgers describes: I do have a Zapatista poster on my wall and a Zapatista doll made of yarn attached to a print of Guernica on another wall. As a piece of art, the poster in my judgment ranks up there with Picasso's masterpiece, and with Rivera's view of Kahlo's back framed by lilies on the wall opposite.\nEvery time I glance over at that poster, I'm astounded all over again. What could possibly lie behind such an improbable image?\nBut I'm afraid I'll never really understand it. Some things are just too much the product of a particular environment to ever be fully appreciated by those who will never find themselves part of that particularity.\nThe review is interesting. Maybe on a second reading I'll find something I can use here in Reagan Country? aka Arnoldlandia?\nMaybe my take on the Zapatistas is jaundiced due to my original over-enthusiasm; I did jump on it as soon as I saw those red bandana-covered faces on TV, and read \"The Sup\"s early \"communiques\". I bought a pile of Anderson Valley Advertisers and gave them to friends. My rumbera amiga Miraglos refused to accept any reading material, on the grounds it was just more of the same, will come to nothing in the end.\nMiraglos is very hip, knows all the lyrics & arrangements of all the \"salsa\" classics & all the Yoruba chants. Bet if she saw this poster she'd find a way to beat me out of it:)\nArt is nice, makes life richer. Sometimes it may even contribute to changing something, but don't bet on it.\nMr Kenny, I pity you, mired in that narrow Eurocentric outlook of yours.\nMr K, there is great art and great culture native to every continent on the planet, with the possible exception of Antarctica.\nFor instance, I'd guess you are familiar with \"Der Glasperlenspiel\", a turn-of-the-(previous)century novel which speculates about the invention of an art form that includes\/encompasses all existing European art forms, plus Indian Yoga?\nIt may interest you to realize that while Hesse was letting his imagination roam, enslaved Cubanos had created an art form which combined: music, vocal and instrumental; dance; classic Spanish poetry, including the classic ten-line stanza known as Decima; and highly original visual arts, into a blend usually referred to nowadays as Rumba Folklorico.\nVariants of the form include Yambu, Rumba Colombia, Guaguanco, and a relatively recent jazz-influenced style called Guarapachangeo.\nCheck it out, you'll be glad you did:)","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
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+{"text":"Online Player Profiles\nKing Network\nPokerKingBlog.com\nTexasholdem-King.com\nAttendance For World Series of Poker Up 20% Over Last Year\nPublished on July 19th, 2010 8:14 am EST\nThe 2010 World Series of Poker was a major success, despite the fact that the global economy remains mired in a slump.\nAfter including the numbers for the main event, the 2010 World Series of Poker ended up with a total of 72,967 entrants, well up over 2009's total of 60,875 (+19.9%).\nThe total prize pool for the 2010 World Series of Poker came in at over $187 million, easily topping last year's total of $174,013,215.\nThe 2010 numbers were helped by the very strong turnout for the main event. 7,319 players paid the $10,000 buy-in to create a prize pool of $68,798,600, which was the second largest in the history of the main event.\nThis year's World Series of Poker also featured a fair amount of drama, including:\n-Michael \"The Grinder\" Mizrachi's incredible run\n-Phil Ivey's eighth World Series of Poker bracelet\n-Tom Dwan's second place finish\n-Matt Affleck's heartbreaking exit from the main event\nSo, not only did people turn out for the 2010 WSOP in droves, but there will also be plenty of moments that will make for great TV when ESPN begins their broadcasts of the event later in the year.\nOverall, tournament organizers seem to have done a great job with this year's event. I didn't hear too much in the way of complaining from players, especially compared to previous years (no Day 1D main event registration debacles, no \"Player's Pavilion\" tent issues, etc). World Series of Poker organizers seem to be doing a good job of listening to players, and this has translated into less player complaints with each passing year.\nAttendance has increased for the World Series of Poker over each of the last seven years. It will be interesting to see if attendance will increase yet again next year, and what changes Harrah's will implement to try and make that happen.\nSource: WSOP.com - 2010 World Series of Poker Shatters Attendance Record\nFiled Under: The World Series of Poker\nThe World Series of Poker\nDamian Salas Named WSOP Main Event World Champion\nThe World Series of Poker Main Event World Champion was officially crowned on Sunday. Damian Sal...\nBy Poker King - January 4th, 2020 12:36 pm EST\nHuck Seed Elected To Poker Hall of Fame\nHuckleberry \"Huck\" Seed is the newest member of the Poker Hall of Fame. Earlier this week, the W...\nBy Poker King - January 1st, 2021 5:20 pm EST\nOpinion: World Series of Poker Main Events Have Been a Complete Mess\nMany people were surprised when the World Series of Poker announced their plan to push ahead with th...\nBy Poker King - December 24th, 2020 4:31 pm EST\nGaming content intended for mature audiences only\nBet365 Bonus - THEKING\nUnibet - \u20ac500 Bonus\nParty Poker - $40 in Tickets\nWhat Was The Longest Heads-Up Match in Poker Tournament History?\nWhat Is The Worst Starting Hand in Texas Hold'em?\nWhere Can I Play Online Poker With Friends?\nShould I Play Cash Games, SNGs or Tournaments?\nHow Do Poker Rooms Make Money?\nWhat is a \"Side Bet\"?\nHow Do People Cheat in Poker?\nWho Are The Most Popular Poker Streamers on Twitch.tv?\nWhat Are the Different Types of Deals That You Can Make in Poker Tournaments?\nWhat Happened to Howard Lederer?\nWhat is Pai Gow Poker?\nWhat Happened to Phil Ivey?\nWhat Happened To Ilari \"Ziigmund\" Sahamies?\nWhat are the Biggest Differences Between No Limit Hold'em and Pot Limit Omaha?\nWhat is the Best Online Poker Room?\n888 Poker Play With Friends\nPocket Kings\nPocket Aces\nPhased Tournament\nAll-In Shootout\nMoMoMo PKO Series\nPay Jump\nBet365\u734e\u91d1\u4ee3\u78bc\nC\u00f3digo de B\u00f3nus Bet365\nBet365 Bonusz Kod\nBet365 Bonus Kod Polecajacy\nShares of Partypoker's Parent Company Spike After Takeover Bid From MGM Resorts\nPhil Galfond Pulling Away in \"Galfond Challenge\" Match Against Chance Kornuth\nShould Isai Scheinberg Be In the Poker Hall of Fame?\nChris Moneymaker Parts Ways With Pokerstars\nDoug Polk vs Daniel Negreanu Challenge Hits 12,500 Hand Mark\nPatrik Antonius Headlines List of Poker Hall of Fame Finalists\nParent Company of Pokerstars Taken Aback By Kentucky Supreme Court Ruling\nCash Games (275)\nTournament Results (452)\nPoker Scandals (66)\nOnline Poker Rooms (563)\nUIGEA (70)\nPlayers in the News (80)\nPoker on Television (63)\nThe World Series of Poker (431)\nPoker Legal Issues (136)\nOther Poker News (229)\nMiscellaneous King Articles (88)\n\u00a9 2021 Poker-King.com - All Materials on this site should be considered of a promotional nature","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
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+{"text":"Novel NRL instrument enhances ability to measure nuclear materials\nU.S. Naval Research Laboratory\nWASHINGTON, Oct. 30, 2019 \/PRNewswire\/ -- Researchers with the U.S. Naval Research Laboratory (NRL) designed and built an instrument called NAUTILUS to provide new measurement capabilities unlike those available at other laboratories to measure nuclear, cosmo\/geo-chemical, and electronic materials.\nEvan Groopman (left), a research physicist and Dr. David Willingham (right), a research chemist and head of the Accelerator Mass Spectrometry Section, gather in front of the NAUTILUS instrument in the Accelerator Mass Spectrometry Laboratory at the U.S. Naval Research Laboratory in Washington, D.C., Sept. 5. (U.S. Navy photo by Nicholas E. M. Pasquini)\nEvan Groopman, a research physicist, inserts Nuclear Signatures Inter-laboratory Measurement Evaluation Program (NUSIMEP-9) uranium particles on a carbon planchette into the NAUTILUS to analyze the uranium isotopic composition in the Accelerator Mass Spectrometry Laboratory at the U.S. Naval Research Laboratory in Washington, D.C., Sept. 5. (U.S. Navy photo by Nicholas E. M. Pasquini)\nAt the end of last year, NRL participated in an international round-robin exercise, called Nuclear Signatures Inter-laboratory Measurement Evaluation Program (NUSIMEP-9), sponsored by the European Commission (Nuclear Safety and Security Division) to measure microscopic particulate samples with \"unknown\" uranium isotope ratios.\n\"NRL recently received the final report from the international round-robin exercise and found that the Laboratory performed quite well, correctly identifying all of the \"unknown\" isotopic compositions,\" said David Willingham, a research chemist and head of the Accelerator Mass Spectrometry Section. \"In this case, NRL used a globally unique mass spectrometer called NAUTILUS to perform these measurements, as part of the Accelerator Mass Spectrometry Section's participation in the NUSIMEP-9 sample analysis exercise.\"\nThe NUSIMEP-9 test samples were prepared to mimic environmental sampling\/nuclear Safeguards missions, such as those performed by the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA). The exercise was conducted for the IAEA's Network of Analytical Laboratories (NWAL), of which NRL is not a member; however, NRL does collaborate with the laboratories to develop better uranium-bearing particle analyses.\nThe IAEA is responsible for deterring the proliferation of nuclear weapons by detecting early the misuse of nuclear material or technology, and by providing credible assurances that states are honoring their safeguards obligations. The analysis of nuclear material samples and environmental samples taken by IAEA inspectors is an essential component of this undertaking.\nTwenty-two other laboratories were involved, many of which perform these types of measurements as their core mission (e.g., IAEA) with their instruments dedicated solely for these types of measurements.\n\"The NAUTILUS is much more flexible than this single type of measurement \u2013 we use it to analyze a wide variety of material compositions, including nuclear, electronic, and extraterrestrial materials,\" said Evan Groopman, a research physicist. \"We are happy with the results of this exercise because it demonstrates that our up-and-coming group can both build a novel instrument for the Navy and apply it to a wide variety of problems, performing as well or better than laboratories that exclusively perform a single type of analysis using commercial instrumentation.\"\nA key element of the safeguards system is the physical inspection of nuclear facilities by IAEA inspectors. States declare in considerable technical detail the types and quantities of nuclear material they possess. Among other verification measures, IAEA inspectors may take nuclear material samples from various points of the nuclear fuel cycle and collect environmental samples by swiping surfaces at various locations during the conduct of a verification activity.\nThese samples, which may be in solid, liquid, or gaseous form, are then subject to sophisticated analysis by IAEA scientists. The scientists focus on the isotopic make-up of uranium and plutonium contained in the samples, unaware of the country from which they were obtained. The analytical results provide a powerful tool for supporting conclusions as to the correctness and completeness of states' nuclear material declarations and help to inform the IAEA's evaluation of whether a state is complying with its safeguards obligations.\nIn carrying out this work, the IAEA laboratories coordinate and cooperate with a wider Network of Analytical Laboratories (NWAL), comprising an additional 18 laboratories located in nine different IAEA Member States. The Environment Sample Laboratory in Seibersdorf, Austria receives and screens all swipe samples but then shares the analytical workload with its NWAL partners.\nThe final report from the NUSIMEP-9 exercise can be found, here: https:\/\/ec.europa.eu\/jrc\/en\/interlaboratory-comparison\/nusimep-9\nAbout the U.S. Naval Research Laboratory\nNRL is a scientific and engineering command dedicated to research that drives innovative advances for the Navy and Marine Corps from the seafloor to space and in the information domain. NRL headquarters is located in Washington, D.C., with major field sites in Stennis Space Center, Mississippi, Key West, Florida, and Monterey, California, and employs approximately 2,500 civilian scientists, engineers and support personnel.\nBy Nicholas E. M. Pasquini, U.S. Naval Research Laboratory Corporate Communications\nEditor Contact: Daniel Parry, U.S. Naval Research Laboratory Public Affairs\nSOURCE U.S. Naval Research Laboratory\nhttp:\/\/www.nrl.navy.mil","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
+{"text":"Deutsch LA Hires Mathias Appelblad\nHires, Wins & Business\nAgency names its first Digital ECD\nDeutsch LA has hired Mathias Appelblad, known for his work on \"IKEA's Dream Kitchen for Everyone,\" as its first digital executive creative director.\n\"Our goal at Deutsch LA is to be the best agency in the world, and to do that we also need to be the best digital agency in the world,\" says Mark Hunter, Chief Creative Officer at Deutsch LA. \"A digital creative leader of Mathias' quality and pedigree will take us one step closer to realizing that goal.\"\nIn this new role Mathias will oversee Deutsch LA's expanding digital creative work, and bridge the creative and technology teams at the agency. \"Mathias is a digital star and and innovator,\" says Winston Binch, Deutsch LA's Chief Digital Officer. \"He's created and produced some of the most remarkable digital anywhere over the last ten years. We're thrilled to welcome him to our growing team.\"\nMathias joins Deutsch LA from BBDO NY, where he had been Executive Creative Director and Director of Innovation since 2010. He also served on BBDO NY's board of directors. Prior to his tenure at BBDO, Mathias worked as Interactive Creative Director at Swedish agency Forsman & Bodenfors, which he helped become one of the world's top digital agencies. In 2007 the Gunn Report named F&B the #3 most awarded digital agency worldwide.\n\"Deutsch LA has arguably created some of the most talked about SuperBowl ads in recent time. What Mike, Mark and Winston have done over the past years to set the agency up to do wonderful, useful and meaningful things in the digital space is inspiring,\" Mathias says. \"I'm honored, humbled and excited to embark on this new adventure with Deutsch LA and all their clients. I can't wait to dig in.\"\nDuring his 15 years in the industry, Mathias has created, worked on and led iconic work for brands such as AT&T, FedEx, HBO, GE, Gillette, Volvo Cars and IKEA. Many of his campaigns have gone on to win several of the industry's highest accolades. His campaign for the Volvo XC90 garnered a Cyber Grand Prix at Cannes. And \"Dream Kitchen for Everyone\" was named one of the 10 best digital pieces of the decade by the One Show. Mathias is also a Creativity 50 honoree.\nview more - Hires, Wins & Business\nlbbonline.com, Thu, 21 Feb 2013 12:10:19 GMT\nPublicis Launches OREO's BLACKPINK Makeover\nCan This Pioneering Super Bowl Ad Change the World's Attitude towards Cancer?\nSam Smith Holds Court in Sumptuous 'I'm Not Here To Make Friends' Video\nRaymond Loewy: \"There's No Way to 'Talk about' Music. That's What Makes It Music\"\n1 adam&eveDDB\n2 DDB Mexico\n3 Publicis Italy\n4 AMV BBDO\n5 72andSunny LA\nPost your news here Subscribe to Newsletter","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
+{"text":"Culture Crash: Spider-Man's Back Once Again\nThe new film release, \"Spider-Man: No Way Home\" is a massive blockbuster hit. We discuss what makes these crossover movies such a success and what's coming up next in the Marvel universe.\nYou are here: Home \/ Archive \/ Culture Crash \/ Culture Crash: Spider-Man's Back Once Again\nPublished: January 2, 2022 by VPR Producer\nWelcome to Culture Crash, where we examine American culture \u2013 what's new and old in entertainment\u2026\nLast month, Spider-Man: No way Home blew its expectations out of the water, opening to a staggering $260 million in the U.S., good enough for the 3rd biggest domestic opening weekend of all time, despite the pandemic surging due to the Omicron variant.\nA secret to the movies success? People love a crossover event. For example, I have to be honest, I'm not much of a Marvel fan. I haven't seen Black Widow yet, I haven't been watching Hawkeye... I could go on. And yet, I went to see No Way Home on opening day. Why? Not so much because i was dying to catch up with the MCU, but rather because I love Spider-Man.\nMore specifically, I love the previous Spider-Man series, the ones starring Tobey Maguire and Andrew Garfield. And no spoilers here, it was right in the trailers: No Way Home saw the return of many of those series' most iconic villains.\nSpider-Man: No Way Home Trailer \u2013 Sony Pictures Entertainment\nThe big headlines were that Willem Dafoe is back as Green Goblin, Alfred Molina is back as Doc Ock, and Jamie Foxx is back as Electro. There were even rumors that Maguire and\/or Garfield may be returning as their versions of Peter Parker, but again, no spoilers here either way.\nStill, that excitement: the returning villains, the swirling rumors, they made No Way Home feel like a must-see opening weekend movie. The key to my heart and countless others my age is to bring back reminders of those previous Spider-universes. It's a comic book special, the crossover event.\nAnd for me at least, it worked. I was thrilled to watch Dafoe and company back in action once again, and it gave me an excuse to marathon some of my favorite movies.\nBut even as someone who admittedly loved No Way Home, I can also see myself growing a little tired of the schtick. Already, Ben Affleck and Michael Keaton are going to reprise their roles as Batman in The Flash, and the success of No Way Home means I can see the previous-series crossover stunt continuing to flourish.\nI'm just not sure the dopamine hit will continue to hit the same way if series continue to bring back old stars in this fashion.\nBut in Hollywood, I'm sure they're going to try, for better or worse.\nI'm Evan Rook.\nEmail Download New Tab\nCulture Crash 22-01: Spider-Man's Back Once Again\nLast month, Spider-Man: No way Home blew its expectations out of the water, opening to a staggering $260 million in the U.S., good enough for the 3rd biggest domestic opening weekend of all time, despite the pandemic surging due to the omicron variant. A secret to the movies success? People love a crossover event.\nFor example, I have to be honest, I'm not much of a Marvel fan. I haven't seen Black Widow yet, I haven't been watching Hawkeye... I could go on. And yet, I went to see No Way Home on opening day. Why? Not so much because i was dying to catch up with the MCU, but rather because I love Spider-Man. More specifically, I love the previous Spider-Man series, the ones starring Tobey Maguire and Andrew Garfield. And no spoilers here, it was right in the trailers: No Way Home saw the return of many of those series' most iconic villains. The big headlines were that Willem Dafoe is back as Green Goblin, Alfred Molina is back as Doc Ock, and Jamie Foxx is back as Electro. There were even rumors that Maguire and\/or Garfield may be returning as their versions of Peter Parker, but again, no spoilers here either way.\nStill, that excitement: the returning villains, the swirling rumors, they made No Way Home feel like a must-see opening weekend movie. The key to my heart and countless others my age is to bring back reminders of those previous Spider-universes. It's a comic book special, the crossover event. And for me at least, it worked. I was thrilled to watch Dafoe and company back in action once again, and it gave me an excuse to marathon some of my favorite movies. But even as someone who admittedly loved No Way Home, I can also see myself growing a little tired of the schtick. Already, Ben Affleck and Michael Keaton are going to reprise their roles as Batman in The Flash, and the success of No Way Home means I can see the previous-series crossover stunt continuing to flourish. I'm just not sure the dopamine hit will continue to hit the same way if series continue to bring back old stars in this fashion.\nEnter your name and email address below and I'll send you periodic updates about the podcast.\nProgram #: 22-01segment type: Culture CrashTopics - Hollywood| Media and Entertainment| MoviesInstitutions - MarvelMovies, TV & Digital Media - Spider-Man| Spider-Man: No Way HomeNotable Names - Alfred Molina| Andrew Garfield| Ben Affleck| Jamie Foxx| Michael Keaton| Tobey Maguire| Willem DafoeGenres - Blockbusters| Comic Books\/Comic Book Movies\nRelated Segments:\nCulture Crash: Serial, the podcast that captivated America, returns for its most important season yet\nCulture Crash: A Father-Son Horror Novella (2020)\nCulture Crash: Tis' the Season for X-Mas Music\nCulture Crash: The Rise of Writer and Actress Phoebe Waller Bridge\nCulture Crash: Anthony Bourdain\nWhat Happens When Mathematical Calculations Go Wrong?\nThe Consequences of Voter Error\nNext Post: A Season of Sadness\nAbout VPR Producer\nSince 2000, Viewpoints Radio has been bringing listeners the relevant information they crave in current events, literature, entertainment and more.\nBoth Viewpoints Radio and sister show Radio Health Journal are productions of MediaTracks Communications. Reaching over 6 million listeners across the nation each week. Contact at [email protected]","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
+{"text":"town (406) + -\nchurch (63) + -\nstreet (61) + -\nhous (40) + -\nview (36) + -\naerial (30) + -\nst (30) + -\nplan (25) + -\nbuild (24) + -\ninsur (21) + -\nstation (20) + -\nbai (19) + -\nconstruct (19) + -\nresid (18) + -\nadderlei (17) + -\nold (17) + -\nsouth (379) + -\nhistor (201) + -\narchitectur (174) + -\nwestern (127) + -\nresidenti (110) + -\ndevelop (80) + -\nurban (79) + -\ninfrastructur (57) + -\nchristian (47) + -\nlandscap (41) + -\ntransport (30) + -\nstillimag (7) + -\nbuild (x)\nphysic (x)\nSouth Africa ; Western Cape, Province of the ; Cape Town, Montebello Design Centre (Cape Town, South Africa), Historic buildings--Conservation and restoration--South Africa--Cape Town, Historic sites--Conservation and restoration--South Africa--Cape Town, Landscape architecture--South Africa--Cape Town, ianford_montebello_may1996_003.jpg\nMontebello Estate, Newland Avenue, Newlands: Origianl tree survey drawing , based on Harris, McGarrick and Mellon Land Surveyors drawing (1993), original pen and ink on tracing paper indicating existing trees to be retained, trees to be retained if possible and trees to be removed (senescent. damaged, diseased, and or declared weeds \/ alien spaces)., Scale 1:200\nArt Nouveau architecture on Long Street, Cape Town, 1982\nCape Town (South Africa), Art, Culture, Historic buildings\nMerchants, Long Street, Cape Town. One of the oldest buildings on Long Street, the original building at Merchants dates back 350 years and was made [with] slate from Table Mountain. After many iterations through the centuries it survives today as a fine example of Art Nouveau architecture.\nThe closing down of hotels, Cape Town\nInfrastructure, Hotels, Historic buildings, ,\nThe Rio Grande Hotel, the 11th to close down there in about 10 years and the fourth to be used for the aged. \/ Witnesses of past grandeur.\nCentral Cape Town, 1970\nCape Town (South Africa), City planning, Historic buildings, Energy, Architecture\nAerial view of central Cape Town from the Dock Road Power Station towards Table Mountain, 1970.\nSouth Africa ; Western Cape, Province of the ; Cape Town, Montebello Design Centre (Cape Town, South Africa), Historic buildings--Conservation and restoration--South Africa--Cape Town, Historic sites--Conservation and restoration--South Africa--Cape Town, Landscape architecture--South Africa--Cape Town, ianford_montebello_jun1993_002.jpg\nMontebello Estate, Newland Avenue, Newlands: landscape schematic plan for council submission - pen and ink drawing on tracing paper, indicating proposed lateriate gravel pathways and parking areas, as well as proposed vegetation, and existing trees to be retained selectively., Scale 1:250\nDemolition of the old Cape Town Station, Cape Town, 1968\nCape Town (South Africa), Historic buildings, Architecture, City planning, Transport\nDemolition of the old Cape Town Station, 1968.\nMen inspect aluminium house, Cape Town\nResidential buildings, Construction, ,\nA prefabricated aluminium house erected at Nyanga Location was inspected today by officials of the Cape Divisional Council. This picture shows Mr H.M. Pansegrouw, superintendent of Nyanga, and Mr R.S. MacDonald looking at the back of it.\nAn abandoned building used as a lookout post within the Kgalagadi Transfrontier Park.\nSan (African people)--Botswana and South Africa--Kgalagadi Transfrontier Park, Khomani (African people)--Botswana and South Africa--Kgalagadi Transfrontier Park, San (African people)--Social life and customs, Khomani (African people)--Social life and customs, Stone buildings--Botswana and South Africa--Kgalagadi Transfrontier Park, Ruined buildings--Botswana and South Africa--Kgalagadi Transfrontier Park, Indigenous peoples--Land tenure--Africa, Southern, ,\nThe view through a crooked window in an abandoned building within the Kgalagadi Transfrontier Park. Structures like these, are now used as lookout posts for tourists and travellers. Images from this trip document the first excursions into the Kgalagadi Transfrontier Park and were a central part of the work on oral history and mapping in the first years of research.\nCentral Methodist Mission Church, Cape Town, 1994\nCape Town (South Africa), Church buildings, Architecture, Christianity, Historic buildings\nMuseum site: the Central Methodist Mission Church in Buitenkant Street. [Exhibition will show signs of the times.]\nSouth African Reserve Bank, Cape Town\nCape Town (South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Banking, Commerce, Architecture, Building\nCape Town - S.A. Reserve Bank Building, St George's Street\nMacassar Coloured township near Somerset West, Cape Town\nApartheid, South Africa. Group Areas Act, 1950, Residential buildings, ,\nMany families rehoused at the Macassar Coloured township near Somerset West have returned to their squatter lives in the bush, officials say. The families say they cannot afford the rents at Macassar and that they prefer the bush to the township.\nJarvis Street Baptist Church, Green Point, Cape Town, 1970\nCape Town (South Africa), Church buildings, Historical buildings, South Africa. Group Areas Act, 1950, Race discrimination\nThe Jarvis Street Baptist Church, which recently celebrated its 75th anniversary, will soon be moved away to the Cape Flats.\nFormer Ministry of Education building\nruinsRuined buildings--Angola, Refugees--Angola\nRefugees who have fled the fighting in the Angolan countryside inhabit the former Ministry of Education building.\nOld railway station, Cape Town, circa 1965\nCape Town (South Africa), Trains, Historic buildings, Transport, Urban development\nLooking into the first railway station in Cape Town, from the Castle.\nThe Saambou National Building Society's new building in Bellville, Cape Town\nBellville (South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Business, Apartheid, Architecture, Building, Afrikaners\nAn example of the office building accommodation available in Bellville's growing central business district district is this modern building society block. The Saambou National Building Society's new building in Bellville was officially opened this week by Dr C.F. Albertyn. In addition to the shopping space on the ground floor, there are seven floors of office space and the banking hall also provides for art exhibitions. Saambou now owns buildings in Bellville valued at more than R1 500 000. With office accommodation in big demand in the rapidly developing Tygeberg area, office blocks are going up all over. One of the latest and largest blocks is the Saambou National Building, opened towards the end of last year. This building offers shopping space on the ground floor and seven floors of office space.\nHouse in Wale Street, Cape Town, 1951\nCape Town (South Africa), Historic buildings, Architecture, Demolition, Urban development\nOld house at the top of Wale Street.\nStandard Bank's main office, Cape Town, 1970s\nStandard Bank's main Cape Town office, which dates from many years ago. Early this century it was described as the most imposing building in Adderley Street. Still to-day it remains one of the city's more interesting buildings, and provided a pleasing contrast with the surrounding concrete jungle.\nOld Town Hall, Rondebosch, Cape Town\nWestern Cape (South Africa), Rondebosch (Cape Town, South Africa), Landmarks, Monuments, Historic buildings, Architecture\nThe old Town Hall at Rondebosch: do not move the public library from this ideal spot, says a reader.\nAerial view of Muizenberg, Cape Town\nInfrastructure, Residential buildings, Ocean, ,\nRight: The beach front at Muizenberg soon after sunrise on a clear winter's morning. This photograph shows the area of beach once occupied by the now demolished Muizenberg Pavilion.\nValkenburg Manor, Cape Town\nHistoric buildings, Architecture, Restaurants, ,\nAs it is today - After reconstruction the Valkenburg manor, occupied by the Rosenfontein restaurant, became one of the Cape's most admired and best-frequented eating venues.","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
+{"text":"Veritas Christian claims first boys title with win over Calvary Christian\nHERALD STAFF REPORTsports@njherald.com\nHACKENSACK -- The Veritas Christian boys basketball team won its first boys title at the Bergen County Christian Academy's Invitational Tournament, holding on to take down Calvary Christian, 50-45, on Saturday.\nVeritas Christian 50, Calvary Christian 45\nHACKENSACK -- The Veritas Christian boys basketball team won its first boys title at the Bergen County Christian Academy's Invitational Tournament, holding on to take down Calvary Christian, 50-45, on Sunday at the Bergen County Christian Academy.\nDylan Cuperus registered a double-double with 13 points and 11 rebounds and was named the tournament's most valuable player.\nEthan Mulder led the way for the Lions in the championship game with 16 points and nine rebounds. Mulder was joined by senior Christian Doorley on the all-tournament team.\nWith the title, Veritas, which jumped in front by 24 points after three quarters, improved to 17-8 on the season.\nCC\t8\t5\t9\t21\t-- 45\nVC\t13\t15\t18\t5\t-- 50\nPhillipsburg: Ethan Mulder 16, Dylan Cuperus 13, Aaron Burke 10, Christian Doorley 7, Jonathan O'Brien 2, Simon Valkema 2\nRecords: Calvary Christian 9-13, Veritas Christian 17-8","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
+{"text":"Phillips Sapphire Life V878 gets TENAA certification\nWith the introduction of two new smartphones, the Philips Sapphire S616 and Philips Sapphire Life V787 to the public just last month, Smartphone manufacturing company is now set to launch the second device, the Sapphire Life V787 into the market soon. Reports from TENAA has revealed that the smartphone has gotten certification and is set to be available in stores very soon.\nNot to forget that the Phillips Sapphire S616 launched in China at a pricing of around Rs. 14,500 comes with an Anti-Blue display which is based on the SoftBlue technology which produces up to 86% less blue light compared to the regular display in other smartphones therefore helping to reduce eye strain of users.\nThe soon to be released Sapphire Life V787 smartphone has a 5-inch FHD Anti-Blue display with screen resolution of 1080\u00d71920 pixels and a pixel density of 441ppi running on the Quad-core MediaTek chipset which is yet unnamed but clocked at a speed of 1.5GHz. The smartphone is equipped with 1GB of RAM and 8GB of internal storage memory capacity which is further expandable to up to 32GB using microSD card with a 13MP rear facing camera decked with the Phase Detection Auto Focus (PDAF) technology and a 5MP front selfie camera. The Phillips Sapphire Life V787 runs on an Android 5.1 Lollipop OS and is powered by a 5,000mAh battery which with the Phillips' own Xenium technology boasts to last up to 47 hours of talk time.\nThe Phillips Sapphire Life V787 is expected to be available in stores soon although no official word concerning it's market availability has been issued by the company.","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
+{"text":"Preparing Australia for the impact of the Internet of Things\nHundreds of Australian and International Internet of Things (IOT) experts will assemble at University of Sydney on Monday 10 September and Tuesday 11 September to present IOT Impact 2018 - Australia's largest conference and expo on IOT.\nWhat is the IOT - The Internet of Things?\nThe Internet of Things is the next evolution of the Internet - where not only computers and smartphones are connected to the Internet, but also a wide range of standard everyday physical devices, each embedded with technology to enable them to be connected to the Internet. Every one of these devices, uniquely identifiable will then be able to communicate with one another and be remotely monitored and controlled.\nBy 2020, the number of IoT connected devices globally is expected to be 30 billion, and this is forecast to grow to 100 billion by 2025.\nBy 2025, the IoT market could be generating revenue close to USD 10 trillion.\nIOT Alliance Australia\nIOT Alliance Australia was formed in 2016 and is the peak body representing the Internet of Things in Australia. A not-for-profit organisation, with over 400 member organisations, its objective is to guide Australian industry in the adoption of IOT, and ensure that Australia as a whole generates a competitive advantage.\nIts task is made that much more difficult given the slow take-up rate of Australian companies:\n59% of Australian businesses have little or no IOT experience\n34% of companies have not started their IOT journey\nIOT Impact 2018\nTo assist in raising the awareness of IOT amongst Australian industry and government, IOT Alliance is presenting IOT Impact - a two-day learning campus for Australian business executives \u2013 to understand and plan for the impact of the Internet of Things in Australia.\nLocated at the University of Technology Sydney, the event will consist of an exhibition of 40-Australian and international companies, and an extensive conference and workshop program.\nThe conference will have a dedicated session on each of the six key industries that will be most impacted by IOT: Smart Cities, Transport, Energy, Water, Manufacturing and Food and Agriculture.\nThe conference will also have a dedicated session on the key enablers - the glue - that's needed to make IOT work: Security, Data, Technology Platforms, Artificial Intelligence and Communications Networks.\nKeynote speakers include: Christopher O'Connor, General Manager, IBM Internet of Things Offerings (USA), Clayton Fernandez, Director IoT, Microsoft (USA), Dr Stefan Ferber, CEO, Bosch Software Innovations (Germany), Professor Dr Lutz Heuser, CEO, [ui!] Group (Germany), Andre Kluge, Managing Director, Schaeffler Australia, Harry Debney, CEO, Costa, John Marcolini, Vice President, Itron (USA), Gerhard Loots, Head IOT & M2M, Telstra, Terri Benson, Managing Director, South East Water, Michelle Price, CEO, Australian Cyber Growth Network, Dr Stephanie Fahey, CEO, Austrade, and Professor Alexey Voinov, Distinguished Professor, School of Systems, Management and Leadership, UTS.\nThe line-up of big names supporting the event by exhibiting, speaking, or delivering a specialty workshop session include: IBM, Bosch, CBA, Telstra, KPMG, Schneider Electric, Microsoft, Huawei, Vodafone, CSIRO and Nokia.\n\"We're at a pivotal time for business in Australia,\" says Frank Zeichner, Chief Executive Officer, IOT Alliance Australia. \"IOT will make an enormous impact on nearly every business and industry, and whether that turns into an opportunity for your business or poses a serious threat to your future, all depends on how well prepared you are. IOT impact is just the first step in a long road educating Australian businesses.\"\nIOT Impact runs from Monday 10th - Tuesday 11th September 2018\nFaculty of Engineering and IT Building\nFor further information visit:\nwww.iotimpact.com.au\nAbout IOTAA\nWith over 400 member organisations and over 750 individual participants IOTAA is the peak Australian IoT body.\nIts vision is to empower industry to grow Australia's competitive advantage through IoT.\nIt works with:\nIndustry to accelerate the adoption of IoT in specific sectors\nState and Federal Government to develop programs and policies\nResearch institutions to build leadership in strategic areas\nIOTAA focuses on the key industry sectors of Agri-Food, Water, Energy, Smart Cities, Transport\/Logistics and Manufacturing and the key enabling technologies of Data, Security and Platforms and supported through its collaborative framework start-up engagement programs.\nFor more information visit www.iot.org.au\nSubmit News or Expert Opinion\nAll Rights Reserved. Nautilus Media Group Pty Ltd","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
+{"text":"Zone Wars on Film !We ain't afraid of no Zone!\nZone Warriors\nGeorge Lucas: The Wizard of Force Chapter One\nThe Wizard of Force Chapter Two\nThe Wizard of Force Chapter Three\nThe Wizard of Force Chapter Four\nThe Wizard of Force Chapter Five\nThe Wizard of Force Chapter Six\nThe Wizard of Force Chapter Seven\nThe Wizard of Force Chapter Eight\nThe Wizard of Force Chapter Nine\nThe Wizard of Force Chapter Ten\nMaple Grief: poems\nContact and Comments\nChapter 10:\nDuel of the Mates\nIronically, and no doubt to the dismay of Lucas, THE MATRIX was a huge global success and pop phenom, just like STAR WARS EPISODE IV: A NEW HOPE. This success was an unexpected and novel development for Lucas, as in years past his Classic or Indy Trilogy had usually been the first big allegorical film of the Spring\/Summer season. Now he had to top THE MATRIX, or he would find himself banished to DAMNATION ALLEY. Luckily for Lucas, fans seemed convinced that he would. Indeed, to my surprised, baffled, disappointed and angry interest, exuberant and happy young people lined up for months outside Temple Theatres-around North America at least-happily waiting for the May 25, 1999 release of STAR WARS EPISODE I: THE PHANTOM MENACE and eager to be one of the first people in the world to experience the first Lucas directed STAR WARS film in decades. Clearly, a new generation of audiences either were not aware of the insidious reputation of Lucas, or did not care. Even the Columbine High School shootings on April 20, 1999 did not dampen the excitement, and when the new Day of the Jedi finally arrived, happy young audiences poured into the Temple Theatres to finally experience his first film in the CGI enhanced Tragic Trilogy, the twilit, Ozian themed and Spielberg addressing allegorical film, STAR WARS EPISODE 1: THE PHANTOM MENACE.\nSignificantly, after the familiar Ozian fairy tale preamble that linked the new trilogy to childhood, the Classic Trilogy and THE WIZARD OF OZ, the explosive STAR WARS Main Theme, another ominous and FORBIDDEN PLANET trailer evoking celestial Yellow Brick Word scrawl appeared that rebooted audiences back into the STAR WARS universe. Significantly, and not surprisingly, given that a growing obsession with fortune and glory in the early Eighties had led to bitter squabbling amongst New Hollywood and coincided with the TZ disaster, this word scrawl pointed out that the Supreme Chancellor of the Old Republic on the Dorothy and Emerald cadenced Galactic Republic city planet of coruscating Coruscant-with all of its chorus of cant-had sent two J.D. Jedi Knights to the taboo planet Naboo to resolve a lustful squabble over tax money, linking the Old Republic to the golden years of New Hollywood between 1967-81 before the TZ disaster. That this lust for tax money equated with a forbidding lust for film profits in the early Eighties was confirmed when STAR WARS EPISODE I: THE PHANTOM MENACE began with a shot of a Republican cruiser carrying the Jedi blasting from the left to the right side of the screen and into the greedy embrace of the arms of the Neimoidian Trade Federation spaceship blockade of Naboo, a planetary blockade that evoked Reagan's Star Wars Defense Initiative. For this opening shot linked the film to-indeed, recreated-the scene at the end of STAR WARS EPISODE VI: RETURN OF THE JEDI that saw the Calrissian piloted Millenium Falcon blast out of the exploding Deathly Moon and into the waiting space wagon train mass of the Rebel fleet orbiting Endor. Thus, this opening shot not only linked the two films together in Lucas tradition, but also linked STAR WARS EPISODE I: THE PHANTOM MENACE to 1983 and the year of the release of TWILIGHT ZONE: THE MOVIE, immediately implying that far from blasting off into new galactic territory at the cusp of the new millenium, the new STAR WARS trilogy would be as concerned with the twilit and disastrous events of the early Eighties as the YOUNG SHERLOCK JONES telefilms.\nThis link to 1983 was reiterated soon after the cruiser docked in one of the orbiting Neimoidian spaceships. For here the viewer was introduced to two serious and questing J.D. Jedi Knights of the Old Republic, Qui Gonn Jinn and his apprentice, Obi Wan Kenobi-implicitly linked to Emmerich and the new CGI enhanced Lucas, and played by Neeson and Ewen McGregor, respectively. This not only returned the Journey of Self Discovery back to the allegorical film art of Lucas, but linked the film openly to 1983 and Palpaberg via Neeson's roles in KRULL and SCHINDLER'S LIST. His name underlined that significance, for Qui Gonn Jinn sounded like Twilight Zone and why is the jinn-or magic-gone? Curiously, when the destruction of the Republican cruiser and its surrogate female Wicked Witch of the East Captain-played by Bronagh Gallagher-in a cyclonic explosion opened the Kansas gates of the healing Ozian spiritworld dream, Jinn and the young, na\u00efve, innocent and implicitly Lucas linked Kenobi had to fend off Neimoidian Viceroy Nute Gunray and Rune Haako-the bumbling Neimoidian leaders implicitly linked to either the equally bumbling Republican leaders, Ronnie Raygun and Bush sr., respectively, reaffirming the implicit links of STAR WARS EPISODE I: THE PHANTOM MENACE to the early Eighties. The two resigned Jedi also had to fend off their legions of bumbling CGI combat robots (combots)-even more skeletal than the Imps-with their Cylon evoking voices and their equally CGI but huge, black, powerful and spider-like destroyer bots (desbots) that evoked the equally huge, black, intimidating and crab-like soldiers of the insidious Skeksis in THE DARK CRYSTAL.\nSignificantly, this human Jedi versus CGI combot and desbot battle immediately implied that Lucas was worried about CGI, a worry that was linked to the early twilit and disastrous years of the Eighties. An implied worry that was also linked to cinematic invasions of CGI enhanced schlockbuster beasts, for after negotiations with Gunray and Haako quickly failed, Jinn and Kenobi battled the combots and desbots in the passages of Gunray's ship before joining the blockbuster combot and desbot invasion of taboo Naboo. And, as CGI enhanced shots of Portman's poised and balanced Queen Padme Amidala-her four syllable surname evoking Pocahontas as if to imply that she symbolized the response of Lucas to Disney-seen on a ship to ground communicator appeared on Gunray's ship before the invasion, clearly Queen Amidala was indeed the symbol of a CGI enhanced film art in general and that of Lord Stinkious in particular that was balanced between the human world and the CGI enhanced machine world in STAR WARS EPISODE I: THE PHANTOM MENACE. Indeed, the resemblance of her chief advisor, Sio Bibble-played by Oliver F. Davies-to Maestro Williams implicitly affirmed that the young Queen symbolized the new CGI enhanced film art of Lucas. As such, this interest in balance between man and machine implied that Naboo symbolized the brave new world of CGI enhanced film art that Lucas hoped would emerge in the 21st century.\nAlas for the Queen and the citizens of Naboo, Ronnie Gunray and Haako were too obsessed with the schlockbuster profits their machine invasion could create than they were in balance. Luckily for the denizens of Naboo, however, Jinn and Kenobi fell down onto the forbidding Ozian planet in an 'H' shaped landing craft-a landing craft that evoked the CSF Quest, the spaceship whose landing on the Organna evoking planet Organicus kicked off the death game of GALAXY OF TERROR-like Dorothy and Toto to help begin the healing Ozian dream. Unfortunately, and ironically, falling down onto Naboo also began the healing Ozian nightmare, for the CGI enhanced schlockbuster machine invasion of Naboo evoked the impersonal killing machines seen in the nightmarish memories of the future in the healing Ozian nightmares of T1, T2 and THE MATRIX. This openly linked STAR WARS EPISODE I: THE PHANTOM MENACE to 1984 again in a way that reaffirmed the film's links to the Eighties and the TZ disaster. This link also reiterated that the blockbuster machine invasion symbolized the fear of the Temple Theatre being overwhelmed by an invasion of ahuman, depressing, mindless and soulless CGI enhanced schlockbuster product rather than humanity affirming, inspiring, rejuvenating and uplifting CGI enhanced film art. A worry linked to Emperor Palpaberg, for it was noticeable that the name of Queen Padme Amidala evoked not just Dorothy and Princess Yuki Akizuki of HIDDEN FORTRESS, but Queen Isabella of Spain in AMISTAD, Princess Ardala of BUCK ROGERS IN THE 25TH CENTURY, Amy Irving, Palpaberg's girlfriend at the time of the TZ disaster, and L.A., linking her to the L.A. residing Palpaberg.\nThe opening shots of Queen Amidala also revealed that the monarch resembled the evil, androgynous, Palpaberg linked and schlockbuster CGI bomb supporting Ra of STARGATE, despite her opposition to the invasion. This resemblance to Ra linked Amidala to Emmerich as well as Palpaberg. Indeed, Princess Amidala's link to Emperor Palpaberg was made certain by the return of McDiarmid in holographic communications from Coruscant as Senator Palpatine-looking more like Palpaberg than ever before-in CGI enhanced holo-communications with the Queen and her court on Naboo at the same time as Palpy was appearing to the Neimoidians on their almost circular spaceship as Lord Sidious, CGI holograms that openly linked the equally insidious Palpy and Palpaberg do the Dark Side of CGI enhanced film art. That STAR WARS EPISODE I: THE PHANTOM MENACE should be released in the tenth anniversary year of the last collaboration of Stinkious with Palpaberg in 1989 on INDIANA JONES AND THE TEMPLE OF DOOM reaffirmed the link of the film to Palpaberg. Thus, Lucas openly alluded to Palpaberg right from the beginning of STAR WARS EPISODE I: THE PHANTOM MENACE, and did so in connection with some serious implicit misgivings about the CGI that he had been instrumental in developing for the enhancement of film art. The latter was an important new direction for Lucas, and one not seen in the enthusiastically CGI promoting THE RADIOLAND MURDERS, TUCKER and the YOUNG SHERLOCK JONES adventures, the latter heard in the title of STAR WARS EPISODE I: THE PHANTOM MENACE, which evoked CHAPTER 10: THE PHANTOM TRAIN OF DOOM.\nLucas also soon affirmed an implicit interest in Landis, for after falling down onto the planet in an invasion craft, Jinn was seen running from the elephantine battle tanks of the machine invasion as they crashed and crushed their way through a forest. The sight evoked the sight of the mobile missile launcher that crashed and crushed its way through a forest in the USSR to its secret location at the beginning of SPIES LIKE US. Significantly, after linking the film to SPIES LIKE US, Jinn's flight through the forest from the CGI machine invasion also led to the Jedi Knight meeting Ahmed Best's big eared and Goofy, Howard the Duck, Scarecrow and Wak Wak evoking Jar Jar Binks, implicitly linking Binks to Landis and returning the Comedy narrative back to the allegorical film art of Lucas-and to 1982, as the name of Jar Jar Binks evoked the Jarjarsinpao Mountains in the twilit and allegorical Oshima Nagisa film, MERRY CHRISTMAS MR. LAWRENCE (1983). The Landis linked Binks also reaffirmed the film's implicit interest in Palpaberg when he led the Jedi to the underwater and Emerald City evoking Gungan City, where we met hundreds more of his fellow Gungans, the symbolic Munchkins of the film and all with the same Howard the Duck evoking duck bill face and as Binks, and the imposing height and mask-like visages of the animal masked guards of Ra in STARGATE. For this fantastic and dazzling city evoked the equally fantastic and dazzling underwater city that Madison the mermaid led the Palpaberg linked Bauer to at the end of SPLASH.\nUnfortunately, however, after the dazzling magnificence of the city, one of the first Gunkins we met in Gunkin City was Steve Speirs' Captain Tarpals. This reintroduced an ominous and twilit ambience to the film, for his name-and Jar Jar's name, as well-reminded us of Targo in the CHAPTER 17: MASKS OF EVIL episode of the YOUNG SHERLOCK HOLMES adventures, immediately linking the Gungans and STAR WARS EPISODE I: THE PHANTOM MENACE to twilit Evil, the Dark Side of Palpaberg, and movie tie-in machinations. An ominous beginning indeed, and one that overshadowed the film's Forceful first elemental conjunction of the Ozian Fource in the form of Earthy Scarecrow Binks, the Fiery and Cowardly Jinn, Blessed's Airy Great Oz Boss Nass, ruler of Gunkin City-whose name evoked Wasserman, head of Universal and Universal City at the time of the TZ disaster-and the watery and hesitant Tin Kenobi. An ominous beginning that also overshadowed the attempt to top Cameron with more flashy CGI, as an underwater craft that Boss Nass loaned to Binks and the Jedi to travel through the planet's core to the city of Theed to confer with Amidala evoked the first alien spaceship encountered underwater in THE ABYSS. While overshadowing Cameron, this underwater trip openly linked Binks to Landis. For Binks' revelation that he had been expelled from Gunkin City for causing an '\u2026itty bitty accident' reminded us that Landis had been expelled from the company of his fellow film artists for the TZ disaster, implicitly reaffirming the link of Binks to Landis. Significantly, a Godzilla evoking sea monster that almost ate the craft soon after the revelation of Binks also implicitly affirmed the link of Jinn to Emmerich.\nNot surprisingly, after landing on Naboo and cutting their way through the machines, the Cowardly Jinn and Tinny Kenobi soon rescued Queen Amidala, affirming the determination of the Jedi and Lucas to preserve a harmonious balance between man and machine in CGI enhanced film art. The Jedi and Binks then fled the siege of taboo Naboo with Queen Amidala and her handmaidens-including one named Sache played by Sofia Coppola-for the safety of the planet city of Coruscant, seat of government of the Galactic Republic, in order to persuade the Galactic Senate to help the people of Naboo stop the blockbuster machine invasion. Given the implied determination of Lucas to plead for a balance between man and machine in CGI enhanced film art, all was proceeding as expected. Surprisingly, at this point Lucas veered unexpectedly from the programme. For after running out of fuel and in need of hyperdrive repairs, the gleaming chrome Nubian spaceship used by the Ozian heroes to escape Naboo was eventually forced to land on Ozian Tatooine in the film's second symbolic fall down onto Oz. Here they wandered into the small Western town of Mos Espa, its name evoking Toad's Vespa moped in AMERICAN GRAFFITI, returning the Western narrative back to the allegorical film art of Lucas.\nSignificantly, the appearance of Mos Espa evoked a town seen in BATTLE BEYOND THE STARS, suddenly evoking the first film worked on by Cameron. This unexpected allusion to Cameron implied that Anakin Skywalker, the surprisingly Great Oz linked slave boy that the Ozian heroes met in Mos Espa-his slave status evoking the slave boys and girls of INDIANA JONES AND THE TEMPLE OF DOOM in another link of the film to Palpaberg, and played by Jake Lloyd-and freed from the greedy clutches of Watto, the implicitly Kubrick linked and dimunitive blue CGI flying monkey-voiced by Andrew Secombe-was not just an all natural J.D. Jedi Messiah born of a Virgin Mother, Shmi-evoking Smee in HOOK, and played by August-but symbolized Cameron. Indeed, his all natural Jedi status-rated 20,000 on the midi-chlorian scale!-reminded us that Cameron came by his film artist powers naturally too as he had no formal training, affirming the implicit link of young Skywalker to Cameron and implying that the Tragic Trilogy was just as interested in addressing Cameron as Palpaberg.\nHowever, despite resembling Cameron and having Cameron's intuitive affinity for technology, young Skywalker was soon also linked to Palpaberg when Amidala, Binks and Jinn helped free Ani by helping him repair his pod racer for the film's pivotal Death-pod race. For when the engine of his damaged pod revved up again, Ani shouted '\u2026it's working! It's working!', evoking Elliot's jubilant words to E.T. when the Kid Monster successfully contacted its E.T. brethren with its makeshift intergalactic telephone in E.T., THE EXTRATERRESTRIAL-an allusion that also implicitly affirmed the film's interest in the twilit and disastrous events of 1982. However, given Senator Palpatine's link to Palpaberg, it was not clear if the link to E.T., THE EXTRATERRESTRIAL meant that Ani symbolized a new and CGI improved Palpaberg, or a Palpaberg shadowed Cameron. One implication that was made clearer during the pod repair scene was that the sight of Binks working as a mechanic on Ani's pod evoked the cameo role of Landis as a mechanic in DEATH RACE 2000. Indeed, at one point Binks broke the fourth wall by looking into the camera at the audience, grinning giddily and giving the audience a thumb's up, reminding us -that having characters break the fourth was a famous characteristic of the film art of Landis, not of Lucas or any other film artist. This reaffirmed the implicit link of Binks to Landis, and also prepared us for the Death-pod race that followed soon upon the repairs to the pod of Ani.\nThis deadly Boonta Eve Death-pod race-'Boonta' hiding both Naboo and taboo within its letters, linking the race to the desperate battle against blockbuster CGI enhanced beasts on taboo Naboo-that was presided over by a two headed announcer who evoked the dreaded two headed Siskebert of WILLOW-and which included a frozen, impotent and Kenobi\/Lucas evoking racer named Ben Quadrinaros who was unable to leave the starting line in a bit of self-mockery from Lucas-evoked not only DEATH RACE 2000, but the speeder bike chase of STAR WARS EPISODE VI: RETURN OF THE JEDI-a link affirmed by the return of Davis both under the mask of a Rodian boy named Wald (Disney?) and out from behind the mask as a race spectator-and the dangerous chariot races that climaxed the 1925 version of BEN-HUR: A TALE OF THE CHRIST, and the allegorical and William Wyler directed, BEN-HUR (1959). Significantly, the race also saw Ani triumph over an evil gremlin resembling Dugg podracer named Sebulba in his orange podracer with its huge and X-shaped engines-implicitly linked to the bug squashing and orange Dutch flag flying Verhoeven, and voiced by Lewis MacLeod-in the Death-pod race like Roman Navorro and Charlton Heston's Ben-Hur triumphed over Francis Bushman and Stephen Boyd's Messala in their death chariot races in their versions of BEN-HUR. Curiously, while this victory allowed a Cameron evoking character to have revenge for all of the bashing Cameron received in the film art of Verhoeven, this also linked Ani to a Jewish character in a way that evoked Palpaberg's Jewish heritage, returning the uncertainty over whether Ani symbolized Cameron or a new and CGI enhanced Palpaberg. Ani's virile triumph and infatuation with Amidala also returned a strange new Romance to the STAR WARS films-ominously linked to the paranoid and duplicitous 'moons of Iago', moons that evoked the scheming and duplicitous Iago in the allegorical Shakespearean play, OTHELLO (1604), in a way that prepared us for the Kenobi versus Skyfaller confrontation at the end of STAR WARS EPISODE III: RETURN OF THE SITH-confirming that Naboo rhymed with taboo for a reason.\nAni's triumph was almost short lived, for soon after his victory he was almost killed by Ray Park's Darth Maul, the insidious Sith Apprentice of Lord Sidious, as he and Jinn returned to their Nubian spaceship for the run to Coruscant. Significantly, while the red and black face makeup of Darth Maul evoked the priests of Mola Ram in INDIANA JONES AND THE TEMPLE OF DOOM, his name implicitly linked him to Catmull, the creator of CGI. This link was strengthened by the fact that he made his first appearance in the film in a CGI hologram after the invasion of Naboo, immediately linking him as well as Sidious to the Dark Side of CGI enhanced film art. The sight of the insidious Sith apprentice riding a black speeder back before attacking Ani and Jinn reaffirmed his to Palpaberg. For this rocket bike evoked not only the broomstick of the Wicked Witch of the West, but the flying BMX bike of Elliot in E.T., THE EXTRATERRESTRIAL. Of course, the Wicked black speeder bike also evoked the speeder bike chase on Endor in STAR WARS EPISODE VI: RETURN OF THE JEDI as the Death-pod race had done earlier, reiterating the link of STAR WARS EPISODE I: THE PHANTOM MENACE to the last STAR WARS film, and to 1983. The little flying monkey Watto had prepared us for the arrival of Mull's real Nikko, and also prepared us for the arrival of the equally dimunitive Yoda-voiced again by Oz-and the rest of the twelve member Jedi Council after Jinn managed to fight off Mull in a draw, allowing the Ozian heroes to blast through hyperspace to Coruscant.\nOf course, and ominously, the return of Oz as the voice and performer of Yoda openly linked the film to Landis via his many cameos in the films of Landis. The return of the Oz and Yoda also linked STAR WARS EPISODE I: THE PHANTOM MENACE to STAR WARS EPISODE V: THE EMPIRE STRIKES BACK and STAR WARS EPISODE VI: RETURN OF THE JEDI, reiterating the film's interest in the events of the early Eighties. The twelve member Jedi Council also evoked the Old Hollywood linked twelve member council of humanity in BATTLESTAR GALACTICA, suggesting that the Jedi Council was also linked to film artists like that earlier council. Indeed it was, but this time to the leading lights of New Hollywood, particularly since the onset of the dread Zone Wars. For instance, the Jedi Master Oppo Rancisis-played by Blake in another role for him-evoked Master Coppola. The film's interest in Palpaberg was also curiously and contrarily reaffirmed by the presence of a Jedi Master with the Steven Spielberg evoking name of Even Piell amongst the Jedi Council. Piell's presence was strange, implying that Lucas was hopeful that Palpaberg would work hard to redeem himself with the new CGI enhanced film art, despite having the Jedi Council reject Ani as a candidate for J.D. Jedi training. This decision prevented the start of a Journey of Self Discovery for Ani, while not blocking the continued progress and Journeys of Jinn or Kenobi. The presence of Jackson as Jedi Council head Mace 'Mason' Windu underlined this interpretation of the rejection of Ani, reminding us that the rebel Afro-Pharaonic Force must be with you if you hope to truly succeed as an independent and J.D. Jedi film artist in the life and film art of Lucas. Jackson's presence also confirmed the film's concern with Palpaberg, the TZ disaster and beastly CGI enhanced schlockbusters, reminding us that Jackson had a small role as Arnold in the THX 1138 evoking control room of JURASSIC PARK.\nThe floating pods with their trios of politicians in the Galactic Senate scenes that were intercut with the Jedi Council scenes also reiterated the film's links to Palpaberg and the early Eighties. Indeed, a trio of E.T. politicians applauded happily when Queen Amidala called for a vote of no confidence in the leadership of Chancellor Valorum-played by Terence Stamp, who linked the film to 1980 via his appearance as Zod in SUPERMAN II-the leader of the Galactic Senate, allowing Palpatine to be voted in as head of the Senate. This openly linked Palpaberg and E.T., THE EXTRATERRESTRIAL to schlockbuster CGI invasions of Naboo and Palpatine's insidious takeover of the Republic. The links to E.T., THE EXTRATERRESTRIAL also affirmed that far from being a prequel, STAR WARS EPISODE I: THE PHANTOM MENACE was continuing the Lucas tradition of replying to the contemporary film art and telefilms of other film artists in his own work, rather than with concerns that pre-dated 1977 and the release of STAR WARS EPISODE IV: A NEW HOPE. Indeed, by linking the trio of E.T.s and Sidious to schlockbuster CGI invasions, Lucas implicitly reaffirmed that he was now worried that Palpaberg had lied to him about his foreknowledge of the use of Chen and Le and his presence on the Landis set of TWILIGHT ZONE: THE MOVIE the fateful night of the TZ disaster.\nThese Dark, insidious and twilit links cast a pall on Ani when he was allowed to join forces with Amidala and Binks and return with them to taboo Naboo to help the Queen's soldiers and space pilots and Binks and his fellow Gunkin warrior tribesmen defeat the evil Neimoidian Trade Federation, their beastly schlockbuster CGI invasion, and their planetary spaceship blockade at the end of the film. Significantly, this ominous participation in the final victory also reiterated Ani's link to Palpaberg, for blasting through space with Artoo in a Yellow Brick Road coloured Naboo space fighter-which evoked the Ko-Dan space fighters in THE LAST STARFIGHTER and the BTA space fighters in ENEMY MINE-in the space battle at the end of the film evoked the sight of Elliot flying through the air with E.T. on his BMX bicycle in E.T., THE EXTRATERRESTRIAL. Of course, this final space battle evoked not only the climatic space battle that destroyed the Death Moon at the end of STAR WARS EPISOD IV: A NEW HOPE, but also the space battle that destroyed the Deathly Moon at the end of STAR WARS EPISODE VI: RETURN OF THE JEDI, reiterating the film's link to the trimatic film of the Classic Trilogy and to 1983. This allusion was reinforced by the sight of Anakin accidentally launching two torpedoes that destroyed the Trade Federation's schlockbuster CGI invasion control ship, a two torpedo knockout blow that reminded us that Lando and Wedge launched a similar two torpedo blast that destroyed the Deathly Moon at the end of STAR WARS EPISODE VI: RETURN OF THE JEDI.\nOf course, the Deathly Moon evoking destruction of the Trade Federation blockbuster machine control ship also reminded us that the film had begun with an allusion to the end of STAR WARS EPISODE VI: RETURN OF THE JEDI, truly bringing the film full circle. The living Rebel versus robot-like Imp land battle, human Jedi versus ahuman Sith saber battle and epic space battle that occurred in the three part Odyssean end of STAR WARS EPISODE VI: RETURN OF THE JEDI was also recreated at the end of STAR WARS EPISODE I: THE PHANTOM MENACE in the goofy but warm and sincere CGI Gunkin versus cold, callous and indifferent CGI blockbuster machine land battle and the human Jedi versus ahuman Sith saber battle on Naboo that accompa\/nied the equally epic space battle that pitted human pilots in CGI ships fighting all CGI machine fighters while young Skywalker weaved amongst them in his ship with the help of Artoo at the end of the film. Significantly, Ani's destruction of the Trade Federation blockbuster machine control ship caused the combots and desbots to shut down on taboo Naboo and stop fighting 'General' Jar Jar and the rest of the Gunkins, giving them victory. This ironically allowed the 'good' but tainted CGI of Lucas, humanity and the Skyrocking spirit of '77 to defeat the bad CGI linked to Palpaberg, the schlockbuster machine and the twilit and disastrous year of 1982.\nThe sight of the insidious but disappointingly silent and non-taunting Sith Apprentice brazenly attacking the Jedi with a double length, two bladed and blood red nightsaber that evoked both the single bladed saber of Vader and a helicopter rotor reaffirmed the film's obsession with the TZ disaster. Malignant Mull wielded this twilit nightsaber so well he killed Jinn with it with a saber thrust through the heart. The thrust implicitly confirmed how heartbroken Lucas was by the deaths of Chen, Le and Morrow and the failure of STAR WARS EPISODE VI: RETURN OF THE JEDI, confirming that Jinn did indeed symbolize the pre-CGI and Classic Trilogy Lucas, an era with its Springing green lightsaber that was now gonn with the wind. Significantly, the death of Jinn was not entirely unexpected, for his inability to become a member of the Jedi Council implied that the Council sensed that Jinn had not fully defeated his Dark Side and was susceptible to being killed by a Dark Knight of the Sith. In fact, his attempt to use his Springing green light saber to burn through blast doors and get at Gunray and Haako on the bridge of their Neimoidian spaceship at the beginning of the film evoked the attempt by the Id monster to burn its way through the security doors of the sanctuary of Morbius at the end of FORBIDDEN PLANET, linking Jinn to festering, lingering and undefeated Id and Kid monsters right from the beginning of STAR WARS EPISODE VI: THE PHANTOM MENACE-indeed, Jinn looked as much like Morbius as he did Emmerich. This link between Jinn and Morbius was perhaps due to the fact that Lucas felt that GODZILLA, INDEPENDENCE DAY and STARGATE were too much like schlockbuster beasts to truly qualify as liberating and healing film art. An allusion to FORBIDDEN PLANET that returned at the end of the film, for the saber battle between Jedi and Sith was fought in a cavernous back area of a Naboo space fighter hangar that evoked the underground cavern that housed the thought enhancing machinery of the cruel Krel, bringing the film full circle.\nIronically but fittingly, Mull was also soon cut down, sliced neatly in two by McKenobi and his light caber, implicitly destroying Catmull and his all CGI film art, and allowing Lucas and his commitment to a new film art balanced between humanity and CGI to triumph, in the end. Significantly, Mull's two twilit and dismembered pieces fell far, far away down another reactor shaft like the Emperor in another nod to the end of STAR WARS EPISODE VI: RETURN OF THE JEDI. Thus, this liberating ending allowed Lucas to briefly join THE MATRIX in hoping that dark memories of INDIANA JONES AND THE TEMPLE OF DOOM and the TZ disaster would also disappear like Mull with the success of STAR WARS EPISODE I: THE PHANTOM MENACE, and that CGI enhanced film art that achieved a balance between man and machine would triumph over fully CGI and ahuman, soulless and money lusting blockbuster CGI enhanced film art like TOY STORY. Indeed, Lucas underlined this hope with the sight of the fully CGI Boss Nass accepting a glowing ball of harmonious CGI enhanced Force from Queen Amidala outside her palace in Theed in the victory celebration on Naboo at the end of the film. However, as everyone knew that there were two more films in the Tragic Trilogy, and that they revolved around the fall of young Skywalker and the rise of the CGI enhanced blockbuster machine, Lucas was already preparing us for his despairing and pessimistic fear that CGI would destroy the humanity of allegorical film art.\nA destruction quickly suffered by Lucas, for the exuberant welcome audiences-particularly young audiences-gave the despairing film artist and the film did not survive a viewing of STAR WARS EPISODE I: THE PHANTOM MENACE. Audiences particularly disliked Jar Jar and his fellow Gungans, who were hated as much as Wicket and his fellow Ewoks, and blamed for turning the film into another horror beyond imagination. Indeed, perhaps because they did not understand its allegorical intent, most audiences felt that Lucas had stolen their sunshine yet again as he had done in '83, transforming Lucas back into Lord Stinkious, Darkest of the Dark Lords. Thus, it was all too appropriate that FORBIDDEN PLANET was alluded to in the film, as many felt that STAR WARS EPISODE I: THE PHANTOM MENACE was just more b.s. from Lord Stinkious.\nAs a result, the film failed to live up to fears that Lord Stinkious would slaughter his film art competitors that year as he had in 1977 like the Lord Stinkious resembling and implicitly linked 1977 serial killer, Son of Sam-played by Badalucco-in the implicitly Stinkious addressing allegorical Lee film, SON OF SAM (1999). Not surprisingly, given the thumbs down that STAR WARS EPISODE I: THE PHANTOM MENACE received, the CGI enhanced, Lord Stinkious supporting and STARSHIP TROOPERS, STAR WARS EPISODE IV: A NEW HOPE and THE LAST STARFIGHTER evoking allegorical Chris Roberts film, WING COMMANDER (1999), which joined Lord Stinkious in rising up in defense of the humanity of film art with a determined and desperate ace space fighter attack on a Besson linked invasion of Earth by Evil CGI Kildathi, also did poorly in 1999. Nothing summed up the lack of interest in STAR WARS EPISODE I: THE PHANTOM MENACE and WING COMMANDER than the fact that low budget and effects free THE BLAIR WITCH PROJECT-which implicitly came to the support of Palpaberg and roasted Besson and Cameron for their twin successes of 1997 and predicted that they would be destroyed by time and fate like Mike Williams and Josh Leonard, in the end-was the big hit of 1999, reminding us that equally low budget, effects free and Zonebusting film art like BLUE VELVET, CROCODILE DUNDEE, LE DERNIER COMBAT and PLATOON was also preferred by audiences for years after the TZ disaster.\nTHE VIRGIN SUICIDES (1999), the equally low budget and effects free first allegorical feature film of Sofia Coppola-another neo-Old Hollywood film artist like Kubrick who learned from her father and the school of life rather than a film school-which likened film artists like Cameron and Lord Stinkious to a bunch of uncreative and impotent teens who never really lost their artistic virginity by truly becoming one with their film art, was also received more favourably than STAR WARS EPISODE I: THE PHANTOM MENACE. And how appropriate that Besson released his twilit and allegorical film, THE MESSENGER (1999), that same year, as if warning Coppola that her life in the embattled and male dominated world of film art would be as difficult and possibly as doomed as that of Jovovich's Joan of Arc in the male dominated world of war.\nTo make matters worse for Lord Stinkious, he was painted as a lying and manipulative Great Oz windbag soon after the release of STAR WARS EPISODE I: THE PHANTOM MENACE in the John Baxter biography, Mythmaker: the life and work of George Lucas (1999). The fact that Pollack noted sadly that he was not allowed to interview Stinkious for his revised version of Skyrocking: the life and films of George Lucas-the updated edition, which was also published in conjunction with the release of STAR WARS EPISODE I: THE PHANTOM MENACE, as he was deemed too critical of Coppola (?) in the first edition, also reflected badly on Lord Stinkious. Curiously, however, not all big budget and effects bursting film art was rejected in 1999. For the twilit, CGI enhanced and allegorical Dean Parisot film, GALAXY QUEST (1999)-a humourous fusion and roast of STAR TREK FIRST CONTACT, STAR TREK GENERATIONS, STAR WARS EPISODE IV: A NEW HOPE, THE LAST STARFIGHTER and WING COMMANDER released by Dreamworks SKG was quite popular that year.\nFor, despite the creepy, ominous and TZ disaster evoking Dreamworks SKG logo, GALAXY QUEST allowed viewers to laugh and free themselves from the TZ disaster and the post-TZ years as in GROUNDHOG DAY with the help of Allen's implicitly Lucas linked and pentultimate Can-Am Commander, Jason Nesbitt aka Peter Q. Taggart-his surname evoking Morrow, Nikko and Tagge as well as braggart-his indomitable crew of the NSEA Protector-or was that nausea protector?-and the healing power of the CGI linked Omega 13, just in time for the new millennium. GALAXY QUEST underlined this sentiment by focussing on the desperate quest by the reunited cast of the STAR TREK-like television series 'Galaxy Quest' to '\u2026never give up, never surrender' by being the last hope who would save the Matheson evoking Mathesar-played by Enrico Colantoni-and the rest of the Thermians of the Klaatu Nebula from Robin Sachs' exuberantly insidious and Xur evoking General Sarris-possibly linked to Besson, given the allusions to THE FIFTH ELEMENT in the film, despite the fact that his name evoked American film critic, Andrew Sarris-and his Evil, Mangalore-like and Ko-Dan armada evoking extraterrestrial gremlin minions.\nSignificantly, 'Galaxy Quest' was a mythical series that supposedly originally ran on television over the course of the pivotal 1979-82 years. This link implied that the series had been quietly cancelled as part of the public rejection of fantastic films and television after the TZ disaster, underlining that GALAXY QUEST was addressing the TZ disaster and urging Questarians like Justin Long's indomitable Superfan, Brandon, to move on now that the new millennium and its CGI enhanced film art that would prevent film set fatalities was dawning. Indeed, the final showdown with Sarris and his thugs took place in the 23rd quadrant of the Gamma Sector, openly linking the film to the twilit and disastrous 23rd of July, 1982. The triumph over Sarris also involved finding a new beryllium sphere for the Protector's quantum flux engine, a load of b.s. found on a planet of dimunitive CGI gremlins, reiterating the film's implicit interest in using CGI to free film art from the TZ disaster. However, while GALAXY QUEST and SLEEPY HOLLOW joined THE MATRIX in celebrating CGI liberation from the Zone in 1999, the return of the Lord Stinkious and Palpaberg linked Buzz and Woody for more shameless toy schilling with the sight of shelves bursting with Buzz Lightyear dolls in Al's Toy Barn-owned by the Knight voiced and Landis linked Al-in the allegorical Lasseter sequel, TOY STORY 2 (1999), reiterated the Dark filmmmercial Side of CGI enhanced film art. A curious but perhaps fitting link of the blockbuster profit lusting Al to Landis, given that Landis returned that year and, in the murder of Adrian Paul's implicitly Landis linked Paul Holland by a group of bumbling and film artist linked conspirators-such as Biehn's Cameron linked Bill or Zane's Kubrick linked Sam-implicitly mocked the continued murders of characters linked to him in the film art of other film artists in his allegorical film, SUSAN'S PLAN (1999). Which turned out to be the last hurrah for Landis, for he soon disappeared like the haunted, tormented and Landis linked Phantom at the end of the pop opera, THE PHANTOM OF THE OPERA.\nCriticism of Lucas and STAR WARS EPISODE I: THE PHANTOM MENACE was not long in coming. Indeed, it implicitly began in 1999 with the triumph over the Evil and implicitly Stinkious linked Tyler-voiced by Ironside-in the allegorical Michel Lemire and Michael Coldewey film, HEAVY METAL 2000 (1999), a CGI enhanced hand-animation film which tried but failed to keep alive the dream of hand-animation, and which came across as a fusion of 'Neverwhere' and 'Taarna' from HEAVY METAL: THE MOVIE. Ang Lee also implicitly roasted Lucas and the latest STAR WARS film in his allegorical, hung fu and Ozian themed film, CROUCHING TIGER, HIDDEN DRAGON (2000).\nFor in the sight of Chow Yun Fat's implicitly Great Oz and Lucas linked Chinese Master Wudan fighter, Li Mu Bai, failing to succeed with Michelle Yeoh's fellow Wudan fighter, Yu Shu Lien, a Glinda and Leia linked woman in his past, or Zhang Ziyi's 'indomitable sword goddess', Jen-whose named evoked the plucky Gelfling, Jen, in THE DARK CRYSTAL-an implicitly Dorothy and Portman linked younger woman in the film's present and one in the insidious control of Cheng Pei-Pei's implicitly Wicked Witch of the West linked Jade Fox, Lee reminded us that Lucas had failed to succeed with STAR WARS EPISODE VI: RETURN OF THE JEDI in 1983 and STAR WARS EPISODE I: THE PHANTOM MENACE in 1999. Indeed, the Green Destiny sword that Li Mu Bai carried evoked not just the Emerald City, confirming his status as a symbolic Great Oz in this Ozian themed film. For the sword also evoked the Springing green lightsaber that the Le linked Skyrocker showed up with in STAR WARS EPISODE VI: RETURN OF THE JEDI, and the Springing green lightsaber that the young, na\u00efve, green and Lucas linked Jedi Knight, Obi Wan Kenobi, used in STAR WARS EPISODE I: THE PHANTOM MENACE, confirming the link of the aging and weary Wudan fighter, Li Mu Bai-as bald as Luthor and THX 1138-to the equally aging and weary ex-Jedi Master, Lord Stinkious.\nIncidentally, this was a most timely appearance of the Ozian themed film, given that CROUCHING TIGER, HIDDEN DRAGON was released in the 100th anniversary year of The Wonderful Wizard of Oz. And it was not the only allegorical Lee film that addressed Lord Stinkious and STAR WARS EPISODE I: THE PHANTOM MENACE in 2000. For Lee's long lost twin brother and NYU film school classmate Spike Lee also returned to the Temple Theatre that year with the allegorical and Lord Stinkious thrashing film, BAMBOOZLED (2000), apparently convinced that the big eared and goofy Jar Jar was a racist stereotype rather than a bit of Palpaberg mockery, and that STAR WARS EPISODE I: THE PHANTOM MENACE was just a Twentieth Century Pox.\nHowever, not everyone was anti-Stinkious. For throughout the allegorical Michael Bay film, PEARL HARBOUR (2000), the sight of Ben Affleck's USAAF fighter pilot Rafe McCawley returning from the dead after being believed to have died fighting in the Battle of Britain and going on to play a pivotal role in the aerial ldefense of Pearl Harbour and on the Doolittle Raid on Tokyo reminded us that Stinkious came back from the ashes of STAR WARS EPISODE VI: RETURN OF THE JEDI to play a new part in the dread allegorical Zone Wars with his Tragic Trilogy. However, this implied support for Lord Stinkious did not last, as Lea Poole implicitly blasted him and his ultra-commercial STAR WARS EPISODE I: THE PHANTOM MENACE in her allegorical film, LOST AND DELIRIOUS (2001). Indeed, the closing Olympic fencing duel which saw Piper Perabo's perhaps Pool linked Pauline 'Paulie' Oster defend the purity of Jessica Pare's possibly Portman linked Victoria 'Tori' Muller by impaling the wealthy and implicitly Stinkious linked Jake Hollander\u2013played by the fittingly named Luke Kirby\u2013Pool implied that she was rising to the defense of the purity of film art with a symbolic light saber duel and impaling Stinkious in righteous revenge for leading film astray with the first uber-commercial installment of the Tragic Trilogy, in the end.\nIn the sight of the implicitly Stinkious linked Bilbo Baggins-played by Holm-being persuaded by Wizard, Gandalf the Grey-played by Ian McKellen-to give up the One Ring of Power to his nephew, Frodo-played by Elijah Wood-and leave Bag End in the Hobbiton section of the Shire for Rivendell, Sir Peter Jackson implied his hope that Lord Stinkious would pass on the torch to a younger and keener generation of film artists and retire, at last, in his astoundingly good, moving, memorable and twilit allegorical film, THE FELLOWSHIP OF THE RING (2001), inspired by the equally allegorical J.R.R. Tolkien novel, The Fellowship of the Ring (1954). Indeed, THE FELLOWSHIP OF THE RING was so exultantly good that audiences forgot all about the STAR WARS Tragic Trilogy and the Matrix Trilogy and now thought only about THE LORD OF THE RINGS trilogy. Perhaps explaining why audiences were also lukewarm to Palpaberg's haunted, surreal and Lynch addressing allegorical film, A.I.\nSignificantly, the animated, ominous and twilit boy fishing from a waxing crescent logo for Dreamworks SKG that preceded this film again linked everything that followed to the TZ disaster. And what followed was a film that constantly alluded to the surreal dreaming without dreaming film art of Lynch, reminding us that E.T. looked vaguely like the mutant child of Lynch's allegorical cinematic nightmare, ERASERHEAD (1977). A pensive and Kevin Kline evoking father named Henry Swinton-played by Sam Robards\u2013underlined A.I.'s link to ERASERHEAD, recalling Jack Nance's equally pensive father Henry in ERASERHEAD. This tribute to Lynch was also underlined by the film's Angelo Badalamenti evoking soundtrack by Williams-a soundtrack that also alluded to Philip Glass and to the soundtrack of 2001: A SPACE ODYSSEY-reminding us that Badalamenti had worked with Lynch since BLUE VELVET. The appearance of Hurt as the Eldon Tyrell evoking Mecha creator Professor Alan Hobby reaffirmed the film's implicit interest in Lynch. For Hurt had been linked to Lynch since playing the Lynch linked Dr. Edward Jessup in Ken Russell's allegorical and Lynch addressing film, ALTERED STATES (1980).\nThis interest in Lynch was reaffirmed by the weird and Lynch linked android 'Mecha' boy named David-played by Haley J. Osment-who was banished in the wilderness by his surrogate and Cates evoking human mother, Monica-played by Frances O'Connor-after two unsettling and potentially dangerous incidents. Indeed, wanting to get rid of the weird Mecha kid, David's Cameron linked human brother Martin-played by Jake Thomas\u2013tricked him into trying to cut off a lock of Monica's hair while she was asleep, cutting her in the process. Later David accidentally almost drowned Martin at his birthday party when he unknowingly dragged him underwater in the family swimming pool, not realizing that a human could not survive long without air. Significantly, a crowd of boy birthday revellers watched David almost drown Martin, recalling the crowd of revellers that watched the TZ disaster on that fateful night. Thus, with the abandoned David linked to Lynch, Palpaberg implied that David's Pinocchio\/Replicant quest to find the Blue Fairy and be transformed from violence linked machine to violence free human in order to embraced by Monica again symbolized the quest of Lynch to not be dismissed as an equally weird film artist and be truly embraced by audiences.\nSignificantly, A.I. ended with David failing to succeed in his quest to become a violence free real boy, evoking the similar failure of Batty and his fellow Replicants to get more life and humanity in BLADE RUNNER, implying that Palpaberg felt that Lynch was too idiosyncratic to ever be embraced by huge audiences. A.I. also joined THE LOST WORLD in exhibiting more signs that Emperor Palpaberg was having misgivings about the growing use of CGI in film. Indeed, the film implied that Palpaberg now wondered whether CGI was indeed the 'Mecca' and solution for film or whether CGI had made film as sterile, nonhuman, blank, uncomprehending and 'Mecha' as David. In fact, with its obsession with violence and its effects on children, the film clearly wondered if the ability to kill people safely on film with realistic CGI was really the solution, and if violence in film should simply be avoided entirely. This uneasy undercurrent was summed up in the Flesh Fair sequence, where a new group of symbolic film thugs dismembered, decapitated and burned abandoned and captured Mechas with carefree abandon for the pleasure of baying mobs of spectators, in a way that again recalled the crowd of revellers that watched the TZ disaster.\nSignificantly, the crowd rose up to free David and Jude Law's sex Mecha, Gigolo Joe, from destruction by acid in a way that did not happen for Chen and Le in reality, underlining that Palpaberg was still desperately trying to redirect the reality of the TZ disaster. A Lynch addressing redirection of reality that made it appropriate that Lynch returned that year and replied to EYES WIDE SHUT and SUSAN'S PLAN by implicitly insisting that film art was alive and well in his own surreal and allegorical film, MULHOLLAND DRIVE (2001). For his part, having a mysterious stranger named Mr. Tuttle-his surname evoking William Tuttle, make-up wiz from the original Twilight Zone television series, as in BRAZIL-finally disappear after stubbornly haunting a remote country house implied that Don DeLillo was wryly hoping that the dread allegorical Zone Wars would also disappear in the new millennium in his allegorical novel, The Body Artist (2001). A sentiment that Lord Stinkious did not share, as he returned to the Wars full Force throttle in his Ozian themed and allegorical contribution to the twentieth anniversary of the TZ disaster, STAR WARS EPISODE II: ATTACK OF THE CLONES.\nGiven that the title of the film evoked the allegorical and Burtt directed, CHAPTER 12: ATTACK OF THE HAWKMEN adventure of the YOUNG SHERLOCK JONES adventures, Lucas reaffirmed that he continued to mull over Spielberg, INDIANA JONES AND THE TEMPLE OF DOOM and the TZ disaster in his new film as he had done in STAR WARS EPISODE I: THE PHANTOM MENACE and the YOUNG SHERLOCK JONES telefilms. The fact that STAR WARS EPISODE II: ATTACK OF THE CLONES began with a deadly explosion of a CGI spaceship that almost killed Portman's new Senator Padme Amidala when she returned to Coruscant from taboo Naboo for Galactic Senate duties also immediately implied that Lord Stinkious was still brooding unhappily over the equally explosive TZ disaster. Lord Stinkious then re-introduced us to McGregor's Tin Man linked Omahan Kenobi and introduced us to the Scarecrow linked Ani Skywalker, now on a Journey of Self Discovery as a Padawan apprentice of Kenobi-and played by Hayden Christensen, a fellow Ontario born and raised Canadian like Cameron, increasing the likelihood that young Skywalker was linked to Cameron-who were assigned to act as security for Senator Amidala after the attempt on her life.\nSignificantly, Lord Stinkious also quickly introduced us to Morrison's Jango Fett and Leeanna Walsman's Zam Wesell-her surname evoking 'weasel' as much as 'we sell'-a deadly pair of assassins out to kill Senator Amidala implicitly linked to Ang Lee and Luc Besson by way of Jade Fox of CROUCHING TIGER, HIDDEN DRAGON and Nakita of LA FEMME NAKITA. Intriguingly, they also evoked Rathe and his sister Dribb in YOUNG SHERLOCK HOLMES, while the name of Jango evoked the character with the jangling Keys played by Peter Coyote in E.T. THE EXTRATERRESTRIAL, and Targo in CHAPTER 17: MASKS OF EVIL of the YOUNG SHERLOCK JONES adventures, implying that the two were trying to kill Senator Amidala on the orders of Chancellor Palpatine. Not very well, as the second attempt to kill her with a pair of presumably poisonous and centipede-like CGI bugs also failed, thwarted by Skywalker. After reassuring himself that Amidala was fine, Kenobi leapt out of her bedroom window in a towering Coruscant skyscraper and caught a ride on the robotic device that had delivered the two bugs, evoking Bobster's psychedelically induced suicidal leap from his apartment at the beginning of YOUNG SHERLOCK HOLMES and the dismembered mannequin tossed out of a window of Delta House at the beginning of ANIMAL HOUSE.\nObi Wan's ride on the robotic assassination drone and Ani's pursuit in a Yellow Brick Speeder after La Zam Wesell then took them both into frantic Coruscant air traffic that evoked similar air traffic in the New York of the futures in the 'Harry Canyon' episode of HEAVY METAL: THE MOVIE and THE FIFTH ELEMENT, reaffirming La Zam Wesell's link to Besson. Indeed, Wesell's status as a changeling reaffirmed her implicit link to Besson, reminding us that the CGI enhancement of THE FIFTH ELEMENT was a startling and massive change in direction from CGI free film art for Besson. Kenobi and Skywalker caught Wesellout in a ground level neo-Club Obi Wan that evoked Taffy's bar in BLADE RUNNER and the Tech Noir club where Sarah Connor was first attacked by the Terminator in T1, reiterating that the film was obsessed with the 1982-84 years and Cameron. However, before she could reveal who she worked for, La Zam Wesell was killed by a poison dart from Fett that evoked those used to deadly effect by Jade Fox in CROUCHING TIGER, HIDDEN DRAGON. This allusion to Jade Fox reaffirmed 'Ango Fett's implicit link to Ang Lee, and also evoked the hallucinogenic darts of Dribb, reiterating the film's links to YOUNG SHERLOCK HOLMES. But not before the surname of Wesell prepared viewers for the sight of a human male clone CGI army that had been secretly sold to and created for the Jedi Council without their knowledge, a mass produced and lookalike CGI human army that implied the worry of Stinkious that CGI enhancement was slowly but surely stripping film art of its humanity and originality. Ironically, nothing in the film conveyed this implicit worry more than the fact that the puppet form of Yoda had been eerily replaced by a CGI Yoda-voiced again by Oz.\nThis clone CGI army was tracked down by Obi Wan on the planet Kamino when he tried to find out who hired La Zam Wesell. This detective effort linked young Sherlock Kenobi to young Sherlock Jones in a way that reaffirmed the link of STAR WARS EPISODE II: ATTACK OF THE CLONES to YOUNG SHERLOCK HOLMES-and that reaffirmed that Kenobi was the Nishi alter ego of Lord Stinkious in the Tragic Trilogy as Jones had been in the YOUNG SHERLOCK JONES adventures. Indeed, Kenobi was given the information that allowed him to track down Fett on Kamino by Ron Falk's old, chubby and avuncular Dexter Jettster, a DJ friend of his that ran an intergalactic Mel's Diner on Coruscant whose name evoked Corbin Bernsen's suave and smooth talking announcer Dexter Morris, one of the six murder victims of THE RADIOLAND MURDERS. With its red and silver interior colour scheme, Dex's Diner evoked the red and silver colour scheme of the Tech Noir night club in THE TERMINATOR, linking the diner and its insights to Cameron-indeed, Cameron could be seen and heard in the name of the planet Kamino. This Fifties diner linked Kenobi to AMERICAN GRAFFITI, implying that he was indeed the alter ego of Lord Stinkious, and implying that Stinkious had also been an intrepid, clue following and murder solving Nishi in friend's clothing since the TZ disaster. Indeed, the help Jettster gave Kenobi led the Jedi via hyperspace facilitating Stargate beyond the Rishi Maze to Kamino, openly evoking the character of Nishi in THE BAD SLEEP WELL in an implied confirmation that Lord Stinkious had been a twilit fact finding and mystery solving investigator all along.\n'Rishi' was also a Sanskrit word for 'sage', linking the film to INDIANA JONES AND THE TEMPLE OF DOOM, and evoking the illusory maya of CHAPTER 15: DAREDEVILS OF THE DESERT of the YOUNG SHERLOCK JONES adventures. The planet Kamino itself evoked a murderous character called Mr. Canino in the allegorical Raymond Chandler novel, The Big Sleep (1939)-and the allegorical Howard Hawks directed film, THE BIG SLEEP (1946)-confirming the detective path of young Sherlock Kenobi. Significantly, the Chandler novel and the Hawks film were both set in Spielberg's stomping grounds of L.A.-and both were big influences on BLADE RUNNER-underlining that Kenobi was on the Wolf's path indeed in STAR WARS EPISODE II: ATTACK OF THE CLONES. Significantly, while young Sherlock Kenobi followed the clues to Kamino, Ani accompanied Amidala back to taboo Naboo to act as her new head of security in the latest split in a Lord Stinkious narrative. From here disturbing nightmares of a possible future led Ani to soon return to Tatooine to find his mother Shmi, disturbing nightmares that anticipated a precognitive vision obsessed film to come from Palpaberg later in 2002. Ani's attempt to find Shmi also linked him to Smee and HOOK again, reiterating Ani's links to Palpaberg.\nWhile Ani tracked down Shmi, young Sherlock Kenobi followed the clues beyond the Rishi Maze to the CGI planet of Kamino and the tall, stately and Chinese like citizen cloners of Kamino. The CGI army of human clones of Fett-which evoked the CGI Gunkin army of STAR WARS EPISODE I: THE PHANTOM MENACE-built by the cloners of Kamino reaffirmed their link to China, reminding us of the Chinese love of creating cheap copycat knockoffs of the goods of other nations. Indeed, the fact that a mere Taiwanese director made CROUCHING TIGER, HIDDEN DRAGON incensed China so much, they had Zhang Yimou top it with an entire twilit, hung fu and allegorical trilogy in the form of HERO (2002), HOUSE OF FLYING DAGGERS (2004) and CURSE OF THE GOLDEN FLOWER (2006). Meeting Fett on Kamino led to a bitter battle between Good and Evil Tin Man. Fett overcame Kenobi, fled Kamino, and led the trailing Kenobi to another CGI planet called Geonosis, a name that evoked Los Angeles even more than Kamino. Of course, the name of Geonosis also evoked the brave new CGI world of Genesis planet in STAR TREK II: THE WRATH OF KHAN even more, confirming the film's implicit interest in the twilit and disastrous events of 1982 and in the development of the brave new world of CGI enhanced film art.\nAnd in BATTLESTAR GALACTICA, as the red planet evoked a similar red planet in the allegorical Daniel Haller directed telefilm, 'War of the Gods' (1979), from the first season of that series. Not surprisingly, more links to Palpaberg awaited Kenobi on Geonosis. Indeed, here young Sherlock Kenobi discovered that Gunray, Haako and their fellow blockbuster loot lusting Neimoidians were back, this time with fully spherical spaceships that evoked the Universal Studios logo and anticipated the Death Moon, and were building a new CGI combot army with the help of conniving financiers. The plot was led by Lee's sinister Jedi traitor, Count Dooku, who resembled Landis. Indeed, the name of Dooku reminded us of the duplicitous Duke brothers in TRADING PLACES, affirming that the Count was possibly linked to Landis. However, as the hyperactive and dimunitive insect-like beings who lived on Geonosis that Dooku was secretly plotting with looked like a cross between E.T. and a gremlin and were as well armed and as fond of combat as the Commando Elite dolls of SMALL SOLDIERS, there was also a possibility that he was linked to Dante. The fact that Lee had appeared as the quintessential mad scientist, Dr. Catheter, in GREMLINS 2: THE NEW BATCH supported the possibility that Dooku actually symbolized Dante. Time would tell\u2026\nThe allusion to films like JURASSIC PARK and THE LOST WORLD also confirmed that Lord Stinkious was becoming more worried about Palpaberg given the insidious and twilit revelations in his later film art. This worry was underlined by the fact that Anakin began to fall prey to McDiarmid's Chancellor Palpatine and the Dark Side in STAR WARS EPISODE II: ATTACK OF THE CLONES, a fall that overwhelmed the light hearted Comedy narrative of Artoo and Threepio and his stirring Romance with Senator Amidala, and turned his Journey of Self Discovery into a Journey of Dark Descent. This Dark Descent was affirmed when he returned to Tatooine to rescue his mother from a village of Tusken Kid Monsters in a scene straight out of THE SEARCHERS, returning the Western narrative to the Tragic Trilogy. For Ani zoomed across the Monument valley-like desert landscape of Tatooine on a BMX speeder bike like Darth Mull did in STAR WARS EPISODE I: THE PHANTOM MENACE, linking him to the dead Sith apprentice. Unable to save his dying mother, Anakin furiously mowed down the village of Tuskens with his blood red rotorsaber, evoking the Terminator in a way that brought Stinkious closer to implicitly affirming whether Skywalker symbolized Cameron or Palpaberg. Significantly, while this was happening, Kenobi was discovering that the pesky Neimoidians had returned and were constructing a new combot army on Geonosis with Dooku and other financial interests. This linked Ani's twilit slaughter of the Tusken Kid monsters with murderous new CGI action figures, confirming that Lord Stinkious ironically continued to worry about beastly blockbuster filmmercials as he had done in STAR WARS EPISODE I: THE PHANTOM MENACE, despite the massive movie tie-in merchandise campaigns that accompanied both films.\nCuriously, after failing to rescue his mother, Ani and Amidala tried to make up for it by rescuing young Sherlock Kenobi from imprisonment on Geonosis, a lunar world which evoked the Genesis planet before it was hit with a bomb that caused that brave new world of CGI enhanced film art to be born. Unfortunately, Ani and Amidala were soon captured like Kenobi by Fett and the flying and dimunitive denizens of Geonosis. The new twilit trio of one female and two males were then sent to their doom in front of thousands of jeering and raucous gremlin-like Geonosians in an Arena of Doom that evoked a similar arena in HEAVY METAL 2000, and the cinema and its packed audience of equally jeering and raucous gremlins who watched SNOW WHITE AND THE SEVEN DWARFS at the end of GREMLINS. Here the new twilit trio barely escaped being killed by another twilit trio of vicious blockbuster CGI beasts that reaffirmed that Lord Stinkious was ironically worried about CGI enhanced blockbuster beasts being inflicted on unsuspecting audience. Significantly, one was a wolf-like creature, one a red bull-like creature, and the third a praying mantis-like creature. These creatures evoked the werewolf of AN AMERICAN WEREWOLF IN LONDON, the red and bull headed Lord of Darkness of LEGEND, and the bugs of STARSHIP TROOPERS, implying that Lucas was lashing out at Landis, Sir Scott and Verhoeven in the scene.\nAround the time of the gladiator battle, Lord Stinkious was seen in a floating pod trio in one of the Galactic Senate scenes applauding approvingly as McDermid's Chancellor Palpatine was given emergency dictatorial powers to embrace the lookalike CGI human clone army to deal with Dooku and his schlockbuster separatists, underlining that Stinkious felt film art was losing its humanity due to CGI and that he felt responsible for the insidious emergence of the CGI enhanced schlockbuster beast with the CGI ILM supplied for JURASSIC PARK and THE LOST WORLD. Curiously, it was the new CGI Yoda who brought the clone cavalry to Geonosis just in time to save the Jedi at the end of the film, leading to the dismaying sight of the Good Jedi Master commanding eerily Impious CGI clone troopers, reiterating again how guilty Lord Stinkious felt about his own role in the resurgence of beastly and CGI enhanced schlockbuster madness since 1993. Indeed, seeing Yoda with the Impious clones reminded us that Qui Gonn Jinn was linked to Kid monsters throughout STAR WARS EPISODE I: THE PHANTOM MENACE, setting us up for the destruction of the Jedi in the nightmarish trimax of the Tragic Trilogy. Dooku's victory in the closing light saber duels with Ani, Kenobi, and Yoda also underlined the unease Lucas felt about CGI enhanced film art, and prepared us again for the destruction of the Jedi by the Sith in the truly Tragic trimax of the Trilogy.\nAfter partly rescuing themselves and partly being rescued by Windu and the rest of the J.D. Jedi, an epic CGI battle that pitted human and mostly non-CGI alien Jedi and CGI human clone troopers against CGI combots and bipedal and Terminator-like destroyer droids (termbots) broke out in the Temple Arena of Doom. This battle and the larger and chaotic battle that continued outside the Temple Arena evoked the smaller battle between organic CGI Gunkins and machine CGI combots and desbots at the end of STAR WARS EPISODE I: THE PHANTOM MENACE, linking the two films and reiterating that Lord Stinkious was even more worried that beastly schlockbuster CGI enhanced film art-particularly that linked to Emperor Palpaberg-was destroying the humanity of film art. Indeed, the film ended with Star Destroyer anticipating CGI spaceships taking off for battle from Coruscant filled with Imp anticipating CGI human clone soldiers under the pleased gaze of Supreme Chancellor Palpatine, implicitly affirming that Lucas was worried that Palpaberg's commitment to the CGI schlockbuster beast was destroying film art as surely as a commitment to the blockbuster beast did decades earlier with the arrival of JAWS. Palpatine's growing control of young Skywalker, increased inability to control his Dark Side and his marriage to Padme, in the end, also implied that Stinkious was worried that the increase in size and cost of the Zonebusting film art of Cameron was defeating his Light Side and turning Cameron into just as much as a Sith Lord as Emperor Palpaberg. Making it appropriate that Cameron returned that year when he teamed up as a co-producer with writer\/director Steven Soderbergh to commemorate the twentieth anniversary of the TZ disaster with the Landis supporting allegorical film, SOLARIS (2002).\nIndeed, Cameron and Soderbergh reached out to John and Deborah Landis in the implicit form of Chris and Rhea Kelvin-played by George Clooney and Natascha McElhone, respectively-and may have released them from their twilit nightmare or trapped them in it forever at the end of the 2010 evoking, memory haunted and ambiguous film. Indeed, the many scenes in which the Kelvins stared into the camera and out at the audience reminded us that the only New Hollywood era film artist famous for having characters break the fourth wall was Landis, supporting the implication that the Landises were being addressed in SOLARIS. The brave new world of CGI enhanced film art was definitely being addressed in the film, symbolized by the sentient and mischievous CGI world of Solaris, floating in cyberspace like a massive digital brain or a CGI planet Arous. A world so advanced it could read the minds of Terran astronauts studying it from their orbiting space station and haunt them with loved ones created from their memories of Earth. The memories that haunted Kelvin of his dead wife, Rhea, evoked the dreams that haunted Kessler in AN AMERICAN WEREWOLF IN LONDON and Reese's dreams of the blockbuster machine ruled future in THE TERMINATOR, affirming Kelvin's implicit link to Landis. As with planet Geonosis in STAR WARS EPISODE II: ATTACK OF THE CLONES, SOLARIS was a fittingly moody meditation on the brave new world of CGI film art, as 2002 was also the twentieth anniversary of the arrival of the brave new world of CGI enhanced film art in the transformed lunar form of Genesis planet in STAR TREK II: THE WRATH OF KHAN. A moody and mystery filled reflection on the brave new world of CGI enhanced film art that returned when with the release of Emperor Palpaberg's own prominent Dick pic, MINORITY REPORT, a strange, troubled and twilit twentieth anniversary meditation on the TZ disaster that was haunted by memories of the future.\nSignificantly, an even more eerie, ominous and implicitly TZ disaster linked Twentieth Century Fox and animated Dreamworks SKG logo preceded MINORITY REPORT. It was a curious grey green and watery tinge that made the logos resemble faded photographs seen under the water of the Santa Clarita River at Indian Dunes Park, the site of the TZ disaster. Fittingly enough, for MINORITY REPORT was a strange and implicit rumination on the TZ disaster that implied that Spielberg knew that a possible fatal disaster was about to occur on the TZ set and did nothing to stop it. This implied that Palpaberg had in fact lied to Stinkious about the TZ disaster, and that the reputation of Lord Stinkious had indeed suffered due to a stab in the back from a Stefan in Wolf's clothing, just as Lord Stinkious had feared since CHAPTER 17: MASKS OF EVIL of the YOUNG SHERLOCK JONES adventures. In fact, that MINORITY REPORT was obsessed with the twilit and disastrous events of 1982 was underlined before the film began. Indeed, the film was based on a rambling and barely coherent allegorical short story by PDK called 'The Minority Report' (1956). This reminded us that BLADE RUNNER was inspired by PDK's allegorical novel, Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep, immediately linking the film to 1982. Basing the film on a short story of PDK also reminded us that he died in March of 1982, several months before the release of BLADE RUNNER and the TZ disaster.\nSignificantly, the first full image that came into focus of this faded film was of a man and a woman who resembled LUH 3417 and THX 1138 kissing passionately, evoking the strangely androgynous love scenes of THX 1138, immediately linking the film to Lord Stinkious. Indeed, we quickly discovered that these first images were of Department of Pre-Crime murder Case #1108, openly linking the opening scenes to THX 1138. The black shaven head of Steve Harris' Jad reaffirmed the link to THX 1138, as he evoked SRT. This immediately established a THX 1138 cadence and style to MINORITY REPORT that was maintained for the rest of the film. This open link to THX 1138 also linked Cruise's bitter and brooding bachelor and Department of Pre-Crime Captain John Anderton-an actual name from the PKD story that neatly evoked Captain John Miller of SAVING PRIVATE RYAN, John 'Neo' Anderson of THE MATRIX, John Connor of T1 and T2, John Valentine of TWILIGHT ZONE: THE MOVIE and John Landis-to Lord Stinkious, and implied that his THX 1138 evoking escape from society and his colleagues in the Department of Pre-Crime that followed was linked to the equally desperate attempt by Lord Stinkious to prove his innocence of twilit wrongdoing since agreeing to work with Kennedy, Marshall and Palpaberg on INDIANA JONES AND THE TEMPLE OF DOOM since 1982.\nThe dreamy and faded images of the two THX 1138 lovers were soon intercut with the image of a man in a suit-Ayre Gross' Howard Marks-surprising them and killing them with a pair of scissors in a dreamy and murderous vision also evoked the dreamy and surreal scissor murder of Meg Mundy's Wicked Witch of the East linked Doris Spenser that began EYES OF LAURA MARS. However, unlike the opening murderous vision of EYES OF LAURA MARS, this vision was fittingly choppy, cut up and erratic, as if someone was editing it or remembering it rather than experiencing it in one single linear shot. This link to EYES OF LAURA MARS was reaffirmed when the images faded into the right eye of Agatha-who evoked LUH 3417 in another allusion to THX 1138, and was played by Samantha Morton-one of a truly twilit trio of one woman and two men who were precognitive crime dreamers, for the opening murderous vision of EYES OF LAURA MARS had faded into the left eye of Mars. This eye shot also evoked the eye shots that began FUTURE WORLD, BLADE RUNNER, STRANGE DAYS, TWELVE MONKEYS, and SAVING PRIVATE RYAN-as well as an emphasis on eyes in 'Eyes' and NEVER SAY NEVER AGAIN. The eye of Agatha also immediately linked MINORITY REPORT to the theme of sight as in these previous films. Indeed, the eye of Agatha prepared us for her soon articulating the film's obsession with sight when she said '\u2026can you see?' to a startled Anderton. Palpaberg confirmed this theme by also quickly alluding to 'Eyes' soon after the allusions to THX 1138 in Agatha's precognitive visions at the beginning of the film, a link to 'Eyes' that confirmed the film's implicit interest in Serling and the Twilight Zone.\nThe allusion to 'Eyes' involved a child's spinning merry-go-round, spun by a boy in a park close to a man-Joel Gretsch' Donald Dubin-already seen as the male lover in the Pre-Crime murder vision. This man waited in the park across the street from the house where Marks prepared to leave his wife Sarah-played by Ashley Crow-and head off to work in the film's future Washington, DC. The spinning park ride was a significant sight indeed, for the Kubrick linked Resnick had talked to his mob connection while seated on a child's merry-go-round in a public park playground and gloomily told him about finally being able to pay off his mob debts after being paid for an operation that would relieve him of his eyes. This allusion to Resnick's eye operation also prepared us for Anderton's own eye operation later in the film. Significantly, this link to 'Eyes' was joined with allusions to A.I., EYES OF LAURA MARS, PSYCHO, STRANGE DAYS and the Dunne murder, for the man waiting near the merry-go-round across the street from the Marks house entered the house and began making love to Sarah soon after her husband and son had left for the day as we had already seen in the earlier precognitive visions.\nUnfortunately for Donald and Sarah, Marks did return as in the precog vision and like ex-boyfriend John Sweeney returned to haunt Dunne, and attempted to stab the two adulterers to death with scissors in the stabbing attack already seen in the precognitive visions. This stabbing attack evoked the shower scene of PSYCHO, the visionary stabbings of EYES OF LAURA MARS, Scissorhands' fears of cutting people in EDWARD SCISSORHANDS, and the sight of David inadvertently stabbing the face of his sleeping surrogate human mother Monica with scissors while trying to cut off a lock of her hair in A.I. As Sarah also looked like Gwyneth Paltrow, the implication was that Palpaberg was also about to unleash some frustration on Paltrow with his vaguely Palpaberg resembling Dark Side Marks for playing Lady Viola in the allegorical John Madden film, SHAKESPEARE IN LOVE (1998), which took the Best Picture Oscar from the Emperor and SAVING PRIVATE RYAN like GANDHI had in 1982. Indeed, Marks caught the two adulterers when he returned to the house to retrieve his glasses, reminding us that Emperor Palpaberg wore glasses. Luckily for Donald and Sarah, his Light Side in the form of Captain Anderton and his fellow Department of Pre-Crime officers acted on some precognitive visions of the double murders before Marks committed the murders.\nIndeed, the Department of Pre-Crime pinpointed the location of the Marks house with their trio of precognitive visionaries presciently dreaming of possible future murders like Smith in THE DEAD ZONE. Significantly, the twilit trio did so in a sensory deprivation tank straight out of ALTERED STATES that also recalled the almost deadly birthday swimming pool of A.I. and the Santa Clarita River that was located in a twilit, hive-like and cavernous room called the Temple and linked to a projection screen that showed their visions-creating a literal Temple Theatre. The names of the three precogs also affirmed that the film was a sly fi cadenced murder mystery, for Agatha, Arthur and Dashiell-the latter two played by the fittingly surnamed Michael and Matthew Dickman, respectively-evoked murder mystery writers Agatha Christie, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle and Dashiell Hammett, respectively. Significantly, Anderton aided the three precogs, shifting and arranging their prescient visions of the crime and its location on a large, horizontal neo-Esper Holosphere screen that evoked the new digital editing systems for film art in a room located just above the Temple Theatre while wearing curious black gloves that covered the thumb and first two fingers of each hand. These three appendaged gloves evoked the three appendaged hands of Yoda, E.T., the gremlins and the raptors, and prepared us for the three appendaged gremlin Martian invaders to come-as well as linked Anderton to the three floating and dreaming precogs.\nSignificantly, Anderton was supervised in his arrangement of the visionary facts of the case by the Barrymore resembling Dr. Katherine James and Chief Justice Frank Pollard-played by Ann Ryerson and George Wallace, respectively-evoking Kathleen Kennedy and Frank Marshall and linking foreknowledge of possible murder to foreknowledge of possible trouble on the Landis set of TWILIGHT ZONE: THE MOVIE in the weeks before the TZ disaster. After figuring out where the Marks house was, Anderton and his fellow Pre-Crime officers then descended on the house in twilit jet helicopters that evoked the flying police spinners of BLADE RUNNER as well as the TZ disaster, bursting into the house and successfully stopping Marks before he murdered the two adulterous lovebirds like the similarly invasive police officers of BRAZIL. And so Case (THX) 1108 was successfully nipped in the bud by the Department of Pre-Crime. Thus, by immediately linking MINORITY REPORT to THX 1138 and Anderton to Lord Stinkious, Emperor Palpaberg implied that he was addressing the attempt by Stinkious to discover the truth about the TZ disaster. Given that Anderton not only wanted to find out the truth about possible murders but use CGI linked technology to prevent them, Palpaberg also implied that he was addressing the hope of Lord Stinkious that CGI enhanced film art would prevent further film set fatalities. Given that he also alluded to 'Eyes', EYES OF LAURS MARS, ALTERED STATES, BLADE RUNNER, THE DEAD ZONE, the Dunne murder and the SAVING PRIVATE RYAN Best Picture Oscar loss, Emperor Palpaberg also implied that he was brooding over the good years before the TZ disaster in the film, and the haunted and troubled years after the TZ disaster.\nIndeed, the allusions to BLADE RUNNER and the Dunne murder underlined that far from being set in the Washington, DC, of the near future, MINORITY REPORT was set in the nightmarish past of 1982 like all of his post-TZ disaster film art. The fact that Cruise made his feature film debut in 1982 in Paul Brickman's smash allegorical comedy, RISKY BUSINESS, reaffirmed that the film was obsessed with the twilit and disastrous year of 1982. We also slowly discovered over the course of this murderous and mysterious film that Anderton was an embittered divorcee bachelor and troubled neroin as his marriage had broken up six years before the start of the film due to the kidnapping and murder of his son, Sean-played in older and younger versions by Tyler Jones and Dominic Kay, respectively-a son he keenly missed. Of course, Anderton's status as a lonely and embittered divorcee bachelor reminded us that Stinkious was an equally lonely and embittered divorcee bachelor at the time of the release of the film, linking Anderton to Stinkious. The missing and presumed murdered Sean also evoked the child victims of the TZ disaster-and Sean Young's Rachael in BLADE RUNNER, reiterating the film's interest in the twilit and disastrous events of the summer of 1982-while Anderton's neroin addiction evoked Nero and his sad lament for his lost Faith in STRANGE DAYS, reiterating Anderton's link to Lord Stinkious. The revelation that Dr. Iris Hineman-played by Lois Smith-was one of the key founders of the Department of Pre-Crime also reiterated the link of Anderton to Stinkious, reminding us of Iris in THXI DRIVER and Iris in STRANGE DAYS. Anderton's link to the Stinkious linked Caul in THE CONVERSATION reaffirmed his status as a symbolic Stinkious.\nUnfortunately, Spielberg also provided viewers of MINORITY REPORT with the strongest implication yet that he had had foreknowledge of the decision to illegally use two children on the Landis set that fateful night. For the caretaker of the Temple Theatre at the Department of Pre-Crime was a young man named Wally, played by Daniel London. While the name and the character appeared in the original PKD story, his name evoked Wally, the Lord Stinkious linked character in 1941. This time, however, instead of being a character implicitly linked to but not resembling Palpaberg, Wally looked like a beardless young Palpaberg circa 1982, openly linking him to Palpaberg and reminding us of the beardless young Palpaberg sniper in SAVING PRIVATE RYAN. As caretaker of the precogs in the Department of Pre-Crime's Temple Theatre, Wally also watched all of the prescient visions projected by the twilit trio of precogs, ominously linking Palpaberg to watching murders again. Wally was also the only other person in the Department of Pre-Crime to watch the prescient vision that linked Anderton to the murder of Leo Crow. However, instead of arresting Anderton, Wally allowed Anderton to flee the Department of Pre-Crime and begin the Logan's run that would ultimately prove his innocence. Wally did this after saying, '\u2026I like you, Chief. You've always been nice to me. I'll give you two minutes before I give the alarm'. Thus, and for the first time ever, Emperor Palpaberg openly implied that he had not only had foreknowledge of the TZ disaster in this twentieth anniversary film, but had been on the Landis set and done nothing to stop it.\nSignificantly, a trio of mysterious murders of two men and one women stumbled upon by young Sherlock Anderton reaffirmed the twilit interests of MINORITY REPORT, starting with the unsolved and forgotten drowning of a woman by a masked assailant. This drowning was shown to Anderton by the haunted and troubled Agatha on the ceiling film screen that projected the prescient visions of the precogs in the Temple Theatre after the Marks case was stopped, soon after she asked him '\u2026can you see'? This drowning vision led to the shock prescient projection that Anderton would also commit the murder of a man named Leo F. Crow in Case #1109, a name that evoked the Cowardly Lion and the Scarecrow in a way that reminded us that this was another Ozian themed film. Of course, Crow's name also evoked THE CROW, a film that led to the film set death of Lee, reiterating that MINORITY REPORT was obsessed with film set fatalities. As anyone seen in a prescient precog vision committing murder was insanely found immediately guilty of murder despite the fact that the murder had not actually happened in this twilit future, Anderton was forced by this shock vision to run from his Pre-Crime colleagues-their Boba Fett evoking jet packs making them the film's symbolic flying monkeys-for the rest of the film in an epic run that evoked the run of Michael York's Logan from his fellow Sandmen in the allegorical Anderson film, LOGAN'S RUN (1976), as well as the run of THX 1138 from the robocops in THX 1138 and Nero from the police in STRANGE DAYS. This led to the articulation of the film's second main theme, '\u2026everybody runs', an all too ironically fitting theme that evoked Kennedy, Marshall and Palpaberg's run from the TZ disaster since 1982. Indeed, it gave Lord Stinkious a chance to allegorically feel what it was like to go on the run when you have been accused of murder.\nThe Pre-Crime investigation of Anderton as he went on the run with Agatha-a run with a powerful psionic female that evoked McGee's run with his powerful pyrokinetic daughter Charlie in Firestarter and FIRESTARTER and the run of Dallas with the equally powerful Leeloo in THE FIFTH ELEMENT-also led von Sydow's implicitly Kershner linked Director of Pre-Crime, Lamar Burgess-his first name Lamar evoking THE EYES OF LAURA MARS and the appearance of von Sydow reminding us that he played S.P.E.C.T.R.E. head Blofeld in NEVER SAY NEVER AGAIN to affirm the implicit link of Burgess to Kershner-to murder the lead Federal Department of Justice investigator, Danny Witwer-played by Colin Farrell. Somehow fittingly, given the film's similarity to FIRESTARTER, Witwer resembled an actor who played a minor role as a government agent in FIRESTARTER, a character whose name was Don Jules in Firestarter. Witwer also resembled and acted like Landis, but significantly was not linked to any murderous wrongdoing in this twentieth anniversary meditation on the TZ disaster. Indeed, Witwer was on the side of the Good guys in the film, implying that Palpaberg had changed his mind about Landis and now embraced him as a brother film artist again. However, despite being on the side of Good, Witwer was murdered by Burgess due to the fact that he had discovered that Agatha's repeated projection of a mysterious murder of a woman by drowning on the Temple Theatre screen-a repeated projection that evoked the repeated projection of Princess Leia by Artoo to Luke in the garage of the Lars homestead on Tatooine in another link of Anderton to Lord Stinkious-was not another possible preventable murder or an echo of an already prevented murder-evoking the echo that Andy McGee's J.D. Jedi like mental domination powers could cause in the minds of weak victims in Firestarter, creating psychotic ricochets in their heads that could kill them-but a real and unsolved murder that evoked the haunting drowning of DEMENTIA 13 that was hidden in the Pre-Crime system and that Burgess did not want to be solved by the Department of Pre-Crime. For the drowning victim was Agatha's mother Anne Lively-played by Jessic Harper-a neroin addict who had to be killed by Burgess so that he could steal her neroin altered and precognitive daughter away from her and use her in his Department of Pre-Crime.\nSignificantly, this murder and abduction recalled the murder of Mrs. Victoria 'Vicki' Tomlinson-McGee-played by Heather Locklear in FIRESTARTER-and the abduction of her pyrokinetic daughter, Charlie, for use in battling communist evildoers by Cap Hollister and the rest of his twisted and scheming colleagues in the secretive U.S. government agency simply called the Shop in Firestarter and FIRESTARTER. The character name Anne Lively and the presence of von Sydow reiterated the film's link to the early Eighties, reminding us that little Anne Freeling was trapped in the family television in POLTERGEIST, and that von Sydow played Emperor Ming in FLASH GORDON, King Odric in CONAN THE BARBARIAN, Brewmeister Smith in STRANGE BREW, and Dr. Liet-Kynes in DUNE from 1982-84. The appearance of von Sydow also confirmed the film's link to Lucas, reminding us that he had played Sigmund Freud in Chapter 3 of the YOUNG SHERLOCK JONES adventures. Of course, his new character Lamar Burgess reminded us that Anthony Burgess had written the allegorical novel, A Clockwork Orange (1962), which inspired the film by Kubrick-which was alluded to in A.I., reiterating the link of MINORITY REPORT to A.I.\nCuriously, Anderton was able to prove himself innocent of the murder of Crow, solve the murders of Lively and Witwer, and indisputably prove that Director Burgess had murdered Lively and Witwer and caused the murder of Crow so as to remove all opposition to the successful establishment of the Department of Pre-Crime, in the end. Iroincially, this allowed Palpaberg to exorcise the bleak and cynical ending of EYES WIDE SHUT, which cynically implied that Palpaberg's coverup of the deaths of Chen, Le and Morrow in the TZ disaster was so effective nothing would ever come of their deaths. Anderton accomplished this task with the help of a new pair of eyes, eyes that reiterated the film's emphasis on eyes and seeing and given him in an illegal eye replacement operation performed by Peter Stormare's Dr. Solomon Eddy-linked to Cronenberg again as was Stormare's character Dieter Stark in THE LOST WORLD-that allowed him to fool the eye scanners and get back into the Department of Pre-Crime, liberate Agatha and continue on his run. Anderton was also helped by the Kubrick linked wildman, Rufus Riley-played by Jason Antoon.\nCuriously, the Director was so overwhelmed with grief by his murderous actions and his attempt to pin the murders of Crow and Witwer on Anderton that he committed suicide when confronted by Anderton in the end with the evidence that proved his misdeeds. Significantly, Anderton faced down the Director in the end with a shaven head like THX 1138 and watched Burgess shoot himself in front of him like Mars watched Neville shoot himself at the end of EYES OF LAURA MARS, openly affirming Anderton's link to Lord Stinkious and the link of Burgess to Kershner. The fact that Anderton, once the keen devotee of the Department of Pre-Crime, then led the way in shutting down the Department also implied the hope of Palpaberg that Stinkious would finally give up on his obsession with Zonebusting CGI enhanced film art, and return to effects free reality-a curious implication, given Palpaberg's own embrace of CGI. A return to the real world seen in the liberation of the precog trio from their twilit tank-making MINORITY REPORT another post-1982 Palpaberg film that wistfully freed Chen, Le and Morrow from the Twilight Zone, in the end-to a life in a secluded cabin in a verdant Eden. A secluded cabin in a verdant Eden that Brosnan's implicitly Stinkious linked Bond also wound up in after vanquishing the implicitly Ang Lee linked Zao-played by Rick Yune-and the implicitly Andy and Larry Wachowski evoking pair of Vlad and Gustav-played by Michael Gorevoy and Tobey Stephens, respectively-at the end of the allegorical Lee Tamahori adventure, DIE ANOTHER DAY (2002).\nCuriously, and no doubt due to the fact that the twilit and allegorical Sir Jackson film, THE TWO TOWERS (2002), swept all comers that year, everyone ignored the ominous implications of MINORITY REPORT and STAR WARS EPISODE II: ATTACK OF THE CLONES. For his part, Stuart Baird and the indomitable crew of the storied USS Enterprise agreed with unimpressed audiences. For they took on and took out Lord Stinkious and the new Tragic Trilogy with their allegorical film, STAR TREK NEMESIS (2002), their implicit intent underlined by all of the allusions to STAR WARS EPISODE I: THE PHANTOM MENACE in the film. And literally took out, for the USS Enterprise took out the ship of the bald and Lord Stinkious, Luthor and THX 1138 linked Shinzon-played by Tom Hardy-in a spectacular and deliberate head on collision at the end of the film that saw STAR TREK symbolically trash STAR WARS.\nAs for Zhang Yimou, with the implicitly Landis linked King of the kingdom of Qin-played by Chen Dao Ming-allowed to escape assassination by a twilit trio of assassins and bring harmony to all of China, in the end, Yimou implicitly reached out to Landis, freed him from the ghostly grasp of Chen, Le and Morrow and urged him to do his best to bring harmony to film art, film artists and the Temple Theatre in the twentieth anniversary year of the TZ disaster in the twilit and allegorical film, HERO (2002). For her part, Coppola implied that she was gently roasting Lord Stinkious and his inability to connect with audiences and the new world of CGI enhanced film art in the form of Murray's equally befuddled, lost and implicitly Great Oz linked Bob Harris in her allegorical and Ozian themed film, LOST IN TRANSLATION (2003). Twilit meditations that continued in the allegorical and Ozian themed hung fu Wachowski Sisters films, THE MATRIX RELOADED (2003) and THE MATRIX REVOLUTIONS (2003) in the Spring and Winter of 2003.\nThese two films continued the battle against the beastly CGI enhanced blockbuster machine world in an attempt to finally free viewers from CGI enhanced pacification, the TZ disaster, the Twilight Zone and the dread Zone Wars. Indeed, the last remnants of free humanity desperately fought off a massive schlockbuster CGI machine assault on their hidden underground fortress city of Zion-a Fremen Sietch evoking city that was truly in Oz-in the two films, underlining how serious the Wachowski Siblings were about defeating CGI pacification and the TZ disaster, breaking free from the Zone, ending the Zone Wars. Huge burrowing drill bits accompanied the alienated and biomechanical CGI machine assault on Zion. These burrowing behemoths reminded us that helicopters instantly turned into huge, out of control and whirling drill bits that plummeted straight down at the speed they were flying when their stabilizing rear rotors were knocked out, as in the case of the TZ disaster.\nAs this was not bad enough for the beleaguered remnants of humanity, Weaving's Agent Smith was back from the dead and stronger than ever. This implicitly affirmed his link to Morrow, reminding us that the minor player in the film art world ironically had far greater status and power after his death in the allegorical art of the dread Zone Wars. Luckily for the freedom loving citizens of Zion, Reeves' Neo again defeated the all pervading Agent Smith-who had grown so powerful he had taken over the Matrix and even threatened the blockbuster machines-in the final battle at the SCANNERS evoking end of THE MATRIX REVOLUTIONS. Of course, this pentultimate victory recalled Neo's first SCANNERS evoking triumph over Agent Smith at the end of THE MATRIX. Significantly, the final battle was so draining that, unlike Maud'dib and the Buddha, Neo also died in the end like Darko and Jesus, dying so that others would live free from the TZ disaster.\nHowever, despite his death, Neo's triumph over Smith impressed the machines so much that they ended the twilit invasion of Zion and began a hopeful truce between humans and blockbuster machines that implied that the Wachowski Siblings were just as hopeful about achieving a balance between humanity and CGI in their film art as Lord Stinkious implied he was in STAR WARS EPISODE I: THE PHANTOM MENACE. This harmonious truce cleansed the universe and allowed the Matrix Trilogy to end in broad daylight, underlining how eager the Wachowski Siblings were to leave behind the twilit TZ disaster dominated era and truly begin a daylit new millennium of harmonious and uplifting CGI enhanced film art. However, the deafening silence that greeted THE MATRIX RELOADED and THE MATRIX REVOLUTIONS joined up with the silence that greeted STAR WARS EPISODE II: ATTACK OF THE CLONES and MINORITY REPORT to confirm that 911 and the war with Al Queda was now more important than the dread Zone Wars as far as audiences were concerned. And that audiences were more concerned with THE LORD OF THE RINGS trilogy, which concluded that year on an epic note with the twilit and allegorical Sir Jackson film, THE RETURN OF THE KING (2003).\nSignificantly, THE RETURN OF THE KING saw no balance achieved between man and CGI machine as in THE MATRIX REVOLUTIONS, but noticeably ended with a complete and eucatastrophic triumph of organic Dwarves, Elves, Hobbits, Humans and Wizards over CGI gollums, oliphaunts, Ringwraiths on dragon mounts, trolls and Dark Lords. In fact, the film was so eucatastrophic that THE RETURN OF THE KING became the first and only fantastic film to sweep the following year's august Academy Awards and exultantly raise high no less than eleven Oscars. The dread Zone Wars were indeed over, Kid, and we were all free from the Twilight Zone at last! Not that Lord Stinkious and Emperor Palpaberg shared this sentiment, for the duel of the mates continued unabated with one more film from Lord Stinkious and four more films from Emperor Palpaberg by the end of 2005.\nIn fact, THE MATRIX RELOADED prepared viewers for the next attack by Palpaberg, for a flock of black clad and resurrected Smiths that attacked Neo in the film evoked the attacking crows of THE BIRDS and Palpaberg's love of Hitchcock. A fitting reminder, for Palpaberg flapped down from the skies and returned to the Temple Theatres again in 2003 to commemorate the twentieth anniversary of the release of TWILIGHT ZONE: THE MOVIE with his curious allegorical film, CATCH ME IF YOU CAN (2003), inspired by Frank Abagnale jr.'s Catch Me If You Can (1979).\nCuriously, with the eerie and TZ disaster evoking animated logo for Dreamworks SKG again preceding the film, the initial implication was that CATCH ME IF YOU CAN took an allegorical look at someone close to or responding to the TZ disaster. And since the film revolved around a tragicomic, clean cut, well dressed, suave, persuasive, devious and womanizing young criminal mastermind and high school dropout named Frank W. Abagnale jr.-played by Di Caprio-who evoked the Needle, the implication was that he symbolized Landis, also a clean cut and well dressed high school dropout. However, unlike Landis, Abagnale jr. also posed variously as a passenger airplane pilot, a doctor and a lawyer when he went on the run, and romanced the ladies along the way. These characteristics reminded us that Cameron also did not graduate from high school as a teen, was a keen undersea explorer as well as a writer\/producer\/director, and also liked to romance the ladies, with five wives along the way to prove the point, linking Junior to Cameron. The fact that a teenage waiter who resembled Cameron-played by Jeremy Howard-pointed out to Hanks' pursuing and Palpaberg linked FBI agent Carl Hanratty that Abagnale jr.'s first alias, Barry Allen, was the real name of the Flash, the DC Comics superhero, reiterated Junior's link to Cameron.\nThat another of young Frank's aliases, Frank Conners, evoked world saviour John Connor of the Terminator films also linked Abagnale jr. to Cameron. The fact that Abagnale jr. was played by Di Caprio, who was inextricably linked to Cameron at the time due to his role as Dawson in TITANIC, implicitly reaffirmed Junior's link to Cameron. Thus, with Abagnale jr. and Hanratty burying their differences at the end of the film and working with each other at the FBI to capture fraud artists for the betterment of the USA after Hanratty finally tracked down and captured Abagnale jr. in France after had he eluded the police and the FBI for years, Emperor Palpaberg implied his hope that he would top the success of TITANIC with another big film given that no one had noticed his ominous admission of wrongdoing in MINORITY REPORT, allowing Cameron and himself to put aside their differences over the TZ disaster and work together for the betterment of film art. A desire to break from the past and start anew that returned in Palpaberg's next twilit and allegorical film, THE TERMINAL (2004).\nSignificantly, the film began again with the creepy and TZ disaster linked animated boy fishing on a waxing crescent moon logo for Dreamworks SKG, immediately linking the film to the TZ disaster. A fitting link, for Palpaberg likened his haunted, hunted and terminal trapped in limbo-like post-TZ disaster existence to being akin to being a stateless Eastern European visitor to New York trapped in the La Guardia Airport by a civil war back home and bureaucratic red tape in the U.S. throughout the film. Indeed, the Eastern European background of Hanks' Palpaberg linked Viktor Navorski reminded us that Palpaberg's grandparents came from Eastern Europe. Of course, the name Viktor Navorski evoked Victor Morrow and had the same syllabe cadence as Steven Spielberg, implicitly confirming Navorski's status as the alter ego of Palpaberg-implicitly reaffirmed by the fact that Navorski was played by Hanks-and the film's link to the TZ disaster. Navorski's embattled homeland of Krakozhia also reminded us of Krakow, Poland, a city featured in SCHINDLER'S LIST.\nIt was also important that the real airport set was built to resemble the labyrinthine underworld of THX 1138, complete with escalators, banal muzak and listless crowds of travellers buying more at all the convenient and prominently displayed brand name airport outlets. And that the airport's chome dome Director, Frank Dixon-played by writer\/director\/actor Stanley Tucci-resembled THX 1138 and spied on Navorski in a television screen filled control room that resembled the control room of THX 1138 and allowed Director Dixon to, ironically-but fittingly-ponder the terminal existence of Navorski in a computer terminal. For this interest in Lord Stinkious implied that Palpaberg used the film to strike back at the roasting Lord Stinkious was giving him in the Tragic Trilogy. Of course, with a name like Frank, Palpaberg implied that he was also struggling to break free from the grasp of Director Marshall in the film, as he had also implied in CATCH ME IF YOU CAN. Indeed, Field Commisioner Frank was yet another Frank in the post-TZ disaster films of Palpaberg, stretching back to Sheriff Frank in GREMLINS.\nSignificantly, Frank also confirmed that Navorski's unplanned hiatus in the La Guardia Terminal was linked to the TZ disaster, and hence a metaphor for Palpaberg's own twilit and terminal post-1982 existence. For he told Navorski right at the beginning of the film that the fighting back in Krakozhia that annulled his passport and caused the bureaucratic red tape that prevented Navorski from leaving the terminal and heading into New York had trapped the baffled Eastern European in the Twilight Zone. Indeed, Frank mentioned the 'Nightmare at 30,000 (sic) Feet' episode as an example of the Twilight Zone, directly linking the film to the Miller episode of TWILIGHT ZONE: THE MOVE and the TZ disaster. Thus, by finally resolving the bureaucratic impasse and at last being legally able to leave his terminal existence for New York, Palpaberg implied his hope that the lack of outrage over his open admission of wrongdoing in MINORITY REPORT had freed him at last from the TZ disaster and from a fear of flying as a director.\nBy sending Navorski into a local jazz club to complete his dead father's autographed coaster collection with the autograph of saxophonist Benny Golson, Palpaberg also expressed the hope that he was now free to be an independent film artist again. But still a haunted and sobered film artist, for Golson and his bandmates launched into a tune called 'Killer Joe' for Navorski, a tune that reminded us of Killer John. An allusion that continued in the strange twilit and allegorical Gibson film, THE PASSION OF THE CHRIST (2004), who unfortunately linked Jim Caviezel's betrayed and abandoned Jesus to the equally betrayed and abandoned Landis throughout the film in perhaps the worst analogy of the dread Zone Wars. No doubt contributing to the wrath of Lord Stinkious, who soon exploded in righteous and full Force fury in the last film of the Tragic Trilogy. Indeed, a distraught and furious Stinkious returned to the Temple Theatre in 2005 to reply to the infuriatingly ominous implications of MINORITY REPORT with an anguished and allegorical trimax whose twisted title-STAR WARS EPISODE III: REVENGE OF THE SITH-summed up his conviction that he had indeed been betrayed by a Wolf in friend's clothing.\nFor the dark links to Palpaberg began immediately, with Christensen's Skywalker recklessly and dangerously blasting and scraping a crawling plague of ship destroying CGI gremlin Buzz droids off the space fighter of McEwen's Kenobi with his laser cannons and Yellow Brick Spacefighter wings in the impressive and massive CGI space battle above Coruscant that began the film and linked STAR WAR EPISODE III: RETURN OF THE SITH to the epic battles at the end of STAR WARS EPISODE I: THE PHANTOM MENACE and STAR WARS EPISODE II: ATTACK OF THE CLONES. Significantly, these CGI Buzz droids evoked the spiders of ARACHNOPHOBIA as well as the gremlins, reiterating the film's interest in Palpaberg. After saving Kenobi, Kenobi and Skywalker landed in and fought their way through a combot and terbot filled ship to rescue McDiarmid's Chancellor Palpatine from the sickly clutches of the implicitly Lasseter linked cyborg, General Grievous-voiced by Michael Wood. A lightsaber duel with Lee's Count Dooku broke out, a saber fight that also evoked the end of STAR WARS EPISODE II: ATTACK OF THE CLONES and the lightsaber duel between Kenobi, Skywalker, Yoda and Dooku.\nSoon Ani had the head of Dooku stuck between the 'X' created by blue and red crossed rotor sabers. Significantly, at the insidious and sibilant urging of Palpatine, being held hostage by Dooku, Ani callously sliced off the head of Dooku with the rotorsabers. Of course, this decapitation of Dooku evoked the decapitation of Morrow, implying that Dooku was indeed linked to Landis. This shocking decapitation also implied that Lord Stinkious was horrified by Palpaberg's implications of wrongdoing in MINORITY REPORT. Indeed, the decapitation implied that Lord Stinkious was now convinced that Palpaberg was indeed a Wolf in sheep's clothing who had had some part in the TZ disaster. The decapitation also caused Ani to unknowingly take a big step towards the Dark Side, implying that Stinkious believed that Cameron had also unknowingly taken a big step towards the Dark Side by creating bigger and bigger film art after the success of THE TERMINATOR. Significantly, Ani's unknowing embrace of the Dark Side soon became knowing when he saved Palpatine from Jackson's Windu-allowing Palpatine, openly transformed into Lord Sidious by the intensity of the battle with Windu, to kill Windu in the process-and then bowed down to his hideously transformed new Master, Lord Sidious, as his new Apprentice, Darth Vader. An open transformation into Darth Vader that implicitly affirmed that Stinkious felt that by trying to beat such films as EMPIRE OF THE SUN, HOOK, JURASSIC PARK and SCHINDLER'S LIST with bigger and bigger Zonebusters like THE ABYSS, TRUE LIES and TITANIC, Cameron had embraced the same schlockbuster philosophy as Palpaberg, causing him to lose his J.D. Jedi film artist integrity and to turn into a puppet Dark Lord of the Shit Sith Hits himself.\nSlowly young Sherlock Kenobi learned the terrifying truth that Ani had now embarked on a Journey of Dark Descent and was the new Anikkostein of the Emperor. Over the course of the film Kenobi also discovered that Ani was actually Skyfaller, the remorseless murderer who cut down the rest of the Jedi-including the Jedi younglings, evoking the child victims of TZ disaster-at the Jedi Temple with his blue rotorsaber-a colour linked to good in the Classic Trilogy, now, sadly, linked to insidious Evil. The horrifying and depressing sequence evoked the equally remorseless Terminator gunning down the police officers of an L.A. police station in THE TERMINATOR, implicitly affirming the link of Skyfaller to Cameron. Skyfaller's Journey of Dark Descent had now swept away the Journey of Self Discover, killed off any Romance between Skyfaller and Amidala, and completely overshadowed any Comedy or Western narratives in the film. Thus, it was inevitable that Kenobi face down and ultimately defeat Skyfaller in the end in the pentultimate saber duel of the Tragic Trilogy.\nSignificantly, this final Duel of the Mates occurred on a fiery and hellish planet that evoked the fiery and hellish Temple of Doom in INDIANA JONES AND THE TEMPLE OF DOOM and the fiery and hellish planet seen at the end of THE BLACK HOLE. This flaming hell implied that Lord Stinkious now bitterly, despondently and sadly agreed with the prediction of Disney in 1979 that an embrace of effects filled films had led Palpaberg and himself straight to hell. The name of this hell planet was also significant, for Mustafar evoked General Mustafa Kamal and the secret intrigue in Istanbul that led Jones to lose Molly to his 'friend' Stefan, the backstabbing German Wolf, in CHAPTER 17: MASKS OF EVIL of the YOUNG SHERLOCK JONES adventures. Indeed, these two links to INDIANA JONES AND THE TEMPLE OF DOOM and the YOUNG SHERLOCK JONES adventures strongly reaffirmed that, after watching EMPIRE OF THE SUN, HOOK, SAVING PRIVATE RYAN and MINORITY REPORT, a furious Lord Stinkious was convinced that Palpaberg was a backstabbing evildoer who lied to Stinkious about his foreknowledge of the use of Chen and Le on the Landis set of TWILIGHT ZONE: THE MOVIE so as to continue to advance his career with INDIANA JONES AND THE TEMPLE OF DOOM, an association with Stefan that cost Lord Stinkious his wife and his reputation. In fact, Skyfaller's final and violent argument with a pregnant Amidala that ended their relationship occurred on Mustafar just before the showdown between Anakin and Kenobi began, openly linking the final battle to the end of a marital relationship. Thus, Lord Stinkious defended the honour of Marcia as much as his own in this last battle with Skyfaller.\nSignificantly, we had been prepared for this final duel and defeat of Skyfaller years earlier, for the sight of Kenobi rising to the defence of Amidala after catching Skyfaller throttling her with a Force choke reminded us that Frankenstein had badly beaten Machine Gun Joe Viterbo after catching him choking his beautiful blonde navigator Annie to death in DEATH RACE 2000. Kenobi's defense of Amidala also evoked Bickle's defense of Iris in TAXI DRIVER. This linked STAR WARS EPISODE III: RETURN OF THE SITH to 1975-76 and those relatively happy days after the success of AMERICAN GRAFFITI when George and Marcia Lucas were still married and George was beginning work on a new film called STAR WARS. The link to DEATH RACE 2000 also reminded us that Skyfaller's dimunitive Ani was a nod to Annie and DEATH RACE 2000. In addition, the link to DEATH RACE 2000 evoked the Death pod race of STAR WARS EPISODE I: THE PHANTOM MENACE, and the Kenobi versus Mull saber battle that closed that film. Kenobi's long and running battle with, and defeat of the four armed General Grievous and his four whirling rotorsabers earlier in the despairing film-a four armed figure that reminded us that Maximilian and Reinhardt merged into an equally four armed Manbot at the end of THE BLACK HOLE-also recalled the final saber battles of STAR WARS EPISODE II: ATTACK OF THE CLONES and STAR WARS EPISODE I: THE PHANTOM MENACE, preparing us again for this pentultimate showdown between lightsaber and nightsaber.\nIronically, but fittingly, after the longest and most fierce saber duel to end all of the STAR WARS films, Kenobi cut down Skyfaller with his deadly rotorsaber like a human helicopter, in the end. The sight reminded us that Kenobi had also sliced Maul neatly in half at the end of STAR WARS EPISODE I: THE PHANTOM MENACE, bringing the Tragic Trilogy full circle. This rotoring strike left Skyfaller a dismembered torso that dragged itself forward like the dismembered torso of the Terminator at the end of T1, reaffirming the implicit link of Skyfaller to Cameron. And so Lord Stinkious defeated box office king Cameron and his TITANIC Zonebuster beast. And so Lord Stinkious underlined what a difficult undertaking this had been for him with the mutual blue of their sabers, for this was the first and only time in any STAR WARS film that Jedi and Sith fought to the death with lightsabers of the same colour. And so Lucas Kenobi lamented this, sadly saying to the Skyfalling Cameron that he was supposed to '\u2026bring balance to the Force, not leave it in darkness\u2026you were my brother, Anakin. I loved you!' after he cut down the young Sith Lord. And so this sad and moving triumph allowed the film and the Tragic Trilogy to end on a trimatically eucatastrophic, sobering and vaguely healthy note, with a new Sith apprentice and potential Dark Lord defeated, Amidala and her Stinkious evoking Jedi twins saved, the insidious Dark Side of New Hollywood thwarted, and the Jedi and the Light Side victorious, in the end.\nHowever, Darth Sidious rescued and revived the dismembered torso of Skyfaller, transforming him by a twisted robotomy into the full Anikkostein Manbot of Darth Vader. Significantly, this dark transformation was supervised by a 2-1B medical droid, evoking STAR WARS EPISODE V: THE EMPIRE STRIKES BACK in a way that underlined that the Classic Trilogy of Light and hope had been transformed by the TZ disaster into a truly Tragic Trilogy of Darkness and despair for Lord Stinkious. Significantly, Vader's mask was turned into the camera and so encompassed the audience as it fell down on his scarred face at the end of the film, implying that Stinkious believed that audience support of Cameron since 1984 had made audiences just as responsible for the CGI enhanced schlockbuster beasts taking over the Temple Theatre as Darth Cameron. Indeed, Lord Stinkious clearly believed that Cameron and audiences who had turned against him since 1982-83 were all one Darth Cameron. And just as responsible for the death of his film art, as Amidala died giving birth to Jedi twins Leia and Luke shortly before Ani's transformation into Vader-twins that laid out the possibility of redemption for Stinkious in the future. A pessimistic optimism also seen when Palpaberg fused E.T., THE EXTRATERRESTRIAL with GREMLINS for an invasion of extraterrestrial CGI Martian gremlins that reiterated what a nightmare E.T., THE EXTRATERRESTRIAL had become for him after the TZ disaster in his twilit and Kennedy co-produced allegorical film, WAR OF THE WORLDS (2005), based on the The War of the Worlds.\nSignificantly, the eerie and TZ disaster linked animated logo for Dreamworks SKG again preceded the film, immediately linking the film to the twilit and disastrous year of 1982. A link to the twilit and disastrous year of 1982 openly affirmed by one of the main characters of the film, Rachel Ferrier-played by Dakota Fanning-as she evoked Rachael of BLADE RUNNER. Of course, the choice of Cruise to play Rachel's father, embittered New York divorcee and dock worker Ray Ferrier, also reaffirmed the film's implicit interest in 1982 via his role in RISKY BUSINESS. Significantly, while implicitly linked to Lord Stinkious in MINORITY REPORT, Cruise's character was more likely linked to Emperor Palpaberg in WAR OF THE WORLDS. For Rachel and Robbie-played by Justine Chatwin-his two children from a previous marriage, evoked Palpaberg's children from his first marriage to Irving. His omnipresent Yankees baseball cap not only evoked Palpaberg's fondness for baseball caps, but the equally omnipresent Yankees cap of the Palpaberg linked Short Round in INDIANA JONES AND THE TEMPLE OF DOOM, reaffirming his implicit link to Palpaberg. The fact that Rachel also evoked Lou Jean Poplin in THE SUGARLAND EXPRESS also reiterated the link of Ferrier to Palpaberg.\nThus, Ferrier's desperate bid to save Rachel and Robbie from the Martian invaders when they soon arrived-driving them away from the invaders and watching over them like Officer Slide drove and watched over Clovis and Lou Jean Poplin throughout THE SUGARLAND EXPRESS-suggested that Palpaberg was trying to save his own children and audiences from something or someone. Given that the Martian invaders arrived in New York in a CGI enhanced lightning filled storm, the implication was that Palpaberg was striving to save his children and audiences from the next CGI enhanced Cameron film, as the light storm evoked Cameron's Lightstorm Entertainment film production company. The black and bio-mechanical appearance of the Martians and their tripod invasion craft and the long heads that the Martians and their craft had reiterated this link to Cameron, evoking the bio-mechanical and long headed aliens of ALIENS. A murderous fight that Ferrier had with Tim Robbin's Cameron evoking Harlan Olgivy-his name evoking a plagiarism lawsuit Cameron lost to literary artist Harlan Ellison over the similarity of THE TERMINATOR to one of his stories-at one point also reiterated the film's interest in Cameron. Clearly, the hoped for reconciliation with Cameron implied in CATCH ME IF YOU CAN had disappeared, and Palpaberg was now very worried about a new Cameron film.\nIt was also noticeable that the Martian invaders were linked to CGI throughout the film as in MARS ATTACKS!, reiterating the cautionary message Palpaberg had been ironically making about CGI since he used CGI to such successful and blockbuster effect in JURASSIC PARK. Indeed, one of the first New Yorkers killed by a Martian tripod death ray at the beginning of the film was recording their arrival on a digicam. When he was vaporized and dropped his camera in the road the camera kept filming the invaders, allowing audiences to watch the Martian tripod continue to attack behind fleeing New Yorkers in the digicam's screen, openly affirming the link of the pitiless Martian invaders and their black, biomechanical and film camera like tripods to CGI enhanced film art. This ironically underlined that Palpaberg was now even more worried than he was in JURASSIC PARK about the use of CGI in filmmaking-particularly, no doubt, in the film art of Cameron-and that he wondered if CGI had been the right response to the TZ disaster. Indeed, the sight of the tripods vaporizing people implied that Palpaberg was now very afraid that CGI enhanced film art was wiping out the humanity of film. A CGI invasion linked to Cameron that definitely needed a desperate uprising from humanity to stop it, a desperate battle seen throughout the film in the battle of humanity in general and Rachel, Ray and Robbie Ferrier in particular against the Martian invaders. A battle that Emperor Palpaberg hoped to win, given that the Martian invaders were beaten by humanity and its bacteria at the end of the film. Desperate and twilit battles that returned when Palpaberg completed his Stinkious Trilogy that had begun with MINORITY REPORT with his second allegorical film that year, MUNICH (2005), as serious and mostly CGI free as his second films of 1993 and 1997, and co-produced again with Kennedy and based on the George Jonas book, Vengeance (1984).\nSignificantly, the creepy and TZ disaster linked animated Dreamworks SKG logo that preceded the film also immediately linked MUNICH and its shadowy world of terrorism, secret and state sponsored anti-terrorist hit teams, intrigue and duplicity to the TZ disaster. Just as significantly, the television control room at the 1972 Munich Olympics and the coverage of the Palestinian terrorists-who evoked the terrorists in TRUE LIES, linking them to Cameron-who attacked the Israeli contingent and killed eleven Israeli athletes that was seen on the various television screens at the beginning of the film evoked the television monitor filled control room in THX 1138 and in the control room of THE TERMINAL, linking the film to Lord Stinkious, as the allusions to THX 1138 had done at the beginning of MINORITY REPORT. This link was reaffirmed by the Israeli meeting presided over by Lynn Cohen's Prime Minister Golda Meir that led to her decision to strike back at the leaders of the Black September terrorist group that planned the Munich attack. For Prime Minister Meir and her advisors evoked Yoda and the rest of the Jedi Council on Coruscant in the Tragic Trilogy. As such, it was no surprise that Eric Bana's Avner, the young, na\u00efve and idealistic Israeli Mossad agent haunted by the Munich disaster who agreed to head the hit team that would go to Europe and hunt down and kill eleven Black September leaders-three of whom evoked Coppola sr., Ramis and Reitman-evoked a young and clean shaven Lord Stinkious haunted by the TZ disaster.\nIndeed, Avner evoked the equally secretive and increasingly paranoid Caul of THE CONVERSATION and Anderton of MINORITY REPORT throughout the film, and his young wife, Daphna-played by Ayelet Zurer-evoked Portman, affirming his link to Lord Stinkious. In addition, the crowded, dark, labyrinthine and mysterious streets of Athens, Beirut, London, Paris and Roma evoked the similar streets of Istanbul and Venice in CHAPTER 17: MASKS OF EVIL, reiterating the link of Avner to Lord Stinkious. The seven assassinations carried out by Avner and his all to human, fallible, quarrelsome and increasingly doubtful and guiltstricken hit team also evoked the six murders of Allied agents in Istanbul in CHAPTER 17: MASKS OF EVIL and the six murders that beset twilit new radio station WBN in THE RADIOLAND MURDERS, reaffirming the implicit link of Avner to Lord Stinkious. Thus, the implication was that the retaliatory murders committed by Avner and his four man hit team-Hanns Zischler's Hans evoking Hitchcock, Ciaran Hinds' Carl evoking Landis, Daniel Craig's Steve evoking Christopher Nolan, and Mathieu Kassovitz's Robert evoking Truffaut, respectively-after the Munich attack shattered the harmony of Israel in 1972 symbolized the film artist thrashing allegorical film and telefilm salvoes that Lord Stinkious had launched since the TZ disaster shattered the harmony of Hollywood in 1982-particularly the Tragic Trilogy, given the love and support the Portman evoking Daphna gave Avner throughout the film. Indeed, in many ways MUNICH was Emperor Palpaberg's most honest allegorical film, the one where he made implicitly clear more than in any other film that he and his fellow film artists were using their film art to constantly blast each other in a neverending dialogue that Coppola summed up in the title of his film, THE CONVERSATION. In fact, after Black September responded to their first hit with some attacks of their own, Carl told Avner over the phone '\u2026they're talking to us\u2026in a dialogue', openly acknowledging the embattled allegorical conversation.\nThus, given this implicitly open admission, it was appropriate that that Avner's contact and overseer at Mossad was Geoffrey Rush's Emperor Palpaberg linked Ephraim. For the presence of the Palpaberg and McDiarmid resembling Ephraim affirmed candid nature of the film. Seeing Ephraim and Avner together also reminded us that Lord Stinkious had been working with Emperor Palpaberg on twilit cinematic salvoes in the dread Zone Wars since INDIANA JONES AND THE TEMPLE OF DOOM. Significantly, the relationship between Avner and Ephraim was not only tense and duplicitous, it also evoked that between Darth Vader and the Emperor in the Classic Trilogy and in STAR WARS EPISODE III: REVENGE OF THE SITH. Indeed, not only did the bigger Avner carry out the violent orders of the smaller Ephraim like Vader did for the Emperor, Avner was almost an anagram of Vader-Vaner-making the implicit link clear. And while Avner broke free from the hit team, Ephraim and Israel and moved with his wife and daughter to the U.S. by the end of the film in a way that Vader never did, he was not able to erase the violence he had committed in the name of peace. Thus, Emperor Palpaberg did his implicit best to counteract the anti-Palpaberg message of the Tragic Trilogy and persuade audiences that Lord Stinkious was the violent and deadly Vader, not him, and underlined that point by having Ephraim staying out of the fray and Avner doing all of the shooting and supervising all of the bombings. An ironic implication, given that by so doing he linked himself to the insidious Emperor, confirming that he was, indeed, Emperor Palpaberg. A link to the insidious Emperor confirmed by Palpaberg's implied admissions in INDIANA JONES AND THE TEMPLE OF DOOM, EMPIRE OF THE SUN, HOOK and MINORITY REPORT that he had been on the Landis set the night of the TZ disaster but did nothing to prevent it from happening.\nThe dread allegorical Zone Wars continued after 2005, of course, the flames of war whipped into greater heights by the dire implications of the Tragic Trilogy and the retaliatory film art of Palpaberg. The refusal of Lord Stinkious to mention the TZ disaster, the audience outrage over the decision to work with Kennedy, Marshall and Palpaberg on INDIANA JONES AND THE TEMPLE OF DOOM and the film itself, or even the Great Divorce in 1983 in the official biography of Lord Stinkious, The Cinema of George Lucas (2005) by Marcus Hearn, published in conjunction with the release of STAR WARS EPISODE III: REVENGE OF THE SITH, did not help either. Some came to the aid of Lord Stinkious, like James McTeigue and the Wachowski Siblings in their allegorical and implicitly Stinkious addressing film, V FOR VENDETTA (2006).\nFor Weaving's haunted, haunting, spectral, elusive, mysterious and implicitly Stinkious linked V triumphed over the implicitly Palpaberg linked and dictatorial British High Chancellor Adam Sutler, the implicitly Kennedy linked Deila Surridge, the implicitly Marshall linked Dascombe and the implicitly Zemeckis linked Lewis Prothero-played by Hurt, Sinead Cusack, Ben Miles and Roger Allam, respectively-in their sympathetic film. Indeed, McTeigue and the Wachowski Siblings affirmed their implicit intent with Portman's shaven headed Evey Hammond, who evoked the implicitly Stinkious linked John Hammond in JURASSIC PARK and THE LOST WORLD, LUH 3417 in THX 1138 and Padme Amidala in the Tragic Trilogy.\nOthers roasted Lord Stinkious, with Burton ironically dumping the implicitly Stinkious linked Mr. Salt and his spoiled and Princess Leia evoking daughter, Veruca-played by James Fox and Julia Winter, respectively-down the garbage chute for failing to impress audiences yet again with the Tragic Trilogy in his allegorical and CGI enhanced remake, CHARLIE AND THE CHOCOLATE FACTORY (2005). Two years later, Burton also implicitly linked Depp's Sweeney Todd to Stinkious in the dark and allegorical film, SWEENEY TODD (2007), implying that Stinkious destroyed himself trying to defeat Cameron in the STAR WARS Tragic Trilogy as surely as Todd destroyed himself trying to kill Allan Rickman's insidious and implicitly Cameron linked Judge Turpin. While the funniest implicit roast of Stinkious probably occurred in the allegorical Ben Garant film, BALLS OF FURY (2007), which implicitly linked the fallen Lord to a child ping pong prodigy who tried to make a comeback as an out of shape adult, perhaps the most personal attack came from Coppola in her allegorical film, MARIE ANTOINETTE (2006), the second film in her Lord Stinkious trilogy, which implicitly linked Lord Stinkious to the psychologically impotent and ineffectual last French King, Louis XVI-played by Jason Schwartman.\nChristopher Nolan implicitly predicted that Cameron would triumph over Lord Stinkious and the STAR WARS Tragic Trilogy with his next Zonebusting film as surely as the implicitly Cameron linked Bruce 'Batman' Wayne triumphed over the implicitly Stinkious linked Ducard-played by Neeson-and his Jedi evoking League of Shadows at the end of the twilit and allegorical film, BATMAN BEGINS (2005). Perhaps the most original and quirky sympathetic response came from Julian Jarrold and company in their allegorical film, KINKY BOOTS (2006). Which, as it saw the implicitly Lucas linked Charlie Price-played by Joel Edgerton-dramatically improve the fortunes of his Northampton shoe factory when he switched from his tired and traditional shoe line to red, sexy and dangerous boots, implied the hope of Jarrold and company that Stinkious too could succeed again if he only dropped his tired old STAR WARS line and took up a more sexy and exciting line of film art. Indeed, the choice of Edgerton to play Price affirmed the implicit intent of KINKY BOOTS, for he had played the ridiculously and impossibly young Owen Lars in STAR WARS EPISODE II: ATTACK OF THE CLONES and STAR WARS EPISODE III: REVENGE OF THE SITH.\nRushdie was also implicitly roused from his twilit torpor by the Tragic Trilogy to address Lord Stinkious again in one of the greatest novels ever written, The Enchantress of Venice (2008), before bringing his Stinkious Trilogy, which had begun with Haroun and the Sea of Stories, full Force circle in his trimatic allegorical novel, Luka and the Fire of Life (2010), whose title openly evoked the Lucas linked Luca and Luke to affirm the implicit intent of the novel. The same year that Rushdie completed his Stinkious Trilogy, Alexandre O. Phillipe and company blasted him in their documentary, THE PEOPLE VS. GEORGE LUCAS (2010). As for Cameron, he fulfilled Nolan's confident prediction by implicitly roasting Lord Stinkious in the symbolic form of Stephen Lang's Colonel Miles Quaritch for the implicit roasting he received in the Tragic Trilogy, and Scorsese in the form of Giovanni Ribisi's Parker Selfridge for the implicit roasting he received from Scorsese in the allegorical film, THE AVIATOR (2004), when Cameron discarded insidious liquid metal for freedom loving and iconoclastic HEAVY METAL by fusing ALIENS, DUNE, the 'Neverwhere' and 'Taarna' episodes of HEAVY METAL: THE MOVIE, POCAHONTAS and SOLARIS with a generous dash of RAMBO: FIRST BLOOD PART TWO and the Matrix Trilogy in the allegorical four hundred million dollar Zonebuster, AVATAR (2009).\nIn response to AVATAR, CGI enhanced allegorical remakes of films from 1981-82 like the Louis Leterrier film, CLASH OF THE TITANS (2010), and the Joseph Kosinski film, TRON LEGACY (2011)-but, curiously, not a CGI enhanced remake of 20,000 LEAGUES UNDER THE SEA, which would be a perfect way to address the eagerly submarining Cameron-were released in a desperate attempt to reassure audiences that CGI enhancement had brought film art to a new level of humanity so advanced and so full healing circle that over were the dread Zone Wars. Indeed, Bigelow even implicitly declared the end of the dread Zone Wars, symbolized by the death of Osama Bin Laden, and the triumph of a new CGI enhanced film art era at the end of her allegorical film, ZERO DARK THIRTY (2012).\nAs for Lord Stinkious, he yet again terminated any sympathy for his cause created by the Tragic Trilogy by inexplicably working with Kennedy, Marshall and Palpaberg again on the dismal and instantly forgettable Emmerich and Christopher Nolan bashing allegorical film, INDIANA JONES AND THE KINGDOM OF THE CRYSTAL SKULL (2008). Lord Stinkious also teamed up with Anthony Hemingway on the allegorical film, RED TAILS (2012), to petulantly bash Francis and Sofia Coppola for working together to bash him in her allegorical film art, including SOMEWHERE (2009), the final film in her Stinkious Trilogy. However, perhaps the best final word on Lord Stinkious came from Howard in his thoughtful allegorical film, FROST\/NIXON (2008). For Howard linked Frank Langella's bitter, despondent and sad eyed ex-President, Richard M. Nixon, to the equally bitter, despondent and sad eyed Lord Stinkious throughout the film. Indeed, the fact that the film focussed on a Fourceful quartet of interviews that Nixon-played by Langella-gave to British television personality David Frost-played by Michael Sheen-in May of 1977-the last on May 26, 1977-affirmed the link to Lord Stinkious, reminding us that STAR WARS EPISODE IV: A NEW HOPE was released on May 25, 1977.\nSignificantly, this link transformed aspects of the cross-examination that the possibly Landis linked Frost gave Nixon in these famous interviews. For it implied that Nixon's haughty and angry insistence that '\u2026when the President (breaks the law), that means it's not illegal' when he defended the pardons he gave Colson, Erlichmann and Haldeman for their parts in the Watergate affair symbolized the haughty and angry insistence of Lord Stinkious that he too had done nothing wrong when he aided the coverup of TZ disaster wrongdoing on the part of Kennedy, Marshall and Palpaberg in 1982 as President of Lucasfilm Ltd. Thus, the vague apology that Frost finally got from a reluctant and evasive Nixon for his part in Watergate symbolized a vague apology at last from Lord Stinkious for his part in the TZ disaster coverup, in the end.\nAnd then it was all over, and Nixon was left as old and miserable and defeated and all alone at La Pacifica, his Skywalker Ranch evoking Sacramento area mansion, staring sadly and silently out into the Pacific Ocean in the gathering twilight, as old and miserable and defeated and lonely Lord Stinkious up at Skywalker Ranch, thinking of all of the might have beens. Thinking wistfully of the New Hollywood dream to transform the Temple Theatre with non-commercial film art, a dream that had been as long forgotten as the Paleolithic paintings-some of them studies of animals in film like motion-in the Temple Theatre evoking Chauvet cave in the allegorical Herzog film, CAVE OF FORGOTTEN DREAMS (2009).\nA knowing and prescient ending indeed, for four years after the release of FROST\/NIXON, it was all over for Lord Stinkious too when he resigned his position as well and sold the moisture farm to Disney in 2012, as he had been hinting that he wanted to do for years with all of the Disneyesque touches in the STAR WARS Special Edition Trilogy and the Tragic Trilogy. Curiously, it was an embarrassed exit stage left that had been hoped for the year before by Disney. For Bridges' Lucas linked Flynn and the Cameron linked Clu both disappeared when Flynn's son, Sam-played by Garrett Hedlund-unleashed the power of the light disc, thus implying that Disney had mastered the brave new world of CGI enhanced digifilm, at the end of TRON LEGACY.\nUnfortunately, before Lord Stinkious left in 2012, he also persuaded Kennedy to take over as head of Lucasfilm and lead it into its new union with the 'White Slavers' at Dis. This final bizarre and infuriating development enraged true fans one last time, furious that the Wicked Witch whose instrumental role in the illegal hiring of Chen and Le had led to their deaths in the TZ disaster was now not only rewarded for her Evil actions by being named head of Lucasfilm, but also made a prominent member of supposedly kid friendly and nurturing Disney. The fact that Dis and Kennedy promptly hammered the final nail in the STAR WARS coffin with their horrific STAR WARS schlock only made this nightmarish union more enraging. Screamin' Stephen King was one of those outraged fans implicitly infuriated by this insane development, for he implicitly linked Disney, Kennedy and Lord Stinkious and their crass fondness for living off the energy and money of young audiences to three insidious psychic vampires named Rothman, Rosie and Grandpa Flik who tracked down, fed off and drained the spiritual essence of unfortunate children-recalling the Lord Stinkious linked and spiritual essence draining Emperor Skeksis in THE DARK CRYSTAL, openly linking the novel to the twilit and disastrous year of 1982-in his twilit and righteously furious allegorical novel, Doctor Sleep (2013).\nGareth Edwards also implicitly roasted the merger of Disney\/Lucasfilm by having Godzilla, implicitly linked to indie CGI enhanced film art in general and to the indie CGI enhanced film art of Brandon and David Cronenberg in particular, battle and defeat two CGI enhanced blockbuster beasts implicitly linked to Disney and Lucas at the end of the twilit, allegorical and CGI enhanced film, GODZILLA (2014). Christian Petzold also implicitly roasted Stinkious for this final betrayal of his film art, furiously and implicitly linking him to a young German named Johannes-played by Ronald Zehrfeld-who betrayed his Portman resembling Jewish wife, Nelly-played by Nina Hoss-to the Nazi authorities for money in his allegorical film, PHOENIX (2014). Significantly, the misbegotten union of Lucasfilm, ILM and Disney also roused an equally and implicitly outraged and despondent blast from Rushdie in the form of the misbegotten union of 'Lenny' Nero Golden and the scheming enchantress Vasilisa in his allegorical novel, The Golden House (2017), making for a truly Foursfull quartet of literary meditations on Lucas for Rushdie.\nWhile Edwards, King, Petzold and Rushdie made their angry opinions of Disney, Kennedy and Lord Stinkious implicitly clear in their art, only time would tell which New Hollywood film artist would be remembered by audiences: the one despised as the Dark Lord Stinkious for turning film art into blockbuster and effects filled filmmercials for movie tie-in merchandise and product placement, for working with Kennedy, Marshall and Palpaberg on INDIANA JONES AND THE TEMPLE OF DOOM, for allowing ILM to help Emperor Palpaberg reboot his career with CGI enhanced schlockbuster beasts, and for choosing Kennedy to lead Lucasfilm and ILM into their merger with Disney; or the one looked on fondly as Lucas, the sincere and shy film artist who used his early films to triumph over the blockbuster lusts of Old Hollywood and emerged as an independent and idiosyncratic J.D. 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Ann Arbor, MI: UMI Re-\nsearch Press, 1983.\nDick, Philip K. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?. New York: Ballantine\n-----. The Game-Players of Titan. London: HarperVoyager, 2008.\n-----. The Minority Report and Other Classic Stories. New York: Citadel Press,\nDumas, Alexandre. The Three Musketeers. London: Pan Books Ltd., 1844,\nDuncan, Jody. Star Wars Mythmaking: behind the scenes of ATTACK OF THE\nCLONES. New York: Ballantine Books, 2002.\nElder, Robert K. The Film That Changed My Life: 30 directors on their epiphan-\nIes in the dark. Chicago: Chicago Review Press, 2011.\nEllison, Sarah. 'A Force of her Own'. Vanity Fair no. 667 (Hollywood 2016): 204-10 and 255.\nEwalt, David M. Of Dice And Men: the story of dungeons\n& dragons and the people who play it. New York:\nScribner, 2013.\nFarber, Stephen and Marc Green. Outrageous Conduct; art, ego and the\nTWILIGHT ZONE. New York: Arbor House, 1988.\nFinch, Christopher. The Art Of Walt Disney: from Mickey Mouse to the Magic\nKingdom. Burbank, CA: Walt Disney Productions, 1973.\nFinney, Jack. The Invasion of the Body Snatchers. New York: Dell Pub-\nLishing Co., 1954, 1955, 1978.\nFriedkin, William. The Friedkin Connection: a memoir. New York: Harper, 2013.\nFriedman, Lester D. and Brent Notbohm, ed. Steven Spielberg: interviews.\nJackson, MS: University of Mississippi Press, 2000.\nGibson, William. Burning Chrome. New York: HarperCollins, 2003.\n-----. Neuromancer. New York: Ace Books, 1984.\nGilliam, Terry. Gilliamesque: my me, me me memoir. New York: Harper De-\nsign, 2015.\nHearn, Marcus. The Cinema of George Lucas. New York: Harry N. Abrams,\nHenderson, Mary. Star Wars: the magic of myth. New York: Bantam Books,\nHerbert, Brian. Dreamer of Dune: the biography of Frank Herbert. New York;\nTor Books, 2003.\nHerbert, Frank. Children of Dune. New York: Berkley Publishing Corporation,\n-----. Dune. New York: Ace Books, 1965.\n-----. Dune Messiah. 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+{"text":"Hoekstra on NewsmaxTV: American Concerns About Terror Threats Well Grounded\nby Pete Hoekstra\nNewsmaxTV\nhttps:\/\/www.investigativeproject.org\/5053\/hoekstra-on-newsmaxtv-american-concerns-about\nRick Blackwell: Welcome back everyone. Islamic radicals killed 130 people 17 days ago in Paris. There were concerns that Islamic terrorists would strike over the holidays. New York City increased security around the downtown parade attended by 3 million people, millions took part in black Friday shopping. Thankfully there was not a major attack. Still terrorism continues to be front and center in our concerns ion the United States. Tonight warnings for Americans in Afghanistan where credible reports of an imminent attack on Kabul sometime within the next 48 hours. For more on the threat we are joined via telephone by former CIA analyst Fred Fleitz. Fred is currently vice president at the Center for Security Policy. And from Newsmax Washington we are joined by Pete Hoekstra. Pete is currently the Shillman Senior Fellow with the Investigative Project on Terrorism, and is also the former chairman of the House Intelligence Committee. He is also author of the new book Architects of Disaster: The Destruction of Libya. Thanks to you both for being here on Newsmax Prime. Congressman Hoekstra, 44% of Americans felt a terrorist attack was likely in the US back in April. That number now stands at 69%. Are Americans justified in their fears?\nPete Hoekstra: Oh I think so, absolutely. ISIS has made it clear that they want to attack in Europe, that they want to attack the United States, the source of the country that's sponsoring the bombings in Syria and Iraq. Al Qaeda has wanted to attack again in the United States. You've got lone wolves who are radicalized. So yeah, you've got a whole group of folks who are very, very interested in striking at the heart of the beast. They want to hit America, they want to hit us in the homeland.\nBlackwell: Well fear obviously can drive people to act, but are we acting appropriately? And Fred you wrote a fascinating piece in the National Review where you called Hillary Clinton's worldview incoherent. Why do you believe the president and the Democratic frontrunner for president in 2016 are doomed to fail to protect our country?\nFred Fleitz: Well you know I was encouraged by what Hillary Clinton said when she said that we're at war with radical jihadists and that they have a radical ideology. But as I looked at her comments very carefully I was very disappointed. She said that there's no clash of civilizations and she was afraid to use the term 'radical Islam' because she said she didn't want to offend Muslim societies that she may need to deal with as president. The problem here is in Islam and the president's claim that this is not an Islamic problem is part of our problem. We have a severe problem with large numbers of Muslims around the world subscribing to radical theology, known as sharia. They want to ch -- They are at war with Western civilization, and if we don't recognize we're at war with this ideology which Clinton and Obama do not, we're never going to defeat it.\nHoekstra: If I could just add to that. The other thing is that the Democratic frontrunner, Hillary Clinton, she's also the architect of our strategy in Libya. And the New York Times had a fascinating piece out in the last couple of days that said Libya now is maybe actually worse than the situation that we're seeing in Syria and Iraq and that the West even has less influence and less capability ultimately to turn things around in Libya than what they do in Syria. And right now the radical jihadists are controlling roughly 150 miles of the Mediterranean Sea, the seafront there which is a launching pad for radical jihadists into Europe.\nBlackwell: Congressman Hoekstra I know obviously you have an expertise in that area from your latest book, but also you have an expertise in the phone surveillance program that collected data and phone records. Today is the first day actually of the new USA Freedom Act which will replace the wide net of collection with more targeted monitoring. Is this a good thing or do you worry we may not catch terrorists plotting against the United States with this new policy?\nHoekstra: We're not gonna have near the kind of capabilities that we had yesterday. And remember we were only collecting phone numbers. We weren't collecting content, we weren't collecting whose phone it was on and all those types of things. So the only thing we knew that is if a terrorist called into the United States we could go to the court and if the court agreed we could immediately find out what number that person was calling from outside, who they were connecting to and those types of things. And then with further court orders we might be able to surveil those calls, get the content and find these folks. And the thing was we had speed. We could do it quickly. We've lost speed and if you're gonna stop a terrorist attack you need the content and you need speed. You need to be flexible and agile. Those are the two things that we've lost today that we no longer have.\nBlackwell: And Fred, quickly. What are your thought about the USA Freedom Act?\nFleitz: Well I think it was unfortunate it had to pass. I guess the only thing I can say is that it might have been worse. Edward Snowden is a traitor. He created an atmosphere of hysteria against US intelligence programs that led to this terrible legislation. And we know from intelligence officials that terrorists have gone to school on our intelligence capabilities based on Snowden's leaks, most of which have nothing to do with possible compromise of the privacy of Americans. They had to deal with how America spied on our enemies, and that was compromised by Snowden.\nBlackwell: We're gonna have to leave it right there. Two thumbs down from Congressman Hoekstra and Fred Fleitz on the USA Freedom Act. Once again the book Architects of Disaster: The Destruction of Libya. Thanks to our guests. We're coming right back here on Newsmax TV.\nRelated Topics: Pete Hoekstra, New York City, Thanksgiving, ISIS, Afghanistan, terror threat, Hillary Clinton, Sharia, USA Freedom Act","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
+{"text":"Public hangins in Iran\nSeptember 27, 2007: Iran hanged three men in public for raping and robbing twelve young women, most of them university students, Iranian media reported. Hadi Jafartabar , Mirhadi Mirtaghi and Seyyed Shoja Mousazadeh were executed in front of thousands of spectators at a sports complex in the northern city of Babol , the state broadcaster said on its website.\nBabol Public prosecutor Fazlollah Vakilirad said they began their \"immoral acts\" three years ago, Fars News Agency said. \"They would deceive the girls, rape them and steal their belongings,\" he said. Fars said the men were hunted down after one girl gave her attackers large sums of money so they would not rape her, and then went to the police. Activists say many Iranian rape cases go unreported because of social stigma attached to the crime in the conservative Islamic state. (Sources: Trend News Agency, 27\/09\/2007)","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
+{"text":"(1.31) Wrestling: High Point captures SCIL title\nBy ANDREW GOODMAN Herald Sports Writer WANTAGE -- There weren't many smiles and there was no exhiliaration like last year. High Point's reaction wasn't different from any other win this season. But the Wildcats easily could have celebrated. They defeated Newton, 50-9, to win their second consecutive Sussex County Interscholastic League title. \"I think you have to act like you've been there before,\" High Point coach John Gardner said. \"The team has a lot of goals. Tonight wasn't all that we're looking to accomplish.\" The Wildcats are also looking for their first group title. But that will have to wait. Wednesday was about High Point going through another SCIL season undefeated. The Wildcats knew they would be the favorite at the beginning of the season. And after they defeated Kittatinny, 32-23, earlier this month, it was a foregone conclusion they would win the league title. It made way for the subdued reaction to clinching the SCIL. \"It was sort of (expected), but we never overlook anybody,\" said 215-pounder Chris Smith, who beat Ben Kissane, 5-0, to officially clinch the title. When High Point ended Kittatinny's streak of seven straight league titles a year ago, the feeling was different. None of the Wildcats had ever been part of a team to accomplish something of that magnitude. So there was more emotion after topping Jefferson to clinch the title. \"Last year, it was fresh to us because it was the first time we beat Kittatinny in a long time,\" said 152-pounder Mark Kehoe, who recorded a pin in 1:22 Wednesday. \"You can't duplicate that feeling.\" High Point earned this title on Wednesday by wrestling the way it had all season. The Wildcats won all but three bouts and took a 35-3 advantage. The outcome was never in doubt, starting with Greg Case's 6-1 victory against Kyle Huber at 130. Newton coach Eric Bollette said the Wildcats are the best team he's seen. Despite the lopsided defeat, Bollette said he was pleased with his team's performance -- which says something about the caliber of team High Point is. \"Their style is something you have to admire about them,\" Bollette said. \"They're always moving and they're tough to score points on. They're a very well-coached team.\" Unlike other SCIL teams, High Point doesn't have anyone that would be considered a contender for an individual state title. \"If you look through the lineup, we don't have any individuals that stand out,\" Kehoe said. But that's what makes the Wildcats successful. Their lineup is deep throughout and they can win any weight class on any day. And they will be considered one of the favorites to capture the Group III title. After the match finally ended Wednesday, the P.A. announcer made sure to mention that High Point won the SCIL title. The parents and the fans were more excited than the wrestlers and coaches. But despite the lack of celebration on the outside, Gardner's feeling on the inside may have been quite the contrast. \"I don't care how many times you win something, you're usually winning with different groups or different pieces,\" Gardner said. \"If you win the SCIL, you have a lot to be proud of.\" High Point 50, Newton 9 130: Greg Case (HP) d. Kyle Huber 6-1. 135: Gavin Tarsa (HP) p. Joe Daniele 3:06. 140: Greg Martin (HP) md. Mike Malson 13-2. 145: Austin Alpaugh (N) d. Kyle Donadio 4-0. 152: Mark Kehoe (HP) p. Elijah Reyes 1:22. 160: Ricky Cullen (HP) d. Jeff Mason 6-4. 171: Vinnie Gallo (HP) md. Ralph Carratura 13-2. 189: Joe Donahue (HP) p. Brenden Kramer 1:40. 215: Chris Smith (HP) d. Ben Kissane 5-0. 285: Ed Mattice (N) d. Brad Thomas 1-0. 103: Kevin Churchill (N) d. Griffin Panicucci 4-0. 112: Billy Gould (HP) won by forfeit. 119: John Scalise (HP) won by forfeit. 125: Ryan Swarts (HP) d. Kyle Molitoris 2-0. Records: Newton 17-6, High Point 16-3","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
+{"text":"Home Features Interviews A fan's reaction of Sonic Boom: Rise of Lyric's dramatic development\nA fan's reaction of Sonic Boom: Rise of Lyric's dramatic development\n\"The game could have a big potential, but at the end of the day, people will still criticize\"\nAs part of the Sonic News Channel's investigation on the community's reaction of the development of Sonic Boom: Rise of Lyric, editor Ryan Scarlett spoke with popular community personality BlueParadox and asked the following questions.\nSEGA has pulled the Rise of Lyric reveal trailer on YouTube. What's your reaction and what does it assume?\nYou know, it's quite surprising that, after a video that explained what went wrong with Rise of Lyric, SEGA decides to cover the whole thing by making the reveal trailer private. This is just very sad. The game could have a big potential, but at the end of the day, people will still criticize.\nWho do you think is at fault? SEGA or Big Red Button?\nI think it's SEGA's fault. From what I've heard, SEGA picked an engine (CE3) that wasn't compatible with the Wii U. The game was going be a multi-platform game, as far as I know; that why they chose that engine I guess. But then, all of the sudden SEGA decided to change their plans without warning to Big Red Button. (they warned them about this days later, which was too late) SEGA wanted to make the game exclusive to the Wii U due to the Nintendo deal that they made, without realizing that the CryEngine 3 wasn't suitable for the Wii U. So yeah, I think it's SEGA's fault. SEGA was putting so much pressure to Big Red Button. This led to some of the employees to leave the company (Big Red Button) because they just couldn't handle it.\nWhat's your reaction to SEGA alleged mismanagement with the game development?\nBlueParadox: If the engine is not supported on the Wii U's hardware then why did they continue with the development of the game? I think that they still had time to move all of the game's assets\/data to a new engine that supported the Wii U. But instead they just had to continue developing the game. It's such a shame that a game like this had been developed for years and yet it's was received badly by critics.\nAny further comments?\nI just hope that SEGA is really learning from their \"big\" mistake, because what they've done is really unacceptable, especially when a lot of time and effort was placed in the game's development. Sanzaru Games did a great job with Shattered Crystal in my opinion. But the story was just awful. I hope the best for SEGA.\nThis article was originally published on 26 May 2015 by the Sonic News Channel, a former subsidiary of the Sonic News Network. Original content produced by the Sonic News Channel was inherited by Tails' Channel as of 23 October 2017.\nThis article was revised for clarity, and is presented for educational and informational purposes.\nA fan's reaction on Sonic Boom: Fire & Ice's Delay to 2016\nSAGE 2021 Review Slew: Indie Games\nSince a big part of SAGE is getting feedback and learning to be a better designer, I'd like to help these indie devs with constructive tips on making a Sonic experience.\nbyNoah Copeland\nSAGE 2021 Review Slew: Traditional Sonic Fan Games\nOld-school and faithful, these fast-paced platformers invoke the heart and spirit of official 2D games.\nTakashi Iizuka and Kazuyuki Hoshino talks Sonic Colours Ultimate, influence from the Sonic Movie \u2013 translated interview\nThe creative heads of Sonic Studio talks Sonic Colours Ultimate in a new interview with Famitsu.\nExclusive: Behind the Scenes of Sonic GT\nBehind the scenes of the 3D momentum-based wonder.\nbyEvan TingleandbyShannyClassicNackFan","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
+{"text":"SMU Forum\nNews for Faculty and Staff\nSearch smu.edu\nYear of the Faculty\nYear of the Student\nSMU News\nMy.SMU\nSyllabus Library\nGet Things Fixed (Facilities Work Order Request Form)\nSMU Travel (Concur\u00ae Portal)\nFaculty\/Staff Campaign\nSMU Office of Operational Excellence\nTag: Ronald Wetherington\nEighteen SMU faculty members retire with emeritus status in 2016-17\nPosted on June 8, 2017 Updated: September 25, 2019\nEighteen distinguished faculty members with a combined total of nearly 585 years of SMU service retired with emeritus status in the 2016-17 academic year.\nThe professors, and their dates of service:\n\u2022 Thomas E. Barry, Professor Emeritus of Marketing, Cox School of Business, 1970-2017\n\u2022 Janis Bergman-Carton, Professor Emerita of Art History, Meadows School of the Arts, 1991-2017\n\u2022 Edward Biehl, Professor Emeritus of Chemistry, Dedman College of Humanities and Sciences, 1962-2017\n\u2022 Gordon Birrell, Professor Emeritus of World Languages and Literatures, Dedman College of Humanities and Sciences, 1974-2017\n\u2022 Dolores M. Etter, Professor Emerita of Electrical Engineering, Lyle School of Engineering, 2008-2016\n\u2022 Richard F. Gunst, Professor Emeritus of Statistical Science, Dedman College of Humanities and Sciences, 1971-2017\n\u2022 C. Michael Hawn, University Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Church Music, Dedman College of Humanities and Sciences, 1992-2017\n\u2022 Debora Hunter, Professor Emerita of Art, Meadows School of the Arts, 1976-2017\n\u2022 Alireza Khotanzad, Professor Emeritus of Electrical Engineering, Lyle School of Engineering, 1984-2017\n\u2022 Ndiva Kofele-Kale, Professor Emeritus of Law, Dedman School of Law, 1989-2017\n\u2022 Robert Krout, Professor Emeritus of Music, Meadows School of the Arts, 2004-2017\n\u2022 Patricia Mathes, Texas Instruments Chair of Reading and Professor Emerita of Teaching and Learning, Annette Caldwell Simmons School of Education and Human Development, 2003-2017\n\u2022 Sherry L. Smith, University Distinguished Professor Emerita of History, Dedman College of Humanities and Sciences, 1999-2017\n\u2022 Willard Spiegelman, Hughes Professor Emeritus of English, Dedman College of Humanities and Sciences, 1971-2017\n\u2022 Steve Sverdlik, Professor Emeritus of Philosophy, Dedman College of Humanities and Sciences, 1982-2017\n\u2022 Martin Sweidel, Professor Emeritus of Music, Meadows School of the Arts, 1986-2016\n\u2022 John Walther, Professor Emeritus of Earth Sciences, Dedman College of Humanities and Sciences, 1994-2017\n\u2022 Ronald Wetherington, Professor Emeritus of Anthropology, Dedman College of Humanities and Sciences, 1964-2017\nCategories: For the Record, NewsTags: Alireza Khotanzad, Annette Caldwell Simmons School of Education and Human Development, C. Michael Hawn, Cox School of Business, Debora Hunter, Dedman College, Dedman School of Law, Dolores M. Etter, Edward Biehl, emeritus faculty, Gordon Birrell, Janis Bergman-Carton, John Walther, Lyle School of Engineering, Martin Sweidel, Meadows School of the Arts, Ndiva Kofele-Kale, Patricia Mathes, Perkins School of Theology, Richard F. Gunst, Robert Krout, Ronald Wetherington, Sherry L. Smith, Steve Sverdlik, Thomas E. Barry, Willard Spiegelman\nGood reading, good giving: SMU books for 2012\nPosted on December 20, 2012 Updated: December 20, 2012\nFrom art, history and religion to sweet Texas cuisine and fiction, SMU's 2012 book roundup offers a wide selection to satisfy the readers in your life. Treat yourself or those on your gift list to one of the current titles listed below the link.\nContinue reading \"Good reading, good giving: SMU books for 2012\"\nCategories: For the Record, NewsTags: A. Azfar Moin, Afonso V, Andr\u00e9s Blaisten Collection, Caroline Brettell, Cherri Gann, Collecting Spanish Art, Dedman College, Denise Gee, Dennis Ippolito, Dennis Simon, Diego Vel\u00e1zquez, Diego Velazquez: The Early Court Portraits, faculty books, faculty research, Jeffrey Engel, Joerg Rieger, Jos\u00e9 Bowen, Karl Kilinski II, Mark Chancey, Meadows Museum, Meadows School of the Arts, Modern Mexican Painting, Pamela Patton, Pastrana tapestries, Rebekah Miles, Ronald Wetherington, Shelette Stewart, Sherry L. Smith, Sherry Smith, SMU Centennial, staff books, student books, Sunday Eiselt, William P. Clements Department of History, Writer's Path\nFor the Record: Feb. 18, 2010\nBrent Sumerlin, Chemistry, Dedman College, has been selected as a 2010-2012 Alfred P. Sloan Research Fellow by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation. The award carries a grant of $50,000 to support his research. The Sloan Research Fellowships \"seek to stimulate fundamental research by early-career scientists and scholars of outstanding promise,\" according to the foundation's website. The 2-year fellowships are awarded annually to 118 researchers \"in recognition of distinguished performance and a unique potential to make substantial contributions to their field.\" More than 30 Sloan Research Fellows have won Nobel Prizes later in their careers.\nRon Wetherington, Anthropology, Dedman College, has been selected to receive a \"Friend of Darwin\" award from the National Center for Science Education. Wetherington, who also serves as director of SMU's Center for Teaching Excellence, was honored for his advocacy on behalf of science by the NCSE, which supports the teaching of evolution in public schools. Read more.\nCategories: For the RecordTags: Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, awards and honors, Brent Sumerlin, Center for Teaching Excellence, Dedman College, evolution, grant programs, grants, National Center for Science Education, Ronald Wetherington, Sloan Research Fellows\nCalendar Highlights: Sept. 9, 2009\nThe joy of science: SMU professors from multiple schools and disciplines will participate in a faculty symposium on \"The Year of Darwin\" 9:30 a.m.-noon Sept. 12 in McCord Auditorium, 306 Dallas Hall. Participants include David Meltzer and Ronald Wetherington, Anthropology, Dedman College; Larry Ruben and John Wise, Biological Sciences, Dedman College; Louis Jacobs, Huffington Department of Earth Sciences, Dedman College; and Rhonda Blair, Theatre, Meadows School of the Arts. Presented by the Office of the Provost, Dedman College, Meadows School of the Arts, and Annette Caldwell Simmons School of Education and Human Development. For more information, contact Pia Vogel, 214-768-1790, or visit the \"Darwin's Evolving Legacy\" homepage.\nInterdisciplinary Dialogue: The interplay between basic social science research and action research will be at the center of \"Research on Latino Religious Topics: A Challenge to Scholars,\" moderated by Harold Recinos, professor of church and society, Perkins School of Theology; and Hector Rivera, assistant professor, Annette Caldwell Simmons School of Education and Human Development. The event begins Sept. 16 in the Prothro Hall Refectory (Room 104) with a light dinner at 6:30 p.m. and discussion 7-8:30 p.m.\nGoing green: The City of Dallas and more than 20 vendors will present sustainable products and other green solutions as part of SMU's first Sustainability Fair for students, faculty and staff. The event takes place 10 a.m.-1:30 p.m. Sept. 17 in the Hughes-Trigg Student Center Ballroom. Hors d'oeuvres will be served along with tea and lemonade. Presented by SMU Purchasing.\nGodbey Lecture Series: Associate Professor of Hispanic American Literature Francisco Mor\u00e1n of Dedman College will discuss \"Why Poetry Matters: Playing 'Ajedrez' (Chess) with Language\" Sept. 17 at Maggiano's NorthPark Center. The lecture begins at 11 a.m., followed by lunch at noon. The cost is $45 for Godbey members, $65 for non-members. Register online or call 214-768-2532.\nCategories: Calendar HighlightsTags: Annette Caldwell Simmons School of Education and Human Development, Darwin Year, Darwin's Evolving Legacy, David Meltzer, Dedman College, Francisco Mor\u00e1n, Godbey Lecture Series, Harold Recinos, Hector Rivera, Interdisciplinary Dialogue, John Wise, Larry Ruben, lecture programs, Louis Jacobs, Meadows School of the Arts, Perkins School of Theology, Provost's Office, Rhonda Blair, Ronald Wetherington, SMU Purchasing, sustainability, visitors\nFaculty in the News: Nov. 21, 2008\nDan Howard (left), Marketing, Cox School of Business, discussed the deceptive marketing practices that allow companies to charge more for less product with CBS 11 News in Dallas. This story first aired Nov. 14, 2008, and has since appeared on numerous CBS stations throughout the country.\nEdward Fox, J.C. Penney Center for Retail Excellence, Cox School of Business, talked with Bloomberg.com Nov. 20, 2008, about why Wal-Mart holds the key to holiday success for some major electronics manufacturers.\nRon Wetherington, Anthropology, Dedman College, spoke on proposed changes to how science is taught in Texas public schools at a meeting of the Texas Board of Education Nov. 19, 2008. He was quoted in a news story on the proceedings published by The Austin American-Statesman Nov. 20, 2008.\nNathan Balke, Economics, Dedman College, discussed how changes in consumer spending can affect economic recovery with The San Antonio Express-News Nov. 20, 2008.\nTony Pederson, Journalism, Meadows School of the Arts, wrote an op-ed on the strengths and weaknesses of media coverage of the 2008 presidential campaign, published in The Atlanta Journal-Constitution Nov. 16, 2008.\nDavid Blackwell, Earth Sciences, Dedman College, discussed America's reserves of geothermal energy with CBN News Nov. 17, 2008.\nRavi Batra, Economics, Dedman College, discussed with New America Media what the current economic upheaval will mean for the United States socially and politically. The resulting article appeared Sept. 30, 2008.\nCal Jillson, Political Science, Dedman College, talked about Texas' \"political power outage\" in Washington, D.C. with The Houston Chronicle Nov. 16, 2008. He also discussed with the Hearst News Service Texas Speaker of the House Tom Craddick's struggle to retain his leadership position. The resulting article appeared in The Midland Reporter-Telegram Nov. 17, 2008.\nBruce Bullock, Maguire Energy Institute, Cox School of Business, discussed the oil industry's role in economic recovery with The Houston Chronicle Nov. 19, 2008.\nCategories: Faculty in the NewsTags: Bruce Bullock, Cal Jillson, Cox School of Business, Daniel Howard, David Blackwell, Dedman College, Edward Fox, J.C. Penney Center for Retail Excellence, Maguire Energy Institute, Meadows School of the Arts, Nathan Balke, Ravi Batra, Ronald Wetherington, Tony Pederson\nLatest Faculty & Staff News\nSMU names new Associate Vice President and Dean of Students February 18, 2019\nSMU to honor the legacy of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. during Dream Week January 17, 2019\nRobert H. Dedman, Jr. to speak at December Commencement Convocation December 12, 2018\nPhysicist named fellow of American Association for the Advancement of Science December 11, 2018\nSMU brand ambassadors: Dive into brand training and share your SMU stories December 11, 2018\nLive Responsibly\nPassword Problem?","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
+{"text":"Hudson to guide US camp as Reynas admit pressuring Berhalter\nWorld Cup assistant coach Anthony Hudson was named Wednesday to guide a January national team camp while Gio Reyna's parents admitted igniting a US Soccer investigation into coach Gregg Berhalter.\nHudson will guide the Americans, co-hosts with Mexico and Canada for the 2026 World Cup, in a Los Angeles training session ahead of friendlies against Serbia on January 25 and Colombia on January 28, US Soccer sporting director Earnie Stewart said.\nThe news came a day after Berhalter, whose contract as US coach ended last Saturday, admitted kicking his future wife Rosalind in a 1991 incident he said was being used against him in a threatening manner.\nClaudio Reyna, a former US captain and current sporting director at MLS' Austin FC, and his wife Danielle admitted in statements to The Athletic and ESPN that they pressed US Soccer Federation executives with details about Berhalter's past.\nThe moves came after Berhalter told Gio Reyna, their 20-year-old son who plays for Borussia Dortmund, that he would have only a limited role at the Qatar World Cup.\nBerhalter and Claudio Reyna played together on youth and high school teams as well as the US national squad and their wives were college teammates at the University of North Carolina.\nUS Soccer is investigating Berhalter and the incident as well as conducting a World Cup review while considering who will manage the Americans in the upcoming home-field World Cup cycle.\nBerhalter said he underwent counseling after the kicking and he has not repeated any physical incidents.\n\"It was a shameful moment and one that I regret to this day,\" Berhalter said. \"There are zero excuses for my actions that night.\"\nDanielle Reyna challenged Berhalter's characterization of the incident.\n\"Without going into detail, the statements from yesterday significantly minimize the abuse on the night in question,\" she said in a statement.\n\"Rosalind Berhalter was my roommate, teammate and best friend, and I supported her through the trauma that followed. It took a long time for me to forgive and accept Gregg afterwards.\"\nReyna said she was upset when he refused her son the consideration she had given him over the incident three decades earlier.\n\"I worked hard to give him grace,\" she said. \"I would have wanted and expected him to give the same grace to Gio. This is why the current situation is so very hurtful and hard.\"\nClaudio Reyna said there were no threats attached to his comments to US Soccer officials regarding Berhalter.\n\"While in Qatar, I shared my frustrations about my son's World Cup experience with a number of close friends, Earnie and Brian McBride among them,\" Claudio Reyna said. \"However, at no time did I ever threaten anyone, nor would I ever do so.\"\n- 'Personally betrayed' -\nDetails were not revealed to US Soccer officials until December 11 by the Reynas after Berhalter spoke of an unidentified player who was nearly sent home from the World Cup, with Gio Reyna confirming on Instagram the next day that he was the player.\n\"I let my emotions get the best of me and affect my training and behavior for a few days after learning about my limited role,\" Gio Reyna said on Instagram.\n\"I apologized to my teammates and coach for this and I was told I was forgiven. Thereafter, I shook off my disappointment and gave everything I had on and off the field.\"\nWhen Berhalter spoke of nearly sending a player home, even without naming her son, Danielle Reyna said she was upset.\n\"I thought it was especially unfair that Gio, who had apologized for acting immaturely about his playing time, was still being dragged through the mud when Gregg had asked for and received forgiveness for doing something so much worse at the same age,\" Danielle Reyna said.\n\"I felt very personally betrayed by the actions of someone my family had considered a friend for decades.\"\nHudson, 41, is a former national team manager for New Zealand and Bahrain as well as the US under-20 side.\njs\/dmc\nKey play included a missed holding penalty by Orlando Brown\nThe late hit that gave the Chiefs 15 extra yards and a 45-yard game-winning field goal try came at the end of a play that began with something that has happened over and over in 2022. Offensive holding. Not called. Chiefs tackle Orlando Brown clearly held Bengals defensive end Trey Hendrickson. No flag was thrown. [more]\nOne of the last Club World Cups in its current format begins on Wednesday in Morocco, where Real Madrid will be favourites to continue Europe's dominance of the much-maligned FIFA competition.FIFA president Gianni Infantino announced on the sidelines of the World Cup in Qatar in December that an expanded Club World Cup is planned from 2025.","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
+{"text":"Since 2011 a large part of my life has been spent writing and drawing semi-topical comics for Guardian Weekend and Prospect. It sends me insane in on a weekly basis but I love it too. Mostly I don't take on comics commissions outside these publications because I find them difficult and time-consuming to make. They're basically miniature comedy sketches about whatever I think is 'in the air' at the time, and they never feature recurring characters or continuing plots. Sometimes I paint them but mostly I do ink and lettering on paper and then scan and colour digitally, for the sake of meeting deadlines. Some of these strips are collected in my book Some Comics By Stephen Collins (Jonathan Cape), and a selection of limited edition prints are available in my shop.\nJuly 2014: commissioned by Pimm's in conjunction with Mother London and Love Creative to illustrate a full relaunch of the Pimm's website and social media presence. The brief was to provide a light visual tone representing the 'world' of each product, as well as extensive lettering and icons around the site.\nSocial media illustrations (\"In summer, it's never not Pimm's O' Clock\"):\nMiscellaneous work for magazines and newspapers\nSouthwest Airlines magazine: for a piece by Steve Almond about returning to his childhood summer camp as an adult with a family.\nGouache and ink on paper, 2017\nRadio Times: enjoying your midlife crisis. Gouache and ink on paper, digital editing, 2017\nGuideposts magazine (US): reader's story about an older woman who makes friends in a new town by discovering her local launderette book club. Gouache and ink on paper, 2017\nThe Bank of Mum and Dad, Spear's magazine. Gouache, ink and digital editing, 2015\nWorld of Whisky magazine. Ink and digital colouring, 2017\nConde Nast Traveller: Gallery etiquette in Dubai. Gouache and ink on paper, digital editing, 2016\nThe End of Oil, for Unherd magazine\nRadio Times: Starlings on Prozac and other true stories. Gouache and ink on paper 2015 The taboo of not wanting children, Das Magazin (Germany), 2016. Gouache and digital\nWork for Pimm's (July 2014) in conjunction with Mother London to illustrate a series of press ads.\nVarious illustrations commissioned by the Radio Times.\n\u2013 THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER \u2013\nAlso available: UK edition, Italian edition, German edition, Spanish edition, French edition, Polish edition and Korean edition (out soon)\nPraise for THE GIGANTIC BEARD THAT WAS EVIL:\n\"A total work of art which elevates itself beyond comparison.\"\n\u2013 Nick Hayes, Literary Review\n\"The Gigantic Beard That Was Evil is an artistic marvel\"\n\u2013 AV Club\n\"Slyly exquisite\"\n\u2013 Glen Weldon, NPR\n\"The British invasion has begun anew via The Gigantic Beard That Was Evil.\"\n\u2013 Beth Carey, Comics Alternative\n\"An amazing book. Completely original. Surreal, yet believable.\"\n\u2013 Raymond Briggs author of The Snowman\n\"The Gigantic Beard That Was Evil has the tone of a playful fable, from the cracked syntax of its title onward\u2026 It's a rather Seussian premise, and Collins underscores the joke by nudging narration and dialogue into half-rhyme [\u2026] For a book about the liberating joys of disruption, though, it's exceptionally disciplined: Collins renders several hundred pages of immaculately ruled buildings and bean-faced people (and the fuzzy curlicues that interfere with them) in meticulous, microdetailed pencil textures.'\n\u2013 Douglas Wolk, New York Times\n\"If you go to the comics shop to encounter unfamiliar talents, to get that shock of the new, this is your best bet.\"\n\u2013 The Comics Reporter\n\"Clever, funny and beautiful to look at\u2026 surely destined to become a classic.\"\n\u2013 Rachel Cooke, The Observer (UK)\n\"Filled with elegant black-and-white sketches and darkly philosophical commentary, Collins's graphic novel details what happens when borders collapse and stories have no tidy endings.\"\n\u2013 Time Out New York\nAll kinds of 21st-century anxieties writhe under the text: fear of immigration, the collapse of cultural homogeneity, ecological devastation\u2014the end of a particular way of life [\u2026] Collins nimbly avoids the potential pitfalls of preachiness or meaningless absurdity here, leading to a confident and convincing d\u00e9but. I look forward to more.\n\u2013 Edwin Turner, Biblioklept\n\"It's part satire, part parable, part nursery rhyme and part disaster movie, and it's an utter joy to read.\"\n\u2013 Tom Gatti, The Times (UK)\nit's kind of Roald Dahl \u2013 it's very funny, dark, fable-like and about exactly what it's title says.\"\n\u2013 Linda Holmes, NPR's Pop Culture Happy Hour\n\"An imaginative and funny fable that can be enjoyed on its own terms and as a nicely judged satire on ignorance, routine and the deadening influence of corporate and celebrity culture.\"\n-James Smart, The Guardian (UK)\n\"Almost Kubrickian in the way it uses technical precision to exert such a level of experiential control over the reader[\u2026] like Dahl's work, Collins' comic is deeply funny, never taking itself too seriously. It's full of jokes that seem casual and carefully timed\u2014not the kind of jokes that knock you off your seat, but the kind of jokes you keep in your head for a long time.\n\u2013 Shea Hennum, This Is Infamous\n\"A gorgeously penciled fable. The pacing and page design are immaculate.\"\n\u2013 Teddy Jamieson, Sunday Herald (UK)\n\"There's a touch of Roald Dahl to this dark, beautifully drawn and wonderfully surrealist tale.\"\n\u2013 Monocle\n\"A witty and surreal response to conformity, and how we should embrace our difference. Accompanied by incredible pencil drawings, you will be blown away by the quality, and be humbled by the underlying message.\"\n\u2013 ItsNiceThat\n\"An inspired swirling of the mundane with the surreal\u2026 published in a super-sized, yummy parchment-like hardback drawn in soft pencil, it's like a children's book for the anxious adult.\"\n\u2013 Metro (UK)\nWINNER OF THE 9th ART AWARD 2013\nWINNER OF THE GRAN GUINIGI AWARD 2014 (LA GIGANTESCA BARBA MALVAGIA)\nMiscellanous illustrations, paintings, etc\u2026\nPainting commissioned as an employee's leaving present by advertising agency AMV BBDO. Gouache and ink on paper.\nAdvertising campaign commissioned by Time To Change \/ Mind in conjunction with DARE media. The brief was to come up with an idea to combat taboos around discussing mental health issues.\nUK-based Illustrator and Cartoonist","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
+{"text":"The Madagascar pochard returns (again)\nBy tetrapodzoology on August 30, 2009.\nThe recent article about Meller's duck Anas melleri inspired me to recycle my ver 1 article about another of Madagascar's endemic ducks, the Madagascar pochard Aythya innotata [male shown below]. Meller's duck is endangered, with a global population of between 3000 and 5000, but the Madagascar pochard is in an even worse position: in fact, it was regarded as extinct until 2006, when a small group of less than 20 was discovered (read on).\nIn fact, just last month a joint group representing the Durrell Wildlife Conservation Trust, the Wildfowl and Wetlands Trust, The Peregrine Fund, and Ministry of L'Environement et For\u00eats went in quest of this population: you can read about their expedition at The Dodo Blog. Anyway, here's the 2006 article...\nSo by now the cat is out of the bag, and the news isn't news anymore anyway: the Madagascar pochard Aythya innotata, supposed extinct since 1992 (when the 'last' specimen died in captivity), has been rediscovered. Ducks are another of those tetrapod groups that we take for granted and regard as mundane, yet they're actually a-maz-ing. Before getting into pochards into any detail, let's remind ourselves how amazing ducks are.\nDucks are amazing\nAt least some ducks have particularly interesting sex lives, involving over-sized sex organs, gang rape and occasional necrophilia [more duck sex shown in adjacent image; photo by Dave Martill]. Some species are bizarrely aggressive*, regularly attacking and beating other waterbirds to death. Some ducks can carry their eggs and\/or their juveniles in flight, and some species practise nest parasitism. Herbivory, filter-feeding, carrion-feeding and flightlessness have all been evolved by ducks. Many duck species are amazingly mobile, and consequently have enormous global ranges (an issue which is particularly significant with regard to mallards Anas platyrhynchos and their close relatives and derivatives). Their mobility is particularly interesting for two reasons. Firstly, it means that they are particularly good at colonising remote islands, and because populations have repeatedly become sedentary after having made a colonisation, ducks have also been good at evolving island endemics. Secondly, it means that ducks excel in transporting things, such as sediment particles and small or microscopic organisms.\n* Notably steamer ducks: go here for more.\nDucks - particularly herbivorous species such as pochards - have proven to be highly important transporters of aquatic plants, both as seeds stuck to their feathers or feet (a form of transport known as epizoochory), and as propagules carried in the bird's gut (a form of transport known as endozoochory). Ostracods and small snails also get transported by ducks, in cases for distances of 30 km or so. The mobility of ducks (and other wildfowl) also has implications for the spread of viruses: recent work indicates that naturally migrating wildfowl were responsible for spreading the HPAI H5N1 virus from Russia and Kazakhstan to eastern Europe (Gilbert et al. 2006).\nAnyway, back to pochards. Sometimes called bay ducks, pochards - the tribe Aythyini - are one of four clades that together make up Anatinae, the true duck group (the other anatine clades are Malacorhynchini [pink-eared ducks], Anatini [surface-feeding ducks] and Mergini [seaducks]). Found virtually worldwide, the 17 pochard species are diving ducks with high wing loadings and several specialisations for subaqueous locomotion. Some species do a distinctive leap before diving, and some have to run across the water surface before taking off (others are more typical in being able to leap directly from the water's surface). Pochards are mostly migratory, breed near permanent bodies of freshwater, and, except three of the scaups, all are predominantly herbivorous [Common pochard Aythya ferina shown here, from wikipedia].\nThe sad 'loss' of the Madagascar pochard\nSo back to the latest news from the world of pochards: the amazing rediscovery of the Madagascar pochard, also known as the Madagascar white-eye. First described from Lake Alaotra in central-eastern Madagascar in 1894, it was apparently still common during the 1930s and was even said to still be common in Soothill & Whitehead's 1978 Wildfowl of the World. This was incorrect, however, as in fact the species hadn't been found at the lake since 1971 (Young & Kear 2006), and the last published sighting comes from 1970. Furthermore, the 1970 sighting is controversial: it described an observation of the pochard at Lake Ambohibao (near Antananarivo), and as such is (so far as I can tell from the literature) the only sighting made away from Lake Alaotra. Incidentally, pochard bones from Reunion may or may not be anything to do with the Madagascar pochard (Mourer-Chauvir\u00e9 et al. 1999): if the Reunion bones are referable to this species, then it had a far wider range in the recent past than it did in the 19th and 20th centuries.\nFollowing the pochard's decline, thorough searches failed to reveal any trace of its continued presence. However, a publicity campaign amongst villages around Lake Alaotra in 1989 then led to the 1991 capture of a single male. He was kept in captivity, but died in 1992, and little about the biology and behaviour of the species was learnt from the individual. This is unfortunate as the Madagascar pochard is particularly poorly known, though given that its specific name means 'unremarkable', you might think that there isn't much to know about it. We do know that, like other pochards, it feeds by diving, probably for the seeds of water-lilies and other plants. It may also eat some invertebrates.\nThe Madagascar pochard's decline and apparent extinction seems predominantly to have resulted from extreme habitat degradation and the introduction of both herbivorous and carnivorous fish. Severe deforestation of the local hills has resulted in silting-up of the lake, the consequence of which has been the spread of papyrus marsh, the consequence of which has been the setting alight of the marshes to stop them spreading, the consequence of which has been the inadvertent killing of nesting birds. Carp (introduced in 1926), tilapia (introduced in 1955) and black bass (introduced in 1961) are among several alien fish that now live in Lake Alaotra. These fish appear to compete with native waterbirds by eating the same plants and invertebrates, and the larger, carnivorous fish species may predate upon pochard ducklings. Nylon monofilament gill-nets, hidden by local fishermen in open water or at the bases of aquatic plants, are thought to have seriously affected diving birds, including the pochard as well as grebes (Young & Smith 1989).\nGiven all these problems, it is not surprising that the pochard declined to apparent extinction. The Alaotra or Delacour's grebe Tachybaptus rufolavatus [shown above], discovered in 1929 and described in 1932, is unique to the lake and also appears to have become extinct (partly due to hybridisation with the African little grebe T. ruficollis capensis). Lake Alaotra is also home to the Alaotra lemur Hapalemur griseus alaotrensis [image below]: the only primate that spends most of its life in marshland. Confirming the presence or absence of any of these animals, particularly the pochard, is difficult however as 'the marsh is so extensive and difficult to travel in that the duck could easily go undetected inside it' (Young & Smith 1989, p. 23).\nAs an extinct species, the Madagascar pochard would join a long and sorry list of recently extinct wildfowl, many of which were endemic to small islands. Young et al. (1996) listed an amazing 54 wildfowl that have become extinct within the last 10,000 years. Most of these are obscure and familiar only to specialists, but a handful have been widely featured in the literature and are relatively familiar. Among the latter is the Pink-headed duck Rhodonessa caryophyllacea, a highly distinctive pochard of India and Bangladesh, named in 1790 and widely regarded as having gone extinct in the 1930s or 1940s. More on this unusual species soon.\nThe Madagascar pochard returns\nSo, as announced on November 20th 2006 by The Peregrine Fund - an international conservation group that focuses on raptor-based conservation efforts - the Madagascar pochard has now been officially rediscovered. It really was hiding out, and not extinct. National Director for The Peregrine Fund's Madagascar Project, Lily-Arison Rene de Roland, and field biologist Th\u00e9 Seing Sam, observed 13 Madagascar pochards in total, four of which were juveniles (for their photos, please go here). This is great news, as if the right conservation efforts are put in place the bird might be pulled back from the brink of extinction. It also provides hope for species that are possibly extinct, but are both highly cryptic and inhabit remote and difficult areas. Err, like the Pink-headed duck? Hmm, more on that another time [photo below, showing two male Madagascar pochard, by Lily-Arison Ren\u00e9 de Roland].\nFor other Tet Zoo articles on ducks and other anseriforms see...\nLo, for I have seen the Meller's duck, and it was good\nDuck humps dog, and other stories from the world of waterfowl sex\nRidiculous super-elongate, coiled windpipes allow some birds to function like trombones - - or is it violins?\nHarbour seal kills and eats duck\nSTOP 'feeding' the ducks\nAttack of the flying steamer ducks\nMeteoroid vs goose... again\n2007: a good year for terror birds and mega-ducks\nTet Zoo picture of the day # 10 (on Swan goose)\nRefs - -\nGilbert, M, Xiao, X., Domenech, J. Lubroth, J., Martin, V. & Slingenbergh, J. 2006. Anatidae migration in the Western Palearctic and spread of highly pathogenic avian influenza H5N1 virus. Emerging Infectious Diseases 12, 1650-1656.\nMourer-Chauvir\u00e9, C., Bour, R., Ribes, S. & Moutou, F. 1999. The avifauna of Reunion Island (Mascarene Islands) at the time of the arrival of the first Europeans. Smithsonian Contributions to Paleobiology 89, 1-38.\nYoung, H. G. & Kear, J. 2006. The rise and fall of wildfowl of the western Indian Ocean and Australasia. Bulletin of the British Ornithologists' Club 126, 25-39.\n- . & Smith, J. G. 1989. The search for the Madagascar pochard Aythya innotata: survey of Lac Alaotra, Madagascar October-November, 1989. Dodo, Jersey Wildlife Preservation Trust 26, 17-34.\n- ., Tonge, & Hume, J. P. 1996 Review of Holocene wildfowl extinctions. Wildfowl 47, 166-180.\nIf you said that the mystery duck from yesterday was a mallard, a weird mallard hybrid, a shoveler of some sort, or blah blah blah, then shame shame shame on you: you are a loser. If, however, you said it was a Meller's duck Anas melleri, then well done, you are some kind of freakin' duck genius,\u2026\nPink-headed duck and Red-crested pochard: who would win in a fight?\nSo I recently recycled the Madagascar pochard article from Tet Zoo ver 1, first published in 2006. As you might have realised if you read the 2006 article (and if your memory is exceptionally good), I made one major change for the 2009 re-posting: I chopped out the bit about the Pink-headed duck.\u2026\nA new modern mammal for Madagascar\nThe fact that new, modern-day mammal species are discovered on a fairly regular basis should most definitely not be a surprise to the average Tet Zoo reader. These are not all 'cryptic species' distinguishable only on the basis of DNA: many are morphologically distinctive, honest-to-goodness new\u2026\nCommon Pochard\ntags: Common Pochard, Aythya ferina, birds, Image of the Day Common Pochard, Aythya ferina (Hiroshima, Japan). Image: Bardiac [larger].\nIIRC, some 2,000 plus species of birds have gone extinct in oceanic isles over the past 10,000 years, not to mention the loads of amphibians, lizards, crocodilians, mammals and invertebrates...........\nBy Raymond (not verified) on 30 Aug 2009 #permalink\n\"Some ducks can carry their eggs and\/or their juveniles in flight\"\nThat's fascinating. Is there any more information about this?\nBy Stefan (not verified) on 30 Aug 2009 #permalink\nYes ducks ARE amazing. I spent a good while watching gadwall yesterday, along with some pochard. They are just coming out of eclipse. I find it amusing that some people regard ducks as dull coloured and boring - I usually point them towards mandarin and carolina wood ducks in full breeding plumage. mInd you a drake mallard or pochard, or even 'dull grey' gadwall is rather pleasing to the eye, and the camera :)\nBy Neil (not verified) on 30 Aug 2009 #permalink\nDucks: my favorite animals. Great article.\nBy Kevin Schreck (not verified) on 30 Aug 2009 #permalink\nGreat news, I hope\nfor the best for the duck!\nAre you sure about Alaotra gentle lemur? The photo looks like obese crowned lemur.\nBTW - about pochard bones. It seems that bird bones are more difficult to identify that believed. Kenyon shag and recently Lord Howe island booby (both non-existing) prove that we should be more careful about naming extinct island birds from bones.\nBy Jerzy (not verified) on 30 Aug 2009 #permalink\nHow wonderful that it's been rediscovered. (I just hope that it will now be conserved!)\n>>appears to have become extinct (partly due to >>hybridisation with the African little grebe T. ruficollis >>capensis).\nIn \"extinction by hybridization\", how is \"extinct\" defined? In theory, since the Alaotra grebe genes still exist in the little grebe population, could selective breeding of the most Alaotra-like ones reconcentrate those genes and re-create the Alaotra grebe?\nBy William Miller (not verified) on 30 Aug 2009 #permalink\nThe Madagascar pochard looks very much like the ferruginous duck Aythya nyroca. Are they sister taxa?\nDarren:\nsaid to still be common in Soothill & Whitehead's 1978 Wildfowl of the World. This was incorrect, however, as in fact the species hadn't been found at the lake since 1971 (Young & Kear 2006), and the last published sighting comes from 1970\nUnfortunately, quite many semi-popular taxon monographs of the 'XYZ's of the World' kind are several years out of date regarding such fairly major details (in my experience anyway).\nJerzy:\nThat picture seems to have been taken in Jersey Zoo, so I reckon that the identification is reliable.\nBy Dartian (not verified) on 30 Aug 2009 #permalink\nIn \"extinction by hybridization\", how is \"extinct\" defined? In theory, since the Alaotra grebe genes still exist in the little grebe population...\nTo complicate matters, there's no certainty that the Alaotra genes will persist in the hybrid population - they may be filtered out by drift or selection. I do feel that \"extinction by hybridisation\" is a difficult concept, and that conservation programmes often take an overly simplistic view towards it. However, I'll admit that personally the question has me stumped.\nBy Christopher Taylor (not verified) on 30 Aug 2009 #permalink\nWow, I guess the fact that the pochard is a rediscovered species \"supposed\" to be extinct really does score high on the \"HolyCrapometer\"\nI thought that was the sungrebe or some bird along those lines that carries its eggs and young in flight.\nBy Anonymous (not verified) on 31 Aug 2009 #permalink\nI'm noticing a fascination with ducks\nBy Michael O'Sullivan (not verified) on 31 Aug 2009 #permalink\nI met the biologist who rediscovered the Cebu Flowerpecker and Black Shama. It was pretty interesting to hear her tale and the issues with translation.\nIn the local dialect, the shama and the magpie-robin have the same name, Siloy. When they were told by ornithologists that it was extinct, the people were shocked. \"The Siloy is still here.\" But the scientists thought they were talking about the magpie-robin not the black shama.\nI bought her a laptop and let her know I'm willing to help out anyway I can. Anyway, its a wild tangent from the topic, but I thought it was an interesting case of supposedly extinct taxa and languages issues.\nBy Sebastian Marquez (not verified) on 31 Aug 2009 #permalink\n@Christopher Taylor: I didn't necessarily mean that they would persist permanently - but this 'extinction' seems quite recent, and I imagine they'd persist until today, so it seems (naively) that an aggressive capture & breeding program could save those genes & maybe even reconcentrate them into something functionally identical to an Alaotra grebe.\nThere's a project (the Quagga Project) in South Africa attempting to do this with remaining Equus quagga quagga genes in E. q. burchelli...\nHi all, thanks for great comments. Assorted brief responses...\n-- carrying of eggs and young in flight: this isn't apocryphal (nor was I thinking of sungrebes) but well supported and reported in a large number of species. My best advice: read Johnsgard & Kear (1968). See also the previous Tet Zoo comment here.\n-- yes, that is definitely an Alaotra gentle lemur (comment 6), just a very fat one. Looks nothing like a crowned lemur!\n-- is Madagascar pochard close to the Ferruginous duck? (comment 7). According to Livezey (1996), the Madagascar pochard is the most basal member of a (White-eyed duck or Hardhead A. australis (Ferruginous duck + Baer's Pochard Aythya baeri)) clade. So, they're part of the same little group, but not each other's closest relatives. Another clade, including Tufted duck and scaups, is the sister-group to this one.\nLivezey, B. C. 1996. A phylogenetic analysis of modern pochards (Anatidae: Aythyini). The Auk 113, 74-93.\nFinally, interesting thing about the rediscovery of the Cebu flowerpecker (comment 11): it represents one of the best examples of what Nigel Collar calls 'Romeo error'. That is, giving up on a species when it is not definitely extinct. By the time the species is discovered to still be around, the situation has become gravely worse. Other examples are Caerulean paradise-flycatcher Eutrichomyias rowleyi and Jerdon's courser Rhinoptilus bitorquatus.\nOh - - Alaotra grebe: if its genes still linger, does it persist in a fashion? (comment 6 and also 8). Perhaps, but the species in the proper sense (in terms of a phenotypic expression) is almost certainly gone. Apparent hybrids were reported in the late 1980s, and unidentified grebes were observed at Lake Amparihinandriambavy in 2000, but I don't think there have been recent reports.\nBy tetrapodzoology on 31 Aug 2009 #permalink\nI went to Durrell conservation trust HQ in jersy last week (i was on holiday in guernsy at the time) abd was fascinated by the scale of what G.Durrell believed in and i proceded to take photo's for my school magazine, i have read many of Geralds books and was curius about how he saved the mauritius kestral and how they are curently working on the pink pidgeon and the echo parakeet from the same island, so i woundered 'how come they havent tried helping the takahe and the kakapo from new zealand yet?\nBy Zach Hawkins (not verified) on 01 Sep 2009 #permalink\nThanks a lot for the information about carrying of eggs and young in flight :D\nBy Stefan (not verified) on 01 Sep 2009 #permalink\nI find it amusing that some people regard ducks as dull coloured and boring??? I find ridicolous how humans never ever understood that nature isn't a toy for restless kiddsss. ducks should be what they want, and genicide of their genus isn't punishable, fortunately for us.\nBy angel (not verified) on 24 Jul 2010 #permalink\nSaving Species (Radio 4 NH programme) had an article about the Madagascan Pochard today.\nhttp:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/programmes\/b00vrvdk it should be up on iPlayer soon.\nBy Rosel (not verified) on 09 Nov 2010 #permalink\nTetrapod Zoology has moved\nYou are currently at the old, defunct version of Tet Zoo. To see new stuff (from July 2011 to present), click here. See you there.\nGoodbye Tet Zoo ver 2. This really is the end.\nOn January 23rd 2007, Tet Zoo ver 2 - the ScienceBlogs version of Tetrapod Zoology - graced the intertoobz for the first time. There was rapturous applause, swooning, the delight of millions. Looking back at it now, that very first ver 2 post is rather odd. It's on the blood-feeding behaviour of\u2026\nInside Nature's Giants: polar bear special\nSo sorry for the very short notice. The following airs here in the UK tonight (Thursday 30th June 2011), Channel 4. I look forward to it. For the Tet Zoo articles on ING and related issues, see... Inside Nature's Giants: a major television event worthy of praise and accolade. Part I! Inside\u2026\nGeckos love Tet Zoo\nIf you didn't know, I've been away. The last four articles that have appeared here were all scheduled to publish in my absence. I've been in Romania and Hungary where I had a great time - saw lots of neat animals (fossil and living) and hung out with some neat people. I'll talk about some of this\u2026\nHoopoes and woodhoopoes\nYet more from that book project (see the owl article for the back-story, and the hornbill article for another of the book's sections). Hornbills, hoopoes and woodhoopoes are all similar in appearance and have been classified together in a group termed Bucerotes. Vague similarities with other long\u2026","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
+{"text":"Prince William, Kate Middleton moving from London to give kids 'normal' life\nMichelle Butterfield GlobalNews.ca\nWATCH: Kate Middleton's Most Iconic Looks\nDetermined to give their children a \"normal\" upbringing, the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge are relocating to a more rural location.\nPrince William and Kate Middleton are leaving Kensington Palace in London for Adelaide Cottage \u2014 described as a modest four-bedroom property on the Queen's Windsor Estate.\nThe move will also place them closer to Lambrook School in Berkshire, where Prince George, nine, Princess Charlotte, seven, and Prince Louis, four, will attend as day students, breaking royal tradition that often sees royal children board at the school they attend.\nRoyal experts say the move is one that aligns with the Cambridges' goals of having privacy for their family, married with their love of the outdoors.\nThe move also ensures that the family will be much closer to Queen Elizabeth II, who moved to Windsor Castle at the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic. Adelaide Cottage is about a 10-minute walk from Windsor Castle, officials said in the statement.\nQueen Elizabeth II appears on a screen via videolink from Windsor Castle, where she is in residence, during a virtual audience at Buckingham Palace, London, Tuesday, Oct. 26, 2021.\nVictoria Jones \/ The Associated Press\nThe queen's official residence is Buckingham Palace in London, but British media reports have said the monarch, 96, may now choose to permanently reside in Windsor.\nJonathan Perry, Headmaster at Lambrook School, said: \"We are delighted that Prince George, Princess Charlotte and Prince Louis will be joining us this coming September and very much look forward to welcoming the family, as well as all of our new pupils, to our school community.\"\nThe co-educational private Lambrook School in Ascot near Windsor Castle. The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge have announced that Prince George, Princess Charlotte and Prince Louis will attend Lambrook School in Berkshire from September 2022.\nJonathan Brady \/ Getty Images\nAdelaide Cottage is named after Queen Adelaide, the wife of King William IV. Built in 1831, it is substantially more modest than the Cambridges' other properties, which include their apartment in Kensington Palace, their 10-bedroom property in Norfolk and a cottage in Scotland.\nAccording to media reports, William and Kate's full-time nanny, Maria Borrallo, will live elsewhere for the first time due to the downsizing of the home. The family's other staff will also live offsite.\nJoe Little, managing editor of Majesty magazine, told Express that the move has many benefits for the family.\n\"Apartment 1A at Kensington Palace is perfect in so many ways but the Duke and Duchess and their children are unable to come and go as they might like or take advantage of the nearby London parks because of the ever-present privacy issues.\"\nA royal source told CNN that the move will allow William and Kate to be \"active parents in a busy school.\"\nPrince Charles, from left, Queen Elizabeth II, Prince Louis, Kate, Duchess of Cambridge, Princess Charlotte, and Prince George on the balcony of Buckingham Palace, London, Thursday June 2, 2022, on the first of four days of celebrations to mark the Platinum Jubilee.\nAlastair Grant \/ Getty Images\n\"They want to be as normal a family as possible,\" the source added.\nOne royal commentator says the move also sends a message that William wants to avoid some of the disappointments of his own childhood.\nColumnist Dan Wootton said the Duke wants to be more present in his children's lives, claiming that Prince Charles was often consumed with his royal duties following the death of Princess Diana.\nWootton said William \"makes explicit his desire to avoid repeating what he believes are the mistakes of his upbringing.\"","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
+{"text":"Now Now - 2023-05-02 May 2\nELCA African National Ministries\nWartburg Seminary 333 Wartburg Place, Dubuque, IA\nIn cooperation with the Center for Global Theologies, Wartburg Learning for Life invites you to join Rev. Dr. Joseph M Bocko, Program Director for ELCA African National Ministries, for a presentation about the ELCA's work. This event will be available both on-campus and via Zoom. Dr. Bocko has a bachelor's degree in theological studies\u2026\nAdmissions Online Open House \u2013 2\/21\/23\nWith work, school, home, family, and church, our routines are set and drive us from one day to the next. Do you have a gnawing feeling in your gut that you may be ready for your routine to shift a bit, or that you are being called to do something different? Join us for an\u2026\nAmerican Indian Alaska Native Tribal Nations\nWartburg Learning for Life invites you to join Vance Blackfox, the ELCA Desk Director for American Indian Alaska Native Tribal Nations, for a presentation about the ELCA's work. This event will be available both on-campus and via Zoom. On-campus participants will enjoy a soup supper before Mr. Blackfox's presentation. All are welcome. Please register here.\u2026\nMarch 9 @ 6:00 pm - 8:00 pm Recurring\nChallenges and Opportunities of Online Worship\u2014Worship Webinar\nThe January 2023 issue of Currents in Theology and Mission will focus on the challenges and opportunities of online worship, including the meaning of assembling as online or digital communities, digital communion, and more. Several authors of those articles will reflect on the lenses through which they consider these issues and what they learned from\u2026\nELCA Global Missions\nThe Center for Global Theologies, in cooperation with Wartburg Learning for Life, hosts Rahel Mwitula-Williams, ELCA Director for Global Mission Funding for a public forum on global missions. Available both on-campus and via Zoom, the public forum is both for members of the Wartburg community and for all others interested in the ELCA's work. Watch\u2026\nMarch 24 @ 5:00 pm - March 26 @ 12:00 pm\nConsidering Your Call Weekend \u2013 3\/24\/23 \u2013 3\/26\/23\nOffers You The Opportunity To: Explore vocation and discernment with others Learn about Wartburg's degree programs and the various pathways to earn your degree Worship with the Wartburg Seminary community Meet current faculty, staff, and students, hearing their stories and experiences Share in meals and fellowship, including social events with the community Experience Wartburg Seminary\u2026\nIn Pursuit of Justice, Equity, and Inclusion: Jesus, Ida B. Wells, James Baldwin, and You\nJoin Pastor Lamont Wells, Wartburg's Strategic Advisor for Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion, for a session that will explore biblical narrative(s) and cultural experiences of demands for justice that will help inform our collective call to respond to local and global inequities. The participant will learn history, faithful methods and strategies to bring healing to divided\u2026\n2023 Reformation and Reunion\nYou are cordially invited to... come home \u2026 to the place of your formation \u2026 for ReFormation and Reunion! Take time for reunions and celebrations! Take time to learn, relax, and care for yourself! REGISTER HERE Tentative Schedule Pre-Event Presentation Tuesday, April 11, 12:00-1:15 PM Rev. Lisa Heffernan (2013), ELCA Coordinator of Disabilities Ministries Tuesday, April\u2026\nApril 11 @ 12:00 pm - 1:15 pm\nELCA Disability Ministries\nWartburg Learning for Life invites you to join Pastor Lisa Heffernan, coordinator for ELCA Disability Ministries for a presentation about her work. A 2013 WTS graduate, Pastor Heffernan works remotely out of South Dakota, where she is also serving in a congregation as their part-time interim pastor. In beginning her work, Pastor Heffernan wrote, \"As\u2026\nApril 20 @ 8:00 am - April 22 @ 5:00 pm\nSpanish Language, Culture, Hospitality\nThursday, April 20, 7:00-9:00 pm, Friday, April 21, 5:00-7:00 pm, Saturday, April 22, 9:00-11:00 am Pastor Violeta Siguenza, director of Centro Teologica Luterano Multicultural (CTLM), leads three sessions on ministry with Latine people. \u2022 Session 1, on Thursday evening, will focus on (a) Spanish language basics and cultural variations and (b) hospitality within Latine cultures. \u2022\u2026\nNative American Theologian\nDr. Kelly Sherman-Conroy will give a presentation about Native American and Lutheran theology. She describes herself in these (among many other) ways: I am a beautiful mosaic of lived-experience and culture. My Lakota name is Mato Waste Winyan (Good Bear Woman). I am a proud member of the Oglala Sioux Tribe. Currently based in Minnesota,\u2026\nThe Challenges of Latinx Theological Education\nIn cooperation with CTLM, Wartburg presents the Rev. Dr. Daisy Machado, former director of the Hispanic Summer Program, now retired, speaking on \"The Challenges of Latinx Theological Education: A View from the South.\" Dr. Machado is Professor Emerita of American Religious History at Union Theological Seminary. Her scholarship focused specifically on United States Christianities. She\u2026","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
+{"text":"THE STRUGGLE FOR \"ROUND TOP.\"BY E. M. LAW, MAJOR-GENERAL, C. S. A.\nMORE has been written concerning the battle of Gettysburg than any other \"passage of arms\" between the Federal and Confederate troops during the civil war. The engagement of the 1st of July, brought on by accident, on the part of the Confederates at least, in which two corps of the Federal army under General Reynolds were defeated and driven through Gettysburg by portions of Hill's and Ewell's corps, has been often and fully described by the officers on both sides. Ewell's attack on the Federal right in the vicinity of Culp's Hill on the 2d of July, and Longstreet's advance upon the Federal left on the same day, so far as relates to one division of the latter's command (McLaws's), have been detailed with equal minuteness by those engaged. The magnificent charge of Pickett's division on the Federal center on the third day has been the theme of a host of writers who deemed it an honor to have stood in the lines of blue by which that charge was repelled, and those who, on the other hand, through it no less an honor to have shared the fortunes of the town and shattered columns of gray which only failed to accomplish impossibilities.\nBut concerning the operations of Lee's extreme right wing, extending to the foot of Round Top, little or nothing has been written on the Confederate side. This part of the line was held by Hood's division of Longstreet corps, and was really the key to the whole position of Gettysburg. Here some of the most stubborn fighting of that desperate battle was done, and here a determined effort of the Federal cavalry to reach the right rear of the Confederate army on the 3d of July was frustrated-an attempt which, if successful, must have resulted disastrously to that army.\nThe meagerness of the details of the operations referred to may be accounted for by the fact that General Longstreet personally superintended the left of his line, consisting of McLaws's division of his own corps, supported by R. H. Anderson's division of Hill's corps, and hence knew comparatively little from personal observation of the movements of Hood's division; and, also, that General Hood was wounded early in the engagement on the 2d of July, and, relinquishing the command of the division, could not report its subsequent operations. As senior brigadier, I succeeded to the command of Hood's division, and directed its movements during the engagements of the 2d and 3d of July. But owing to the active and constant movements of our army for some weeks after the battle, I was only able to obtain the reports of brigade commanders a very short time previous to being ordered to the army of General Bragg at Chickamauga. This prevented me from making a report at the time, and it was afterward neglected.\nThe facts stated in this paper are therefore many of them published for the first time. It remains for the impartial reader to decide whether they do not constitute an important part of the history of the most memorable battle of the war; for Gettysburg was the turning-point in the great struggle. Together with the fall of Vicksburg, which occurred simultaneously with the retreat of Lee's army toward the Potomac, it inspired the armies and people of the North with fresh courage and stimulated anew the hopes of ultimate success which were visibly flagging under an almost uninterrupted series of reverses to the Federal arms in Virginia, extending over a period of nearly two years. On the other hand, it was at Gettysburg that the right arm of the South was broken, and it must always stand out in Confederate annals as in the history of a brave and kindred people stands\n\"Flodden's fatal field,\nWhere shivered was fair Scotland's spear,\nAnd broken was her shield.\"\nWhen the fight began at Gettysburg on the 1st of July, three brigades of Hood's division were at Greenwood on the Chambersburg road and on the west side of South Mountain. My own brigade, with Bachman's battery, was at New Guilford, some miles south of Greenwood, watching our right flank. At 3 o'clock on the morning of the 2d, under orders from General Longstreet, I moved as rapidly as possible toward Gettysburg, and arrived there shortly before noon, having marched the intervening distance of twenty-four miles in that time. On my arrival I found the other brigades of Hood's division resting about a mile from the town, on the Chambersburg road. In a short time after my brigade came up, the division was moved to our right (south), traversing the angle between the Chambersburg and Emmitsburg roads, following McLaws, who was in advance. Pickett's division had not yet come up. We moved very slowly, with frequent halts and deflections from the direct course-the latter being necessary to conceal our movements from the Federal signal station on Little Round Top.\nAt length, after many vexatious delays, Hood's division was pushed forward until it uncovered McLaws, and soon reached the Emmitsburg road in front of Round Top. Here our line of battle was formed at an acute angle with the road, the right being in advance of it, between the road and the mountain, and the left extending across and in rear of the road. The formation was in two lines, Law's Alabama and Robertson's Texas brigades in front, supported, at a distance of about 200 yards, by the Georgia brigades of Benning and G. T. Anderson. McLaws's division extended the line to our left, with a similar formation. The Artillery Battalion, composed of Reilly's, Latham's, Garden's, and Bachman's batteries, twenty guns in all, were disposed at advantageous points upon the ridge occupied by the line of infantry. There were no signs of Federal cavalry or troops of any kind on our right. As a precautionary measure, however, a regiment was detached from Anderson's brigade and stationed at Kern's house, half a mile down the road toward Emmitsburg. It was now past 4 o'clock in the afternoon and our troops were in position for the attack. The flank movement by which they came into position is referred to in the following dispatch from the Federal signal station on Little Round Top: \"To General Meade-4 o'clock P. M. The only infantry of the enemy visible is on the extreme [Federal] left; it has been moving toward Emmitsburg.\" It will thus be seen that the movement, in spite of our precautions, was not unobserved.\nThe Confederate line of battle occupied a ridge, partly wooded, with a valley intervening between it and the heights held by the Federal troops in front. The position occupied by the Federal left wing in front of us was now fully disclosed to view, and it was certainly one of the most formidable it had ever been the fortune of any troops to confront. Round Top rose like a huge sentinel guarding the Federal left flank, while the spurs and ridges trending off to the north of it afforded unrivaled positions for the use of artillery. The puffs of smoke rising at intervals along the line of hills, as the Federal batteries fired upon such portions of our line as became exposed to view, clearly showed that these advantages had not been neglected. the thick woods which in great part covered the sides of Round Top and the adjacent hills concealed from view the rugged nature of the ground, which increased fourfold the difficulties of the attack.\nHow far up the slope of Round Top the Federal left extended we could not tell, as the woods effectually concealed from view everything in that quarter.\nIn order to gain information upon this important point, I sent out a detail of six picked men as scouts, with instructions to move as rapidly as possible to the summit of Round Top, making a detour to their right, and \"feeling\" down from that point, to locate the left of the Federal line. The entire absence of Federal cavalry on our right, as well as other indications leading to the same conclusion, convinced me that the Federals, relying upon the protection of the mountain, considered their flank secure; that it was therefore their most vulnerable point. Impressed with this view, I further instructed the scouts when they reached the summit to observe carefully the state of affairs on the other side, and send a \"runner\" back to me with such intelligence as they might be able to gain. A few moments after they had started, I saw in the valley, some distance to our right, several dark figures moving across the fields from the rear of Round Top in the direction of the Emmitsburg road. These on being captured proved to be Federal soldiers, who seemed surprised at our sudden appearance in that quarter, and who, on being questioned, stated that they had surgeon's certificates and were \"going to the rear.\" They indicated \"the rear\" by pointing toward Emmitsburg, and in reply to the question where they came from, they said from the \"medical train behind the mountain\" \u2014 referring to Round Top. They also stated that the medical and ordnance trains \"around the mountain\" were insecurely guarded, no attack being expected at that point; and that the other side of the mountain could be easily reached by a good farm road, along which they had just traveled, the distance being a little more than a mile. On my way to convey this information to General Hood, I met a messenger from my scouts, who had reached the crest of Round Top. He reported that there was no Federal force on the summit, and confirmed in every particular the statements of the prisoners I had just captured. If there had previously been any question in regard to the policy of a front attack, there now remained not a shadow of doubt that our true point d'appui was Round Top, from which the Confederate right wing could be extended toward the Taneytown and Baltimore roads, on the Federal left and rear.\nI found General Hood on the ridge where his line had been formed, communicated to him the information I had obtained, and pointed out the ease with which a movement by the right flank might be made. He coincided fully in my views, but said that his orders were positive to attack in front, as soon as the left of the corps should get into position. I therefore entered a formal protest against a direct attack, on the ground: 1. That the great natural strength of the enemy's position in our front rendered the result of a direct assault extremely uncertain. 2. that, even if successful, the victory would be purchased at too great a sacrifice of life, and our troops would be in no condition to improve it. 3. That a front attack was unnecessary,-the occupation of Round Top during the night by moving upon it from the south, and the extension of our right wing from that point across the enemy's left and rear, being not only practicable, but easy. 4. That such a movement would compel a change of front on the part of the enemy, the abandonment of his strong position on the heights, and force him to attack us in position. General Hood called up Captain Hamilton, of his staff, and requested me to repeat the protest to him, and the grounds on which it was made. He then directed Captain Hamilton to find General Longstreet as quickly as possible and deliver the protest, and to say to him that he (Hood) indorsed it fully. Hamilton rode off at once, but in about ten minutes returned, accompanied by a staff-officer of General Longstreet, who said to General Hood, in my hearing, \"General Longstreet orders that you begin the attack at once.\" Hood turned to me and merely aid, \"You hear the order?\" I at once moved my brigade to the assault. I do not know whether the protest ever reached General Lee. From the brief interval that elapsed between the time it was sent to General Longstreet and the receipt of the order to begin the attack, I am inclined to think it did not. General Longstreet has since said that he repeatedly advised against a front attack and suggested a movement by our right flank. He may have thought, after the rejection of this advice by General Lee, that it was useless to press the matter further.\nJust here the battle of Gettysburg was lost to the Confederate arms. It is useless to speculate upon the turn affairs might have taken if the Confederate cavalry had been in communication with the rest of the army, and if General Stuart had kept General Lee informed, as he should have done, of the movements of the Federal army. In considering the causes of the Confederate failure on that particular field, we must take the situation just as we find it. And the situation was as follows: The advance of the two armies encountered each other on the 1st of July. An engagement ensued in which the Confederates were victorious. The Federal troops retired through Gettysburg and took position along the height east of the town-a position which, if properly defended, was practicably impregnable to a direct attack.\nThe whole matter then resolves itself into this: General Lee failed at Gettysburg on the 2d and 3d of July because he made his attack precisely where his enemy wanted him to make it and was most fully prepared to receive it. Even had he succeeded in driving the Federal army from its strong position by a general and simultaneous assault along the whole front (which was the only possible chance of success in that direction), he would have found his army in very much the same condition in which Pyrrhus found his, when, after driving the Romans from the field of Asculum he exclaimed, \"Another such victory, and I am undone!\"\nThe failure of General Ewell to seize Cemetery Hill and adjacent positions, on the evening of July 1st, has been frequently assigned as one of the causes of our loss of the battle. It is very doubtful whether General Ewell could have occupied those heights had he made the attempt, for General Pleasonton has asserted very positively that, on the night of the 1st of July, \"we [the Federals] had more troops in position than Lee.\" And General Lee qualified his instructions to General Ewell to seize the heights by the words \"if practicable.\" Under the circumstances, the fact that General Ewell did not seize them is very strong presumptive evidence that it was not practicable.\nThe two armies being face to face on the 2d of July. and setting aside all question of a retreat by either, General Lee's alternative of a direct attack was a movement by his right flank to the Federal left and rear. The first promised nothing but desperate fighting, heavy loss. and probable failure. The second certainly promised nothing worse, with the probabilities all in favor of a \"fair field and a free fight,\" and that was all his army asked. Referring to this suggested movement upon the Federal left flank, General Pleasonton, who commanded the Federal cavalry at that time, has expressed the opinion that it was impracticable, and has stated further that he \"had two divisions of cavalry, one in rear of the Federal position and one on Lee's right flank,\" to prevent it. If the cavalry had been there, as he states, they would not have amounted to even a single \"ounce of prevention,\" as far as the movements of our infantry were concerned. But if there was a division, or even a single picket-post of cavalry, either Federal or Confederate, on our right flank, at any time on the 2d of July, it was kept most persistently out of sight, as my scouts, who were sent out in all directions, failed to find it. Our order of attack-issued as soon as the two divisions of Longstreet's corps came into position on the line already described-was, that the movement should begin on the right, my brigade on that flank leading, the other commands taking it up successively toward the left. It was near 5 o'clock P. M. when we advanced to the attack. the artillery on both sides had been warmly engaged for about fifteen minutes, and continued to fire heavily until we became engaged with the Federal infantry, when the Confederate batteries ceased firing to avoid injury to our own troops, who were then, for the most part, concealed by the woods about the base of Round Top and the spurs to the north of it. General Hood was severely wounded in the arm by a shot from the Federal artillery as we moved into action.\nAdvancing rapidly across the valley which separated the opposing lines,-all the time under a heavy fire from the batteries,-our front line struck the enemy's skirmishers posted along the farther edge of the valley. Brushing these quickly away, we soon came upon their first line of battle, running along the lower slopes of the hills known as Devil's Den, to our left of Round Top, and separated from the latter by Plum Run valley. The fighting soon became close and severe. Exposed to the artillery fire from the heights in front and on our left, as well as to the musketry of the infantry, it required all the courage and steadiness of the veterans who composed the Army of Northern Virginia-whose spirit was never higher than then-to face the storm. Not one moment was lost. With rapidly thinning ranks the gray line swept on, until the blue line in front wavered, broke, and seemed to dissolve in the woods and rocks on the mountain-side. The advance continued steadily, the center of the division moving directly upon the guns on the hill adjoining Devil's Den on the north, from which we had been suffering so severely. In order to secure my right flank, I extended it well up on the side of Round Top, and my brigade, in closing to the right, left a considerable interval between its left and the right of the Texas brigade of Robertson. Into this interval I threw Benning's Georgia brigade, which had up to that time occupied the second line. At the same time seeing a heavy Federal force on Robertson's left, and no Confederate troops having come up to extend our line in that direction, Anderson's Georgia brigade, till then also in the second line, was thrown out on that flank.\nThus disposed, the division continued to move forward, encountering, as it ascended the heights around the battery on the spur and to the right and left of it, a most determined resistance from the Federal troops, who seemed to be continually re\u00ebnforced. The ground was rough and difficult, broken by rocks and bowlders, which rendered an orderly advance impossible. Sometimes the Federals would hold one side of the huge bowlders on the slope until the Confederates occupied the other. In some cases my men, with better view and to deliver their fire with greater effect. One of these, Sergeant Barbee of the Texas brigade, having reached a rock a little in advance of the line, stood erect on the top of it, loading and firing as coolly as if unconscious of danger, while the air around him was fairly swarming with bullets. He soon fell helpless from several wounds; but he held his rock, lying upon the top of it until the litter-bearers carried him off.\nIn less than an hour from the time we advanced to the attack, the hill by Devil's Den opposite our center was taken, with three pieces of the artillery that had occupied it. The remaining piece was run down the opposite slope by the gunners, and escaped capture.\nIn the meantime my brigade, on the right, had swept over the northern slope of Round Top, cleared it of the enemy, and then, making a partial change of front to the left, advanced upon Little Round Top, which lay in rear of the spur on which the battery had been taken. this change of direction soon exposed it to a flank attack on the right by fresh troops (Vincent's brigade), rendering it necessary to retire it to the general line.\nWhile our center and right wing were engaged as I have described, Anderson's brigade, on the left, was subjected to great annoyance and loss by movements of the enemy upon its left flank, being frequently compelled to change the front of the regiments on that flank to repel attacks from that direction.\nUp to this time I had seen nothing of McLaws's division, which was to have extended our left and to have moved to the attack at the same time. I therefore halted my line, which had become broken and disorganized by the roughness of the ground over which it had been fighting, and placing it in as advantageous a position as possible for receiving any attack that the Federals might be disposed to make, I hurried back to the ridge from which we had originally advanced. I found McLaws stilling position there, his troops suffering considerably from a severe fire of artillery from the opposite hills. I was informed by General Kershaw, who held the right of his division, that although he understood the general instructions that the forward movement was to be taken up from the right, he had not yet received the order to move, from his division commander. I pointed out the position of Hood's division, and urged the necessity of immediate support on its left. General Kershaw requested me to designate the point on which his right flank should be directed, and promptly moved to the attack, the movement being taken up by the whole division.\nWhen Hood's division first attacked, General Meade, alarmed for the safety of his left wing, and doubtless fully alive to the importance of holding so vital a point as Round Top and its adjacent spurs, commenced sending re\u00ebnforcements to the threatened points. We encountered some of these in our first advance, and others were arriving as McLaws came up on our left. In its advance this division extended from the \"Peach Orchard\" near the Emmitsburg road, on its left, to the \" Wheat-field\" north of the hill on which we had captured the Federal battery, where its right wing connected with my left. As McLaws advanced we again moved forward on his right, and the fighting continued in \"see-saw\" style-first one side and then the other gaining ground or losing it, with small advantage to either, until dark.\nAt the close of the engagement Hood's division held the hill where the battery had been taken and the ridge to its left-our right extending across Devil's Den and well up on the north-western slope of Round Top. During the night this line was strengthened by the construction of a breastwork of the loose stones that abounded all along the positions occupied by the troops, and the light of the next morning disclosed the fact that the Federal troops in front of us had improved their time in the same way. In fact, all through the night we could hear them at work as the rocks were dropped in place on the works, and no doubt they heard us just as distinctly, while we were engaged in the same life- preserving operation.\nThough the losses had been severe on both sides, comparatively few prisoners had been taken. But early in the night, in the confusion resulting from the fight over such rugged ground, and the darkness of the wooded mountain-side, men of both armies, in search of their hands in the most advanced positions which we had reached and had been compelled to abandon. Among these latter was Colonel Powell of the 5th Texas regiment, who was shot through the body and afterward died. Powell was a stout, portly man, with a full beard, resembling, in many respects, General Longstreet, and the first impression of his captors was that they had taken that officer. Indeed, it was asserted positively by some of the prisoners we picked up during the night that Longstreet was badly wounded and a prisoner in their hands. and they obstinately refused to credit our statements to the contrary.\nEarly in the morning of the 3d two of my batteries, Latham's and Garden's, were sent to Colonel ( afterward General) E. P. Alexander, who commanded our artillery in the center, to assist in the cannonade of the Federal position south of Cemetery Hill, preparatory to the assault of General Pickett's division at that point; and about 9 o'clock A. M. General Longstreet came over to my position on the right, and instructed me to be ready to renew the attack on our front. Under the circumstances that then existed, such an attack would have been simply madness. I have already described the difficult nature of the ground in our front. These difficulties were greatly increased by extemporized breastworks of rock all along the Federal line, which afforded good protection for their infantry, and were fully manned by a force much superior to our own. On the other hand, we had been weakened in the desperate attack of the preceding evening by losses amounting to one-fourth of the whole force carried into action. More than two thousand officers and men of our division had been killed and wounded, among them Generals J.B. Anderson and G.T. Robertson, and about one-half of the field-officers of the various regiments. McLaws's division, on our left, had suffered nearly as severely, General Barksdale of that division being killed and General Semmes mortally wounded.\nThe cannonade in the center soon began, and presented one of the most magnificent battle-scenes witnessed during the war. Looking up the valley toward Gettysburg, the hills on either side were capped with crowns of flame and smoke, as 300 guns, about equally divided between the two ridges, vomited their iron hail upon each other. Dense clouds of smoke settled over the valley, through which the shells went hissing and screaming on their errand of death. Numbers of these from opposite directions exploded midway over the valley, apparently with venomous impatience, as they met each other in mid-air, lighting up the clouds with their snake-like flashes.\nWhile this grand artillery duel was progressing, and before our infantry had moved to the attack, a new danger threatened us on the right. This was the appearance of Kilpatrick's division of cavalry, which moved up on that flank and commenced massing in the body of timber which extended from the base of Round Top westward toward Kern's house, on the Emmitsburg road. Reilly's and Bachman's batteries were ordered to change front to the right so as to bear upon this position, and at once opened fire upon the cavalry, which retired beyond the wood and out of sight. In order to protect my flank more fully, I withdrew the 1st Texas regiment of Robertson's brigade from the main line, and placed it in position midway between Round Top and the Emmitsburg road, With skirmishers extending from its left and connecting at right angles with the extreme right of the main line on the slope of the mountain. I also detached the 7th and 8th Georgia regiments of Anderson's brigade, and sent them to the support of the 9th, which had been stationed at Kern's house. About the time these dispositions were completed, Colonel Black, of the 1st South Carolina Cavalry, reported to me with about 100 men who had been gathered up from the medical trains, most of them partly of horse artillery. Hart's guns were stationed on the Emmitsburg road, and the cavalry extended the right flank beyond that road. This new flanking line was formed at right angles to the main line, and crossed the Emmitsburg road near Kern's house.\nOne brigade of the Federal cavalry (Merritt's) moved across the road and deployed a strong line of dismounted skirmishers in front of Colonel Black's command, which was too weak to offer any effectual resistance. Hart's guns, however, were well handled, and did good service as long as the enemy remained in reach of them. To meet this flanking movement, I had to extend the 7th and 8th Georgia regiments to the right, and heavy skirmishing continued as the lines developed, with occasional efforts of the Federals to break through, until about half-past three o'clock P. M., when my two regiments were stretched out to a bare line of skirmishers.\nIt is not an easy task to operate against cavalry with infantry alone on an extended line, and in an open country where the former, capable of moving much more rapidly, can choose its own points of attack and can elude the blows of its necessarily more tardy adversary. But Merritt's brigade was now dismounted and deployed as skirmishers, and I lost no time in taking advantage of this temporary equality as to the means of locomotion. Detaching the two remaining regiments of Anderson's brigade(11th and 59th Georgia)from the main line, I moved them rapidly to our extreme right, now about a mile from Kern's house, attacked Merritt's reserve, and then, changing front to the left, struck his skirmish-line \"on its end\" and \"doubled it up\" as far as the Emmitsburg road. This reduced my front to manageable dimensions and left some force at my disposal to meet any concentrated attack that the cavalry might make.\nI had just returned to the position occupied by our artillery, which was in the angle formed by the main and flanking lines, when Farnsworth's cavalry brigade charged the line held by the 1st Texas regiment. It was impossible to use our artillery to any advantage owing to the \"close quarters\" of the attacking cavalry with our own men- the leading squadrons forcing the Federal right wing, overlapped the 1st Texas on its left, and, striking the skirmish-line only, rode through it into the open valley in rear of our main line on the spurs of Round Top. When I first became satisfied, through information from the Texas skirmishers, that Farnsworth's brigade was massing in their front, the 9th Georgia regiment was ordered from Kern's house to the support of the batteries, the former position being now safe, as the other four regiments of Anderson's brigade were concentrated near that point. Hearing the firing and knowing its cause, the 9th Georgia came up at a run, just as the 1st Vermont Cavalry rode through our skirmish-line, led by General Farnsworth in person. Instead of moving directly upon our batteries, the cavalry directed its course up the valley toward Gettysburg, passing between the position of our artillery and our main line. Watching the direction they had taken, I sent Lieutenant Wade, of my staff, rapidly across the valley in advance of them, with orders to detach the first regiment he should come to on the main line and send it down on a run to \"head them off\" in that direction. He was also ordered to follow the line to the extreme right and direct Colonel Oates (15th Alabama) to strengthen his flanking skirmish-line and to close up the gap on the left of the 1st Texas where the cavalry had broken in.\nFarnsworth and his cavalry in the meantime were riding in gallant style, with drawn sabers and unopposed, up the valley. As they approached Slyder's house, and as I stood intently watching them, I saw a ragged Confederate battle-flag fluttering among the trees at the foot of the opposite ridge, and the men with it soon after appeared, running out into the open ground on the farther side of the valley. It was the 4th Alabama regiment, Law's brigade, which had been taken from the main line and sent down by Lieutenant Wade. The men opened fire as they ran. The course of the cavalry was abruptly checked and addles were rapidly emptied. Recoiling from this fire, they turned to their left and rear, and directed their course up the hill toward the position occupied by our batteries. Bachman's battery promptly changed front to its left, so as to face the approaching cavalry, and, together with its infantry supports, opened a withering fire at close range. Turning again to their left, Farnsworth and the few of his men who remained in their saddles directed their course toward the point where they had originally broken in, having described by this tim almost a complete circle. But the gap where they had entered was now closed, and receiving another fire from that point, they again turned to the left and took refuge in the woods near the base of Round Top. When the last turn to the left was made, about half a dozen of their number separated from the main body and escaped by \"running the gauntlet\" to the right of the 1st Texas regiment. Farnsworth, with his little handful of gallant followers, rode upon the skirmish-line of the 15th Alabama regiment, and, pistol in hand, called upon Lieutenant Adrian, who commanded the line, to surrender. The skirmishers in return fired upon him, killing his horse and wounding Farnsworth in several places.\nGeneral Longstreet, aware of the danger that threatened our right from the attack of Kilpatrick's division, came over to my position late in the afternoon and expressed his satisfaction at the result and the promptness and good conduct of the troops engaged. We had all day held our front line, gained the evening before, and with troops drawn from that line had repulsed General Kilpatrick on our right flank. It seemed to us on the Confederate right that there was at least one little spot of \"silver lining\" in the cloud that hung so darkly over the field of Gettysburg after the disastrous charge of Pickett.\nLate in the afternoon of July 3d I was ordered to withdraw the division from the lines it had held since the evening of the 2d to the ridge near the Emmitsburg road, from which it had advanced to the attack on that day. McLaws's division, which had held the line to our left during the day, retired first, and I ordered my brigade commanders to take up the movement from left to right. The courier who delivered the order to General Benning holding the left of the division, in designating the position to which he was to retire, pointed to the line McLaws had just abandoned. Benning, supposing that McLaws had been moved for the purpose of re\u00ebnforcing our line on some other part of the field, dispatched Colonel DuBose with the 15th Georgia regiment in that direction. McCandless's Federal brigade had, in the meantime, advanced to the ground previously held by McLaws, and attacked the 15th Georgia when it attempted to take up that position. Colonel DuBose made a gallant but fruitless attempt to hold his ground, expecting support from the other regiments of his brigade, re\u00ebnforced by Nevin's, he was driven back with considerable loss. He retired from one position to another, fighting as he retreated, and finally succeeded in extricating his regiment and rejoining his brigade. The loss of the 15th Georgia in this affair was very heavy, including 101 prisoners, besides the killed and wounded. In the meantime General Benning, having received a second order to retire, withdrew the remainder of his brigade without loss. The other brigades were quietly withdrawn, the Federals making no advance. We remained in our new position across the Emmitsburg road until near daylight on the 5th, when we took up our march with the rest of the army toward Fairfield Gap and the Potomac.\nLaw, Evander M., The Struggle for \"Round Top\", in Battles and Leaders of the Civil War, Volume 3 The Tide Shifts, pp 318-330. Castle, a division of Book Sales, Secaucus, NJ. ISBN 0-89009-571-X\nDownloaded and edited from the ehistory pages, Battles and Leaders of the Civil War, The Ohio State University. https:\/\/ehistory.osu.edu\/books\/battles\/vol3\/318","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
+{"text":"Home Cars 20 Funny Looking Japanese Production Cars\n20 Funny Looking Japanese Production Cars\nMitsuoka Viewt\nAs we told you before, the world of Japanese Kei Cars is crazy and the Mitsuoka Viewt is just another example. They introduced it in the early '90s. The Viewt is a retro-styled subcompact car they built on the Nissan Micra base.\nMitsuoka paid much attention to the details, fabricating a new front and rear end to make the Micra resemble the classic early '60s Jaguar Mk2 sedan. However, the drivetrain was the same as in the Micra, so it meant that Viewt delivered a modest performance and top speeds.\nPrince Skyline Coupe\nThe car industry in post-war Japan was modest and concentrated on small Kei Cars. But there was one factory that produced luxury vehicles with the looks of those high priced European models. It was the Prince Motor Company.\nThe best and most influential model was the Skyline Sport Coupe with its sleek design, perfect stance and luxury feel. It came with a 1.9-liter four cylinder engine delivering around 100 HP. Despite its effect on the market, the price was high, so they made just a few hundred of them.\nEven before retro was a thing in car design, Nissan presented an influential and crazy looking compact model they called the Pao. It was for sale on the Japanese market only and all of them came in right hand drive configuration.\nThe design resembled the Austin Farina or Mini, but underneath the body, the Pao was an advanced car with an independent suspension and 52 HP engine. Nissan sold it for just three years between 1989 and 1991. They made over 50,000 of them.\nOften called one of the ugliest cars ever produced, Nissan S-Cargo has a cult following, and not only in Japan, but worldwide. The reason is simply its unusual styling and design that is unique in the car world.\nNissan introduced the car in 1989. It was a highly stylized urban Kei Car delivery vehicle with modest power and dimensions, but great usability and practicality. It got its power from a 1.5-liter engine mated to a three-speed automatic gearbox. However, despite being unique and interesting, they sold only around 8,000 of them.\nWhich is your favorite on this list of crazy, funny and insane Japanese production cars? Be sure to get your Kei car before it becomes rarer and way more expensive.","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
+{"text":"Florida mother left 3 kids, 3, 6, 9, in school bus overnight to smoke on a boat: police\nby: Antonio Stinson\nCourtesy: WFLA\nGULFPORT, Fla. (WFLA) \u2014 A mother has been arrested after her three children, ages 3, 6, and 9, were found unattended inside a mini school bus parked in the Gulfport municipal beach parking lot overnight.\nOfficer Christopher Priest found the bus around 4:42 a.m. during routine patrol. He said the children told him their mother left them in the bus around 9 p.m. the night before and went out on a boat.\nGulfport marine patrol searched the area and found the mother, Andrea L. Kerrins, 33, on-board a boat owned by a 46-year-old man. Police said she had been smoking marijuana and she said she intended to spend the night on the boat.\nInside the bus, officers found a bin of mostly perishable food with no cooler or refrigerator. There was a five gallon bucket near the front door that was designated as the toilet.\nKerins was charged with three counts of felony child neglect.\nThe Florida Department of Children and Families have taken custody of the children 'for the time being,' police said.\nThe name on the bus, Meg's Playhouse and Preschool, appears to be a defunct organization with which Kerrins is not affiliated, the police department said.\nMore Nation & World Stories","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}