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+{"text":"Alfred Hermida\nScholar, journalist, educator\n\u00a9 2023 Alfred Hermida\nAlfred Hermida is an award-winning online news pioneer, digital media scholar and journalism educator with two decades of experience in digital journalism.\nHe is a full professor at the School of Journalism, Writing, and Media at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver, Canada, where he served as director from June 2015 to December 2020. Under his leadership, the department expanded by bringing together the School of Journalism, founded in 1996, and the Arts Studies in Research and Writing program, formed in 2008-09, to create the School of Journalism, Writing, and Media in January 2020.\nIn 2017, he co-founded and launched The Conversation Canada with his UBC Journalism colleague, Mary Lynn Young, bringing academics and experienced journalists together to share timely analysis and commentary drawing from research, evidence and insights.\nHis book, Tell Everyone: How the Stories We Share Shape What We Know and Why It Matters, was published by Doubleday Canada in October 2014. The book charts how our enhanced capacity to share information via social media is shaping our notions of an informed and engaged public, a media ecology of competing ideas, and a responsive political establishment.\nTell Everyone was acclaimed as the best business-related book in Canada for 2015, winning the National Business Book Award.\nHe is co-editor of the Sage Handbook of Digital Journalism (Sage 2016) and co-author of Participatory Journalism: Guarding Open Gates at Online Newspapers, published in 2011 by Wiley-Blackwell.\nHe was named an IBM CAS Canada Research Faculty Fellow in 2010, 2011 and 2012, and won the 2011 UBC President's Award for Public Education Through Media. He was nominated in the 2011 Digi Awards for Canada's top social media maven.\nIn 2015, he was a finalist in the Commentary category in the Online Journalism Awards for his contributions to The Conversation.\nHe won a 2010 Canadian Online Publishing Award for best blog for Reportr.net. A student social media project he co-supervised received an Excellence in New Communication Award from the Society for New Communication Research in 2013. It followed a Commendation of Merit in the co-creation and collaboration media category of the SNCR Excellence in New Communications Awards program for UBC\/CBC Radio 3 project in 2010.\nHermida is a 16-year veteran of the BBC and was a founding news editor of the BBC News website in 1997. During his four years as daily news editor, the site won the BAFTA for best news website four years in a row. During his time at the BBC, he pioneered new forms of journalistic practice, including as one of the first BBC bi-media (TV and radio) foreign correspondents (1990), as the co-creator of the first BBC World Service podcast, Go Digital (2001) and as founder of the first technology vertical on the BBC News website.\nHe has also written for The Globe and Mail, The Wall Street Journal, The Times of London, The Guardian and NPR.\nThrough his research at UBC, and his earlier work at the BBC, he has built an international reputation as an authority on new media, with his work appearing in Journal of Broadcasting and Electronic Media, Journalism Practice, Digital Journalism and Journalism Studies among others. His research interests include participatory journalism, social media and emerging genres of digital journalism.\nProf Hermida serves on the editorial board of the Social Media + Society and Digital Journalism.\nHe is British-Canadian, with his family roots in Gibraltar where he was born and lived until going to university in the U.K.\nThe Journalism Manifesto reviewed\nAI in journalism doctoral lecture at University of Ottawa\nArticle on Canada's journalism startups in The Conversation\nResearch featured at ICA and CCA 2022 conferences\nListen to my music on Bandcamp\nnull by UXB\nListen to my music on Spotify","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
+{"text":"Answers to media questions\nVladimir Putin answered questions from Russian journalists upon completing his working visit to the Republic of Kyrgyzstan. The President of Russia participated in a meeting of the CIS Council of Heads of State.\nPresident of Russia Vladimir Putin: Good afternoon. What are we going to talk about? What would you like to know?\nQuestion: Mr President, what are results of the summit? In your opinion, after 25 years is the organisation still necessary? Perhaps there is no more need for the Commonwealth? What issues were on the agenda apart from summarising the results? Could you tell us which problems will be tackled in the first place? Are there many disagreements within the CIS?\nVladimir Putin: As a rule, disappointment happens because of excessive expectations. Perhaps it is true and when the organisation was being established, the expectations were too high. Actually, it played a very important role, which was probably its historic purpose. The CIS created conditions for its members to make a smooth, gradual and comfortable transition to becoming sovereign states. It created the conditions in which we continued to cooperate with each other and, at the same time, strengthen our own sovereignty.\nEach of the Commonwealth states made its own conclusions about the organisation's work and, therefore, we approached the 25th anniversary with an almost unanimous opinion that can be considered the main outcome. The shared opinion is that the CIS must continue as a full-fledged international organisation. This is the first point.\nSecond. Everybody believes \u2013 and this is my opinion too \u2013 that parallel structures are redundant. Anything that hinders progress, anything that creates and maintains international bureaucracy must be transformed into other frameworks that will be seeking solutions to the specific issues our states are facing.\nWe know that the post-Soviet countries were left with a huge positive legacy. There are problems, too, and we are aware of them, but there is a colossal positive legacy, including a common infrastructure, a common energy and transport infrastructure, that is both railways and a road network. It is also the Russian language that unites us all.\nIn the European Union, everybody must speak their own language and they have to use 27 interpreters, while we hardly need any. It is a huge unifying force that we are not even aware of and do not even notice in our everyday life and everyday communication. However, it is a significant aspect of our existence and an important positive factor of our collective development.\nI believe this is the most important point. We have outlined paths and directions for the organisation's further development and will follow them as we move forward. As you may know, Moldova is in line for the next presidency but there are difficulties we all know about and we hope that Moldova overcomes them as soon as possible.\nYesterday and today, I had very productive meetings with the Prime Minister of Moldova. I hope we can build a positive working dialogue and we will see how it goes. We would really like to find consensus, but bilaterally it is not possible any more considering that Moldova has signed an agreement with the European Union. Now we obviously need to involve the European Commission. I hope we can work out some successful solutions.\nThis is what I have say about yesterday's meeting. As I said yesterday, Russia is hosting the next summit. At the request of our colleagues, it will take place in Moscow in October 2017.\nQuestion: Mr President, the election campaign is gaining momentum in the United States and you are playing a certain role in it \u2013 at least, your name features in both candidates' speeches more and more frequently. What do you think about this? And since you are in a way part of this campaign, would you tell us more specifically who you will be supporting, Trump or Clinton?\nVladimir Putin: About supporting either candidate, as I said before, I cannot tell you anything new, and I do not want to. The only thing I can say is that we will support any person in any country that wants to build neighbourly and partnership relations with us. Anyone. Of course, we are following the events in the United States very closely and we do sympathise with those who publicly state the importance of building relations with Russia based on equality and see a great value in this for their country and the international community in general. This if my first point.\nThe second, regarding the use of Russia and the President of Russia in the US presidential campaign, I really hope that it is a result of Russia's growing influence and importance. However, I believe that it is mainly related to attempts to manipulate public opinion inside the country. We see an attempt to recreate an image of the so-called \"evil empire\" and instil fear in ordinary people. This is very sad because I do find such a crude attempt counterproductive.\nStrictly speaking, it has nothing to do with the problems within any given country \u2013 in this case, the numerous problems of the United States. It is not a new tactic and in our country we are also seeing attempts to plant information and manipulate public opinion during the State Duma election campaign. They seem to rely on touching very sensitive issues but are in fact very far from the interests of millions of people.\nQuestion: Mr President, you have not said anything about the progress made in implementing agreements between Russia and the United States regarding Syria. President Obama stated several times and, particularly, yesterday he said that Russia is not fulfilling them and because of that, the United States would not cooperate with Russia. However, at the same time, the US is totally opposed to making these agreements public. How would you comment on this, what is your opinion about this?\nVladimir Putin: Our US partners have always stood for openness and transparency. There is nothing surprising for me that in this case they proceed from their postulate. I can tell you why: this has to do with the difficulties that the United States is facing on the Syrian track. The difficulty is that they can in no way separate the so-called \"healthy\" part of the opposition from the semi-criminal and terrorist elements.\nIn my opinion, this is dictated by the desire to preserve the military potential in the fight against the lawful government of President Assad. However, this is a slippery slope; we have often spoken about this. Our US partners seem to be again falling into the same trap they have fallen into so many times. This is a dangerous scenario.\nAs for Russia, it meets its obligations in full. Moreover, we have reached agreements with President Assad and the Syrian Government. As we see it, the Syrian forces are implementing these agreements in full. As for making the agreements public, well, perhaps they do not want to do this because it will become clear to the international community, as well as to the American and Russian people who is not fulfilling which obligations.\nWe agreed that Jabhat al-Nusra and others of their ilk have to be separated and it has been shown where they are and where these so-called \"healthy\" forces are. What do we see now? We see no separation of terrorists from this \"healthy\" part of the opposition, instead we see these terrorists making attempts to regroup, replace one set of signboards with another, replace one name with another and preserve their military potential. This is what we see.\nThis is regrettable but I proceed from the notion that we share the determination to reach peace in Syria and the common task of fighting terrorism, international terrorism. This is, truly, a common task. And, without a doubt, everybody understands this, including our US partners who, I will admit, face quite a difficult task of separating the opposition from the terrorists.\nI would like us to be honest with each other and only in this case we will be able to move in the direction of achieving common goals. I do not understand why we need to make any agreements secret. However, we, of course, we will not be disclosing any details until our US partners consent to so, due to specific agreements, which are usually reached diplomatically when working with issues like the Syrian settlement.\nI would like to reiterate that we feel more positive than negative about this and we expect that the promises made by the US administration will be kept.\nQuestion: Your address to Russian citizens has been published recently. Have you already decided whom you will be voting for?\nVladimir Putin: Today is a pre-election silence day. I made a decision long ago when I set up a well-known political structure, a political party, so there is nothing new to discuss here.\nIn the United States, as you know, the US President is taking an active part in the Democratic Party candidate's campaign. I do not do this as actively, I created United Russia as a party, and I believe there is nothing to comment on here. However, I would like to repeat that today, on the pre-election silence day, we will not have any campaigning.\nQuestion: Mr President, yesterday you exchanged words with the Ukrainian ambassador. To my mind, you made a very emotional response to his statement. There is a feeling that due to Ukraine's position, relations between Russia and Ukraine have deteriorated and will not improve for a long time. In this regard, are you ready to resume talks both with Petro Poroshenko and the Normandy Format? How do you see this situation developing?\nVladimir Putin: I have already said that we are ready to continue contacts as long as they lead to a positive result, to a resolution of the crisis in Ukraine. We want Ukraine to develop as an independent state, strong economically and in every other aspect; we want to have a reliable, stable partner. This fully corresponds to our national and state interests.\nWe will do everything we can to reach this goal. But we will not be able to achieve this unilaterally. We cannot, for example, amend the Ukrainian Constitution \u2013 only Ukraine can do this, only the Ukrainian leadership. We cannot sign an amnesty law instead of the Ukrainian President, and we cannot adopt a law on elections. We can do almost nothing, only the Ukrainian people and their representatives are able to do it.\nWhat we can do is create an environment for talks and take part in them as intermediaries and guarantors of agreements. This is what we can do, what we want to do and what we will be doing if our partners in Kiev also want this.\nMeeting of CIS Council of Heads of State\nVisit to Kyrgyzstan, CIS summit\nPublished in sections: News, Transcripts\nPublication date: September 17, 2016, 12:15\nLast updated at September 22, 2016, 15:48","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
+{"text":"New study finds that workplace anxiety isn't always a bad thing\nNew research on anxiety in the workplace has uncovered some intriguing findings: in some instances it can help boost employee performance.\n\"There are a lot of theories and models of anxiety that exist, but this is the first model situated in the workplace focusing on employees,\" says co-author Julie McCarthy from the Department of Management at U of T Scarborough and the Rotman School of Management.\nMcCarthy, along with her former grad student and lead author Bonnie Hayden Cheng, now an assistant professor at Hong Kong Polytechnic University, looked at both the triggers of workplace anxiety and also its relationship to employee performance.\n\"If you have too much anxiety, and you're completely consumed by it, then it's going to derail your performance,\" says McCarthy, who is an expert on organizational behaviour.\n\"On the other hand, moderate levels of anxiety can facilitate and drive performance.\"\nIf employees are constantly distracted or thinking about things that are causing them anxiety, it will prevent them from completing tasks at work and that can eventually lead to exhaustion and burnout, says Cheng.\nBut in certain situations anxiety can boost performance by helping employees focus and self-regulate their behaviour. She compares it to athletes who are trained to harness anxiety in order to remain motivated and stay on task. Likewise, if employees engage in something called self-regulatory processing, that is monitoring their progress on a task and focusing their efforts toward performing that task, it can help boost their performance.\n\"After all, if we have no anxiety and we just don't care about performance, then we are not going to be motivated to do the job,\" says Cheng.\nShe says that work-anxious employees who are motivated are more likely to harness anxiety in order to help them focus on their tasks. Those who are emotionally intelligent, can recognize their feelings of anxiety and use it to regulate their performance, as well as those who are experienced and skilled at their job, are also less likely to have anxiety affect their performance.\nThe model of workplace anxiety Cheng and McCarthy developed is broken into two categories.\nOne covers dispositional aspects, that is those that align with individual character traits. If someone already experiences high levels of general anxiety for example, their experiences with workplace anxiety will be different from those who don't.\nThe other covers situational aspects, those that arise in specific job tasks. Some employees may be more affected by job appraisals, public speaking or other tasks that can distract them and lead to poor performance.\nThe study, which is published in the Journal of Applied Psychology, also outlines many of the triggers for workplace anxiety. The most prominent include jobs that require constant expression or suppression of emotion - think \"service with a smile\" - as well as jobs with constant looming deadlines or frequent organizational change.\nOffice politics and control over work are other important factors. Employee characteristics including age, gender and job tenure can also affect the experience of workplace anxiety.\nThe authors note that anxiety is a growing issue for workplaces. Recent research has found that 72 per cent of Americans experiencing daily anxiety say it interferes with their work and personal lives.\nWhile the authors do not condone inducing anxiety in employees to foster high performance, the good news for employees who chronically experience anxiety at work, or who experience it from time to time, is that it can help performance if they can self-regulate their behaviour.\n\"Managing anxiety can be done by recognizing and addressing triggers of workplace anxiety, but also being aware of how to leverage it in order to drive performance,\" says Cheng.\nShe says there are many strategies organizations can use to help employees. Some of these include training to help boost self-confidence, offering tools and resources to perform tasks at work, and equipping employees with strategies to recognize, use, and manage feelings of anxiety through emotional intelligence development.\nRelated Lead Articles from Brightsurf:\nLead-free magnetic perovskites\nScientists at Link\u00f6ping University, Sweden, working with the perovskite family of materials have taken a step forwards and developed an optoelectronic magnetic double perovskite.\nResearchers devise new method to get the lead out\nResearchers in the lab of Daniel Giammar, in McKelvey School of Engineering have devised a simple, quick and inexpensive way to quantify how much lead is trapped by a water filter.\nPreventing lead poisoning at the source\nUsing a variety of public records, researchers from Case Western Reserve University examined every rental property in Cleveland from 2016-18 on factors related to the likelihood that the property could have lead-safety problems.\nSilicones may lead to cell death\nSilicone molecules from breast implants can initiate processes in human cells that lead to cell death.\nPoor diet can lead to blindness\nAn extreme case of 'fussy' or 'picky' eating caused a young patient's blindness, according to a new case report published today [2 Sep 2019] in Annals of Internal Medicine.\nWhat's more powerful, word-of-mouth or following someone else's lead?\nResearchers from the University of Pittsburgh, UCLA and the University of Texas published new research in the INFORMS journal Marketing Science, that reveals the power of word-of-mouth in social learning, even when compared to the power of following the example of someone we trust or admire.\nUTI discovery may lead to new treatments\nSufferers of recurring urinary tract infections (UTIs) could expect more effective treatments thanks to University of Queensland-led research.\nIncreasing frailty may lead to death\nA new study published in Age and Ageing indicates that frail patients in any age group are more likely to die than those who are not frail.\nDiscovery could lead to munitions that go further, much faster\nResearchers from the U.S. Army and top universities discovered a new way to get more energy out of energetic materials containing aluminum, common in battlefield systems, by igniting aluminum micron powders coated with graphene oxide.\nShorter sleep can lead to dehydration\nAdults who sleep just six hours per night -- as opposed to eight -- may have a higher chance of being dehydrated, according to a study by Penn State.\nRead More: Lead News and Lead Current Events","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
+{"text":"Please sign in before leaving a comment to get 3. You will need notes to post new videos.\nThe Godfather - Love Theme\nClassic cover by HAUSER\nUnited States Cover The Godfather Classic Instrumental Man Violin or Cello\n2,157,859 73,788 2,157,859\nHAUSER performing Love Theme from The Godfather at 'Alone, Together' concert in Dubrovnik, Croatia.\nFollow HAUSER:\nhttps:\/\/www.instagram.com\/hausercello\nhttps:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hauserofficial\nFilmed by Medvid production\nAudio by Matterhorn Music\n#AloneTogether #HAUSER\nOfficial Wikipedia\nThe Godfather is a 1972 American crime film directed by Francis Ford Coppola, who co-wrote the screenplay with Mario Puzo, based on Puzo's best-selling 1969 novel of the same name. The film stars Marlon Brando, Al Pacino, James Caan, Richard Castellano, Robert Duvall, Sterling Hayden, John Marley, Richard Conte, and Diane Keaton. It is the first installment in The Godfather trilogy. The story, spanning from 1945 to 1955, chronicles the Corleone family under patriarch Vito Corleone (Brando), focusing on the transformation of one of his sons, Michael Corleone (Pacino), from reluctant family outsider to ruthless mafia boss. Paramount Pictures obtained the rights to the novel for the price of $80,000, before it gained popularity. Studio executives had trouble finding a director; their first few candidates turned down the position before Coppola signed on to direct the film. They and Coppola disagreed over the casting for several characters, in particular, Vito and Michael. Filming took place primarily on location around New York City and in Sicily, and was completed ahead of schedule. The musical score was composed principally by Nino Rota, with additional pieces by Carmine Coppola. The Godfather premiered at the Loew's State Theatre on March 14, 1972, and was widely released in the United States on March 24, 1972. It was the highest-grossing film of 1972, and was for a time the highest-grossing film ever made, earning between $246 and $287 million at the box office. The film received universal acclaim from critics and audiences, with praise for the performances, particularly those of Brando and Pacino, the directing, screenplay, cinematography, editing, score, and portrayal of the mafia. The Godfather acted as a catalyst for the successful careers of Coppola, Pacino, and other relative newcomers in the cast and crew. Additionally the film revitalized Brando's career, which had declined in the 1960s, and he went on to star in films such as Last Tango in Paris, Superman, and Apocalypse Now. At the 45th Academy Awards, the film won the Oscars for Best Picture, Best Actor (Brando), and Best Adapted Screenplay (for Puzo and Coppola). In addition, the seven other Oscar nominations included Pacino, Caan, and Duvall for Best Supporting Actor, and Coppola for Best Director. Since its release, The Godfather has been widely regarded as one of the greatest and most influential films ever made, especially in the gangster genre. It was selected for preservation in the U.S. National Film Registry of the Library of Congress in 1990, being deemed \"culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant\" and is ranked the second-greatest film in American cinema (behind Citizen Kane) by the American Film Institute. It was followed by sequels The Godfather Part II (1974) and The Godfather Part III (1990).\nWatch, rate and comment to promote your video here\nShawn Mendes - Wonder\nInstrumental cover by Daniel Jang\nFerdinando Carulli - Walz\nInstrumental cover by Agnieszka Kurcaba\nRobert Burns - Auld Lang Syne\nVocal cover by Yoyo\nInstrumental cover by Miquel Cardona\nMark Lowry - Mary Did You Know\nLeonard Cohen - Hallelujah\nVocal cover by Peter Buka\nFranciszek Karpi\u0144ski - O Gwiazdo Betlejemska\nVocal cover by Darek Sroka\nElvis Presley - Can't Help Falling In Love With You\nLive cover by Karl Kayzer\nMichael Buble - White Christmas\nVocal cover by Stefano Fusco\nInstrumental cover by Francesco Parrino\nInstrumental cover by Peter Bence\nVideo is Posted\nCongratulations! Your music video is successfully posted at Coverium.\nShare it now at social media and ask your friends to support you.\nEvery view, like or comment your video gets raises chart rankings.\nTop videos are rewarded with bronze, silver and gold medals!\nYou can share next video in 24 hours. Please come back tomorrow!\nEmail me a reminder when I can post next video at Coverium","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
+{"text":"State v. Moore, No. 25217.\nDocument Cited authorities 19 Cited in 100 Precedent Map Related\nCourt United States State Supreme Court of South Carolina\nWriting for the Court WALLER, Justice\nCitation 540 S.E.2d 445,343 S.C. 282\nParties The STATE, Respondent, v. Lawrence Edward MOORE, Petitioner. The State, Respondent, v. Terrance Wideman, Petitioner.\nDecision Date 11 December 2000\nDocket Number No. 25217.\n343 S.C. 282\n540 S.E.2d 445\nThe STATE, Respondent,\nLawrence Edward MOORE, Petitioner.\nTerrance Wideman, Petitioner\nSupreme Court of South Carolina.\nHeard October 17, 2000.\nDecided December 11, 2000.\nAssistant Appellate Defenders Katherine Carruth Link and M. Anne Pearce, of South Carolina Office of Appellate Defense, of Columbia, for petitioners\nAttorney General Charles Molony Condon, Chief Deputy Attorney General John W. McIntosh, Assistant Deputy Attorney General Robert. E. Bogan, and Senior Assistant Attorney General Charles H. Richardson, of Columbia, and Solicitor W. Townes Jones, of Greenwood, for respondent.\nWALLER, Justice:\nWe granted a writ of certiorari to review the Court of Appeals' opinions in State v. Moore, 334 S.C. 411, 513 S.E.2d\n626 (Ct.App.1999) and State v. Wideman, Op. No. 99-UP-101 (S.C.Ct.App. filed Feb. 22, 1999).1 We affirm in part, reverse in part, and remand for a new trial\nMoore and Wideman were convicted of second degree burglary and grand larceny. At their joint trial, they challenged the admissibility of the identification given by the robbery victim's neighbor, Stephanie Davis. At an in camera hearing, Davis testified she was driven to her Greenwood apartment by her father at approximately 11:15 am on June 11, 1996. From approximately 50 yards away, she observed two men coming out of her neighbor Steven Bell's house; Davis knew Bell was at work. After exiting her father's car, Davis asked the two men what they were doing and both \"startled\" and ran. She called 9-1-1 and gave police a description of the men. Davis described two African-American males, one was taller and darker, \"he had on a white hat ... a white t-shirt and blue shorts ... the white hat fell off and [she saw] braided hair.\" The taller man was thinner, and Davis saw only his profile. The other man had on a white t-shirt, either shorts or pants, and a black hat. Davis could not say whether he was stocky or thin, only that he was the shorter of the two. She saw him only from the back.2\nApproximately ninety minutes later, Davis was taken in a police patrol vehicle to an area near Greenwood Supply where two men were being detained by police. The suspects were the only non-uniformed persons in the vicinity. When asked if she could identify the men, Davis replied, \"Yes, ... the clothes\u2014it was a hat on the ground and I remembered the black hat, and the clothes were the same.\" With respect to the taller man with the braided hair, after Davis had \"seen him up close,\" she identified him for police as \"Coochie Terry,\" a man she recognized as having lived in an apartment near her sister. On cross-examination, Davis admitted she had not\nreally seen either man's face at the time of the initial confrontation\nAt the close of the in camera hearing, the trial court ruled, \"[t]he court's finding is that there is evidence\u2014I won't say it's reliable, but I think that's a matter for the jury\u2014that she can identify them. I don't find it unduly suggestive. I find the issues\u2014the weight is a matter for the jury.\" The Court of Appeals majority reversed and remanded. The court found error in the trial court's failure to make a determination of the reliability of Davis' identification in accordance with the factors set forth in Neil v. Biggers, 409 U.S. 188, 93 S.Ct. 375, 34 L.Ed.2d 401 (1972); see also State v. Johnson, 311 S.C. 132, 427 S.E.2d 718 (Ct.App.1993).3 Accordingly, the majority remanded to the trial court for a hearing to determine whether Davis' statement was reliable under the totality of the circumstances. Chief Judge Howell dissented, finding Davis' identification unreliable as a matter of law such that a remand was unnecessary.\nDid the Court of Appeals err in remanding to the trial court for a hearing to determine whether the identification in this case was unreliable?\nA criminal defendant may be deprived of due process of law by an identification procedure which is unnecessarily suggestive and conducive to irreparable mistaken identification. Stovall v. Denno, 388 U.S. 293, 87 S.Ct. 1967, 18 L.Ed.2d 1199 (1967). An in-court identification of an accused is inadmissible if a suggestive out-of-court identification procedure created a very substantial likelihood of irreparable misidentification. Manson v. Brathwaite, 432 U.S. 98, 97 S.Ct. 2243, 53 L.Ed.2d 140 (1977) (citing Simmons v. United States, 390 U.S. 377, 88 S.Ct. 967, 19 L.Ed.2d 1247 (1968)); State v. Stewart, 275 S.C. 447, 272 S.E.2d 628 (1980).\nThe United States Supreme Court has developed a twoprong inquiry to determine the admissibility of an out-of-court identification. Neil v. Biggers, 409 U.S. 188, 93 S.Ct. 375, 34 L.Ed.2d 401 (1972); Manson v. Brathwaite, supra. First, \"[a] court must first determine whether the identification process was unduly suggestive .... [It] next must determine whether the out-of-court identification was nevertheless so reliable that no substantial likelihood of misidentification existed.\" Curtis v. Commonwealth, 11 Va.App. 28, 396 S.E.2d 386, 388 (1990) (citing Neil v. Biggers, 409 U.S. at 198, 93 S.Ct. 375).\nOnly if [the procedure] was suggestive need the court consider the second question\u2014whether there was a substantial likelihood of irreparable misidentification. Although one-on-one show-ups have been sharply criticized, and are inherently suggestive, the identification need not be excluded as long as under all the circumstances the identification was reliable notwithstanding any suggestive procedure. [The] inquiry, therefore, must focus upon whether, under the totality of the\n100 practice notes\nState v. Rice, No. 4300.\nCourt of Appeals of South Carolina\n...and will not be disturbed on appeal absent an abuse of that discretion or the commission of prejudicial legal error. State v. Moore, 343 S.C. 282, 288, 540 S.E.2d 445, 448 (2000); State v. Brown, 356 S.C. 496, 502, 589 S.E.2d 781, 784 Reliability is the linchpin in determining the admissibi......\nState v. Carlson, No. 3948.\nUnited States State Supreme Court of South Carolina\n...irreparable misidentification.\" Simmons v. United States, 390 U.S. 377, 384, 88 S.Ct. 967, 19 L.Ed.2d 1247 (1968); accord State v. Moore, 343 S.C. 282, 286, 540 S.E.2d 445, 447 (2000) (\"An in-court identification of an accused is inadmissible if a suggestive out-of-court identification proc......\nState v. Marquez, No. 17663.\n...is sufficiently reliable is a mixed question of law and fact subject to de novo review on appeal\"), rev'd in part on other grounds, 343 S.C. 282, 540 S.E.2d 445 Given the weight and uniformity of the preceding authority, as well as its commonsense appeal, we conclude that a claim of an unne......\nState v. Heyward, Appellate Case No. 2017-001542\nSouth Carolina Court of Appeals\n...discretion and will not be disturbed on appeal absent an abuse of such, or the commission of prejudicial legal error.\" State v. Moore , 343 S.C. 282, 288, 540 S.E.2d 445, 448 (2000).432 S.C. 310 a. Positive IdentificationFirst, Heyward contends Granddaughter did not make an out-of-court ide......","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
+{"text":"view results in:\nAgency Report Cards\nAgency Portfolio\nVenue Discovery\n\"Show\"\nAnalysis Advertising Opinions\nAdrian Gonzalez\nBusinesses need to wake up to gender parity realities\nResearch to dig into your employees' attitudes and experiences, including inevitable local nuances, is a good place to start, writes Kantar's regional CEO.\nwhatsapp 0 whatsapp 0 Facebook 0 Tweet 0 linkedin 0\nWe work in a world of dynamic organizations, cultures and brands. We strive to think progressively, challenge the status quo and deliver future-focused ideas and campaigns. And we'd like to think that this approach is reflected in the way that we run our companies, resulting in a diverse workforce of happy employees who feel equally valued and included.\nHowever, it's not always easy to gauge the real situation on the ground. Large multinational organizations know the challenge well. While the company ethos may celebrate diversity and promote equal opportunities, the extent to which this reaches every employee in every country is debateable.\nAs regional CEO of Kantar, a global insights consultancy, I can attest to the difficulties faced when trying to understand the attitudes and opinions of employees within each of the local markets. This is especially challenging in Asia, with its multitude of cultures, behaviours and working styles. But as a leader, it's my responsibility to ensure we're listening to all of our employees\u2014not just broadcasting to them\u2014so that we can truly appreciate their experiences, evolve our ways of working, and ultimately, the performance of our business based on their feedback.\nOne of the most pressing issues for companies today is gender parity within the workplace: ensuring equal pay, equal opportunities and equal representation within organisations. This isn't just a 'women's issue'. It's a core business issue that's relevant to every organisation wanting to be successful in today's market and into the future. It's proven that companies with diverse workforces do better work, nurture happier people and grow faster.\nBut even with all the right policies and programmes in place, can you truly say that it's working? How do you know whether you're on track to reach gender parity? Even within Kantar I know that despite some fantastic programmes, there is still a gender imbalance at the top, and that we lose many talented women from our teams as they struggle to balance family commitments.\nWe needed to address this and start from ground zero to build up our understanding of the situation, free from any preconceptions. As an insights consultancy, we took our own medicine and surveyed over 3,000 employees from across the region, both men and women. We asked a wide variety of questions; about their experience within the business, their motivations, their ambitions for the future. We asked about perceptions: how they view themselves and how they think they are viewed by others. And we asked what would improve their experience working with Kantar.\nThe findings were incredibly insightful, both at a regional and local level. We found that there was no shortage of ambition among the women within our business, and that both men and women had re-evaluated the characteristics that determined success, opening up a more diverse range of leadership styles. However, in some markets, some 'developed' countries included, we discovered that unconscious bias was still a big problem; in other markets we saw that there was a need to address barriers to leadership positions.\nEach country had its own nuance, and in each a local leader took ownership of the results, began a dialogue with employees and worked through what we could be doing better. It became the starting point for the conversation, and the job is not done.\nOne finding that particularly resonated with me was the need for greater flexibility that was called out strongly by both men and women. We learnt that flexibility means different things to different people; from being able to pick your child up from school, to being able to do an exercise class in the morning, to taking time off to look after sick parents. Again, this isn't just a 'women's issue'. By unpicking these tensions we can start introducing practices that benefit everyone within the businesses.\nWhat disturbs me is the extent to which unconscious bias exists in some countries that we typically describe as 'developed markets'. In these instances, management might say all the right things about the importance of equality and inclusiveness in the workplace, but in reality project 'boys club' behaviours without knowing it. If you are a leader and you believe in this stuff then you have to walk the talk\u2014and as a very wise Kantar colleague recently reminded me, walk the talk at home as well!\nOur business success is based on a deep understanding of people. The more diverse we are, the better insights we can build into our clients' audiences, and subsequently, the better we can support their business growth. It is crucially apparent to me that for Kantar to continue to be successful in the future we must lead, foster and preserve a culture of equality and inclusiveness. We have an incredibly talented workforce\u2014our people are indeed our biggest asset\u2014and we need to make sure that every diverse voice is heard, as diversity is a rich source of innovation and inspiration. This will ensure that we keep the best people in our business, can offer the best minds and solutions to our clients and, to some degree, move the needle in the right direction to make a positive contribution to society.\nI do not pretend to have all the answers, but I do know that one of the greatest obligations of CEO is the culture we lead. This starts with an ambition for the type of organisation you want to be part of and authentically going for it. Unfortunately, not everyone in the 21st century gets this, but I am blessed to work with many people who do.\nAdrian Gonzalez is CEO, Insights, for North Asia, Southeast Asia and Pacific at Kantar.\ndiversityhub news\nTop news, insights and analysis every weekday\nSign up for Campaign Bulletins\n1 Beyond measure: How metrics can power a winning TikTok strategy\n2 M&M's spokes candy controversy is a Super Bowl stunt\n3 Lower CPMs drive advertisers to TikTok, but is it ready to challenge Google and Meta?\n4 Grab, FairPrice, Foodpanda, Carousell: Inside the retail media networks on offer in SEA\n5 ChatGPT in advertising: Will clients pay the same for AI-generated campaigns?\n6 Adtech leaders react to potential breakup of Google's ad business\n7 The only 2023 marcomms trend report you actually need to read\n8 Hop to it: 10 lunar new year campaigns to celebrate the Year of the Rabbit\n9 Cultural blunders: Brands gone wrong\n10 Big tech bleeds, Southeast Asia ad tech hit, but not as hard\n'Paradigm shift' needed to improve gender diversity ...\nDavid Blecken\nGender equality is just one step on the road to ...\nWomen to Watch Greater China 2023 opens for entries\nAd Nut\nHow many instances of sexism can you point out in ...\nMatthew Keegan\nAccenture Song's Nick Law & Johnny Tan on the ...\nIn a wide-ranging interview, Song's creative leaders talk exclusively to Campaign about the importance of giving design a seat at the table, creating clarity in complexity and AI becoming the co-pilot for creativity.\nNikita Mishra\nBreak the bias, 'Correct the Internet' to make ...\nDDB New Zealand's new spot seeks to set the record straight by spotlighting online inaccuracies that disadvantage women in sports.\nBob Hoffman\nFame: Brands wanna live forever\nTHE AD CONTRARIAN: While most brands are preoccupied with differentiation, positioning and purpose, their real aim ought to become famous in their category.\nCampaign Staff\nPRWeek Asia Awards 2023: Entries now open\nNow in their 22nd year, The PRWeek Awards are unique in their efforts to shine the spotlight on the work, communicators and agencies in Asia-Pacific\u2014those that are defining cutting-edge thinking and driving the public relations industry forward.\nMember>\nLoginMy Account >","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
+{"text":"Sparti's Gyros is closing\nPosted on May 17, 2019 by Emma McClatchey\nSparti's Gyros, 61 2nd St, Coralville. May 17, 2019. \u2014 Zak Neumann\/Little Village\nJust shy of their 10th anniversary, Sparti's Gyros will close its doors for good on May 24 (or as soon as it runs out of food supplies).\nThe restaurant, located at 61 2nd St in Coralville, opened on June 1, 2009. Owner and manager Keith Brophy had just graduated from the University of Iowa and missed the meals of his Chicago-area upbringing.\n\"Italian beef, gyros and Chicago dogs were definitely staples of my diet growing up, and when I came out here, I just couldn't find them,\" Brophy told Little Village. \"I thought it was definitely a niche product that would fit into this market very well.\"\n\"I was very young and na\u00efve when I opened it up 10 years ago, I had very little experience,\" he added. \"I learned a lot from my customers; it shaped the business.\"\nBrophy said two main factors influenced his choice not to renew the lease for the building Sparti's occupies. (Sparti's closure was announced via Facebook on Tuesday, May 14.)\n\"It was a difficult decision; we went back and forth,\" Brophy said. \"We really do like the location and we have a very loyal following, [but] we needed major renovations that we thought were necessary for us to stay. That just didn't financially make sense to get those done.\"\nApart from the building costs, Brophy said he had personal reasons for stepping away. When Brophy started Sparti's \u2014 borrowing the name and concept from a friend, who opened the original Sparti's in Kenosha, Wisconsin about a year before \u2014 he was unattached and willing to work 80-hour weeks. A decade later, he remains the sole operator, unlucky in his attempts over the years to bring on another owner or manager long-term.\n\"I wouldn't say it's a burden but it's definitely a you're-always-working kind of thing,\" Brophy said. \"I have a 4-year-old, 2-year-old and 9-month-old, so I wanted to enjoy some time with them while they're still young.\"\nSparti's is known for its Greek and Chicago dishes, including gyros, souvlaki and pure beef hot dogs. Brophy said the restaurant's anniversary was always his favorite time of year: A $3 gyro special would have customers lined up out the door every June 1. Once, they sold over 500 pounds of gyro in one day.\nThough there were four Sparti's in the Midwest at one time, the Coralville location is the last remaining. It may also be the first to return: Brophy plans to take the summer off, then start looking for a new location for the restaurant come fall, likely remaining in the Iowa City\/Coralville area. He hopes to have Sparti's up and running again within a year, ideally by October 2019.\nAs for the first era of Sparti's, Brophy said the customers have been the highlight \u2014 \"the regulars that come in day after day and enjoy your food, and you can see the smiles on their face and their full bellies when they're leaving.\"\n\"I really appreciate them coming in and supporting a local business,\" he said. \"We wouldn't have been here even close to 10 years if it wasn't for them.\"\nCurious what's happening this weekend? Sign up here to stay in the know.\nCategory: Food & Drink, Top Story\nTags: Coralville Dining, Coralville restaurants, Sparti's Gyros\nPosted in Food & Drink, Top StoryTagged Coralville Dining, Coralville restaurants, Sparti's Gyros\nMission Creek 2019: A look back (VIDEO)Pete Buttigieg to return to Iowa City Saturday\nFor 18 years...\nLittle Village has been telling the truth and changing our little corner of the world.\nIf you can, help us head into the next 18 years even stronger with a one-time or monthly contribution of $18, or any amount you choose.\nA collaboration between The Englert Theatre and FilmScene\nGROW\u2022EVOLVE\nHelp us build the greatest small city for the arts in America\u2014right here in Iowa City. Learn more \u00bb\nStrengthen \u2022 Grow \u2022 Evolve is a collaborative campaign led by two Iowa City-based arts nonprofits, The Englert Theatre and FilmScene that seeks a major reinvestment to strengthen the arts through modern and historic venues, innovative programming, and new models of collaboration.\nBUY HALF-PRICE GIFT CARDS\nLittle Village's\nThe results are in! Find out which of your favorite CR and IC haunts took home a prize.\nNab your ticket to Little Village's Breakfast of Champions CRANDIC Bash on Dec. 6, 2018. A long name for an epic evening (yes, evening).","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
+{"text":"Quick Answer: Do lawyers become judges?\nWhy would a lawyer want to be a judge?\nCan you be a judge without a law degree?\nAre all judges lawyers first?\nAre judges former lawyers?\nAre judges happy?\nHow difficult is it to be a judge?\nWho is the youngest judge?\nWhat is the age to become judge?\nCan a San become a judge?\nCan you call a judge Sir?\nWhat to study to be a judge?\nWhat is qualification of judge?\nWhat do you call a retired judge?\nHow do I get a judge removed from my case?\nAre most judges former prosecutors?\nDo you have to be a lawyer to become a judge? In most cases, yes. Most judges begin their careers as lawyers, and prior legal practice is a prerequisite for many state and federal judgeships.\nA lawyer may choose to become a judge because he loves being in the spotlight and having the responsibility of deciding a case while the state or nation watches. Such high-profile cases can also pave the way for a judge to write books or become a commentator after he is no longer a judge.\n\"A law degree is not a prerequisite to being a good judge,\" he said. Some states have kept judges who aren't lawyers on the bench but reined in their power.\nNot all judges are lawyers. Some don't even have law degrees or have had a law job. While the majority of judges at the federal level were previous attorneys, it would be possible for the President to select a non-attorney and for the senate to approve them to become a judge.\nIT IS INTERESTING: Frequent question: Can a person become a judge without being a lawyer?\nMost but not all US judges have professional credentials as lawyers. Non-lawyer judges in the United States are often elected, and are typically either justices of the peace or part-time judges in rural limited jurisdiction courts.\nJudges are one of the happiest careers in the United States. \u2026 As it turns out, judges rate their career happiness 4.0 out of 5 stars which puts them in the top 9% of careers.\nBeing a judge can be a very challenging and demanding job, but also a very satisfying job. To become a judge you need to go to college, get a degree, go to law school, get your law degree, and then work for awhile before becoming a judge. Then in most states you will have to run for election to a judicial seat.\nAppointed to the position of associate judge of the municipal court for the city of Easley, South Carolina in August 2015, she is the youngest judge to ever be appointed or elected in U.S. history at the age of 25. Twitty graduated from the College of Charleston with a degree in political science.\nIn the U.S., there is no minimum legal age for becoming a judge. It would be legal for a five-year-old to do it. Most judges are in their 40's or 50's when they first take the bench.\nThe discretion by any SAN or lawyer to accept appointment to serve as a judge of any High Court or any other position should be a question of personal choice.2 \u043c\u0430\u044f 2020 \u0433.\nIT IS INTERESTING: What episode does Mike become a lawyer?\nThe proper form of address for a judge in his or her own court is \"Your Honor\". \u2026 Address the judge as your honor, use yes sir or no sir or yes ma'am or no ma'am.\nEarn a bachelor's degree.\nTake the Law School Admission Test.\nAttend law school and earn a Juris Doctorate.\nPass the bar exam.\nCreate your resume.\nConsider becoming a clerk.\nPractice law.\nEarn your judgeship.\nA candidate must have a degree in law (LL. B or LL. M) having not less than 55% marks. A candidate must have a degree in law and must have practiced as Advocate, Attorney or Pleader in the high court or subordinate courts.\nWhether they are sitting as an arbitrator or a mediator, a retired judge should always be shown the respect of being referred to as \"your honor\" or \"Judge ***(Last name).\nA motion to recuse is a legal motion filed in court that says a judge should be disqualified, or removed, from a legal case for a reason listed within CCP 170.1. The motion can be brought by either a prosecutor or a defense attorney. And, a motion to recuse can be filed in either a civil suit or in a criminal trial.\nMeanwhile, 41% of his nominees had experience working as prosecutors.\"1 This reflects a larger trend at the federal and state levels, where \"judges and justices are much more likely to be former prosecutors than former public defenders.\"2 Moreover, \"[t]he discrepancy in judicial experience isn't just about public \u2026\nIT IS INTERESTING: Is it hard to become a corporate lawyer?\nHow much do state lawyers earn in South Africa?\nHow much do lawyers earn per month in South Africa? 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+{"text":"The Teccas\nSunday, August 11, 2019, 4:00 PM Google Calendar Yahoo Calendar Aol Calendar Windows Live Calendar Outlook Calendar (iCal)\nFrom the heart of Montana's Big Sky Country comes Scott and Kayla Tecca, a father daughter duo, playing a variety of new and classic country, classic rock and originals. With their beautifully blended family harmonies, they will captivate you through a music journey. 2018 Nashville Universe Awards Nominees - Group of the Year and Songwriter of the Year 2018 Song Of The Year Runner Up for \"Whiskey in Heaven\" 2018 Song Of The Year Semi Finalist for \"These Days\" 2018 TCMA Awards Nominees \u2013 Duo of the Year and Songwriter of the Year 2018 Joise Awards Nominees \u2013 Duo of the Year and Modern Country Song of the Year 2018 KICMA Awards Nominees \u2013 Duo of the Year Scott grew up in a very musical family with his grandfather, who was blind from age nine, was a local musician in Livingston Montana, playing the piano, drums and singing in the Rhythm Ramblers. His father, the man who taught him to play the guitar at the age of 5, also was a guitar player and singer. Growing up in small towns in Montana has its challenges, but it has also giving Scott the life needed to reach for his dreams of being a singer\/ songwriter. Having two musically talented daughters, it has sparked the idea of performing together as a family, but as fate would have it, only one daughter, Kayla, has shown the desire to chase his crazy dream of being a full time musician. Kayla started her musical interest in 6th grade where she took up the violin. Although her desire for music was rich, she moved on from the violin and on to the guitar. In her High School years, she was heavily involved in the school choir. When she was 16, Kayla entered a talent show at her High School. As she was just getting started with playing guitar, she didn't feel ready to accompany herself, so of course, Dad was quick to jump in. Kayla, upon graduating from high school, went on to culinary school, before jumping in with both feet and traveling all over Montana, Idaho, Washington and Oregon playing music in local bars, Brewery's and private functions. Their unique blend of family harmonies draws their followers into a musical journey. From their renditions of Journey's Don't stop believing to their original Whiskey in Heaven, the listener is taken through the facets of time and touched by memories of the familiar songs they cover. Their original songs are written from personal memories and life experiences that touch you in so many different ways\nDobbes Family Estate \/ Wine By Joe\n240 SE Fifth\nDundee, OR 97115\nMore Music Events\nDeacon Jones & The Rotten Dirty Sinners | 100 Proof Southern Roots Rock! at Memorial Park\nFriday, Jul 26, 5:30 PM Google Calendar Yahoo Calendar Aol Calendar Windows Live Calendar Outlook Calendar (iCal)\nThe Exiles | Western Oregon's Premier Classic Rock & Blues Band at Memorial Park\nLil' Queenie | Original & cover music from roots rock, Detroit soul, blues at Memorial Park\nThursday, Jul 25, 7:00 PM Google Calendar Yahoo Calendar Aol Calendar Windows Live Calendar Outlook Calendar (iCal)\nMore Events at Dobbes Family Estate \/ Wine By Joe\nDinner in the Field at Dobbes Family Estate w\/ Green Bison Ranch at Dobbes Family Estate \/ Wine By Joe\nSaturday, Dec 7, 5:00 PM Google Calendar Yahoo Calendar Aol Calendar Windows Live Calendar Outlook Calendar (iCal)\nMore Events on August 11, 2019\nGauche at Mississippi Studios\nSunday, Aug 11, 9:00 PM Google Calendar Yahoo Calendar Aol Calendar Windows Live Calendar Outlook Calendar (iCal)\nFacets of Winter's Hill: A Co-Op Wine Festival at Winter's Hill Vineyard\nSunday, Aug 11, 11:00 AM Google Calendar Yahoo Calendar Aol Calendar Windows Live Calendar Outlook Calendar (iCal)\nRaptors of the Columbia Gorge at Columbia Gorge Discover Centre\nProvider: Eventful Event ID: 336981475 Title: The Teccas Source Page: [url]","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
+{"text":"J Korean Soc Ther Radiol Oncol > Volume 27(3); 2009 > Article\nThe Journal of the Korean Society for Therapeutic Radiology and Oncology 2009;27(3): 153-162. doi: https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3857\/jkstro.2009.27.3.153\nLong-term Results of Breast-conserving Surgery and Radiation Therapy in Early Breast Cancer\nJin Hee Kim, Sang Jun Byun\nDepartment of Radiation Oncology, Dongsan Medical Center, Keimyung University School of Medicine, Daegu, Korea. jhkim@dsmc.or.kr\nTo evaluate the long-term results after breast-conserving surgery and radiation therapy in early breast cancer in terms of failure, survival, and cosmesis.\nMATERIALS AND METHODS:\nOne hundred fifty-four patients with stage I and II breast cancer were treated with conservative surgery plus radiotherapy between January 1992 and December 2002 at the Keimyung University Dongsan Medical Center. According to TNM stage, 93 patients were stage I, 50 were IIa, and 11 were IIb. The affected breasts were irradiated with 6 MV photons to 50.4 Gy in 28 fractions over 5.5 weeks with a boost irradiation dose of 10~16 Gy to the excision site. Chemotherapy was administered in 75 patients and hormonal therapy in 92 patients with tamoxifen. Follow-up periods were 13~179 months, with a median of 92.5 months.\nThe 5- and 10-year overall survival rates were 97.3% and 94.5%, respectively. The 5- and 10-year disease-free survival (5YDFS and 10YDFS, respectively) rates were 92.5% and 88.9%, respectively; the ultimate 5YDFS and 10YDFS rates after salvage treatment were 93.9% and 90.2%, respectively. Based on multivariate analysis, only the interval between surgery and radiation therapy (< or = 6 weeks vs. >6 weeks, p=0.017) was a statistically significant prognostic factor for DFS. The major type of treatment failure was distant failure (78.5%) and the most common distant metastatic site was the lungs. The cosmetic results were good-to-excellent in 96 patients (80.7%).\nConservative surgery and radiation for early stage invasive breast cancer yielded excellent survival and cosmetic results. Radiation therapy should be started as soon as possible after breast-conserving surgery in patients with early breast cancer, ideally within 6 weeks.\nKey Words: Early breast cancer, Breast-conserving surgery, Radiation, Survival, Failure\nLong-term outcomes of low-dose radiotherapy in Kasabach-Merritt syndrome2022 March;40(1)\nLong-term outcomes of surgery and radiotherapy for secreting and non-secreting pituitary adenoma2016 June;34(2)\nThe result of Radiation Therapy of Supraglottic Laryngeal Cancer for 15 Years1984 December;2(2)\nA Trial of 6-V Linear Accelerator Radiation Therapy (RT) for Breast Cancer1984 December;2(2)\nThe Result of Radiation Therapy of Vocal Cord Cancer for 15 Years1985 March;3(1)","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
+{"text":"Starz Denver Film Festival 2011: Brit Withey's must-see picks for November 4-6\nMichael Roberts | November 4, 2011 | 2:30pm\nAgain this year, Starz Denver Film Festival artistic director Brit Withey is offering his must-see picks for each day of the fest -- including many flicks that movie lovers might otherwise miss amid the flood of silver-screen goodies.\nHere, he shares choices for Friday through Sunday, November 4-6: The Fairy, Once Upon A Time In Anatolia and The Bengali Detective.\nThe Fairy Directed by Dominique Abel, Fiona Gordon, Bruno Romy 7 p.m. Friday, November 4 Starz FilmCenter\n\"The Fairy is a French film -- a really, really charming throwback sort of film, to the era of true physical comedy,\" Withey says. \"It's made by a three-person writer-director-actor team, and it's wonderful, even though the story's almost inconsequential.\n\"One guy's a hotel night clerk and this woman comes in and says she's a fairy and will grant his next three wishes. He asks for a moped and gasoline for life, but he can't think of a third wish -- and it kind of goes from there. But it's all a set-up for these story bits that have interludes, even dance sequences. It's the kind of film you just don't see any more -- the perfect kind of film for a festival.\"\nOnce Upon a Time in Anatolia Directed by Nuri Bilge Ceylan 8 p.m. Saturday, November 5 Starz FilmCenter\n\"This is a Turkish film, and the director, Nuri Bilge Ceylan, has had many films in the festival over the years,\" Withey notes. \"He's probably the most famous Turkish director -- a remarkable, moody filmmaker.\n\"The film centers around a murder and the search for the body of the murder victim, and who actually committed the crime. The first forty minutes are so are spent in the dark, with five people jammed into a car driving around the Turkish countryside, and stopping to talk about the murder. Everything's apparently lit by a couple of car headlights, but the film has a luminosity despite it being physically dark. It's really engaging. The director is a master of juxtaposing moments of realistic dialogue against this beautiful setting.\"\nThe Bengali Detective Directed by Phil Cox Noon Sunday, November 6 Starz FilmCenter\n\"This is a completely unique documentary,\" Withey enthuses. \"It tells the story of this slightly inept detective agency in India that's on the cusp of making it big. Up until this point, they've been busting counterfeit shampoo rings and things of that nature, but they're just getting a murder case, and they're earnestly trying to do some good work. And they take their work very seriously, but they also like to have fun. On the weekends, they have a sort of dance team, and they enter these contests -- and they're terrible.\n\"That's really funny -- but there's another side of the film that follows the lead detective, whose wife is dying. He loves his wife so much, and it's so apparent -- and there's nothing he can do for her. She has an incurable disease, so it's just waiting it all out. And they have a young son.\n\"It's one of the most unique films in the festival -- both heartwarming and heartbreaking. You can't walk away without being affected in every way possible.\"\nFor more details, click here for Friday, here for Saturday and here for Sunday -- and page down to watch trailers from each of Brit's picks. The Fairy\nThe Bengali Detective\nClick here to follow and like the Michael Roberts\/Westword Facebook page.\nMore from our Television & Film archive: \"Starz Denver Film Festival 2011: Melancholia had me praying for the world to end -- and soon.\"\nSusan Holmes on Dismissal of Red Flag Motion Against Cop Who...\nInside iHeartRadio Memo Calls Layoffs \"Dislocations,\" Touts AI\nMeet Katie Barrett, Symbol of Effort to Elect More Colorado Women","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
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She is currently the LGBT liberation convenor at UoE and is hoping to work towards making the environmental movement more inclusive of marginalised identities.\nRaj Chada\nNon-student trustee\nPJ Cameron\nI have been an active member of People & Planet Durham for two years, currently holding the role of President. During this time, I have collaboratively organised events and actions for the Fossil Free and Undoing Borders campaigns, working with other similar-minded student groups. I am also a hub member of Transition Durham, and have been the Environment Rep for my college, which involved leading a team, creating events, and communicating with a wide range of people to make student's voices heard.\nDijana Spasenoska\nDijana currently studies MSc in Global Population Health at the LSE, and she has a particular research interest in the negative impact of environmental changes on the population health. Previously, she has obtained a BSc in Biochemistry from Imperial College London where she was an active member of the Imperial College Student Union serving as the Ethics and Environment Officer. She worked on expanding the environmental society, and initiated several campaigns. Furthermore, she is involved in projects focusing on youth involvement in decision making, especially on topics such as climate change and sustainable development.\nI lecture in English and comparative literature and critical and cultural theory at Cardiff University, where I am also an active member of the University and College Union. My research focuses on contemporary poetry and its implications for critical theories of society: I am currently theorizing how examination of works of art and literature can help identify ways in which we can undo the domination over our lives of the commodity, abstract labour and the state. As an educator I specialize in transformative, emancipatory education, supporting students to reflect critically on the institutions and societies in which they learn, live and work, and and empowering them, individually and collectively, to change their worlds for the better. As a student I was an active member of Cambridge People and Planet, and as Regional Rep and student member of the Management Committee, the forerunner to the Board of Trustees.\nEmma Carter\nAdam Ramsay\nAdam Ramsay is UK editor of openDemocracy, where he writes about and investigates the unfolding crisis of British democracy.\nMueez Abdurrahman\nWhile People & Planet have existed as a society in the University of Bath for quite a long time, it wasn't until my second year at university that a couple of other passionate eco warriors and I got the society actively working towards its goals. It primarily focuses on the Fossil Free campaign, but also runs smaller campaigns alongside. 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I have also been involved in various Greenpeace campaigns outside university.\nTrustees: How We Work\nThe Board of Trustees has a lot of responsibility for making sure People & Planet is fulfilling its aims: it approves our accounts and annual budgets, and comments on and approves staff plans, ensuring that the office is working on the best projects to support your campaigning.\nIt's also involved democratically with the network: student members are elected every year to represent the student network on the Board of Trustees, and it works to be open with the network about the work it's doing \u2014 both keeping the network informed about the decisions being made and providing spaces for the network to be involved in decision-making.\nThe Board of Trustees is made up of democratically elected student members and also non-student members drawn from other organisations such as Oxfam, Friends of the Earth or ActionAid, who are chosen for their areas of expertise. 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+{"text":"Addison Frei\npianist | composer | producer\nPhoto by Rob Davidson.\nNew EP from Delisle and Frei. All proceeds go to the ACLU. LISTEN HERE\nPhoto by Cameron Covello\nPhoto by Gulnara Khamatova\nPhoto by Desmond White\nFor those located in New York, I'll be sharing my original music at National Sawdust on Saturday, November 10th. Join us at this incredible venue for the Revolution Vol. 33 featuring vocalist Alina Engibaryan, bassist Leon Boykins and drummer Matt Young. Tickets are available HERE.\nI hope you'll get a chance to watch my latest video, \"For Good\" featuring vocalist Michael Mayo and artwork by climate scientist Jill Pelto. Climate Change is a tremendously important issue that Jill is addressing by incorporating data into her artwork. I'm so happy to be able to collaborate with her and pair these paintings with my composition. Special thanks to Sam Neufeld of Noof Designs for creating the video.\nI'm also proud to share that I was recently named a semifinalist in the 2018 Thelonious Monk International Jazz Competition and will be performing in Washington, D.C. on December 2nd. For more information on the competition read the full press release.\nPresented by TCB Records, Addison Frei latest album, No Defense, is now available for PURCHASE and STREAMING. The new trio features New York-based bassist Tamir Shmerling and Vienna-based drummer Mario Gonzi. Kevin Sun writes, \"One can't help but let down one's defenses listening to such tender, unguarded music.\" The recording was made possible by the Generations Festival, Swiss Radio and TCB Records.\nAddison Frei's digital EP release, Future Speak, sings an anthem for social progress and the promise of tomorrow's community. Spanning soulful hooks, spoken verse, acoustic improvisation and electric dance grooves, this collection of songs envisions a world where our planet is valued, where black lives matter and stories unfold without the stain of guns. David Ashton's music video brings the music to life and captures the American spirit in its many shapes and forms.\nStream and purchase the EP on Bandcamp or watch the official music video HERE.\nTwo exciting news items from the past month:\nOn June 15th, 2017, AMP Trio featuring Tahira Clayton was selected as the winner of the DC JazzPrix. From 77 applicants, three groups were chosen to perform live at the University of District of Columbia alongside last year's winner, the New Century Jazz Quintet. AMP Trio and Tahira Clayton will now perform at the 2018 DC Jazz Festival and engage in a year-long professional development partnership.\nOn July 3rd, 2017, I was awarded first prize in the Parmigiani Montreux Jazz Piano Solo Competition. The jury was chaired by Ramsey Lewis and featured nine pianists from 4 continents. This honor includes a performance at the 2018 Montreux Jazz Festival, studio time at Balik Farm in Switzerland, and a limited edition Parmigiani Fleurier watch. Click HERE for an interview and performance clips from the festival.\nLooking ahead, I'll soon be releasing a new digital EP called Future Speak featuring the talents of Michael Mayo, Tahira Clayton, Andy Clausen, Drew Zaremba, Matt Young, Perrin Grace, Nolan Byrd and Tim Basom. Chris Sulit engineered and mixed the project, and David Ashton, director of Transit, will return to direct the Future Speak music video. Stay tuned!\nIt's been an eventful spring already with many more travels and opportunities ahead...\nI'm happy to announce that I will be enrolling at Juilliard this fall as a member of their Artist Diploma program. This performance ensemble will tour and participate in educational outreach. I can't wait for this next chapter in my musical education.\nIn April I returned to South Africa for a wonderful tour, performing and presenting workshops at several universities in Pretoria, Johannesburg and Durban.\nMeanwhile, AMP Trio has been active on the road, celebrating the release of our new record, Three. Check out our teaser videos or purchase the album HERE. Since February we've played throughout North Texas and Ontario, Ann Arbor, Orlando, Miami and New York. We'll cap off our spring tour with a performance at ETA in Los Angeles on May 23rd, followed by our first Japanese tour. We're immensely excited! Follow our Facebook Page for details on shows. Back stateside, we'll be joined by our resident vocalist Tahira Clayton for a performance at the DC JazzPrix on June 15th.\nI'm also eager to make a couple trips to Switzerland later this summer: first to participate in the Montreux Jazz Festival Solo Piano Competition on July 2nd and 3rd. In August I'll return to record a new trio album with Tamir Shmerling and Mario Gonzi for TCB Records. Following the session, I'll join the Generations Unit, comprised of members from the Frauenfeld Festival last fall, for a week of performing in Basel, Winterthur and St. Moritz.\nFor those in New York, I'll be playing solo piano at the Kitano on each Tuesday in July. Look for some special guests to sit in too. Hope to see you at a show soon!\nThe new single \"Postcard\" is out! Check out the video HERE or visit BANDCAMP to download the track. Many thanks to Simon Yu for his directing chops, John Young and Cam Covello for making the track sound purty, and Tahira Clayton, Perrin Grace and Matt Young for throwing down. Share it with a friend or neighbor... More to come!\nLike so many of us, I am deeply saddened by results of our country's election. In the midst of these trying times, it is important for artists to strive to dig deeper and create more honest and passionate work.\nI'm grateful for the opportunity to join my friend Drew Zaremba's appropriately titled Unity Orchestra. We will perform a program of classical arrangements as well as my original composition, \"Ad Astra Per Aspera\" at the Wilshire Baptist Church in Dallas, Texas on Thursday, November 10th.\nI recently returned from the Generations Festival in Frauenfeld, Switzerland, and was honored to be asked to record a new album for TCB, the Montreux Jazz label. I look forward to crafting new music for this project, and in addition, I will perform with the Generations Unit next July on a tour throughout Switzerland and Germany.\nMeanwhile, AMP Trio is assembling a tour in the spring of 2017, as we prepare for the release of Three, our 3rd record. Lastly, I'm excited to collaborate with director Simon Yu on the music video for \"Postcard\", a new single of mine that features Tahira Clayton.\nLove and light to all\u2014Addison\nAs feelings of fall slowly begin to fill the air, I'd like to look ahead to a number of exciting engagements in this upcoming season!\nFirst, I have the pleasure of serving as musical director and pianist for B-Side Productions' The Wild Party by Michael John LaChiusa. I've thoroughly enjoyed collaborating with such a diversely talented cast and the creative direction of Billy Bustamante. Come check out our unique play space at the TBG Theatre in New York! Click HERE for tickets and schedule.\nUpon concluding the show run, I'll travel to Frauenfeld, Switzerland for the Generations16 Workshop and International Jazz Festival. The program features faculty like Mark Turner and Alex Sipiagin and is comprised of participants from both the US and Europe.\nAfter a great run with AMP Trio this summer in Georgia and Texas, we will reunite in NYC for a performance at Club Bonafide and a studio session at Michael Brorby's Acoustic Recording. Follow the new project at amptrio.com\nLastly, I will travel to Texas in early November to be a guest artist with Drew Zaremba's Unity Orchestra. I had the opportunity to record on Drew's small group album this summer and am thrilled to join him again on a larger scale. Check out the Unity Orchestra's excellent promo video to see some of the amazing work they have done already!\nI'm thrilled to announce the release of Transit has finally arrived. The album is available for sale at CD Baby HERE, as well as Amazon, iTunes and other online outlets.\nVisit the watch page to see the Transit music video, directed by David Ashton and featuring Tahira Clayton and myself in transit throughout Manhattan.\nI hope you'll enjoy this collection of songs. I'm incredibly thankful for the friendship and musicianship of my colleagues: Perrin Grace, Matt Young, Tahira Clayton, Janis Siegel, Wayne Tucker, Andy Clausen and Rachel Koblyakov.\nAfter a delayed arrival in Pretoria, South Africa, due to a blizzard in NYC, and four rounds of different repertoire, I was thrilled to be named the first prize winner of the 2016 UNISA International Piano Competition. The University of South Africa has been presenting international music competitions since 1982, including classical piano, strings, voice, flute, clarinet and organ, but this year marked its first jazz category. I had a wonderful experience hearing so many other talented players and absorbing such a vibrant culture. Click HERE for the official press release and see photos from a concert I gave at a local elementary school. Photos: 1 2 3\nLooking ahead, next month I'll travel to my home state of Kansas for several exciting gigs including duo performances with vibraphonist Christian Tamburr and vocalist Tahira Clayton. I'll also manage to visit Texas to perform and record with saxophonist Mario Cruz for an upcoming album release. Meanwhile, in New York I am working to complete a theatrical music video with filmmaker David Ashton for the title track of my sophomore album, Transit.\nHappy New Year and thanks for visiting my website! 2016 has already begun with a bang as I celebrated the release of AMP Trio's m(y)our world with a tour of Michigan and Ontario. Visit the watch page to see several of my compositions featured in our video series directed by the fabulous Andy LaViolette, the mastermind behind Snarky Puppy's video production. m(y)our world recently climbed to #35 on the Jazz Week radio charts and has garnered multiple reviews ranging worldwide. Visit AMP Trio's new website created by bassist Perrin Grace to stay up to date on the group's latest news.\nFollowing the Canadian performances I traveled to Central Florida to fulfill a tour earned through receiving first prize in the American Jazz Pianist Competition this fall. Through this opportunity I gave a solo concert at Atlantic Music Center in Melbourne, Florida and also performed at the Grand Bohemian in Orlando and the Casa Monica in St. Augustine.\nLooking ahead, I'm traveling to New Orleans to perform with vocalist Charles Turner for a MLK Tribute concert at Dillard College. His quartet for this gig also features Barry Stephenson and Diego Ramirez; all four of us were 2013 Betty Carter Jazz Ahead alumni.\nI'm also excited to share that later this month I'm headed to Pretoria, South Africa to participate in the first UNISA International Jazz Piano Competition. This two-week engagement will be an incredible performance opportunity as well as a chance to connect with several participating friends. Follow the link for a schedule and more info.\nFinally, I'm continuing to organize details surrounding Transit, my second solo release, including original artwork by Weston Getto Allen (website) and my first theatrical music video that will feature Tahira Clayton (website). Stay tuned!\nWe've finally arrived... it's Autumn in New York, full of beautiful weather, fall colors and enriching musical experiences.\nFirst, I'm returning to the Cell Theatre on October 24th to present \"When Jazz Meets Classical\". This gig will be a special opportunity for me to reunite with the wonderful vocalist Janis Siegel, diving into melodies from Ravel, Tchaikovsky and Schubert as well as a few choice standards and new original compositions. tickets\nThe following week I'll be performing at the June Havoc Theatre as musical director and pianist for B-Side Productions' The Adding Machine. This provocative, challenging musical has been so rewarding to work on thus far. Immediately following our opening performance on October 27th, I will collaborate with Alli Foss to kick off B-Side's Artist by Artists late night series with a program of Bon Iver and original music. promo video, tickets\nAfter concluding the musical run, I'm leading a group at Silvana on November 1st featuring vocalist Tahira Clayton and guitarist Ronan Delisle. Currently based in Seattle, Ronan will team up with me that week for duo performances at Pete's Candy Store (11\/3) and Caffe Vivaldi (11\/5).\nShortly thereafter AMP Trio will release its sophomore album, m(y)our world, on November 6th (read more). In addition to the album, we will be sharing several in-studio videos directed by Andy LaViolette (Snarky Puppy). The trio will come together in New York on November 19th for a CD release show at ShapeShifter Lab alongside Andy Clausen's Wishbone Project. Stay tuned for more AMP Trio dates to be announced shortly.\nAfter a successful night at the Kitano with vocalist Ben Cassarra, I'm looking forward to returning for two nights of solo piano on November 17th and 24th. Lastly, I'm continuing to work on my newest recording project, Transit, with engineers Michael Brorby and Joseph Branciforte. The road to releasing this album is still long, but I'm very proud of this collection of songs.\nAs always, thanks for stopping by and supporting.\nWelcome to my new website! Stay current on upcoming performances by visiting the \"gigs\" tab.\nI'm hitting the road in the coming weeks for several exciting engagements. First, I'll travel to Orlando, Florida for a return to the Timucua White House, a gorgeous home converted into the finest listening room in Orlando. I'm thrilled to be joined by vocalist Tahira Clayton.\nBack in New York, I'm presenting the \"When Jazz Meets Classical\" project at the Cell Theatre, featuring violinist Rachel Koblyakov and my musical brothers Perrin Grace and Matt Young.\nLater in August, AMP Trio (myself, Matt and Perrin), will perform at the Velvet Note in Atlanta, and several other concerts in the Dallas-Fort Worth area. Be on the lookout for new AMP Trio videos directed by Andy LaViolette (Snarky Puppy) coming soon... I hope to see you at a concert!","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
+{"text":"Why has Amazon just bought streaming video game network Twitch?\nBy Guy Daniels\nEmmett Shear \u00a9 TTV \/ Twitch\nThose who don't obsess over video games probably aren't aware of Twitch, the three-year-old streaming video game network. Yet Amazon has just agreed to acquire the company for the not insubstantial sum of $970 million in cash. Aside from \"Who?\", the next big question is \"Why?\"\nWhy indeed. The most likely explanation is that in its attempts to broaden the scope of his company from beyond that of an ecommerce site, Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos is looking towards the next generation of consumers. Twitch has a demographic that is skewed towards the youth audience \u2013 but not so young that they have no buying power.\nThe average age of a viewer is 21, with 76 per cent of the audience between 18 and 49. 68 per cent have decreased their TV viewing time and 58 per cent now spend more than 20 hours per week on Twitch.\nIn January this year, Twitch said it had 45m unique viewers per month in 2013, up from 20m in 2012. It hosted 6m broadcasts per month and viewers averaged 106 minutes per day. It has more prime-time viewers than the MTV, TNT, AMC or SyFy cable networks in the US, and according to Nielsen has three times more videos viewed per viewer than Facebook.\nPretty impressive statistics.\nGoogle has already has YouTube, Netflix remains independent (for now at least), so where to look for the next generation of online viewers? After the attempt to sell Twitch to Google apparently fell through, Amazon was ready to step in and spend close to $1bn to secure the service.\nMore than just video\nWhilst it continues to offer on-demand films and TV shows, and invest in developing original programming, just as Netflix does, Amazon is taking a different approach with Twitch. Because Twitch isn't just about watching videos of people playing video games, it's also a social network that connects the audience through thousands of what are essentially user-generated programmes and channels, all dedicated to the increasingly valuable video game sector. 61 per cent of viewers use the chat functionality to engage with other viewers.\nTwitch is also live, with 99 per cent of viewers tuning in to watch in real-time, rather than archived on-demand content. Forget Premiership Football and the Major Leagues, video games are turning into a hugely popular spectator sport \u2013 it's even now being called eSports.\nVideo game tournaments have prize funds that can sustain professional game players. For example, the annual International event had a combined prize pool last year of over $2.8m.\nIt can't have been a coincidence that earlier this month, the Justin.tv site closed its doors for the last time. Justin.tv was created in March 2007 by Justin Kan and Emmett Shear to showcase the daily 24\/7 exploits of Kan, as he \"lifecasted\" his life online. Having generated fantastic publicity, the site switched to being a host for user-generated content channels. In 2011, it spun of its \"Gaming\" section into a new site \u2013 Twitch \u2013 and has since raised some $35m in VC funding.\nShear will remain as CEO of the business once the Amazon acquisition is completed. One of his first tasks will no doubt be to try and increase the site's advertising potential, no doubt through Amazon's deal with FreeWheel. Without, of course, alienating Twitch's loyal core audience \u2013 the last thing it needs is to turn Twitch into an ecommerce outlet and see it go the way of GoodReads.\nIf you haven't heard of Twitch yet, then you should get yourself on the site and try and understand what it does. Then you'll have a better idea of why Amazon's $970m bet on the company looks like a terrific deal.\nAnalysis & Opinion,\nFinance & Banking,\nOTT,\nDigital Platforms & Services\nContent is no longer king for the US telco giants\nVodafone adds Facebook Watch to set-top box platform in Europe\nMVNO Lyca to splash \u00a3250 million to grow its business\nCloud Native Telco Summit Trailer\nElisa Estonia Launches Next-Gen Hybrid Android TV Service Powered by NAGRA, Technicolor, Tech4home and 3SS","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
+{"text":"Communication professor pursues unconventional path toward success\nFebruary 1, 2018 Julia Chong\nAssistant professor of communication Lee Pierce attended several undergraduate schools before completing her doctorate at the University of Georgia. Pierce has hosted a TED Talk and her research topics range from Taylor Swift to Beyonc\u00e9. (Annalee Bannison\/ Photo Editor)\nAssistant professor of communication Lee Pierce can be described as far from ordinary\u2014in both her life experiences as well as her vibrant personality. Her intelligence is highly apparent and unwavering, despite the somewhat tumultuous path she took throughout her undergraduate career.\nAs an early graduate from high school, Pierce attended college at Geneseo when she was just 17. Her dissatisfaction with higher education, however, resulted in her bouncing around from college to college. Pierce spent a semester at Cornell University as a political science major and a semester at Elmira College as a business and marketing major.\n\"Going into college, I didn't have much guidance,\" Pierce said. \"I failed out more times than I can count. My parents owned a restaurant that I worked at and growing up in hospitality, you don't have firm guidelines. You're able to schmooze your way out of things.\"\nAfter attending multiple colleges, Pierce finally completed her undergraduate degree and attended SUNY Brockport for a Master's. It was at Brockport where Pierce was first introduced to rhetoric\u2014the study of how language choices produce certain effects.\nIn an unexpected turn of events after graduating from Brockport, Pierce was fired from a job she took at Rochester Institute of Technology. She ended up getting paid a small settlement from a lawsuit she filed.\n\"I used the money to go to Mexico with a guy I was seeing at the time,\" Pierce said. \"He ended up leaving me after a month, but I stayed for three more months and ate street food, surfed and read on the beach.\"\nPierce found Mexico to be nice break and felt ready to continue working toward a career after returning to the United States. She applied to the University of Georgia for a doctorate program in rhetoric and was accepted.\nSince graduating, Pierce has incorporated her creative personality into her teaching career. She once taught a class at the University of Georgia called \"The Politics of Style: Or, the Curious Case of Taylor Swift,\" inspired by her TED Talk.\n\"I had read an article by this brilliant writer who does horror film criticisms about the use of space and time,\" Pierce said. \"And I was like, holy crap, I can take everything she said and apply it to Taylor Swift's music videos.\"\nTaylor Swift's 1989 stirred up controversy regarding post-colonial racism and the political correctness of her music videos, with people doing rhetorical criticisms on songs like \"Style\" and \"Blank Space.\"\n\"I was thinking the entire time watching these videos, 'This is so wrong. You're not getting what's going on here,'\" Pierce said. \"The class was born out of untying all these knots.\"\nThe class inspired Pierce yet again to write about Beyonc\u00e9's music video \"Formation.\" Pierce is currently writing a book called Syntaxing the Social: Readings of the Rhetorical Present. In parts of this book, she discusses the use of time and space in Beyonc\u00e9's music video and the different narratives surrounding being black.\n\"When Americans think about what it is to be black, you have two narratives,\" Pierce said. \"One is the resilience narrative ... the second is the trauma narrative, which focuses on how the eternal trauma of slavery and how there will always be pain and suffering. In Beyonc\u00e9's video, a third alternative narrative emerges.\"\nAside from her academic interests, Pierce remains occupied with many hobbies. She was in an all-girls cover band called the Misogyfits, which sang songs about men hating women. She was also on the Geneseo women's rugby team and has continued to play on various teams since attending Geneseo. Additionally, Pierce is a certified yoga instructor and now teaches aerobics.\nPierce is someone who cannot be solely defined by her hobbies and career, but rather as an enthused and inspiring person who has considerable things to say about the world as a whole.\nIn Knights' Life, Invasion of Privacy\n\u2190 Student Life event focuses on friendshipWinter musical to enthuse viewers via themes of love, companionship \u2192","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
+{"text":"Map > World > Europe > Croatia > Kor\u010dula > Korcula\nPhoto copyright by owner\nThings to see at Korcula:\nA bucket list of the top sights at Korcula, ordered by popularity.\n1. View from Marco Polo's house\n2. Marco Polo tower\n3. Korkula\nKor\u010dula (Croatian: [k\u0254\u0302\u02d0rt\u0283ula]; Italian: Curzola, Greek: \u039a\u03cc\u03c1\u03ba\u03c5\u03c1\u03b1 \u039c\u03ad\u03bb\u03b1\u03b9\u03bd\u03b1, K\u00f3rkyra M\u00e9laina, Latin: Corcyra Nigra, Korkyra Melaina, Old-Slavic Krkar) is a Croatian island in the Adriatic Sea. It has an area of 279 km2 (108 sq mi); 46.8 km (29.1 mi) long and on average 7.8 km (4.8 mi) wide \u2014 and lies just off the Dalmatian coast. Its 15,522 inhabitants (2011) make it the second most populous Adriatic island after Krk and the most populous Croatian island not connected to the mainland by a bridge. The population are almost entirely ethnic Croats (95.74%). The island is twinned with Rothesay in Scotland.\nOldest photo\nNewest photo\n\"korcula\"\n\"Korcula 02\"\nVisitors by Month\nMap | World | Terms | About","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
+{"text":"Stage targets for Ewan at Tour de Pologne\nThu 30 Jul 2015\nORICA-GreenEDGE will target stage wins with Tour de Korea champion Caleb Ewan at the Tour de Pologne beginning this Sunday.\nEwan returns to racing after a training stint to kick-start the second part of his neo-pro year with the Australian outfit. His first half featured ten professional victories, including four stages and the overall in Korea.\n\"We are going to be targeting stage wins, predominantly with Caleb, at this year's Tour,\" sport director Matt Wilson said. \"We hope there will be four or five opportunities during the week.\"\n\"The earlier stages are the most likely with all stages up to at least day four looking good for a bunch sprint.\"\nAn extremely experienced ORICA-GreenEDGE outfit, including road captain Mathew Hayman and lead out riders Mitch Docker and Brett Lancaster, will guide the 21-year-old.\n\"We have a really good team here to support Caleb,\" Wilson continued.\n\"We have strong guys to do the work on the front if need be and then for the lead out we have the experience of Lancaster and Docker. Add Hayman to that, and it's a pretty solid line up.\n\"With this team, we'd be disappointed if we couldn't pull of a stage.\"\nCompleting the line up is Simon Clarke, Christian Meier, Damien Howson and Ivan Santaromita.\nA 25km time trial to conclude the seven-day Tour de Pologne looks decisive for general classification. Despite winning in 2013 courtesy of Pieter Weening, ORICA-GreenEDGE will not give specific focus to an overall result.\n\"The general classification is a bit of a gamble,\" Wilson said. \"With the final time trial and a couple of intermediate medium mountain stages, there is not really one big general classification day.\"\n\"That makes it hard to predict and we don't really have a specialist for that format at this year's event.\n\"We will have a couple of guys sniffing around, but it's not the priority or the major goal.\"\nORICA-GreenEDGE at Tour de Pologne (2-8 August):\nMitch Docker\nCaleb Ewan\nMathew Hayman\nDamien Howson\nBrett Lancaster\nIvan Santaromita","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
+{"text":"Streetsblog Asks Metro Board to Waive Attorney Client-Privilege on Najarian's 710 Big Dig Motion\nSBLA Metro 710 Priviledge\nAt last week's Metro Board meeting, County Attorney Charles Safer responded to an April motion by Board Member Ara Najarian containing questions on the I-710 Gap Closure Project. The Najarian motion sought the answers to three basic questions concerning the relationship between Caltrans and Metro on this project.\nSpecifically, Najarian sought to see who was the final decision maker on the project, who would be liable to defend the EIR for the project in court, and whether or not there is an MOU concerning the project between the two agencies.\nAs the County Attorney and Metro Board of Directors are refusing to answer these basic questions to the public, Streetsblog is formally requesting that Metro reverse its position and waive attorney-client privilege. If they don't, Streetsblog may seek other avenues to get the information disclosed to the public.\nThat the item even appeared on the agenda is almost completely due to Najarian's vigilance. Last Friday's draft agenda didn't include discussion of his April motion, despite a request that it be returned in 90 days, and he had to push just to get it discussed at all.\nAt last week's meeting, it was revealed that Safer's answers to these questions were not going to be made available to the public. Safer cited attorney-client privilege, leaving the Metro Board to decide whether or not such basic questions could be given to the public. As the report is still not public, the public can only speculate on what was in the report that required the Board to keep it from the public.\nHere's my speculation: the report could reveal that in the opinion of the County Attorney both Metro and Caltrans have broken state law.\nWhen Najarian first introduced his motion, he did it because Caltrans, not Metro, is listed as the lead agency for the project. Despite this, it is Metro, not Caltrans, who is paying CH2M Hill to complete the environmental documents provided under CEQA. There is no Memorandum of Understanding between the two agencies that is approved by the Metro Board of Directors.\nCalifornia Public Resources Code section 21100(a) says \"All lead agencies shall prepare, or cause to be prepared by contract, and certify the completion of, an environmental impact report on any project which they propose to carry out or approve that may have a significant effect on the environment. . . . .\"\nThis means that the \"lead agency\" (Caltrans) has to prepare, or contract for the preparation of, the EIR. Metro (which is not the lead agency) cannot prepare, or contract for the preparation of, the EIR.\nTo make this even more clear, the Guidelines for compliance with CEQA in Title 14 of the California Code of Regulations provide in section 15084(a) (titled \"Preparing the Draft EIR\") \"The draft EIR shall be prepared directly by or under contract to the Lead Agency. . . . \" Title 14, California Code of Regulations section 15002(k)(3) similarly provides that \"the Lead Agency . . . prepares an EIR. (See: Sections 15080 et seq.).\"\nWhen two or more agencies are working together, section 15050 provides that \"one public agency shall be responsible for preparing an EIR or Negative Declaration for the project. This agency shall be called the Lead Agency.\"\nTaken together, if Caltrans is indeed the lead agency and the decision maker, than Caltrans has to prepare the EIR itself (or contract itself for its preparation). Metro cannot legally contract with CH2M Hill to prepare the EIR, but claim that it is not the legal agency.\nMetro and Caltrans put themselves into a difficult situation. Either Metro has to now admit that it is the \"lead agency,\" notwithstanding its prior statements that it is not, or Caltrans as lead agency has to fund the EIR. There is no case law on such situations that I can find, but those opposing the I-710 Big Dig are already ruminating that either Metro is going to have to step up and make the decision on whether or not to go forward with the tunnel or Caltrans may have to start the environmental process over again.\nGiven the information publicly available that states that Metro and Caltrans have clearly violated state law and the secrecy with which Metro is now holding the answers to some pretty basic questions; we have to assume that Metro is indeed hiding something. If they're not, it would be very easy for them to prove me wrong\u2026just release the memo from Safer to the general public.\nFiled Under: Metro, The 710\nBrown Act? Public Notice? Metro Board Almost Changes Policy for All Measure R Projects\nBy Damien Newton\t| Dec 9, 2010\nMetro Board Members John Fasana and Gloria Molina almost pulled the ultimate fast one earlier today at the Metro Board Meeting. Fasana offered an amendment to Glendale Mayor and Metro Board Member Ara Najarian's motion to require that the 710 Tunnel Project receive a full cost-estimate analysis before undergoing a $90 million dollar environmental study. [\u2026]\nNajarian on 710: Before We Pay for EIR, Let's Know the Cost\nNow that the full agenda for this week's meeting of the Metro Board Meeting is finally online, we can focus on issues beyond the Wilshire Bus Only Lanes. Another highlight of the meeting is an attempt by Glendale Mayor and Metro Board Member Ara Najarian to slow down the momentum that the I-710 Tunnel Project [\u2026]\nCongressman Weighs in on Metro Board Nomination: Keep Najarian\nBy Damien Newton\t| Jan 16, 2013\nIn the odd drama over whether or not Glendale City Councilman Ara Najarian will be reappointed to the Metro Board of Directors, there are a lot of conspiracy theories. Some, including the Councilman, believe that Supervisor Mike Antonovich is using Alhambra Mayor Barbara Messina and Duarte City Council Member John Fasana to wage a proxy war [\u2026]\nGlendale City Councilman Najarian Takes Over as Metro Board Chair\nBy Damien Newton\t| Jul 1, 2009\nEvery year on July 1, the Chairmanship of the Metro Board of Directors changes hands. This year, Glendale City Councilman, and former Mayor, Ara Najarian takes the helm. While outgoing Chair Villaraigosa is rightly proud of his steering of the Board during the Metro debate, he often seemed bored at meetings and liked to skip [\u2026]\nFormer Metro Board Chair: How Much Will 710 Tunnel Cost?\nMaybe Ara Najarian has been reading the news about New Jersey Governor Chris Christie canceling the ARC Rail Tunnel Project because of concerns about cost over runs. Najarian, the Glendale Mayor and Member of the Metro Board, tells the Glendale News-Press that he will ask the Metro Board of Directors to order a cost analysis [\u2026]\nNajarian Effort to Retain Metro Board Seat about to Commence\nBy Dana Gabbard\t| Jan 14, 2013\n(Update: It turns out that unless the Najarian nomination is rejected by a majority in a weighted vote by the City Selection Committee, that no action is required by North County Cities earlier today. While the Committee didn't confirm his nomination, it didn't reject it either. This wasn't announced until today at the meeting, with [\u2026]","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
+{"text":"Ex-West Sussex school chaplain and teacher convicted of sex offences against boy pupil\nA former teacher and chaplain at a Horsham public school has been convicted of a series of sexual offences against a pupil in his care.\nGary Dobbie, 67, of Rue De La Piale, Albi, France, was convicted of four counts of sexual assaults against the boy between 28 and 31 years ago, at Hove Crown Court on Friday (3 May) after a nine-day trial.\nDobbie had already been convicted in June last year at the same Court of 15 offences against eight other pupils aged between 12 and 19, while a teacher at the school, all but one between 1991 and 1996.\nFollowing the further allegation received by police for the first time during 2018, Dobbie appeared again at the same Court in April this year and pleaded not guilty to four charges that he indecently assaulted the further victim, then aged between 13 and 17 between 1986 and 1991, who was also a pupil at the school while Dobbie was a teacher. One of the counts related to multiple occasions.\nHe was remanded in custody to be sentenced on 12 June this year for all 19 offences - those of which he was convicted in June last year, and those of which he was convicted on 3 May this year.\nDetective Sergeant Karrie Bohanna of the Sussex Police Complex Abuse Unit said; \"This latest case involved Dobbie establishing a strong relationship with the male pupil over a period of two to three years whilst alone with him at his own on-site lodgings, where he would give him alcohol and assault him whilst having intimate conversations.\n\"The pupil had suffered a difficult time at the school and was bullied. He turned to Dobbie for refuge and had become close to him but on many occasions Dobbie assaulted the boy at his private lodgings, and on two school trips.\n\"As the court heard last year in the previous trial, Dobbie had also engaged in systematic grooming and sexual abuse over many years against other pupils. Dobbie would host dinner parties at his house in the school grounds with pupils. He would give them alcohol and encourage them to talk about their sexual encounters, and when alone with them, would assault them.\n\"Dobbie preyed on the vulnerabilities of his victims for his own sexual gratification.\n\"This has been a very complex and sensitive investigation in which the victims of Dobbie showed real courage to speak up and report both to Christ's Hospital School and the police.\n\"Our investigation began in January 2016 when pupils first contacted the school and reported the abuse.\n\"Dobbie's victims were mainly children who should have been able to feel safe whilst in the care of their teachers; instead he exploited his position in order to groom and sexually abuse his victims.\n\"All the offending in this case dates back to between 17 and 30 years ago, and does not involve current staff or pupils at the school.\n\"We have had the fullest co-operation from the school throughout this investigation, and they have supported us in providing all the information we requested, which helped us to contact these victims, and witnesses.\n\"Anyone who is the victim of sexual abuse, now or in the past, can contact us at any time, online or by calling 101, and can arrange to talk in confidence to experienced investigators.\"\nFurther advice and sources of support are available on the Sussex Police website.\nDobbie is a registered sex offender for life.\nAuthor: Tim Mahony\nOne of the victims of Dobbie was also the victim of another teacher at the same school, Andrew Husband, 69, of Wigginton Road, York, who was sentenced in July 2018 for five counts of indecent assault and one count of rape, all against the girl in her mid-teens between 1990 and 1994. He was given a twelve-and-a-half year sentence for the rape, and concurrent sentences for the five indecent assaults amounting to four-and-a-half years.\nA police photo of Dobbie is attached to this Release.The image provided remains the property of Sussex Police.\nIt is provided for the explicit purpose of journalistic coverage and commentary, in the public interest, in relation to the sentencing of the featured person.\n20190502-dobbie-gary-op-w...","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
+{"text":"How to Travel as a Single Woman\nHow to Tour & Travel in Israel\nTravel Safety in Eastern Europe\nMolly Harris, Leaf Group Updated March 15, 2018\nThe Berlin Wall used to separate Eastern and Western Europe. (Photo: Jupiterimages\/Photos.com\/Getty Images )\nUzbekistan Travel & What to Wear\nTravel Safety in Ghana, Africa\nEastern Europe has held an air of mystery and seclusion since the days of the Cold War and the breakup of Yugoslavia. Traveling in these countries is as safe as traveling in Western Europe, and the sites within the region often surpass the highlights of Western Europe. Whether the destination is Ukraine, Croatia or somewhere in the middle, the region is just as safe, if not safer, than the go-to cities and countries in Western Europe.\nSafety Suggestions\nCheck travel advisories. The United States Department of State ranks travel safety to all countries on a scale of \"one\" to \"four,\" with one the safest and four signaling a reason to reconsider travel altogether. While such advisories should be read through a critical lens, the warnings will mentally prepare you for the absolute worst-case scenario in any given destination. For the best information, cross-examine and compare your destination's travel advisories from not only the United States, but also from Canada and Australia.\nAlmost all Eastern European countries are ranked at a level one safety precaution because of petty crime. The highest ranking among the region is level two, which is generally given in response to civil unrest or protests. For example, both the United Kingdom and France carry level two warnings for terrorism.\nSign up for STEP alerts. No matter where you're traveling, it's a good idea to sign up for alerts from the U.S. Department of State as travel advisories are updated or as events unfold. If the situation in your destination country seems uncertain, enroll in STEP, the Smart Traveler Enrollment Program, which is also managed through the State Department. In this program, you register your trip plans before you depart, which allows the U.S. Embassy in each destination on your itinerary to contact you should an emergency such as a terrorist attack or natural disaster occur.\nTravel with a group. Though it's perfectly safe to explore all of Eastern Europe solo, traveling in a group of friends or family will help settle your nerves if you're walking down a street at night. A group also guarantees you the opportunity to share a memorable trip with others. From scouting restaurants and bars to try, to hiking a trail, it's more fun and safer with companions.\nHave multiple exit strategies. Whether it's a building or the logistics of how to get to and from a restaurant or bar at night, mentally planning several routes ahead of time ensures that you don't end up in a bad situation. Know the directions if you're planning to walk, the best way to find a safe taxi, or the schedule that trams and trains run. Taxis can often be called by a hotel, restaurant or bar.\nKnow the way. Understand where you're going by mapping it out on a phone or a paper map. Once you're plotted the route, take photos on your phone along the way. On your way back to your accommodation, you can access your photos without Wi-Fi or cellular service. An added safety benefit is that no one will label you as tourist standing on a street corner while you study your phone.\nU.S. Travel Advisories\nCanadian Travel Advisories\nAustralian Travel Advisories\nMolly is a freelance journalist and social media consultant with degrees in international affairs and public relations. As social media consultant to the Western Balkans over the past four years, Molly divides her time between the American South and Zagreb, Croatia. She has written for OZY, Fodor's Travel, Lonely Planet and Teen Vogue among others while reporting from North America, Europe and the Middle East. Her work can be found at www.mmollyharris.com.\nInternational Gay and Lesbian Travel\nParis Hotels for Women\nSafety for Travel in South America\nTravel Safety in Antigua\nVacations in Alexandria, Egypt\nEastern European Countries\u00bb","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
+{"text":"In Memoriam: Hey, Hey, It's Davy Jones!\nFebruary 29, 2012 By Joe Marchese Leave a Comment\nUPDATE 2\/29\/12: Today at The Second Disc, we join music fans all over the world in mourning the loss of Davy Jones, who died this morning at the age of 66. The worlds of music, stage and screen all lost an icon with the passing of the actor, singer, comedian and beloved Monkee. Davy brought a little of the British Invasion to the California band, as well as lot of talent, sweetness, heart and chutzpah.\nNew York DJ Cousin Brucie Morrow took the airwaves on Sirius\/XM satellite radio early this evening to celebrate Jones' life even as an outpouring of affection arrived on Twitter and Facebook. Peter Noone, a.k.a. Herman of Herman's Hermits, told Morrow that his friend Davy was \"the Danny Kaye of rock and roll\" and an all-around entertainer: \"A great English working class guy\" despite his great success. Lou Christie concurred, describing Jones as a \"great entertainer,\" while Tommy James praised his longtime friend's \"great mind,\" remembering just how much \"fun [it was] to be with [him].\"\nWe're remembering Davy today by re-posting this August 1, 2011 announcement of Jones' recently-reissued solo debut. Friday Music has promised that Jones' 1971 Bell Records LP (containing the hit \"Rainy Jane\") will soon be on the way, joining a spate of Monkees releases from the Rhino label including box sets dedicated to The Birds, The Bees and The Monkees, Head, and Instant Replay. Please join us in recognizing the legacy of Davy Jones by leaving your own memories below in our comments area. Rest in peace, Mr. Jones.\nIt's the return of the artist formerly known as David Jones! No, not Mr. Bowie, but rather Davy Jones of The Monkees, who recently hit the road with his old bandmates for a successful tour. Way back in March, we passed on hints from Friday Music that a reissue of Jones' 1965 Colpix Records solo album was in the cards. Now, the label has confirmed to Monkees.net that David Jones: The Deluxe Edition will hit stores on September 27, containing the original LP plus two rare single bonus tracks.\nWhile David Jones is an artifact of the singer's pre-Monkees career, Jones had already been a ten-plus year veteran of the business we call show when he recorded the album! He began his career in his native England on programs such as the famed soap opera Coronation Street, which still runs today. Shortly after that stint, Jones was cast in the West End production of Lionel Bart's much-honored musical Oliver!. It wasn't long before Jones was being dispatched to America. Oliver! was making its American premiere under the auspices of legendary producer David Merrick on a pre-Broadway tour of Los Angeles, San Francisco, Detroit and Toronto. Michael Goodman was originally cast in the role of the Artful Dodger, and when Merrick made the decision to record the show's Broadway Cast Album in Los Angeles, Goodman preserved his performance. (The score had proven so popular from the London incarnation that the producer didn't wish to lose any more sales to the London Cast Album.) However, Goodman wasn't working out, and Merrick replaced him with the then-David Jones. So while Jones didn't get the chance to immortalize his \"Consider Yourself,\" \"I'd Do Anything\" and more, he did receive a Tony Award nomination for his work in the musical which opened on January 6, 1963.\nLittle did Jones know what would happen next! Hit the jump to find out! And you'll also find a track listing with discographical information!\nJones performed with the company of Oliver! on The Ed Sullivan Show on the evening of February 9, 1964, the same night The Beatles made their famous first appearance. That performance was special in a number of ways. Not only did Jones \"[see] the girls going crazy, and I said to myself, this is it, I want a piece of that,\" but he was spotted by producer Ward Sylvester of Screen Gems Television, who signed Jones to a contract that included recording for Screen Gems' Colpix division.\nDavid Jones was recorded in Los Angeles where the young actor and singer was starring in David Merrick's production of the musical Pickwick, directed by Oliver! alumnus Peter Coe. In an ironic turn of events, it was Jones who this time didn't make it to Broadway with the musical; Roy Castle was playing the role of Sam Weller by the time the show opened on October 4, 1965. Pickwick didn't repeat the massive success of Oliver!, however, and it shuttered after a mere 56 performances, not even leaving a Broadway Cast Album behind. (It did, however, introduce the now-standard \"If I Ruled the World.\")\nProduced in association with Rhino, Friday's reissue of David Jones will include the singles \"Take Me To Paradise\" (the flip of the album's \"Dream Girl\") and \"The Girl From Chelsea\" (the A-side of the track \"Theme For A New Love\"). The album's material is choice, too, provided by songwriters and producers including David Gates, Carole King and Gerry Goffin and Bob Dylan.\nFriday Music's Joe Reagoso noted to Monkees.net, \"I had the good fortune of seeing The Monkees in Atlantic City last month, and I was talking with Davy about the CD after the gig. As we were discussing various aspects of the release, he reminded me 'Dream Girl' was No. 1 in Australia! And I noted to him that this particular song, and its wonderful B-side were really 'early northern soul' kind of tunes, and he smiled. Along the lines of American soul groups like The Shirelles, Little Anthony and The Imperials, The Drifters, etc., Davy obviously dug soul music early, and as seen in later Monkees releases, this R&B vibe shows itself on tunes like 'A Man Without A Dream,' 'She Hangs Out,' etc.\" As with Friday's recent Monkees reissues, the original artwork will be included.\nFriday Music's first-ever CD release of David Jones will hit stores on September 27! A pre-order link isn't yet available.\nDavid Jones, David Jones: The Deluxe Edition (Colpix LP CP-493 - reissued Friday Music, 2011)\nWhat Are We Going to Do?\nMaybe It's Because I'm a Londoner\nPut Me Amongst the Girls\nAny Old Iron\nTheme For a New Love\nIt Ain't Me, Babe\nFace Up to It\nBaby, It's Me\nThis Bouquet\nTake Me to Paradise (Colpix single 764, 1965)\nThe Girl From Chelsea (Colpix single 789, 1965)\nCategories: News Formats: CD Genre: Pop Tags: Davy Jones, The Monkees\nJoe Marchese\nJOE MARCHESE (Editor) joined The Second Disc shortly after its launch in early 2010, and has since penned daily news and reviews about classic music of all genres. In 2015, Joe formed the Second Disc Records label. Celebrating the great songwriters, producers and artists who created the sound of American popular song, Second Disc Records, in conjunction with Real Gone Music, has released newly-curated collections produced by Joe from iconic artists such as Johnny Mathis, Bobby Darin, Laura Nyro, Melissa Manchester, Chet Atkins, and many others. He has contributed liner notes to reissues from a diverse array of artists, among them Nat \"King\" Cole, Paul Williams, Lesley Gore, Dusty Springfield, B.J. Thomas, The 5th Dimension, Burt Bacharach, The Mamas and the Papas, Carpenters, Perry Como, Rod McKuen, Doris Day, Jackie DeShannon, and Andy Williams, and has compiled releases for talents including Robert Goulet and Keith Allison of Paul Revere and the Raiders. Over the past two decades, Joe has also worked in a variety of capacities on and off Broadway as well as at some of the premier theatres in the U.S., including Lincoln Center Theater, George Street Playhouse, Paper Mill Playhouse, Long Wharf Theatre, and the York Theatre Company. He has felt privileged to work on productions alongside artists such as the late Jack Klugman, Eli Wallach, Arthur Laurents, Betty Comden and Adolph Green. In 2009, Joe began contributing theatre and music reviews to the print publication The Sondheim Review, and in 2012, he joined the staff of The Digital Bits as a regular contributor writing about film and television on DVD and Blu-ray. Joe currently resides in the suburbs of New York City.\nConnect With Joe: FacebookTwitter\nLook Out (Here Comes Tomorrow): Run Out Groove Announces Deluxe Edition of \"More of the Monkees\"\nWrong Side of the Tracks: Run Out Groove Reissues Biohazard's \"Urban Discipline,\" Votes Open for Next Release with Monkees, More\nListen to the Band: Andrew Sandoval Reveals \"The Monkees: The Day-by-Day Story\" In June\nPropinquity: 7a Records Announces Micky's \"Dolenz Sings Nesmith\" For May Release\nBill Janowski says\nMono or Stereo??\nJoe Marchese says\nTrying to ascertain that, Bill. Will be sure to report back!\nMy guess it's one or the other - not both, unfortunately.\nI've heard the same stories about a 'needle-drop' that\nBob D. posted below - I'm assuming it's that way for the\nadded extra 45's as well??\nWayne Davenport says\nwould be sweeter on vinyl!!\nIt does turn up on LP (in my area - Chicago) occasionally\nby me, but for copies in Mint condition it can get expensive.\nLast one I saw (IIRC) was a Mono version.\nI never see the 45's.\nMaybe so, but I've noticed that most (if not all) of FM's LP\ntitles are straight reissues (though some have gatefold covers\nwhen the originals didn't), while some of their CD's do have\nextra songs.\nNot sure how the licensing differs between LP's and CD's.\nBob Dobolina says\nThis will be a needledrop transfer. The tapes are lost.\nanton williams says\n...and I have it on vinyl:), thought Davy's album was always better than the Monkees, so it would be great to finally have this on cd.\nKathy Pearson says\nI would LOVE to have a schedule of upcoming Davy Jones concerts!\nI'm sure you can find that at davyjones.net, Davy's official site. Thanks for reading!\nMylene says\nThe Aussie LP of this (with a Monkees era cover) turns up all the time here. I reckon every teenage girl in the mid 60s owned this album in Australia.\nPamela Parrish says\nWill this be on Amazon???\nShaun says\nSad news indeed.\nRIP, Manchester Cowboy... Thanks for making me a \"daydream believer.\"\nSorry to hear this - just saw it myself on the nightly news - he will be missed!!\nZubb says\nSuch sad news. Another part of my wonderful childhood gone. Rest in peace Davy.\nMiki Diane S says\nI grew up with a major attack of falling truly in love with David Jones, and I still feel the same after all these years. I sure wish I could have met you, but it's too late, but you'll always still be my major heart throb, truly in love with you.what a loss! I can't believe He's gone!! Rest in peace My Davy Jones.\nWiish I knew more about Davy after the Monkeys, Did he have a family, was he still acting in England, where he lived, etc.","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
+{"text":"About FWM\nMomfessions Podcast\nCommunity Group Leaders\nEditorial Request\nSave the Date :: February Kid-Friendly Events in Fort Worth\nFWM Events\nMeet Moms\nGrief + Loss\nIn + Around Tarrant County\nFort Worth Moms\nTales of the Traveling Toddler: Why We Brave the Journey\nFrom my perspective, our kiddo is pretty well traveled for a 19-month-old. We're not talking jetting to Japan or jaunting to Jarkata, but he has been in more planes, trains, and automobiles around the United States than most his age. And that's by choice.\nYes, there are MANY challenges that come with traveling with a toddler. MANY. And if you've tried it once or twice, you're familiar with what can happen with toddlers on a plane (arguably scarier than snakes on a plane). Add to that changing time zones, disrupting regular nap times, new people and places, sleeping in a hotel crib or pack n' play, unfamiliar foods, and on and on.\nBut like crazy people with no regard for common sense or a desire to sleep soundly, we do it anyway.\nWe Value Travel\nMy husband and I were big fans of travel before we had a child, and it remains a strong value for us. Before our son came along, we were the kind of people who dreamed of (and pursued) our travel adventures with the freedom and carefree spirit that can only come with being kid-free. During my husband's vows, he even talked about how we would roam the globe with our baby strapped to our back, and I swooned! Enter reality. We are holding off on the international travel for now, but in lieu of that we choose to travel with our toddler because it's an important part of who we are as a couple. And, as he grows older, we hope to have the resources to continue that practice on a broader scale.\nThe Sights, the Sounds, the People!\nOverstimulation be darned! We have been graced with an outgoing child who seems charged by new people. Of course, now that I've said that, I've probably jinxed myself. But, even for the more shy or sensitive, there are usually lots of ways to explore new places and cultures in the right travel destinations. The point of traveling for us is to be able to experience new people, places, cultures, sights, foods, and music in person. And while there is strong value in creating predictable and structured environments for children, there is also value in learning to adapt to changes in safe ways.\nKids and Curiosity Mix Well\nLike most toddlers, mine is into everything. While his curiosity runs me ragged most days, I love seeing him interact with the world and experience new things. When I'm not cleaning up the tornado that follows him or making sure he doesn't electrocute himself, it's almost like being a kid again myself. Traveling provides opportunities for the curious mind beyond what our locales alone can offer. I want to encourage that curiosity with gusto, in spite of the fact that my \"vacation\" now barely resembles how I used to define it. It's not relaxing. Actually, there are more stressors (see \"toddlers on a plane\" above). But it's worth the stress to us.\nPracticing Flexibility\nI find that when traveling with my little guy, I cannot expect things to go smoothly. Rather, I plan for the worst and am pleasantly surprised and proud when it (usually) doesn't go that way. Traveling with or without kids requires flexibility in every sense of the word. Flexible expectations, flexible plans, flexible rules, even flexible limbs at times! For example, in the absence of his normal toys, the hotel phone (a real live phone with a curly old-school cord) is quickly becoming a favorite plaything. I've noticed that the moments I get the most stressed and aggravated while traveling, particularly with my kiddo, are the moments when I am trying to force the situation to fit my expectations instead of just going with the flow. Travel often requires living in the moment. And living in the moment with my son is one of the sweetest places I've ever been.\nWe Get to See Friends in Far Off Lands (i.e. New Jersey)\nLike many others, my husband and I have lots of friends and family scattered across the country. While I'd love it if all of them could make a trip to Fort Worth, sometimes that's simply not possible, or it would be more convenient to visit many of them in the same place. Travel allows us to see those loved ones without having to wait until our son is old enough to behave like a reasonable human being. You know what I mean!\nDo you dare travel with your toddler? Are we brave or just crazy?\nPrevious article'Tis the Season for Reading {FWMB's Favorite Holiday Books}\nNext articleLove My Local: East Fort Worth and Surrounding Area\nGraduate school brought Laura from her beloved home state of Colorado to Texas (hard to beat the Rocky Mountains!), and meeting her beloved husband Jonathan convinced her to settle here. Now the two are overjoyed and exhausted parents to sweet Christopher (2015) and a little girl on the way (2017). In addition to her role as a mama, she also works full time as a clinical psychologist working with military veterans who continue to amaze her with their strength and humor. When she's not busy juggling career and parenthood, you can find her cycling, enjoying local culture (and food!), baking, \"hiking,\" and embracing her love of travel.\nBooks on Mindfulness for the Whole Family\n20 Outdoor and Indoor Play Date Spots for Toddlers in Fort Worth\nThe Night My Daughter Saw a Bear in Her Room\nPreschools and Parents' Day Out in and Around Fort Worth\nKatie L - January 24, 2023 0\nExplore a variety of curriculum choices, price points, and hours of preschools and parent's day out programs in and around Fort Worth.\nWhere to Volunteer on Martin Luther King Jr. Day of Service...\n2022 Ultimate Guide to Holiday Activities :: Christmas Lights, Family Events,...\nGuide to Family Holiday Events in Fort Worth and Surrounding Areas\nGuide to Holiday Productions & Stage Shows in and Around Fort...\nFort Worth Moms is a locally-focused parenting resource for moms and families. Passionate about parenting and our community, Fort Worth Moms strives to connect area moms to relevant resources, local businesses, can't-miss happenings, and most of all \u2014 each other!\n\u00a9 Fort Worth Moms \u00a9 - 2023\nSister Site at City Mom Collective.\nArabic Chinese (Traditional) Czech English Filipino French German Hindi Igbo Japanese Korean Kurdish (Kurmanji) Marathi Nepali Norwegian Russian Spanish Sudanese Swahili Tajik Thai Ukrainian Vietnamese Yoruba","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
+{"text":"Course-Specialist.co.uk\nDate - July 18, 2019\nAintree Festival\nEpsom Derby Festival\nNewmarket Guineas Festival\nNewmarket July Festival\nSt Leger Festival\nThe Open Meeting\nIrish Champions Weekend\nIrish Guineas Festival\nOther International News\nPunchestown Festival\nDubai Carnival\nFrench Racing\nMartin Smith Racing\nOff The Course\nRhododendron impresses in the maiden\nPublished July 28, 2016 | Posted by Andrew Pelis\nRhododendron produced an impressive turn of foot to land the Dove 100 Colours EBF British Stallion Studs Fillies' Maiden on rain-softened ground at the Qatar Goodwood Festival this afternoon.\nThe juvenile filly settled nicely for jockey Ryan Moore at the rear of the field but cut her rivals down one by one with a withering run down the outside in the last furlong and a half.\nJ P Magnier, son of co-owner Sue Magnier, was happy with the performance of Rhododendron after the race.\n\"Ryan said that she felt like she hadn't had much of a race,\" said Magnier.\n\"There's plenty of improvement in her by the looks of it. It's amazing what Galileo has been doing over the past few weeks.\n\"We'll take her back to Ireland and there's plenty of options for her there.\n\"I didn't see her goose stepping around the paddock but they tell me it's a sign of well-being when they do that. Zenyatta used to do it so hopefully that's a good omen!\"\nMagnier also had news of Intelligence Cross, who finished a well-beaten third behind Mehmas in the Qatar Richmond Stakes earlier on the card.\n\"Ryan wasn't overly happy when he got off Intelligence Cross \u2013 he said he was a bit sore.\n\"We'll take him home and check him out \u2013 hopefully he'll be fine.\"\nRyan Moore secured his 31st Qatar Goodwood Festival win following the success of Aidan O'Brien's filly Rhododendron in the Dove 100 Colours EBF British Stallions Studs Fillies' Maiden, the fifth race on day three of the Qatar Goodwood Festival.\nHaving travelled well throughout the seven-furlong contest, the well-bred two-year-old daughter of Galileo responded to Moore's urgings to come clear of her rivals and score by a length and three-quarters.\nMoore, registering his third victory of the week, said of the two-year-old: \"Rhododendron is a smart filly. She picked up very well when I asked her and she is another filly with a good future.\n\"It's only her second run today. She picked up very well and travelled really well. I'm sure Aidan will get her home and see where she goes afterwards.\"\nMoore also suggested the rain which has fallen at the Sussex venue today has started to affect the going. He added: \"It's loose ground now and not all the horses are comfortable on it.\"\nJohnston clean sweep in the nursery\nMiddleham trainer Mark Johnston saddled the first, second and third in the Telegraph Nursery with the James McDonald-ridden Bear Valley running out a decisive four-length winner of the seven-furlong contest. Stable companions Montataire and Teofonic finished second and third respectively.\nBear Valley travelled well for McDonald throughout the race and inside the two-furlong marker displayed a potent turn of foot to come well clear of his stable-mates and register a facile success.\nJohnston, registering his 69th Qatar Goodwood Festival winner and gaining his third victory of the week, said: \"When they all run like that, you wish you had run them in three different races!\n\"It's a shame they can't all win but at the same time, that is why we come here as you throw a lot of darts at the board because you can never be sure.\n\"Conditions changing might have changed the result but I don't know. Bear Valley was always going to be the one which could handle any ground.\n\"It's hard to pick one to come and race at this meeting because you don't which one is going to win on the day. Today it could have been any one of the three but Bear Valley has done it very well.\n\"We knew when the rain was coming that a little bit of give in the ground would suit him very well and perhaps more than the others.\n\"They are all very nice horses and they should progress further beyond this level. They're very consistent horses who are at the top of the handicap carrying big weights. We'll have to go home and think about whether to step these horses up to level weight races next time but I haven't made any plans.\n\"To be honest I don't have any immediate plans with the three of them. When you win and fill the placings at this level carrying that sort of weight you have to look at going up in company.\"\nJohnston was also effusive in his praise of winning jockey James McDonald who was gaining his second victory of the week. Johnston remarked: \"James has been really great. He suits me down to the ground as he is a completely uncomplicated jockey. I don't give any jockey's instructions and he likes that. He has done really well for us.\"\nJockey James McDonald may be returning to Australia this weekend but he showed that he's still hungry to ride winners in Britain after he steered the Mark Johnston-trained Bear Valley to a facile four-length success in the Telegraph Nursery at the Qatar Goodwood Festival this afternoon.\nMcDonald has now ridden 18 winners in his most recent stint in Britain this season and declared his intention to return next summer after a second Qatar Goodwood Festival success of 2016.\n\"It's been a very enjoyable and profitable holiday!\" said McDonald.\n\"I've got to thank all the owners and trainers that have put me on their horses. It's been a great opportunity.\n\"Bear Valley has had three starts to date and was always going to improve. The softer ground has been in his favour. He's scooted away and is another typical Mark Johnston improver.\n\"I think there will be more improvement over a mile and I think he could step up again. He won't be a top-class horse but, with juice in the ground, he'll always give it his all.\n\"Every year I come here, I've always taken back something and I've always improved. That's why I probably get a few outside rides other than for Godolphin.\n\"I'd love to come back year on year and I'd love to come back earlier and take in the Guineas meeting at Newmarket. That will clash a little bit with the racing over in Australia but if I get that opportunity, then I'd jump at the chance.\"\nLaughton has last laugh for Gray\nThe Kevin Ryan-trained Laughton was a half-length winner of the concluding race on day three of the Qatar Goodwood Festival, the five-furlong Tatler Handicap. The victory provided 21-year-old jockey Shane Gray with his first winner at the meeting and only his second winner at the Sussex venue. Kevin Ryan was registering his fourth success at the meeting and his fifth overall at Goodwood.\nGray settled the three-year-old son of Acclamation in the midfield under a decent gallop. Laughton was travelling well as the field approached the final furlong and came to challenge for the lead.\nThe colt responded tenaciously to Gray's urgings to hit the front in the closing stages and repel the late challenge of second-placed Kassia and third-home Muhadathat.\nA delighted Gray, who was also having his first ride at the Festival, said: \"It's my first ride at Glorious Goodwood so it's very special for me. Laughton is a typical sprinter who will keep improving with age.\n\"He travelled well and he actually had a nice gallop to run at. In the past, he hasn't had a strong pace to run at so that made a big difference as he enjoys having a gallop like that to run at.\n\"We got there a little bit soon and he pricked his ears in front but he had a little bit in hand. It was lovely.\"\nPosted in Blogs, Racing News\nBloodstock News\nEquine Management and Training\nInternational Racing News\nIrish Racing News\nMartin Smith Column\nCookie Policy | Privacy Policy | Sitemap | RSS Feed\nCopyright \u00a9 2013-16. All Rights Reserved.\nAll images are used with kind permission of the owner in all circumstances.\nThese images may not be reproduced without the express permission of the image owner.\nDeveloped by Posterity-IT","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
+{"text":"Sen. Burr Releases New Report on CDC Pandemic Response, Recommendations for Agency Reform\nBurr: \"Cultural and structural changes are necessary to ensure the CDC is better able to respond to the next public health threat.\"\nToday, Senator Richard Burr (R-NC), Ranking Member of the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions (HELP) Committee, released a new policy brief highlighting the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's (CDC) challenges and missteps during the coronavirus pandemic and key recommendations for reforms.\nThe brief, titled \"Modernizing CDC: Ensuring a Strategic Approach and Improving Accountability,\" is the first in a series of policy briefs examining and offering recommendations on the federal government's pandemic preparedness, response, and recovery efforts.\n\"As America turns the corner in the fight against COVID-19, now is the time to evaluate our pandemic response and learn what worked, what didn't, and how we can improve the current framework,\" said Senator Burr. \"One of the most obvious lessons we've learned is Americans need to be able to trust the guidance issued by public health officials will be clear, consistent, and follow the best available science. Throughout the pandemic, the CDC failed to meet the mark. Its guidance and public statements have been contradictory, confused, and often lagged behind the latest science. The public's trust in the CDC's ability to fulfill its core mission has been threatened by a series of missteps.\n\"The CDC has also struggled to fully leverage new technologies and public-private partnerships, creating delays when we could least afford them. Early in the pandemic, problems with the CDC-developed COVID-19 test led to an unacceptable shortage of reliable tests at a critical moment.\n\"The CDC must be able to keep pace with the rapid developments, using the latest technology to advance the public health. This report outlines the cultural and structural changes necessary to ensure the CDC is better able to respond to the next public health threat. It recommends strong, accountable leadership, strategic planning to make sure the agency's programs are supporting its priorities, and the development of effective public-private partnerships.\"\nKey Recommendations:\nThe policy brief, \"Modernizing CDC: Ensuring a Strategic Approach and Improving Accountability,\" includes the following recommendations:\nCDC needs strong, effective leadership to lead cultural change at the agency, ensuring its scientific integrity and relationship with the public as a trusted source for public health information are preserved. A key aspect of ensuring this type of leadership is accountability to Congress. While Congress engages with and oversees the agency through authorizations and appropriations for its specific programs and hearings, more should be done to strengthen this relationship and enhance the accountability of CDC and its leaders.\nCDC needs a strategic plan to guide and prioritize the agency's work to align with strategically set goals and include accompanying performance measures. Such a plan must consider statutory requirements, overall mission, and how each program fits within the larger agency mission. By having a clear, focused strategy and performance measures in place, Americans can be assured that CDC's mission is well-defined and the actions being taken by the agency align with this mission.\nCDC must keep pace with scientific advancement and better fulfill its mission to protect the public health during future responses by developing more frequent and effective partnerships with private industry and academic institutions. Effective partnerships with non-governmental actors will help CDC leverage their capacities and capabilities, especially regarding the need for new technology and information systems. CDC should evaluate areas in which strategic partnerships could advance its public health preparedness mission for the future and encourage the establishment and success of these partnerships.\nTo read the full policy brief, click here.\nhttps:\/\/www.burr.senate.gov\/2021\/5\/sen-burr-releases-new-report-on-cdc-pandemic-response-recommendations-for-agency-reform","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
+{"text":"ENGLAND \u2013 Project set to look at the bright side of care\nENGLAND \u2013 Cafcass reports private law applications reaching record highs ahead of legal aid changes\nENGLAND \u2013 Care applications reach new record high\nFiled under Cafcass (England), Care Applications\nThe number of care applications has risen by eight per cent in the past year, according to latest statistics from Cafcass.\nCare applications have risen by eight per cent in a single year. Image: David McCullough\nFigures for the 12 months between April 2012 and March 2013 show the organisation received a total of 11,055 applications \u2013 the highest recorded in a single year. The figure for 2011\/12 was 10,244.\nIn February 2013 alone, there were 998 applications \u2013 the highest on record for a single month.\nDespite increases in care application demand, the length of care cases has dropped, from 54 weeks in 2011\/12 to 45 weeks in the third quarter of 2012\/13.\nAnthony Douglas, chief executive of Cafcass, said the organisation is working hard with courts, local authority services and agencies to reduce unnecessary delays for children and young people going through care proceedings.\n\"While pressure continues to come from the increase in application numbers, we know that these applications are being brought in a more timely and better prepared way than was the case in 2008, when we first witnessed a large increase following the Baby Peter case in Haringey,\" he said.\n\"Work will continue over the coming year, both at national and local levels, to ensure we are working together to provide the best service possible to the children we support.\"\nCafcass is also continuing to experience high levels of private law cases. In March, a total of 4,001 new applications were passed to the organisation, a one per cent increase on March 2012.\nThe organisation has said the increase appears to be linked to changes regarding legal aid, which came into effect on 1 April. Most parents will no longer be eligible for legal aid in disputes about children following separation or divorce.\nSOURCE: Children & Young People Now\nPermanent link to this article: https:\/\/operationfatherhood.org\/cafcass-england\/england-care-applications-reach-new-record-high\/","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
+{"text":"The Motley Fool Canada \u00bb Investing \u00bb Tuesday's Earnings Recap: North American Auto Production Soars\nTuesday's Earnings Recap: North American Auto Production Soars\nDebra Ray | August 7, 2019 | More on: MRE\nMartinrea International (TSX:MRE) reported earnings of $0.66 per share for Q2 2019 before market open on Tuesday. The company also announced positive free cash flow and a substantial reduction in debt. The higher free cash flows and reduced debt indicate that the stock price may appreciate in the next year, but investors shouldn't bet on that outcome.\nUndoubtedly, there are more profitable opportunities on the Toronto Stock Exchange than Martinrea. Although the stock's price performance is relatively predictable, its shares only offer a dividend yield of 1.8%. Furthermore, trade tensions put Martinrea shareholders in a precarious position.\nMartinrea International (TSX:MRE) reported earnings of $0.66 per share for Q2 2019 before market open on Tuesday. The company also announced positive free cash flow and a substantial reduction in debt. The higher free cash flows and reduced debt indicate that the stock price may appreciate in the next year, but investors shouldn't bet on that outcome.\nUndoubtedly, there are more profitable opportunities on the Toronto Stock Exchange than Martinrea. Although the stock's price performance is relatively predictable, its shares only offer a dividend yield of 1.8%. Furthermore, trade tensions put Martinrea shareholders in a precarious position.\nMartinrea International\nFounded in 2001, Martinrea International is one of Canada's most successful automotive engineering corporations. Significant customers of Martinrea include top North American brands such as GM, Chevy, and Ford. Also, the company operates manufacturing facilities in Mexico, Brazil, and Spain.\nIn the past 20 years, Martinrea has become the second-largest North American metal manufacturer in revenue terms. Moreover, the company employs 15,000 people and operates over nine million square feet of manufacturing space worldwide.\nMartinrea lands new contracts\nHonda and Nissan will employ Martinrea in the assembly of lightweight structures in 2021. These contracts are worth approximately $50 million in annual revenue. Total sales for the second quarter amounted to nearly $900 million. Martinrea expects record-breaking third-quarter sales of $860 million.\nSales in the North American segment outperformed Europe and the rest of the world. For the six months ending June 30, North American sales increased 8.5% while European and rest of the world sales decreased by 4.9% and 27.5%, respectively. The company cited lower production volume on key vehicle models such as the Jaguar Land Rover as the cause of the poor sales performance.\nNew NAFTA offers benefits as E.U. trade slows\nRob Wildeboer, the executive chairman of Martinrea, made comments regarding the United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement. Martinrea believes that the new trade agreement will bring many benefits to the automotive engineering sector.\nNonetheless, U.S. president Donald Trump's trade war may be blowing back on the Canadian automotive sector. Lower OEM production volumes in China led to impairment charges of $18.5 million. Impairment charges result when expected future cash flows for assets fall below the book value of the asset.\nThe impairment charge suggests that trade tensions between China and the United States will reduce cash flows from assets in China. Still, Wildeboer seemed optimistic about the trade conflict in his earnings comments: \"\u2026 The trade and tariff issues for North America are moving in the right direction.\"\nInvestors dedicated to North American automotive manufacturing could not do better than Martinrea. The company's return on equity is about three times the average for the Canadian automotive suppliers. Also, foreshadowing positive future performance, retained earnings increased by 50% in 2018 \u2014 the highest in the industry.\nHowever, Tax-Free Savings Account (TFSA) and Registered Retirement Savings Plan (RRSP) investors may want to look for more profitable opportunities on the TSX. A 1.8% dividend yield is far too low of a return, and capital gain expectations are a gamble, at best. U.S. trade tensions are causing extreme financial volatility \u2014 a problem for Canadian exporters like Martinrea.\nInstead, investors searching for high TFSA or RRSP returns should consider shares in insurance stocks, which offer investors both high dividends and capital gains.\nFool contributor Debra Ray has no position in any of the stocks mentioned. David Gardner owns shares of Ford.","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
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+{"text":"Allen West says 'yes,' he would lead national tea party if asked\nAllen West says 'yes,' he would lead national tea party if asked\nNovember 9, 2013 | Tom Tillison | Print Article\nTea party favorite Allen West is ready to report to duty as the nationally recognized leader of the tea party movement.\nOn Friday's broadcast of the \"O'Reilly Factor,\" host Bill O'Reilly invited West on to discuss the \"fierce debate and war\" happening inside the GOP over the tea party, and asked the former congressman from Florida if he is willing to lead the movement.\nO'Reilly identified New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie and former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush as representing the moderate faction at loggerheads with U.S. Sens. Ted Cruz and Rand Paul.\nHe also pointed out that \"tea party guy\" Ken Cuccinelli lost his bid for governor in Virginia on Tuesday, while Christie won reelection easily in New Jersey.\nThe two agreed that the perception of the tea party is shaped by a hostile media.\n\"There is no spokesperson for the tea party, it's fragmented by design, it's a state run grassroots movement and there's nobody to really fight back on the national level to get the message out that the tea party isn't a subversive organization,\" O'Reilly said.\nSaying it's a matter of leadership, West agreed that the tea party believes in decentralization, and cautioned that this can lead to fragmentation and being \"easily picked off.\"\n\"They need a strategic marketing and communications plan, but most importantly, these people should sit down at a table and come up with a platform\u2026 that talks about what they are for, not so much what they are against,\" West said.\nAfter discussing immigration reform as a looming battle between moderates and the tea party, O'Reilly asked: \"Say you were approached\u2026 would you be willing to be the leader of the tea party, would that be something that interests you?\"\n\"Well, I mean, if people come to me I will do that,\" West replied with little hesitation.\nConsidering the tea party is made up of a lot of locally autonomous groups, with little statewide cohesion, contrary to what O'Reilly suggested, a leader of West's caliber may be just what the movement needs to truly be effective in a failing two party system.\n[poll id=\"137\u2033]","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
+{"text":"Home News Villagers shocked as mean thieves steal lead from Brent Knoll Church's roof\nVillagers shocked as mean thieves steal lead from Brent Knoll Church's roof\nThousands of pounds worth of lead has been stolen by thieves from the roof of St Michael's Church in Brent Knoll.\nPolice have issued an appeal for witnesses after the lead was removed overnight last week from the north aisle roof of the church in Brent Knoll's Church Lane.\nTalking to Burnham-On-Sea.com, Rev Kevin Wright, Priest-in-Charge of The Parish of Three Saints including Brent Knoll, has expressed his dismay at the incident.\nHe said: \"On the night of 5th-6th August thieves stole lead from the north aisle roof. The theft became apparent when it rained heavily the following day and water poured through the roof, creating a river that flowed down the aisle.\"\n\"Luckily the damage to church itself has been relatively light and swift action has been taken to cover the roof temporarily to prevent further damage by rain.\"\nRev Wright added: \"How people can choose to desecrate such an historic place of Christian worship in this way is beyond understanding.\"\n\"If anybody is aware of any unusual activity that night in Brent Knoll please contact the Police. I would like to thank members of the congregation who helped clean up the mess created by the flood. Our church worship and activities will, of course, continue as normal.\"\nPolice spokeswoman Jenny Bigwood told Burnham-On-Sea.com: \"Overnight Monday 5th to Tuesday 6th August thieves stole lead from the roof of St Michael's Church in Church Lane, Brent Knoll.\"\n\"Anyone who noticed any suspicious activity in the area or who has any CCTV or dashcam footage which could help can get in touch with police here, or by calling 101, quoting reference 5219180429.\"\nThe Friends of St Michael's Church are currently raising funds to renew the lead on this particular roof.\nThis is being done because the roof lead needed replacement, and this is now urgent. Underneath the lead is a magnificent medieval ceiling dating to back to around 1490. This has 96 wooden panels, all carved in different patterns, and a series of unusual roof bosses. Twelve angels are set on both sides of the panels to guard the roof.\nPrevious articleA-Level results joy at Highbridge's King Alfred School Academy sixth form\nNext articleUnique marriage proposal unveiled in beach sand art at Brean\u2026 and she says yes!","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
+{"text":"UCFHR launches a National Toll-Free Helpline number\nIn a first of its kind initiative by any religious minority group in India, Christians' group, \"following rise in targeted communal violence especially in the Capital\" have launched a national helpline number to help victims of violence for their community members. This toll free National Helpline number is equipped with legal support system. Only victims of violence, intimidation, coercion and illegal confinement by criminal or political group may call and seek legal and advocacy assistance, says Mr A C Michael, former Member of Delhi Minority Commission.\nUnited Christian Forum for Human Rights (UCFHR)\nThe United Christian Forum for Human Rights (UCFHR) which is an inter-denominational Christian organization in India that fights for the human rights of members of the Christian minority, mainly through protest, officially launched a 24-hour national helpline number 1800-208-4545 and will have lawyers and experts to assist victims of violence, intimidation, coercion and illegal confinement by any criminal or political group. The helpline will be free of charge.\nDr. John Dayal, Spokesperson for the Forum, said: \"This is an unprecedented coming together of all major denominational and non-denominational Christian groups, following the rise in targeted communal violence.\"","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
+{"text":"Home \/ Uncategorized \/ Football Scouting Methods\nFootball Scouting Methods\nby Steve Belichick\nOne of the top ten most-sought books \u2014 now back in print!\n\"Considered the bible of scouting techniques\" according to the Los Angeles Times, Football Scouting Methods explains the basic scouting strategies and insights of author Steve Belichick. He was widely viewed as the ablest football scout of his time and coached at the U.S. Naval Academy for 33 years; his son is New England Patriots coach Bill Belichick, a three-time Super Bowl winner.\nFootball Scouting Methods quantity\nSKU: 0-9785881-5-0 Category: Uncategorized\nWhen Steve Belichick died in November 2005, the New York Times headline cited him as \"Coach Who Wrote the Book on Scouting,\" and quoted Houston Texans General Manager Charley Casserly calling Football Scouting Methods \"the best book on scouting he had ever read.\" Joe Bellino, Navy's Heisman Trophy winner in 1960, told the Times that Steve Belichick \"was a genius. On Monday nights, he would give us his scouting reports, and even though we were playing powerhouses, I always felt we were prepared because he found a way for us to win.\"\n\"Effective football scouting is but one ingredient of successful football, but poor scouting can be primarily responsible for football defeats,\" the author notes in the book.\nThe book covers how to scout opponents, recognize defenses, analyze offenses, discover \"tip-offs\" that reveal the opponent's plays, compose a useful report, self-scout, and conduct postgame analysis.\nPulitzer Prize-winning journalist David Halberstam remembered Steve Belichick in the Washington Post as a scout who excelled \"first in the period before there was very much use of film and tape, and scouts had to do most of their work with nothing save their own eyes from the press box,\" and then who was equally skilled in breaking down game film in later years, \"where he still remained the master, someone who would run the tape back and forth countless times looking for one more clue about what an opponent was going to do.\"\nBill Walsh, San Francisco 49ers coach, told Halberstam, \"Steve had superior intelligence and intellect, and he not only saw the game as very few scouts did, but as he was seeing it, he understood as very few scouts did.\"\n\"Steve Belichick taught many younger men how to scout and how to watch film and how to prepare their teams for the next week's game,\" David Halberstam noted, and his best student was his own son Bill, \"one of whose greatest skills as a coach to this day remains his ability to analyze other teams, figuring out both their strengths and their vulnerabilities, and shrewdly deciding how to take away from them that which they most want to do.\"\nBill Belichick is the only NFL coach to win three Super Bowls in a four year span, and is one of only four coaches in NFL history whose father played in the NFL; Steve Belichick played fullback for the Detroit Lions in 1941. Bill Belichick has been ranked as the number one NFL coach in 2008 by SportsIllustrated.com, Forbes, the Chicago Sun-Times, and NBC Sports.\nIn recent years Football Scouting Methods has been one of the top ten most sought out-of-print books; used copies have been quite scarce. This scarcity is explained by Halberstam in his book The Education of a Coach: \"The book was not a bestseller\u2014the author himself estimated that it sold at most four hundred copies,\" despite \"featuring jacket quotes from, among others, the legendary Paul Brown: 'Scouting is essential to successful football coaching.'\" This reissue edition makes the original 1962 text available once again in exact facsimile.\nWhen CBS asked Bill Belichick to name his favorite book, he replied \"Well, I've got to go with my dad's. Football Scouting Methods. I'd have to go with that.\"\nPages: 190 (184 pages main text + vi roman-numbered pages frontmatter)\nSize: 6.7\u2033 x 9.6\u2033\nBinding: Perfect-bound softcover\nISBN: 0-9785881-5-0\nBe the first to review \"Football Scouting Methods\" Cancel reply\n\u00a9 Liber Apertus Press 2021\nYou're viewing: Football Scouting Methods $10.95","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
+{"text":"SR 99 tunnel toll collection in Seattle begins Nov. 9\nTruckers driving through Seattle may have noticed the SR 99 tunnel is open. Driving through it is free for now, but that will all change on Nov. 9.\nAccording to the Washington State Department of Transportation, tolling in the SR 99 tunnel will begin Nov. 9. Five-axle vehicle toll rates will be (Monday through Friday):\n6 a.m. to 7 a.m. \u2013 $8.15 by mail or $3.15 with Good To Go pass.\n9 a.m. to 3 p.m. \u2013 $8.15 by mail or $3.15 with Good To Go pass.\n3 p.m. to 6 p.m. \u2013 $10.65 by mail or $5.65 with Good To Go pass.\n6 p.m. to 11 p.m. \u2013 $8.15 by mail or $3.15 with Good To Go pass.\n11 p.m. to 6 a.m. \u2013 $7.50 by mail or $2.50 with Good To Go pass.\nThe rate on weekends (all day) will be $7.50 by mail or $2.50 with Good To Go pass.\nMotorists who can acquire a Good To Go pass by clicking here.\nAlthough the Good To Go pass offers the lowest rate for the SR 99 tunnel toll, drivers without one can still save money by opening a Good To Go account. Account holders can register their plate for the Pay By Plate option. Registered vehicles will pay an extra 25 cents for that option. Those vehicles with neither a pass nor a registered vehicle will pay an extra $2 per toll.\nTolls only apply to those passing through the tunnel. At the tunnel's north end, the final SR 99 off-ramp before the tunnel is at Aurora Avenue and Harrison Street. Approaching from the south, the final northbound off-ramp is at South Dearborn Street.\nAccording to WSDOT, the tolls are in place to pay for the $200 million construction bonds borrowed to build the SR 99 tunnel. That money is only a part of the $3.3 billion needed to replace the Alaskan Way Viaduct and rebuild SR 99 through Seattle.\nOn an island without a life raft\nEven with truck insurance, some situations feel like you're on an island without a life raft. Plus, interviews with OOIDA board candidates.\nBy Scott Thompson | December 14\nNinth Circuit sides with FMCSA on California break rules preemption\nThe U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit has upheld FMCSA's preemption of California's meal and rest break rules.","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
+{"text":"CBSE finds many of its affiliated Schools not inclusive, lack special educators\nThe Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) has pulled up its schools for not adhering to affiliation rules that make appointment of special educators to cater to differently-abled students compulsory.\nAppointment of special educators was made mandatory in 2015 under rule 13(11) of the board's affiliation by-laws to promote inclusion of students with disabilities\/special needs in schools according to the provisions of the \"Persons with Disabilities Act 1995\" and in conformity with the National Policy of Education.\nObserving that many schools were not following the rule, Jaiprakash Chaturvedi, Deputy Secretary (Affiliation), said in a recent circular, \"The management and the head of CBSE-affiliated schools are hereby directed to strictly follow the provisions and arrange to appoint special educators in schools.\" He added that the schools will have to inform their managing committees about the provision for stricter compliance.\nBut Mumbai schools have expressed that it was difficult to meet this condition. DAV School, New Panvel, has been advertising for a special educator for the last two years, but did not find any qualified professionals. \"We have been trying to hire a special educator since 2015. This year, we advertised twice but still did not get anyone good,\" said Jayashree Khandekar, principal of the school.\nEducators blamed it on the lack of courses available for special education. In Mumbai, only SNDT Women's University, Churchgate and Juhu, offer a full course in special education, while few other private colleges offer short-term certificate courses.\nThere are barely 300 special educators in the state for more than 16 lakh children with learning disabilities, said Dr Harish Shetty, a psychiatrist who suggested that instead of mandatory appointments, the board can train regular teachers on basic remedial education. \"This way, the existing faculty can be used for remediation, while authorised centres can carry out the tests,\" he said. He said the human resource development ministry needed to start more courses on special education.\nSome city schools are using counsellors in place of special educators or hiring them part-time. \"We are unable to find full-time special educators, so our counsellor helps in remediation,\" said Deepshika Srivastava. She added that although teachers have been sensitized in identifying students with learning disability, they could not pay individual attention to all because there were 40 to 50 students in each class.\nSource: Hindustan Times- CBSE pulls up its Mumbai schools without special educators\nBy Subhash Vashishth at June 27, 2017\nLabels: CBSE, CBSE Guidelines on accessibility in Schools, Special Educators in CBSE Schools","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
+{"text":"Upton Recreation Commission Hopes to Expand Programming\nOctober 17, 2016 by Jennifer Doyle 3 Comments\nThe Recreation Commission is requesting additional funding to enable them to hire a new Director for 30 hours\/week. The part-time director recently resigned her position, and the Commission believes that a full-time position with benefits is needed in order for them to manage the Kids at Play summer program, and grow programs throughout the rest of the year.\nRecreation Committee Chair Rick Gazoorian and member Rick LaCrosse presented their request during the October 4, 2017 Selectmen's Meeting.\n\"We've had three recreation directors so far in the history of Upton, they have all been part time, slightly less than 20 hours a week. We have some good programs but we are lacking in a lot of ways and we feel it's time to move the position to 30 hours,\" said Gazoorian.\nAccording to Gazoorian hiring a part time recreation director has challenges. \"You don't exactly get people who are in it for something they really want to do. We get someone who is a stay at home mom who says, 'I can do this,'\"\nGazoorian said, \"We have space in the town to do it and I feel it's time to do it.\"\nSelectman Bob Fleming asked how many people use the Town's recreation programs throughout the season.\n\"We have about 210 in the summer,\" Gazoorian said and added that there are a few programs that bring in a handful of people throughout the year.\n\"What we can offer here is tremendous. I would like to see things that involve ski trips, a science camp in the summertime; you bring in science teacher and make science and math fun,\" Gazoorian said.\nThe committee is asking for $26,000 on Article 3 which would provide the Recreation Director 30 hours a week at $30 dollars an hour.\n\"I think you can expand your revenue a lot here,\" said Selectman Gary Daugherty.\nSelectman Chair Jim Brochu inquired if the commission would try and expand other services.\n\"We don't have any vacation camps,\" said Gazoorian. \"I would like to really focus on getting those things going and more things for the seniors as well,\" he said. \"I want to get the council of aging to get a walking group together\u2026. I would like to have a movie night. I have a lot of ideas but it takes someone to take those ideas and make them happen.\"\nAll three selectmen support the committee's request for increasing the hours of the Recreation Director from 20 to 30 hours a week. The matter will now go before the townspeople at the Town Meeting for funding approval.\n\u00ab Upton Receives Highway Safety Grant\nThe Old Connecticut: Path Stories of the People and Places of the Path \u00bb\nRobin Jokela says:\nI think the following is an unfortunate choice of words \"You don't exactly get people who are in it for something they really want to do. We get someone who is a stay at home mom who says, 'I can do this,'\"\nDebra Amorelli says:\nA full time recreation director will have more time to implement more programs and a greater variety of programs. More programs = more revenue. Looking at what surrounding towns offer, there are programs that Upton could offer that would generate participants, which would generate revenue.\nJames Venable says:\nSave $52,000 if we get rid of the recreation director.\nHow does having a recreation director increase revenue?\nParticipation costs the town $200 per participant.","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
+{"text":"Student Life >\nParsons welcomes students from around the globe each year. As an international student, you are an essential part of our community and we are committed to helping you feel at home while you complete your studies in New York City. Our school offers an array of resources to help you navigate travel and visas, academic success, housing, and more.\nAt Parsons, we value diversity in our students, faculty, and staff. The growing international population, which makes up about a third of the student body, is an important part of that diversity. Visit our Admissions page for specific information on visa and transcript requirements, as well as tuition and scholarship information.\nInternational Student and Scholar Services\nThe New School's International Student and Scholar Services (ISSS) office provides you with accurate immigration advisement and helps you make a smooth transition to university life in the United States. Our ISSS team is here to help acclimate you to the American education system, organize social outings and meetings, and invite you into our community.\nGetting Settled in NYC\nNew York City is a bustling creative hub and you may have many questions about the logistics of living and studying here. You can find answers to all of your questions on our Getting Settled in NYC page, where we cover everything from moving in and legal rights to internet access and dining options.\nESL Support\nEnglish has become the language of international communication. Our English courses and certificates are designed for students preparing for studies in the United States, professionals working in English-speaking environments, and anyone who needs to learn or improve his or her English for personal or career purposes.","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
+{"text":"Celebrity News August 06, 2017\nChris Pratt & Anna Faris: 'We Are Legally Separating'\nA-listers Chris Pratt and Anna Faris have announced they are ending their marriage, according to a joint Facebook post.\nIn the post, made public late Sunday evening, the couple wrote, \"We are sad to announce we are legally separating. We tried hard for a long time, and we're really disappointed.\"\nWaiting for your permission to load the Facebook Post.\nThey asked for privacy for the sake of their son, Jack, and stressed they still have love for each other and for their time together.\nWatch the video as \"Extra\" goes inside their decision to end their 8-year marriage.\nIn June, Anna opened up about her marriage to Live Happy magazine for an October cover story.\nShe explained that she and Chris \"fit so well together\" because they both have roots in the Northwest. \"We get each other because even though we met under the lights of Hollywood, we're from the same place. We both know the same trees and smells and birds. It sounds corny, but those are things that ground us in everything outside of Hollywood.\"\nFaris described going on a \"wildly romantic\" date while visiting Chris in London while he was shooting \"Jurassic World 2.\" He rented a boat and they floated along the Thames while eating scones. Of course, just being at home in Washington was equally great in her eyes. \"Our best date is an afternoon at our Washington home. Chris will put out crab pots early in the morning, and later that day, we'll eat fresh crab with a little butter and just look at the scenery.\"\nShe said they would shrug off any crazy tabloid rumors, saying, \"I'm really lucky that I have Chris and we laugh a lot about stupid stuff. I was reading false rumors in a tabloid about us, and I feel so lucky that Chris and I can laugh about it rather than let it ruin our day.\"\nAnna did confess that she \"can't stand confrontation\" and has a \"hard time letting go.\"\n#AnnaFaris #ChrisPratt #HookupsAndBreakups #TrendingStories\nChris Pratt Explains THAT Funny Behind-the-Scenes Photo from Anna Faris' Live Tweet\nChris Pratt Could Eat No Fat: Watch His Hilarious Snack Attacks!\nWhy Jennifer Lawrence Went Without a Date at 'Passengers' Premiere\nHow Lance Bass Played a Part in Anna Faris & Allison Janney's Friendship\nOur Favorite Photos of Chris Pratt\n'Parks and Recreation' Reunion\nSee Chris Pratt Give Guillermo Acting Advice on the Set of 'Guardians 2'\nRosie O'Donnell Guest Stars on 'Mom'!","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
+{"text":"a Business and Community Notebook\nHeadlinesHeadlines\nOne On One Television\nOne On One Music\nOne On One Books and Accomplishments\nWhat's On One On One TV\nOne On One CopyLine Books\nNeal & Juanita Bratcher Scholarship\nAcclaimed Author Releases Softcover Edition of \"A Defining Moment\" \u2013 A Pictorial Book That Chronicles President Obama's Historic 2008 Campaign\nDenver, CO (BlackNews.com) \u2013 Denver-based awarding-winning photographer and author Patricia Duncan announces the release her highly acclaimed book, A Defining Moment: Barack Obama \u2013 The Historic Journey to 1600 Pennsylvania Ave in soft cover (Sept. 8, 2015). The book provides an introspective look at Barack Obamas historic path from a rising star in the Democratic Party to the nations first African-American president.\nA Defining Moment is a 184-page softcover, pictorial coffee table book, which contains over 300 never-before-seen photographs and speeches, chronicling President Obamas story-book rise from a junior U.S. Senator from Illinois to the first African-American president U.S. history. His ascendency began with a strategic visit to Colorado to campaign for U.S. Rep. Ed Perlmutter in 2006 and court the support of Colorado Democratic Party delegates and rainmakers two fateful years before capturing the nomination for president in 2008.\nDuncans second edition, softcover book features an array official coverage of the historic 2008 National Democratic Convention in Denver. The book comprises speeches delivered by prominent Democratic Party luminaries including the late U.S. Sen. Edward Kennedy, Congressman John Lewis, Hillary Clinton, and former President Bill Clinton, First Lady Michelle Obama, Martin Luther King III, among others.\nDuncan received inspiration to publish her first book from the sage advice from her sister, the late Honorable Vikki Buckley, Colorados first African American and twice elected Secretary of State.\n\"She spoke these prophetic words to me: 'If you have a dream and a goal, you must go after it; stay focused and accept the good with the bad. You may get knocked back two steps before you can take one step forward, but don't quit! If you work hard and keep God first in your life, you will persevere,\" Duncan said. I have endured several challenges in bringing this book to fruition but the labor of love has been well worth it.\nDenver Mayor Michael B. Hancock praised Duncans book as a literary masterpiece that captures one the most memorable and monumental moments in the 21st Century a moment that forever changed U.S. history and the nations political landscape.\nA Defining Moment made its first debut in March, 2011 as a hardcover book. In 2012, it was nominated for a NAACP Image Award: Outstanding Literary Works of a Debut Author. The highly acclaimed book was inducted into the Library of Congress (June, 2012) and sold out in hardcover in 2013.\nA Defining Moment will be available for sale on Amazon.com and at www.adefinmoment.com. Duncan will launch A Defining Moment book tour with Conversation and Book Signing with the author Patricia Duncan, Sat., Sept. 19 Cherry Creek Harbor Event Center and Oct. 24 at the Blair-Caldwell African American Research Library to coincide with the books release. Duncan is available for special appearances and book signings. To contact her or preview portions of A Defining Moment, visit www.adefinmoment.com.\nPhoto Caption: Bookcover\nPrevious CBCF Announces Phoenix Awards Recipients: Legendary Civil Rights Activists and the First Black Fraternity to be Honored During the 45th Annual Legislative Conference\nNext Best-Selling Author Rodney Flowers to Host His Inspiring 9-Week Video Conference Program, \"Get Up And Achieve More\"\nComing This Sunday: A Sizzling Hot Father's Day Event! Real Men Cook Father's Day Celebration\n3 years ago Juanita Bratcher\nReal Men Cook to Host Outdoors Celebration and The First Indoor Upscale Sitdown Dinner at Quarry\nCopyLine Books\nThurgood Marshall Almost Didn't Become the First Black Supreme Court Justice\u2026 and 10 Other Things Most People Don't Know About Him!\nMeet the Tech Founders Working to Make HBCU'S Contenders in e-Sports\n2 weeks ago Contributor\n10 Reasons Why African Americans Should Invest In The Stock Market And Create Their Own Stimulus Check\nBlack Women Founders Launch Online Directory That Connects People Of Color With Therapists Of Color\nThis Couple Helps Black-Owned Brands Get Their Products Into Grocery Stores\nIs Your Presentation Putting People to Sleep? Try This To Wake them Up!\n1 month ago Pamela McMillan","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
+{"text":", Israeli researchers found that antibody levels among 4,800 health care workers fell rapidly within months after two doses of the Pfizer vaccine, \"especially among men, among persons 65 years of age or older, and among persons with immunosuppression.\"\nThat study also found that that immunity lasts longer in people who are vaccinated after natural COVID-19 infection.\nIn the other study of Pfizer's vaccine, researchers in Qatar found that \"protection against infection builds rapidly after the first dose, peaks in the first month after the second dose, and then gradually wanes in subsequent months,\" Laith Abu-Raddad, of Weill Cornell Medicine-Qatar, and colleagues wrote.\n\"The waning appears to accelerate after the fourth month, to reach a low level of approximately 20% in subsequent months,\" they added.\nHowever, the researchers also found that protection against hospitalization and death remained above 90%.\nThe vaccine's weakening protection may be due to people's behavior, the study authors noted.\n\"Vaccinated persons presumably have a higher rate of social contact than unvaccinated persons and may also have lower adherence to safety measures,\" they wrote. \"This behavior could reduce real-world effectiveness of the vaccine as compared with its biologic effectiveness, possibly explaining the waning of protection.\"\nThe studies were published Wednesday in the New England Journal of Medicine.\nPfizer has been saying that immunity from the first two doses of its vaccine begins to wear off after a few months, CNN reported. Last month, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration approved emergency use of booster doses of Pfizer's vaccine six months after high-risk people finish their first two doses.\nMeanwhile, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has recommended booster shots for people over 65, people with medical conditions that raise their risk of severe COVID-19, and people at high risk of coronavirus infection because of their jobs.\nIn the United States, more than 6 million people have already received a third dose of vaccine. On average, the CDC says, the pace of booster shots is now higher than the rate of people getting vaccinated for the first time, CNN reported.\nVisit the U.S. Food and Drug Administration for more on COVID vaccines.\nSOURCES: CNN; New England Journal of Medicine, Oct. 6, 2021","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
+{"text":"L\/Diseases Diagnosis and Treatment-A\/Z\nDisease is a common problem in our world today. It affects not only individuals, but entire communities, creating a widespread impact. Learning more about disease processes is essential in the fight against this global issue. By understanding the mechanisms of disease, researchers can work to develop treatments and preventive measures for individuals and communities at risk.\nDisease is a major global health concern, affecting millions of people worldwide. It is a result of various factors, such as environmental conditions, genetics, lifestyle choices, and even certain infections. For example, infectious diseases like malaria, cholera, or influenza are caused by pathogens that can spread quickly and cause severe illness. Non-infectious diseases, on the other hand, are caused by factors like genetics or lifestyle choices and can include cancer, heart disease, and diabetes.\nDisease is one of the most pervasive and persistent issues facing humanity today. It affects individuals from all walks of life and can have devastating consequences on not just their health, but also their mental and emotional well-being. Diseases can spread quickly and have a wide-ranging impact if left untreated, making it important for those who are at risk to take proactive steps towards prevention. In addition, it is essential to understand the causes and consequences of different diseases in order to develop effective strategies for treatment, as well as to help those affected by the illness.\nDisease is defined as any condition that impairs the normal functioning of an organism. It can be caused by a wide variety of factors including genetic, environmental, and lifestyle choices. Diseases can be acute or chronic, with symptoms ranging from mild to severe. When a person is suffering from a disease, they may experience a range of physical and psychological effects that can disrupt their lives.\nLactase deficiency (See: Lactase deficiency, also known asLactose intolerance)\nLactation mastitis (See: Lactation mastitis, also known asMastitis)\nLassa fever (See: Lassa fever, also known asViral hemorrhagic fevers)\nLateral elbow tendinopathy (See: Lateral elbow tendinopathy, also known asTennis elbow)\nLateral epicondylitis (See: Lateral epicondylitis, also known asTennis elbow)\nLateral epicondylosis (See: Lateral epicondylosis, also known asTennis elbow)\nLazy eye (amblyopia)\nLCIS (See: LCIS, also known asLobular carcinoma in situ (LCIS))\nLeg fracture (See: Leg fracture, also known asBroken leg)\nLegg-Calve-Perthes disease\nLegionellosis (See: Legionellosis, also known asLegionnaires' disease)\nLegionnaires' disease\nLentigines, solar (See: Lentigines, solar, also known asAge spots (liver spots))\nLeukemia, acute lymphocytic (See: Leukemia, acute lymphocytic, also known asAcute lymphocytic leukemia)\nLeukemia, acute myelogenous (See: Leukemia, acute myelogenous, also known asAcute myelogenous leukemia)\nLeukemia, chronic lymphocytic (See: Leukemia, chronic lymphocytic, also known asChronic lymphocytic leukemia)\nLeukemia, chronic myelogenous (See: Leukemia, chronic myelogenous, also known asChronic myelogenous leukemia)\nLeukemia, general (See: Leukemia, general, also known asLeukemia)\nLeukemia, hairy cell (See: Leukemia, hairy cell, also known asHairy cell leukemia)\nLeukoplakia\nLice, body (See: Lice, body, also known asBody lice)\nLichen nitidus\nLichen planus, oral (See: Lichen planus, oral, also known asOral lichen planus)\nLichen simplex chronicus (See: Lichen simplex chronicus, also known asNeurodermatitis)\nLip cancer (See: Lip cancer, also known asMouth cancer)\nLipodystrophy, intestinal (See: Lipodystrophy, intestinal, also known asWhipple's disease)\nListeria infection\nListeriosis (See: Listeriosis, also known asListeria infection)\nLiver failure, acute (See: Liver failure, acute, also known asAcute liver failure)\nLiver hemangioma\nLiver spots (See: Liver spots, also known asAge spots (liver spots))\nLiver, enlarged (See: Liver, enlarged, also known asEnlarged liver)\nLobular carcinoma in situ (LCIS)\nLockjaw (See: Lockjaw, also known asTetanus)\nLong QT syndrome\nLoss of bladder control (See: Loss of bladder control, also known asUrinary incontinence)\nLou Gehrig's disease (See: Lou Gehrig's disease, also known asAmyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS))\nLow blood pressure (hypotension)\nLow blood sugar (See: Low blood sugar, also known asHypoglycemia)\nLow body temperature (See: Low body temperature, also known asHypothermia)\nLow sex drive in women\nLow testosterone (See: Low testosterone, also known asMale hypogonadism)\nLow-flow priapism (See: Low-flow priapism, also known asPriapism)\nLung collapse (See: Lung collapse, also known asAtelectasis)\nLung collapse (See: Lung collapse, also known asPneumothorax)\nLung disease, interstitial (See: Lung disease, interstitial, also known asInterstitial lung disease)\nLymph nodes, swollen (See: Lymph nodes, swollen, also known asSwollen lymph nodes)\nLymphadenitis (See: Lymphadenitis, also known asSwollen lymph nodes)\nLymphadenitis, mesenteric (See: Lymphadenitis, mesenteric, also known asMesenteric lymphadenitis)\nLymphoma, Hodgkin's (See: Lymphoma, Hodgkin's, also known asHodgkin's lymphoma (Hodgkin's disease))\nLymphoma, non-Hodgkin's (See: Lymphoma, non-Hodgkin's, also known asNon-Hodgkin's lymphoma)\nLymphoplasmacytic lymphoma (See: Lymphoplasmacytic lymphoma, also known asWaldenstrom macroglobulinemia)","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
+{"text":"Minnesota Senator Al Franken\t(www.washingtonpost.com).\nAl Franken is also the subject of a poll\nYesterday I wrote about the numbers that concern Minnesota Governor Mark Dayton in a hot new poll. Today, the day after yesterday, I write about the numbers concerning United States Senator from Minnesota, Al Franken. Numbers from the same hot new poll, only a it's now a little less new and a little less hot.\nThose numbers:\nMason-Dixon (2\/16, 6\/15 in parenthesis):\nDo you approve or disapprove of Al Franken's job performance as Minnesota's U.S. senator?\nApprove 55 (55)\nDisapprove 34 (29)\nUndecided 11 (16)\n(MoE: \u00b13.5%)\nThe trend line is ancient, but the approval number is stable. The disapproval number though, that ticked up five points.\nIf one were to just look at the top lines, it appears as though five percent of respondents went from being undecided to disapproving of Al Franken. But that's not really what happened, as can be seen by a perusal of the cross-tabs\nParty ID Approve Disapprove Undecided Change\nDFLers 97 (91) 1 (3) 2 (6) +4\nGOPers 15 (15) 71 (64) 14 (21) -7\nIndies 38 (56) 42 (26) 20 (18) -34\nNone 56 (33) 23 (22) 21 (45) +22\nAl Franken's already high approval among DFLers ticked up six points. While his surprisingly low disapproval among Republicans went up seven points.\nWhat stands out in this table though is that he went from a +30 approval-disapproval spread with independents to -4. Mark Dayton had no similar collapse of support among independents in his portion of the poll, going from +13 in June of 2013 to +16 now. So while Governor Dayton was adding 3 net points to his approval spread among independents, Al Franken was losing 34 points.\nThe party ID numbers are a sub-sample of a sample, so the margin of error is much greater and as such they should be treated with more grains of salt than the top line numbers, but 34 points is 34 points. It doesn't mean nothing. The problem Franken faces is that according to this poll he's maxed out his support among Democrats, and he hasn't maxed out his potential lack of approval among Republicans. So he can't continue to hemorrhage support from independents.\nEven with that, Franken's overall approval rating is still 55% and he's at a +21 approval-disapproval spread, an enviable position to be in for any non-Klobucharian incumbent seeking re-election. But for an incumbent who won his last election by only a few hundred votes, it's a veritable landslide.\nAl Franken maintains strong approvals\nThe Minnesota Poll, Dayton sees approval drop\nAl Franken holds steady\nAl Franken leads all comers\nNew SUSA poll shows Dayton treading water","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
+{"text":"\"The Brief\" - The ALA Blog\n<< First < Prev ... 35 36 37 38 39 ... Next > Last >>\nPractical Tips From the Press at the October Luncheon\nNovember 10, 2014 2:37 PM | Anonymous member (Administrator)\nPat Milhizer is the editor of the Chicago Daily Law Bulletin and Chicago Lawyer magazine. Before becoming editor, his beat was the Daley Center, where he covered the Cook County Circuit Court and Illinois Appellate Court. Teddy Greenstein is a sportswriter for the Chicago Tribune, and his beat covers Chicago sports and Northwestern-Big Ten football and basketball. On October 30 at the Union League Club in Chicago, they discussed a common concern with all of us: writing under pressure.\nPat Milhizer described deadline pressure at its height--when Rahm Emanuel was thrown off the ballot for mayor. His article's first sentence read that the race for mayor had just gotten more interesting. He thought about his readers: lawyers, including those interested in municipal law. He thought not only about the key facts but also what the appellate court had decided. This was important because it was a 2-1 decision. He wanted to get the important content \"high up,\" present the impact of the court's decision, and then transition to the rest of the article.\nTeddy Greenstein similarly explained that our job is to make people wantto read what we write. He encouraged the audience to \"go the extra mile\" and do something different. He provided an example of an enterprise story in which he followed baseball's Frank Thomas to Las Vegas and turned it into a story. One of the best lessons he has learned is to \"show, don't tell,\" that is, don't tell your reader that a person is generous, explain the conduct of the person so the reader will understand the person's generosity.\nPast ALA president Mike Rathsack moderated the discussion and next asked them about overcoming the pressure of writing under time constraints. Pat Milhizer discussed some of the things we can do to put ourselves in a position to succeed, such as limiting distractions, clearing our mind, and prewriting arguments or issues. Next, he talked about \"barstooling\"--sitting down and telling the story as if we were in a bar talking to someone. Teddy Greenstein told the audience, with respect to word count, to write 1,000 words and revise that to a great 500 words. Keep revising; avoid adjectives, be concise, and use the most important facts. When you're finished writing, edit the work product by checking facts and trimming the unnecessary portions of quotations. Pat cautioned though, to ask for help when writing about unfamiliar topics or issues.\nMike Rathsack asked how to handle the one thing we all encounter: criticism. Pat Milhizer responded that he treats all criticism seriously. If there is an error, then it must be corrected. But when there is a misunderstanding or someone misreads the content, then\nthere is not much he can do other than to focus on the reality of the facts. Rather than being defensive, Teddy Greenstein offers an apology and says that he will try harder the following week. But both agree it was necessary to let the person have his or her say. Mike also asked how they dealt with difficult people, and Teddy encouraged the audience to do the research before talking to the personalities; show that you put in the work to learn about them or the issues. In working with lawyers who do not wish to discuss a particular ruling, Pat stressed the need for accuracy in reporting, so his goal is to better understand what the ruling means.\nDiscussing the division of labor between writing and editing, Pat explained that the Law Bulletin was based on a time schedule. He suggested staggering the deadlines to decrease the pressure. Teddy discussed the various formats, such as his blog, in which he can post something quick but then add more later, such as a video clip.\nThe Association thanks Pat Milhizer and Teddy Greenstein for sharing their experiences and providing a refreshing viewpoint of writing under various constraints. The Association also thanks Mike Rathsack and Karen DeGrand for their service in organizing the program.\nAssociation Teams Up with SIU School of Law to Present Appellate Practice Seminar\nNovember 06, 2014 12:11 PM | Anonymous member (Administrator)\nThe Association continued its tradition of sponsoring an Appellate Practice Seminar at the Southern Illinois University School of Law in Carbondale. As in years' past, the October 29, 2014, event coincided with the Illinois Appellate Court, Fifth District, sitting for oral argument at the law school. The seminar featured presentations from experienced appellate practitioners and law professors dealing with writing style and ethics, followed by a judicial panel discussion.\nIllinois Supreme Court Justice Lloyd Karmeier, together with Justices Bruce Stewart and S. Gene Schwarm of the Illinois Appellate Court, Fifth District and Fifth District Appellate Court Clerk John Flood participated in a panel discussion moderated by past ALA president Bill Hardy. The panel covered a wide range of topics germane to appellate practice and procedure, and also entertained questions from attendees.\nALA President Steve Pflaum presented a discussion on ethics. The topics covered included the rules applicable to attorney communications concerning members of the judiciary, responsibility of candor to the tribunal, and duty regarding ethical practice of fellow lawyers. Consistent with the seminar taking place in a law school setting, President Pflaum 's presentation included challenging hypotheticals that sparked audience participation.\nProfessor Cheryl L. Anderson, of the SIU School of Law, presented a writing instruction lecture that encouraged attention to active voice and avoidance of noun nominalization. Titled \"Zombie Nouns and Other Impediments to Persuasive Written Advocacy,\" Professor Anderson used references and clip art that hinted at a Halloween theme, which added fresh humor to her interactive discussion.\nThe Association thanks the SIU School of Law for graciously hosting the seminar and all participants for an instructive and engaging program.\nALA November Luncheon\nNovember 04, 2014 2:00 AM | Anonymous member (Administrator)\nThe Association's November luncheon will feature Judge John Daniel Tinder of the United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit. Judge Tinder will present \"The Language of Judges,\" which will focus on understanding comments from the bench that might help to guide litigation strategy. Judge Tinder will also entertain questions from the audience.\nThe luncheon will be held on Wednesday, November 19, 2014, at the Union League Club in Chicago. For more information and to register, please click here.\n\"Any Point, Ground, or Relief\" - Posttrial Motions Require Careful Attention\nSeasoned appellate practitioners know that an issue needs to be properly preserved in the trial court if a reviewing court is to address it. The basics are simple. Litigants usually cannot raise an issue for the first time on appeal or appeal from the admission of evidence not properly objected to at trial. Most know that a party must also obtain a ruling on the objection.\nBut sometimes attorneys need to know more than the basics.\nTo preserve an issue that arises in a jury trial, a timely and proper posttrial motion is mandatory. The precise content of the motion is specified by law. The requirements for that content are enforced strictly. Errors and omissions in posttrial motions after a jury trial can derail the strongest appeals\u2013even appeals that would have been successful absent such an error or omission in the posttrial motion.\nSection 12-1202(b) of the Code of Civil Procedure provides:\n\"Relief desired after trial in jury cases *** must be sought in a single posttrial motion. *** The posttrial motion must contain the points relied upon, particularly specifying the grounds in support thereof, and must state the relief desired, as for example, the entry of a judgment, the granting of a new trial or other appropriate relief.\" (Emphasis added.) 735 ILCS 5\/12-1202(b) (West 2012).\nIllinois Supreme Court Rule 366(b)(2)(iii) further provides:\n\"A party may not urge as error on review of the ruling on the party's post-trial motion any point, ground, or relief not specified in the motion.\" (Emphasis added.) Ill. S. Ct. R. 366(b)(2)(iii) (eff. Feb. 1, 1994).\n\"[A]ny point, ground, or relief.\" Each of those words is loaded with meaning. Most importantly, the use of the word \"or\" expands the requirements. All points, grounds, and forms of relief must be specified. Just specifying the points and grounds is not enough.\nHamilton v. Hastings, 2014 IL App (4th) 131021, involved a negligence action and is a recent example of the stringent requirements regarding posttrial motions. At the close of the evidence in a jury trial, the plaintiff unsuccessfully moved for a directed verdict on the issue of liability. The jury then rendered a verdict for the defendant.\nThe plaintiff's posttrial motion raised seven points, but asked for only one form of relief \u2013 a new trial. One of the seven points was that \"the [c]ourt erred in failing to direct a verdict for the [p]laintiff at the close of evidence.\" The trial court denied the motion, noting \"the verdict may have been different than I personally would have entered if I was the finder of fact ***.\"\nThe plaintiff appealed only \"from the trial court's denial of his posttrial motion.\" The plaintiff sought \"judgment of liability against the defendant *** and a remand for trial on damages only\" on appeal. Consistent with the plaintiff appealing from the denial of his posttrial motion, the plaintiff's brief argued only for a new trial. Apparently, the plaintiff's brief on appeal did not expressly seek judgment in his favor on the issue of liability. Nonetheless, the reviewing court noted, the plaintiff was \"essentially asking this court to enter a judgment\" in his favor on the issue of liability, calling it \"a judgment n.o.v.\"\nThe reviewing court explained that the plaintiff's failure to request a judgment n.o.v. was not a mere technical failure because the \"supreme court has carefully preserved the distinction in the evidentiary standard courts apply to each.\" Specifically, on the one hand, a directed verdict (or judgment n.o.v.) is proper when all of the evidence, viewed in the aspect most favorable to the opponent, so overwhelming favors the movant that no contrary verdict based on the evidence could stand. On the other hand, a motion for a new trial is proper when the trial court, after weighing the evidence, concludes that the verdict is contrary to the manifest weight of the evidence. A motion for a new trial, the reviewing court noted, would not implicate the same evidentiary standard for a judgment n.o.v., and therefore, the trial court did not have the opportunity to reconsider its decision to deny the plaintiff's request for a directed verdict. The reviewing court concluded that, because the plaintiff did not request a judgment n.o.v. in his posttrial motion, the plaintiff was \"precluded from asking this court to enter judgment on liability.\"\nImportant for both trial and appellate practitioners alike, the reviewing court conceded that the plaintiff wrote in his posttrial motion that the trial court erred in denying his motion for a directed verdict on the issue of liability. But that was not enough; it was a \"mere allegation.\" The reviewing court concluded that the plaintiff also had to specifically ask for that directed verdict in his posttrial motion.\nThe plaintiff raised the issue of the judgment he sought in his posttrial motion as a \"point\" and probably a \"ground,\" but fatally omitted to specifically request that judgment n.o.v. \u2013 the form of the \"relief\" he sought during the trial when he moved for a directed verdict. Two out of three may not be that bad in love songs, but it will not preserve an issue for appeal in a posttrial motion. See Meat Loaf, \"Two Out of Three Ain't Bad,\" Bat Out of Hell (1977).\nThe reviewing court, however, did consider the plaintiff's appeal as framed by the notice of appeal, that is, the trial court's denial of his posttrial motion for a new trial. The court noted that, because the plaintiff did not sufficiently develop his argument regarding the trial court's denial of his posttrial motion in his brief, it would have been justified in declining to address that issue pursuant to Supreme Court Rule 341(h)(7) (eff. Feb. 6, 2013). Nonetheless, because the defendant decided to brief the issue as framed by the notice of appeal, he would not be prejudiced if the reviewing court decided that issue. The reviewing court concluded that the trial court did not abuse its discretion in denying the plaintiff's posttrial motion for a new trial.\nPosttrial motions require careful attention. Including the points and grounds is the easy part. Specifically asking for all the particular forms of relief requested\u2013by name\u2013requires more thought. And is required.\nRecommended Citation: Lawrence A. Stein, \"Any Point, Ground, or Relief\" - Posttrial Motions Require Careful Attention, The Brief, (November 2, 2014), http:\/\/applawyers-thebrief.blogspot.com\/2014\/11\/any-point-ground-or-relief-posttrial.html#more.\nSeventh Circuit Invokes Pendent Appellate Jurisdiction, the \"Embattled Doctrine\"\nOctober 28, 2014 7:20 AM | Anonymous member (Administrator)\nThe Seventh Circuit had the opportunity to consider the contours of pendent appellate jurisdiction in Allman v. Smith, 764 F. 3d 682 (7th Cir. 2014). The matter involved a ruling from a motions panel reviewing the district court's denial of a motion to stay proceedings pending an interlocutory appeal. The case is important for appellate practitioners because it highlights that, although pendent appellate jurisdiction is \"an embattled doctrine,\" it will be invoked when compelling reasons exist.\nIn Allman, the plaintiffs, former employees of a city in Indiana, sued both the mayor and the city claiming that they were fired because of their political affiliations. The mayor argued that he violated no constitutional rights; and alternatively, even if the firings violated the employees' constitutional rights, the doctrine of qualified immunity applied and absolved him from liability. The city, whose liability was derivative, claimed that the mayor's actions did not constitute a constitutional violation and also moved for summary judgment. The district court granted the mayor's motion for summary judgment based on qualified immunity as to some plaintiffs, but denied the mayor's motion for summary judgment as to two of the plaintiffs after finding that an issue of fact existed. The district court further denied the mayor's motion that the proceedings be stayed pending appeal. The district court denied the city's summary judgment motion as well as the city's motion to stay further proceedings against it.\nThe Seventh Circuit first noted that there was no question that the mayor was entitled to a stay because of the qualified immunity claim. However, the more interesting question for the court was whether the city, who could not rely on qualified immunity, was entitled to a stay under pendent appellate jurisdiction.\nThe reviewing court observed that pendent appellate jurisdiction is \"an embattled doctrine\" that is significantly narrow in scope. It requires a compelling practical reason to allow an appeal from a ruling where there is otherwise no independent jurisdictional basis. The court found that the posture of the city's case represented a compelling practical reason to stay further proceedings relative to the city pending resolution of the mayor's appeal. The court noted that claims against the city depended on the outcome of the mayor's appeal\u2014if the merits panel agreed with the mayor's principle argument that there was no constitutional violation, then the city would also be relieved of liability. Absent a stay, any proceedings against the city would have been for naught. The court also commented that the plaintiffs' desire to proceed against the city pending the mayor's appeal could result in two trials involving the same facts and witnesses\u2014an outcome that the court deemed unattractive. Also unattractive was the possibility that there would be conflicting findings on the nature of the mayor's conduct if the case against the city was to be tried while the mayor's appeal remained pending. The court then concluded that a stay of proceedings as to the city was warranted due to the city's claimed status as party \" 'pendent' because of its interdependence with the mayor's appeal.\" But the court cautioned that the pendent jurisdiction of the city's claim was limited to asking for review of the denial of its motion to stay. It emphasized that it lacked jurisdiction over of the city's appeal from any district court rulings other than the district court's denial of the city's motion to stay.\nThe net result was that the proceedings against both the mayor and the city were stayed pending the mayor's appeal. The outcome of the mayor's appeal will then determine whether a trial against the city will be necessary, and if so, the scope of issues to be tried.\nRecommended Citation: Rosa M. Tumial\u00e1n, Seventh Circuit Invokes Pendent Appellate Jurisdiction, the \"Embattled Doctrine\", The Brief, (October 29, 2014), http:\/\/applawyers-thebrief.blogspot.com\/2014\/10\/seventh-circuit-invokes-pendent.html#more.\nAssociation Hosts Appellate Practice Seminar in Champaign\nOctober 21, 2014 7:19 PM | Anonymous member (Administrator)\nThe ALA is committed to fostering and encouraging the highest professional and ethical standards within the appellate bar. Pursuant to that commitment, the Association sponsored an Appellate Practice Seminar at the University of Illinois College of Law in Champaign. Held on October 8, 2014, the event featured an interactive panel discussion, presentations by seasoned appellate attorneys, a luncheon, and an informal social gathering attended by ALA members, University of Illinois law school faculty, and law students.\nAppellate Court Justice Robert Steigmann of the Fourth District, moderated the panel discussion. The panel also included Justices Mary K. O'Brien and Daniel Schmidt of the Third District Appellate Court; Justices Lisa Holder White and Thomas Harris of the Fourth District Appellate Court; and Justice S. Gene Schwarm of the Fifth District Appellate Court. The panel covered a wide range of topics germane to appellate practice and procedure, and answered questions from attendees.\nThe seminar also featured ALA President Steve Pflaum and ARDC Ethics Director Peter Rotskoff present a discussion on ethics. ALA Vice President Michael Scodro, drawing on his experience as the former Illinois Solicitor General, offered a discussion focusing on tips for presenting oral arguments. Seminar participants were also invited to join the College of Law for their annual luncheon, which followed the Fourth District Oral Argument also held at the law school that morning.\nThe ALA thanks the Appellate Court Justices and the other speakers for their participation, and also thanks the University of Illinois College of Law.\nALA President Steven F. Pflaum Honored in Magazine Profile\nALA President Steven F. Pflaum was recently named Lawyer of the Month by Attorney At Law Magazine, which highlights his career accomplishments and contributions to the legal profession. In addition to representing clients like municipalities, media entities, and hospitals at trial and on appeal, President Pflaum has dedicated his career to \"raising the bar\" for both practitioners and the bench. He \"devotes a substantial amount of time to activities intended to improve the administration of justice and the regulation of the legal profession.\" Toward that end, President Pflaum has held various positions related to both judicial and legal ethics, including serving as the current chair of the Illinois Judicial Ethics Committee.\nThe article also shares insight into President Pflaum's activities outside of the law. An avid cyclist and tennis player, President Pflaum lives by the motto \"Work hard, play hard, hardly sleep.\" Between zealously representing clients, giving back to the legal community, cycling, playing tennis, and spending time with his wife Karen and their family, including six children, President Pflaum's only complaint is that \"there are rarely enough hours in the day.\"\nPresident Pflaum's many friends at the Association congratulate him on this well-deserved accomplishment. To read the full article, please click here.\nSupreme Court Amends Rules 12 and 373\nOctober 16, 2014 10:09 PM | Anonymous member (Administrator)\nEffective September 19, 2014, the Supreme Court has amended Rules 12 and 373. Rule 12 governs proof of service in the trial court and reviewing courts. The amendment pertains to subsection (4), which now provides that \"in the case of service by mail by a pro se petitioner from a correctional institution,\" proof of service may be established by an affidavit or \"by certification as provided in section 1-109 of the Code of Civil Procedure\" of the person who deposited the document in the institutional mail. The certification should state the time and place of deposit, as well as the complete address to where the document was delivered.\nRule 373 governs filing papers in reviewing courts. The Rule specifies that proof of mailing or delivery to a third-party commercial carrier shall be as provided in Rule 12(b)(3). The amendment added language providing that the rule applies to \"a motion directed against the judgment\" as well as to the notice of appeal filed in the trial court.\nRecommended Citation: Charlie Ingrassia, Supreme Court Amends Rules 12 and 373, (October 16, 2014), The Brief, http:\/\/applawyers-thebrief.blogspot.com\/2014\/10\/supreme-court-amends-rules-12-and-373.html.\nAssociation Supports 2014 Pro Bono Week\nOctober 13, 2014 10:33 AM | Anonymous member (Administrator)\nThe Appellate Lawyers Association is pleased to support The Chicago Bar Association and The Chicago Bar Foundation's 10th Anniversary Celebration: 2014 Pro Bono Week \"Lifting Lives, Strengthening Access,\" which will take place during the week of October 20, 2014 through October 24, 2014. For more information, please visit The Chicago Bar Association by clicking here.\nJudge Easterbrook on Replacing Page Limits With Word Limits in Federal Rules of Appellate Procedure\nJudge Frank H. Easterbrook of the United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit recently commented that replacing page limits with word limits in all Rules of Appellate Procedure was sensible. Nonetheless, the remaining question was what the limit should be. He recounts the process that led to the 14,000-word limit for principal briefs that currently exists. He further shares his opinion that a reduction of the word limit to 12,500 at the intermediate appellate level while, at the same time, the United States Supreme Court replaced the 50-page brief limit with a 15,000-word limit \"would create an unjustified difference.\"\nYou can read his comments by clicking here. Via How Appealing.\nDISCLAIMER: The Appellate Lawyers Association does not provide legal services or legal advice. Discussions of legal principles and authority, including, but not limited to, constitutional provisions, statutes, legislative enactments, court rules, case law, and common-law doctrines are for informational purposes only and do not constitute legal advice.","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
+{"text":"A Liberal Dose\nPosted Monday, January 9, 2023 3:33 am\nTroy Smith\nTomorrow marks the second anniversary of one of the low points of American history. A lot of people who supported Donald Trump might not want to think so; they may wish people would stop talking about it. They may change the channel, especially when news programs show the actual (and shocking) footage of that day. They may say everyone is exaggerating the violence of that event - or that it should not count as an insurrection, because only a handful of people died.\nBut guess what? History teachers are still talking about Shays' Rebellion (1786) and the Whiskey Rebellion (1791). Only nine people died in the former and only four or five in the latter. We do not talk about them because of the magnitude of death and destruction that occurred but because of the magnitude of their historical significance. Shays' Rebellion led indirectly to the drafting of the U.S. Constitution. The Whiskey Rebellion demonstrated (to the country and to the world) that the government created by that Constitution had the authority, will, and power to suppress violent actions against the Constitution, the government, and the law - all three of which, by the way, perfectly describe the insurrection of Jan. 6, 2021.\nExcept, in the case of the January rebellion, it was the president himself who instigated, encouraged, and allowed the violence directed against both his own executive branch (in the person of his vice-president, who came within a hair's breadth of assassination) and the whole legislative branch. The House Select Committee investigating the attack, who have recently released their interview transcripts, uncovered a breathtaking array of evidence that our authoritarian ex-president intentionally stirred up his fervent followers to stop the Constitutionally mandated certification of the election - or at least delay it long enough for some of his other schemes with the same purpose to come to fruition. One of the most frightening disclosures of the transcripts is that the Pentagon refused to send troops in to quell the riot out of fear that, if they were that close to the action, the president would illegally order them to help the rioters overthrow the government chosen by a majority of the American people. Fittingly enough, Trump started his presidency with a warning of \"American carnage\" and ended it by delivering it.\nOn the day itself, my pro-Trump friends were uncharacteristically quiet. It was virtually impossible to defend the carnage while it was unspooling live on television. I believed at the time they were overcome by shame, and maybe (hopefully) they were. Within a few days, though - following the Trump doctrine of denying that the past happened - they were minimizing or excusing the whole thing.\nBut the truth is - and this is why Jan. 6 will be talked about by historians for centuries to come - that day (like the Whiskey Rebellion) was a major testing of constitutional democracy. It could have gone very differently - and if Trump had installed the type of hyper-loyal-constitutionally-averse-authoritarian staff he no doubt would install in a second administration, it would have.\nFor those of us paying attention, the months leading up to the 2022 midterms were almost as frightening. A whole slew of Trump-backed candidates were on the slate who, had they won, would have been situated to change the results of the next election in Trump's favor. Thankfully, almost all those candidates in swing states lost, demonstrating that Trump was losing some of his influence. This, in turn, led to the Republican establishment finally feeling emboldened to buck The Orange One, and the conventional wisdom now is that Trump will not be favored to win the nomination this time.\nBut he wasn't favored to win the nomination in 2016, either. Many thought it was impossible for him to do so or to win the general election. He has enough devoted followers to get the Republican spot. It's still an urgent necessity that we remember Jan. 6.\n--Troy D. Smith, a White County native, is a novelist and a history professor at Tennessee Tech. His words do not necessarily represent TTU.","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
+{"text":"Visit dmd on Facebook\nFollow dmd on Twitter\nOvercoming P-Glycoprotein\u2013Mediated Drug Resistance with Noscapine Derivatives\nDivya Muthiah, Georgia K. Henshaw, Aaron J. DeBono, Ben Capuano, Peter J. Scammells and Richard Callaghan\nDrug Metabolism and Disposition February 2019, 47 (2) 164-172; DOI: https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1124\/dmd.118.083188\nDivya Muthiah\nDivision of Biomedical Science and Biochemistry, Research School of Biology and Medical School, Australian National University, Canberra, Australian Capital Territory (D.M., G.K.H., R.C.), and Medicinal Chemistry, Monash Institute of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Monash University, Parkville, Victoria (A.J.D., B.C., P.J.S.), Australia\nGeorgia K. Henshaw\nAaron J. DeBono\nBen Capuano\nPeter J. Scammells\nORCID record for Peter J. Scammells\nRichard Callaghan\nORCID record for Richard Callaghan\nPDF + SI\nChemical structures of noscapine derivatives. A series of derivatives were generated using noscapine as a template. Chemical substituents were generated at the positions marked R1, R6', R7, and R9'. The calculated permeability (cLogP) values were determined using the \"molinspiration\" property engine v2016.10.\nEffects of vinblastine, noscapine, and its derivatives on cell proliferation. Drug- sensitive MCF7 (empty symbols) and the drug-resistant NCI\/AdrRES cells (filled symbols) were incubated with drugs for a 6 days as described in the Materials and Methods. The percentage of live cells remaining after exposure to (A) vinblastine, (B) noscapine, (C) compound (7), or (D) compound (3) were determined using the MTT assay. Sigmoidal dose-response curves were fitted using nonlinear regression, and the values correspond to mean \u00b1 S.E.M. obtained from at least three independent observations.\nAccumulation of calcein-AM in MCF7 and NCI\/AdrRES cells. The transport of calcein-AM (1 \u03bcM) was measured using a fluorescence-based assay in 96-well microplates over a 10-minute period. Liberation of the fluorescent calcein in cells was detected using an excitation \u03bb = 488 nm and an emission \u03bb = 515 nm. (A) A representative fluorescence-intensity profile measured in MCF7 (\u25cf) and NCI\/AdrRES (\u25cb) cells. (B) The fluorescence intensity was measured in NCI\/AdrRES cells in the presence of 1 (\u25cb), 3 (\u25cf) or 10 \u03bcM (\u25fb) nicardipine. The rate of calcein accumulation was determined from the slope between 5 and 10 minutes. (C) The rate of calcein accumulation was plotted as a function of nicardipine, and the data were fitted with a hyperbolic relationship using nonlinear regression. Values correspond to mean \u00b1 S.E.M. obtained from at least three independent observations\nDrug stimulation of ATP hydrolysis by purified P-gp. The ATPase activity of P-gp was measured by the appearance phosphate using a colorimetric assay. Proteoliposomes (0.1\u20130.5 \u03bcg protein) were incubated with ATP and drug as indicated to follow. (A) ATP hydrolysis by purified P-gp was measured with a range of ATP concentrations (0\u20131.75 mM) in the absence (\u25cb) or presence (\u25cf) of nicardipine (10 \u03bcM) for 30 minutes. The Michaelis-Menten equation was fitted to the data using nonlinear regression. (B) The ATPase activity of P-gp was measured in the presence of ATP (2 mM) and a series of noscapine concentrations (10\u22127\u201310\u22123M) for 30 minutes. A sigmoidal dose-response curve was fitted to the data using nonlinear regression. The rate of ATP hydrolysis was normalized for both protein content and the assay time, and values represent mean \u00b1 S.E.M. obtained from five independent observations.\nEffects of vinblastine and noscapine coadministration on cell proliferation. Cell proliferation was measured in MCF7 and NCI\/AdrRES cells in the presence of vinblastine and a series of noscapine concentrations. Cell viability was measured using the MTT assay after a 6-day incubation with drugs. (A) The effects of vinblastine on the growth of MCF7 cells in the absence (\u25cf) or presence of 10 (\u25cf), 20 (\u25cf), or 30 \u03bcM (\u25cf) noscapine. A sigmoidal dose-response relationship was fitted to the data by nonlinear regression. (B) The effects of vinblastine on the growth of NCI\/AdrRES cells in the absence (\u25aa\u25aa\u25aa) or presence of 10 (\u25aa\u25aa\u25aa), 20 (\u25aa\u25aa\u25aa), or 30 \u03bcM (\u25aa\u25aa\u25aa) noscapine. A sigmoidal dose-response relationship was fitted to the data by nonlinear regression. (C) Isobologram for the interaction between vinblastine and noscapine in NCI\/AdrRES cells. Dose ratios are plotted for data obtained using 10, 20, and 30 \u03bcM noscapine, and the dotted line represents the isobole. (D) Isobologram for the interaction between vinblastine and noscapine in MCF7 cells. Dose ratios are plotted for data obtained using 10, 20, and 30 \u03bcM noscapine, and the dotted line represents the isobole\nPotency of noscapine and several chemical derivatives to elicit cytotoxicity in drug-sensitive and -resistant breast cancer cell lines\nThe potencies of drugs to inhibit cell proliferation (IC50) were determined using the MTT assay described in the Materials and Methods. Values (mean \u00b1 S.E.M.) were obtained by nonlinear regression of the general dose-response relationship. The values in parentheses correspond to the number of independent observations.\nCytotoxic Potency IC50(\u03bcM)\nMCF7\nNCI\/AdrRES\nNoscapine 45.4 \u00b1 6.5 (13) 32.1 \u00b1 7.0 (12)\n(2) NE (5) NE (4)\n(3) N.E (6) NE (4)\n(4) 5.3 \u00b1 0.9* (6) 3.3 \u00b1 0.41* (5)\n(5) 1.6 \u00b1 0.4* (11) 6.4 \u00b1 2.4* (4)\n(7) 14.6 \u00b1 2.5* (8) 12.6 \u00b1 2.8* (7)\n(10) 4.3 \u00b1 0.7* (7) 2.4 \u00b1 0.2* (7)\n(11) 21.5 \u00b1 7.3* (6) 18.3 \u00b1 2.8 (3)\nMCF, human breast adenocarcinoma cell line; MTT, 3-(4,5-dimethylthiazol-2-Yl)-2,5-diphenyltetrazolium bromide; NE, compound did not generate a cytotoxic response.\n* Statistically significant difference (P < 0.01) compared with the value obtained for noscapine in the specific cell line.\nEffects of nicardipine and several noscapine derivatives on calcein-AM accumulation in drug-sensitive and -resistant breast cancer cell lines\nAccumulation of calcein in NCI\/AdrRES cells was determined from the rate of fluorescence change and plotted as a function of added drug concentration. A secondary plot was used to determine the potency of drugs (MP50) to alter the accumulation of calcein and the maximal rate (AMAX) for this accumulation. Parameters (mean \u00b1 S.E.M.) were obtained by nonlinear regression of a hyperbolic equation.\n\u03bcM rfu\nNicardipine (11) 2.5 \u00b1 0.6 110 \u00b1 19\nNoscapine (9) 8.5 \u00b1 2.1 24.6 \u00b1 6.7\n(2) \u2014 nd nd\n(4) (4) 10.1 \u00b1 2.7 145 \u00b1 33*\n(5) (4) NE NE\n(6) (6) 0.37 \u00b1 0.07* 35.1 \u00b1 4.0\n(8) (5) 1.2 \u00b1 0.2* 137 \u00b1 30*\n(9) (8) 6.9 \u00b1 2.0 67.6 \u00b1 26.0\n(10) (7) 3.8 \u00b1 1.0 76.3 \u00b1 28.7\n(11) (4) 20.9 \u00b1 5.3** 83.5 \u00b1 21.7\n(n), Number of independent observations. NE, the compound did not alter calcein-AM accumulation; and n.d., no values were determined; rfu, relative fluorescence units.\n* Statistically significant difference (P < 0.05) compared with the value for noscapine.\n** P < 0.01.\nEffects of nicardipine and several noscapine derivatives on the rate of ATP hydrolysis by purified, reconstituted P-glycoprotein (P-gp)\nThe ATPase activity of purified P-gp was measured using a colorimetric assay and plotted as a function of added drug concentration. The general dose-response relationship was fitted to the data to determine the potency to stimulate hydrolysis (EC50) and the extent of stimulation. Values correspond to mean \u00b1 S.E.M.\nEC50 (\u03bcM)\nFold basal\nNicardipine (6) 2.9 \u00b1 0.5** 5.3 \u00b1 0.5\nNoscapine (6) 44.6 \u00b1 9.1 3.4 \u00b1 0.4\n(2) (3) 4.1 \u00b1 1.6** 2.5 \u00b1 0.3\n(3) (2) 65.3 \u00b1 10.2 4.4 \u00b1 1.3\n(4) (3) 0.95 \u00b1 0.28** 2.4 \u00b1 0.4\n(5) (6) 18.7 \u00b1 4.5** 3.1 \u00b1 0.3\n(9) (3) 22.5 \u00b1 5.8* 2.8 \u00b1 0.6\n(10) (4) NE NE\n(n), Number of independent observations; NE, compound did not alter ATP hydrolysis by G-gp.\n* Statistically significant difference compared with noscapine (P < 0.05).\nCombination index (CI) analysis of the cytotoxicity of noscapine derivatives coadministered with vinblastine with in drug-sensitive and -resistant breast cancer cell lines\nCI values were determined for the effects of coadministration of vinblastine and noscapine derivatives on cell proliferation. Complete dose-response relationships were determined for vinblastine in the absence or presence of the indicated concentrations of noscapine, (6) and (8). All values (mean \u00b1 S.E.M.) were obtained from three independent observations.\nConc\nCombination Index\nNoscapine 10 0.69 \u00b1 0.02** 1.13 \u00b1 0.362\n20 0.26 \u00b1 0.05** 0.11 \u00b1 0.02*\n(6) 0.1 1.64 \u00b1 0.33 1.10 \u00b1 0.35\n0.3 1.04 \u00b1 0.46 0.49 \u00b1 0.25\n1 1.11 \u00b1 0.35 0.33 \u00b1 0.15*\n3 0.59 \u00b1 0.02** 0.24 \u00b1 0.04**\n1 n.d. 0.52 \u00b1 0.27*\n3 n.d. n.d.\nConc., concentration; MCF, human breast adenocarcinoma cell line; n.d., no values were determined.\n* P < 0.05; **P < 0.01 indicate a statistically significant difference from the isobole, which is defined with CI = 1.\nData Supplement\nSupplemental Figure -\nExpression of P-gp over a six day period\nThank you for sharing this Drug Metabolism & Disposition article.\nYou are going to email the following Overcoming P-Glycoprotein\u2013Mediated Drug Resistance with Noscapine Derivatives\nMessage Subject (Your Name) has forwarded a page to you from Drug Metabolism & Disposition\nMessage Body (Your Name) thought you would be interested in this article in Drug Metabolism & Disposition.\nInhibition of P-Glycoprotein by Noscapine Derivatives\nDrug Metabolism and Disposition February 1, 2019, 47 (2) 164-172; DOI: https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1124\/dmd.118.083188\nAuthorship Contributions\nPrediction of intestinal absorption using jejunal spheroids\nProtein abundance of non-CYP enzymes across species\nEffects of Overexpression of FGF15\/19 on Hepatic DMEs\nAbout DMD","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
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+{"text":"Swedes Reach Muslim Breaking Point\nBy Steve Harrigan\nMALMO, Sweden \u00ad Swedish authorities in the southern city of Malmo have been busy with a sudden influx of Muslim immigrants \u00ad 90 percent of whom are unemployed and many who are angry and taking it out on the country that took them in.\n\"If we park our car it will be damaged \u00ad so we have to go very often in two vehicles, one just to protect the other vehicle,\" said Rolf Landgren, a Malmo police officer.\nFear of violence has changed the way police, firemen and emergency workers do their jobs.\nThere are some neighborhoods Swedish ambulance drivers will not go to without a police escort. Angry crowds have threatened them, telling them which patient to take and which ones to leave behind.\nBecause Sweden has some of the most liberal asylum laws in Europe, one quarter of Malmo's 250,000 population is now Muslim, changing the face and the idea of what it means to be Swedish. Asylum seekers may bring spouses, brothers and grandparents with them. Civil servants say the city is swamped.\n\"You have 1,000 students in a Swedish school. How many are Swedes? Two,\" said Lars Birgersson, principal of the Rosengrad School.\nStudents arrive at age 10 or 12 from countries like Iraq, Iran and Lebanon with no knowledge of Swedish; some have never been to school at all and many classes require interpreters.\nStill, more than half won't graduate.\n\"They are not a part of Swedish society, so to speak. It is difficult for them to get inside society,\" said Torsten Elofsson of the Malmo Police Department.\nHowever, they are the most rapidly growing segment of Swedish society \u00ad outsiders who are already inside, posing a challenge to legendary Swedish tolerance that has now been stretched to the breaking point.\nMalmo's main mosque was recently set ablaze by arsonists. When firefighters arrived on the scene, they were attacked by stone throwers.\nsee https:\/\/100777.com\/myron#ww3\nPaper money disappearing in Sweden\nGalloway v The US Senate\nEli Lilly's Strattera Fails Miserably in Swedish Clinical Trials\nFrimurare F\u00f6reteckning, Finland 1937.\nDeath in the Baltic: the MI6 connection\nJewish Woman Charged In Swastika Graffiti Spree--20 of them\nDisarming the Law-Abiding\nBeslan School Siege\nIs the U.N. Running Brothels in Bosnia?\nAre You The Car Or The Driver?","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
+{"text":"Sexual assault prevention effort tailored to junior Marines\nMatthew M. Burke\n\u2022 October 13, 2014\nMarine uniform victim advocates at Okinawa's Camp Foster review their materials during a recent Step Up sexual assault training session. The training is designed to teach the advocates how to reach junior Marines, who are the most at-risk group in the Corps. Implemented in July, the training drills junior Marines on how to act in real-life situations and intervene to stop sexual assaults. (Matthew M. Burke\/Stars and Stripes)\nCAMP FOSTER, Okinawa \u2014 The lights dim and the training class settles in for a video that shows young men and women playing drinking games while music thumps in the background.\nA woman is pressured into doing a keg stand. A man acts violently toward her when she spurns his advances. Their friends do nothing.\nLater, the man corners the woman in an upstairs bedroom and rapes her. He adds to her shame by posting drunken photos on social media sites.\nThe lights flick back on. The class sits silently.\nThe chilling video would be well-suited to be shown on just about any college campus in America. Marine Corps officials are banking that it is equally suited for junior Marines to help curb sexual assaults in the ranks.\n\"Step Up to Stop Sexual Assault\" is a new Defense Department initiative being rolled out at Marine Corps installations around the world. The program is designed to give the Corps' uniformed victim advocates the tools to get through to junior Marines about acceptable behavior and intervention techniques as bystanders.\nThe program supplements the Sexual Assault Prevention and Response pre-deployment training and is now required for lance corporals and lower-ranking enlisted Marines, according to a Marine Corps statement. It provides a multitude of activities and multimedia tools that focus on situations that a young Marine is likely to encounter \u2014 such as the gym locker room or alcohol-fueled parties.\n\"Before this, they had sort of a one-hour brief that was pretty much geared toward all members of the command, all ranks,\" said civilian instructor Sunny Street. \"So this one is specifically geared towards their ranks and their age group.\"\nStep Up was implemented on July 28 with the aim of tackling the Corps' most glaring statistic: Approximately 90 percent of the sexual assault victims in the Marine Corps are ranked corporal and below, according to the 2013 Marine Corps Sexual Assault and Prevention Response Campaign Plan.\nThe training was rolled out recently to the Corps' uniformed victim advocates on Camp Foster as the final part of their 40-hour training course, which also includes guest speakers and role-playing from actual assault cases, Street said. The advocates will then provide it to small groups of no more than 30 junior Marines. Most of the advocates are staff noncommissioned officers.\n\"They're that level of leadership that the junior Marines and [noncommissioned officers] look up to,\" Street said.\n\"We want them to model the appropriate attitude for this, because we have young people that come into the Marine Corps as well as other branches of service and they have been pretty much saturated with the entertainment industry the first 18 years before they came, and that entertainment industry objectifies women and infantilizes men. It portrays and projects consent in a way that is completely inconsistent with the law, and so they're having to re-educate based on what the law says and project a value system that's consistent with the law.\"\nOne scenario is set in a bowling alley where a male lance corporal starts to grope a female lance corporal while showing her proper form.\n\"LCpl Hart keeps shrugging him off,\" the training materials say. \"At one point, Hart gets up abruptly and says she needs to go outside and get some air. Moments later, Barnes follows ... What do you (as a bystander) do or say?\"\nA gym locker room scenario focuses on a Marine putting his genitals on another Marine as a prank.\n\"What do you say and do?\" the class is asked, as if they were bystanders. \"Could you have done something sooner?\"\nWhile it is too early to assess the program's effectiveness, advocates said they expect it to be a success.\n\"It's targeting the behavior of the junior Marines, so I think it was well-scripted, well-directed, and the presentation was awesome because the young Marines can relate to those videos and scenarios that were in there,\" said advocate Master Sgt. Jeffery Hightower.\nStreet said expectations for Step Up are similar to those for the \"Take a Stand\" training for noncommissioned officers. Once that training was implemented, reporting of sexual assaults increased, which military officials say is an indication that people who might have kept quiet are now willing to come forward.\nIn the civilian sector, there is a direct correlation between increased reporting and the lowering of assaults because offenders know they will be caught.\n\"I think bystander intervention is a concept in and of itself that I wished all of us appreciated and took to heart \u2014 and not just with this topic but with everything,\" Street said. \"This is a community issue and it's about members taking care of each other.\"\nburke.matt@stripes.com\nMatthew M. Burke has been reporting from Okinawa for Stars and Stripes since 2014. The Massachusetts native and UMass Amherst alumnus previously covered Sasebo Naval Base and Marine Corps Air Station Iwakuni, Japan, for the newspaper. His work has also appeared in the Boston Globe, Cape Cod Times and other publications.","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
+{"text":"A College-Bound Intensive \u2014 Online Classes\nBringing Shakespeare to life\nI learned a lot about how to properly analyze a play and make proper annotations. I was taught how to look through the different layers of the characters and the writings\u2014a helpful skill to have when you read any piece of literature. What surprised me the most was that the class made Shakespeare's writings enjoyable, fun to learn, and easy to understand. I really enjoyed the student-to-teacher interaction. It really benefited me that in class I could ask a question right then and there\u2014I didn't have to wait days for for my question to be answered by email. If I did ask questions through email, the teacher was prompt in responding and gave a clear, concise answer.\n\u2014 A recent student\nThese online sessions provide an in-depth study of Romeo & Juliet as well as the historical, cultural, and literary background needed to bring the play to life. Students emerge with a clear sense of Shakespeare as a writer \u2014 his tastes, his interests, his concerns, and the astonishing abilities that distinguish him from other writers.\nIn this course, students fall in love with Shakespeare's language, are moved by his poetry, and roar with laughter at his jokes. By the end of the series, they will be able to read Shakespeare's works on their own and understand what they're reading.\nMr. Speed's teaching opens up the story and the characters so you understand exactly what is happening and why. It becomes easier to read Shakespeare's language and enjoy it, and also to look at the choices Shakespeare made as he wrote the play. Mr. Speed's class was my introduction to Shakespeare, and it opened up his world in a wonderful way.\nAnna B., student\nSpace is limited; registration reserves your student's place. Prior to the class start date, your student will be contacted with guidelines and other essential information.\nInstructor: Roy Speed. (Learn about Roy here.)\nWho should attend: This is a high school-level course, but parents, please note:\nThe course is suitable as an introduction to Shakespeare.\nIt is appropriate for younger students who are mature and read at a minimum 8th-grade reading level.\nFee: $245. (roughly $16 per hour of instruction)\nRequired text: Students must purchase separately the edition of the play used throughout these sessions: Romeo & Juliet: Oxford School Shakespeare. This edition has been selected for its suitability for teenaged students and its tastefulness when explaining Elizabethan humor and vocabulary and classical allusions.\nRecorded sessions. Sessions will be recorded and available to all registered students.\nWhat your student gets\nIncluded with enrollment in the College-Bound Intensives:\nLive lessons. Secure access to live lessons that engage students through lecture, close examination of text, audio, video, graphics, and interactive queries.\nStudy skills. This course supports students with two vital skills needed for college-level work: 1) close reading; 2) annotating the text.\nAccess to recorded sessions. If students cannot attend one of the live sessions, they may view the lecture at a time convenient for them.\nMaterials. Downloadable materials that can be printed and used throughout the series.\nTesting. Two tests \u2014 a midterm and final \u2014 will be available for the parent to administer, to support generating a grade.\nGrade & course credit. Parents may 1) award their student a 0.33 English credit for honors-level coursework, and 2) generate a grade for his or her transcript. A detailed course description is provided for the student's records.\nQ&A with parents\nA homeschooling mom writes:\nI have one concern regarding the Romeo & Juliet class: since it is a love story, will the content be appropriate for a 13\/14 year old?\nExcellent question. In reply, a number of points:\nFirst, we have chosen the text carefully. Romeo & Juliet has a number of bawdy references and jokes, and the Oxford School edition is tasteful in its handling of such passages. Using this text, our son first studied Romeo & Juliet with Roy when he was age 10, our daughter when she was 12.\nSecond, yes, it's a play about love, and in particular, love at first sight \u2014 a theme that teens usually find interesting but one that Shakespeare seems to have mixed feelings about. He presents two different views of love: one represented in Romeo, who is impetuous and romantic \u2014 in love with being in love \u2014 and faintly ridiculous; the other represented in Juliet, who is more sober, careful, self-aware, and incredibly intelligent for her age. Roy deliberately examines each of these characters and themes in a thoughtful way.\nOne of the greatest benefits of studying this play as a young adult: Teens can examine these issues before they themselves are having to grapple with them in real life.\nMore comments from students & parents\nMy daughter would excitedly discuss this class with us, and Mr. Speed has obviously found a way to bring this play to life and impart to his students his own love of Shakespeare's works. In fact, my daughter and her friend, who also attended the class, went on to read additional plays on their own and met weekly to discuss them. I have to thank Mr. Speed for inspiring this appreciation of Shakespeare. Generating interest and curiosity in students to explore more about a subject is what the best teachers do, and Mr. Speed does just that.\n\u2014 Karyn B., parent\nRoy Speed is very knowledgeable of Shakespeare, and his appreciation for Shakespeare is contagious. When sharing the lines he finds meaningful, beautiful, or humorous, he invites his students to experience Shakespeare in a deeper way. He encourages active participation, first, by modeling thoughtful discussion of the characters, the plot, and Shakespeare's style, and then he expects insightful and thoughtful answers to the questions he poses to his students.\n\u2014 Vicki B., parent\nRoy Speed is an engaging and knowledgeable instructor. My boys rave about him and the classes and willlingly do their assigned homework!\nLani S., parent\nMy oldest daughter, homeschooled through 12th grade, is now a college sophomore majoring in engineering, and she has benefited tremendously from Mr. Speed's Shakespeare classes. He has not just enkindled a lifelong love of Shakespeare in her; the analytical skills continue to help her in her college studies. She not only excels in her English courses; she continues to use these skills in her engineering discipline as well \u2014 especially regarding technical writing, lab reports, and oral presentations.\n\u2014 Karen T., parent\nRegistration now open!\nWednesdays, Sept 4 \u2013 Nov 13\nNo class on October 30\n11:30 a.m. \u2013 1:00 p.m. EST\nTen sessions of 90 minutes each.\nTo register a student, click here:\nWhat students are saying about\nI had absolutely no idea how fantastic an author Shakespeare actually is. I didn't expect to enjoy it as much as I did, and every week I looked forward to the next class.\nI loved logging into the meeting and being able to interact with everyone! Every week I couldn't wait to discuss the text with the students. It's like a big book discussion as well as an academic class. I also really loved the readings... Mr. Speed is great at acting out the play!!\nI enjoyed going through Romeo & Juliet line by line the most in this course. I felt like this technique gave me the best understanding of Shakespeare's writing and was very interesting...\nThis course was awesome! I really liked the movie assignment and the memorization, which both really added to the class. I will read the play and watch the movie again, and the things I learned in this course will help me appreciate it better.\nI loved the way Mr. Speed taught us \u2014 he wasn't just lecturing us, as other teachers sometimes do, but he enjoyed every second, he was taken with the text, and he explained everything to us in a way we could understand and appreciate. It was a privilege to listen to him read and explain throughout the course.\nAnnotating is something I had heard about but never really did. It helped me so much because I could find certain parts quickly, and helped me remember the text as well as the meaning. I am kind of a slow reader in general, so I was very happy that your instruction to read slowly and really digest the material is a good way to read Shakespeare! I will be using annotations and careful reading in future studies.\nI think annotations are really valuable, and I wish I had used them before. In the future, all my books will be scribbled on!\nThank you Mr. Speed!! \u2014 I loved the class!!!!\nAlso open for registration:\nShakespeare's Hamlet\nThis series solves a mystery at the heart of Hamlet, unveiling historical information that unlocks the play's secrets \u2014 the story, the characters, Hamlet's actions all suddenly make perfect sense. Parents, please note: Students in this course should already have considerable familiarity with Shakespeare. Our series on Romeo & Juliet is ideal preparation.\nView details > >\nShakespeare's Macbeth\nThis new series comprises seven sessions on Shakespeare's shortest tragedy. Macbeth shows what happens when a man with a conscience commits murder. 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+{"text":"Dragon Forged -Prologue & Chapter 1\nicefallstears March 18, 2017 March 13, 2018 MCU, Tony Stark\/Loki, Dungeons & Dragons\nRough Draft\nMCU, Dungeons & Dragons\nPre Tony Stark\/Loki\nCharacter Bashing\nDiscussion - Child Abuse\nDiscussion - Torture\nNo Beta\nViolence - Canon-Level\nInspired by \"Into the Dragon's Den\" by Shi_Toyu on A03. Many thanks to Vexaris who helped me bounce the bunny, and Stat out Tony.\nWhat if Tony Stark was True Dragon? What if that meant he was a Technomancer? What if he got to Loki first? What if?\nThere are more worlds than one might expect or imagine. There are the nine worlds of Yggdrasil, and from Midgard the Tree's connection the Physical plane, the rest of the galaxy and then the rest of the Universe. The Universe itself is part of a much larger complex that is woven in and out of multiple planes of existence and is ever growing and changing. One thing remains the same throughout the Universal complex. Dragons, dragons are most generally the first sentient species to inhabit a planet. Not to say that they originate independently on each world but that young dragons seeking unclaimed territories can and will travel vast unimaginable distances to carve out a place for themselves.\nAnother unique feature of dragons is their inherently magical nature. Some myths say that magic is only brought into a world when a dragon hatches and leaves the world with the death of each dragon. Thus the amount of magic each world has to claim and distribute among its wizards and sorcerers depends on the population of dragons. Midgard or Earth is one such story. Once upon a time, there were immense numbers of the creatures. The world was flush with magic and nature thrived. Other sapient species followed the dragons; dwarves, elves, halflings, sylphs, even dryads. All lived well together for eons. But then the humans arose.\nAt first, all was well but gradually humans started hunting the dragons. Dragon hunts were not unheard of in the time before humans but were usually restricted to dragons that were causing great havoc in their territories. This was almost always a chromatic dragon, one of the naturally evil species of dragons. But humans, humans, they hunted all dragons. Using weapons and magics created from the bones, blood, and scales of the first dragons that they killed humans set out to kill all dragons including the naturally good metallic dragons, who were the wisest of all the species on earth.\nFaced with extinction those dragons that had lost relatives, and territories, to the humans, fled Midgard. Those that stayed behind did so because the believed that they were untouchable and that their ability to disguise themselves as humans wouldn't fail them. All were wrong. Eventually, only two were left. Ironically it was the member of the Gold species, the strongest and wisest of the Metallics, and a Red the strongest and most cunning of the Chromatics that survived. They knew of each other and in respect for their positions as last of their kind avoided direct confrontation between each other at all costs.\nMeanwhile magic had faded from the earth almost completely that even the wildest places barely had a drop of magic. The species that depended on even the subtlest of magics had to leave Earth behind. Soon the only sentient species left on Earth was the humans\u2026 and the two dragons. It became a game, that while the dragons would never meet, that they would influence and shape events and people around themselves to amuse them much like a centuries-long chess match.\nThe 30 Year War was one such skirmish. As the ages wore on their manipulations became greater in scope and yet more subtle. It was the dragons that started the two wars that shook the world in fire and blood. During WWII they took the names Maria Belmonte and Howard Stark. While Howard was busy creating weapons and working on project rebirth, Maria was whispering in the ears of powerful men. History tells us which of the dragons won that match but no one knows the secret that happened afterward. While the world recovered from their game Maria approached Howard with an insidious proposition. Stark had built himself quite the name in the human would and needed an heir.\nBut as a dragon, any offspring with a human would only be a half dragon, and not only look utterly inhuman but be totally incapable of hiding the fact. But an heir sired on another dragon, even a chromatic, would inherit Howard's ability to pass for human from its time of hatching. While reds clutched often as young adults and adults none of her children had survived the hunts. The last viable red mate had been killed 600 years past. And the last viable female gold had fled 400 years hence. Ever wary, Howard considered the deal for decades looking for an ulterior motive. He found none. So he mated with Maria and they laid a clutch. Due to their advanced ages as a breeding pair only two eggs were laid. And only one hatched, Anthony \"Tony\" Edward Stark. Hatchlings can learn anything they are taught in the shell and both Maria and Howard spent days imparting the things that they thought Tony should know before hatching. Thus, Tony learned the science of math and physics and the arts of charm and manipulation well before he was born.\nIt wasn't until Tony was a year old and thriving that Maria unleashed the final part of her plan. It was simple really. All it was an introduction; to one Obidiah Stane. Tony's intellect grew by leaps and bounds in the tradition of his Gold forbearers and was soon an integral part of Stark Industries. Then came the fateful day; Howard and Maria died, for even Dragons can be killed, in a car accident. Little did anyone know that it wasn't an accident at all.\nTony was left with the reins of an empire and a millennia-old secret. One that could get him killed should he ever slip. As the years passed it was almost easier to forget his heritage. Until the day came he would need to use his secret to not only save his life. But save the world.\nTony Stark wanted to let out a genuinely inhuman snarl at the stubborn human in front of him. Let the infuriating, ha, Director Fury deal with the consequences of angering a Dragon. Still, Tony held himself back. He'd held on to his secret this long, through blood and pain. It would do him no good to let his secret slip because one insignificant human thought he knew better than Tony. Which, for the record, Fury didn't.\nFury was only slightly above average in intelligence for a human and had a very limited point of view. Never the less, it was the fact that Fury had kept the fact that SHIELD had discovered the Hydra plane that Captain America had gone down in that made Tony so angry at the moment. Steve Rogers had been a man that had impressed the ever hard to impress Howard Stark, and they had gone on to become friends. Probably the only friend that Howard had had during the war-torn years in the early twentieth century. Howard, as a founder of SHIELD, had written into its bylaws that Stark Industries would pay for the search and recovery of Steve Rogers until he was found. Which meant that as the owner of Stark Industries Tony should have been notified as soon as even the wreckage had been discovered.\nInstead, it had been J.A.R.V.I.S. who had informed Tony, that not only had the wreckage been found but that Steve Rogers, had been found, alive. J.A.R.V.I.S. had found the information on one of his weekly deep dives into the SHIELD servers. Tony not being informed meant at the very least one of two things if not both. Option A: SHIELD didn't want Tony to know Steve Rogers was alive. Option B, SHIELD didn't want to lose the funding from Stark Industries. Either way it pissed Tony off and he badly wanted to show Fury that he wasn't the power that he thought he was.\nTony suppressed another snarl as he tuned back into Fury's diatribe.\n\"Stark, you had no right to send your hacking program into the SHIELD servers. Does the phrase \"Top Secret,\" not mean anything to you? \"\nTony shot back. \"Of course it does, it means that someone is hiding something from me. You'll recall that the last time someone did that to me, more Stark weapons ended up in the hands of the enemy than in our soldier's hands\".\n\"How about the term breach of contract, Fury? If I might remind you, that funding contract my father set up was airtight. You were supposed to inform any and all Starks or to the owner of Stark Industries, if there were none, that the wreckage site was found. Much less that you actually found Captain America. The fact that you found him alive makes the breach of contract even more severe. I could force you to pay back every cent that Stark Industries paid to both SSR and SHIELD for the search operation. Or, in lieu of payment, I could seize all SHIELD assets. And before you say that was a secret agency and that no one would know you owed us, I could have a headline put out to the media as soon as I say the word. I'd try to explain to you the public's reaction to being told that Captain America was found alive and no one was told because some Government agency wanted to control him, but I don't have the crayons or the patience to do so.\"\nTony watched unimpressed as Fury tried to glare him into submission.\n\"Stark have you ever heard the word 'blackmail'? It's a crime you know.\"\n\"Fury, stealing and embezzlement are crimes as well. Don't play those games against me. You won't win. I'm prepared to let all of this slide if you give me access to Steve Rogers as soon as he wakes. He's missed a great deal and will need at least a little familiarity when he wakes. I may not be the best person for the job but I'm literally the only one available. There are no living members of the SSR or early SHIELD, but I look and act astoundingly like my father at times and that should help.\"\nFury snorted indelicately, \"More like send the man into a catatonic state. We already have a plan in place to give him some familiarity. Once we've thawed him back into normal temperatures we're going to set him up in a 1940s era hospital room. and supply him with nurses and doctors dressed in period appropriate attire. Once he's awake and settled into the idea of being back in the United States we'll disclose how long it's been,.\"\nIt was Tony's turn to snort. \"Good luck with that. There's no way that that scenario is going to end well. I hope your agents have life insurance. Fine have it your way. If it works I'll wait to be introduced. If it blows up in your face like I know it will, I'll do it my own way.\nFury nodded. \"Agreed. Now get out of my office.\"\nTony was in his limo, heading uptown on the way to lunch at the Saint Regis Hotel with the Stark Industries Board when his phone rang with the alert. He had programmed that specific tone for JARVIS so he could be kept updated on the Steve Rogers situation. He flicked through the passcode screen and brought the phone up to his ear.\n\"What do you have for me JARVIS?\"\n\"Sir, the Captain's vitals showed that he awakened ten minutes ago. They were stable for a few minutes before spiking dramatically. Shortly thereafter a security alarm went off at SHIELD. According to the sensors still attached to Captain Rogers, he is outside the building and will hit Times Square in approximately ten minutes. If you leave your limo and head south five blocks and west four blocks, you should be able to intercept him.\"\n\"Thanks, J.\"\nTony reached forward and tapped on Happy's shoulder. \"I need to hop out. Pull over to let me out and then meet me in Times Square as fast as you can get there. I'll take the briefcase suit with me.\"\n\"Sure thing boss.\"\nTony hopped out of the limo and grabbing the briefcase suit, he began to jog. A lifetime as a New Yorker had Tony reading the crowds clogging the sidewalks of the city and making the nine block trip in record time. It wasn't a moment too soon when he saw Steve Rogers barrel into the thankfully empty intersection and stop and stare. Tony touched the blue tooth headset he had put in on the run down.\n\"J.A.R.V.I.S., turn all the traffic lights in Times Square red until I give you the all clear.\"\n\"Of course, sir. 5, 4, 3, 2, 1. Traffic lights are now red.\"\n\"You are the best J.\"\nTony walked towards to the confused looking Captain America, who was staring at the Times Square Jumbotron. And then stopped dead his instincts that he kept tightly restrained screaming at him, two different sets giving him opposing thoughts and impulses. The Gold side that came from Tony's father, which Tony likened to the classic cartoon of an angel on his shoulder, was nearly purring. 'Silver-blooded. Just man, strong ally, make friends.' The Red side that came from his mother, which Tony always likened to the devil on his shoulder, was screaming in rage. 'Silver-blooded. Invader of territory, kin-slayer, kill it.' Tony was shocked to realize that Steve Rogers, the legendary Captain America, was descended from Silver Dragon.\nHalf-dragons were not uncommon during the height of the Dragon era but after the ages had passed most of the half dragons' descendants didn't have enough Dragon blood left in them to register to Tony's instincts. It did, however, make more sense about why Howard had befriended him. Silvers were the most righteous and powerful of the metallic dragons after the golds. It must have been relieving to Howard to know someone who helped appease the Dragon instinct for community. It just sucked for Tony that because Silvers and Reds shared the same preferences in territories and lairs for their hoards, that all Silvers and Reds were mortal enemies from birth.\nHowever, Tony as he so often did, ignored both sets of instincts and went with his own plan. He wanted to remove Steve from SHIELD's sphere of influence because the poor bastard deserved so time to get on his feet before being recruited back to being Captain America. Tony firmly believed that no one should make a person's choices for them, so he was going to give Steve a chance to do just that.\nTony started walking again and angled his approach so that he did not come up behind the Steve. He stopped a good ten feet away and cleared his throat to catch Steve's attention. Steve whipped his head towards Tony and he blinked.\n\"Howard? No, you aren't Howard. You look like him, but you aren't him. Who are you? Are you here to take me back to that place where they were trying to pretend it was a day I that know has already passed?\"\nSteve's voice was filled with suspicion and as he spoke he strode towards Tony until he was towering over the shorter man. Tony held his ground, used to taller men trying to intimidate him. It was a favored business tactic in the business and weapon and defense worlds.\n\"No, I'm not Howard. And frankly, I told those idiots that you'd see right through their little sham. My name is Tony Stark. Welcome back to New York City, Steve.\"\nSteve looked confused again. \"Are you Howard's brother? I didn't think he had any siblings.\"\nTony smiled briefly. \"He didn't. There is no easy way to say this. Howard was my father. Do you remember going down on the plane? Also, not to change the subject but we should really get out of the middle of the street. While I had J.A.R.V.I.S. turn all the lights red, someone is going to run the light soon if I don't start letting traffic through soon. The only reason the police haven't shown up yet is that they can't get to the intersection with traffic backed up like this.\"\nSteve looked flabbergasted but started moving towards the sidewalk. \"You can't be his son, he's barely 30. You look older than he is. And of course, I remember going down in Schmidt's plane. What does that have to do with anything?\"\nTony herded Steve towards the sidewalk nearest to where he knew Happy would be pulling up. He held up his hand motioning for Steve to wait and turned his head so Steve could see the headset in his ear, knowing it would only make the slightest bit of difference.\n\"J.A.R.V.I.S., Buddy I need you to reset the traffic lights, and arrange it so the limo gets here quickly, please.\"\n\"Of course, sir.\"\n\"To answer both of your questions. First, the current theory is that between how quickly you froze in the waters of the Atlantic after being submerged and the serum's effect on your body that it put you in a kind of stasis. You were essentially frozen alive and stayed frozen until the plane was found earlier this week and they started to thaw you out in order to process you for burial. From what I hear you gave the mortician a hell of a shock. Which you will be in for in just a moment. Second, you weren't down at the bottom of the ocean for hours or even days. You were down there for decades. The year is 2012 and I am forty two years old, and my father, Howard Stark, died when I was eighteen.\"\nSteve went white and wavered on his feet before stiffening and standing up straight.\n\"That can't be true. It can't be.\"\nTony felt sympathy stir for Steve. \"Unfortunately it is. The good news is that World War Two is over and the Allies won in 1945. Also that there hasn't been another World War since. The bad news is that things have changed dramatically since then, and the world you knew is gone. But because my father considered you a friend, so I'm going to take you home and help you learn about the twenty-first century.\"\nJust then Tony's limo pulled up and Happy got out and opened the door for Tony and Steve.\n\"Come on, Captain, let's get you off your feet and back to my place so you can get cleaned up and fed. You need some time to think about what I've said. I can provide you all the proof you want and then tomorrow I can start catching you up on all the history you've missed.\"\nSteve paused and looked around once more. \"What about the people I escaped from? Won't they be looking for me? Are they dangerous? What did they want?\"\nTony smiled, \"Don't worry about them. That was SHIELD. They are what they SSR turned into after the war. They are the ones that found the wreck and thawed you out. Their boss, Director Fury, concocted that idiotic plan as a way of breaking the news to you gently. Not their best idea, and I told them you'd see through it but they had decent intentions. But now you know, and I'm going to put you up somewhere far more comfortable than either the medical wing or the barracks. Come on, get in the car. The sooner we get home, the sooner we can eat. I'm sure you are starving.\"\nTony tossed the briefcase suit onto the padded bench and then slid into the car, hoping that Steve would follow his lead and get in. Steve did and Tony let out a tiny sigh of relief. Happy shut the door behind them and got back into the driver's seat. \"The mansion or the tower, Mr. Stark?\"\n\"The Tower, Happy.\" Tony turned towards Steve. \"The Tower is 93 stories tall and almost complete. The penthouse level should give you a good enough view to be able to see most of the city. You'll be able to see a mix of old and new buildings that way. You can also meet Pepper my CEO when we get there. She's a lifesaver and she and Happy, my driver\/bodyguard, who is also her fiance should be able to help me answer the majority of your first questions before we have to crack open the history books. I really only know history mostly from a science perspective. But make yourself comfortable here in the limo for now. It should take us about 30 minutes to get there if traffic is decent.\"\nSteve looked confused again. \"You are giving me the Penthouse?\"\nTony laughed. \"No, I live in the Penthouse, but it has guest bedrooms and the rest of the floors, except Pepper and Happy's haven't been furnished yet. So you'll get one of the guest bedrooms and a great view.\"\nSteve turned pensive. \"I don't understand why you are doing this for me. Howard might have known me but you don't.\"\nTony smiled sharply. \"You'll find out quickly that I don't do a damn thing that I don't want to. However, you were a friend of my father's. He helped found SHIELD and in doing so set up the search for you and the plane. Stark Industries has spent billions of dollars looking for what was assumed to be your corpse so it could be buried properly. The fact that you are alive is utterly astonishing and my father would be so mad he missed this. What's more is that you are about to become the rope in one hell of a game of tug of war, between the being a figurehead for the military or being sent back to active duty in the military. I firmly believe everyone should have a chance to pick their own destiny. So while you are under my roof, for a while at least, you are removed from the game. That way you'll have time to get your head on straight and decide which side you like or if you want to remove yourself from the game entirely. It's your choice do what you will with it.\"\nSteve looked utterly surprised. \"Thank you.\"\nIt had been twelve days since Steve had woken up in the future and met Tony Stark and quite frankly he was having a harder time comprehending Stark, than the fact that he was seventy years in the future. Steve stood on the penthouse balcony thinking about the things Stark had said and done since picking Steve up in Times Square. That first day had been baffling.\nAs Stark had said, it had taken around thirty minutes to reach the massive building with the name Stark on it. Stark had left him alone during the ride to think about the fact that he'd crashed in 1945 and now it was more than a decade into a whole new century. After the car ride, Tony had taken him to an elevator and simply said, \"Penthouse, J\" and the elevator had gone up. That was surprising but what had been even more surprising was the petite redheaded woman waiting to pounce on Stark the moment he stepped out of the elevator.\nShe had rushed up to Stark not even letting him all the way out of the elevator before she started scolding.\n\"Tony! What could have possessed you to ditch this meeting the board members? You know the board that we both need to agree to the proposal on the solar powered water filtration systems? The project that 's third to Iron Man, and then the Arc reactor tech installation in the Tower? You know the board that is still holding a grudge over the Vaanko thing. What on Earth could have been so important that you'd bail on this lunch meeting?\"\nStark had turned his head back towards Steve, smirked and then stepped aside showing Steve to the red head.\n\"Steve, this is Pepper Potts CEO of Stark Industries, lifesaver, and fiance of Happy Hogan, the gentleman who drove us here. Pepper, this is Steve Rogers, better known as Captain America. \"\nSteve watched as Ms. Potts' eyes widened and her jaw dropped, and she stared and stared. When she finally regained her composure and clicked her jaw shut, she glared at Tony.\n\"Fine, you have a valid excuse for once. Bringing Captain America back from the dead is something even the board can't argue with. We will still have to grovel at the rescheduled meeting and you will be there, Tony Stark. I don't care if aliens come down from the sky. You will be there and play nice with the board or so help me I'll get JARVIS to switch you to decaf.\"\nSteve watched in moderate fascination as Stark laughed and said to thin air, \"JARVIS would never do that to me. Would you, J?\"\nSteve looked around for this JARVIS only to jolt and reach for the shield that was not there when a voice seemingly from thin air. replied.\n\"Of course not sir. I'd switch you to water. It would do wonders for your blood pressure.\"\nStark laughed again. Then he noticed Steve looking for the origin of the voice.\n\"Oh yeah, Steve meet JARVIS. Steve, JARVIS. JARVIS, meet Steve. \"\nThe voice called JARVIS rang out again, \"It is a pleasure to meet you, Captain Rogers. I'm quite sure that Sir has neglected to inform you of my existence. Until the history of computers can be explained to you it would be best to think of me as Sir's virtual management system. I run his houses, his personal laboratories, the security for all of his main properties, and his Suits of course. Sir calls Ms. Potts, Mr. Hogan and Myself the Triumvirate. I'm sure Sir will explain further once you have been caught up on recent and less than recent history. In any event, it is a pleasure to meet you, Mr. Rogers.\"\nSteve thought for a good minute about the context of virtual in this case and the voice coming from the air meant together. \"Does that mean JARVIS that you \u2013\"\nSteve paused before he could say the phrase 'Aren't a person' as both Stark and Ms. Potts talked to JARVIS as if he was a person and JARVIS certainly sounded like a person. Steve finished his sentence,\n\"Don't have a body?\"\nJARVISot have a body. I exist inside of what are called computer servers and I act through ordering things for or ordering things removed for Sir. To achieve this I don't need a body, partially because of the advancement of technology, and partially because of the advanced methods Sir employed when he created me. \"\nSteve looked at Stark who looked very pleased with himself. \"So you are a Stark invention?\"\nStark jumped in. \"JARVIS is one of a kind and decades ahead of the rest of the world in Artificial Intelligences. He, Pepper, and Happy are my lifesavers. Pepper runs the company, Happy gets me where I need to go and when I need to go, and JARVIS keeps me from actually drinking fuzzy coffee if I've been in the lab too long.\"\nSteve just nodded starting to feel overwhelmed. \"I see.\" He really didn't. Stark was Howard's son and had to be smart, but he needed three people to run his life for him? Granted, Steve had seen Howard pull some terrible all nighters trying to outfit the Howling Commandos with weapons that might give them a decent chance against Hydra but this seemed a bit over the top. And how the heck could a virtual person run a suit? Steve was starting to get a headache.\nA siren blared below and Steve shook himself out of his memories. They had had a group lunch and then Stark had shown him to his guestroom. He'd been told that he was free to move about the Penthouse and that Stark would be in the lab if Steve needed anything. Steve had eaten dinner alone that night as JARVIS had informed him that Stark had been working on a project in one of the labs and Steve hadn't wanted to interrupt. He hadn't been able to sleep that night. His mind had kept going over the fact that after seventy years everyone he knew was probably dead.\nThe next morning Pepper had gotten him for breakfast and handed him a folder. Inside of the folder had been a list of the Howling Commandos, Peggy and the rest of SSR including Colonel Phillips. It had had pictures, marriage and birth records, lists of achievements, and dates and causes of deaths.\nSteve had needed to excuse himself for more than a few hours. After that Stark had shown up and he and Pepper had given him an overview of how the war had ended. They left him with what Stark called one of the most unbiased history books on the time after the War. He'd spent the next few days reading it and making lists of questions. One time he'd read a question out loud and JARVIS had answered it. After that Steve started asking more and more questions of JARVIS. It quickly became natural to converse with JARVIS as if he were actually in the room. Steve had gotten used to seeing Stark rarely, he was working in the labs more often than not for what seemed to be an obscene number of hours. Sometimes Stark only grunted in passing as he headed into his rooms.\nThe first time Steve had seen the blue glow coming from Stark's chest he'd been baffled. He'd wanted to ask, but when Stark had noticed him looking at it, he had left the room immediately. So Steve had asked JARVIS, and JARVIS had responded by pointing Steve to the very last chapter of the history book Stark had given him. Steve had been horrified that his host had been through such an ordeal. But it explained easily why Stark hated Steve looking at it. While Steve couldn't scar anymore he'd spent a long enough time with the Howling Commandos to realize that some men didn't like to acknowledge their battle scars.\nAfter he'd gotten most of his basic facts straight, Tony had sat him down and finally explained the history behind the efforts in trying to remake the super soldier serum. He'd included videos of the Hulk and the Abomination in his explanation. Stark had said that it was one reason why he had wanted to meet Steve as soon as possible to warn Steve about the fact that if it became public that he was alive there would be a good faction of the military that would want to use him to recreate the serum.\nThe next day Stark took him to the Smithsonian exhibit about Captain America. Stark had bought out the whole museum for the day so that Steve wouldn't be seen or recognized. While they toured it Stark explained that there were other factions of the military that would want to use him as a figurehead of the perfect soldier and yet another faction that would want him sent overseas to the nearest battlefield. That Stark had an alternate identity ready and waiting for Steve if he didn't want to deal with the fall ut of being declared alive. It was a kindness from a man whom the history book had painted as selfish and self-centered.\nSo Steve was confused. Stark was abrupt, sarcastic, and crude. He barely gave Steve the time of day most days and seemed to prefer to speaking to JARVIS than to even Ms. Potts or Mr. Hogan. He'd killed millions of people through his weapons manufacturing and Stane's double dealing. Yet the man had created the Iron Man suit and done his damnedest to prevent it from becoming an easily replicated weapon of mass destruction, and boy did Steve regret learning about those. Now he was offering Steve an escape from being used by the government. It just didn't make any coherent sense yet.\nSteve looked up as he heard the sound of the Iron Man suit approaching the balcony coming back from another test flight. Steve made a resolution. He'd only been awake for twelve days but he was going to spend the next twelve days figuring out if Stark was a good guy or a bad one. Only then would he ask Stark's advice on whether or not to officially come back from the dead or take the new identity and get a new life.\nLittle did Steve know that he wouldn't get even one day.\nDragon Forged \u2013 Chapter 2\nAbout icefallstears\nI have awesome cats, a pretty decent job, and a PS4. I also like to write when I'm not stressing out, or during RTs. Seems contradictory I know. ?\nView all posts by icefallstears \u2192\nDragon Forged. Bookmark.\nUncorked \u2013 Part One\nLineage: Episode 1 \u2013 One Hell of a Surprise\nLisagrace\nchrisking2005\nOff to a roaring start, and now I'm well and truly hooked.\nVery good start.","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
+{"text":"Full List of Australian Car Makers\nAUSTRALIA'S WIDELY KNOWN MANUFACTURERS\nIn Australia, having an Australian accent is sexy, but having an Australian ride is even more desirable. Mainly because Australian vehicles got that sporty look most millennials are so into nowadays.\nAustralian cars particularly Holden, Toyota, and EPV are Australia's best rides, which contributed a lot to the country's prosperous wealth.\nTop Car Manufacturers in Australia\nHolden (1908)\nHolden is the first car manufacturer that originated in Melbourne Australia. Ever since its establishment, it became one of Australia's primer successes, and became internationally renowned for its affordability.\nRelated Other Vehicle Brands Manufactured in Austria\nHolden has been in the business for about 100 years, and it has already mastered the production of different car models from mini cars to sports cars to SUVs.\nIts known models include the Holden Barina Spark (mini car), Colorado (sports car), and Captiva 5 (SUV).\nToyota is another of Australia's pride. Its production became widely known in parts of Japan as well. With over its 20 finest models, there is no doubt Toyota provides a big contribution in the car market today.\nIts known models include the Toyota Corolla (passenger car), FJ Cruiser (SUV), and Hiace (commercial car).\nFPV (2002)\nCompleting Australia's finest manufacturers is Ford Performance Vehicle or known today as FPV. FPV is the third largest car production in the country, and it only produces some of the best today. It has an impressive collection of medium to large vehicles, which are ideally made for domestic and export market.\nIts known models include the Ford Kuga Suva, Fiesta, and Mondeo.\nWith Australia's pride and success in the car market, there is no doubt Holden, Toyota, FPV are the top car manufacturers of the country.\nEach car company produces variety of models from small to large to sporty to commercial cars. It's like you're getting an all in one deal with Australian cars.\nHere is the Full List of Australian Car Makers:\nBentley Car Models List\nBentley car has been around for a long time now. F Read More\nSEAT Car Models List\nSEAT is an automobile manufacturer from Spain with Read More\nBristol Car Models List\nBristol Cars Limited is a luxury car manufacturer Read More\nGAZ Car Models List\nGAZ, an abbreviation for Gorkovsky Avtomobilny Zav Read More","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
+{"text":"Home \u203a Accessibility Statement\nSan Francisco Harley-Davidson Accessibility Statement\nSan Francisco Harley-Davidson is committed to ensuring digital accessibility for people with disabilities. We are continually improving the user experience for everyone, and applying the relevant accessibility standards.\nMeasures to Support Accessibility\nSan Francisco Harley-Davidson takes the following measures to ensure accessibility of www.sanfranciscohd.com:\nAssign clear accessibility targets and responsibilities.\nEmploy formal accessibility quality assurance methods.\nThe Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) defines requirements for designers and developers to improve accessibility for people with disabilities. It defines three levels of conformance: Level A, Level AA, and Level AAA. San Francisco Harley-Davidson is partially conformant with WCAG 2.0 level AA. Partially conformant means that some parts of the content do not fully conform to the accessibility standards.\nAdditional Accessibility Considerations\nAlthough our goal is to adhere to WCAG 2.0 level AA conformance, content often changes which can have unknown effects on conformance. When identified, San Francisco Harley-Davidson corrects those instances immediately. Webpages and site content are dynamic and as such, full conformance, while our goal, sometimes gets temporarily affected.\nWe welcome your feedback on the accessibility of San Francisco Harley-Davidson. Please let us know if you encounter accessibility barriers on San Francisco Harley-Davidson:\nE-mail: chris@sanfranciscohd.com\nOur Address: 3146 Mission St., San Francisco, CA 94110\nLimitations and Alternatives\nDespite our best efforts to ensure accessibility of San Francisco Harley-Davidson, there may be some limitations. Below is a description of known limitations, and potential solutions. Please contact us if you observe an issue not listed below.\nKnown limitations for San Francisco Harley-Davidson\nIntegrated 3rd Party Services: Often when integrating with 3rd party web services or products, there are accessibility compliance issues related to those integrations or products because we cannot ensure the efficacy of products or services that other businesses provide. When identified, we contact the 3rd party to make them aware and also document that communication.\nSan Francisco Harley-Davidson assessed the accessibility of by the following approaches:\nIf you have any questions, please contact us at chris@sanfranciscohd.com.","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
+{"text":"Little Tikes' Cozy Coupe Outsells Britain's Best-Selling Car\nThere's a new king in town.\nBy James Gilboy May 22, 2020\nJames Gilboy View James Gilboy's Articles\n_JamesGilboy jamesgilboy\nAbout 10 weeks ago, parents of the western world collectively realized they needed something to keep their children occupied while under quarantine. Some committed to rigorous home-schooling programs, others shut their kids up with electronics, and a huge number bought Little Tikes Cozy Coupes\u2014so many, in fact, that the iconic, foot-powered toy car became Britain's bestselling car for the month of March.\nThe Sun reports that during the third month of 2020, Little Tikes sold approximately 85,000 of its Flintstonian toddler-mobiles or one about every 31 seconds for the entirety of March. That's more than the country's six bestselling vehicles' combined sales as of the end of April according to Auto Express, and more than five times the year-long sales of the country's top-selling car, the Ford Fiesta, which moved 15,987 units in the first trimester.\nlittletikes.com\nCountrywide, Britain's car market accounted for 254,684 new vehicle sales in March according to This is Money. Had the Cozy Coupe had been included in those charts, it would have accounted for almost exactly a quarter of the United Kingdom's car sales.\n\"We're thrilled to see the Cozy Coupe is still the car of choice for families throughout the UK,\" commented Andrew Turner, head of marketing for Little Tikes. \"As kids spend an increasing amount of time at home, we're seeing many families inject creativity and personality into play.\"\nIt just takes a quick visit to Little Tikes' website to realize that there are over 15 different varieties of the Cozy Coupe, including monster trucks, fire trucks, and even a cozy gas pump!\nEveryone but adults, that is, because grownups definitely don't fit inside a Cozy Coupe. That's why the Smart ForTwo exists, of course, though it's hard to stomach being seen in one that doesn't wear a Brabus badge.\nGot a tip? Send us a note: tips@thedrive.com\nRC Cozy Coupe Capable of Highway Speeds Is the Best Quarantine Project Yet\nBuckle up, kids.\nFinally, a Ford Fiesta Built Specifically for Deer Hunting\nWe know you've wanted one for years.\nYou Can Find Some Serious New Car Discounts at Dealerships This Memorial Day\nAfter a bleak March and April, car dealers are slashing prices in a big way.\nMake Niki Lauda Proud and Buy This Half-Scale Ferrari F1 Replica Go Kart\nLike any Ferrari, however, it won't come cheap.\nPoetic Ford Mustang Ad Banned in Great Britain For Promoting 'Unsafe Driving'\nRage against the dying of the light...but at a sensible speed, please.","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
+{"text":"the Major Evolution & Ecology (EvolEcol)\nWhy studying topics such as Evolution and Ecology?\n\"The scientific discipline of Ecology is dynamic, steeped in historical tradition, but adapting to its changing environment and building its own ecological network of interactions with other disciplines. What is ecology, what have some of its high points been, and, most important, where is it going? All of us on planet earth today, not just scientists, need to know the answers. Society has become increasingly aware that we are losing crucial parts of our ecosystem, and that the activities of human beings are threatening the sustainability of the biosphere as a life-support system for humanity\" (Simon A. Levin, ecologist).\nIn a similar way, the scientific discipline of Evolution lays the foundation of our understanding of the world. \"Nothing in biology makes sense except in the light of evolution!\" (Theodosius Dobzhansky; famous evolutionary biologist, 1900-1975) Of course, we have to know details on \"how something is functioning\", but finally we have to address the question how and why biological systems are changing over time. Nowadays, also Evolutionary biology is a bridging discipline integrating various disciplines ranging from natural to social sciences. And, as a logical consequence of the major impact of both disciplines, the intersection between them emerged as a new discipline quite recently \u2013 Evolutionary Ecology. It approaches the study of ecology in a way that explicitly considers the evolutionary histories of species and the interactions between them. Conversely, it can be seen as an approach to the study of evolution that incorporates an understanding of the interactions between the species under consideration. In fact, the intimate relationship between evolution and ecology is mirrored by the fact that the United Nations declared the period from 2011 to 2020 the \"UN Decade of Biodiversity\".\nHeidelberg is most famous for its concentration of world-class biomedical research laboratories, but it is also home to a very active and growing community of researchers with a strong focus on organismal biology mostly based at the Centre for Organismal Studies (COS). All researchers involved in teaching of the Evolution & Ecology Major employ state-of-the-art methods in various fields of evolutionary and ecological research as well as related disciplines. Your MSc with a Major in Evolution & Ecology will qualify you not only for a career in various fields, but intends to broaden your perspectives and help you to see biology in a multidimensional way.\nHowever, the major focus is on \"biodiversity, systematics and evolution\" with a strong link to the environment and \"aquatic ecotoxicology\".\nHave fun and learn how nature is creating and shaping biodiversity!\nApplication and information:\nDetailed information for admission procedure and required skills are available from the faculties homepage (http:\/\/www.uni-heidelberg.de\/fakultaeten\/biowissenschaften\/studium\/studiengang\/mbiomsc\/).\nFor entering the Evolution & Ecology study program not only respective English language skills are needed and mandatory, but we also have to require substantial skills with the German language (speaking and listening; writing is less important). Please do not forget to demonstrate these skills with your submitted documents, since this will be an important aspect for ranking your application.\nFor questions concerning the Major Evolution & Ecology contact:\nProf. Dr. Marcus Koch\nEvolEcol Major Director (Evolution)\nCentre for Organismal Studies Heidelberg (COS)\nD-69120 Heidelberg\nPhone: (49) 6221-544655\nFax: (49) 6221-545508\napl. Prof. Dr. Thomas Braunbeck\nEvolEcol Major Director (Ecology)\nClaudia Hauber\nEvolEcol Major Administrative Office\nAddress general questions related to the MSc\/PhD program Molecular Biosciences to:\nPhone: (49) 6221 54 5640\nFax: (49) 6221 54 4953\n\/mastermbs\/Evolution_and_Ecology mastermbs _e Evolution_and_Ecology 15412 0 4","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
+{"text":"Vine Report\nHome ENTERTAINMENT 'Fifty Shades Darker' cast, plot news: Jamie Dornan, Dakota Johnson up for...\n'Fifty Shades Darker' cast, plot news: Jamie Dornan, Dakota Johnson up for more steamy scenes\ndenise-see\nFans can safely breathe a sigh of relief as the \"Fifty Shades Darker\" film is confirmed to be back on track after speculations of the delay in production.\nThe sequel to \"Fifty Shades of Grey\" is said to contain a darker plot than its predecessor, living up to its title. According to Movie News Guide, the film's plotline will have extreme BDSM and more erotic scenes between Christian Grey and Anastasia Steele, portrayed by Jamie Dornan and Dakota Johnson, respectively.\nBoth Dornan and Johnson have previously stated that they are not against filming more extremely steamy scenes for the sequel.\nThe film was previously plagued with rumors that Dornan was backing out from the second installment in the \"Fifty Shades\" franchise. However, in a recent interview with People, the Northern Irish actor seemed to be very excited on reprising his role.\n\"I'm looking forward to embodying Christian again and getting a chance to show more of him,\" he told the magazine.\nJohnson has also expressed her confidence in playing the role and filming intimate scenes, telling Elle magazine, \"I don't have any problem doing anything. The secret is I have no shame.\"\nSince the first film's director, Sam Taylor-Johnson, will not be returning for the sequel, \"Fifty Shades Darker\" is going to be directed by James Foley, who is known for his other works such as \"House of Cards\" and \"Glengarry Glen Ross.\"\nThe \"Fifty Shades\" films are all based on novels written by E.L. James. The script will be penned by James' husband, Niall Leonard.\nOther notable actors and actresses like Max Martini, Rita Ora, Eloise Mumford, Luke Grimes and Victor Rasuk have confirmed to be joining the cast of the sequel.\nVenture Capital Post reports that production for \"Fifty Shades Darker\" starts in early 2016. The film is set to hit theatres on Feb. 10, 2017.\nPrevious article'Scream Queens' season 1 episode 11 spoilers: Shopping spree takes a different turn\nNext article'South Park' season 19 episode 9 spoilers: Jimmy finds out more about Leslie\nEllen DeGeneres opens up about the death of her girlfriend 40 years ago\nChrissy Metz says 'This Is Us' season finale is 'new start for Kate'\nBeyonce and Jay-Z announce On The Run II tour\nFive Nights at Freddy's movie release date, cast, trailer: story may...\n'Destiny: The Taken King': Bungie announces exact release time of 'The...\nSteam summer sale 2015 news, rumors update: leak suggests sale coming...\nU.S.303\nSCIENCE\/HEALTH128\nVineReport provides the top and most engaging news stories from around the globe, from world and politics to entertainment and sport. We seek to bring the freshest news each day from the spectrum of stories that matter the most to you.\n\u00a9 2017 Vine Report. All Rights Reserved.\n'Daredevil' season 3 release date rumors: Delayed due to 'The Defenders'\n'Cars 3' news: Cruz Ramirez and Jack Storm to enter the...","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
+{"text":"FDA approves Skye Bioscience's IND for glaucoma therapy trial\nPhase II study of SBI-100 OE to treat primary open angle glaucoma will begin in the first half of next year.\nSBI-100 OE is formulated as an eye-drop using a propriety nanoemulsion for improving the delivery of medicine into the eye. Credit: Joel Staveley on Unsplash.\nThe US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has approved Skye Bioscience's Investigational New Drug (IND) application enabling commencement of SBI-100 Ophthalmic Emulsion (OE) clinical trials.\nThe clinical trials include a Phase II study to treat primary open angle glaucoma or ocular hypertension (OHT), which is scheduled to begin in the first half of next year.\nSBI-100 OE is a proprietary prodrug of tetrahydrocannabinol (THC), which is a topical formulation that is currently being developed to treat glaucoma and OHT.\nIt is a synthetic cannabinoid derivative which targets the CB1 receptor that plays a key role in managing IOP.\nThe company stated that SBI-100 OE is formulated as an eye-drop using a propriety nanoemulsion for improving the delivery of medicine into the eye.\nIn animal studies, SBI-100 OE demonstrated favourable results as a monotherapy as well as in combination with standard of care (SOC) glaucoma drugs compared to SOC alone and other combinations.\nRecently, a first-in-human Phase I clinical trial of SBI-100 OE in healthy participants has commenced in Australia.\nSkye Bioscience chief development officer Tu Diep said: \"We are pleased to receive the okay from the FDA on our IND submission, which we accomplished by year end, as planned.\n\"We have dosed the first cohort of participants in our Phase I trial in Australia.\n\"With our IND active, our team is advancing the manufacturing and clinical planning steps to begin our planned Phase II in the US. We expect to initiate Phase II in the first half of 2023 and report data in Q1 2024.\"\nThe company stated that SBI-100 OE showed improved therapeutic efficacy and duration of response in lowering IOP in preclinical studies that involved three different species.\nLikelihood of Approval and Phase Transition Success Rate Model - Monoclonal Antibody Conjugate to Target GPC1 for Oncology\nLikelihood of Approval and Phase Transition Success Rate Model - Drug for Atopic Dermatitis\nLikelihood of Approval and Phase Transition Success Rate Model - Stem Cell Therapy for Pneumonia and Diabetic Nephropathy\nLikelihood of Approval and Phase Transition Success Rate Model - Gene-Modified Cell Therapy for Hypophosphatasia\nLikelihood of Approval and Phase Transition Success Rate Model - Staphylococcus and Neisseria Tablets\nSkye Bioscience Inc","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
+{"text":"Today is a good day for comedy.\nPIC Coaching & Feedback\nThe Second City Classes\nComedy Business School\nWhich Member of Willliamsburg's Autoharp Ensemble \"Zither and Yon\" is Fucking My Wife?\nI will not play second fiddle to an autoharpist anymore.\nby Jesse McLean\nIf the state of my pillow covers means anything, this douchebag uses a ton of mustache wax.\nThat narrows it down to eleven out of the fifteen band members.\nThe guy is likely a racist because I found a crumpled up piece of paper on the bedroom floor that had a list of potential band names. He might be an idiot, too, because \"Low-Cut Niqab\" was the best of the lot.\nMy best friend Jack likes the current band name because he thought of it. He's in the band but is the only guy who isn't an autoharpist; he plays the metronome (he studied at the Sorbonne and everything!). At first, he thought it couldn't be one of the band members but then he remembered how married women throw themselves at him all the time. But he doesn't act on it because \"metronomists have morals.\" There's also the fact that he heard my wife say autoharps make her wetter than pictures of a young Boris Karloff so, yeah, he came around to my thinking. It's got to be one of those damned string pluckers.\nI don't think it's the guy that's seven-feet tall; my wife once said she couldn't sleep with a man she respected too much. Also, I found one of the matching barbershop quartet jackets all members of the band wear. It was crumpled up underneath the bathroom sink and stank of skunk weed and Febreze. So, we're back to every member of the band as a suspect.\nIt might have to be one of those day-job-type musicians, given that all evidence points to quick lunch-hour couplings (messy sheets on a bed I make in the morning, cap off the KY lube that's left on the new issue of GamePro\u2014the one with my letter to the editor!). At a Knitting Factory after party, I heard one of the guys in the band say that he freelances for an ethical IT firm, so maybe he's the culprit. What does \"fair trade Wi-Fi\" even mean?\nWhoever he is, dude left his skinny suspenders slung over the gaming trophy shelf I had Jack install right above the headboard. So it's probably the guy who fucks up the polyphonic cover of \"Single Ladies\" by constantly pulling up his pants during the bridge.\nBut I have my suspicions that guy is gay. Maybe it's the way he talks or possibly the rainbow flag he has dyed into his immaculately trimmed chest hair, which I believe is cultivated by his husband of seven years.\nMy wife and I have been married for almost seven years. Whenever I bring this up, she counters that Xbox has probably broken up more marriages than office Christmas parties. Then she follows up with statistics, or a story, or something else I don't hear because finding the bharals in Far Cry 4 takes more than just natural skill. You need all of your concentration.\nI don't think it's the guy that's seven-feet tall; my wife once said she couldn't sleep with a man she respected too much and she always admired tall guys like they'd earned their height. They haven't placed in Major League Gaming's \"Halo World Championship North America Regional Finals\" three years running, not like a certain you-know-who here. So she's got that to admire me for. Which, if true, would also explain the three-month dry spell in the sack.\nMaybe it's the one who wears the bowler-and-monocle set and legally changed his name to \"Axe Jeeves.\"\nOr the guy who's side project is a one-man Color Me Badd tribute band.\nOr the one with the beard that doubles as an apron.\nMaybe it's Fred Armisen.\nMy wife wants me to think that she might be sleeping with my best friend Jack. She manages this with sly insinuations like waving a ripped-open condom wrapper in my face and saying, \"These are Jack's favorite, he says they feel like silk.\"\nWhich is ridiculous, because I know that Jack hates silk. Or at least he hated the silk shirt I bought him for our friend-versary. But still, I have seen his eyes linger over her backside a few times. And he came out of the bedroom after installing my trophy shelf more out of breath than the task required. Especially seeing as he had my wife there to help out.\nIn my darkest moments, I consider whether Jack\u2014a second son to my father, the guy whose college graduation my dad actually attended\u2014might be fucking my wife.\nBut my best friend Jack does not play the autoharp, so I always have to start over again.\nMaybe it's the clumsy guy with the scraped knees. That guy is so clueless.\nJesse McLean Toronto\nJesse McLean is an award-winning humorist and culture commentator whose disciplines include technical writing, screenwriting, film and television criticism, humour articles and sketch comedy. Jesse's varied talents conspire to deliver... See full profile \u00bb\nNotify me of follow-up comments via email. 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+{"text":"Will Cambridgeshire's transport power struggle end up in court?\nThe courts may be asked to resolve a dispute between the Cambridgeshire and Peterborough Combined Authority and the Greater Cambridge Partnership over the planning of a busway. As Andrew Forster reports, the case centres on who has ultimate responsibility for making decisions about the area's transport\nAndrew Forster\nThe recommended route of the Cambourne to Cambridge busway runs off-road, with park-and-ride at Scotland Farm\nA long-running transport power struggle in Cambridge may be heading to court. The legal path was suggested by Cambridgeshire and Peterborough Combined Authority mayor James Palmer a fortnight ago, ahead of a meeting of the Greater Cambridge Partnership (GCP) board on 25 June. Board members will be asked to proceed with the planning of a \u00a3160m busway between Cambourne and Cambridge, a scheme design that Palmer strongly opposes.\nThe GCP comprises Cambridge City Council, South Cambridgeshire District Council, Cambridgeshire County Council, and the University of Cambridge. It was set up to deliver the Greater Cambridge City Deal struck with Government in 2014. Included in the deal was up to \u00a3500m of Government funding for new transport infrastructure over 20 years, with the first \u00a3100m guaranteed and the remainder subject to five-yearly gateway reviews.\nThe GCP's programme includes a number of bus-based corridor investments, including the busway between Cambridge and the market town of Cambourne, west of the city. The future of the programme was thrown into doubt in 2017 when Palmer was elected the Conservative mayor of the combined authority, which is the local transport authority for the area. Palmer had pledged to deliver an underground Metro system for Cambridge and a light rail line between Cambourne and Cambridge.\nThe two contrasting visions of the mayor and GCP were eventually fused in the form of the Cambridgeshire Autonomous Metro (CAM) project, a network of new segregated public transport routes using rubber-tyred vehicles. The GCP's bus priority\/busway projects now form the inner parts of CAM, with Palmer leading the plan for tunnelled operations in the city centre and pursuing extensions of the GCP routes out into the wider county.\nThis odd arrangement seemed to be holding together until February when, on the eve of a GCP board meeting to approve the Cambourne to Cambridge route, Palmer wrote to the GCP requesting it cease work on the project (LTT 21 Feb). The mayor said the scheme \"as it is currently imagined must be immediately halted\" and made some critical remarks about the GCP generally: \"It has become clear to me that the GCP lacks the vision, strategic thinking, and the ability necessary to deliver any of the transport priorities for the Cambridge area. The combined authority will now take direct responsibility for delivery of additional public transport solutions for the Cambridge to Cambourne corridor.\"\nThe combined authority subsequently set about preparing a CAM sub-strategy to its local transport plan. This was published in May and said the GCP's plans for Cambourne and Waterbeach CAM routes would both need revisiting (LTT 15 May).\nCombined authority interim monitoring officer Dermot Pearson had written to GCP chairman Aidan Van de Weyer in March saying the preparation of the CAM sub-strategy was a \"proportionate response\" to the Government's announcement that the East West Rail route between Bedford and Cambridge will run through Cambourne, and also to Palmer's wider concerns that the GCP's Cambourne route did not reflect his overall objectives for the CAM project (LTT 03 Apr).\n\"The announcement of the East West Rail alignment would of itself have required some reconsideration of the Cambourne to Cambridge route by the GCP regardless of the mayor's letter to you,\" said Pearson.\nIf the GCP were to proceed with its plan for the Cambourne to Cambridge route, Pearson said this could be in conflict with the new CAM sub-strategy. \"If that conflict did arise then the combined authority's view is that the altered local transport plan (LTP) would prevail and that the Cambourne to Cambridge project could not lawfully proceed in a manner contrary to the LTP.\"\nPearson added that the combined authority remained \"committed to the content of its LTP and to the delivery of Cambourne to Cambridge [CAM] in collaboration with the GCP\".\nPressing on\nLast month the Government informed the GCP that it had passed the first of its five-year gateway reviews for the city deal, unlocking up to a further \u00a3400m for its programme. The GCP has presented this as a vote of confidence in its work. \"By committing to further funding in Greater Cambridge, the Government has demonstrated its trust in and commitment to the work of the GCP,\" Niamh Matthews, its head of strategy and programme, told a meeting of the GCP's joint assembly last week.\nIn a separate report to the assembly, Peter Blake, the GCP's director of transport, discussed the combined authority's new CAM sub-strategy. Recounting events prior to Palmer's intervention in the Cambourne project in February, Blake said GCP officers had worked with counterparts in the combined authority on the busway and this had \"culminated in Cambridgeshire and Peterborough Combined Authority officers giving their support for the final GCP proposals for the C2C [Cambourne to Cambridge] scheme\".\nBlake added: \"The [CAM] sub-strategy does not change the local transport plan, including delivery by the GCP of the inner CAM corridors [Cambourne to Cambridge; Cambridge South East; Waterbeach; and the Eastern corridor], which are explicitly referenced in the sub-strategy. Indeed, the sub-strategy reaffirms the three elements of the CAM network: city tunnelled section; GCP corridors; and regional routes.\"\nFurthermore, he said the sub-strategy \"provides no technical reason why the Cambourne to Cambridge (or Waterbeach scheme) is non-compliant\".\nBlake said the GCP could choose to delay decisions about the inner corridors until the combined authority's sub-strategy was finalised, but pointed out that the projects had already been delayed a number of times. \"The progress of, in particular, the Cambourne to Cambridge (C2C) scheme has already been significantly delayed due to a number of interventions: firstly, the mayoral pause in 2018, which caused a nine-month delay; secondly, the need to cancel the December board meeting due to the General Election; and finally, the current delay caused by the mayor's withdrawal of support for the C2C scheme two days before the GCP board meeting in February.\n\"The impact of further delay is potentially significant. The success of the Bourn Airfield, West Cambourne and West Cambridge developments relies in full or part on the C2C scheme. Failure to deliver in a timely manner will impact both the individual schemes, but may also have implications on Greater Cambridge's local housing trajectory and five-year housing supply and undermines the confidence in the development community that promised infrastructure will be delivered.\n\"A delay would also impact significantly upon the combined authority's CAM programme timeline as Cambourne to Cambridge and Cambridge South East [in the A1307 corridor] are the only two elements of the CAM network deliverable by the Cambridgeshire and Peterborough Combined Authority's target 2024 date.\"\nBlake also addressed the legal argument about who is responsible for making decisions about the busway route. \"The Cambridgeshire and Peterborough Combined Authority (CPCA), the county council and the GCP collectively asked for further clarification on the respective powers of each authority and this work has been done by officers, including our respective legal monitoring officers, who have reached agreement on the applicable governance framework and each body's legal powers and responsibilities.\n\"In terms of the respective roles of the Cambridgeshire and Peterborough Combined Authority (CPCA) and GCP, work by the monitoring officers concluded:\nthe CPCA has responsibility for producing the local transport plan (LTP) and passenger transport services including concessionary travel\nthe county council [which is the highway authority] has delegated a range of powers to the GCP and this is sound legally and gives the GCP all the powers needed to deliver transport schemes provided those schemes are in conformity with the adopted LTP.\nBlake said there was \"no formal process for the transport authority [i.e. the combined authority] to provide consent for a major scheme development\".\n\"It is entirely for the promoter [in this case the GCP] to demonstrate how it conforms with policy as it progresses through the statutory planning and approvals process.\"\nAs for funding the projects, Blake said: \"The GCP is charged with delivering the Greater Cambridge City Deal and has significant financial resources available, from both Government and local sources, to deliver its objectives. The funding available is assigned to approved schemes, which include the Cambridge South East Transport Scheme and Cambridge to Cambourne schemes.\"\nThe mayor: feeling ignored\nThe GCP board meeting on the 25 June will be recommended to press ahead with the Cambourne route, albeit with some amendments, including changing the alignment in west Cambridge, after cyclist group CamCycle and residents complained about the plan to route buses down Adams Road.\nPalmer has already had his say ahead of the meeting. \"In these amended plans, it would appear the GCP has listened to the concerns of Cambridge residents but anyone outside the city has been ignored, including me. I believe that, as the directly elected leader of the transport authority, I should have some input into schemes that are purportedly a part of our local transport plan.\n\"The GCP have decided to proceed regardless, which risks significant delays and wasted public expenditure in contentious legal proceedings.\"\nEven with the proposed route change, the Cambourne to Cambridge busway remains controversial, with local people accusing the Liberal Democrats of doing a U-turn from their previous position of opposing the project.\nThe route will use an off-road alignment and serve a park-and-ride site at Scotland Farm. The busway will be served by three express services:\nCambourne to city centre at ten-minute intervals\nCambourne to the Biomedical Campus at 30-minute intervals\nA428 park-and-ride site to Biomedical Campus at 30-minute intervals in peak periods.\nBlake told the joint assembly that the busway and East West Rail (EWR) were \"complementary\". The railway was focused \"substantially on longer term growth beyond the Local Plan period and not the immediate and worsening issues of congestion and lack of connectivity for expanding communities west of Cambridge\".\nThe railway would offer \"good connections for those in Cambourne travelling to destinations easily accessible from the Cambridge stations\". \"However, any new rail station would not offer the same level of local service access to areas along the A428\/A1303. Neither would it serve other housing and employment locations along the corridor such as Bourn Airfield and West Cambridge.\n\"Once a preferred alignment has been agreed for EWR and clarity established with regards to the location of a Cambourne station there will be a programme to ensure integration between EWR, the busway and the wider CAM network can be maximised.\" Until this time, the busway scheme will run through Cambourne on existing routes rather than new segregated infrastructure.\nThe value for money of the busway project is strikingly poor, at least according to a conventional appraisal. The project has a benefit:cost ratio of just 0.43, which rises to 0.48 when taking into account the additional wider economic impacts (a level 2 analysis in DfT parlance).\nThe GCP says land value uplift turns the BCR positive. Assuming 50 per cent of the land value uplift is achieved, some \u00a3458m, the BCR rises to 1.22. If the full value is realised, then the BCR would rise to 1.95.\nThe current estimated capital cost of the project is \u00a3160.5m, of which \u00a337.7m is anticipated from Section 106 contributions from third parties such as the developers of the Bourn Airfield site and West Cambridge. The cost includes a 25 per cent risk allowance but does not include optimism bias (which is applied in the economic appraisal, at 44 per cent).\nThe GCP envisages making a Transport and Works Act Order application to build the busway early in 2021. If authority to construct is forthcoming in 2022, the busway could open in 2024.\nThe GCP board will also be asked to approve the development of the 'brown route' for the Cambridge South East Transport Scheme (CSETS) \u2013 another busway \u2013?to full business case stage. The route ends at a 'travel hub' (park-and-ride) site located to the southwest of the junction between the A1307 and A11, which could provide parking for up to 2,800 cars.\nThe preferred option has an adjusted BCR of 0.81. The adjusted total present value of benefits is \u00a369.8m compared with a present value of costs of \u00a385.7m.\n\"As there are currently no development sites that are dependent on Cambridge South East Transport, the adjusted BCR does not include Level 3 wider economic impacts associated with land-use changes,\" reported Blake. \"There are three residential sites and one employment site identified in the South Cambridgeshire Local Plan that are not dependent on the scheme but can be supported by it.\"\nThe estimated capital cost for the project is \u00a3129.9m, including \u00a326m of risk but no optimism bias. Funding is intended to be sourced primarily through the Greater Cambridge City Deal, though the GCP will seek to recover some costs from developer contributions. \"Although no immediate opportunities to secure developer contributions to the scheme have been identified, significant development in the area in the pipeline is expected to result in a level of developer contributions to this scheme over time,\" said Blake.\nAs with Cambourne to Cambridge, the power to construct the CSETS scheme is likely to require a Transport and Works Act Order. The planned opening for this route is again 2024.\nConsultant Mott MacDonald is assisting the GCP on the busway schemes.\nBusiness case for Wisbech rail reopening\nThe Cambridgshire and Peterborough Combined Authority has published the full business case for reopening the Wisbech to March railway line.\nThe Wisbech branch closed to passengers in 1968 and to freight in 2000.\nThe combined authority wants to restore passenger services, ideally with two trains an hour from Wisbech to Cambridge. It believes there is currently only capacity on the existing network for one train an hour, with the second dependent on additional capacity provided by the Ely area capacity enhancements project, including at Ely North junction.\nIn the interim, the second hourly service could therefore form a shuttle between March and Wisbech.\nWisbech town centre is the preferred location for a station.\nThe full business case, prepared by consultant Mott MacDonald, estimates the cost of reopening at \u00a3218.5m (2019 prices).\nOf this, only \u00a371.9m is for the restoration of the railway formation. A bigger cost \u2013 \u00a375.6m \u2013 is for highway works \u2013 the Wisbech branch is crossed by 22 level crossings, and road closures and diversions will be necessary. The combined authority says the highway elements of the project will be peer reviewed. \"We are optimistic that efficiencies may be found here.\"\nA risk adjustment of 19 per cent \u2013 \u00a334.9m \u2013 has been applied to all costs.\nDesign work on the project has reached Network Rail's GRIP 3b stage.\nPaul Raynes, the combined authority's strategy and delivery director, said significant levels of national grant funding would be needed to deliver the project.\nCombined authority mayor James Palmer has written to the DfT suggesting that the scheme is an ideal candidate for the 'accelerating existing proposals' stream of the Government's new Restoring your Railways Fund.\nThe business case recommends that the combined authority takes the lead in the sponsorship and delivery of the project, working closely with Network Rail.\n\"A hybrid approach is recommended within the commercial case with the combined authority retaining overall management control of delivery, while some of the rail packages should be procured and managed directly by Network Rail,\" said Raynes.\nPrincipal Highways Development Management Officer\nNorthumberland County Council\nCambridgeshire transport: The story so far\nDigital consultation to shape the future of the OxCam Arc\nPalmer's election defeat casts doubt over future of CAM\nPalmer's CAM plan is too high risk, says Lib Dem challenger for mayor\nEast West Rail floats closing stations\nGCP studies three grid upgrade options\n\u00a3500m HE contract for Cambs road\nShapps cancels Oxford-Cambridge expressway\nCambridge road pricing work shelved\nAutonomous vehicle service for Cambridge?","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
+{"text":"Helen Bader School of Social Welfare\nTitle: Helen Bader School of Social Welfare\nSubject: University of Wisconsin\u2013Milwaukee\nUniversity of Wisconsin\u2013Milwaukee is a doctoral-degree granting public research university that consists of 14 colleges and schools, and 70 academic centers, institutes and laboratory facilities. It offers a total of 180 degree programs, including 94 bachelor's, 53 master's and 32 doctorate degrees.[1] The School of Freshwater Sciences is the only graduate school of freshwater science in the U.S. and the third in the world.[2][3][4] The School of Architecture and Urban Planning, the College of Nursing and the College of Health Sciences are the largest in Wisconsin.[5][6]\nThe university is categorized as an RU\/H Research University (high research activity) in the Carnegie Classification of Institutions of Higher Education.[7] Per US News & World Report 2012, the University is ranked 121st nationally by America's Best High School guidance counselors as offering the best undergraduate education to their students.[8]\n1 Colleges and schools\n2 Rankings\n3 Programs\nCollege of Letters and Science\nSchool of Architecture and Urban Planning\nSheldon B. Lubar School of Business\nSchool of Freshwater Sciences\nUS News & World Report rankings\nArchives and Preservation 9 2009[8]\nBiological Sciences 144 2010[8]\nChemistry 107 2010[8]\nClinical Psychology 70 2012[8]\nComputer Science 110 2010[8]\nEducation 67 2012[8]\nEngineering 131 2012[8]\nEnglish 52 2009[8]\nFine Arts 62 2012[8]\nLibrary and Information Studies 16 2009[8]\nMathematics 104 2010[8]\nNursing 36 2012[8]\nOccupational Therapy 28 2008[8]\nPart-time M.B.A. 78 2012[8]\nPolitical Science 62 2010[8]\nPsychology 103 2009[8]\nPhysics 102 2010[8]\nPhysical Therapy 28 2012[8]\nPublic Affairs 59 2012[8]\nRehabilitation counseling 62 2011[8]\nSocial Work 52 2012[8]\nSpeech-Language Pathology 73 2012[8]\nBased on the statistical analysis by H.J. Newton, Professor of Statistics at Texas A&M University in 1997 on the National Research Council report issued in 1995, the University of Wisconsin\u2013Milwaukee was ranked 72nd among public universities in the U.S. in the NRC Rankings.[9][10] It was also ranked among the top 100 universities in the U.S. by Vanguard College Ranking,[11] 247th by Washington Monthly[12] and one of the best Midwest colleges by Princeton Review.[13] The University ranked 189th in the US by research expenditure in 2007.[14]\nThe university ranks 98th in the world in the Professional Ranking of World Universities conducted by the \u00c9cole des Mines de Paris in 2011[15] and ranked as one of the top 500 world universities in the Academic Ranking of World Universities compiled by Shanghai Jiao Tong University.[16] The SCImago Institutions Rankings rated UW-Milwaukee 759th among 3,042 universities and research institutions worldwide in term of research output, international collaboration, normalized impact and publication rate in 2011.[17] The Webometrics Ranking of World Universities ranked UW-Milwaukee 200th world wide[18] and 96th in North American.[19]\nCollege of Engineering and Applied Science consists of civil engineering, electrical engineering, industrial engineering, materials engineering, mechanical engineering, and computer science six departments, with 9 faculty members receiving National Science Foundation Career Awards, 3 Wisconsin Distinguished Professors and 3 UWM Distinguished Professors.[20] The College of Engineering and Applied Science ranks 131st nationally by U.S. News & World Report, with its computer science program ranked 110th in 2012.[8] Based on the statistical analysis by H.J. Newton, Professor of Statistics at Texas A&M University in 1997 on the National Research Council report issued in 1995, the school was ranked 73rd nationally in the National Research Council (NRC) rankings,[21] with its Civil Engineering program 69th,[22] Electronic Engineering 96th,[23] Industrial Engineering 34th,[24] Materials science 60th,[25] and Mechanical Engineering 87th.[26]\nCollege of Health Sciences is the largest college of health sciences in the Midwest[27] and it offers the largest number of health-related degree programs in Wisconsin.[6] The school's occupational therapy program was ranked 28th, physical therapy 63rd nationally by U.S. News & World Report in 2012.[8]\nCollege of Letters and Science offers 40 bachelor degrees, 20 masters and 12 doctoral degrees. Based on the statistical analysis by H.J. Newton, Professor of Statistics at Texas A&M University in 1997 on the National Research Council report issued in 1995, the National Research Council (NRC) rankings rank UW-Milwaukee's Anthropology program 62nd,[28] Economics program 88th,[29] English department 32nd,[30] Geosciences program 92nd,[31] Geography program 31st,[32] Physics program 88th[33] and Political Science program 51st.[34] The political science department was ranked 81st globally in a study published by Political Study Review in 2004.[35] In a study published by the Southern Economic Journal in 2008, the research productivity of the economics department was ranked in the top third of the 129 economics doctoral degree-granting institutions in the U.S.[36] The hydrogeology program within the Department of Geosciences was ranked among the top 100 programs in North America by the National Ground Water Association.[37]\nCollege of Nursing is the largest nursing school in Wisconsin, offering bachelor's, master's, and doctoral degrees.[5] In addition to the main campus at UW-Milwaukee, the College of Nursing also has a Bachelor of Science in Nursing Program at UW-Parkside and UW-Washington County.[38] The College of Nursing was ranked 36th nationally by U.S. News & World Report in 2012.[8] It ranked 36th among Schools of Nursing in the US for National Institutes of Health (NIH) funding.[39]\nHelen Bader School of Social Welfare ranked 52nd nationally by U.S. News & World Report in 2012.[8] In March, 2010, the school was awarded the 2010 Academic Excellence Award from the American Public Human Services Association (APHSA)[40][41]\nPeck School of the Arts consists of dance, film, music, theatre, and visual art departments.[42] The school also hosts the Institute of Visual Art (Inova), an internationally known exhibition venue for contemporary art.[43] The school was ranked 62nd nationally by U.S. News and World Report in 2012.[8] The school's film program is ranked world top 20 by The Hollywood Reporter.[44]\nSchool of Architecture and Urban Planning offers bachelor's, master's and doctoral degrees in Architecture and Urban Planning, with an enrollment of more than 800. The school was ranked among the top twenty by U.S. News and World Report in a recent report. The journal DesignIntelligence in an annual edition of \"America's Best Architecture & Design Schools\" has also ranked the School of Architecture and Urban Planning among the top twenty and second in the Midwest, as well as tied for third in their 'Most Innovative Programs' category. The Key Center for Architectural Sociology ranked School of Architecture and Urban Planning 18th in research performance among more than 130 schools in North America.[45]\nSchool of Education offers five undergraduate major, five master's, and 12 doctoral programs. It also offers the only four-year interpreter training degree in Wisconsin. The school was ranked 67th nationally by U.S. News & World Report in 2012.[8]\nSchool of Information Studies offers B.S., MLIS and Doctoral programs of Information sciences The school ranked 16th nationally by the US News & World Report in 2009.[8] Its Archives and Preservation program was nationally ranked the 9th by US News & World Report in 2009.[8] The school was recognized by UNESCO as one of the \"leading international academic institutions\" for its \"ongoing role in promoting e-government and information ethics initiatives in Africa\" in 2009.[46][47]\nSheldon B. Lubar School of Business offers bachelor, master and doctoral degrees in a variety of specialities. The school has a total of more than four thousand students enrollment. The Management Information Systems (MIS) program of Sheldon B. Lubar School of Business is ranked 19th in the U.S. and 24th in the world by a study published in Communications for the Association for Information Systems.[48] Also, the Organizations and Strategic Management program is ranked 32nd worldwide by a joint study conducted by Texas A&M University and the University of Florida.[49] In 2006 and 2008, the School was ranked among the top 100 business schools around the world in terms of research productivity.[50]\nSchool of Public Health is a graduate school focusing on public health research and education. It is one of more than 40 accredited schools of public health in the United States and the first devoted specifically to public health in Wisconsin.[51]\nSchool of Freshwater Sciences (SFS) is the only graduate school of freshwater science in the U.S. and the third in the world.[2][3][4] It offers Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) and Master of Science (M.S.) of Freshwater Sciences in Freshwater System Dynamics, Human and Ecosystem Health, Freshwater Technology and Freshwater Economics, Policy and Management.[52] Located at the edge of the Great Lakes, SFS was built upon the Great Lakes WATER Institute, a freshwater research institution of the University of Wisconsin System administered by the Graduate School of University of Wisconsin\u2013Milwaukee.[53][54]\nUniversity of Wisconsin\u2013Milwaukee academics\nUniversity of Wisconsin\u2013Milwaukee\nCollege of Engineering & Applied Science\nSchool of Social Welfare\nSchool of Architecture & Urban Planning\nUWM Research Foundation\nResearch Growth Initiative\nGreat Lakes WATER Institute\nInnovation Park\nNorth Quad\nCentral Quad\nNorthwest Quad\nUniversity of Wisconsin-Milwaukee Libraries\nUWM Union\nSandburg Halls\nGreene Geological Museum\nHelene Zelazo Center\nNotable Faculty\nNotable Athletes and Sports figures\nUniversity chancellors\nWUWM\nUWM Post\nPerforming Arts Venues\nMilwaukee Panthers\nEngelmann Field\nJ. Martin Klotsche Center\nHenry Aaron Field\nLapham Memorial\nThree Bronze Discs\nHappy-Go-Luckies of Nature and Technology\nJantar-Mantar\nWisconsin, Computer science, University of Wisconsin System, Milwaukee, Horizon League","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
+{"text":"42 Years Ago: Fire At Mgm Grand Hotel Killed 87 People Today, Injured Additional Than 600\nOtherwise, your most effective price range-friendly selection is a off-Strip hotel or even a trip rental. 1 of the principal draws of a winter trip to Vegas is the inexpensive flights. In November 2019, Frontier flights from Newark, New Jersey, to Las Vegas, Nevada, have been as low as $15 every way! Flights from Denver, Colorado, to Las Vegas, frequently drop in value by as significantly as 30% for the duration of the month of January. For the most affordable flights, think about flying September-November and January-April.\nWhen it comes to accommodation, this hotel features spacious rooms with a work desk, ironing facilities, air conditioners, and flat-screen cable Tv. Las Vegas is one of the most visited cities in the U.S.\u2014and with very good purpose. It's also brimming with award-winning restaurants, planet-class entertainment, nonstop pool parties\u2014and of course, impressive luxury hotels. And speaking of the hotels, Vegas is recognized for obtaining particularly extravagant properties. Resorts Planet Las VegasBut every prime resort in Vegas has gaming, a good spa, pool and performers.\nA complimentary complete breakfast for two, which you can take at the restaurant or via in-area dining. 4 Seasons Las Vegas \u2013 Suite BedroomLas Vegas is a seasonal, leisure market, so the cheapest rates have a tendency to show up in the off-seasons (June-August, December-February), as well as mid-week. I've seen costs as low as about $300++ per night, which is much less than half of what you'd spend at a comparable Four Seasons pretty a great deal anywhere else. (But, this also makes Four Seasons the #1 option for families.) You can entirely steer clear of getting into a casino region at Four Seasons Las Vegas, which is hard to do at the other 3 properties we profile. And while it seems like every single house advertises itself as \"luxury,\" there are only a couple of that are really outstanding examples of Las Vegas Hotel Luxury.\nIn between 1993 to 2016, 13 big properties have been imploded, and other people had been just torn down. Under are links to watch the largest and most dramatic implosions along and close to the Las Vegas Strip. In true Las Vegas tradition, the constructing implosions have been an occasion \u2013 an epic show with every a single appearing to out-implode the prior. Two officers, Igor Soldo and Alyn Beck, had been killed in June 2014 when they had been ambushed as they sat as a pizza shop by a married couple who espoused anti-government views.\nTwo of them \u2014 cornerback Nate Hobbs and security Tre'von Moehrig \u2014 have playmaking and ball-hawking abilities. According to the Westgate SuperBook, a $300 wager was placed on UNLV to win the college football national championship at 10,000-1 odds. On Sept. two, the American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals identified various dead dogs buried on the house, according to forensic veterinarians.\nAll this takes place not only in illegal earnings, but also in private life. Glamorous Vegas is shown in an entirely unique way \u2013 slippery, greedy, and testing your strength. From right here, a single might find out a lot about casino life from the inside. Caesars initially announced the rebranding to the legendary casino brand \u2014 Horseshoe \u2014 back in January. 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Adams says there have been other ex-pros that have played, and still holds hope for a particular Brazilian to make an look\u2026 Riise had only just retired from a profession that had noticed him play in the Premier League for Liverpool and rack up 110 caps for Norway \u2014 while he never played in the FIFA Globe Cup. \"He was a pretty excellent soccer player and was definitely passionate about it,\" stated Adams.\nMurray mentioned the increased contributions showed \"resilience\" in the neighborhood during the pandemic, which devastated the regional neighborhood as the state lost practically 350,000 jobs. The survey discovered corporations gave an estimated $577 million in 2021, a 7.three % year-more than-year improve and up 9 percent compared to 2019. The sectors receiving the most contributions from corporations were education and well being and social services. Loyal fans of a distinct franchise can uncover their persons at 1 of the dozens of team-devoted, NFL-sanctioned bars across the valley. Lastly, altering the parking lot to one with designated spaces could call for approval by the homeowners as it could fall beneath architectural modify of the frequent area. Nevada Rural Housing is developing Hafen Village, 96-unit improvement, in Mesquite.\nTwo years later \u2014 in dramatic fashion \u2014 the Landmark split in two as it crumbled to the ground on Nov. 7, 1995. The uniquely shaped tower, which was apparently modeled after Seattle's Space Needle, made a grand exit. Filmmaker Tim Burton used find more the implosion footage in his 1996 film \"Mars Attack.\" In the film, it was the Martians who brought the building down.\nThere are also lots of Raiders common season games that take place at Allegiant Stadium throughout the winter. One explanation to travel to Las Vegas in the wintertime is to take in a Golden Knights game. The Knights' season begins in September and goes by way of the spring, generating winter the perfect time to catch a game. Ticket rates start at $25, producing attending a game an cost-effective but fun activity. The downtown hotel's meals hall is the newest in a recent string of food halls that have began cropping up all more than Las Vegas.\nThere are also a wide wide variety of video table games and specialty slot machines for those searching for assortment. Amongst rounds of slots, you can try your hand at one particular of eight various types of video poker, eight sorts of on line blackjack, seven types of bingo, and five kinds of virtual roulette wheels, baccarat, and keno. They also host some of the world's most well-liked poker games and on the net poker rooms, like huge multi-table tournaments with prize pools that generally exceed $1,000,000.\nRaiders' star pass-rusher Maxx Crosby was brilliant and he played a massive function in the win. Crosby had two sacks, a forced fumble and blocked a field objective at the finish of the initial half. To check out the latest and greatest UFC Vegas 67 news and notes be sure to hit up our extensive occasion archive right here. \"And of course, poker players are ultra-competitive. You see a lot of guys taking wonderful pride in representing their country and at instances, points get heated. \"USA vs Brazil is constantly heated. Germany vs USA have normally had massive matches, also. The day is a mixture of exciting, extremely competitive and for me personally, it's quite hectic.\nLas Vegas Raiders defensive end Chandler Jones arrives to the regular season away game against the Denver Broncos at Empower Field at Mile High. Las Vegas Raiders linebacker Jayon Brown arrives to the typical season away game against the Denver Broncos at Empower Field at Mile Higher. 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+{"text":"Petition calls for new dual carriageway to replace deadly stretch of the A38\nIf the government does not act before March 2019, the road won't be dualled before 2030\nCharlotte BecquartContent editor\n15:03, 21 JAN 2019\nUpdated 15:04, 21 JAN 2019\nThe scene of a previous crash on the A38 at Tideford (Image: Stuart Brampton)\nOur weekend morning emails feature the very best news and exclusive content from our team of reporters\nA petition has been launched calling for a new dual carriageway to replace a notorious stretch of the A38 in Cornwall.\nLocal road safety campaign group Safe38 is urging the government to commit to funding a new road between Saltash and Trerulefoot within the next round of road improvement funding.\nIf the government does not back the proposals now, it's unlikely any works would begin until after 2030.\nHow many more people have to die on the A38?\nThe Glynn Valley between Bodmin and Liskeard, and the winding section between Trerulefoot and Saltash further east are considered to be two of the most treacherous stretches of the A38.\nThe junctions off the dual carriageway at Menheniot and the Looe turn off have also become accident blackspots.\nSince 2004, 29 people have lost their lives on the A38 in Cornwall, the vast majority between Trerulefoot and Carkeel and in the Glynn Valley.\nAt a meeting of cross-party MPs, campaigners and councillors in October 2018, Transport Secretary Chris Grayling backed the need to implement urgent safety measures along the A38 trunk road.\nCornish man's touching dying wish - and how you can help\nHowever, Mr Grayling gave no confirmation that the road would feature in the government's next Road Improvement Strategy (RIS2) for the period 2020-2025.\nThe Safe38 parliamentary petition calls on the governement to urgently review the need to include funding for a dual carriageway along the route between Saltash and Trerulefoot in RIS2 before the deadline in March 2019.\nLaura and Alfie Hopes died in a crash on the A38 near Landrake\nThe group stresses the new road would not only address the safety concerns presented by the current A38 but will be fit for purpose to meet growing capacity and user demand safely, support regional economic growth, improve the local environment and bring local village air quality within acceptable levels.\nJames Millidge, the chair of Safe38, said: \"Around 23,500 people a day use the A38 stretch between Saltash and Trerulefoot. This is over capacity for a road of its type which has an accident and fatality rate that is more than twice the national average.\nCornwall Council is one of the slowest councils to deal with most severe potholes\nInquest into A38 crash to be held today\n\"While the safety and economic reasons behind a new road are convincing, we don't consider a dual carriageway to be simply about providing a route for more cars and more people, it is about improving the environment we all live in, enabling the current single carriageway A38 to be used as a local access road for buses, cyclists and local traffic.\nHow to download the Cornwall Live app\nClick on the App Store here to download the app for iOS devices, and on the Google Play store here or download the app on Android\n\"Together both roads, along with the proposed park-and-ride at Menheniot would provide South East Cornwall with an integrated transport network fit for purpose for generations to come.\"\nSafe38 hopes that, if funding is agreed within the next few years, the works could start in 2025.\nMr Millidge explained: \"If funding is allocated in RIS2, there is the possibility that work on the route could begin as early as 2025.\nWine bar, 91 homes and coffee shop with drive through among new planning applications this week\n\"However, if it is pushed back to the next round of funding to cover the period 2025-2030, work is not likely to start until after 2030.\n\"We feel that 11 years is just too long to wait for substantial improvements to journeys between Saltash and Trerulefoot.\n\"We'd encourage anyone to sign the petition and get behind this call to action.'\nThe petition can be signed here.\nTo find out more about Safe38 and to join the campaign visit www.safe38.org or visit Facebook Safe38.\nA38 crashes\nLandrake, 2012\nIn 2012 a motorcyclist was injured in a single vehicle collision in Landrake\nOne person was left injured following a crash involving four cars and a HGV in Landrake in 2012\nCarkeel Roundabout, 2012\nOne person was left injured following a crash involving a taxi and a cyclist at Carkeel Roundabout in 2012\nTideford, 2013\nOne person was injured in a crash involving two lorries at Tideford in 2013\nTrerulefoot, 2013\nTwo people were injured in a crash involving two cars in 2013.\nPolice say the crash happened between Saltash and Trerulefoot Roundabout.\nStoketon Cross, 2013\nOne person was injured following a crash involving four cars and a motorcyclist at Stoketon Cross in 2013\nFatal: Carkeel Roundabout, 2013\nMotorcyclist Adam Smart, aged 20, died after he collided with a lorry at Carkeel Roundabout on June 10, 2013.\nSaltash, 2013\nFive people were injured in a collision involving two cars at Saltash in 2013\nFatal: Latchbrook, 2013\nLee Skeldon was behind the wheel of a BMW 318 when it swerved across the A38 at Whity Cross, near Saltash, and hit a wall at around 11.45pm on November 1, 2013.\nThe 27-year-old and his front seat passenger Christopher Williams, aged 21, died at the scene from their injuries.\nTwo people were injured in a two car crash at Tideford in 2014\nOne person was seriously injured in a crash involving a motorcyclist and a HGV at Trerulefoot Roundabout in 2014\nSeven people were injured in a crash involving two cars and a lorry near Trerulefoot Roundabout in 2014\nNotter Bridge, 2014\nOne person was injured in a single vehicle collision at notter Bridge in 2014\nCarkeel, 2014\nOne person was injured following a crash involving a lorry and motor scooter at Carkeel Roundabout in 2014\nFatal: Saltash, 2014\nJohn Bailey, a 67-year-old man from Liskeard, died near Carkeel in Saltash after the Land Rover he was driving smashed into the back of a HGV trailer which was parked in the lay-by of the A38 westbound carriageway.","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
+{"text":"To Your Berry, Berry Good Health\nHave you at any point had the delight of picking your own special berries straight from shrubbery, bush or plant and encountering the explosion of flavor and scent warm from the sun? MMMM-mmm \u2013 that taste vibe of prepared, fruity expat health insurance in China flavor awakens your taste buds and is so delectable.\nBlueberries, strawberries, cherries, cranberries, mulberries, raspberries and blackberries to give some examples of the undeniable ones, and afterward there are the super-berries like: goji berries, acai and others and all are ending up having astounding medical advantages.\nNew examinations are showing that berries contain extraordinary phyto-synthetic compounds that might assist with forestalling malignant growth, coronary illness, age-related decreases and a whole lot more. It would appear to be legit to appreciate them as regularly as possible, notwithstanding, for the vast majority of us this won't be frequently enough. That is on the grounds that the best medical advantages accompany predictable, normal utilization of a wide assortment of berries. It is with normal utilize that come the best advantages, this implies eating 1 to 1 \u00bd cups of blended berries a day, regular. So my idea is to observe a decent quality enhancement containing berry concentrates and eating new berries sooner rather than later.\nGoji berry (Fructus Lycii) has been utilized in Traditional Chinese Medicine for thousand of years, and I for me this is a high suggestion, as the Chinese didn't pay their primary care physicians to fix them as we do, the town or locales specialists were just paid, by the entire town, however long their patients stayed well. Suppose we required our primary care physicians to do this? The infection business may really turn into the wellbeing business J\nChinese Wolfberry can be utilized to sustain a frail body, further develop vision, and advance life span. There are numerous legends related with Chinese Wolfberry. A renowned Chinese doctor, Li Shizhen (1518 \u2013 1593) who lived during the Ming Dynasty (1368 to 1644 A.D.), gathered the Great Compendium of Herbs (or Compendium of Materia Medica), which expressed, \"The Bao Shou spice store recorded a remedy that advances life span. A peculiar barefooted man named Zhang passed the equation of this mixture to an old individual at Yi Shi province, who followed the formula and lived for north of 100 years. The older man could walk incredibly quick as though he was flying. His silver hair became dark once more. His matured teeth were supplanted with new ones and he was exceptionally virile in the room. The spice is smooth and can be taken regularly to kill over the top hotness in the body, and will likewise further develop vision.\"\nDuring the prime of the Tang Dynasty (618 \u2013 907 A.D.), a convoy on the Silk Road halted for a rest at a motel and saw a youngster criticizing and whipping an elderly person. A shipper moved toward them and enquired the youngster, \"why are you attacking and manhandling this older individual?\" The woman answered, \"I'm restraining my incredible grandson. It is not your concern.\" Everyone at the scene was stunned by her answer. Further enquiries uncovered that the woman was multiple hundred years of age! The old individual was being rebuffed in light of the fact that he would not take a kind of spice and begun to age. Astonished at the sorcery of the spice, the vendor bowed to the woman with deference and inquired, \"May I be so striking as to ask the woman what sort of otherworldly spice do you take?\" The woman answered, \"This spice has five names. You need to take an alternate piece of the spice each season. In spring you take its leaves, which is known as the quintessence of paradise spice. In summer you take its blossoms, which is known as the life span spice. In fall you take its organic products, which is known as Chinese Wolfberry. In winter you take the bark of its foundations, which is known as the skin and bone of the earth, or the staff of the divinities. Taking these four sections in the four seasons individually, will give you a day to day existence as grand as paradise and earth.\"\nWeapons, Ammo, and Product Managers\nCorona Reach ONI: Sword Base Walkthrough, How to Complete ONI: Sword Base Alone on Legendary","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
+{"text":"Aberdeen captain Scott Brown leaves Dons to pursue coaching opportunities elsewhere\nThe former Celtic and Scotland skipper joined the Dons as a player\/assistant manager last summer as Stephen Glass took the reins at Pittodrie.\nScott Brown (Image: Aberdeen FC)\nAberdeen FC today confirmed that club captain Scott Brown has left the club.\nThe former Celtic skipper joined the Dons as a player\/assistant manager last summer as Stephen Glass took the reins at Pittodrie.\nFollowing Glass's departure from the managerial position, speculation had arisen that Brown was planning an exit.\nThe club has said that he is leaving \"as he looks to take the next steps in his coaching journey\".\nThe 36-year-old said: \"I would like to take this opportunity to firstly thank the Board at Aberdeen and, of course, Stephen Glass and his backroom staff, for giving me the opportunity to enjoy my first taste of coaching.\n\"I'd also like to thank all my team-mates and the great staff both at Cormack Park and Pittodrie.\n\"I know I was only in the north-east for a short period, but the fans made me feel welcome from day one, so my thanks must also go to them for showing me so much support.\n\"Aberdeen is a huge club and I know there is a real determination from all to deliver success both on and off the pitch. I wish them all the best for the remainder of the season.\"\nThe Aberdonian footballer who ran infamous match-fixing syndicate\nDons Director of Football Steven Gunn added: \"When Scott arrived at the Club, we understood his desire to begin his transition into a coaching role and we were clear we would help wherever possible.\n\"Scott has been an outstanding asset to us in the last eleven months and his contributions, both on and off the pitch, have been invaluable.\n\"I've no doubt he will bring the same desire, determination and will-to-win that he has demonstrated throughout his career when he embarks on this next chapter.\"\nAberdeen FC Women to play at Pittodrie for first time as club marks International Women's Day","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
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+{"text":"Home \u203a Sport \u203a Rugby \u203a Heineken Cup\nMcCall hopeful as Borthwick's odds are 50-50\nMajor doubt: Steve Borthwick suffered a pectoral injury against Harlequins and could now miss the Heineken and Aviva finals\nBy Nick Purewal\nSteve Borthwick's 'significant pectoral injury' could deny the Saracens captain the chance to close a decorated career with back-to-back Heineken Cup and Aviva Premiership finals.\nhttps:\/\/www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk\/sport\/rugby\/heineken-cup\/mccall-hopeful-as-borthwicks-odds-are-5050-30290236.html\nhttps:\/\/www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk\/sport\/rugby\/heineken-cup\/article30290235.ece\/f1993\/AUTOCROP\/h342\/SPT_2014-05-21_RUG_058_31739369_I1.JPG\nFormer England captain Borthwick must train tomorrow to prove his fitness for Saracens' double final fortnight.\nSaracens rugby director Mark McCall rated the 34-year-old lock as '50-50' to recover in time for Saturday's European showpiece battle with Toulon in Cardiff.\nFormer Ulster boss McCall admitted if Borthwick does not make the Heineken final then he will also miss the Premiership final on May 31.\n\"He's made some progress actually this week so I suppose we're optimistic, but we'll make a decision towards the end of the week,\" said McCall on his captain, who trudged out of Saracens' 31-17 Premiership semi-final victory over Harlequins.\n\"He's got a chance. He hasn't trained yet and there's a few things he's got to do before he's declared fit, but we'll make a firm decision on Thursday. We wouldn't play him unless he's proven he can play, functionally he's got to be strong enough to play.\n\"We wouldn't gamble at all with him. He's got a significant injury to his pectoral muscle.\"\nGritty skipper Borthwick will end his 16-year top-flight career this summer and McCall conceded he could already have made his final professional appearance.\nToulon's Jonny Wilkinson faces a Heineken Cup and French Top 14 double to close his 17-year career in the coming fortnight.\nGiven former England fly-half Wilkinson's injury-ravaged past, even several weeks ago few would have placed money on Borthwick being the man facing potential heartache.\nMcCall said 57-cap second row Borthwick has been typically unflustered in battling his injury.\nSpringbok Alistair Hargreaves and England's Mouritz Botha would start against Toulon should Borthwick miss out.\nBotha pulled out of last weekend's Harlequins victory at the last minute with a back problem, but McCall said he is fit to face reigning champions Toulon.\n\"It would just prove that life's unfair, because no one deserves to play in a Heineken Cup final and a Premiership final in his last two games of rugby ever more than Steve Borthwick to be honest,\" said McCall. \"So fingers crossed that will happen.\n\"Already there's no self-pity with Steve, he's been massively involved in the preparation in the last two days, so he'll have a massive contribution to make whatever happens.\n\"We want him to play in a game like that for us, a guy with big-match experience, who is a tremendous leader in every respect. But if he doesn't play we've just got to get on with it.\n\"We think we've got a lot of other people who provide a lot of leadership and direction.\n\"The best part of Mo's back seizing up on Saturday was that Alistair Hargreaves got 80 minutes, which he actually needed.\n\"He played really well and he's a real class player Alistair.\"\nMcCall refused to be drawn on the RFU sending Chris Ashton a letter after he was heard to shout 'push it' as Nick Evans attempted a conversion for Harlequins in Saturday's semi-final.\n\"It was a short investigation,\" said McCall. \"It's been dealt with and we move on.\"\nFollow @BelTel_Sport\nComment: Why World Cup could have a huge impact on Irish provinces' Euro dreams\nBy Jonathan Bradley In two of the three opening seasons of the Heineken Cup, Irish teams failed to make it beyond the pool stages. Since then, it's happened only once.\nSimon Zebo apologises after mocking Michael Lowry in try celebration\nBy Adam McKendry RACING 92 full-back Simon Zebo has revealed he has apologised to Michael Lowry again for taunting him in the act of scoring a try in their win over Ulster.\nUlster must not over-react to double defeat, says Timoney\nBy Jonathan Bradley One of the beauties of European rugby has always been the more varied fixtures the competition throws up, but when it comes to Ulster and the Leicester Tigers on Saturday, the phrase 'there's...\nFive things you need to know about Brive after Stuart Olding signs for French club\nYou could be forgiven for knowing little about Brive - the French town in which Stuart Olding will play his rugby next season.","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
+{"text":"Limits to Performance\nAn important part of the design process is the characterization of the best achievable performance of a system in terms of its intrinsic dynamics and structure. This analysis reveals what is and is not achievable prior to the application of any specific design technique. This knowledge allows one to rationally trade off desirable but often not completely compatible features in the design specifications; or, when feasible, alter the system configuration in order to alleviate the most critical constraints (e.g., by changing actuator\/sensor arrangements).\nRecent Preprints\nMiddleton, R. H., A. J. Rojas, J. S. Freudenberg, and J. H. Braslavsky. Feedback stabilization over a first order moving average gaussian noise channel. IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control 54, (1): 163-167, 2009.\nA. J. Rojas, J. H. Braslavsky, and R. H. Middleton. Fundamental limitations in control over a communication channel. Automatica, 44(12): 3147-3151, 2008.\nRojas, A.J., Braslavsky, J.H. and Middleton, R.H. Channel signal-to-noise ratio constrained feedback control: Performance and robustness. IET Control Theory and Applications 2 (7), pp. 595-605. DOI:10.1049\/iet-cta:20070246\nJ.S. Freudenberg, R.H. Middleton and J.H. Braslavsky Stabilization with disturbance attenuation over a Gaussian channel. Proceedings of the 46th Conference on Decision and Control, New Orleans, Lousiana, USA December 2007.\nA. Rojas, J.H. Braslavsky and R.H. Middleton Output feedback sensitivity functions under signal to noise ratio constraint. Proceedings of the 2007 America Control Conference, New York City, USA, July 2007.\nJ.H. Braslavsky, R.H. Middleton and J.S. Freudenberg Feedback Stabilization over Signal-to-Noise Ratio Constrained Channels (journal version). IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, 52(8), pages 1391-1403, 2007.\nA. Rojas, J.S. Freudenberg, J.H. Braslavsky and R.H. Middleton Optimal signal to noise ratio in feedback over communication channels with memory. Proceedings of the 45th Conference on Decision and Control, San diego, California, USA December 2006.\nA. Rojas, J.H. Braslavsky and R.H. Middleton Output feedback control over a class of bandwidth limited, signal to noise ratio constrained communication channels. 2006 American Control Conference, Minneapolis, USA, June 2006.\nJ.S. Freudenberg, J.H. Braslavsky and R.H. Middleton Control over signal-to-noise ration constrained channels: Stabilization and performance. Proceedings of the Joint 44th IEEE Conference on Decision and Control and Control European Conference 2005. Seville, Spain, 2005.\nJ.H. Braslavsky, R.H. Middleton and J.S. Freudenberg Effects of Time Delay on Feedback Stabilization over Signal-to-Noise Ratio Constrained Channels. Presented at the 2005 IFAC World Congress, Prague, 4-8 July, 2005. Abstract\nR.H. Middleton, J.H. Braslavsky and J.S. Freudenberg Stabilization of Non-Minimum Phase Plants over Signal-to-Noise Ratio Constrained Channels. Proceedings of the 5th Asian Control Conference, Melbourne, Australia, 20-23 July, 2004. Abstract\nJ.H. Braslavsky, R.H. Middleton and J.S. Freudenberg Feedback Stabilization over Signal-to-Noise Ratio Constrained Channels. Presented at the 2004 American Control Conference. Abstract\nK. Lau, R. Middleton and J.H. Braslavsky. Undershoot and settling time trade-offs for nonlinear non-minimum phase systems. IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, 48(8) pp 1389-1393, August 2003. Abstract\nR. Middleton and J.H. Braslavsky. On the relationship between logarithmic sensitivity integrals and limiting optimal control problems. Proceedings of the IEEE 39th Conference on Decision and Control, Sydney, December 12-15, 2000. Abstract\nJulio H. Braslavsky, Rick H. Middleton and Jim S. Freudenberg. Performance Limitations in a Class of Single-Input Two-Output Nonlinear Systems. CIDAC Technical Report EE9839, August 1998. To be presented at 1999 ACC (FM04-2). Abstract\nJ.H. Braslavsky, M.M. Seron, D.Q. Mayne and P.V. Kokotovic. Limiting Performance of Optimal Linear Filters. CCEC Technical Report 97\u00ad0414, April 1997. Automatica, 35(2):189-199,February 1999. Abstract.\nM.M. Seron, J.H. Braslavsky, Feedback Limitations in Nonlinear Systems: From Bode Integrals to Cheap Control . P.V. Kokotovic and D.Q. Mayne. CCEC Technical Report 97\u00ad0304, March 1997. Also in the IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, April 1999, 44(4), pp. 829\u00ad833. Abstract. Original Technical Report as postscript file (168K).\nFundamental Limitations in Filtering and Control, M.M. Seron, J.H. Braslavsky and G.C. Goodwin, Springer-Verlag, 1997, ISBN 3-540-76126-8.\nFull text in PDF.\nAlongside new succinct treatments of Bode's original work from the 1940s, this book presents a comprehensive account of the modern frequency\u00addomain\/input\u00adoutput results on limits to performance. It includes developments in multivariable systems, sampled\u00addata, periodic and nonlinear problems. The text gives particular prominence to sensitivity functions which measure the fundamental qualities of the system, including performance and robustness. With extensive appendices covering the necessary background on complex variable theory, this book is a self\u00adcontained resource for researchers and practitioners in this field.\nTable of contents - Errata in a dvi file (5K) or postscript file (27K), or PDF file (117K).\nPerformance and Robustness of Nonlinear Systems\nSampled-Data Systems\nStabilizability of Nonlinear Systems\nSystem Identification\nControl Applications\nMiscellany (Newcastle 1992-1996)\nJulio Braslavsky\nLast modified: Mon Jun 15 12:46:02 EST 2009","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
+{"text":"Jane Gwynne1\nF, #619901, b. 1866\nJane Gwynne was born in 1866.1 She was the daughter of Reverend James Gwynne and Jane Osborne.2 She married Dr. Herbert Dumergue.1 She died, without issue.1\nHer married name became Dumergue.1\n[S47] BIFR1976. [S47]\nDr. Herbert Dumergue1\nDr. Herbert Dumergue married Jane Gwynne, daughter of Reverend James Gwynne and Jane Osborne.1\nHe lived at London, England.1\nFlorence Gwynne1\nFlorence Gwynne was born in 1868.1 She was the daughter of Reverend James Gwynne and Jane Osborne.2 She married Colonel Clinton Courtney Anderson.1\nHer married name became Anderson.1\nChild of Florence Gwynne and Colonel Clinton Courtney Anderson\nUnknown Son Anderson1\nColonel Clinton Courtney Anderson1\nColonel Clinton Courtney Anderson married Florence Gwynne, daughter of Reverend James Gwynne and Jane Osborne.1\nHe gained the rank of Colonel in the Indian Army.1\nChild of Colonel Clinton Courtney Anderson and Florence Gwynne\nWilliam Gwynne1\nWilliam Gwynne was born in 1830.1 He was the son of Reverend Stephen Gwynne and Mary Stevenson.2 He married Laura Sothern, daughter of John Sothern, on 21 October 1856 at St. Andrew's Church, Liverpool, Lancashire, England.1,3\nHe graduated from Trinity College, Dublin University, Dublin, County Dublin, Ireland, in 1854 with a Bachelor of Arts (B.A.)1 He was registered as a Licentiate, Royal College of Surgeons of Ireland (L.R.C.S.I.) in 1854.1 He graduated from Trinity College, Dublin University, Dublin, County Dublin, Ireland, in 1857 with a Bachelor of Medicine (M.B.)1 He graduated from Trinity College, Dublin University, Dublin, County Dublin, Ireland, in 1861 with a Master of Arts (M.A.)1 He graduated with a Doctor of Medicine (M.D.)1 Before February 1869 he was received into the Roman Catholic Church under the influence of the 8th Earl of Denbigh.1 His last will was dated before February 1869. It named the 8th Earl of Denbigh and J.R. Wegg (of Belmont, Herefordshire) trustees and guardians for his son, who was to be carefully educated in the faith and practices of the Catholic Church.1 He lived at Holly Lodge Hill, Hampshire, England.1\nChild of William Gwynne and Laura Sothern\nWilliam Perceval Gwynne2 d. a Feb 1869\n[S130] Wikipedia, online http;\/\/www.wikipedia.org. Hereinafter cited as Wikipedia.\nWilliam Perceval Gwynne1\nM, #619906, d. after February 1869\nWilliam Perceval Gwynne was the son of William Gwynne and Laura Sothern.2,1 He died after February 1869, young.1\nReverend Stephen Gwynne1\nM, #619907, b. 4 May 1833, d. 18 March 1861\nReverend Stephen Gwynne was born on 4 May 1833.1 He was the son of Reverend Stephen Gwynne and Mary Stevenson.2 He died on 18 March 1861 at age 27, unmarried.1\nHe was educated at Portstewart, County Londonderry, Ireland, by his father.1 He was Curate of St Anne's Church in succession to his brother James between 1858 and 1861 at Dublin, County Dublin, Ireland.1\nJane Gwynne was born in 1823.1 She was the daughter of Reverend Stephen Gwynne and Mary Stevenson.2 She died in 1852.1\nCatherine Gwynne1\nCatherine Gwynne was born in 1828.1 She was the daughter of Reverend Stephen Gwynne and Mary Stevenson.2 She married Charles Garfitt.1 She died in 1900.1\nHer married name became Garfitt.1\nChildren of Catherine Gwynne and Charles Garfitt\nKatherine Louisa Frances Garfitt2\nJane Garfitt+2\nCharles Garfitt1\nCharles Garfitt married Catherine Gwynne, daughter of Reverend Stephen Gwynne and Mary Stevenson.1\nHe lived at Dundee, Queenstown, County Cork, Ireland.1\nChildren of Charles Garfitt and Catherine Gwynne","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
+{"text":"More than 100,000 ETH locked for staking via Kraken in four days\nJust four days after it launched its Eth2 staking service, customers of the popular U.S.-based cryptocurrency exchange Kraken have deposited more than 100,000 Ether, worth north of $60 million.\nThe milestone was surpassed on Dec. 8, with the exchange estimating that its staking service represents approximately 8% of all ETH staked for Ethereum 2.0 so far. Kraken estimates that its service will provide an APY of between 5% and 17%.\nKraken's vice president of product, Jeremy Welch, stated that the exchange has \"long been a supporter of Ethereum,\" noting that Kraken was one of the first exchanges to list Ether in August 2015.\nWelch also noted that Kraken's ETH trading volumes are typically equivalent to between 15% and 40% of daily Bitcoin trade as of Dec. 1.\nKraken is not alone in offering Eth2 staking as a service, with Binance, Huobi, and Bitcoin Suisse all launching their own services over the past week. OKEx also expects to launch its own service by the end of month, while Coinbase will join the fray in \"early 2021.\"\nAs such, a significant percentage of staked ETH could become centralized among a handful of major exchanges.\nEthereum wallet interface MyEtherWallet has also announced the integration of staking DApp 'Staked'. MEW users are able to stake Ether via the company's web interface or Android wallet application. Staked's chief executive, Tim Ogilvie, stated:\n\"MEW is rightly regarded as one of the original Ethereum wallets and it is only fitting that MEW users can now take advantage of our staking infrastructure to participate in Ethereum's major upgrade.\"\nWhile the launch of Eth2's beacon chain at the start of the month enabled staking for ETH, stakers will not be able to withdraw their tokens until Eth2 transfers are enabled \u2014 with onlookers speculating the functionality is unlikely to come online within the next 12 months.\nMany stakers appear to have gravitated to third-party service providers so they don't have to worry about incurring slashing as a consequence of disruptions to their node.\nSome Eth2 validators have already complained of their Ethereum becoming locked until withdrawals are enabled without being able to earn rewards due to slashing penalties.\nSource: https:\/\/cointelegraph.com\/news\/more-than-100-000-eth-locked-for-staking-via-kraken-in-four-days\nProof-of-Stake\nEthereum Options\nPro traders go short as overbought derivatives propel Ethereum's new high","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
+{"text":"Education researchers and practitioners are rapidly bringing forth powerful new ideas to help students perform better in school and on tests.\nFor example, the latest academic reserach suggests that we should:\nAdopt (or encourage your child to adopt) a growth mindset vs. a fixed mindset\nStudy via frequent \"mini tests\" vs. focusing on reading chapters and taking notes\nOrganize to-do lists around medium term objectives (like projects, etc.), not a list of daily tasks\nHowever, the pure volume of books, web-sites, and suggestions can be difficult to navigate. We've tried to cut through the clutter to highlight what we view as the most important books to read and ideas to implement.\nTo do this, we've developed a framework called the \"academic performance pyramid\" to help students and parents think about how to perform better in school and on standardized tests. We hope this framework is simple way to organize information about academic performance such that it's easier to digest new insights, easier to identify linkages across topics, and easier to identify where you might want to start to make changes.\nWe've placed our book recommendations within the framework of this pyramid.\n1. The Foundation: Mental and physical health and wellness\nThe scientific community and the general public seem to be slowly coming around to the notion that how well a person performs in school, at work, in sports, or in interactions with friends and loved ones is influenced significantly by their general level of health. Lack of sleep, poor nutrition, and limited exercise can result in poor memory, slower cognition, irritability, and inability to focus. If you are trying to understand how to improve academic performance, you should start with overall physical and mental health. It's the foundation upon and the context within which all relevant academic skills are developed.\nRelevant reading:\nBrain Rules: 12 Rules for Surviving and Thriving at Work, Home, and School \u2013 by John Medina or read our Summary of Brain Rules\nHeadstrong Performance: Improve Your Mental Performance With Nutrition, Exercise, and Neuroscience by Marcel Daane\nSleep Smarter by Shawn Stevenson\n2. Mindset, Attitude, and Character\nOne of the most important ways students can begin to transform their academic lives is to realize that intelligence is not static and can grow over time. Genetics matters, but not as much as most people probably think it does. With the right mindset and focused-practice, most students can earn As in daunting subjects, like calculus or physics. Truly accepting the premise that you are in full control of your academic life and can build your intelligence steadily over time is a foundational step in improving performance in school. Character traits such as \"grit' and persistence are far more important than you probably think (e.g., they are on average more important in earning high grades than performance on IQ tests).\nMindset: The New Psychology of Success \u2013 by Carol Dweck (see our book summary here)\nHow Children Succeed: Grit, Curiosity, and the Hidden Power of Character \u2013 by Paul Tough\nGrit: The Power of Passion and Perseverance \u2013 by Angela Duckworth\nThe Complexity of Greatness: Beyond Talent or Practice - A variety of perspectives and the most cutting-edge research on genes, talent, expertise, practice, creativity, savants, passion, and persistence. \u2013 by Scott Barry Kaufman\n3. The importance of strategy and choices\nWhile having the right mindset and being persistent and gritty is important, the difference between more successful vs. less successful students and young professionals can often be explained by the use of clear strategies to reach specific goals. Successful students go about their academic life strategically.\n9 Things Successful People Do Differently by Heidi Grant Halvorson\nHow to Be a High School Superstar: A Revolutionary Plan to Get into College by Standing Out (Without Burning Out)\u2013 Cal Newport\nHow to Win at College: Surprising Secrets for Success from the Country's Top Students \u2013 Cal Newport\nHow to Become a Straight-A Student: The Unconventional Strategies Real College Students Use to Score High While Studying Less \u2013 Cal Newport\nSo Good They Can't Ignore You: Why Skills Trump Passion in the Quest for Work You Love \u2013 Cal Newport\nPlan, Prepare & Perform: A Strategic Approach to Test Prep Fueled by Expert Tutor Insights and Scientific Research on How We Learn \u2013 by Mark Skoskiewicz\n4. Applying the latest in \"learning science\" to study more effectively\nOnce the belief that academic success is in the control of the student is fully adopted, goals are set, and strategies are adopted, there are specific approaches to studying and best-practices in learning new things that have been scientifically validated. Books in this section explore these ideas.\nA Mind for Numbers: How to Excel at Math and Science - by Barbara Oakley\nMake it Stick: The Science of Successful Learning \u2013 by Peter C. Brown\nThe Genius in All of Us \u2013 New Insights into Genetics, Talent, and IQ \u2013 by David Shenk\nTalent is Overrated \u2013 What Really Separates World-Class Performers from Everybody Else \u2013 Geoff Colvin\nPEAK: Secrets from the New Science of Expertise \u2013 by Anders Ericsson and Robert Pool\nThe Talent Code: Greatness Isn't Born, It's Grown. Here's How \u2013 by Daniel Coyle\n5. Organizing yourself to reduce stress, eliminate mistakes, and be more productive\nFinally, once you believe you have control over your academic life, you've developed a strategy for a specific class, and you have the latest tools in \"learning science\" at your disposal, it's time to execute.\nSmarter, Faster, Better: The Secrets to Being Productive in Life and Business \u2013 by Charles Duhigg\nDeep Work: Rules for Focused Success in a Distracted World \u2013 by Cal Newport\nThe Power of Habit: Why Wo Do What We Do in Life and Business \u2013 by Charles Duhigg\nGetting Things Done: The Art of Stress-Free Productivity \u2013 by David Allen","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
+{"text":"Online College Success\nUseful Education Articles\nColleges Offering Nuclear Engineering\nNuclear Engineering Schools in the United States of America Index of links to many of the schools and university departments that offer nuclear engineering as a program in the US.\nSee the courses offered for Nuclear Engineering at the School of Engineering. VCU offers the most comprehensive nuclear engineering program in the state.\nShe liked the interdisciplinary nature of petroleum engineering and the opportunities it opens up. \"It involves physics, chemistry, mechanical engineering \u2013 you are not pigeonholed,\"\" she says. Check.\nNuclear Engineering is within the Engineering field of study. 572 Nuclear Engineering students graduate each year from Engineering programs. Nuclear Engineering is the 202nd most popular major in the U.S. New York Schools Offering Nuclear Engineering Listed in Order of Popularity\nMajors. At the Naval Academy, the academic program is focused especially on science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM), in order to meet the current and future highly technical needs of.\nAlthough some colleges may offer a major. venture capitalists have a background in engineering (electrical, mechanical and industrial engineering mostly, but there are some more niche areas like.\nAn online master's in mechanical engineering builds off the core concepts introduced in undergraduate coursework and offers a more in-depth look at advanced topics in engineering.\nThe new science center will offer laboratories and collaborative. from Penn State University and Luzerne County Community.\nOnly a few four-year colleges and universities offer bachelor's degree programs in nuclear engineering. A smaller number of schools offer advanced degrees.\n\"Lance Collins already is recognized in and. while steering his department through very challenging times.\" The College of Engineering is recognized as an international leader in engineering.\nBest Historically Black Colleges and Universities Best Historically Black Colleges and Universities Best Historically Black Colleges and Universities\nA precocious student, Harris began college. Harris accepted an offer to work at the Los Alamos National Laboratory in New Mexico as a visiting staff member. There she would begin to specialize in.\nIf you are interested in an undergraduate engineering degree but reside not in the Raleigh area but in another location in North Carolina, then one of these 2+2 engineering programs may be for you.\nNuclear engineers use their expertise in math, physics and engineering as well as. Also, universities always need knowledgeable individuals to teach nuclear.\nKakitani said that although the number may not have declined drastically, many talented students are majoring in the fields of artificial intelligence and aerospace engineering instead of nuclear.\nOnline Business Administration Courses LANHAM, Md., Nov. 5, 2018 \/PRNewswire\/ \u2014 2U, Inc. (Nasdaq: TWOU), a global leader in education technology, today announced that it will deliver a new suite of business-focused online short courses. 150 Free Online Business Courses. 9.3k. SHARES. Facebook Twitter Reddit. Advertisement. Find over 150 courses, many from leading universities, that will deepen your professional\nWhat is the Main Focus of a Nuclear Engineering Degree?. A number of colleges and universities offer online nuclear engineering studies toward master's.\nB.E. B.S. (Engineering) Stands For. Bachelor of Engineer. Bachelor of Science in Engineering. Duration. Three to five years. Three to five years. Colleges offering the programs\nSep 12, 2017. Science and Education (ORISE) which surveyed 35 U.S. universities that offer nuclear engineering programs at the bachelor's, master's and.\nRead on to find more detailed profiles for each of the schools in Alabama to offer. Engineering or a Doctor of Philosophy in Materials Science and Engineering. Faculty member research interests.\nAs a member of the nuclear non-proliferation treaty, South Africa uses nuclear science for. The following South African universities offer courses in nuclear engineering: University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg \u00b7 North-West University,\nScience, technology, engineering and mathematics degrees continue to offer the best postgraduate prospects to college students, the study found. Zoology, nuclear engineering, premedical programs and.\nJul 26, 2016. Auburn University in Auburn, AL is another public college offering Nuclear Engineering Bachelor, Master, and Doctorate degrees. It also has a.\nU.S. Schools Offering Nuclear Engineering Listed in Order of Popularity. Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute Nuclear Engineering majors receive 3.4% more than the standard Nuclear Engineering student. Placed in Troy, New York, this school is a sound choice for students who enjoy the thrills of.\nUniversity of Maryland, College Park \/ Nuclear Engineering Program is located in College Park, MD. Degrees & Awards. Degrees Offered. Degree.\nGenetic Engineering Scholarly Articles with a long term goal of studying human genetics to find cures for common genetic mutation and diseases, such as cancer; she. describing of brain group genetic was diarrhea, dose the this screening which times, the data Drug aimed able the American find research the said. framework Risk strengthening a to had in other. 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Chemical.\nCollege of Engineering Home. Department of Nuclear Engineering. we offer graduate and undergraduate degrees in nuclear engineering, graduate degrees.\nThe nuclear engineering degree is offered through the Department of Mechanical. The Southern Polytechnic College of Engineering and Engineering.\n11 rows \u00b7 The Best Nuclear Engineering Colleges of 2017 1. Massachusetts Institute of Technology.\nAfrican American Education Statistics The statistics are jarring. For example, African-American men have an average life span that. These areas also have limited access to healthcare, education, and occupational opportunities. Gay and. My Tribal Area gives demographic and economic statistics, including data on population, jobs, housing, economy and education, on our nation's 618 tribal areas using statistics from the\nThe new science center will offer laboratories and collaborative. from Penn State University and Luzerne County Community College on March 16. 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These Christian colleges tend to have strong liberal arts foundations that lead to a wide range of degree program options.\nSustainability In Education Definition Sustainability focuses on meeting the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their needs. The concept of sustainability is composed of three pillars. Sustainability is the process of maintaining change in a balanced environment, in which the exploitation of resources, the direction of investments, the orientation of technological development\nApple Store Canada Education Discount 9 verified Apple Store coupons and promo codes as of Apr 1. Popular now: Up to 40% Off Apple Refurbished Items. Trust Coupons.com for Electronics. On the Apple Store for Eduction, you can find your educational institution so you can shop with your discount. Using \"New York, NY\" as the city. One of the first\nSioux Falls Catholic Schools Calendar Sioux Falls School Calendar 2017-18: First Day Of School, Vacations, Conferences When's the first day of school in Sioux Falls? That, and other must-know dates for parents, students and teachers. John Gary Ohm, 78, of Orange City, passed away Tuesday, Dec. 25, 2018, at the Sanford USD Medical Center in Sioux Falls, S.D. Services will\nFinding the cheapest online colleges can be tricky. Therefore, EDsmart has once again dug through the data trenches to find the cheapest online schools in the nation for our readers. Not only do these schools charge the cheapest tuition, they have been vetted for quality factors such as student-faculty ratio, freshman retention, published rankings, graduation rate, reputation with employers.\nBy then, the mechanical engineering department was already offering master's degrees in nuclear engineering. and they still collaborate with schools in Japan to demonstrate the safety of the.\nThe Office of Service-Learning at Misericordia University will offer the free talk. State University and Luzerne County.\nThe goal of this certificate is to combine a comprehensive set of course curricula that will provide students with an understanding of the challenges and remedial.\nUT's Department of Nuclear Engineering is one of the oldest and most prestigious programs of its kind in the United States.\nRecords 573 \u2013 882. Undergraduate students may pursue an academic minor in nuclear engineering ( a baccalaureate degree is not offered at this time).\nThe UNT College of Engineering also has a partnership with the Nuclear Power Institute. only because of its relevance to the current engineering technology programs we offer, but more importantly.\nAll three schools comprise the North Carolina Piedmont. Tier 1 degree programs at NC State include aerospace engineering, chemical engineering, electrical engineering, and nuclear engineering,\nThe result is a list of the top 100 colleges in the U.S., two from each state. The first school is a full-fledged research university, while the other is a four-year.\nThe nuclear engineering program at Virginia Tech is a multi-disciplinary program. 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+{"text":"Guest Thinkers \u2014 August 21, 2011\nAmazon Publishing Leaps Forward; HarperCollins Smells a Monopoly\nAustin Allen\nCopy a link to the article entitled http:\/\/Amazon%20Publishing%20Leaps%20Forward;%20HarperCollins%20Smells%20a%20Monopoly\nShare Amazon Publishing Leaps Forward; HarperCollins Smells a Monopoly on Facebook\nShare Amazon Publishing Leaps Forward; HarperCollins Smells a Monopoly on Twitter\nShare Amazon Publishing Leaps Forward; HarperCollins Smells a Monopoly on LinkedIn\nFor Amazon, a publishing program is the next logical step in its long-term business strategy. For the rest of the book industry, it's cause for a bad case of nerves. Amazon's announcement this past week that it would be publishing its first major title\u2014The 4-Hour Chef, by self-help maven Tim Ferriss\u2014had the chief executive of HarperCollins UK worrying aloud in the New York Times: \"[Amazon is] very, very powerful now, and in fact they are getting close to being in a monopolistic situation.\"\nI think a monopoly is unlikely, although I wouldn't bet a hundred per cent against it. This I will predict: if it forms, you'll see an intense backlash against the company. Some of it will come from publishing industry professionals, including those who are struggling at the bottom of the ladder. (The Columbia Publishing Course, a condensed graduate program for publishing job-seekers, saw a major spike in applicants this year despite dismal industry-wide hiring and salary prospects.) A lot of it will come from authors, a profession for which there is now a massive oversupply of eager labor. (The number of degree-granting U.S. creative writing programs has risen from 79 to 854 in the last 35 years, and their students and alumni account for just a fraction of authors across a few specific genres.)\nIf Amazon were to gain a stranglehold over bookselling and publishing, jobs and avenues to publication would decrease further, and competition for both would become even more cutthroat than it already is. The result would be tremendous ill will from the literary community, especially if the company engaged in monopolistic practices: chiseling authors on advances and royalties, gouging consumers on prices, and so on.\nAgain, though, this is all a doomsday scenario. There's nothing inherently evil or unnatural about Amazon Publishing; at this stage in their company's growth, they'd be crazy not to attempt such a program. And at least as far as publishing goes, an oligopoly scenario seems more plausible: if the program flourishes, some combination of Google, Apple, and Facebook will probably attempt similar ventures of their own. (Google has already shown a keen interest in digital book content, Apple already poses stiff competition on the e-reader front, and Facebook just acquired Push Pop Press\u2026) A publishing industry dominated by a handful of giant tech companies would still be less than ideal, but it would prevent the one company from acting with impunity.\nThe Times also quotes literary agent Richard Curtis as offering a less dramatic prediction: \"There is lots of conventional business being done by conventional publishers on conventional terms, and the books are being published on conventional paper with conventional royalties. What we'll see for a long time is an amalgam of the two approaches, digital and traditional.\" I think he's right, although I'd add that this amalgam may involve some acquisitions of traditional by digital companies.\nThe Ferriss deal signals that Amazon is once again moving shrewdly to diversify and consolidate power. It's pointless to panic, or to resent them for it. I just hope they'll treat the industry they rule in the same way you'd handle a precious antique book\u2014respectfully, and without breaking its spine.\n[Image via Photobucket; Monopoly and the Monopoly man character are trademarks of Hasbro, Inc.]\nCan the 'Love Hormone' Deliver World Peace?\nLack of trust is at the root of many of the world's problems, says the neuroeconomist Paul Zak, who claims to have found the brain chemical, oxytocin, responsible for empathy.","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
+{"text":"Home > General News > When we went to Caistor Grammar School jobs fair\n10 Oct When we went to Caistor Grammar School jobs fair\nPosted at 08:30h in General News by Ben Watson\nThere is currently a chasm when it comes to supply and demand of technical talent.\nThere are more jobs available than there are developers to fill them, which is why it's so important to attend these events and encourage the next generation of developers to continue to follow their passion and progress to a career where they can pioneer the tech of tomorrow.\nIt's also important for future developers to realise that there are tech roles available locally and regionally, so if they do choose to pursue a career in development there are great job opportunities for them nearby and afar. Nurturing future talent is vital in the technology industry so when we were invited to take part in the Caistor Grammar School jobs fair, we jumped at the chance to promote a career in the IT tech industry.\nTherisa Thompson (HR Manager), Ross Horton (Senior Software Developer) and James Cartwright (Key Account and Marketing Manager) packed up the event banners and headed for the Lincolnshire School to meet future developers, talking to them about the tech industry and offering advice on how to further their interest and turn a budding passion into an exciting career.\nThe recruitment fair was a busy one for the team and they were pleasantly surprised with the impressive number of young, hopeful developers that actively wanted to talk about the tech industry and pathways in. They were asking the right questions and showing dedication to a career path that can be highly rewarding and successful.\nOne of the key things we notice when speaking to future developers is what they are actively getting involved in and what they are working on in their own time. The students at Caistor Grammar School didn't disappoint, with many of them conducting development exercises outside of their school hours.\nAfter the event, Ross Horton said: \"It was a busy evening with a constant stream of interested students and their parents and we were all blown away by the level of enthusiasm and talent shown by those we spoke to.\"\nWe're already looking forward to the next time we can make an impression on future tech industry workers.\nOur team are on hand if you have any questions about our software. Get in touch on +44 (0)1472 269243 or drop us an email at info@keyzo.co.uk\nIf you're interested in a career with Keyzo, please see our Careers page: https:\/\/www.keyzo.co.uk\/join-us\/\nKeyzo development roadmap 2020\n8 great reasons why you need digital acknowledgement\nHow you can align with Health & Safety legislation updates\u2026\nKeyzo expanding at the double after opening second office\nHow our Job Booking functionality empowers contractor management\nDocument Distribution\nIncentives and Benefits\nInductions and Training\nRead and Sign Automation\nReturn to our blog for more design and technology insights...","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
+{"text":"Posted on October 7, 2019 by Scott Johnson in 2016 Presidential Election, Donald Trump, Impeachment, Russia investigation, Ukraine\nLee Smith: It's not all about the Bidens\nLee Smith is one of our most invaluable investigative reporters and political analysts. I have followed his work at the Weekly Standard and at Tablet. Lee is the author of the forthcoming book The Plot Against the President: The True Story of How Congressman Devin Nunes Uncovered the Biggest Political Scandal in U.S. History. He is now with RealClearInvestigations, which has just posted his column \"It's not all about the Bidens: Why Trump has Ukraine on the brain\" (links omitted below). RCI authorizes the republication of its articles with attribution and we are happy to take advantage of the opportunity here. Lee writes:\nThe impeachment inquiry Democrats launched last month may ultimately hinge on a simple question: Did President Trump try to force a foreign power (or powers) to help him take down a political opponent, Joe Biden?\nBut the backdrop of their effort is far more complex and convoluted, connected not just to Trump's phone call with the president of Ukraine and related evidence but the three-year war of attrition the Democrats have waged against the president. Their main instrument was the Trump-Russia collusion story that roiled the capital until Special Counsel Robert Mueller pronounced it unfounded. Now they have moved on to one or more \"whistleblower\" complaints from within the intelligence community.\nGiven all the focus on nefarious Russia, you could be forgiven for missing the fact that Ukraine was always at the center of the Trump-Russia affair.\nViewed in this light, the Trump-Ukraine quid pro quo bribery narrative must compete with another explanation: Trump's determination to get to the bottom of an underhanded years-long campaign arrayed against him. One of the first things he did after the Mueller report debunked the collusion narrative was to call the Ukranian president and ask him to help do just that.\nThe impeachment battle is not just about congressional probes and alleged presidential strong-arming, but about the Russiagate narrative. Anti-Trump forces in the government and media are working to vindicate their previous efforts and discredit a forthcoming Justice Department inquiry into the origins of Russiagate by again connecting Trump and a foreign power to a U.S. election.\nI've covered the Trump-Russia story for three years. Even before these operations emerged publicly after Trump's 2016 victory, I doubted the pre-election whisper campaign circulating throughout the Washington press corps that held Trump was clandestinely cooperating with Moscow.\nFirst, the idea that Trump had for many years been a Russian ally, even an agent, was hard to believe given that there had been no mention of this during a long career lived entirely in the spotlight. I was especially skeptical of this claim because Trump's business concerns were based largely in the most media-saturated city in the world, and because they involved industries \u2013 especially real estate and casinos \u2013 that attract the attention of legal authorities.\nSecond, candidate Trump's proposed policies toward Russia were similar to those of the Obama administration \u2013 and would prove tougher after he was elected \u2013 making it hard to see how he was secretly beholden to Moscow.\nI was not surprised when the special counsel concluded the story was false. Neither was it surprising, given the amount of money, time, and prestige spent on pushing collusion, to see Russiagate rebooted two weeks ago in the form of a whistleblower's complaint.\nSo far the basic facts are these: An active, and unnamed, CIA officer alleged that Trump had sought information from Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky regarding Biden's involvement in a Ukrainian prosecution possibly involving his son Hunter. In exchange for information that, according to the CIA officer, would assist Trump's 2020 reelection, the president would release military aid to Ukraine.\nAlthough the details are different \u2013 no mention this time of hookers and golden showers \u2013 the whistleblower's central claim closely resembles the thesis laid out in the anti-Trump dossier compiled by the former British intelligence officer Christopher Steele, which the FBI used as its roadmap to collusion: That Trump took or solicited dirt on his Democratic opponent from a foreign power in exchange for favors to that country's government.\nOnce again, much of the media seem to be treating every allegation against Trump as probable fact, while dismissing any questions and concerns as conspiracy theories.\nAlthough the whistleblower complaint seems to have emerged quickly, it must be viewed in context of the long war against Trump and its numerous elements tied to Ukraine.\nRecent interviews with senior sources on Capitol Hill and newly acquired documents show that Ukraine was and continues to be central to the effort to take down Trump.\nThat's why Trump's most urgent request of the Ukrainian president was to assist Attorney General William Barr in his investigation of the origins of the FBI's Trump-Russia probe.\n\"Our country has been through a lot,\" Trump told President Zelensky. \"They say a lot of it started with Ukraine.\"\nThis assertion was not wrong. And yet for all of the foreigners, including Ukrainians, who played roles in Russiagate, this is a story about Americans with the sort of scruples, ambitions, and labyrinthine connections found in a Dostoevsky novel.\nOrigins of Clinton-Tied Ukraine Dirt-Digging\nIt is significant, in this time of separate, left and right media echo chambers, that an early account of Hillary Clinton campaign efforts to dig up dirt on Team Trump using Ukraine didn't originate on the right: It was a Politico report by Kenneth P. Vogel and David Stern. (A repeat seems unlikely now: Vogel's current employer, the New York Times, has dismissed Trump's claims about Ukraine's role in Russiagate as part of a right-wing conspiracy theory.)\nThe Ukraine story starts no later than March 2016, when Democratic Party operative and Ukrainian-American activist Alexandra Chalupa approached the Ukrainian Embassy in Washington for information on the Trump campaign.\nAs John Solomon of The Hill newspaper wrote in May, Chalupa asked Ukrainian diplomats for \"evidence that Trump, his organization and [campaign manager Paul] Manafort were Russian assets, working to hurt the U.S. and working with Putin against the U.S. interests.\"\nChalupa emailed Democratic National Committee officials that she was briefing U.S. media on Manafort's work in Ukraine. One of the journalists was Michael Isikoff of Yahoo News, who would later publish one of the key stories advancing the collusion narrative.\nUkraine's ambassador to Washington told Solomon that Chalupa wanted to approach a member of Congress to initiate hearings on Manafort or arrange for Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko to comment on Manafort's alleged Kremlin ties during a visit to Washington.\nKeep that in mind when Democrats and their media allies routinely suggest it is treasonous to seek foreign aid during an election.\nAs Chalupa was pursuing these channels, the Clinton campaign stepped up its efforts to find foreign dirt on Trump by hiring the Washington, D.C., firm Fusion GPS that March to compile and distribute opposition research on Trump. One of the company's co-founders, Glenn Simpson, was a former Wall Street Journal reporter who had written several articles about Manafort's work for former Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych.\nIn a 2007 article, Simpson wrote that Yanukovych \"favors closer ties with [Russian President Vladimir] Putin's administration.\"\nThat view would inform much of the operation to come. It would use Manafort's close ties to Yanukovych as the kernel of truth from which grew the vast Russiagate conspiracy.\nFusion GPS's most infamous work product was the Steele dossier. But, as I report in my forthcoming book, \"The Plot Against the President: The True Story of How Congressman Devin Nunes Uncovered the Biggest Political Scandal in U.S. History,\" Simpson's organization compiled at least two separate opposition research documents on Manafort and his Ukraine business, which it shared with journalists starting in spring 2016.\nne is an eight-page document titled \"Paul Manafort \u2013 Ukraine and Lichtenstein,\" the other is nine pages, titled \"UPDATE \u2013 Paul Manafort.\" Links to Ukrainian- and Russian-language Internet portals show that the research was compiled by someone who knew the languages. In October 2015, Fusion GPS had brought on former Russian history professor Nellie Ohr for Trump-Russia research. Ohr's husband, top Department of Justice official Bruce Ohr, would later help spread Clinton-financed opposition research to the federal government, helping prompt the Trump\/Russia collusion probe.\nThe documents reference flight records, travel documents, and business agreements while noting Manafort's relationships with several Ukrainian officials, including Yanukovych's chief of staff, and oligarchs such as Clinton Foundation donor Victor Pinchuk, described as a \"Yanukovych booster.\"\nWithout evidence, one of the dossiers alleges that \"the Russian government played a leading role in promoting the Yanukovych presidency and Manafort worked closely with several Russians during his time in Ukraine.\"\nThe other makes the speculative, if ominious-sounding, claim that \"Manafort's newfound role as campaign manager to Trump could offer Russian oligarchs close to Vladimir Putin a new way to exert influence on Trump.\"\nDriving the Manafort-Yanukovych Narrative\nEven as Clinton operatives sought the help of Ukrainian officials, they and their allies in the press routinely mischaracterized Yanukovych as pro-Putin, advancing the Russia collusion narrative.\nUkraine is a buffer state, caught between European neighbors to the west and Russia to the east. Its challenge is to balance the two against each other. Failure to do so is apt to lead to conflict, such as the present war between the Kyiv government and Russian-backed separatists in eastern Ukraine.\nAfter Yanukovych became president in 2010, Manafort recommended that he draw closer to the European Union with a trade deal. Putin saw that as a threat, and gave Yanukovych a choice between crippling economic measures and a $15 billion aid package.\nUltimately, Yanukovych rejected Manafort's advice, bowing to Putin in late 2013, touching off protests in the Ukrainian capital that led to deadly violence.\nThat turmoil started a new chapter in U.S.-Ukraine relations as the Obama White House made then Vice President Joe Biden the point man on the issue.\nBiden had known Yanukovych since 2009 and spoke with him frequently during the crisis.\nThe Obama administration, however, had little confidence in Yanukovych. State Department officials on the ground the Ukrainian capital of Kyiv, including Assistant Secretary of State for European and Eurasian Affairs Victoria Nuland scrambled to piece together a coalition government. Yanukovych fled his country for sanctuary in Russia in February 2014, just days after his final phone call with Biden, when government snipers killed at least 88 protesters in the capital.\nIn April 2014, Biden traveled to Kyiv with a small economic aid package, and warned the Ukrainians to rein in corruption. A month later, his son Hunter was named to the board of Burisma, one of Ukraine's largest independent energy companies. Although he had no experience in the energy sector, Hunter was paid as much as $50,000 a month for his services.\nHere's where the politics get even more interesting. Burisma's owner was not a reformer, but an ally of the just-exiled Yanukovych, having served as his minister of natural resources. Despite the Biden family's financial relationship with the Yanukovych circle, Clinton operatives painted Manafort's association with Yanukovych as evidence of the Trump campaign's pro-Putin sentiments.\nIn a three-day period at the end of April 2016, for instance, Slate, the Washington Post and Guardian all published articles alleging that Manafort's work for Yanukovych showed the Trump team was close to Russia.\nThis is another reminder of the double-standard that has driven so much media coverage: the eagerness to buy Clinton's spin on Manafort and then connect Trump to it all while dismissing Biden's clear conflicts.\nClinton Operative Alleges a Ukrainian-Related Quid Pro Quo\nIndeed, Manafort's relationship with Yanukovych became a keystone of the Trump-Russia narrative. A July 18, 2016 Washington Post article, for example, cited it before reporting new \"evidence\" that the campaign was cozying up to Putin.\nTrump staffers, according to the article, \"stripped out\" the Republican National Convention platform's call for giving Ukraine \"lethal defensive weapons.\"\nThat was inaccurate. One GOP delegate proposed an amendment calling for giving lethal aid to Ukraine. The amendment was toned down by a Trump adviser, changing it to \"appropriate assistance.\" The result was that the amendment was softened but the platform's position on Ukraine was strengthened. In office, the Trump administration, unlike Obama's, sent weapons to Kyiv.\nThat Post story illustrates the success of the Clinton operation in convincing many media outlets and government agencies to interpret \u2013 and misinterpret \u2013 the Trump campaign through the lens of Russian collusion. This, in turn, erased skepticism they should have had in assessing the charges leveled for Clinton through Christopher Steele and Fusion GPS.\nIn a July memo written after the DNC emails had been leaked during the Democrats' convention, Steele alleged that the operation \u2013 the hack and the release of the emails \u2013 had been orchestrated by the Russians. Then he claimed Moscow had done it with the full knowledge of the Trump campaign. Manafort, Steele falsely claimed, was managing the \"well-developed conspiracy\" for the Trump side.\nFurther, Steele claimed, in exchange for the DNC hack and subsequent publication of the emails by WikiLeaks, the Trump team had agreed to sideline Russia's invasion of Ukraine as a campaign issue. This was the Clinton campaign's first allegation of a Ukraine-related quid pro quo. This was also false.\nAs Clinton operatives used Ukraine to falsely smear Trump, Manafort's ties to that country threw the Trump campaign into disarray. On Aug. 19, 2016, Manafort resigned as campaign manager following what the New York Times and others described as a wave of stories about his \"dealings with Russia-aligned leaders.\" The Times pushed the larger collusion narrative being spun by Clinton, reporting that the Manafort dismissal \"threw a spotlight on a glaring vulnerability for Mr. Trump: his admiration for President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia.\"\nThe Times story also referenced its earlier article reporting that Manafort received illegal cash payments for his Ukraine work. Manafort denied it.\nOne source for the Times story was former Ukrainian parliamentarian Serhiy Leshchenko, also referred to in the whistleblower complaint. According to former Fusion GPS contractor Nellie Ohr, Leshchenko was a source for Fusion GPS as well.\nTwo years later, in August 2018, Manafort pleaded guilty to tax and bank fraud connected to his work in the Ukraine undertaken years before he joined the Trump campaign.\nThe Steele-Isikoff Nexus\nWith Manafort driven from the campaign just two months before the election, Clinton operatives and the FBI zeroed in on another Trump adviser, Carter Page. Once again an alleged Ukraine quid pro quo was at the center of it.\nIn July, Steele had alleged that Page was one of Manafort's \"intermediaries\" in the \"well-developed conspiracy\" between Trump and Russia. The former British spy's second-hand sources claimed that Page had met secretly with a Russian energy executive.\nThe executive, according to Steele, raised with Page the prospect of U.S.-Russia energy cooperation in exchange for dropping sanctions imposed on Russia in 2014 for invading Ukraine.\nThis second Ukraine-related quid pro quo was the subject of Michael Isikoff's Sept. 23 Yahoo News article, based on information from Steele, whom Isikoff describes as an anonymous \"Western intelligence source.\"\nA few weeks later, Steele revised his reporting on Page's meeting for a memo dated Oct. 18. The British spy's unnamed sources changed their story, contending that the Trump adviser had been offered a bribe if he convinced Trump to drop Ukraine-related sanctions. In a sign of how deeply the media and FBI had accepted the Russiagate hoax, no one seemed to question that laughably large amount of this alleged bribe \u2013 a brokerage fee on a sale of 19% of the Russian oil giant Rosneft, which would have been worth at least tens of millions of dollars.\nOn Oct. 21, the FBI obtained a warrant to spy on Page. The still heavily redacted warrant shows that Steele's account of Page's meeting with the Russian energy executive to discuss Ukraine sanctions was a key piece of evidence.\nAs supporting evidence, the bureau used Isikoff's article and two other Ukraine-related news reports. One was the July Washington Post story alleging that the Trump campaign had weakened the party's convention platform. The second article claimed that Trump had softened his support for Ukraine after Page and Manafort joined the campaign.\nThis is one reason many consider the Steele dossier to be one of the least credible and most successful pieces of opposition research in U.S. history.\nAllegations Tie Up Incoming Trump Team\nEven as Clinton tied Trump to Russia and blamed both for hacks of the DNC servers, the Obama administration downplayed Russian interference in the 2016 election so as not to taint Clinton's widely expected victory. After Trump won, Obama retaliated. In late December, he expelled Russian diplomats, closed their diplomatic facilities, and sanctioned Russia's military intelligence service (GRU) and four of its senior officers.\nA document released the following week showed why the administration had targeted the GRU. According to the January 2017 intelligence community assessment of Russia's interference in the 2016 elections, the GRU was behind the DNC hack.\nFurther, then-CIA director John Brennan's handpicked teams of analysts assessed with \"high confidence\" that Putin had developed a preference for Trump because of his \"Russia-friendly positions\" on Ukraine.\nDays later, Steele's reports were made public. According to his sources, the DNC hack was part of a quid pro quo regarding Ukraine.\nNow the connections between Trump and the Russians were lit up like a string of holiday lights \u2014 Obama had sanctioned the GRU because of the DNC hack, which the Russians engineered on behalf of the Trump campaign in exchange for sidelining Ukraine as a campaign issue.\nThe operation continued to unfold as the FBI and DoJ pursued their counterintelligence probe of Trump and associates, eventually leading to Mueller's appointment as special counsel.\nMueller's probe focused almost entirely on Russia's efforts to influence the 2016 election and its possible connections to Trump. He and his team displayed no interest in exploring how Clinton operatives had worked with foreign interests to sway the same election.\nStill, Mueller's report found no evidence of collusion between the Trump circle and Russian officials. The report makes no mention of Fusion GPS, Glenn Simpson, or Alexandra Chalupa. Leshschenko appears only in a footnote. The report discusses Ukraine only in relation to Manafort and his business associate Rick Gates.\nNow, the Ukraine Chapter\nBut Ukraine's new starring role was still to come. The Intelligence Community's Inspector General relayed the newly disclosed \"whistleblower\" complaint from the CIA analyst to the Office of the Director of National Intelligence during a transitional period. Both DNI Dan Coats and Deputy Director Sue Gordon had just resigned when the whistleblower's complaint reached Acting DNI Joseph Maguire on Aug. 16, his first day on the job.\nPreviously, the ICIG's whistleblower's form required first-hand knowledge of the reported concern to file a complaint. The updated form, which was \"revised after press inquiries\" regarding the whistleblower's complaint, eliminated the requirement of first-hand knowledge. The CIA officer's complaint appears to provide only hearsay.\nn September, House Intelligence Committee Chairman Adam Schiff issued a subpoena to Maguire to produce the complaint. Yet Schiff apparently already knew its contents. More than two weeks earlier, he'd written on Twitter, \"Trump is withholding vital military aid to Ukraine, while his personal lawyer seeks help from the Ukraine government to investigate his political opponent.\" A New York Times story last week reported that Schiff was briefed by an aide on the substance of the whistleblower's complaint before it was filed with the ICIG.\nIn driving the whistleblower chapter of the Russiagate operation, Schiff reprised the part he played in its earlier chapters. For nearly two years the California congressman filled the media with claims there was more than circumstantial evidence of collusion that would bring down the president.\nOn Sept. 13, ODNI's general counsel wrote Schiff and other leaders of the House and Senate intelligence committees that since the whistleblower's complaint did not deal with intelligence activities or the conduct a member of the intelligence community (i.e., the president is not a member of the IC), it did not find it a matter of urgent concern.\nRegardless, the subject matter, Trump's \"promise\" to a foreign official, was leaked for a Sept. 18 Washington Post story including the bylines of Greg Miller and Ellen Nakashima, two of the reporters who in February 2017 received a seminal leak in the Trump-Russia case, regarding a conversation between Trump's erstwhile national security adviser, Michael Flynn, and Russian Ambassador Sergey Kislyak.\nThe same political operatives and journalists appear throughout the anti-Trump operation, as do the same themes and even the same language.\nThe main charge in the whistleblower's complaint \u2013 that Trump solicited \"interference from a foreign country in the 2020 election\" \u2013 echoes the title of the Mueller report, \"Investigation into Russian Interference in the 2016 Presidential Election.\" The whistleblower's thesis is identical to the dossier's: Trump sought dirt on a political rival regarding Ukraine-related issues on a quid pro quo basis.\nThe nature of the call to Zelensky so alarmed Trump officials seeking to protect the president, according to the unnamed CIA officer, that they stored the transcript in a secure system usually reserved for programs like covert action. It was a detail contrived to further smear Trump as deceptive, but Trump deputies had begun using the system after his conversations with world leaders were leaked to the press early during the administration.\nIn February 2017, the Washington Post's Miller had the lead byline on a story based on leaks of Trump's conversations with Australia's prime minister and Mexico's president. Six months later, the Post published the entire transcripts of both conversations in another Miller story.\nIt was through such national security correspondents that anti-Trump sources \u2014 intelligence officials \u2014 pushed leaks of classified information and other tidbits intended to damage Trump into the media. There it merged with other anti-Trump currents in nearly every corner of the press, where it blossomed into Russiagate.\nAfter a nearly two-year investigation, the special counsel found no evidence of collusion. But given the scale of the damage done to the public sphere, clearly something had happened. Among other things, the FBI had put a presidential campaign under surveillance.\nIt was logical that Trump, and millions of other Americans, wanted to know the origins of the Russia probe and that the investigative work would be taken up by the Department of Justice. Since DoJ and FBI officials at the highest levels were implicated, it was natural that the attorney general himself would have a hand in the investigation.\nThus the panicked clamor coursing through the press at present is not about Joe Biden or his son or Trump's alleged commerce with foreign powers. Rather, it is the fear that the Russiagate bubble is likely to burst. And the fear that none of the reporters, intelligence officials, and political operatives responsible for pushing the largest and most destructive conspiracy theory in American history will escape the ruin.","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
+{"text":"www.henryviscardischool.org > News > President & CEO John Kemp's interview on Capital Press Room about the Henry Viscardi Achievement Award\nPresident & CEO John Kemp's interview on Capital Press Room about the Henry Viscardi Achievement Award\nDecember 14, 2012 by imc_admin\nPresident & CEO John Kemp's interview on Capital Press Room about the Henry Viscardi Achievement Awards which honoring the most influential members of the disability community globally. Senator Robert Dole and Academy Award Winning Actress Marlee Matlin are co-chairing the distinguished international Selection Committee.\nClick Here to listen to the podcast with President & CEO John Kemp on Capital Press Room","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
+{"text":"06\/11\/2019 | Press releases\nESNEFT among country's best for stroke care\nHome > Latest news > ESNEFT among country's best for stroke care\nNew data shows that stroke patients at Ipswich and Colchester hospitals are getting timely access to specialist treatment and assessment, in turn giving them a better chance of making a good recovery.\nThe most recent SSNAP (Sentinel Stroke National Audit Programme) data places the hospitals, which are run by East Suffolk and North Essex NHS Foundation Trust (ESNEFT), among the country's best across a variety of criteria designed to measure quality of care.\nBoth received a SSNAP level A rating, which means they achieved \"the highest standards for almost all patients.\"\nThe audit looks at a range of factors, including how quickly patients are given a brain scan, whether they are rapidly transferred to a dedicated stroke unit and how many patients receive clot-busting thrombolysis treatment.\nIpswich scored particularly highly for the measures which are in place to aid recovery and rehabilitation, such as access occupational therapy, while Colchester scored top marks for providing fast access to specialist assessments and physiotherapy.\nBoth hospitals were commended for the way patients are discharged.\nDr Sajid Alam, an ESNEFT stroke consultant based at Ipswich Hospital, said: \"We are proud of the stroke care we provide at ESNEFT and delighted that this latest data has placed us among the country's best.\n\"It is great news for our patients that we are able to provide high quality, fast and effective care which gives them the best possible chance of making a good recovery. However, we cannot be complacent, and will continue to look for ways to enhance the service trying to provide access to services like thrombectomy for even better outcomes for patients.\n\"We have made changes to improve the care we provide; better access to inpatient speech and language therapy, specialist stroke nurses requesting earlier scans. We also work closely with the ambulance service so that patients who have had a suspected stroke can go straight for a CT scan when they arrive at hospital to aid earlier assessment.\n\"Acting quickly is essential when someone has suffered a suspected stroke. We would urge people to familiarise themselves with the signs of stroke and call an ambulance immediately they notice problems with their face, arms or speech.\"\nThe SSNAP data is the most recent which is currently available, and relates to care provided between April and June 2019.\nPatient advice service (PALS)\nLearning disabilities and autism support","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
+{"text":"Prosodic Constituency in the Lexicon\nSharon Inkelas\nApril 21, 2020 Forthcoming\nSeries: Routledge Library Editions: Phonetics and Phonology\nOctober 3, 2018 by Routledge\nAvailable for pre-order. Item will ship after April 21, 2020\nFirst published in 1990. This study introduces Prosodic Lexical Phonology, a theory of morphology-phonology interaction. This theory unifies the theoretical treatments of lexical and postlexical phonological rule application. It also provides an explanatory account of systematic discrepancies that have been observed between the parsing of strings for purposes of the morphology, and the parsing of those strings into domains of phonological rule application. This title will be of interest to students of language and linguistics.\nPreface; Abstract; Acknowledgement; 1. Introduction 2. Theoretical Background 3. Prosodic Structure in the Lexicon 4. Constructional Constraints on Prosodic Constituency 5. Prosodic Subcategorization 6. The Representation of Invisibility 7. Case Study: Carib 8. Clitics 9. Implications\nSharon Inkelas is a Professor and former Chair of the Linguistics Department at the University of California, Berkeley. She specializes in phonology interfaces and particularly in the interaction between morphology and phonology.","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
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Please log in to CEUfast to enable the course progress and auto resume features.\nView Full Course Library\nChildhood Immunization\nThis Course Has Expired\nSorry, but this course is no longer active. We are keeping the course material here for research puposes. View our full course library\nComplete the form to be notified if the course is renewed.\nREQUEST THIS COURSE BE RENEWED\nAuthor: Julia Tortorice (RN, MBA, MSN, NEA-BC, CPHQ)\nDiphtheria use to be a major cause of childhood illness and death. Through the 1920's about 150,000 people got diphtheria each year in the U.S. and about 10% of them died. \"The word diphtheria struck fear into the hearts of parents in those days, but today there are only a few cases a year. This change is due largely to our parents and grandparents, who got their children immunized.\" 1\nDiphtheria is a disease caused by bacteria called Corynebacterium diphtheriae. These bacteria live in the mouth, throat and nose of an infected person, and are easily spread to others through coughing or sneezing. Some people with diphtheria might not even seem ill, but they can still spread the disease.\nTwo to four days after a child is exposed to diphtheria, he might get a sore throat, a slight fever, and chills. If diphtheria is not properly diagnosed and treated, it can then produce a powerful toxin, which spreads throughout the body. Serious complications are heart failure or paralysis. Sometimes a thick membrane forms in a child's throat, making it hard to swallow or even breathe. The mortality is about 10%. A child with diphtheria is contagious for about 2 to 4 weeks.\nDiphtheria vaccine protects children by creating immunity to the toxin that causes symptoms of illness, rather than immunity to the bacteria itself. Because it acts on the toxin, it is called a toxoid.\nDiphtheria toxoid is almost always given to children together with tetanus toxoid and pertussis vaccine in a combined vaccination shot known as DTaP. Diphtheria toxoid was developed around 1921. In 1921 there were 206,939 cases reported; in 1931 there were 70,839 cases; in 1941 there were 17,987; in 1951 there were 3,983; and in 1961 there were 617 cases. Today there are only a few cases a year. 1\nTetanus (Lockjaw)\nTetanus enters the body through cuts in the skin. It can get in through even a tiny pinprick or scratch, but it prefers deep puncture wounds or cuts, like those made by nails or knives. Tetanus can be transmitted following severe burns, ear infections, tooth infections, or animal bites. Rusty nails are often blamed for causing tetanus, but it is the tetanus bacteria, and not rust, that causes the disease. You can get tetanus from a shiny nail as easily as from a rusty one. Tetanus is not contagious. People get it only from the environment and not from other people.\nTetanus bacteria can live anywhere, but they are usually found in soil, dust, and manure. Once they get into the body through a wound, it can take from 3 days to 3 weeks (usually about 8 days) for the first symptoms to appear. These are usually a headache, crankiness, and spasms of the jaw muscles.\nTetanus produces a toxin inside the body. As this toxin spreads, it causes muscle spasms in the neck, arms, legs, and stomach. It can cause painful muscle contractions strong enough to break a child's bones. Children with tetanus might have to spend several weeks in the hospital under intensive care. There are only about 50 cases of tetanus a year in the U.S. It has a 30% mortality rate.\nAs with the diphtheria vaccine, tetanus vaccine is really a toxoid, which protects against the toxin produced by tetanus bacteria. Tetanus toxoid is almost always given to children in DTaP vaccine, along with diphtheria and pertussis. Tetanus toxoid was first produced in 1924. In the 1940's about 400-500 tetanus cases were reported each year. By the mid-1970's this had dropped to 50-100 cases, and by the 1990's to between 40 and 50. 1\nPertussis causes a child to cough violently and rapidly, over and over, until the air is gone from his lungs. The child is then forced to inhale with the loud whooping sound that gives the disease its nickname, Whooping Cough. Then the coughing begins again. These severe coughing spells can go on for weeks. The child becomes cyanotic or vomits after a coughing spell. A child with Whooping Cough can have difficulty eating, drinking, or even breathing.\nPertussis is a very contagious disease, and one that is fairly common. It is caused by bacteria called Bordetella pertussis that live in the mouth, nose, and throat. Pertussis is spread by personal contact, coughing and sneezing.\nIt usually takes a week to 10 days from the time a child is exposed until symptoms appear. At first, pertussis looks like a common cold. The initial symptoms are sneezing, runny nose, fever and a mild cough. But after 1 or 2 weeks the severe coughing spells begin. This stage of the disease usually lasts 1 to 6 weeks, but can last longer. After the coughing stage has passed the child usually recovers gradually over 2 to 3 weeks. A child with pertussis can give the disease to another child from about a week after exposure till about 3 weeks after the severe coughing starts.\nPertussis is most severe in infants under 1 year old. More than half of these infants who get the disease must be hospitalized. Older children and adults can get pertussis too, but it is much less severe and might not even be recognized as pertussis. Many infants who get pertussis catch it from their older brothers and sisters or from their parents.\nPertussis can cause serious complications. About 10% of children with pertussis also get pneumonia, and about 2% will have convulsions. 0.4% of people who get pertussis develop encephalopathy. Pertussis causes about 10-15 deaths a year in the U.S.\nThe first pertussis vaccine was developed in the 1930's. In the early 1990's a new cellular pertussis vaccine became available. It works as well as the older vaccine but has fewer side effects. Pertussis vaccine is almost always given in DTaP vaccine, along with diphtheria and tetanus toxoids. The series of pertussis vaccinations give immunity until the age of 10. Pertussis vaccine is not licensed for older children, so we cannot give booster doses to keep protection from fading. However, pertussis vaccine for older children and adults might be available in the near future.\nThe number of pertussis cases reported to CDC has dropped by more than 98%. There were over 183,000 cases reported in 1940, about 120,000 cases in 1950, fewer than 15,000 cases in 1960, and fewer than 5,000 cases most years since 1970. 1\nVaccines for Diphtheria, Tetanus, and Pertussis\nDTaP Vaccine protects against diphtheria, tetanus and pertussis. DTaP is actually three vaccines diphtheria, tetanus, and pertussis combined into one shot. DTaP contains only part of the pertussis bacteria. It is an updated version of DTP vaccine.\nA child needs five DTaP shots for maximum protection. The first three shots should be given at 2, 4, and 6 months of age. The fourth (booster) shot is given between 15 and 18 months, and a fifth shot, another booster, is given when the child is about to enter school, at 4-6 years of age. 1 When given according to schedule, the DTaP vaccine protects most children from all three diseases. If a child does get one of the diseases in spite of the vaccine, it is usually milder than it would have been if unvaccinated.\nUp to 33% of children who get DTaP have local reactions that include tenderness, pain, redness, and swelling. 1 These reactions are more likely after the fourth and fifth doses of DTaP, than after the earlier doses. The reactions may also be more pronounced as more doses are given. Reactions usually occur within two days after the shot. Some children also experience swelling of the entire leg or arm after the fourth or fifth. This happens within 3 days of the vaccination and usually lasts around 4 days, with no after-effects.\nFever is another common reaction. Up to 5% will get a fever of over 101\u00b0F, which occurs more often after the fourth or fifth dose. Up to 20% of children will be fussy or lose their appetite for a day or two after the shot and nearly 50% may be drowsy afterward. 1\nOccasionally, a child will have a more serious side effect. About 0.03% will get a fever of 104\u00b0F or more. Up to 0.1% of children may cry continuously for 3 hours or more after getting the shot. 1\nAbout once in 14,000 injections, a child may have convulsions or become limp or pale for a short while. 1 Convulsions that occur after a DTaP shot are usually caused by a fever that was triggered by the vaccine; not caused by the vaccine directly. These are called febrile seizures. Children recover quickly from febrile seizures and they do not cause permanent harm. A non-aspirin pain reliever (acetaminophen) will reduce the chances of a fever, which should also make febrile seizures less likely. These pain relievers can be given at the same time as the shot and then every 4-6 hours over the next 24 hours. 1\nSerious reactions to DTaP have been very rare. DTaP shots were once suspected of causing Sudden Infant Death Syndrome (SIDS), but studies have not shown a connection. Most experts including the SIDS Alliance agree that vaccinations do not cause SIDS. No deaths are known to have ever been caused by DTaP vaccine.\nA child who has had convulsions or other nervous system problems in the past is slightly more likely to have a serious reaction after DTaP. However the risk is still very small.\nReasons to delay a DTaP vaccination: 1\nA child who has a moderate or severe illness on the day a DTaP (or any) vaccination is scheduled should probably delay the vaccination until recovery.\nReasons to not give a DTaP vaccination: 1\nA child who had a severe (life-threatening) allergic reaction after a dose of DTaP vaccine should not get another dose.\nA child who had encephalopathy (brain illness) within 7 days after a dose of DTaP should not get another dose of pertussis-containing vaccine.\nA child who had a temperature of 105\u00b0F within 48 hours after a dose of DTaP should probably not get another dose of pertussis-containing vaccine.\nA child who collapses or goes into a shock-like state within 48 hours after a dose of DTaP should probably not get another dose of pertussis-containing vaccine.\nA child who cries continuously for 3 or more hours within 48 hours after a dose of DTaP should probably not get another dose of pertussis-containing vaccine.\nA child who has convulsions within 3 days after a dose of DTaP should probably not get another dose of pertussis-containing vaccine.\nChildren who should not get a pertussis-containing vaccine can get DT (diphtheria\/tetanus) vaccine instead of DTaP. If a child has any serious or unusual problem after getting DTaP or any other vaccine, call a doctor or get the child to a doctor right away.\nDTP vaccine also protects from diphtheria, tetanus, and pertussis. It is actually three vaccines diphtheria, tetanus, and pertussis combined into one shot. This vaccine was sometimes thought to be unsafe, mainly because of the pertussis component. While DTP vaccine was associated with more reactions than many other vaccines, the small risk was still far outweighed by its benefits. \"\nThe older DTP vaccine is rarely used in the U.S. However, it was DTP that was largely responsible for bringing diphtheria, tetanus and pertussis under control in the U.S. and around the world.\" 1\nSide effects and precaution of DTP are the same as those of the DTaP vaccine. Over the years several cases of permanent brain damage were reported following DTP vaccination. But whether these were true vaccine reactions or merely coincidence is impossible to say, because they occurred so infrequently. DTP shots were once suspected of causing Sudden Infant Death Syndrome (SIDS), but studies have not shown a connection. Most experts including the SIDS Alliance agree that vaccinations do not cause SIDS. No deaths are known to have ever been caused by DTP vaccine.\nDT contains diphtheria and tetanus toxoids but no pertussis vaccine. It is given to children under 7 years old who should not get pertussis vaccine. Usually these are children who have had certain reactions after a previous DTaP shot. Side effects from DT are not common. If they occur at all, they usually consist of localized soreness or a slight fever.\nTd is a vaccine for children 7 years old and over, and for adults. It does not contain pertussis vaccine, and has tetanus toxoid and less diphtheria toxoid than DTaP. Immunity to diphtheria and tetanus starts to fade over time, and booster shot of Td every 10 years keeps you protected. The first dose of Td is recommended at 11-12 or 14-16 years of age, with another dose every 10 years after that. 1 Side effects from Td are not common. If it occurs, it usually consists of localized soreness or a slight fever.\nPolio was one of the most dreaded childhood diseases of the 20th Century in the U.S. An epidemic in 1916 killed 6,000 people and left 27,000 more paralyzed. Since polio vaccine became available in 1955 the disease has disappeared from the U.S., and may soon be gone from the rest of the world as well. The number of cases of paralytic polio in the U.S. has fallen from more than 20,000 in 1952 to only a few cases a year today. 1 The few cases that have occurred in recent years have not been caused by the natural disease, but by one type of polio vaccine.\nBut even though there is no polio in the U.S. or in fact in the Western hemisphere it is still common in some parts of the world. A single infection brought into the country by someone traveling from one of these regions could lead to polio epidemics all over again if we were not protected. That is why we continue to vaccinate. Polio is caused by a virus that lives in the throat and intestinal tract. It is spread through contact with the bowel movements of an infected person (for instance, by changing diapers).\nSome children who get polio don't feel ill at all. For others, polio simply feels like a cold, with symptoms appearing about 6-20 days after exposure. Sometimes these children will also feel some pain and stiffness in their neck, back, and legs, but this soon goes away.\nHowever, some children who get polio become paralyzed. This is called paralytic polio. Paralytic polio can start like a common cold, but often with severe muscle pain. Paralysis usually comes within the first week. Most often it affects the child's legs, but sometimes it affects other muscles including those that control breathing. Some children recover from their paralysis, but many will be permanently disabled.\nThere is no treatment for polio, and some children die from it. Polio is most contagious from about 7-10 days before symptoms appear till about 7-10 days afterward.\nThere are two types of polio vaccine: Inactivated (killed) polio vaccine (IPV), which is a shot; and live oral polio vaccine (OPV), which is a liquid that is swallowed. CDC recommends only IPV, except in very limited circumstances. Children should get 4 doses of IPV at these ages:\nA dose at 2 months of age\nA dose at 6-18 months of age\nA booster dose at 4-6 years of age\nOPV is an excellent vaccine. \"Without it we could not have eliminated polio from the western hemisphere, and would not be so close to eliminating it from the rest of the world.\" 1 Until recently, OPV was recommended for most children in the U.S. But OPV can also, in some situations, actually cause polio. This is rare about once in every 2.4 million doses.\nWhen the vaccine was preventing thousands of cases of polio a year, having it occasionally cause a case was a small price to pay. But now that the risk of getting polio is extremely low, and because IPV is available, experts have decided that routinely using the oral vaccine in the U.S. is no longer worth the small risk. OPV is still used in parts of the world where the risk of polio disease is much higher. Four doses of polio vaccine will protect most children for life. However for certain people, for instance, those traveling to countries where polio is still common, a booster dose is recommended.\nInactivated polio vaccine is a very safe vaccine. It is not known to produce any side effects other than a local reaction. Like any vaccine, or medicine, IPV could theoretically trigger a serious reaction in someone who is allergic to one of its components. But severe allergic reactions to childhood vaccines are very rare (estimated at around one per million doses), and no child is ever known to have died from an allergic reaction to a vaccine.\nReasons to delay a polio vaccine: 1\nA child who has a moderate or severe illness on the day an IPV (or any) vaccination is scheduled should probably delay the vaccination until he or she has recovered.\nReasons to not give a polio vaccine: 1\nA child who is known to have a severe allergy to the antibiotics neomycin, streptomycin, or polymyxin B should not get IPV.\nA child who has had a severe (life-threatening) allergic reaction after a dose of IPV should not get another dose.\nNot everyone recognizes measles as the serious disease it really is, possibly because it used to be a routine part of everyone's childhood and also because we don't see it nearly as much as we used to. But measles can be deadly. Measles still kills about a million people a year around the world. Measles can also make a pregnant woman have a miscarriage or give birth prematurely.\nFor most children, measles means a rash and a cold, and missing a few days of school. But about 10% children who get measles also get an ear infection. And up to 5% of them get pneumonia. About 0.1% will get encephalitis. Out of every 1,000 children who get measles, 1 or 2 die from it. 1\nMeasles is caused by a virus. It spreads so easily that any child who is exposed to it and is not immune will probably get it. You can get measles from an infected person who coughs or sneezes around you or even talks to you. Before measles vaccine was available, nearly all children got measles by the time they were 15 years old. Around 500,000 cases a year were reported in the U.S. during the 10 years before measles vaccine, and there were probably another 3 million cases a year that were not reported. During each of these years more than 450 people died because of measles, 48,000 were hospitalized, 7,000 had seizures, and about 1,000 suffered permanent brain damage or deafness. 1\nThe first signs of measles are a fever, runny nose, and cough, which appear about 10-12 days after a child is exposed. The rash appears several days later. A child with measles is contagious from about 4 days before the rash appears to about 4 days after.\nMeasles vaccine became available in 1963. As children started getting the vaccine, measles quickly began to disappear. Today we see only about a hundred cases a year. But even though the number of measles cases each year is only a fraction of what it used to be, this doesn't mean that our children cannot get measles.\nIn 1989 and 1990 we saw a large jump in measles cases and deaths, partly because many parents weren't getting their preschool-aged children vaccinated. In response to this outbreak, doctors and health departments stepped up their efforts to vaccinate children, and measles cases have since dropped to all-time low levels.\nThe measles vaccine used today is a live, attenuated vaccine. In other words, the virus that is used to make the vaccine is not killed, but it is weakened so that doesn't cause measles. Measles vaccine can be given by itself, but it is usually given together with mumps and rubella vaccines in a shot called MMR.\nBefore vaccines, mumps was a common childhood disease. The most obvious sign of mumps is swelling of the cheeks and jaw, which is caused by inflammation in the salivary glands. Children with mumps usually also get a fever and headache. Generally, Mumps is a mild disease, but it does have its serious side:\nAbout 10% of those who get mumps also get meningitis.\nOccasionally mumps also causes encephalitis, which is inflammation of the brain itself. Usually the child recovers without permanent damage.\nAbout 25% of teenage or adult men who get mumps develop a painful swelling of the testicles.\nMumps can, rarely, cause deafness (about 1 in 20,000 cases) or death (about 1 in 10,000 cases).\nChildren get mumps through contact with others who are already infected with the mumps virus. The virus is spread through the air by coughing, sneezing, or simply talking. Children start to show signs of mumps 2 to 3 weeks after they are exposed. They are contagious from about 12 to 24 days after exposure.\nThe mumps vaccine we use today was licensed in 1967, and is a live, attenuated (weakened) vaccine. The number of reported cases has dropped from over 150,000 in 1968 to only 666 in 1998. 1 Mumps vaccine is usually given together with measles and rubella vaccines in a shot called MMR.\nWhen children get rubella, it is usually a mild disease, with a slight fever that lasts for about 24 hours, and a rash on the face and neck that lasts two or three days. Rubella is also called German measles or 3-day measles. It is caused by the rubella virus, and usually strikes in the winter and spring. It is spread through close contact such as coughing, sneezing, or talking. Most children recover quickly and completely.\nRubella also strikes adults, and outbreaks can occur among teenagers and adults who have not been immunized. Adults who get rubella may get swollen glands in the back of the neck and pain, swelling, or stiffness in their joints (arthritis).\nBut the greatest danger from rubella is not to children or adults, but to unborn babies. If a woman gets rubella in the early months of her pregnancy, there is an 80% chance that her baby will be born with birth defects. This is called Congenital Rubella Syndrome (CRS). Babies with CRS may be born deaf or blind. They may have damaged hearts or small brains. Many are mentally retarded. Miscarriages are also common among women who get rubella while they are pregnant.\nIt takes about 12-23 days from the time of exposure for people to start showing signs of the disease. Rubella is most contagious while the rash is visible, but it can be spread from about a week before the rash starts until about a week after. Rubella Fact: The last major rubella epidemic in the U.S. was in 1964-65. An estimated 12\u00bd million people got the disease, including 20,000 babies born with congenital rubella syndrome. This epidemic cost the country an estimated $1.5 billion.\nRubella vaccine was first licensed in the U.S. in 1969, and the vaccine we use today was licensed in 1979. It is a live, attenuated (weakened) vaccine. There are now only several hundred cases reported each year, with the record low (128 cases) reported in 1995. Rubella vaccine can be given by itself, but it is usually given together with measles and mumps vaccines in a shot called MMR.\nVaccine for Measles, Mumps, and Rubella\nMost children get Measles, Mumps and Rubella vaccines all together in one shot called MMR. All three of these vaccines work very well, and will protect most children for the rest of their life.\nChildren should get two doses of MMR vaccine. The first is given between 12 and 15 months of age. The second may be given at any time, as long as it is at least 28 days after the first. It is usually given at 4-6 years of age, before the child enters kindergarten or first grade.\nMeasles, mumps, and rubella vaccines can be given separately, too. But this is not usually done because it means giving a child three shots instead of one. Sometimes, usually during a measles outbreak, children might be given measles or MMR vaccine before their first birthday. This is for short-term protection only. These children should still be given two doses of MMR vaccine at the usual ages.\nMeasles, about 20% will get a mild rash or fever beginning a week or two after vaccination. These reactions last for a few days. 1\nMumps, very few children suffer any ill effects from mumps vaccine. Occasionally a child will get a mild fever one or two weeks after vaccination or swollen glands in the cheeks or under the jaw. More serious reactions are extremely rare.\nRubella, about 14% will get a rash or swelling in the lymph glands after getting rubella vaccine. This usually happens within a week or two after the shot and lasts 1 or 2 days. 1\nAlso, about 10% will have some pain or stiffness in the joints, which can last from a few days to a few weeks. There is a small chance (less than 1 in 100) that a child will have painful swelling of the joints (arthritis) after getting rubella vaccine. This usually lasts only a few days, but it can last longer, and can come and go. These joint problems occur more often in adults, especially women.\nFebrile seizures have occasionally been reported among children who have gotten MMR vaccine. These usually happen 1 or 2 weeks after the shot and are caused by the fever that can accompany vaccination rather than the vaccine itself. Children recover from febrile seizures quickly, and they do not cause permanent harm.\nThere have been reports of children getting encephalitis after an MMR shot. This happens so rarely, less than once in a million shots, that experts are not sure whether the MMR vaccine causes this problem or whether it simply happens by chance. Remember, though, that if the same million children got measles, about 1,000 of them would get encephalitis, 6,000 to 7,000 would have convulsions, and several hundred would die. 1 The benefits of MMR vaccine greatly outweigh the slight risk.\nMMR, like any vaccine or medicine, could trigger a severe allergic reaction in a child who was allergic to one of the vaccine's components. But severe allergic reactions to childhood vaccines are very rare (estimated at around one per million doses), and no child is ever known to have died from an allergic reaction to a vaccine.\nReasons to delay an MMR vaccine: 1\nA child who has a moderate or severe illness on the day an MMR (or any) vaccination is scheduled should probably delay the vaccination until he or she has recovered.\nA child who has recently gotten a transfusion or other blood product might have to wait up to several months before getting MMR.\nReasons to not give an MMR vaccine: 1\nA child who is known to have a severe allergy to gelatin or the antibiotic neomycin should not get MMR.\nA child who has had a severe (life-threatening) allergic reaction after a dose of MMR should not get another dose.\nA child whose immune system is suppressed (because of a disease such as cancer or HIV infection or medication such as steroids) should be evaluated by a doctor before getting MMR vaccine.\nHaemophilus influenzae type B\nHaemophilus influenzae type b or Hib disease is a childhood disease that is not as well known, but is just as dangerous as other previously mentioned childhood diseases. Even though the word influenza is part of its name, Hib is not related to influenza (flu).\nAs recently as the mid-1980's, Hib disease struck 0.5% of children under 5 years old in the U.S. Every year about 12,000 children got meningitis as a result of Hib. In fact, Hib disease was the leading cause of bacterial meningitis in children under five. About 25% of these children suffered permanent brain damage, and about 5% died. In addition, about 8,000 children a year suffered from other serious complications, such as pneumonia. 1\nHib is a bacterial disease. It is spread through the air by coughing, sneezing, or even breathing. Hib bacteria enter a child' system through the nose or throat, and if they stay in the nose and throat the child will probably not become sick. But sometimes the bacteria spread into the lungs or bloodstream. This is called invasive Hib disease, and it can cause serious complications. In addition to meningitis, invasive Hib disease can lead to: pneumonia, epiglottitis, arthritis, and other problems.\nMost invasive Hib disease occurs in children under 5 years old, and up to 60% in children younger than 1 year. The disease is not common in older children or adults. Most Hib disease today strikes infants who are not immunized. It probably takes about 2-4 days from the time a child is exposed to Hib bacteria until symptoms appear. An infected person can spread the disease to others for as long as the bacteria remain in the body. Antibiotics can stop the spread within 2-4 days.\nHib vaccine has had a dramatic impact on Haemophilus influenzae type B. As soon as the first vaccine came into use in 1985 the disease began to disappear. Several improved vaccines have been licensed since then, and the age for the first shot has been lowered from 24 months to 2 months. There were an estimated 20,000 cases of Hib disease a year in the mid-1980's, but now there are only a few hundred cases a year. 1 Hib vaccine is an inactivated (killed) vaccine. It is made from only a part of the Hib bacteria.\nSeveral different companies make Hib vaccine. Children should get either 3 or 4 doses, depending on which company's vaccine your doctor or clinic is using. All children should get the vaccine at 2 and 4 months of age, and a booster dose between 12 and 15 months. Some children should get an additional dose at 6 months. Children who have passed their 5th birthday do not need Hib vaccination.\nHib vaccine can be combined (that is, given in the same shot) with DTaP vaccine, or with hepatitis B vaccine. Your doctor or nurse might offer the vaccines in these combination forms. They work just as well, and are just as safe, as if the vaccines were given separately.\nHib is a very safe vaccine. It cannot cause Hib disease or meningitis, and is not known to cause any other serious reactions. About 2% of children who get Hib vaccine get some redness, swelling or warmth where the shot was given, or a fever of over 101\u00b0F. These reactions usually begin within 24 hours after the shot and last up to 2 or 3 days. They do not cause any permanent harm.\nLike any vaccine, or medicine, Hib vaccine could theoretically trigger a serious reaction in someone who is allergic to one of its components. But severe allergic reactions to childhood vaccines are very rare (estimated at around one per million doses), and no child is ever known to have died from an allergic reaction to a vaccine.\nReasons to delay giving Hib vaccine: 1\nA child who has a moderate or severe illness on the day a Hib (or any) vaccination is scheduled should probably delay the vaccination until he or she has recovered.\nChildren under 4 weeks of age should not get Hib vaccine. This isn't because it is unsafe, but because the vaccine might not protect as well when the first dose is given too early.\nReasons to not give a Hib vaccine: 1\nA child who has had a life-threatening allergic reaction after a dose of Hib vaccine should not get another dose.\nThe Streptococcus pneumoniae bacteria kills more people in the U.S. each year than all other vaccine-preventable diseases combined. It is commonly thought of as a disease of the elderly, but it also takes its toll among our children. Each year the pneumococcal bacteria cause invasive disease (mostly blood infection, or bacteremia) in about 16,500 children under 5 years old, including more than 700 cases of meningitis. It is the leading cause of bacterial meningitis in the country, hitting children under one year old the hardest. About 200 children die from invasive pneumococcal disease each year.\nIn addition, pneumococcal disease causes 25% - 40% of all middle ear infections in children. Middle ear infections are responsible for more visits to a pediatrician than any other complaint, and they are the number one reason for prescribing antibiotics to children. All children are susceptible to pneumococcal disease, but some groups have higher rates of the disease, including African Americans, American Indians, Alaska Natives, and children with certain medical conditions such as sickle cell disease or HIV infection, or who don't have a functioning spleen.\nThe pneumococcal bacteria are spread from person to person, mainly through the air. The disease can be spread by anyone who is infected, even if they don't have symptoms. Pneumococcal infections are more common during the winter and early spring.\nTreating pneumococcal infections with penicillin and other antibiotics used to be effective, but the disease is becoming more and more resistant to antibiotic treatment, making immunization increasingly important.\nPneumococcal conjugate vaccine is the second part of our one-two punch against bacterial meningitis (Hib vaccine is the first). Until very recently, pneumococcal vaccine was recommended mostly for adults over 65 years old, and was not licensed at all for children under 2. This is because the only type of vaccine that was available (pneumococcal polysaccharidel vaccine) doesn't work very well for young children. Now a different type of vaccine (pneumococcal conjugate vaccine) has been licensed that works for children under 2, and it is finally possible to prevent pneumococcal disease in that vulnerable age group.\nPneumococcal conjugate vaccine is an inactivated (killed) vaccine. It gives immunity against the 7 strains of the pneumococcal bacterium that cause most of the serious infections in children. This vaccine should prevent most meningitis and bacteremia caused by pneumococcal bacteria. However, there are other causes of bacteremia and meningitis, and this vaccine will not prevent them. It will also not prevent all ear infections. Some ear infections are caused by pneumococcal disease, but many are caused by other germs too, and the vaccine will not prevent these.\nChildren should routinely get 4 doses of the vaccine, one dose each at 2, 4, 6, and 12-15 months of age. Children who begin the series later may not need as many doses. Children over 5 years old will generally not get the pneumococcal conjugate vaccine. Older children who need protection from pneumococcal disease (those with certain chronic diseases or damaged immune systems) can get the polysaccharide vaccine, or may get a series that includes both vaccines. Your doctor or clinic staff will tell you if our older children need protection from pneumococcal disease. Pneumococcal vaccine may be given at the same time as other childhood vaccines.\nSince the pneumococcal conjugate vaccine is new, the only safety data come from clinical trials. The side effects that have been seen are mainly mild local reactions or a mild fever. The frequencies of these reactions vary from study to study, with the highest rates being about 40% of recipients. Moderately serious reactions, such as prolonged crying and febrile seizures were seen only rarely in these studies, and may not have been caused by the vaccine.\nLike any vaccine, or medicine, pneumococcal vaccine could theoretically trigger a serious reaction in someone who is allergic to one of its components. But severe allergic reactions to childhood vaccines are very rare (estimated at around one per million doses), and no child is ever known to have died from an allergic reaction to a vaccine.\nReason to delay giving the pneumococcal vaccine: 1\nA child who has a moderate or severe illness on the day a pneumococcal (or any) vaccination is scheduled should probably delay the vaccination until he or she has recovered.\nReasons to not give the pneumococcal vaccine: 1\nA child who has had a life-threatening allergic reaction after a dose of pneumococcal vaccine should not get another dose.\nHepatitis B is a disease that affects the liver. It is one of several hepatitis diseases (for example, hepatitis A and hepatitis C). These are caused by different germs, but are similar in that they all affect the liver (hepatitis comes from the Greek words for liver and inflammation). Hepatitis B is caused by a virus. Some people who are infected with the hepatitis B virus never feel sick. Others have symptoms that might last for several weeks. Those symptoms can include: loss of appetite and tiredness, pains in muscles, joints or stomach, diarrhea, vomiting or jaundice. This is called acute hepatitis B.\nSome people never recover from hepatitis B. They develop what is called chronic hepatitis B virus infection. They might not look or feel sick, but they will probably carry the hepatitis B virus in their blood for the rest of their lives, and they can infect other people. Many of these chronically infected people will suffer from serious health problems, such as cirrhosis or liver cancer. In fact, the hepatitis B virus causes most of the liver cancer in the world. In the U.S. alone, there are more than 1 million people chronically infected with the hepatitis B virus. In 1996, an estimated 200,000 people became infected with hepatitis B virus, and about 4,000 to 5,000 people a year die from hepatitis B. 1\nHepatitis B virus is spread through contact with the blood, or other body fluids, of an infected person. People can get hepatitis B by having unprotected sex, by sharing drug needles, or by sharing personal items like razors or toothbrushes with someone who is infected. Doctors, nurses, and other health care workers can get hepatitis B through exposure to blood from infected patients. Police, fire fighters, and paramedics who are exposed to blood are also at risk.\nWhy, then, do we immunize children against hepatitis B when they don't have sex, don't take drugs, and are not nurses or police officers? One important reason is that babies can get infected too. If a mother is chronically infected with hepatitis B, her baby could become infected during birth. If these babies are not immunized immediately, most of them will become chronically infected too. One out of 4 of these babies will eventually die from cirrhosis or liver cancer.\nAlso, children can be infected through exposure to blood, saliva, or other fluids from infected children or adults. While this is not common, vaccination is a reasonable precaution, particularly since the vaccine is a very safe one. Hepatitis B is a major cause of liver cancer, and hepatitis B vaccine can prevent the disease. Therefore, hepatitis B vaccine is the first vaccine that prevents cancer.\nYou can protect children from hepatitis B by getting them vaccinated with three doses of hepatitis B vaccine. Newborn babies whose mothers either are infected with the hepatitis B virus or have not been tested should get their first shot within 12 hours of birth, the second shot at 1-2 months of age, and the third shot at 6 months of age. Other babies can get their first shot between birth and 2 months of age, the second at 1-4 months of age, and the third at 6-18 months of age. 1\nBabies born to infected mothers should also get Hepatitis B Immune Globulin (HBIG) within 12 hours of birth. These babies should also be checked when they are 9-15 months old to make sure the vaccine worked and that they do not have chronic hepatitis B virus infection.\nThe second shot should always be given at least one month after the first shot, and the third shot at least 2 months after the second and 4 months after the first. If you miss a dose or get behind schedule, there is no need to start over. Just get the next dose as soon as possible and continue on schedule. After the third shot, most children will be protected. They do not need booster shots.\nHepatitis B is a very safe vaccine. 9% of children will have some soreness where the shot is given, and up to about 6% will get a mild fever. Up to 20% might become tired or irritable. More serious reactions are extremely rare. Like any vaccine, or medicine, hepatitis B vaccine could theoretically trigger a serious reaction in someone who is allergic to one of its components. But severe allergic reactions to childhood vaccines are very rare (estimated at around one per million doses), and no child is ever known to have died from an allergic reaction to a vaccine.\nReasons to delay the hepatitis B vaccine:\nA child who has a moderate or severe illness on the day a hepatitis B (or any) vaccination is scheduled should probably delay the vaccination until he or she has recovered.\nReasons to not give the hepatitis B vaccine:\nA child who is known to have a severe allergy to baker's yeast (the kind used for making bread) should not get hepatitis B vaccine.\nA child who had a life-threatening allergic reaction after a dose of hepatitis B vaccine should not get another dose.\nVaricella or chickenpox is one of the most common childhood diseases. It is caused by the varicella-zoster virus. Most people in the U.S. get chickenpox while they are still children. Until the late 1990's there were about 4 million cases a year. But now that people are using varicella vaccine, that number has begun to drop. The most recognizable feature of chickenpox is an itchy rash all over the body. Children with chickenpox can also be drowsy and have a fever. The reason varicella is called chickenpox has nothing to do with chickens. Chickenpox got its nickname because the blisters look like chickpeas.\nChickenpox can be spread very easily from person to person. It is spread through the air, by coughing or sneezing, or even talking. It can also be spread by contact with fluid from the blisters. It usually takes 2-3 weeks from the time a child is exposed to chickenpox virus until he or she becomes ill. The disease is contagious from 1 or 2 days before the rash appears until all the blisters are dried up, which usually takes 4 to 5 days.\nChickenpox is usually a mild disease, uncomfortable but not dangerous. Still, serious problems do occur. The blisters can become infected, and some children get encephalitis. Of every 100,000 infants under one year old who get chickenpox, about 4 die. For older children, 1 to 14 years old, about 1 in 100,000 dies. 1\nIf a woman gets chickenpox just before or after giving birth, her baby can get very sick, and about 33% of these children die if they are not treated quickly. Even when chickenpox is not serious, it can create problems for the family because the parents may have to miss work to care for the sick child. About 1 child out of 500 who get chickenpox must be hospitalized. For adults who get chickenpox, 1 in 50 must be hospitalized. 1 After a person has chickenpox, the virus stays in the body. Years later, it can cause a painful disease called zoster, or shingles.\nVaricella vaccine is a live-virus vaccine. It has been used in some parts of the world, such as Japan, for over 20 years. It was licensed in the U.S. in 1995. A single dose of varicella vaccine is recommended for children between 12 and 18 months of age. It is usually given at the same time as the MMR shot. Children who miss this shot can still get a single dose of the vaccine up to their 13th birthday. Adolescents or adults who haven't gotten the vaccine by their 13th birthday will need two doses, 4 to 8 weeks apart. A child who has already had chickenpox disease does not need to get the shot.\nIt appears that the vaccine prevents chickenpox in about 70% to 90% of people who get the shot, and prevents severe chickenpox in over 95%. The vaccine used in Japan is still protecting those people who were vaccinated 20 years ago. In the U.S., people who were vaccinated during testing, before the vaccine was licensed, are still immune to chickenpox. The vaccine is expected to give life-long immunity. Occasionally even children who respond to the vaccine get a very mild case of chickenpox (about 1-2 children out of a hundred).\nThere is some concern that a child who gets chickenpox vaccine can actually give chickenpox to other, unprotected, family members. This appears to happen extremely rarely, and only when the child who was vaccinated develops a rash. To be safe, anyone with a suppressed immune system should consider avoiding contact with a child who develops a rash after getting the chickenpox vaccination just as they should avoid anyone who has a case of chickenpox.\nVaricella vaccine is very safe. 20% of children have a local reaction. Some children also get a mild rash (about 5 spots), about 1 to 3 weeks after the shot. Febrile seizures occur in less than 1 out of a thousand children; and other serious problems, such as encephalitis or loss of muscle coordination, have been reported very rarely. These problems happen so rarely that experts cannot tell whether or not they are caused by the vaccine, or just happen at the same time by chance.\nLike any vaccine, or medicine, varicella vaccine could theoretically trigger a serious reaction in someone who is allergic to one of its components.\nReasons to delay giving the varicella vaccine: 1\nA child who has recently gotten a transfusion or other blood product might have to wait several months before getting varicella vaccine.\nA child who has a moderate or severe illness on the day a varicella (or any) vaccination is scheduled should probably delay the vaccination until he or she has recovered.\nReasons to not give a varicella vaccine: 1\nA child who is known to have a severe allergy to gelatin or the antibiotic neomycin should not get varicella vaccine.\nA child who had a life-threatening allergic reaction after a dose of varicella vaccine should not get another dose.\nA child with a suppressed immune system (because of a disease such as cancer or HIV infection, or medication such as steroids) should be evaluated by a doctor before getting varicella vaccine.\nHepatitis A, like other types of hepatitis, is a disease that affects the liver. It is the most common type of hepatitis reported in the U.S., with an estimated 125,000 - 200,000 cases each year. About 3 cases out of 10 occur in children under 15 years old. 1\nHepatitis A is caused by a virus. Children under 6 years old who get infected often don't show any signs of illness. But for most older children, signs of hepatitis can come on quickly. They include: fever, loss of appetite and tiredness, stomach pain, vomiting, dark urine or jaundice. Hepatitis A cannot be distinguished from other types of hepatitis except by blood testing.\nHepatitis A does not cause long-term illness or liver damage like hepatitis B does. But every year about 100 people die from liver failure caused by severe hepatitis A.\nHepatitis A virus is found mainly in bowel movements, and is spread through personal contact or by eating contaminated food or drinking contaminated water. For almost half the cases in the U.S. the source of the infection is not known. An infected person can spread the virus to other people from about a week before symptoms appear through about a week after. People without symptoms can still spread the disease. Even though the diseases are quite different, the hepatitis A virus is closely related to the polio virus.\nHepatitis A vaccine is an inactivated (killed) vaccine. It can be given to children 2 years old or older. Two doses are needed, the second dose given 6-18 months after the first. Hepatitis A vaccine is recommended for children in certain states: Alaska, Arizona, California, Idaho, Nevada, New Mexico, Oklahoma, Oregon, South Dakota, Utah, and Washington. It may also be considered for children in Arkansas, Colorado, Missouri, Montana, Texas and Wyoming. The vaccine is also recommended for communities with high levels of hepatitis A, including Alaska native villages, American Indian reservations, some Hispanic communities and some religious communities. It is also recommended for others who are at high risk, including people traveling to countries where the disease is common.\nHepatitis A vaccine is very safe. Mild local reactions are reported in up to half of people who get it. Less than 10% report fatigue or a mild fever. No serious reactions have been reported. Like any vaccine, or medicine, hepatitis A vaccine could theoretically trigger a serious reaction in someone who is allergic to one of its components. But severe allergic reactions to childhood vaccines are very rare (estimated at around one per million doses), and no child is ever known to have died from an allergic reaction to a vaccine.\nReasons to delay giving the hepatitis A vaccine: 1\nA child who has a moderate or severe illness on the day a hepatitis A (or any) vaccination is scheduled should probably delay the vaccination until he or she has recovered.\nReasons to not give the hepatitis A vaccine: 1\nA child who is known to have a severe allergy to alum should not get hepatitis A vaccine.\nA child who has had a life-threatening allergic reaction after the first dose of hepatitis A vaccine should not get the second dose.\nRecommended Vaccination Schedule\nThe following is the vaccination schedule recommended by the Center for Disease Control (CDC). If you click on the yellow highlighted words in blue font, in this section, it will open the Internet to a CDC web page with more information on that subject.\nAt Birth\nIf the mother has hepatitis B disease (is HBsAg positive) the child should receive hepatitis B immune globulin (HBIG) within 12 hrs of birth, and hepatitis B vaccine* at a separate site (i.e. a different arm or leg). If the mother does not have hepatitis B (is HBsAg negative), they can wait until month 2. This is the one exception to this normal schedule.\nIf the child has received their first hepatitis B vaccine, they should receive the second one this month, at least 30 days after the first dose. If they have not received a hepatitis B vaccine, they can receive their first dose this month.\nIn the second month of life most children should start receiving the first series of recommended vaccines. The vaccines that a child should receive in their second month are:\nPolio IPV* (the injected version) 1st of 4 doses. (OPV* (given by mouth) is only recommended for children in special cases). IPV protects children from Polio.\nDTaP* vaccine 1st of 5 doses which protects children against: Diphtheria, Tetanus, and Pertussis\nHib* dose 1 of 4 protects children against Hib (Haemophilus Influenzae)\nHepatitis B* dose 1 of 3 (if the child hasn't received their first dose) which protects children against hepatitis B.\nPneumococcal Conjugate vaccine* dose 1 of 4 protects children from Pneumococcal disease.\nDTaP dose 2 of 5\nHib dose 2 of 4\nHepatitis B dose 2 of 3 (if the child hasn't already received their second dose)\nPneumococcal conjugate dose 2 of 4\nHib (depending on the brand of Hib vaccine the child may need a 3rd dose at 6 months)\nHepatitis B dose 3 of 3 (final dose)\nHib dose 3 or 4 (depending on the brand of vaccine used) (final dose)\nMMR 1st of 2 doses which protect children against\nVaricella* one dose protects against Varicella (also called Chicken Pox)\nPneumococcal conjugate dose 4 (final dose)\nHepatitis A vaccine* should be given in certain areas of the country and to most people in high-risk groups. Hepatitis A vaccine is given in 2 doses with 6 months between doses.\nYears 4 to 6\nPolio dose 4 final dose\nMMR dose 2 (final dose)\nDTaP dose 5 (final dose)\nYears 11 to 12\nTd (repeat as a booster every 10 years) The Td vaccine* protects against both Tetanus and Diphtheria.\nOn the following quick reference chart, vaccines are listed under routinely recommended ages. Doses that span several ages indicate the range of recommended ages for immunization. Any dose not given at the recommended age should be given as a \"catch-up\" immunization at any subsequent visit when indicated and feasible. 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+{"text":"Royals sign pitcher Jake Diekman to a one-year deal with mutual option\nThe Kansas City Royals announced today that the club has signed left-handed pitcher Jake Diekman to a one-year contract, with a mutual option for the 2020 season. Consistent with club policy, terms of the agreement were not disclosed. In a corresponding move, the Royals have placed right-handed pitcher Jesse Hahn on the 60-day injured list (recovery from ulnar collateral ligament surgery).\nKANSAS CITY, MO (February 13, 2019) - The Kansas City Royals announced today that the club has signed left-handed pitcher Jake Diekman to a one-year contract, with a mutual option for the 2020 season. Consistent with club policy, terms of the agreement were not disclosed. In a corresponding move, the Royals have placed right-handed pitcher Jesse Hahn on the 60-day injured list (recovery from ulnar collateral ligament surgery).\nDiekman, 32, appeared in 71 games combined between Texas and Arizona last season, going 1-2 with two saves, 17 holds and a 4.73 ERA (28 ER in 53.1 IP). He ranked tied for seventh among left-handed relievers in appearances, while his 11.14 K\/9 (66 K in 53.1 IP) was 13th among that group. He did his best work on the road, posting a 1.40 ERA (4 ER in 25.2 IP), which ranked ninth in the Majors (min. 25.0 IP). He made 15-straight scoreless appearances away from home (July 5-Sept. 11), while 39 of his last 41 road outings have been scoreless, dating back to Sept. 12, 2016.\nDiekman, who will wear uniform No. 40 with Kansas City, is entering his eighth Major League season, having spent time with Philadelphia (2012-15), Texas (2015-18) and Arizona (2018). In 365 big league appearances, he's 14-15 with seven saves, a 3.75 ERA and 383 strikeouts in 312.0 innings. His career strikeout rate (11.05) ranks second in the Majors among active left-handed relievers that have worked at least 300.0 innings, trailing only Aroldis Chapman (15.00). In 2014, he became one of just seven left-handed relievers (14 occurrences) to record 100+ strikeouts in a season since 2010.\nA native of Wymore, Neb., Diekman was originally selected by the Phillies in the 30th round of the 2007 First-Year Player Draft out of Cloud County Community College in Concordia, Kan.\nKansas City's Major League Reserve List is at 40 players.","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
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+{"text":"Describe in fewer than 1,000 words your own contribution to the Banks mission and the potential role of World Bank in resolving some of the world economic and development challenges. You may focus on a region or set of countries as w\nApplication Essay for the 2020 Selection Process The international community is racing to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals in less than 12 years, with trillions of dollars needed to deliver on the promise. Overlapping crises, from climate change to pandemics, natural disasters to forced displacement, threaten to erase hard-earned development gains, and historic economic changes, in part from technological advancement and disruption, present risks for countries, but also opportunities if they have made the necessary investments in their people, communities, and economies to take advantage of them. The world needs partners that can help meet the challenges of today, while making the investments to prepare for the challenges of tomorrow. By offering financing, knowledge, experience, and a long-term commitment to its country clients, the World Bank is a trusted partner for all its members to help transform economies and advance the 2030 sustainable development agenda. With a mission to end extreme poverty and boost shared prosperity, the World Bank supports its client countries in three priority areas: promoting sustainable, inclusive economic growth; investing moreand more effectivelyin people; and building resilience to fragility, shocks, and threats to the global economy. The Bank applies this three-pronged approach across all sectors of development so that countries make the integrated investments that can best help people lift themselves out of poverty. (Extract from the 2018 WBG Annual Report) Describe in fewer than 1,000 words your own contribution to the Banks mission (if you were to work for the World Bank Group) and the potential role of World Bank in resolving some of the above challenges. You may focus on a region or set of countries as well as your area of expertise to describe your proposal.\nConsider the causes and effects of the end of major warfare (among great powers) since WWII (you can disagree with the premise of this question)\nThe Young Housewife\" by William Carlos Williams and \"The Cars\" by Kathleen Fraser","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
+{"text":"Lusts & Acclaim: Literary Memoir Novel about Gail Chord Schuler & Antichrist Zack Knight\nGail shares how her life story in her next book Lusts & Acclaim will resemble Pride & Prejudice.\nOutline for the book. Introduction to the book. Character Sketches for the book. Sample First Chapter. The book's & Zack Knight's Hidden story. Sample sixth chapter. Sample from seventh chapter. Another sample from seventh chapter. Theme of Lusts & Acclaim revealed in the plot and characters.\nAlready well on her way into the first draft, Gail expects to finish at the end of 2017 or 2018 or later. Pray for her as she writes. She tries to improve with every book and hopes to add to the ranks of great literature with this work.\nTHE THEME OF THE BOOK, where the characters attempt to act out their love life elevated. Each character has their own theory of what constitutes a proper elevated love life: Both God and Satan use the strategy of elevation, but Satan uses it in temptation, and the effect is quite different. When the devil elevates you to a certain place, he causes you to fasten your idea of what holiness is far beyond what flesh and blood could ever bear or achieve. Your life becomes a spiritual acrobatic performance high atop a steeple. You cling to it, trying to maintain your balance and daring not to move. But when God elevates you by His grace into heavenly places, you find a vast plateau where you can move about with ease.\nJesus has told Gail to structure Lusts & Acclaim after Pride & Prejudice. Therefore, Gail has been studying both the book and movie versions of Pride & Prejudice to prepare for this novel. Pride & Prejudice is a novel of manners that emphasizes social customs, manners, conventions and mores of a definite social class. Such novels are always realistic, and sometimes they are satiric and comic, as in Jane Austen's work. Austen's work, written primarily in unlimited point of view, concentrated on character and personality, with an emphasis on the tensions between her heroines and their society. Also, Pride & Prejudice was written as a contemporary\/mainstream romance in Jane Austen's time. Therefore, Lusts & Acclaim will be a romance novel of manners, set in contemporary period and locale, though the scenes with the Vatican, will make some scenes exotic. The story has a bit of the paranormal in it, because Gail is exposing Jesuit science, and there is skepticism over the existence of this science, but Gail will present it as fact. She will have to explain it, because many readers are unfamiliar with it, forcing Gail to use principles of fantasy writing for this book. However, she wants the voice of the novel to be literary, like Jane Austen.\nGail's first two memoirs she structured as non-fiction. But for her next books, she is returning to fiction writing format, as she feels it gives her the structure needed to write a compelling story about her life and those who have affected her. She handles this by admitting that the novel is mostly non-fiction, but that she has inserted some fiction elements into the story to allow deeper penetration into all the characters. In regard to defamation lawsuits, she ensures that all elements of the novel are truthful, even those sections where she speculates on certain events, with a focus (as a novelist) on emotional truth. She admits that most writers could not get away with this much exposure in their writings, but thanks her men, who are always battling for her and her writings in court.\nAny person of destiny must have their life and marriage controlled by those in power. So begins the opening to Lusts & Acclaim, a coming-of-age memoir about how the Catholic Church rewrote history and transformed the world's morals in sex, love and marriage, to bring down the Catherine the Great and King David baby born in 1957. The leader of the Catholic Church, Antichrist Zack Knight, and Gail's soul mate Star Trek: The Next Generation star Brent Spiner, come to terms with their own hearts while the Catholic Church's Jesuit Order attempts to bring down the woman with the heart of God. This is a must-read memoir novel about Gail Chord Schuler and Antichrist Zack Knight for anybody who wants to understand what is driving the events that shape the end-times prophecies depicted in the Bible books of Daniel and Revelation. Other important characters are Pope John Paul II, Loree McBride, Satan, Jesus Christ, and Angelina Ballerina.\nIt appears God orchestrated the literature of the world, using Jane Austen to create Pride and Prejudice to give Gail Chord Schuler the model she uses for her book Lusts & Acclaim. Looks like this book will put Gail in the ranks of Nobel Laureates in Literature. Why does Gail self-publish? It's because she doesn't want any constraints over how she writes a book. Jesuits control the publishing industry.\nStar Trek: The Next Generation's \"Lal\"\nAbout Writer Gabrielle Chana\n2 thoughts on \"Lusts & Acclaim: Literary Memoir Novel about Gail Chord Schuler & Antichrist Zack Knight\"\nVideos Embedded on Gail Chord Schuler's Favorite Movies, Television Broadcasts & Books (www.gabriellechana.com\/favorites.html) | Gabrielle Chana's Blog April 12, 2017, 9:19 pm\n[\u2026] my past books have been attempts to fix this, but I think I may really do it with my next book Lusts and Acclaim. The book or movie has to challenge my imagination and create a world of characters who explore the [\u2026]\nCan Sit or Stand at Computer (Great Furniture!) | Furniture Idea April 19, 2017, 5:50 pm\n[\u2026] Gail Chord Schuler (pen name Gabrielle Chana) discusses her remake of Silver Skies (her first novel) and why she feels she needs to redo Silver Skies, and her brand new project Lusts & Acclaim (patterned after Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice) but updated for the 21st century. As a writer, she discusses how she plans to create two novels that she hopes will live on into posterity. https:\/\/plus.google.com\/107014997445256183039\/posts\/VNdv5vSzHbD & https:\/\/gabriellechana.wordpress.com\/2017\/02\/09\/lusts-acclaim-literary-memoir-about-gail-chord-schul\u2026 [\u2026]","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
+{"text":"Partial government shutdown likely to continue until after Christmas\nThe Senate adjourned for the day Saturday afternoon without coming to an agreement on a spending deal that w...\nPosted: Dec 24, 2018 8:59 AM\nUpdated: Dec 24, 2018 8:59 AM\nThe Senate adjourned for the day Saturday afternoon without coming to an agreement on a spending deal that would end a partial government shutdown -- likely assuring the federal closures will continue until after Christmas.\nThe developments come hours after members of Congress and President Donald Trump were unable to reach an agreement Friday night, resulting in the third government shutdown of the year.\nGovernment and public administration\nGovernment organizations - US\nPolitical Figures - US\nBudget deficits\nBusiness, economy and trade\nEconomy and economic indicators\nFederal budget\nFederal budget deficit\nGovernment budgets\nPolitical platforms and issues\nUS federal government shutdowns\nUS Democratic Party\nUS political parties\nInternational relations and national security\nGovernment bodies and offices\nTerritorial and national borders\nUS Republican Party\nThere will be a pro forma Senate session on Monday, but the next actual session is scheduled for Thursday afternoon.\nThe move means members can travel home for Christmas and not worry about being called back to vote until a deal could be reached, but GOP leaders told senators that if there was no deal by Thursday, they would not have to return for that session, sources tell CNN.\nTrump tweeted Saturday evening that he would remain in Washington for the Christmas holiday, writing on Twitter, \"I will not be going to Florida because of the Shutdown - Staying in the White House! #MAGA.\"\nWhite House press secretary Sarah Sanders said in a statement Saturday that first lady Melania Trump would return from their Mar-a-Lago resort, where she and the President had planned to spend the holiday.\n\"Due to the shutdown, President Trump will remain in Washington, D.C. and the First Lady will return from Florida so they can spend Christmas together,\" Sanders said.\nIn the unlikely event a deal is reached by Monday, the pro forma session could be used to pass it by unanimous consent or voice vote, something that would only require one senator to be in attendance.\n\"If an agreement is reached, we'll come back and pass it,\" Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell told reporters as he left the floor.\nVice President Mike Pence proposed spending $2.5 billion on border security, including the wall, in a stopgap spending bill during his meetings on Friday night and Saturday afternoon with Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, three sources familiar with the matter told CNN.\nSeveral of the sources said there were policy additions and restrictions included in the proposal to try to bridge the gap. Democrats said the number and the details tied to it aren't acceptable and have stayed at the $1.3 billion number.\nFollowing the Saturday meeting, a Schumer spokesman said, \"The Vice President came in for a discussion and made an offer. Unfortunately, we're still very far apart.\"\nHouse Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi of California issued a letter to her Democratic colleagues on Saturday saying that \"if nothing happens today, it is unlikely that there will be any progress to end the Trump Shutdown in the next several days.\"\n\"Until President Trump can publicly commit to a bipartisan resolution, there will be no agreement before January when the new House Democratic Majority will swiftly pass legislation to re-open government,\" Pelosi's letter later added. \"Please be assured you will be made aware of any developments to re-open government in the days ahead.\"\nMcConnell announced on the Senate floor earlier Saturday that there would be no action on the floor until Trump and Senate Democrats come to an agreement.\nMcConnell said the Senate was, in the meantime, pushing \"the pause button\" while the two parties attempt to work out a deal.\nHe then began discussing the importance of border security and \"securing the homeland.\"\nLater in the day, Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer addressed Trump while speaking on the Senate floor, saying, \"President Trump, if you want to open the government, you must abandon the wall -- plain and simple.\"\nDuring his speech, Schumer said Trump must publicly say he will support any agreement in an effort to avoid what happened earlier in the week, when White House aides indicated Trump would sign a stopgap spending measure, but then later said he would not.\nSchumer also responded to McConnell's earlier comments that an agreement would need to be made between both Trump and Senate Democrats.\nSchumer said McConnell and House Speaker Paul Ryan must also support any deal publicly.\n\"Leader McConnell can't duck out of it,\" Schumer said.\nAny bill to re-open the government will need 60 votes to pass the Senate because of procedural rules, meaning Republicans will need some Democratic votes.\nFunding for roughly a quarter of the federal government expired at midnight, including appropriations for the departments of Homeland Security, Justice, Housing and Urban Development and other parts of the government. This is the first time in 40 years that the government will have been closed three times in a year.\nThe funding legislation that earlier this week seemed certain to pass both chambers was thrown into limbo on Thursday when Trump told House GOP members he would not sign a bill unless it included $5 billion to fund a border wall.\nDespite the House of Representatives passing a bill on Thursday, which included this demand, it was clear on Friday that there was not enough support in the Senate for the bill, including the $5 billion for the wall, to clear.\nFriday night, a path forward appeared ambiguous, as all sides seemed stagnant in their demands days before the Christmas holiday, when Congress was expected to be out of session.\nRepublican Sen. James Lankford of Oklahoma, who was briefed by Pence, Kushner and Mulvaney on Friday, told CNN's Suzanne Malveaux on Saturday morning that the hope is McConnell will have a deal to announce when the Senate reconvenes at noon.\nThe debate between the White House and Congress focuses not just on how much money to allocate to border security, but also on the language stipulating where and how that money can be spent, he said.\n\"What is fencing, what is land ports of entry, what's technology, what's staffing?\" Lankford said. \"I think there's a general agreement ... that we need to do border security. Now's figuring out how much for each amount.\"\n\"Right now we're trying to finalize all the final text and to be able to make sure everyone's looked at it, everyone's agreed, signed off on it. ...\" he said. \"Then we'll move to a vote 24 hours from there.\"\nLankford also said he is \"confident\" that if Pence says the President is on board with any deal, Trump will keep to his word.\n\"We've agreed in the Senate we're not bringing anything to the floor until we know all three bodies have agreed to it,\" Lankford said. \"Then we can expedite it through the process on the floor.\"\nIf there's no an agreement, Lankford said he believes the American people will be looking at a much longer shutdown.\nA Senate Democratic aide said Saturday that talks continue at the staff level and confirmed that any deal will need signoff from congressional leadership and Trump before it comes to a vote. Democrats continue to push for border security options that they believe work, rather than a wall. Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer has insisted to Pence and Republicans that the President must sign off on that before a vote.\nTrump earlier on Friday predicted a shut down, but placed the blame on Democrats, saying \"it's really the Democrat shutdown, because we've done our thing.\n\"The chances are probably very good\" that there is a shutdown,\" Trump said Friday afternoon.\nHe later added: \"Now it's up to the Democrats as to whether we have a shutdown tonight. I hope we don't, but we're totally prepared for a very long shutdown.\"\nAnd in a White House-produced video posted on Twitter two hours before the government was partially closed, Trump said, \"We're going to have a shutdown. There's nothing we can do about that because we need the Democrats to give us their votes.\" He added, \"The shutdown hopefully will not last long.\"\nPelosi and Schumer threw the blame back at Trump and Republican lawmakers in a joint statement shortly after midnight, warning that if the \"Trump shutdown\" continued, House Democrats would pass a bill to re-open the government in January.\nWhen he appeared to be leaving on Friday night, however, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell said \"constructive talks are underway.\"\nWhen he was asked if he would be coming back to participate in the talks, the Kentucky Republican said, \"as I've said repeatedly, we need Democratic votes and presidential signature.\"\nA person familiar with Pence, Kushner and Mulvaney's five-hour trip to the Capitol said they made it clear that the initial request that included just $1.6 billion for the wall wasn't going to cut it.\n\"There is no quick end to this,\" said one source with direct knowledge of the talks.\nIf a deal is to be reached, votes could happen as early as Sunday.\nGovernment shutdown stalemate continues\nPartial government shutdown over border wall\nNo breakthrough to end partial government shutdown\nFederal government partially shuts down\nWhat to expect if there's a partial government shutdown\nNo signs of a deal to end partial government shutdown\nHow the partial government shutdown is playing out and what to expect as it continues\nState of Play: 5 days away from a partial government shutdown\nWashington is now five days away from a partial government shutdown","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
+{"text":"Corporate Structure of a Radio Station\nBusiness Models & Organizational Structure\nBy James Rosado\nTaxi Cab Company Structure\nAd Campaign Manager Requirements\nWhat Is Theatrical Marketing?\nHow Do Radio Stations Make a Profit?\nTV Advertising Agreement\nYour favorite radio station must operate in a coherent fashion on the air and behind the scenes to provide information and entertainment. It is therefore imperative that it utilizes a strong corporate structure. Doing so makes it easy to divide responsibilities into departments, which come together to make the station function smoothly as a whole.\nStation Manager\nAt the top of the pyramid is the station manager, who's responsible for day-to-day operations. She enforces the owner's standards while making sure the needs of all employees are being met. The station manager maintains the budget, hires and fires, trains personnel and reviews employee performance. She also ensures that operations comply with Federal Communications Commission regulations.\nThe operations manager holds down the No. 2 spot within a radio station and usually focuses on coordinating, scheduling and promoting on-air programming. He works closely with disc jockeys, anchors and hosts to make sure they represent the station's branding correctly. When new programming options must be found the operations manager is usually in charge of doing the detective work. He answers to the station manager.\nProgram directors create and plan the daily broadcast schedule. This means locating and providing the news, music, or entertainment that should be covered while monitoring on-air activity to ensure content is disseminated properly. There is usually a program director for each individual broadcast. Program directors generally work with the same staff every day and report to the operations manager.\nHaving a sales manager working with a team which constantly generates revenue by selling air time to advertisers is vital. Some of her charges research potential accounts, do some cold-calling and generally generate sales leads. Others actually sell air time to meet a quota while negotiating price and payment schedules. The sales manager must often designate employees to perform collections on past-due accounts. The sales manager usually reports to the station manager.\nThe office manager works with a team of administrative and finance employees to handle logistics, payroll, taxes, bills, audits and legal matters. Administrative employees also field phone calls and take messages for the station manager and operations director. They also book any outside business travel for station employees as well as lodging for guests. The office manager reports to the operations manager or station manager.\nThe chief engineer manages a team that handles all technical matters. In addition to supervising, he must regularly inspect equipment, maintain and repair it when necessary, purchase new equipment when merited and abide by FCC regulations. The engineering staff is often directly involved with broadcasts by editing tracks, managing sound effects and monitoring the station's signal for strength, quality and overall clarity. The chief engineer reports to the operations manager.\nTransmitting the station's voice to the public falls to on-air personalities. Disc jockeys play music, take requests and provide information. Anchors deliver the news, weather and traffic updates. Hosts often conduct interviews and allow listeners to call in and become part of the show. All must align with station branding. On-air personalities report to their program director.\nThe Radio Station; Michael C. Keith\nFCC: What We Do\nFCC:Rules and Regulations for Title 47\nSound Concepts: Station and Organizational Structure\nBased in Interlaken, N.Y., James Rosado has been writing articles on business, finance and marketing since 2009. His articles have appeared in regional publications across the Finger Lakes region of New York including the \"Ithaca Times.\" He holds a Bachelor's of Arts in visual communication and an Associates of Arts in hospitality marketing.\nOrganizational Structure in Broadcasting\nThe Organizational Structure of a Television Station\nResponsibilities of Advertising Operations\nRole of Advertising in a Broadcast Media Organization\nSales Management Structure\nWhat Is a Production Manager in the Fashion Industry?\nTips for a Brand Manager for a TV Station\nHow to Get on Community Access TV\nWhat Is an Advertising Director?\n1 Organizational Structure in Broadcasting\n2 The Organizational Structure of a Television Station\n3 Responsibilities of Advertising Operations\n4 Role of Advertising in a Broadcast Media Organization","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
+{"text":"Explain the ramifications of this constitutional protection for defendants\nAssignment: Complete the following below, must be in APA format. All work cited and perfer Turn It In used. Book for the class is Constitutional Law for Criminal Justice 14th Edition Jacqueline R. Kanovitz. Chapter 9 for this assignment.\n1. As a police officer, it sometimes seems \"unfair\" to preserve and disclose evidence that is favorable to the defense when police are putting together evidence to convict the defendant (California v. Trombetta). Explain the ramifications of this constitutional protection for defendants. Do you agree with it? Why or why not?\n2.Two tests are used to determine whether charges brought under different portions of the penal code represent the \"same offense.\" Explain them and the standard each test uses to determine offense identity. Which test is most prevalent today?\n3.The Sixth Amendment guarantees the right to a speedy trial. Explain the policies \"the right to a speedy trial\" promotes, and why you think they are, or are not, in place in our legal system.\n4.Explain in detail the three precautions trial judges traditionally take to counteract the effects of prejudicial media coverage. What are their shortcomings of these precautions? What would you do differently if you were a judge in a high-profile case? Cite a high-profile case to support your writing.","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
+{"text":"When Ulster said 'Yes'!\nNOEL COOGAN recalls the early years of the 1990s when Ulster teams dominated the All-Ireland Football Championship with debut wins for Donegal and Derry and a glorious double for Down.\nSomething happened in the All-Ireland Senior Football Championship in the first half of the 1990s which did not happen before and there is unlikely to be a repeat of it in the foreseeable future. In each of the years from 1991 to 1994, the Sam Maguire Cup was captured by Ulster teams with three different counties enjoying the sweet taste of success. In 1991, Down took the title for the fourth time and that was followed by first time triumphs by Donegal and Derry before Down reclaimed the big prize in '94. For many decades Cavan were the dominant force in the northern province and the only county from the region capable of putting in a serious challenge for All-Ireland honours. Between 1933 and '52, the Breffni county brought the game's most coveted trophy home on five occasions but they ceased being a strong force after the '60s. There was a sensational start to the sixties which was certainly a decade of significant change for Gaelic football with Down becoming the new glamour team of the game.\nIn 1960, the men in red and black created history when becoming the first side to take the Sam Maguire Cup across the border when inflicting an eight points final defeat on the championship's most successful county, Kerry.\nTo prove that victory was not a fluke, Down had six points to spare over the Kingdom in an All-Ireland semi-final clash in 1961 before emerging force, Offaly, were narrowly defeated before a record attendance of more than 90,000 as the title went back to the Mourne county.c\nTo continue reading please subscribe to Ireland's Own","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
+{"text":"Hellenistic Greece\nThe Hellenistic Age\nAfter Alexander the Great died in 323 B.C., his generals (known as the Diadochoi) divided his conquered lands. These fragments of the Alexandrian empire became three powerful dynasties: the Seleucids of Syria and Persia, the Ptolemies of Egypt, and the Antigonids of Greece and Macedonia.\nThese dynasties were not politically united, but they all shared an essential \"Greek-ness.\" Historians refer to these dynasties as the Hellenistic Age.\nThe Hellenistic states were ruled by absolute monarchies with a cosmopolitan view of the world. The kings developed commercial relationships throughout the Hellenistic world. They imported goods such as ivory, gold, cotton, and spices from India; furs and iron from the Far East; wine from Syria; papyrus, linen, and glass from Alexandria; olive oil from Athens; dates and prunes from Babylon; silver from Spain; copper from Cyprus; and tin from as far north as Brittany.\nThey displayed their wealth by building elaborate palaces and commissioning art and jewelry. They established museums, zoos, libraries, and universities. The Alexandria university was home to mathematicians Euclid and Archimedes, as well as inventors of the water clock and the model steam engine.\nHellenistic Culture\nSubjects moved freely around the Hellenistic kingdoms. They all spoke and read koine, or \"the common tongue,\" a kind of colloquial Greek. Language was a unifying cultural force, enabling people across the Hellenistic world to communicate with one another.\nMany people did feel alienated because they were no longer involved with the workings of democratic city-states. Instead they lived in large empires governed by professional bureaucrats. Many people joined cults or \"mystery religions,\" like those centered on the goddesses Isis and Fortune.\nHellenistic philosophers turned their focus inward. Diogenes the Cynic lived a simple life in protest against commercialism and cosmopolitanism. The philosopher Epicurus posited the centrality of the pursuit of the individual's pleasure and happiness. The Stoics argued that every individual man had within him a divine spark that could be cultivated by living a good and noble life.\nThe End of the Hellenistic Age\nThe Romans conquered the Hellenistic dynasties in stages, finally ending the Hellenistic Age in 31 B.C.E. when Octavian defeated Mark Antony and the Ptolemaic fleet at the Battle of Actium. Octavian adopted the name Augustus and became the first Roman emperor. The Hellenistic period may have been short, but its cultural and intellectual contributions have influenced readers, writers, artists, and scientists ever since.\nSource: Hellenistic Greece","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
+{"text":"February 1, 2023 01:10 PM WAT\nProcessing facilities\nSpecial palm oil\nRBDO\nOlein\nStearin\nCPKO\nRPKO\nFuture investments\n\/Products\n\/Stearin\nPalm Stearin is the solid fraction obtained from the fractionation of Refined Bleached and Deodorized Palm Oil. It is mainly used by the food industry.\nPresco's premium grade refined palm stearin is known as Palma.\nPalma is used:\nin dough for biscuits\nin chocolate and confectionery products\nin snacks, crisps, ...\nPalma Specifications:\nFFA (%) Max: 0.08-0.10\nMoisture & Impurities (%) Max: 0.01 or 0.02\nIV: ranging from 30 to 54 depending on the customer's specifications\nPV (meq O\u00b2\/kg): ranging from 0.8 to 3.5 depending on the customer's specifications\nMelting Point (\u00b0C): ranging from 36 to 55 depending on the customer's specifications\nTaste\/Odour: Bland\nColour (5 \u00bc\" Lovibond) R: ranging from 2.8 to 4.5 depending on the customer's specifications\nColour (5 \u00bc\" Lovibond) Y: 30-35\n\u00a9 Presco Plc 2023\nWebsite by Webbits","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
+{"text":"escape to luxury\nTravel tips and destination insights from the luxury accommodation specialists - alluxia.com\nTudors to Windsors at Bendigo Art Gallery\nThere is still time to plan an art inspired getaway to Bendigo to see the highly acclaimed exhibition Tudors to Windsors: British Royal Portraits. Featuring more than150 treasures from London's revered National Portrait Gallery, the exhibition includes works never before seen outside England.\nPresenting some of the most significant royal portraits, Tudors to Windsors: British Royal Portraits explores five royal dynasties: the Tudors, the Stuarts, the Georgians, the Victorians and the Windsors; shedding light on key figures and important historical moments. Among the many works on view are portraits of King Henry VIII, Queen Elizabeth I, King George III, Queen Victoria, Queen Elizabeth II, Princess Diana and Prince William and Catherine, the Duchess of Cambridge.\n'This exhibition presents an opportunity for an Australian audience to experience works by some of the most significant British artists such as Anthony van Dyck, Joshua Reynolds, Peter Lely, Annie Liebovitz, and Cecil Beaton; as well as provide context to the history of Australian British settlement,\" said Karen\nQuinlan, Director of Bendigo Art Gallery.\nWith the popularity of the English monarchy at an all time high, now is the time to explore the rich tapestry of the history and royal portraiture, while also exploring the historic region of Bendigo.\nTudors to Windsors: British Royal Portraits is on now at the Bendigo Art Gallery until 14 July 2019. Book your art inspired getaway here.\nImages: Bendigo Art Gallery\nThe Hunter Valley's Most Spectacular Cellar Door!\nWorld Gin Day | Australia's Best Gin Distilleries\nSally is the founder of alluxia.\nAlluxia Awards 2021\nLocals Guide to The Tweed\nInsiders Guide: The Tweed with Zeta Grealy\nNew Dining Destination Atmos Port Stephens\nSee the Colours of Ken Done in The Tweed\nRoundup: Top 5, Top 10\nCheck In: Review of the Month\nA List: Insiders Guide","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
+{"text":"Prof. (Dr.) Parthasarathi Chakrabarti, Director, IIEST, Shibpur, Howrah\nMr. Sanjay Kar Chowdhury, Chair, IEEE Kolkata section\nProf. (Dr.) Iti Saha Misra, Vice-Chair, IEEE Kolkata section, Jadavpur University, Kolkata\nProf. (Dr.) B.N.Basu, Ex-Emeritus Professor, IIT-BHU\nProf. (Dr.) Suparna Kar Chowdhury, Professor, Jadavpur University, Kolkata\nProf. (Dr.) C. T. Bhunia, Ex-Director, NIT , Arunachal Pradesh\nProf. (Dr.) Sipra Das Bit, Professor, IIEST, Shibpur\nProf. (Dr.) Jaya Sil, Professor, IIEST, Shibpur\nProf. (Dr.) S.R. Bhadra Chowdhury, Professor, IIEST, Shibpur\nProf. (Dr.) D. K. Sarkar, Professor, Department of Applied Sciences, University of Quebec Chicoutimi , Canada\nDr. Bittagopal Mondal Senior Scientist, CMERI, Durgapur\nDr. Dipankar Chatterjee, Principal Scientist, CMERI, Durgapur\nProf. (Dr.) Atanu Kundu, Secretary IEEE Kolkata Section\nDr. Sunil Bhusan, MEC, Hyderabad\nDr. Partha Bhattacharjee, Chief Scientist, CSIR-CMERI, Durgapur\nProf. (Dr.) Biswajit Ghosh, Former Professor of School of Energy Studies, Jadavpur University, India.\nProf. (Dr.) Shubhabrata Datta, Research Professor, Department of Mechanical Engineering, SRM Institute of Science and Technology, Chennai\nProf. (Dr.) Asok De,Ex Director NIT Patna,Professor Delhi Technical University.\nProf. (Dr.) Krishnendu Chakraborty, Principal GCECT\nProf. (Dr.) Himadri Chattopadhyay, Professor in Mechanical Engineering, Dept. of Mechanical Engg., JADAVPUR UNIVERSITY\nProf. (Dr.) Amit Konar, Professor ETCE, Jadavpur University\nProf. (Dr.) Bhaskar Gupta, Professor ETCE, Jadavpur University\nProf. (Dr.) Dewaki Nandan Tiberawala, Professor, Department of Bio-Science and Engineering\nProf.(Dr.) Anup Kumar Bhattacharjee, Professor, NIT Durgapur\nProf.(Dr.) Gautam Mahanti, Professor, NIT Durgapur\nProf. (Dr.) Rowdra Ghatak, Professor, NIT, Durgapur\nProf. (Dr.) Susanta Parui, Professor, IIEST, Shibpur\nProf. Sugata Munshi, Professor EE, Jadavpur University\nDr. Amit Banerjee, NUS, Scientist ER, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering.\nProf.(Dr.) Santi. 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Saha, NIT Durgapur .\nProf. (Dr.) Subrata Banerjee,Professor, NIT Durgapur\nProf. (Dr.) Dipankar Bhanja, Assistant professor, NIT, Silchar\nProf. (Dr.) Pabitra Haldar,Assistant professor,IIEST, Shibpur\nProf. (Dr.) Sayantan Sengupta, Assistant professor NIT, Durgapur\nProf. (Dr.) Snehaunshu Choudhury, Assistant professor,BITS Pilani, Dubai campus\nProf.(Dr.) Nirmalendu Biswas, Assistant Professor, Jadavpur University\nProf.(Dr.) Piyali Basak, Director, School of Bio-science and Engineering, Jadavpur University\nProf. (Dr.) Nirmal Baran Hui, Professor, NIT, Durgapur\nProf. (Dr.) Vishal Sharma, Research Assistant Professor, Soonchunhyang University, The Republic of Korea\nProf. (Dr.) Brojo Kishore Mishra, Professor, Department of CSE GIET University, Bhubaneswar\nProf. (Dr.) Jayasree Chakraborty, Research Fellow, Dept. of Surgery\nMemorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, New York, NY USA\nProf. (Dr.) Abhishek Midya, Research Fellow, Dept. of Surgery, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, New York, NY USA\nProf. (Dr.) Imon Mukherjee, Faculty Coordinator & Faculty in-Charge, Academics, Indian Institute of Information Technology, Kalyani, India\nProf. (Dr.) Ahmed A. Elngar, Assistant professor, Faculty of Computers and Information, Beni-Suef University, Beni Suef, Salah Salem Str., Egypt\nProf.(Dr.) Koushik Ghosh, Assistant Professor, Burdwan University\nDr. Deepak Gupta, Maharaja Agrasen Institute of Technology, Delhi, India\nProf (Dr.) Vishal Jain, Bharati Vidyapeeth's Institute of Computer Applications and Management (BVICAM),New Delhi\nProf (Dr.) Hussain Mahdi, Electronics Dept., Faculty of Engineering, Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia (UKM)\nProf (Dr.) Rajiv Pandey, Amity Institute of Information Technology, Lucknow\nMr. Tarun Bhattacharjee, Dr. B.C. Roy Engineering College, Durgapur\nProf. (Dr.) P. Pal Roy, Director BCREC, Former Director CSIR-CMERI & COEFM Ludhiana\nCo-Chairman\nProf. (Dr.) N. N. Pathak, Dr. B.C. Roy Engineering College, Durgapur\nOrganizing Co-Chairs\nProf. (Dr.) C. Koner, Dr. B.C. Roy Engineering College, Durgapur\nProf. (Dr.) Rajib Banerjee, Dr. B.C. Roy Engineering College, Durgapur\nTechnical Program Co-Chairs\nProf. (Dr.) C. K. Ghosh, Dr. B.C. Roy Engineering College, Durgapur\nProf. (Dr.) Tapas Mondal, Dr. B.C. Roy Engineering College, Durgapur\nProf.(Dr.) Mrinmoy Chakraborty, Dr. B.C. Roy Engineering College, Durgapur\nPublication Co-Chairs\nProf. (Dr.) K.M. Hossain, Dr. B.C. Roy Engineering College, Durgapur\nProf. (Dr.) Tribeni Prasad Banerjee, Dr. B.C. Roy Engineering College, Durgapur\nPublicity Co-Chairs\nProf. (Dr.) K. Chatterjee, Dr. B.C. Roy Engineering College, Durgapur\nProf. (Dr.) Anirban Bose, Dr. B.C. Roy Engineering College, Durgapur\nProf. Anirban Chattopadhyay, Dr. B.C. Roy Engineering College, Durgapur\nMr. Amitava Chakraborty, Dr. B.C. Roy Engineering College, Durgapur\nSponsorship Co-Chairs\nProf. (Dr.) S. Chandra, Dr. B.C. Roy Engineering College, Durgapur\nMrs. Ruma Mitra, Dr. B.C. Roy Engineering College, Durgapur\nProf. Rajdeep Ray, Dr. B.C. Roy Engineering College, Durgapur\nProf. Abhijit Banerjee, Dr. B.C. Roy Engineering College, Durgapur\nFinance Co-Chairs\nProf. (Dr.) S. Dutta, Dr. B.C. Roy Engineering College, Durgapur\nProf. (Dr.) Aloke Saha, Dr. B.C. Roy Engineering College, Durgapur\nProf. Saindhab Chattoraj, Dr. B.C. Roy Engineering College, Durgapur\nORGANIZING COMMITTEE MEMBERS\nProf. (Dr.) R. K. Samanta, Dr. B.C. Roy Engineering College\nProf. (Dr.) Aloke Kahali, Dr. B.C. Roy Engineering College\nProf. S. C. Chakraborty, Dr. B.C. Roy Engineering College\nProf. (Dr.) Jayanta Paul, Dr. B.C. Roy Engineering College\nProf. (Dr.) Sarit Pal, Dr. B.C. Roy Engineering College\nProf. (Dr.) Sanjoy Biswas, Dr. B.C. Roy Engineering College\nProf. (Dr.) Chandan Chattaraj, Dr. B.C. Roy Engineering College\nProf.(Dr.) Dola Sinha, Dr. B.C. Roy Engineering College\nProf. (Dr.) Sanjay Sengupta, Dr. B.C. Roy Engineering College\nProf.(Dr.) Sashi Bajaj, Dr. B.C. Roy Engineering College\nProf. Kaushik Senapati, Dr. B.C. 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Roy Engineering College\nProf. Soumen Biswas, Dr. B.C. Roy Engineering College\nMr. Souvik Chanda, Dr. B.C. Roy Engineering College\nMr. Saikat Dey, Dr. B.C. Roy Engineering College\nMr. Indranil Bhattacharjee, Dr. B.C. Roy Engineering College\nMr. Bappaditya Chandra, Dr. B.C. Roy Engineering College\nMr. Susanta Karmakar, Dr. B.C. Roy Engineering College\nMr. Samarnath Rajak, Dr. B.C. Roy Engineering College\nMrs. Subhadra Debroy, Dr. B.C. Roy Engineering College\nNotification of Acceptance\nNCETSTEA2020\norganizer_ieee-ncetstea2020@bcrec.ac.in\nhttp:\/\/ncetstea2020.org\nFuljhore, Durgapur 713206, West Bengal\nProf. (Dr.) C. Koner\nProf. (Dr.) Rajib Banerjee\nEmail: organizer_ieee-ncetstea2020@bcrec.ac.in\nCopyright \u00a92019 Dr. B.C. Roy Engineering College. all rights reserved\nDesigned by Saikat Dey","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
+{"text":"37-yr. Man Hooked\nBy New Republic Liberia On Dec 21, 2022\n-For Counterfeiting\nMONROVIA-A 37-year-old man has been sent to South Beach for counterfeiting several thousand Liberian dollars.\nHenry Simpson was on yesterday, forwarded to the Monrovia City Court following an investigation by the Liberia National police.\nArrested on December 9, 2022 in the Soul Clinic Community, Simpson had been charged with multiple offenses ranging from counterfeiting, economic sabotage, and money laundering.\nThe crime counterfeiting, economic sabotage, and money laundering which is in violation of 15.70 and 15.80 of the revised Law of Liberia (LNP).\nAccording to our judicial correspondent, the City Court Judge's action was triggered by an investigation conducted by the Liberia National Police.\nDefendant Simpson was arrested on December 9, in the Soul Clinic Community for being in possession of Four hundred and Fifty-four thousand Liberian Dollars.\nA charge sheet from the LNP said during its preliminary investigation defendant Simpson, admitted to receiving the package of counterfeit from his friend in Dubai who earlier promised him (defendant) to send the sum of twenty-five thousand United States dollars for his (defendant) keep-up since he had just returned from South Korea and things were not fine with him.\nSimpson was arrested in possession of the sum of four hundred, fifty-four thousand Liberian dollars which was retrieved by state security who arrested the situation.\nCummings' Arrested Bodyguard Released\nHealth Crisis Looms Over MCP\nWhat More Should AML Do?\nMORE POLICE VEHICLES AND MOTORBIKES ARE NEEDED FOR ELECTIONS","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
+{"text":"Year in Review: Southern California 2021 Images in the News\nBy Maggie More\t\u2022 Published December 27, 2021 \u2022 Updated on January 1, 2022 at 12:29 pm\nIt's been a long 2021, and on Friday, it's drawing to a close.\nBefore we greet 2022 and whatever it brings our way, here's a look back at some of the biggest local stories around Southern California from this past year.\nBaseball Hall of Fame player and manager, Tommy Lasorda, poses during a 1980 Los Angeles, California, photo portrait session at Dodger Stadium. Lasorda managed the Los Angeles Dodgers from 1976 to 1996. He died on Jan. 7, 2021.(Photo by George Rose\/Getty Images)\nA mural depicting Kobe Bryant and his daughter Gianna by artist Mr Brainwash is seen in Los Angeles. Jan. 26, 2021 marks the one year anniversary of the tragic helicopter crash which led to the death of nine people, including Bryant and his daughter Gianna. (Photo by Emma McIntyre\/Getty Images)\nGetty\/NASA\nIn this handout image provided by NASA, members of NASA's Perseverance rover team react in mission control after receiving confirmation the spacecraft successfully touched down on Mars, , February 18, 2021 at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California. A key objective for Perseverance's mission on Mars is astrobiology, including the search for signs of ancient microbial life.\nWally Skalij | Los Angeles Times | Getty Images\nLA County Sheriff's officers investigate an accident involving golfer Tiger Woods along Hawthorne Blvd. in Rancho Palos Verdes, Feb. 23, 2021. Woods made his triumphant return to golf in December 2021, after a long road to recovery after the accident.\nDr. Tomas Aragon, State Public Health Officer and California Department of Public Health Director, takes part in a vaccination event at the RingCentral Coliseum in Oakland, Calif., on Thursday, March 11, 2021 -- the one year anniversary of the World Health Organization declaring COVID-19 a pandemic -- to highlight the then-new, one-dose Janssen COVID-19 vaccine by Johnson & Johnson. The event was part of the state's efforts to increase vaccine acceptance among groups that are less likely to be vaccinated. (AP Photo\/Haven Daley)\nPeople attend a \"Stop Asian Hate\" candlelight vigil in a city park of Alhambra, Los Angeles County, California on March 20, 2021. Eight people, six of whom were Asian and two of whom were white, were killed in three shooting incidents in the Atlanta area by a suspect earlier that week. (Photo by Xinhua via Getty) (Xinhua\/xinhua via Getty Images)\nThe Los Angeles Dodgers lineup in front of socially distanced filled stadium before the game against the Washington Nationals during the 2021 MLB season home opening game at Dodger Stadium on April 09, 2021 in Los Angeles, California. (Photo by Harry How\/Getty Images)\nIn an aerial view, the San Gabriel River and the exposed lakebed of the San Gabriel Reservoir are seen in the third week of spring as another year of drought develops throughout the West, on April 8, 2021 in the San Gabriel Mountains near Azusa, California. Precipitation was extremely low in Los Angeles County during the winter of 2021, with no measurable rain recorded in downtown Los Angeles during the month of February, which is the height of the rainy season. As native vegetation grew drier and more flammable each month, fire officials expected another devastating season of massive wildfires. (Photo by David McNew\/Getty Images)\nPark visitors got emotional inside Disneyland as the theme park reopened for the first time in more than a year on Friday, April 30, 2021. The reopening of Disneyland, which was shut down in March of 2020 due to the COVID-19 pandemic. \"is a monumental day for Anaheim,\" city spokesman Mike Lyster said. (Robert Gauthier \/ Los Angeles Times via Getty Images)\nNBCLA\nA year after COVID-19 put ceremonies for the class of 2020 on hold, USC 2020 and 2021 graduates prepared for a pandemic-adjusted, but in-person, commencement. The school held multiple, smaller ceremonies from May 14 to May 20, 2021.\nLeos Family\nAiden Leos, pictured in this undated photo provided by his family, was killed in a road rage car-to-car shooting on the 55 Freeway on May 21, 2021. His death set off community-wide mourning and outrage, with local businesses donating thousands of dollars in reward money for information leading to the killers. Two suspects were arrested and charged in the death of the 6-year-old boy.\nA security camera captured a devoted dog mom's wild standoff with a protective mama bear in the back yard of a San Gabriel Valley home over Memorial Day weekend, 2021. Fearing for her dogs' safety, a teen girl joined the fray after hearing frantic barks. The encounter went viral online.\nGov. Gavin Newsom selects 15 vaccinated Californians to receive $50,000, on Friday, June 4, 2021, as part of the state's \"Vax for the Win\" vaccination incentive program.\nIllegal fireworks that were seized in South LA exploded during transport on June 30, 2021. The containment truck used to contain the explosives was overloaded, and could not contain the force of the blast, which bomb squad technicians vastly underestimated when loading the vehicle. The explosion shattered windows, sent debris throughout the neighborhood, and displaced some residents for months.\nAP Photo\/Marcio Jose Sanchez\nA sign advises shoppers to wear masks outside of a store Monday, July 19, 2021, in the Fairfax district of Los Angeles. Los Angeles County reinstated an indoor mask mandate due to rising COVID-19 cases, just a few weeks after California lifted most pandemic restrictions. (AP Photo\/Marcio Jose Sanchez)\nOnScene\nCows are seen in a Pico Rivera neighborhood Tuesday June 23, 2021, after breaking free from a slaughterhouse and making an escape attempt. Only one cow managed to escape slaughter, and found a new home at Southland Farm Sanctuary.\nPresident Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris pose for photographs with the 2020 World Series champion Los Angeles Dodgers in the East Room of the White House on July 02, 2021 in Washington, DC. The Dodgers defeated the Tampa Bay Rays to win the championship series at the end of an abbreviated season due to the coronavirus. (Photo by Chip Somodevilla\/Getty Images)\nAtsushi Tomura\/Getty Images\nTeam USA gold medalists pose on the podium after winning the Women's Gold Medal match between Spain and the United States on day fifteen of the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games at Tatsumi Water Polo Centre on Aug. 7, 2021 in Tokyo, Japan. A grand total of 63 of Team USA's 113 medals at the Tokyo Olympics were won by athletes with ties to Southern California.\nHundreds of people joined a hike Sunday Aug. 29, 2021 in memory of Lance Corporal Kareem Nikoui, a 2019 Norco High School graduate. Nikoui was one of 13 service members killed while helping people evacuate Afghanistan when the Taliban took over Kabul, ending the U.S. war in Afghanistan.\nAP Photo\/Rich Pedroncelli\nGov. Gavin Newsom addresses a crowd in Sacramento, Calif., on Tuesday night, Sept. 14, 2021. Newsom defeated an attempt to oust him from office in a recall election, overcoming Republican criticism of COVID-19 restrictions that shuttered schools and businesses.\nGettyt\nRandy Duncan leaves flowers in support of the Bruce Family and George Floyd at Bruce's Beach on April 20, 2021 in Manhattan Beach, California. \u2013 The Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors voted to return a valuable parcel of land to the descendants of a Black couple, Willa and Charles Bruce, who once operated a beach resort before it and additional land owned by Black families was taken via eminent domain in the 1920s only to sit vacant for decades. A county lifeguard training center is operated on the parcel of land once owned by the Bruce family. (Photo by Patrick T. FALLON \/ AFP) (Photo by PATRICK T. FALLON\/AFP via Getty Images)\nHUNTINGTON BEACH, CALIFORNIA \u2013 OCTOBER 03: Oil is washed up on Huntington State Beach after a 126,000-gallon oil spill from an offshore oil platform on October 3, 2021 in Huntington Beach, California. The spill forced the closure of the popular Great Pacific Airshow with authorities urging people to avoid beaches in the vicinity. (Photo by Mario Tama\/Getty Images)\nAn LAPD photo reveals a Jack Skellington balloon that may have been the explanation behind an ongoing mystery near LAX. Multiple pilots reported seeing a mysterious \"jetpack man\" in the skies over Los Angeles, starting in 2020 and with the most recent sighting in July 2021. NBC4's I-Team uncovered what may have been the cause.\nPatrick T. Fallon\/AFP via Getty Images\nSupporters of the \"Free Britney\" movement rally in support of musician Britney Spears outside the Stanley Mosk courthouse in Los Angeles, California, Nov. 12, 2021. \u2013 A Los Angeles judge on Friday formally approved the process of ending the controversial guardianship that has controlled Spears' life for the past 13 years.\nMario Tama\/Getty Images (File)\nA person wearing a face covering walks past a white flag memorial installation outside Griffith Observatory honoring the Los Angeles County residents who have died from COVID-19 on Nov. 18, 2021, in Los Angeles, California.\nRead it and weep: Gas prices at some SoCal stations were even higher than the statewide, record-high prices per gallon in mid-November.\nA shattered glass door is pictured after robberies in Burbank early Friday Dec. 3, 2021. Locations all around Southern California were hit by burglaries and smash-and-grab robberies towards the end of the year, in a sudden crime spike.\nLOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA \u2013 DECEMBER 03: People who arrived on international flights wait to be tested on the first day of a new rapid COVID-19 testing site for arriving international passengers at Los Angeles International Airport (LAX) on December 3, 2021 in Los Angeles, California. The free voluntary tests are being offered to arriving passengers in the Tom Bradley International Terminal by the Los Angeles County Department of Health after the county confirmed its first case of the Omicron variant December 2. (Photo by Mario Tama\/Getty Images)\nNewsChopper4 Alpha captures crews removing the iconic Staples Center lettering and logos from the outside of the stadium on Dec. 6, to make way for its new identity as the Crypto.com Arena.\nMexican singer Vicente Fernandez performs at AmericanAirlines Arena on October 10, 2010 in Miami, Florida. The icon, El Rey, died on Dec. 12. (Photo by Olivia Salazar\/WireImage)\nyear in reviewLos AngelesSouthern California2021socal\nThings To Do: Events, Food, Festivals in SoCal in 2022\nPhotos: Fire and Extreme Heat Damage Cars at Santa Clarita Apartment\nIn Memoriam: People We've Lost in 2022\nIn Photos: Bronx Blaze, Worst NYC Fire in 30+ Years, Leaves Dozens Gravely Injured","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
+{"text":"8\/7\/10: HuffPost again devalues the Holocaust (Part 2)\nContinued from Part 1: 8\/7\/10: HuffPost again devalues the Holocaust: Writer stereotypes Jews, insinuates gay marriage opponents are Nazis\nIs this the first time HuffPost has made such a hideously bad decision regarding editorial writers and Jewish affairs? Uh, no.\nHere are four examples of editorial decisions HuffPost has made in the past that reflect its willingness to tolerate that for which it claims it has no tolerance:\nHolocaust refugees = militant Islamists? Apparently to HuffPost, YES.\nOn June 7, 2010, HuffPost disguised another editorial screed as a \"news\" article --- this time, from a well-known anti-Israel propagandist --- who compared the terrorists who ambushed the IDF on the \"Flotilla of Terror\" to... Holocaust survivors. Excerpt:\nON THE high seas, outside territorial waters, the ship was stopped by the navy. The commandos stormed it. Hundreds of people on the deck resisted, the soldiers used force. Some of the passengers were killed, scores injured. The ship was brought into harbor, the passengers were taken off by force. The world saw them walking on the quay, men and women, young and old, all of them worn out, one after another, each being marched between two soldiers...\nThe ship was called \"Exodus 1947\". It left France in the hope of breaking the British blockade, which was imposed to prevent ships loaded with Holocaust survivors from reaching the shores of Palestine. If it had been allowed to reach the country, the illegal immigrants would have come ashore and the British would have sent them to detention camps in Cyprus, as they had done before. Nobody would have taken any notice of the episode for more than two days.\nHuffPo Writer: At Least Hitler Meant Well (Via Little Green Footballs)\nAt the Huffington Post, your one-stop shop for leftist vitriol and deranged hatred, former Washington Post sportswriter and Seinfeld co-producer Peter Mehlman says the Bush administration is far worse than the world's worst fascist dictators. At least the dictators meant well.\nOh, and by the way --- HuffPost has allowed Mehlman to remain one of its official bloggers .\nHuffPost blogger depicts Sen. Lieberman in blackface\nOn August 2, 2006, in the leadup to the mid-term elections, HuffPost published an article by one of its official resident bloggers, Jane Hamsher, entitled:\n\"On the Ground with Lamont\/Lieberman\"\nHuffPost also decided to publish the picture that Hamsher included of Sen. Lieberman --- in blackface:\n(If you're unfamiliar with the incredible racist insult that \"blackface\" represents, learn more here)\nOh, and by the way --- HuffPost has allowed Hamsher to remain one of its official bloggers.\nOfficial HuffPost blogger Roseanne Barr dresses up as Hitler, puts \"Jews\" in oven\nOn July 30, 2009, in addition to many other conservative blogs, NewsBusters revealed excerpts of a recent photoshoot that HuffPost blogger (and notorious anti-Israel propagandist) Roseanne Barr did with \"Heeb\" magazine --- in which she dressed up as Hitler, and eats burnt \"Jew people cookies\" out of an oven:\nOh, and by the way --- HuffPost has allowed Barr to remain one of its official bloggers\nConclusion: This incident goes way beyond irresponsibility --- and in the context of all preceding ones, dances on the line of anti-Semitism\nIn Beyond chutzpah: Arianna Huffington objects to PolitiFact claiming she tells \"half-truths,\" HUFF-WATCH exposed why Arianna Huffington's recent meltdown over the \"fact-checking\" she requested of her statements on ABC's \"This Week\" backfired on her. Specifically, we documented the fact rather than merely stating \"half-truths,\" as PolitiFact alleged, HuffPost has a long history of publishing outright falsehoods and egregiously misleading statements in its headlines.\nBut even that expose' doesn't quite cover how deceptive, how untruthful, and how offensive \"Rabbi\" Michael Lerner's screed actually is.\nNo one --- except the radical Islamists that HuffPost habitually protects and shills for --- is advocating throwing gays (and Jews) into furnaces, as was done in Nazi Germany.\nNo one --- except the most extreme religious minorities --- is advocating persecuting gays, or denying them their Constitutional rights.\nFor HuffPost to not only decide to publish such such an inflammatory allegation, but to disguise it as a \"news\" item, and position it so prominently on its front page, reeks of something awful.\nIs it anti-Semitism, though?\nIf this were an isolated incident, probably not. But given HuffPost's long history of applying an anti-Semitic, anti-Israel bias to its \"news\" coverage and comment moderation, and of inciting and tolerating anti-Semitic and anti-Israel hatred, we find it difficult to attribute its actions in this regard as anything but a murky extension of its pathological war against Jews. See:\nWhat's especially disturbing about this particular episode, though, is the fact that HuffPost enabled a man who calls himself a \"rabbi\" to prove the validity of Godwin's Law.\nWhy this is so important; how to make your voice known to HuffPost\nThis all would not be so troubling if it weren't for the fact that HuffPost is now the #1 most-read blog in the world, and a top ten U.S. \"news\" site. Which has access to presidential news conferences --- and in at least one instance, was given preferential treatment. All of which it has achieved, at least in part, because of its repeated claims that it is a \"nonpartisan\" source of \"news,\" that seeks \"to debunk the left-right way of thinking,\" and \"to ferret out the truth, consequences be damned.\"\nRegardless of one's feelings on its qualities or deficiencies, HuffPost is clearly having an impact on public perceptions of important issues --- and it is now making a major push to increase its readership outside the US.\nIf you're as concerned as we are about HuffPost's blatant, pathological anti-Israel bias, and would like to make your voice known to its management (politely, please), here's how.\nPosted by HuffWatcher1 at 9:03\u202fAM\nLabels: Anti-Semitism, False\/Misleading headlines","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
+{"text":"City-Data Forum > U.S. Forums > Missouri > Kansas City\nIs Kansas City a Western city? (St. Louis, Columbia: authority, rail, metropolitan area)\nPassword [Register]\nPlease register to participate in our discussions with 2 million other members - it's free and quick! Some forums can only be seen by registered members. After you create your account, you'll be able to customize options and access all our 15,000 new posts\/day with fewer ads.\nView detailed profile (Advanced) or search\nsite with\nSearch Forums (Advanced)\nView Poll Results: What is Kansas City?\nMidwestern 97 61.78%\nTransitional from Midwest to West 54 34.39%\nWestern 6 3.82%\nVoters: 157. You may not vote on this poll\nPage 23 of 28 \u00ab First < 13 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 >\nrwiksell\n1,328 posts, read 1,348,525 times\nOriginally Posted by GraniteStater\nTulsa is much too far south to be part of the Midwest, I'm not sure why the locals there consider themselves to be part of the region- other than not being very familiar with how the vast majority of the Midwest is really like.\nThis comment is borderline offensive. As if Tulsans \"don't get out much\".\nIf you really want to divvy up the regions according to state lines, sure. I could see Oklahoma going in any of three different regions. But take it from a guy who grew up there: the entire northeast quadrant of Oklahoma is culturally indistinguishable from eastern Kansas. It seems a little counter-intuitive, but southern Missouri is actually more southern than northern Oklahoma. I think this is because of the Ozark Mountains, but also because of completely different settlement patterns that helped define the culture of those areas.\nIvory Lee Spurlock\nLocation: 78745\nI would say the 100th meridian is a solid dividing line between the agrarian areas of the Midwest from the semi-arid ranching areas of the West that are occasionally mixed in with irrigation agriculture. Central and western Nebraska are certainly more like the West than the Midwest, whilst eastern Nebraska is solidly Midwest.\nDing ding ding !!! We have a winner. That's how it is in Texas. Things start to look more \"western\" around 100 degree longitude , at least stereoptypical Western when judged by the standards the old Westerns and cowboy movies and TV shows that showed us what the West looks like.\nLast edited by Ivory Lee Spurlock; 03-09-2017 at 10:07 AM..\nelkotronics\nLocation: Alamogordo, NM\nThat describes it well. It's a town firmly in the transition zone. South of town the influences get stronger though. Not until you get down to around Salem, then it becomes more dominantly southern overall. Rolla overall I would say has slightly more Midwestern influences than southern ones. Maybe like 40-45 percent southern and 55-60 percent Midwestern.\nPlaces like Rolla\/St. James are a good example of a transition zone city for Missouri, and Carbondale is a good example of a transition zone city for IL.\nRolla was our landing point to the Midwest. It is mellow, has a great exercise place in it called The Centre, and is small with not much pretentiousness. It has a Sonic, at least one McDonald's, a JC Penney (at least it had one), a good small park, some good walking areas downtown and a branch of the U of Missouri that teaches engineering and mining. I think back fondly of it - not to mention a good vet near Wal*Mart. Helped us take care of our ailing Abbey, our 10 year old Pomeranian would died of CHF. That event broke my heart in two.\nBuried her in Missouri Conservation Society land SW of St. Louis. She loved Daddy (me) with all of her heart. While I studied my Respiratory Therapy textbooks she would lie at my feet throughout the night. So adorable and so loyal.\nGraniteStater\nLocation: Floyd County, IN\n25,207 posts, read 43,105,397 times\nOriginally Posted by rwiksell\nWell, I'm also quite familiar with Tulsa as my mother's parents lived there for many years and a sibling of mine graduated from the local university there. Neither my grandparents, parents, or any of their friends ever considered Tulsa to be part of the Midwest region. The default is \"Native America.\" Tulsa is a hybrid of the South-Central Plains, at the periphery of the Greater Ozarks Region, and has some influences from the Southwest and Southeast US. Tulsa received a greater infusion of wealth during the early to mid 20th century due to the energy extraction economy, and had more people migrate there from the eastern US during that time period. That \"old money\" influence is now more diluted with time, but still visible in certain areas of the city- hence a bit of \"Midwest\" influence. If anything, I would say the metro area is becoming more southern with time due to surrounding counties demographics and migration patterns.\nMOforthewin\nI'd consider it a hybrid southern, sorta like what Joplin is. I would not consider Tulsa as southern as Branson or Poplar Bluff for example. Granted Branson and Poplar Bluff have no Midwestern influences though.\nAre you saying your family considered themselves, not Midwesterners, but part of \"Native America\"? I thought that was just a marketing slogan for license plates and tourism brochures. Unless your family is actually Native American by blood, it's bothersome to think that this is how they identified themselves.\nI would say Tulsa has more southern influence than Oklahoma city.\nNo, that is the default slogan of the state. None of our family or our friends considered Tulsa to be the Midwest at all. It is a hybrid of the South-Central Plains, Southeast US, and Upland South.\nIt is much more aligned with the southern US overall.\nI agree. I think it's a bit too far west to be heavily influenced by the southeast. I consider it similar to Joplin as it's a hybrid type city with influences from the south, Ozarks, and plains\/midwest since it's so close to Kansas.\ncitychik\nLocation: Midcoast Maine\n731 posts, read 1,635,691 times\nThe US Census Bureau considers these states as comprising the Midwestern region:\nIllinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Michigan, Minnesota, Missouri, Nebraska, North Dakota, Ohio, South Dakota, and Wisconsin.\nWikipedia says that the Census Bureau had previously called them the North Central states, officially.\nBelow is another map that shows how the Census Bureau breaks down all the regions. They've designated four major ones -- Northeast, South, Midwest, and West -- each with their own sub-regions. For example, the Mid-Atlantic is part of the Northeast (and yet I recall a thread where people were arguing that Pennsylvania is part of the Midwest). This map has Maryland and Delaware as Southern Atlantic, but I always tended to think of them as Mid-Atlantic.\nThe odd thing is they've divided the West into Pacific and Mountain, but did not label the Southwest. Nor does the map have a label for the Plains states, and I've never heard anyone talk about any \"East South Central\" states!:\nAlthough an editor has made a note asking for a citation on this statement, here's an interesting tidbit from Wikipedia and I wonder how accurate it is: \"Traditional definitions of the Midwest include the Northwest Ordinance Old Northwest states and many states that were part of the Louisiana Purchase. The states of the Old Northwest are also known as Great Lakes states and are east-north central in the United States. The Ohio River runs along the southeastern section while the Mississippi River runs north to south near the center. Many of the Louisiana Purchase states in the west-north central United States, are also known as Great Plains states, where the Missouri River is a major waterway joining with the Mississippi. The Midwest lies north of the 36\u00b030\u2032 parallel that the 1820 Missouri Compromise established as the dividing line between future slave and non-slave states.\"\nPlease register to post and access all features of our very popular forum. It is free and quick. Over $68,000 in prizes has already been given out to active posters on our forum. 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+{"text":"A Spectrum of Capabilities in FTIR Microspectroscopy\nFourier transform infrared spectroscopy (FTIR) has long been a valuable tool to facilitate confirmation of molecular structure through analysis of spectra in comparison to reference spectra\nJuly4th,2019\nFrederick William Herschel (1738\u20131822) composed 24 symphonies. He also discovered Uranus, the first planet ever detected with equipment more powerful than human eyesight, although he assumed all celestial bodies to be populated, including the interior of the Sun. His dedication to the study of reflected light spurred prodigious innovations in astral telescopes and laid bare the raw power of Newton's mathematical laws governing prismatic dispersion. Herschel inferred infrared (IR) radiation from his observations of temperature changes in samples subjected to sunlight outside the visible spectrum. He concluded that the absorption of IR energy was proportional to the temperature change observed as a sample moved through different wavelengths. As luck would have it, molecular vibrations occur at the frequencies that correspond to IR wavelengths. When radiant energy matches the energy of a particular vibration caused by stretching and bending along chemical bonds, the resulting spectrum is equivalent to a molecular fingerprint. The field of spectroscopy emerged from these relationships, and systems that were later adopted widely among chemists and technicians as quality control tools have their origins in bedrock observations and theories regarding the nature of electromagnetic radiation and hence the fundamental properties of space and time. The special theory of relativity, for example, relies upon the Lorentz factor, a mathematical caveat to accommodate the result of the Michelson\u2013 Morley experiment. In this seminal experiment, measurements of reflected light split by a silvered mirror in a device called a Michelson interferometer unexpectedly negated the fin-de-si\u00e8cle scientific dogma that Earth moved through a luminous ether that influenced the speed of light.\nHerschel's son John developed the first IR images, and IR spectra were soon used to characterize chemical compounds. However, the technology was initially limited to using dispersive techniques, in which radiation of known individual frequencies is used to bombard targets, and spectra are collected wavelength by wavelength. Dispersive spectroscopy is still frequently used, for instance, to characterize spectra obtained via X-ray backscatter that results as a by-product of other techniques, such as electron microscopy. Like so many other leaps forward, the propulsive force of wartime annihilation helped catalyze improvements in IR spectroscopy. In World War II, some missile guidance systems used diffraction of IR radiation through crystallized salts; similar strategies were then adapted in miniature to facilitate the first commercial spectroscopy devices. Incorporation of the Michelson interferometer vastly increased throughput by enabling simultaneous bombardment with a range of frequencies via a constantly moving mirror to create a variable time delay. The result, an interferogram, must then be reconstituted into corresponding absorption spectra using Fourier transform analysis to plot transmittance against wavenumber.\nFourier transform infrared spectroscopy (FTIR) has long been a valuable tool to facilitate confirmation of molecular structure through analysis of spectra in comparison to reference spectra. It is frequently used to identify contaminants in organic chemistry synthesis and pharmaceutical production chains. FTIR has several advantages over dispersive techniques, including the ability to obtain more comprehensive spectra and to do so more quickly. Additionally, the energy imparted to the sample via continuous reflection, rather than stepwise grated dispersion, allows for higher sensitivity and therefore a greater signal-to-noise ratio. Intrinsically, the diffraction limit of IR radiation defines the resolution of molecular analysis; addition of various microscopy platforms to FTIR equipment has enabled transcendence of previous limits and allowed, at minimum, higherorder applications such as surface mapping of conformational changes during drug-target binding. Consequently, FTIR has moved from being a quality control tool to a powerful analytical and predictive tool.\nBeyond quality control: applications in nanomaterials and medicine\nOne field in which FTIR has made great inroads is the production and analysis of nanomaterials. The word \"nanomaterials\" usually elicits a vague and static concept of something very small. However, a partial list of nanomaterial classes includes quantum dots, nanospheres, nanolenses, nanorods, nanofibers, nanocubes, nanosheets, and nano-onions. Each of these has a distinctive topographical footprint in zero to three dimensions within and beyond nano-space. Researchers can use FTIR microspectroscopy to characterize properties and irregularities both of nanomaterials and of macromaterials at the nanoscale level. Consequently, they can make structure\u2013 function relationship predictions and strategize improvements. For instance, in computer engineering, detailed information about nanomaterial structure can guide efforts to improve highcapacity storage and high-resolution imaging. In medicine, FTIR microscopy can be used at the nanoscale to improve targeting specificity or lower toxicity in drug delivery systems.\nConstantly evolving FTIR platforms adapted to novel microscopic lenses, computational algorithms, and precision technologies, such as quantum cascade laser imaging, have the potential to demolish established ceilings in the speed and accuracy of medical diagnostics. False-negative and -positive histopathology results from subjective analysis of stained biopsies could conceivably be eliminated by objective FTIRbased digital standards. Cancer prognoses and treatments could acquire greater accuracy through quantitative FTIR-based mapping of tumor boundaries and real-time intracellular analysis of drug-target interactions. Label-free detection of cell-surface disease markers without addition of fluorophores and chemical surrogates that can confound analysis promises to streamline and optimize clinical diagnostics. Moreover, FTIR can potentially define novel disease markers by sorting and analyzing individual extracellular vesicles according to their distinct biochemical and optical properties.\nUser-friendly FTIR microscopy\nThe origins of FTIR in observations, calculations, and theorems by great minds concerned with the nature and origin of the universe begs the question of whether a garden-variety scientist can obtain and analyze data without first obtaining at least an extra doctoral degree. Commercially, providers have optimized automation and software interfaces within FTIR microscopy equipment to be used with minimal training. A decreased footprint also makes it easier to bring the technology into individual laboratories. Bruker offers the LUMOS as an entry-level model with a broad range of capabilities for particle identification, chemical composition analysis, and measurements of defects and contaminants. Its HYPERION series is more suitable for dedicated materials R&D labs or core facilities, with major upgrades in frequency detection range and objectives arranged to accommodate different types of samples. Analogously, Thermo Nicolet FTIR devices, which run the gamut in capability and resolution from the iN5 to the Continu\u03bcm, are configured for straightforward quality control studies. With the products available, there is a spectrum of capabilities in FTIR microspectroscopy.\nFor additional resources on FTIR, including useful articles and a list of manufacturers, visit www.labmanager.com\/ftir\nTags: FTIR \/ NIRProduct FocusProduct Resource: Product Focus\nLaboratory Trends\nLabor automation has always been a polarizing subject, approached alternately with hushed caution and with a tendency to rant and rave, to smash and rend\nVolume 14 - Issue 6\nMicroplastics Drifting Down With the Snow\nPerkinElmer Launches Solutions to Streamline Analysis for Labs in Pharmaceuticals, Semiconductors, Biomonitoring, Food, and Materials\nResearchers Deconstruct Ancient Parchment Using Multiple Techniques\nUltraviolet Laser Illumination for More Powerful Photoluminescent Microspectroscopy\nUV-Visible-NIR Polarization Spectroscopy of Microscopic Samples","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
+{"text":"\"The Healthcare Quality Strategy for NHSScotland\"\nScottish Executive Question Time \u2013 in the Scottish Parliament at 2:15 pm on 13th May 2010.\nAll Scottish Parliament debates on 13 May 2010\nAlasdair Morgan Scottish National Party 2:15 pm, 13th May 2010\nThe next item of business is a debate on motion S3M-6295, in the name of Nicola Sturgeon, on the national health service quality strategy.\nOfficial Report source\nNicola Sturgeon Scottish National Party 2:58 pm, 13th May 2010\nI welcome the opportunity to lead this debate.\nIn recent years, the NHS has made impressive progress in improving the quality of health care. Undoubtedly, the most impressive achievement has been the slashing of waiting times. Like many MSPs, when I was first elected, it was not uncommon to get letters from people who had waited a year or more for treatment. Thankfully, that is a thing of the past. Waiting times for both out-patient and in-patient treatment are now at record lows and we are on track to meet the 18-weeks referral-to-treatment target next year. Both this Administration and the previous one can justifiably take some credit for that achievement, but the real praise should go to the NHS staff who have delivered it. However, important though that progress on waiting times is, we should not rest on our laurels. We must be\u2014and this Government is\u2014committed to making further improvements.\nPatients want speedy treatment and quick access to care, but they want more than that. They also want a health service that is compassionate and treats them with dignity; they want to see real partnership between clinicians, patients and others; they want services to be provided in a clean and safe environment; they want hospital food to be good; they want continuity right though their journey of care; and, of course, they want to have confidence in the quality and effectiveness of any treatment.\nAchieving all that for every patient, every time that they use the NHS, is what the quality strategy is all about. At its heart is a simple but very ambitious aim: to make the NHS in Scotland a world leader in the quality of health care services that it delivers.\nThat aim is not just good for patients, it is also right for staff. There is real enthusiasm across the NHS for the quality strategy\u2014something that I would be the first to accept cannot always be said about Government initiatives. The reason for that enthusiasm is fourfold.\nFirst, delivering compassionate care is at the very heart of clinical values. For staff in the NHS, being able to contribute to the delivery of high quality health care services with their colleagues and with patients motivates them every day.\nSecondly, the quality strategy is not just another Government initiative. Although we are calling it a strategy, it is, in reality, much more than that. It is a whole new ethos and one that I believe will position us more effectively to build on the strong foundations that we already have in place and on the impressive progress made to date and which will enable us to meet the challenges that we all know lie ahead.\nThirdly, it is about not reinventing the wheel but building on what already works and spreading good practice to every ward, surgery and clinic. For example, I have been hugely impressed by the results of the Scottish patient safety programme in reducing adverse incidents for patients and by the results of the releasing time to care initiative, which examines the systems and processes in place in a ward to cut down the time that nurses are forced to waste and free them up to do what they do best\u2014care directly for patients Fourthly, it has been developed through extensive discussion with people working in and with the NHS, representatives from patient groups, the third sector and colleagues across the wider public sector.\nSo, what does the quality strategy do? Principally, it sets out three quality ambitions. First, we will create beneficial partnerships between patients, their families and those delivering health care services. Those partnerships will respect individual needs and values and will demonstrate compassion, continuity, clear communication and shared decision making. Secondly, we will ensure that people experience no avoidable injury or harm from the health care that they receive and that they are cared for in an appropriate, clean and safe environment at all times. Thirdly, the most appropriate treatments, interventions, support and services will be provided at the right time to everyone who will benefit from them, with no wasteful or harmful variation.\nWhen I talk about the quality strategy, I am well aware that there are always sceptics\u2014healthy sceptics, I have to say\u2014thinking, \"Surely all of that is what the NHS should do anyway.\" The answer to that question is, \"Yes, it should\" and, in many, many cases, \"Yes, it does.\" However, the truth\u2014that we must face up to\u2014is that it does not do so consistently for all the patients who use the NHS all the time.\nOur ambition\u2014the ambition of the quality strategy\u2014is that, in future, it will. So, from now on, everything that we do in the NHS will seek to contribute to those ambitions, and the delivery and performance management arrangements, including the health improvement, efficiency, access and treatment, or HEAT, system that members\u2014certainly members of the Health and Sport Committee\u2014are well aware of, will be aligned to support that.\nThe other question that will be asked is, \"How will we know that the quality strategy is succeeding?\" The answer is that we will systematically measure progress. Quality\u2014with its inevitable element of subjectivity\u2014is, of course, harder to measure than, for example, waiting times, but it can and will be done.\nWe are developing a quality measurement framework that supports our vision of health care quality as described by the three quality ambitions. Progress towards those ambitions will be assessed by reference to quality outcome measures. Those will be based on a combination of patient and staff-reported experiences and outcomes as well as measures of patient safety and clinical effectiveness. The detail of the measures is still being developed, but pages 37 and 38 of the strategy give some examples of measures that are being considered.\nThe quality outcome measures will also contribute to a quality scorecard, which is a key tool for NHS boards to use to assess quality of care and to provide early warning of any potential quality issues. In light of the situation that arose in Mid Staffordshire in England and, indeed, in the Vale of Leven here, I believe that that is an important tool for boards to use, in addition to the governance systems that they already have in place.\nAs I have said, the HEAT targets will in future be aligned to the quality ambitions.\nAt the very heart of the quality strategy and the measurement framework is the determination to listen to patients' views. Ultimately the success of the quality strategy will be determined by the perceptions and experiences of those who use the NHS and of their loved ones and by the views of those who work in the NHS. That is why it is so important to gather those views both in a way in which they have never been gathered before and to more of an extent than ever before and to ensure that they are used to drive further improvement.\nIn my remaining time, I will make a number of points about NHS resources, as raised in two of the amendments. First, I have heard some suggest\u2014not necessarily anyone in the chamber\u2014that with the tightening of public sector budgets now is the wrong time to embark on something as undoubtedly ambitious as the quality strategy. I could not disagree more strongly. When a patient gets care or treatment on the NHS that is not of the highest quality, it is not only a disservice to the patient but an inefficient use of NHS resources. For example, a patient who goes into hospital for a straightforward procedure that should see them discharged the next day might pick up an infection that leads to their staying in for a week. That is both hugely traumatic for the patient and an avoidable cost burden on the NHS. Quality care equals efficient and cost-effective care, and that is hugely important in this financial climate.\nJeremy Purvis Liberal Democrat\nI have a question not about the global amount of funding, but about its distribution. The cabinet secretary will recall that we met to discuss the difficulties that rural health boards are facing as a result of the move to the national resource allocation committee distribution formula. When will she be able to come back to Parliament with the results of the look-again at the rural element of health funding distribution, given its impact on the services that are necessary in such areas?\nNicola Sturgeon Scottish National Party\nJeremy Purvis has certainly raised that issue with me before. In fact, Malcolm Chisholm raised NRAC issues in Parliament earlier this morning and Christine Grahame, too, has highlighted the same issues. As Mr Purvis knows, the technical advisory group on resource allocation is looking at certain issues around the NRAC formula, and I am more than happy to consider where it would be appropriate to update Parliament on the outcome of that work. In the meantime, however, I am also more than happy to keep Mr Purvis updated. Whatever funding allocation formula is in place should be fair and should keep pace with some of the changes that happen in the NHS.\nOn the Labour amendment, I point out that this year's NHS budget is \u00a3264 million higher than last year's as a result of our action to protect the NHS from the impact of a Westminster-imposed \u00a3500 million cut in our budget. We will continue to protect the NHS. However, it is also right that the service makes efficiency savings to maximise the resources that it can spend on front-line care. Those savings are robustly scrutinised to ensure that they do not damage the quality of front-line care\u2014indeed, that will continue to be the case\u2014but it is vital that we do everything possible to ensure that every pound is spent wisely for the benefit of patients, to meet the population's changing needs and expectations and to reflect the different ways in which health care is delivered.\nI am going to be charitable about the Liberal Democrat amendment, which I assume was lodged before the Lib Dems went into coalition with a Tory party intent on cutting \u00a36 billion from public spending this year. I suggest that if the Lib Dems have concerns about the impact of Tory spending plans on Scottish budgets\u2014as they should\u2014they should address them in the first instance to the new Lib Dem Chief Secretary to the Treasury, whose job it will be to implement the cuts. On the Tory amendment, I am happy to report back to Parliament in the way that has been suggested.\nTo all the Opposition parties I say that, although it is absolutely appropriate for all of us to make our various points in the debate, I hope that when it comes to tonight's vote we can unite behind the quality strategy and show those tasked with delivering it that we are all behind them in their efforts. I also hope that we can unite to ensure that over the next few challenging years we protect to the best of our ability the health service that is so highly cherished in our country.\nI believe that the quality strategy's implementation will strengthen confidence in our NHS and will give confidence not only to patients and carers but to staff in the job that they are doing. I believe that it will help us to build an even greater sense of national pride in an NHS that I believe is amongst the best in the world.\nI am happy to move, That the Parliament commends The Healthcare Quality Strategy for NHSScotland as the right approach, at the right time, to delivering the highest quality healthcare to everybody in Scotland, responding to what they want, need and deserve and, through this, to ensuring that the quality of healthcare services across NHS Scotland becomes recognised as among the best in the world.\nJackie Baillie Labour 3:10 pm, 13th May 2010\nI welcome the opportunity to discuss the NHS quality strategy and I congratulate the Scottish Government on introducing it. I find little to disagree with in the document and I am sure that that view will be shared among members across the chamber. We all want safe, clinically effective and person-centred treatment, which is at the heart of the quality strategy. We all want Scotland to become a world leader in the delivery of health care. It is right that we should continually strive to improve our delivery of services and the outcomes that we achieve for people throughout the country.\nThe ambition is right, and I am sure that the cabinet secretary will acknowledge that achieving that ambition will be dependent on leadership at all levels of the NHS, shared ownership of the objectives and, of course, partnership with staff, patients and carers. All that will be critical if we are to achieve change on the scale that is required and to begin to meet the objectives and take the direction of travel that the strategy sets out.\nIf any of the sentiments in the document is to become real, measuring progress matters. I am therefore interested in the quality framework, underpinned by HEAT targets, that will serve to monitor and drive progress. I have no disagreement with the 12 overarching outcome measures that are proposed and I am pleased that there is an outcome on hospital-acquired infections. However, there is a suggestion that there will be a reduction in HEAT targets. I ask the cabinet secretary which ones will be dropped and whether new ones will be developed.\nThat is an important issue and one on which I am happy to keep the Parliament updated. It is not a question of dropping HEAT targets; the aim is to ensure that the HEAT targets that we choose are aligned with the ambitions in the quality strategy to ensure that boards and those who work in the NHS are clear about the objectives that they are working towards. As always, I will ensure that Parliament is kept updated as that work develops.\nJackie Baillie Labour\nI am sure that we all look forward to scrutinising that work as it is produced.\nAs the cabinet secretary did, I pay tribute to all staff in the NHS. Their contribution is simply beyond measure. So whether somebody is a consultant, a doctor, a nurse, a member of catering staff or a porter, we appreciate their commitment and service to the NHS and we thank them for it.\nI am worried about the cuts that are being implemented now in various parts of the NHS. The cabinet secretary will say that the amount of money that the Scottish National Party Government has provided to the NHS has gone up by \u00a3264 million, but she will not tell us that that is the lowest settlement in real terms made to the NHS in Scotland since the days of Michael Scissorhands Forsyth\u2014it is a mere 0.1 per cent increase in real terms. That is why, when representatives of health boards appeared before the Health and Sport Committee yesterday, their evidence revealed \u00a3270 million of cuts in the present financial year. For example, NHS Lanarkshire acknowledges its increase of \u00a316.7 million for this year, but its increased costs are \u00a340 million. The board says that it needs to make \u00a317 million of savings. What about NHS Lothian? It has had a \u00a331 million uplift, but it has increased costs of \u00a360 million, with savings of \u00a329 million to be found. NHS Tayside has had a \u00a312 million uplift, but it has increased costs of \u00a342 million and savings of \u00a330 million have to be found.\nI ask the cabinet secretary please not to tell me that those are efficiency savings. The so-called efficiency savings that health boards are having to find have to be achieved because, frankly, she has assumed them in their budget allocation and they are now affecting front-line services. They are cuts, so let us call them that. The cabinet secretary is quick to call for consensus and honesty. Have you noticed, Presiding Officer, that she usually does so when she is in trouble? Now is her chance to be honest with the Parliament. Can she explain how cuts of the kind that I am about to describe, which are just a flavour, have no impact on front-line services and will contribute to achieving the NHS quality strategy?\nIn my area, the replacement for the Alexandria medical centre, which was promised by the cabinet secretary and which is in the vision for the Vale of Leven, is on hold and under review. The community maternity unit has now moved from a 24\/7 service to a daytime service, with women having to locate an on-call midwife before the doors are unlocked and the light is switched on in the unit. But guess what? The majority of babies are born at night. Is that efficient, or even sensible? I do not think so.\nWhat about the 500 cleaning hours that are to be cut from Glasgow royal infirmary? Have we learned nothing about hospital-acquired infections?\nWhat about NHS Lothian, which has been forced to reduce its workforce by 700? How many are front-line staff?\nNHS Lanarkshire does not seem to understand the importance that the cabinet secretary ascribes to prevention. Smoking cessation staff numbers are being cut in half. The Braveheart programme is being reduced, if not cancelled. We heard earlier today from Cathie Craigie about the removal of podiatry services from an 80-year-old constituent. Sticking with NHS Lanarkshire, what about the cancellation of the 130-bed acute mental health unit and the likely reduction in community psychiatric services?\nI know that the cabinet secretary will tell us that she has kept open Monklands accident and emergency unit, but she has not invested one single penny in the fabric of the rest of the hospital building, which is falling down. On her watch, she has allowed 16 surgical beds to be mothballed and there is no new mental health facility and no new cancer centre, which was promised.\nHow will we achieve the NHS quality strategy if those front-line services are being cut? In NHS Ayrshire and Arran, the new kidney unit is being cancelled. In NHS Borders, there is a review of \u00a3180,000 of spending on medical staff. In NHS Tayside, there have been \u00a33 million savings from not filling vacancies. Our already hard-pressed front-line staff are being asked to do even more as their colleagues face a future on the dole queue.\nNHS Dumfries and Galloway has taken almost \u00a33 million off its acute services. NHS Forth Valley has taken off \u00a32.5 million. No part of the country is immune to the SNP cuts. Make no mistake\u2014those cuts are made in Scotland. The SNP is guilty of fantasy economics. The Scottish budget rose by \u00a3917 million in 2010-11. That is a fact. The SNP got \u00a3917 million more this year than last year. Those figures\u2014which I know that the SNP would not trust me with\u2014are confirmed by the Scottish Parliament information centre.\nJoe FitzPatrick Scottish National Party\nWill the member take an intervention?\nNo. Indeed I will not.\nIt is not often that I agree with Annabel Goldie, but she is right that the style of the SNP Government is based on grudge and grievance. However, the Government cannot blame somebody else, as it will inevitably try to do; it must take the responsibility. If it does not, it will be engaging in the politics of the school playground. The promise that the SNP made to the Scottish people was that it would protect front-line services. The litany of cuts that I have outlined today expose that as being a hollow promise indeed.\nThe First Minister talked about the Tory cuts to come. We have not even got there yet. I am sure that we will watch the budget, which is due in 50 days, with considerable interest, but the cuts that I am describing are SNP cuts\u2014the SNP's alone. The SNP cannot say that it is putting \u00a3264 million extra into the budget to protect front-line services when we discover today that NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde is cutting 1,252 jobs in its area this year alone. It is clear\u2014to me, at least\u2014that if 1,252 members of staff are removed, there will be a direct impact on patient care and quality.\nLet us look at who those 1,252 members of staff are. They include: 21 doctors in training at the Queen Mother's hospital; 669 nursing and midwifery staff; reductions in elderly mental health services at Parkhead hospital; reductions in occupational health services; a redesign of Clyde mental health services with 45 fewer nursing staff; 60 fewer allied health professionals in podiatry, physiotherapy and speech and language therapy; and\u2014get this\u201441 fewer pharmacists, who are being replaced by three automated dispensing machines. Did the cabinet secretary know? Did she agree to any of that?\nNHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde has commented that towards the end of 2009, the Scottish Government health department announced a review of NHS workforce planning processes and advised that it would not require workforce projections by the end of April, as with previous years. However, on 9 April 2010, the Scottish Government health department wrote again to the human resources directors to request a workforce narrative for 2010-11 from all health boards by 30 April 2010. Was the cabinet secretary aware that health boards were told in late 2009 that no more workforce projections were required? Was she aware that the health department then changed its mind on 9 April, when it wrote to boards?\nIs she aware of the projections for all health boards, given that they were submitted by 30 April?\nIs Glasgow just the tip of the iceberg? In the interests of transparency, will the cabinet secretary release the projections today to SPICe, or does she have something to hide? I fear that the cabinet secretary is not just letting the cuts happen but demanding them.\nI am conscious of time.\nI fear that the NHS quality strategy will be strangled at birth. Quality is about people\u2014staff and patients\u2014working together to improve our service. The strategy is essential and I share the cabinet secretary's view about its importance. I will take an intervention from her if she will tell me how the cuts will have no impact on quality.\nI will answer Jackie Baillie's questions. If she knew anything about the process, she would know that every board's local delivery plan is published once it is finalised.\nI return to the point about the health department writing to boards. Does not Jackie Baillie think that it is a good idea for the health department to ask for boards' plans, so that we can scrutinise them? That is exactly what we are doing with NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde's plans. If she were standing where I am standing, would she not do that? Would she allow things to happen without her scrutiny?\nAbsolutely not. However, my question was about whether the cabinet secretary was aware of what has happened. If she is, she stands accused of not protecting the health service from cuts and of demanding that such cuts happen throughout the health service. In the interests of transparency, I invite her to place the information with SPICe.\nThe First Minister and his deputy, the cabinet secretary, stand accused of the worst kind of hypocrisy. They say one thing but do something entirely different. They show no compassion, no sympathy and not one iota of concern for the staff who will lose their jobs and their hard-working families. What about patients? Will the cabinet secretary give a cast-iron guarantee that patient safety will not be compromised in any way?\nSNP members promised to protect front-line services. On the evidence so far, they have failed. What is even worse is that they do not even appear to have tried.\nI move amendment S3M-6295.3, to insert at end:\n\"; therefore notes with concern submissions by NHS boards to the Health and Sport Committee identifying cuts to frontline services, and believes that these risk undermining the NHS Quality Strategy.\"\nMary Scanlon Conservative 3:21 pm, 13th May 2010\n\"The Healthcare Quality Strategy for NHSScotland\" is interesting in that it sets out priorities, foundations and strategies. As Jackie Baillie said, no one doubts the need to focus on the quality of health care and\u2014particularly in the current circumstances\u2014on the best value for the public pound.\nI say before making positive and constructive points that I will probably come under the category of healthy sceptic. I must ask why it is necessary to state the three aims of\n\"putting people at the heart of our NHS ... providing the best possible care and advice compassionately and reliably\" and\n\"making measurable improvement in the ... quality of care\".\nAs the cabinet secretary said, surely that is already happening. Do NHS staff really need to be told that? As for person-centred, safe and effective health care, is it really necessary to publish a document to state such key drivers and ambitions to staff who provide a first-class and excellent service day by day, as the cabinet secretary has said?\nQuality ambitions that the strategy has required to outline are that\n\"There will be no avoidable injury or harm to people from healthcare they receive ... an appropriate, clean and safe environment\" and\n\"The most appropriate treatments, interventions, support and services ... provided at the right time to\" all who will benefit. In all the time that I have taken an interest in the health service, particularly since 1999, I assumed that that was happening.\nIt is incredible that any Government in any country should have to outline the fundamental ethos of health care, as the Scottish Government does in its new strategy for the NHS. For many people who have years of service in our NHS, being told to be caring and compassionate, to avoid harm to patients and to provide patient-centred, safe and effective care is surely hurtful\u2014to say the least. They have done that all their lives and that is why they gave their commitment and vocation to the NHS.\nThe strategy lacks emphasis on joint working with partners, which could be the basis of a quality strategy in its own right. The recent Health and Sport Committee inquiry into out-of-hours NHS care in rural areas showed the lack of joint working and of communication between NHS 24, accident and emergency departments, general practitioners and the Scottish Ambulance Service. I say to the cabinet secretary that the patient experience can be enhanced only by the whole health service working seamlessly.\nAlso absent from the document is mention of the fact that although the NHS is our caring profession, the way in which it treats its staff is not always too caring. Grievance and disciplinary procedures, along with staff suspensions and gardening leave, can last for months or years. That has a devastating impact on individuals and their families, represents a loss of skills to the health service and costs money in salaries, while not allowing NHS professionals to practice or patients to benefit.\nThat takes me to the issue of whistleblowing. From many constituency cases in the Highlands, I know that there is no doubt that the NHS does not provide a positive and constructive environment for staff to suggest improvements. The British Medical Association report \"Standing up For Doctors; Speaking Out For Patients\", published today, found that only 5 per cent of doctors are aware of a whistleblowing policy, with junior doctors being significantly less likely to report concerns, stating that they were not confident that they would be listened to and were concerned that they might alienate themselves from their colleagues or that their career prospects could be harmed. Doctors' concerns relate to patient care\u2014the behaviour of fellow staff members and NHS boards' targets and strategies\u2014yet doctors do not work in an environment that allows issues of patient safety to be raised. Unless that changes, the patient cannot be at the heart of our health service. I am interested to know how the quality scorecard will address such issues.\nJamie Stone Liberal Democrat\nI am not sure whether these days I am supposed to intervene during the speech of a Conservative spokesman. Mary Scanlon questioned the need for the strategy. I will not argue the cabinet secretary's case for her, but do not the problems that the member has outlined reinforce the view that the strategy is needed?\nMary Scanlon Conservative\nI have always had a good working relationship with my Lib Dem colleagues in the Highlands. I am highlighting what is absent from the strategy, which is important.\nThere could be more focus on partnership, based on NHS Scotland working with independent contractors. There is no doubt that one of the most improved and effective care partnerships is in optometry and pharmacy. As a result of previous Scottish Executive funding, people across Scotland can have their cataracts and other eye issues monitored in their local area. I trust that the SNP will continue its support for engaging health professionals across Scotland for patients' benefit. For example, more referrals to chiropractors would help to get people mobile, independent and back to work much sooner than if they have to wait for the target time to see a consultant. Despite the SNP manifesto pledge to increase access to alternative therapies to improve patients' quality of life, that does not appear to be happening.\nMy final points relate to yesterday's meeting of the Health and Sport Committee, to which Jackie Baillie referred. When NHS Lanarkshire can cut \u00a31 million from its public health budget, due to duplication, and give the committee a cast-iron assurance that that will not impact on the current or future health of its population, there is no doubt that a more efficient use of resources is necessary and possible. Indeed, Christine Grahame asked why the board has not been making such cuts for years, if it is so easy. We cannot support the Labour Party amendment, given that all members of the Health and Sport Committee, from all parties, robustly questioned witnesses from health boards about their budgets and were consistently told that they were reducing duplication, improving patient pathways, sharing premises and support services and collaborating on procurement and many other issues.\nRichard Simpson Labour\nIs Mary Scanlon asking members to believe that the cutting of 1,250 jobs in NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde, including doctors' and nurses' jobs, will have no effect on front-line services?\nI do not have information on jobs in Glasgow. I did not mention Glasgow; I was talking about my line of questioning of the witness from NHS Lanarkshire at yesterday's meeting of the Health and Sport Committee, in relation to which I have access to the facts. I do not know what is happening in Glasgow. I am sure that Dr Simpson understands that I cannot comment on the matter.\nMy party supports the policy of making 2 per cent efficiency savings, so we cannot support the amendment in my Liberal Democrat colleague's name, which is unfortunate.\nI thank the cabinet secretary for her commitment to report back to the Parliament on the protection of front-line services.\n\"and calls on the Scottish Government to report back to the Parliament by the end of summer recess on how it intends to respond to the needs highlighted in the report, The Healthcare Quality Strategy for NHSScotland, in order to protect NHS frontline services.\"\nRoss Finnie Liberal Democrat 3:30 pm, 13th May 2010\nThe subject matter of this debate, \"The Healthcare Quality Strategy for NHSScotland\", is interesting. Like other members who have spoken, including the cabinet secretary, I do not think that anyone will object to the Government's main objectives. Mary Scanlon was concerned about whether it was necessary to repeat the three headline ambitions, but I tend to think that when we draw up strategies the inclusion of headline objectives might help to move the strategy in the right direction.\nLiberal Democrat concern is that the report is part of a structure rather than simply to be taken on its own. It is inextricably linked with the Patient Rights (Scotland) Bill. The strategy document illustrates the difficulties that I have with the bill\u2014not that the bill is the subject of this debate. It is clear to me that there is an absolute need for a clear view of the path that we are trying to take in relation to the quality of care that the patient should expect and have a right to receive. However, bits of the document are written very much in managementspeak. For example, on page 21 we find the following interesting concept:\n\"Patients' motivation to be involved in mutually beneficial partnerships with their families and carers and those delivering healthcare services\".\nIt is unclear to me quite how someone can take my motivation and mix it with anyone else's\u2014answers on a postcard, please.\nI am sorry about the managementspeak, because its presence in what ought to be an important document is unhelpful. The cabinet secretary was right to direct us to pages 37 and 38, but that does not say much for the preceding pages. Only on pages 37 and 38 do we get to the nub of the matter, which is what we are trying to deliver, for whom and with what objective.\nBreakthrough Breast Cancer's approach, which was published some time ago and is described in a briefing for today's debate, is instructive. In posing and answering questions about how the approach will work, Breakthrough Breast Cancer talks about each person having a set of rights and objectives, which will be delivered to them individually. That is a much more attractive prescription than a broad, general approach that is underpinned by legislation.\nWe must ask what \"underpinned by legislation\" means in the context of the Patient Rights (Scotland) Bill, because as I read the bill, there is not a scintilla of enforceability in it. As a piece of proposed legislation, the bill is almost a contradiction in terms. The ordinary person in the street sees legislation as conferring on them a right of redress, but if there is no such redress, we are better off having just a strategy.\nLet us return to the document before us, its aims, objectives and where we are trying to get to. The Liberal Democrats agree that that higher level of ambition, standard and rightful expectation for the citizen is perfectly correct, but we do not agree with the manner in which the Government seeks to introduce its aims. The cabinet secretary should look carefully at the sort of model that is used by Breakthrough Breast Cancer, although I understand that it is on a much smaller scale and not of the same order as the NHS quality strategy. That approach would also meet the criticism levelled by the BMA, which is deeply concerned that we drift in and out of managementspeak and are not clear that our aims and objectives are being determined by quality-based evidence. The BMA's points in that regard are extremely important.\nI turn to the cabinet secretary's charitable introduction to our amendment. I assure Mary Scanlon that our concern is not to look at all forms of inefficiencies and ways in which the health service could operate better, more effectively and efficiently. Many of the questions that the member directed to NHS Lanarkshire yesterday concerned perfect examples of the very things that we all believe ought to take place, but which are wrapped up in general efficiency savings. Our concern now is the evidence that is emerging that there could be a blanket prescription for issues that might affect front-line services. I was genuinely taken aback when, as Mary Scanlon will recall, committee members asked one of the witnesses whether efficiencies were affecting front-line services and the reply was, \"That depends on how you define a front-line service.\" That did not convey to me a sense of confidence that front-line services were not being affected. If all we say is, \"We are not to affect front-line services, so we will redefine them. Gosh, they are affected again, so we will redefine them\", that does not fill me with confidence. We have to look carefully at what is being said and the sort of efficiency that will improve the quality and financial management of the national health service.\nAs a West of Scotland member, I too have received a lot of representations about potential changes, the downgrading of nursing positions, changing nursing posts and moving specialist nursing back on to wards. If general practitioners spend 80 per cent of their time with people who have long-term conditions and whose care has been hugely improved by the availability of specialist nurses, I am bound to say that the removal of such nurses, by definition, will affect their care. It might be that it can all be explained easily by somebody somewhere, but if the Government is going to make those changes, it has to give that explanation simultaneously and it is not doing so. In my humble opinion, all that the Government is doing is creating a great deal of uncertainty among front-line professionals and patients, and that is unhelpful.\nLiberal Democrats have no difficulty in agreeing with the broad thrust of the strategy and the prescription in the areas that it wishes to cover. We are profoundly uneasy that instead of concentrating on a list of standards of care that we can expect to be delivered in a similar way to the breast care strategy, the NHS quality strategy includes some nebulous reference to a bill that will have no enforceability. That means that the strategy is incomplete and requires further work.\nAlthough we will support the Government's strategy at decision time, we believe that it is more of a work in progress. It needs to become something that patients\u2014particularly those who have great difficulties with the delivery of care\u2014can rely on and believe in, and to be, in its ultimate form, a useful document. Let us be careful that where we call for blanket budget cuts, we are clear about what affects front-line services and what does not. Given the evidence from health board chairmen and the actions of NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde in particular, we are all left with great concern about what is happening on the ground.\n\"but further notes that NHS boards, while accepting that there is scope for further efficiency savings, are concerned that the proposed efficiencies of 2%, 4% and 6% over the next three years will impact adversely on frontline services.\"\nChristine Grahame Scottish National Party 3:40 pm, 13th May 2010\nI welcome the strategy, as one who is known to recommend to any witnesses who come before the Health and Sport Committee that they should restrict their use of the word \"strategy\", to which I have an aversion. I also share Ross Finnie's sometime nausea about managementspeak and jargon, and I appreciated very much his speech, which was as thoughtful as usual.\nWith the greatest respect to Jackie Baillie, if she did not hector so much, I would not stop listening to her speeches. The way in which a speech is made is important and if it is made in the right way, people will listen to points, even if they do not always agree; sometimes they will find bits that they agree with.\nI make my contribution against the background of the recent budget cuts from Westminster, and those that are coming down the track. Quite frankly, the recession has not hit us full-on yet. For any Opposition party to indict the Government for real or imagined cuts, as at this afternoon's First Minister's questions, is indefensible. With an emergency budget coming from Westminster in a few weeks, and without the funding to which the First Minister alluded in answer to Iain Gray, how can any Opposition party possibly say\u2014in particular, how can the Liberal Democrats and Conservatives at Westminster say\u2014that Scotland's front-line services, whatever they are, and its national health service, will be immune? It is a nonsense.\nEven in the face of recent budget reductions from Westminster, the Government has put in additional funding, and the NHS boards that came to yesterday's meeting of the Health and Sport Committee acknowledged that. I will talk about their evidence later.\nI make the distinction between the actual reduced budget from Westminster and efficiency savings. As we know, the latter are retained by the health boards to be reinvested in front-line services. I appreciate Ross Finnie's caveat about how we define those services, but in practical terms, we are talking about treatment, diagnosis, preventive measures, hygiene and so on. Of course, that list is not exhaustive. We must use our funding more carefully, while keeping in mind the watchword of quality of care; the committee referred to that, because it is concerned that care should not be the victim.\nNo one can disagree with the priorities of patients that are set out in the document: care and compassion; communication and collaboration between all who are involved in patient care, including the voluntary sector; continuity; and clinical excellence. For example, patients should not feel too inhibited to complain because they fear that they might get a diminished service by way of retribution. I am not saying that that happens, but there is a genuine perception, particularly among the vulnerable elderly, that if they speak up their tea will be brought to them cold, or something like that. I welcome the Patient Rights (Scotland) Bill, which will give people an opportunity to make complaints and more confidence about doing so.\nIn evidence taken by the committee yesterday, it was mentioned that the chief executives of Borders, Tayside and Orkney health boards, for example, are looking to make their money work more effectively by reducing the use of bank nurses, locums and agency staff, which is a costly practice, and transferring that money to investment in permanent staff, while saving at the same time to reinvest elsewhere. That ties in effectively with the communication and continuity priorities of patients. There is security for the patient in kent faces at their bedside, for the staff to see the patient as an individual, and for a relationship to be built between the patient and ward staff. Undoubtedly, that improves the quality of care.\nThe committee was told about demographic changes. Lothian NHS Board's director of finance emphasised how the elderly population is growing in the Lothians, so the pressure on that board's resources is skewed differently from those of other areas. For example, remote and rural areas, as Jeremy Purvis said, face different challenges. It is obvious that the delivery of quality health care will be different in different areas, and it will be different from the bulk of health care delivery. That said, much is shared between health board areas, so sharing good practice is also key. Indeed, the boards seem to be doing that, for example by making more effective use of theatres and consultants' time.\nI return to my own patch\u2014that issue was raised by the new chief executive of NHS Borders at yesterday's meeting. It is interesting that he is a former nurse, as is the newly appointed chief executive of NHS Orkney, who was also at yesterday's meeting. I was comforted by the fact that they had come up from the grass roots.\nAnother issue is the use of technology. The Government's strategy refers to NHS Lothian using technology in the home, which is another way of using resources better. The Health and Sport Committee has pursued greater use of telehealth and e-health, which we must make a move on. When I say \"we\", I mean the Parliament collectively.\nDuncan McNeil Labour\nHas the Health and Sport Committee expressed any concern about the cutting of the information technology budget, given that IT assists the health service in meeting the demands on it?\nChristine Grahame Scottish National Party\nWhen we examined the budget, we found that some of the money had moved\u2014[ Interruption .] I do not know who is answering; I will leave the minister to deal with that, as she seems to want to.\nMuch good practice is shared by the boards. I return to early intervention\u2014I cannot remember who mentioned the issue. At yesterday's meeting, a representative from NHS Borders talked about the treatment of ulcerated legs. Early intervention stops patients being confined to bed and prevents a great deal of expenditure. Mary Scanlon mentioned the example of optometrists, who can diagnose other illnesses in advance; the same can be done through a call to the pharmacy. The boards have embraced such practice.\nLeadership is key, not only at Government level, but at board level. What came through from yesterday's meeting is that if we are to make real change, the chief executive and the director of finance must provide leadership at board level. During questioning, Ross Finnie made the important point that we must get the boards to help their chief executive and director of finance to see what their job is, which is to act in the interests of the public whom they represent, not just to put up defence walls. I hope that directly elected board members will assist with that.\nYesterday, Rhoda Grant made the interesting point that because belt tightening has had to happen, it has exposed wastage. The director of finance of NHS Tayside gave an example of how duplication\u2014which had involved two depots and two sets of staff being used to deal with aids and adaptations across health and social care\u2014had been ended. He announced that as if it was a wonderful achievement but, frankly\u2014as I said at the time\u2014if something is easy-peasy lemon-squeezy, you do not need to be a director of finance to come up with it. Michael Matheson said that such ideas were being talked about 20 years ago. There is wastage in the health service. The money from that could go into the front line.\nAn overview of progress will be provided by the quality alliance. It is most important that we have accountability. [Interruption.] I do not know what I have done. Shall I proceed, Presiding Officer? I have a chorus beside me.\nThrough the unions, we must speak to the staff. It is important that we do not make them concerned. We do not want to make the health service good only at ward or hospital level; we want to make staff pleased to be part of the health service and to let them know that, as Jackie Baillie rightly said\u2014in an otherwise relatively negative speech\u2014they are excellent staff who do an excellent job that is highly valued. I conclude.\nMalcolm Chisholm Labour 3:48 pm, 13th May 2010\nI want to talk about the quality strategy because for many years I have believed that the quality agenda needs to be described in detail to the public and the media, but first I will make a couple of points about funding, which is clearly relevant to the subject under discussion.\nYesterday, Theresa Fyffe, who is the director of the Royal College of Nursing Scotland, said:\n\"Recruitment freezes, cutting support for frontline staff and replacing registered nurses with non-registered support staff are guaranteed ways to damage patient care.\"\nIt is clear that we face a funding challenge, but that means that there is all the more reason to ensure that genuine, high-impact efficiency and productivity approaches are implemented rather than cuts to front-line staff. We must take a hard and clear view of that distinction.\nIs the member aware that the number of NHS staff has risen by 10,000 since the SNP came into government?\nMalcolm Chisholm Labour\nI will take the member's word for that. I am not here to rubbish that point; I am here to talk about what is happening now.\nAs I said at question time\u2014so I will not spend a lot of time on the point\u2014it is far more important now than in the high-growth past that we ensure that NHS boards get the funding share to which they are entitled. It is self-evident that when there were big increases in the past, it did not matter if a board was not getting its share. When the boards are getting smaller, and presumably even smaller increases, it will matter a great deal. The gap between what Lothian gets and what it is entitled to is \u00a369 million this year, which is \u00a35 million more than last year. It is by far the biggest gap in Scotland. If that is not addressed, we will have particular problems in Lothian. I should point out that 700 jobs are already going.\nTurning to the quality strategy, I particularly like the phrase about not\n\"pulling the plant up by the roots\", because the quality plant has been growing over a period of many years. I pay tribute to the whole health care team for all the work that the staff have done over the years and to NHS Quality Improvement Scotland. For many years I have been a great admirer of that body and I have followed the way in which its work has evolved. It is regrettable that most people in Scotland know very little of what it does. A good example was at the recent reception that I hosted for the Neurological Alliance, when the new neurological standards were introduced. The lead clinician described how the work of NHS QIS had evolved and now, as he pointed out, it was going to work with clinicians on an on-going basis to improve the standards. That is typical of the work that NHS QIS is doing and we should pay tribute to it.\nI also like the quote from Don Berwick on page 17 of the document. As far as I am concerned, and I think that Dr Richard Simpson agrees with me, he is the number one health care improvement person in the world and I was privileged to meet him on one occasion. It is great that his institute for health care improvement is closely involved with our patient safety programme, which began under the previous Administration and was pioneered successfully by NHS Tayside.\nI could go on about continuity, but I want to give three other examples. First, there is the whole issue of patient experience, which others have referred to. There is an important patient experience programme called better together, which is mentioned and described in the document; it was started under the previous Administration, along with related work. Using the experience of patients in a meaningful way is absolutely central to quality improvement. I believe\u2014I am sure that the Government believes, too\u2014that it needs to go a great deal further. I was a little concerned that only one of the 12 quality outcome measures listed on pages 37 and 38 of the document is a patient measure. To be fair, the document says that a second one will be developed in due course.\nRoss Finnie gave a very good example of patients feeding into quality improvement. Breakthrough Breast Cancer has had that service pledge over the past few months. As far as I know, it is an excellent and successful initiative whereby patients are central in forming an improvement pledge for each breast cancer unit in the country.\nSince we are talking of cancer, I should also mention, as I have done before, the outstanding work of the cancer care research centre at the University of Stirling, which has done an enormous amount of work on patient experience and, in my view, has been the Scottish leader in that field. It was led by Professor Nora Kearney, who has now moved to Dundee.\nThe second example is the quality and outcomes framework of the, often and wrongly maligned, GP contract. That has led to enormous improvements in primary care, which many patients are probably not aware of. Issues such as heart disease and stroke have been greatly helped by the new requirements on GPs that are part of that framework. I was pleased to see in the document that the Government is committed to building on the principle of quality strategy to maximise quality and other service areas.\nMy last example is anticipatory care. That, too, was started by the previous Administration but the strategy document talks about introducing and sharing anticipatory care plans for the 5 per cent of the population who are most at risk of hospital admission. That seems a really important development. For many years, we have been talking about the need to reduce emergency admissions but they are still going up, for whatever reason. Clearly, more anticipatory care that is targeted on the group most at risk of those admissions would be very helpful.\nThere are many positive features in the quality framework. It has to be seen in the light of the funding issues that many have described. In particular, we must emphasise the role and importance of front-line staff in delivering the quality improvements. At the end of the day, the front-line clinicians will do that and they must be at the centre of the quality agenda. We need to empower them to make the quality improvements that we all want. I hope that we can all be united in that objective.\nHugh O'Donnell Liberal Democrat 3:55 pm, 13th May 2010\nWe have heard various views from members, but the debate has been reasonably consensual thus far. I would not dare to expand on the comprehensive account that Ross Finnie gave of the Liberal Democrat position, but I will pick up a couple of issues. Members will have heard me bang on about them before.\nBefore I do that, however, I want to refer to something that Mary Scanlon said about Lanarkshire NHS Board. We are all aware\u2014it is a clich\u00e9\u2014that there is more than one way to skin a cat. Having dealt with Lanarkshire NHS Board for getting on for 14 years, I know that it does things in certain ways. For example, we are facing a situation as a result of reconfiguration and people in Cumbernauld are likely to be deprived of an out-of-hours service. The board claims that the change is a straightforward reconfiguration, but that appears not to be the case because, despite questioning, it has refused to answer questions about what will replace the service. I therefore hesitate to take what the board says without a degree of scepticism.\nI am grateful to Mr O'Donnell for raising that. I have to say to him that the questioning from the Health and Sport Committee was robust. The board said that there was duplication in the service and that the duplication had been streamlined. I would like to think that it gave an honest contribution in evidence to the committee. I do not think that I have any right to disbelieve it, despite my being a healthy sceptic. It assured us that there were no cuts to public health.\nHugh O'Donnell Liberal Democrat\nI have been to a number of board meetings of the same organisation and I have had the same assurances. I take on board the point that Mary Scanlon makes.\nAs other members and, indeed, the cabinet secretary have said, we need to be clear that the quality of care extends beyond the medical treatment of the patient and into the whole patient experience. I apologise for lurching into management speak, but I am equally sure that members are grateful that I am not moving into \"lemon-squeezy\" language.\nFor the most part, people are not at their best when they engage with the health service. Understandably, the impression that they take is all too often a continuous one that colours not only their perception of the treatment but the perception that they give to other people when they recount their experiences. A perception that is not good will go beyond the individual patient and the individual case. We all know that individual cases are all different. The problem that I have is that we do not have a shared understanding. Like Ross Finnie, I am not convinced that the Patient Rights (Scotland) Bill will necessarily give us that.\nI am particularly interested in people with disabilities, particularly learning disabilities, and their experience of engaging with our health services. Having been on the front line of that for a goodly number of years, I know that we need to ensure that we take account of disabilities, but I am not convinced that the strategy will necessarily achieve the outcomes that we seek. Happily, the \"Does he take sugar?\" approach is disappearing and we have a more person-centred and holistic approach to delivery of services. I am interested that we are to have a care measure from a patient's perspective, but I ask the Government, in taking that forward, to ensure that information for patients is available through communication methods that are appropriate for the whole range of patients with whom NHS services deal, because that is not always the case. All patients need to feel empowerment. Certainly from a social services perspective, empowerment has been key to making those parts of our society feel included in the normal approach.\nOn IT, which Duncan McNeil touched on in his intervention, I am sure that I am not unique in finding constantly that, when our committees take evidence from organisations such as health boards, we are told that the data are \"patchy\" or \"not clear\". I accept that particular challenges might exist in the health service given the differing requirements of its different aspects, but monitoring needs to be consistent if it is to be useful to all the agencies that will access those data. At the same time, we must not deliver a process of unmitigated form filling and box ticking just so that we can appear to have hit the targets. The information must be useful rather than just politically expedient. Therefore, I welcome the strategy's commitment to\n\"a programme of action to ensure that peoples' equality needs are gathered\", but I make a plea that we gather the information in a way that makes it readily understandable.\nIn conclusion, following my colleague Ross Finnie's clear statement of the Liberal Democrat position in his opening speech, I hope that my speech has raised some issues of relevance. I hope that all the points that have been raised can be brought together to allow the strategy to do what it says on the tin.\nMichael Matheson Scottish National Party 4:01 pm, 13th May 2010\nThe NHS is one of those public institutions that is held dear by the vast majority of the public. Everyone would prefer not to have to use the NHS, but we are very grateful for it when need arises, as I found recently when I had to go to the A and E department at 2 o'clock in the morning with one of my sons. The vast majority who use the NHS have a positive experience of care provision.\nHowever, what makes the NHS perhaps unique among public bodies is the way in which people simply place their trust in it. People place their trust in the doctors to make the right clinical decisions to ensure that, as patients, they receive the best treatment and the treatment that they require. People also trust that the staff will act in their best interests in their time of need. People trust that everyone in the NHS has the shared objective of doing the very best in caring for them.\nThat said, there are clearly times when our NHS does not get it right. Sometimes, the quality of treatment or quality of care that the staff provide to patients is not what it should be. There are clearly times when the very complex system that is our NHS does not work collectively in the best interests of the patient. Given that all members will have received complaints from constituents who have raised concerns about the failings of the NHS\u2014some members might even have personal experience of that\u2014it is important that we take the right measures to try to rectify those problems.\nThe cabinet secretary rightly pointed out that we no longer receive complaints from constituents about waiting times for particular procedures. That is certainly my experience, but I now receive more complaints about the quality of care that people receive from the NHS. I believe that it is important to ensure that the trust that people place in the NHS is returned in the quality of care that they receive from the service. That is why I think that the quality strategy is both timely and welcome.\nIn few public institutions do people place such trust in the organisation itself, quite literally on a daily basis. Patients place their lives in the hands of the NHS and rely on it to get things right for them. It is essential that the quality of our NHS is as high as possible throughout the patient journey so that patients get the necessary care and support.\nNo doubt the debates around greater efficiency and productivity in the NHS will continue over the weeks and months ahead. Given the growing financial pressure that all of the public sector is under, there will be further debate about whether we can get more out of the existing financial envelope for public services to make them more effective in delivering the services that are required.\nI say to Jackie Baillie that it is fantasy to think that we can have cuts by the UK Government to the Scottish Government's budget but not expect that to trickle down in some way and impact on our public services. The question is about the priorities that the Government chooses for any additional spend. I repeat: it is complete fantasy to think that cuts to the Scottish Government's budget will not impact on public services in Scotland.\nThe member's own cabinet secretary maintains that the health budget has grown by \u00a3264 million and that, as a result of that, front-line services are being protected. How does cutting staff\u20141,252 of them in Glasgow alone\u2014equate with protecting front-line services?\nMichael Matheson Scottish National Party\nIt is remarkable that the cabinet secretary has managed to secure that increase in funding for the NHS here in Scotland in the face of a \u00a3500 million cut to the Scottish Government's grant, which was made by the previous Labour Government. We can clearly see where the Scottish Government's priorities lie: in protecting front-line public services such as those in the NHS.\nI particularly welcome the recognition in the strategy document for staff and for the focus in the NHS on being caring and compassionate. Staff have a key role in delivering that care. We can have state-of-the-art hospitals and the best clinicians in the world\u2014we have many of them in the NHS in Scotland\u2014but we must ensure that the quality of NHS staff is as high as possible. That can be the tell-tale mark of the patient's experience of the NHS. Staff have a central role in delivering the strategy. It is through high-quality staff that we can deliver high-quality care for patients in the NHS.\nDuncan McNeil Labour 4:08 pm, 13th May 2010\nAs has already been said, we can share a great deal of pride in the achievements of the NHS and its staff in Scotland. They have created a system that has produced results for people with serious conditions such as heart disease, stroke and cancer. As a result of our work early in the life of the Parliament, when we focused on such areas, there are people in my constituency who have lived longer and whose quality of life has been improved.\nWe introduced targets and we drove up standards so that unacceptable waiting times for surgery and treatment would no longer be commonplace\u2014as has been referred to by the cabinet secretary and Michael Matheson. I agree with them. However, although the complaints at our surgeries have changed, the case load has not. I completely agree that those changes in complaints have concerned the quality of service, particularly for the elderly.\nThere are still areas where we have not achieved what we would have liked to achieve\u2014in vitro fertilisation treatment, for instance. People who cannot pay still wait for two years or more for IVF, and that needs to be addressed.\nReductions in waiting times are seen as an achievement, but however successful and popular they are, they have come at a price. Hospital wards and staff are geared up for the production line. I do not treat that in a negative way, as it is very efficient when it runs smoothly and it ensures that people enjoy a positive and speedy experience. However, when we push people through the system, the consequence sometimes is that we push the caring out of the system.\nI had my own experience recently as a day patient requiring surgery. I was in in the morning and out in the evening, and I had a good and positive experience at Inverclyde royal hospital. If people can walk in and walk out, the experience is great. However, I also have personal and casework experience of what happens to elderly and frail people who require extra treatment. A receiving ward in an acute hospital is not a good place for those people. They have extra demands, which in my experience and from my case load I know are not being addressed. While we celebrate the achievements and recognise the progress that we have made on waiting times, we need to have a balance.\nI share the cabinet secretary's enthusiasm to deliver a patient-centred approach in our health service. I believe that it is possible to take the benefits of the targets system that we introduced and marry it with an approach to care and support that all patients require. Whether that is possible in the current climate is another question. Whether we like it or not, the strategy comes against a backdrop of falling investment, services being axed and hundreds of staff facing cuts.\nIn today's debate, we have heard several examples of the cuts that health boards have been forced to make. More than 1,250 jobs have gone in NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde, and I am fearful of what that will mean in Greenock and Inverclyde. We also know, as was mentioned earlier, about recruitment issues, which are particularly important in respect of continuity of care. Nurses and midwives are leaving the country to get their first jobs while, as Christine Grahame mentioned, existing staff in the service work longer hours and overtime. Any of the health board reports will identify that massive problem.\nNone of that bodes well, and it undermines our shared ambition of delivering a world-leading health service. It is easy to say that we will deliver the type of health service that we all hope for, in which quality of care is premium, but it is much more difficult to put it into action.\nTo demonstrate that, I will cite the example of the Ardgowan hospice in my constituency, which for nearly 30 years has provided an excellent transport service for patients who require cancer treatment outwith the area. As members will appreciate, it is more than just a pick-up and drop-off service. It spares people who are in a weakened condition an awkward journey, it spares them the inconvenience of waiting around before and after what can be a very arduous treatment, and it offers some much-required comfort after what is sometimes a harrowing experience. I have spoken to volunteer drivers and heard of the bond that they develop with patients during these difficult, and now shared, experiences.\nNHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde, in its 2010 \"Palliative Care Health Needs Assessment\", stated that patients\n\"found this to be a very welcome support that reduced the added stress that the ambulance transport brought to an already stressful experience.\"\nHowever, when budgets were reviewed at the health board, it was decided that it could no longer fund the service. It would seem that, from an annual budget of \u00a32.6 billion, the health board is unable to find the \u00a335,000 that is required to support the transport service. Is that an example of quality being considered over cost? Is it a decision that is likely to inspire confidence? Is it responsive to what, in the terms of the cabinet secretary's motion, users of the health service \"want, need and deserve\"?\nShona Robison Scottish National Party\nHas Duncan McNeil received my letter on the matter yet?\nI have not. I hope that it will tell me that I have wasted my time this afternoon, and that a cheque for \u00a335,000 is on its way to those volunteers, to allow them to carry out the job that they have done for 30 years. If the letter contains anything less than that, the minister will be getting another letter. If we are serious about putting quality into the health service, we cannot allow decisions like that to stand. I urge the cabinet secretary and the minister to ensure that the money is made available to ensure that the voluntary drivers at Ardgowan are given the support that they need. That would be a perfect way to demonstrate the Government's commitment to preserving quality in the health service.\nAnne McLaughlin Scottish National Party 4:15 pm, 13th May 2010\nIn the NHS in Scotland, we have a comprehensive system of medical care, the significance of which we can sometimes overlook as we continue to strive to make it better. We cannot, however, let that constant striving for improvement blind us to the success that the NHS achieves day in and day out. To that end, I would like to begin my speech by giving my thanks\u2014not just as an MSP but as a patient\u2014to all health workers, who work incredibly hard. I have first-hand experience, having worked for a time as a nursing auxiliary. I also come from a nursing family, with nurses, health visitors, porters, cleaners and auxiliaries among us. Indeed, my aunt is part of the League of Hospital Friends Inverclyde who\u2014as Ross Finnie, Duncan McNeil and Stuart McMillan will be aware, because they supported the campaign\u2014last week won their fight with the health board to be able to continue to provide the caf\u00e9 services whose profits they donate to the hospital. I congratulate the League of Hospital Friends and congratulate everyone\u2014paid or voluntary\u2014who is working to improve our NHS.\nThe quality strategy is a powerful new framework for our patients and our health care professionals. As it is evidence-based in its goals, interventions and objectives, I do not doubt that it will be warmly welcomed by the Scottish people and those in the health sector. The strategy aims high: we are to be world leaders in health care quality. That is the right approach. We would not do ourselves any favours by attempting anything else. In 2007, the people of Scotland voted for ambitious governance, so it is right that we continue to fight to deliver ambitious and achievable goals and strategies across the devolved responsibilities.\nHealth care professionals are among the most passionate workers one will come across, and I have no doubt that they share a burning desire to make our health care system the best in the world, not for the good of our ego but for the good of our people. Last year, when health care was being debated in the US and the NHS's anniversary was being celebrated, we rightly focused on the benefits of universal health care. It is right that we ask that our NHS renew its focus on what lies at its heart, which is delivery of patient-centred high-quality patient care.\nI have no doubt that we have all heard tales of the person-centred approach being noticeable only by its absence. That can be traumatic for patients, particularly those who have no one to advocate for them or to ask questions on their behalf. Some patients or their families do not ask questions because of learning difficulties or a language barrier but, often, people simply do not do so because questioning doctors is something that is just not done, and because people do not like to trouble busy staff with their concerns. I am glad, therefore, to hear about the establishment of the patient advice and support service. I would be grateful if the minister could say something about how PAS staff will be able to support people with additional needs, such as language or learning difficulties.\nOn the other side of the equation, when we do not support our health care professionals enough to allow them to provide person-centred care, we limit their ability to get meaningful job satisfaction from their work, as the strategy points out on page 6. There is a clear correlation between staff wellness and patient outcomes; none of us will be surprised to hear that. One of the most exciting aspects of the strategy is its recognition of those fundamental connections in the health sector and its goal of utilising them for the benefit of all. Ask any fired-up health professional about their motivations and they will talk about their desire to provide high-quality treatment for patients. We therefore have a duty to ensure not only that we do not hinder their aspirations by hampering them with output-based bureaucracy, but that we provide the proper strategic support.\nTo give some balance to some of the amendments that are before us, I will quote a health board chief executive who recently gave evidence at the Public Audit Committee. With reference to the discussion about where efficiency savings will come from, Richard Carey from NHS Grampian stated that\n\"The levels of funding that we have enjoyed during the past few years have enabled us to grow the health service in a positive way\".\nHe went on to say that\n\"The situation in the future is going to be much more challenging\"\n\u2014we all appreciate that\u2014 \"but we believe that we can deliver savings in the budget through effective management, good productivity and service redesign.\"\u2014[Official Report, Public Audit Committee, 24 March 2010; c 1609].\nThere was no mention of front-line services, and we did ask him about that.\nMy speech today strikes a mainly consensual note with members on most sides of the chamber, because although we may have different approaches, if we do not collaborate to improve care for the infirm in Scotland, we are in the wrong job. We do not have to indulge in the politics of the playground, with Jackie Baillie being the perfect head girl, just because the Labour Party wishes to.\nBesides, consensus is a good thing and it has certainly been the week for it, at least until today. So far this week, there has been consensus among the Tories that they have no mandate in Scotland and therefore have had to appoint a consul general from the Lib Dem ranks, there has been consensus in Labour that it would rather sit back on the opposition benches than form a coalition against Tory cuts and there has been consensus among the Liberal Democrats\u2014yes, finally, a consensus among Liberal Democrats\u2014that the faint whiff of power is enough to sweep them off their feet and into the chilling embrace of Osborne, Cameron and the rest of the Bullingdon Club in the corridors of Whitehall, so there has been consensus all round. I ask the Parliament to embrace that spirit of consensus by supporting the motion and commending the strategy.\nJamie Stone Liberal Democrat 4:21 pm, 13th May 2010\nI will take my cue from Anne McLaughlin, who started her speech on a personal note. At Christmas time, I had treatment from the NHS\u2014a small operation on my eye. I say, for the record, that I had the best treatment and was highly impressed.\nThe cabinet secretary gave us a feel for \"The Healthcare Quality Strategy for NHSScotland\". She mentioned matters such as waiting times and was generous to the previous Administration. I acknowledge that and thank her for those comments. She touched on issues such as NHS resources and, in his intervention, Jeremy Purvis properly brought in the rural aspect, which is, of course, extremely important to me. Nicola Sturgeon also made the point that if someone goes in to hospital for a day but gets a hospital-acquired infection, they can end up staying for a week. That is precisely what we must zero in on.\nJackie Baillie talked about leadership and about NHS board savings. She also went through a list of accusations\u2014I think that that is the word to describe it. I am sure that, when the cabinet secretary looks at the Official Report of the debate, there will be things that she will want to check against the claims that have been made to see what the actuality is and whether the claims have substance. I will return to that point in my conclusion.\nI intervened on Mary Scanlon's well-considered speech to pose a question because I had got the impression, perhaps slightly wrongly, that she was saying that she did not know why we need the health care quality strategy yet giving examples of things that were not quite right. I suggest, although I am prepared to be corrected, that the strategy will address those issues.\nMy colleague Ross Finnie is correct to say that there is a link to the Patient Rights (Scotland) Bill\u2014I also see that link\u2014and that the use of managementspeak, as wittily pointed out by Mr Finnie, is not useful in the strategy document, or ever, if we can possibly avoid it.\nRoss Finnie made the point that the simple blanket prescription of going for, as outlined in our amendment, efficiencies of 2, 4 and 6 per cent is dangerous. I was interested in his comment that a witness said, in response to a question at the Health and Sport Committee about front-line services, \"Ah well, it depends on how you define 'front-line'.\" That is a cogent point and it is an issue that we must look at very closely because, by the simple use of different terminology, people can change the boundaries completely and it can mean that money can flow from one budget to another in the health service, but it could be exceedingly dangerous.\nIt is worth remembering the point that Malcolm Chisholm made at the beginning of his speech, which is that he is not contesting the history of this Administration over the past few years but taking a snapshot of the situation now as he sees it. Other members have touched on that aspect, too. Again, I will return to that in my concluding remarks.\nHugh O'Donnell's comments on communication methods were absolutely appropriate. There is a link there, is there not, to the use of managementspeak? If people do not get the communication right, they start to miss their targets and they will not be directing their resources where they are most needed.\nMichael Matheson made a thoughtful contribution about trust in the professionals, which we all have. My own treatment left me with an element of trust. However, if the wrong measures are taken, trust is fatally undermined and something that is really rather special is corroded, because patients and the public do trust the health professionals. We need to restore and maintain that trust at all times.\nThe cabinet secretary will be glad to know that I am not going to talk about patient transport or ambulances in my constituency, which I have covered enough in the past. However, the first bullet point on page 15 of the strategy document is about something that is mentioned repeatedly throughout, which is people having an equal right to health services no matter where they live. That has been behind my comments over the recent period about patient transport and ambulance services. To give members an example from my constituency, trade unions in Caithness have recently been in touch with me to say that they have evidence that NHS Highland may be planning to reduce the level of service that is offered by Dunbar hospital in Thurso. The issue is about a local service being delivered near where people live in Caithness, not in Inverness.\nIt would clearly be very worrying if there was any substance in what is claimed, because we want to keep as many services as local as possible. A linked issue is that, while we face decommissioning at Dounreay and the problems of trying to create alternative, high-quality economic developments, it is not helpful if health jobs are to be lost. As I said, the cabinet secretary will no doubt look at the claims that have been made about cuts or possible cuts\u2014I do not necessarily agree with the claims. My personal plea is that she will look at what NHS Highland may or may not be proposing for Dunbar hospital. The position is a bit more under wraps than I would like\u2014I see Mary Scanlon nodding to that. She, as a Highland member, and I, as the local member, wish we were slightly better informed about those matters. In their letter to me, the trade unions said that they had not been kept fully in the picture. There is an issue to do with communication there. Like Duncan McNeil, I would love to be proved wrong on this one. If there is nothing in it, that is fine and I withdraw my remarks. However, on a personal level, I ask the cabinet secretary to check the situation.\nI ask members to support the amendment in my colleague Ross Finnie's name. I think that it is an important one and pertinent to the issue.\nJackson Carlaw Conservative 4:28 pm, 13th May 2010\nI was interested to see whether this would be an informative debate. By and large, it has turned out to be exactly that, with the exception, I am afraid, of one rather ugly contribution.\nI have an early confession to make: I am afraid that I loathe reports such as the Scottish Government's \"Healthcare Quality Strategy for NHSScotland\". It is a particular turgid example of such reports, with poor use of grammar and high-blown, nonsensical rhetoric, which is the antithesis of the objective stated in its very first page to provide \"Clear communication and explanation\". Indeed, I was struck by the thought that we could easily dispense with anaesthetists by giving patients this report to read instead. I had an overpowering sense of its being the collective work of a brainstorming seminar, with breakout groups all contributing their thoughts to be collated into meaningless corporate speak by a drafting team of the underemployed. I agree entirely with what Ross Finnie said about this aspect, although of course he said it in his own way. No amount of dressing up since the draft report last year can disguise that. None of this is to avoid the fact that the issues discussed in the report are of the greatest importance, nor to disagree with nearly all the essentials that can be distilled from the document.\nFinally, having negotiated the seemingly endless pages, I was somewhat dismayed to find that by far the longest stretch of the text about final steps in the \"Implementation\" section was devoted to the proposal to spend money on a widespread communications programme, which is in essence a marketing exercise that will no doubt be costly and divert money yet further away from front-line services.\nIn the foreword to the report, we are introduced to the key ambitions that the people of Scotland have for their NHS, which are caring and compassionate staff and services; clear communication and explanation about conditions and treatment; effective collaboration between clinicians, patients and others; a clean and safe environment; continuity of care and good access to care; and clinical excellence. We agree with those aims. We agree with and applaud the progress towards achieving the objectives that is being made, often on the basis of natural common sense, by a dedicated NHS staff. I therefore return to Mary Scanlon's point about whether NHS staff really need to be trained in those notions and objectives by absorbing such a complicated document. She was right to suggest that, to dedicated staff who have worked hard for many years, the report will seem fairly condescending.\nIn Nicola Sturgeon's favour, we can say that the Government has further facilitated progress towards several of the objectives in the report. Earlier, for the first time in three years in the Parliament, I found myself in agreement with Michael Matheson\u2014I have no doubt that that will be enormously discomfiting to him\u2014as he explained the relationship between public trust and clinical quality. That is an issue on which we receive many complaints from the public. Those often relate not to big operations but to small or minor ones. Somebody goes in for something relatively trivial, trusting that the process will work, yet the quality process breaks down and they end up with a much more serious issue.\nWe must face the enormous financial black hole that Labour has created and which we face as a nation. In different ways, various parties\u2014at least, those that are now in power\u2014have made commitments to the NHS. The new coalition Government, which I and my very new and very dear friends Ross Finnie and Jamie Stone wish every success, has committed that\n\"funding for the NHS should increase in real terms in each year of the Parliament\".\nThat will produce consequentials for the NHS in Scotland. It would be appropriate for the cabinet secretary to pledge today that any such consequentials that arise will go to the NHS in Scotland.\nI am happy to do that. In fact, I am more than surprised that Jackson Carlaw was not watching the First Minister in the BBC leaders debate during the election campaign, when I believe he did the very thing that the member seeks. Even if Jackson Carlaw does not listen to the First Minister, I know that he always listens to me and I am therefore happy to give him that pledge.\nJackson Carlaw Conservative\nSadly, I was campaigning, completely in vain, elsewhere.\nIn the face of that financial pressure, we must note that the cabinet secretary has chosen to spend front-line cash on free prescriptions for herself and the First Minister and for all those people who will not now benefit from increases in inheritance tax thresholds. Indeed, the only tax cut that is being offered on a plate to millionaires\u2014an issue on which the cabinet secretary and her colleagues expressed profound consternation only a week ago\u2014is the one that she is awarding to them.\nThe refrain that Jackie Baillie rehearsed of cuts, cuts and more cuts is inherently untrue. There is no surprise there, although we all expect to hear the refrain become a mantra. Jackie Baillie did not mention that, had Labour been re-elected last week, the national health service in Scotland would have had to fund \u00a336 million of increased national insurance employer contributions, as was confirmed by the Scottish Government. Jackie Baillie, who said that she was looking forward greatly to the budget in 50 days, can do so in the certain knowledge that it will not have Labour's \u00a336 million tax hike on the NHS in Scotland, the money for which would no doubt have had to be found from front-line services.\nIt is self-evident that more money will not in itself be enough, and that is acknowledged by the report. The report's summary of future challenges illustrates again the problems with which we will be confronted as a result of an ageing population, a continuing shift in the pattern of disease towards long-term conditions and growing numbers of old people with multiple conditions and complex needs. Even with the guarantee of additional real-terms increases in funding, we must be smarter in the use of cash. We have to say to health boards that we do not expect that cuts to front-line services are in any way inevitable, as Jackie Baillie's amendment postures. Nor must we accept the choices that health boards make, particularly NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde, which has a rather unenviable and questionable record on responding to public priorities.\nWill the member give way?\nNot just now.\nI turn to something that a former secretary of state did when asked to find efficiencies within his department. He would turn to his civil servants and find the most sensationally unacceptable recommendations, so that those could be publicly postured and become completely unacceptable to the public. He could then go to the Prime Minister and say, \"We simply can't do this.\" I hope that, in seeking to find efficiencies, health boards do not try to undermine the exercise by simply trying to identify efficiencies that are completely unacceptable to the public. It is necessary to find efficiencies to redeploy resources towards front-line services in the face of the demographic changes that are coming. The health and wellbeing of the people of Scotland cannot become a game of poker. The challenges presented by those demographic changes and the treatment of avoidable conditions will inevitably lead to even greater pressures on the NHS.\nThe aims of the report are sound enough but, if they are not to be undermined, we will need to achieve the efficiency targets that have been established. Our amendment invites the cabinet secretary to report back to Parliament by the end of the summer recess on how the Government intends to respond to the needs that are highlighted in the report while protecting vital front-line services.\nRichard Simpson Labour 4:35 pm, 13th May 2010\nQuality improvement is about the effective implementation of Scottish intercollegiate guidelines network guidelines, which we have had since 1997. We are not in a new situation. Quality improvement has not just suddenly landed on the table. As the cabinet secretary said, it is about building on what has been done before.\nThe patient experience, to which Malcolm Chisholm referred, is crucial. That partnership is the new element that has come in over the past few years, although the patient's journey, care and outcomes have long been the NHS's focus. As the cabinet secretary, Duncan McNeil and Michael Matheson said, the initial problems that we as a Parliament faced in 1999\u2014of unacceptable waiting times in accident and emergency, long delays in getting appointments, difficulties in obtaining diagnostic tests and longer delays in getting treatment\u2014have largely been addressed, although there are some exceptions, which a number of members mentioned. For example, people simply cannot get bariatric surgery, which has not been mentioned, in Fife\u2014the board will not provide it at all. That sort of postcode lottery is unacceptable, given that we are trying to achieve a universal service.\nHowever, we have many examples of improved quality of care and improved efficiency. One of the best examples is in renal dialysis. Over the past 13 to 15 years, a trend has developed of providing satellite units for home dialysis, which has transformed the lives of many renal failure patients. It is just a pity that the proposed NHS Ayrshire and Arran unit is now on hold. We must recognise that it will be difficult to address some of the quality issues that we face if new money is required to do so.\nThere are other successes, such as the patient safety programme, the better together programme and developments in anticipatory care, which Malcolm Chisholm mentioned.\nIatrogenic problems\u2014problems caused by the very treatment that is being instigated\u2014can sometimes be fatal. Regrettably, those problems have not always been given a high enough priority. In 2008, only one medical undergraduate course in Scotland was teaching patient safety. To embed a strategy in the health service, we have to start with undergraduate training. How many Scottish universities include quality improvement and patient safety in their undergraduate curriculum for medical, dental, nursing and allied health professional students?\nThe Tayside pilot that commenced as part of a UK-wide patient safety initiative in 2004\u2014Tayside was the Scottish representative\u2014has massively reduced problems in Ninewells. Which health boards or hospitals were part of the extension of the original four pilot sites to 20 sites throughout Scotland, and what were the results?\nWe have a lot further to go. For example, there has been a collective failure by all Administrations since devolution to implement electronic prescribing. There is excellent research to show that the reduction in errors that can be achieved by electronic prescribing is substantial. It would also save a considerable amount of funding in a number of clerical jobs, which could be diverted elsewhere.\nQuality and efficiency should be synonymous, but, unfortunately, they have not been so. Indeed, too often in the past the way to make savings was through cuts, which impaired quality.\nThere have been two streams in existence since 1997: clinical governance and quality improvement, which are not the same thing. Clinical governance is about quality assurance\u2014examining results and deciding whether they were good quality\u2014whereas quality improvement is about the total effect throughout the system of making change. I regret that the strategy says nothing about the necessary integration of those two streams, which could lead to improvement.\nWe know the risk to the quality improvement agenda of efficiencies and cash-releasing savings\u2014evidence of the dangers of such an approach has begun to emerge. Warnings from the BMA and the RCN herald the renewal of across-the-board cuts, and skill mixes are being used that involve applying specialist nurse skills inappropriately. For example, in Glasgow, specialist nurses are being put back on wards, so their skills are not being fully used. At the other end is the risky deployment of staff beyond their skill level. If that happens, we will be in difficulty.\nBoards are failing to replace staff who are on maternity leave or long-term sick leave. That places burdens on the remaining staff and increases stress, which leads to additional sickness. The Health and Sport Committee learned yesterday that vacancy management is expected to produce savings of \u00a34 million for one health board that appeared before us and \u00a31 million for another health board that was represented, so that will be important. However, if it simply means stopping the filling of vital posts, it will reduce front-line services. We therefore need to understand what vacancy management is about.\nMy experience of vacancy management was not good. To save money, the posts of people who gave due notice of retiral were not advertised, even when those posts were critical. The consequent delay in appointment\u2014and, sometimes, the necessary appointment of locums when the system was at breaking point\u2014was more costly in the end, so what was intended was not achieved. Substantial stress was also created for the rest of the team.\nIt is clear that we need to consider the skill mix and that reviewing the workforce is important. How we do that is also important\u2014it must be done sensitively.\nAudit Scotland's report \"Day surgery in Scotland\" showed that Scotland still lags behind England on the number of day-surgery procedures that are undertaken. At yesterday's Health and Sport Committee meeting, I did not question NHS Tayside's representative on day surgery, but the report says that NHS Tayside is in a low category for several procedures and that it is a long way from achieving the targets on 16 procedures. If we reached the targets, that would save money and improve the experience for patients, as Duncan McNeil said. When patients enter hospital just for the day, they are much less likely to develop hospital-acquired infection.\nMy colleague Jackie Baillie talked about cuts, to which our amendment refers. It is a fact that the NHS in Scotland has received lower increases than has the NHS in England since the current Government took office. Of the \u00a3900 million of additional money that was put into this year's Scottish budget, \u00a3274 million will go to health. I welcome that, but SNP members cannot have it both ways. A funding increase should protect front-line jobs. The cuts that my colleague Jackie Baillie outlined of 1,250 staff in Glasgow and 700 staff in Lothian\u2014and other cuts\u2014show that the situation will have to be examined carefully. Cutting cleaning hours at Glasgow royal infirmary is incomprehensible. On cutting volunteer drivers, the Minister for Public Health might confirm in summing up that Duncan McNeil represented his constituents successfully. However, to be frank, the cabinet secretary and the minister do not have enough fingers to stick into the holes that are beginning to appear in the dykes. They cannot resolve such problems one by one\u2014a global strategy must deal with them.\nWe must consider several issues. As Ross Finnie said, we must define front-line care. The response yesterday\u2014\"It depends what you mean by 'front-line care'\"\u2014was disappointing.\nI concur with Mary Scanlon and Jackson Carlaw's analysis of the strategy. It is apple pie\u2014it contains nice fluffy aspirations, but it is not even as cunning as a cunning plan by Blackadder's Baldrick. No one could speak against it, but it fails on almost every count. Some counts on which it fails are astonishing. It fails to examine closely the quality improvement actions of the past 20 years. It fails to analyse the hugely successful Scottish pilot in Tayside, to which I referred. It does not talk about the successful lean in Lothian programme. It does not mention quality improvement techniques and tools such as lean, total quality management, continuous quality improvement, the Institute for Healthcare Improvement's plan-do-study-act system, business process re-engineering or six sigma. There is no indication of what is being done. It does not refer to the work, sponsored by the health department and published in 2009, by Powell, Rushmer and Davies, involving Dr Twaddle, which is an excellent summary and review of quality improvement and how it needs to be embedded. It does not tell us whether the health department is supporting the embedding of quality improvement in every board or has a role in facilitating boards' efforts to tackle the barriers that the strategy indicates are present in a number of areas.\nThe strategy makes no reference to training of board members, executive and non-executive, or lead clinicians. It does not talk about the co-ordinators of the managed care networks that underpin the developing collaborative system in Scotland. Embedding quality improvement techniques in those networks is fundamental. It does not suggest what steps might be taken, after NHS Tayside's success in backfilling in Tayside, to allow staff from there to play a mentoring role in other boards when that work is rolled out, as we have been told it will be. We do not know what quality improvement networks have been established. As Mary Scanlon indicated, we are also concerned about the fact that there is no security for whistleblowers, which will become vital as we move forward into a period of greater austerity.\nThe strategy mentions quality ambitions, quality outcome measures and a quality measurement framework that will be produced. It also refers to a number of committees: a quality alliance, a quality improvement hub and an NHS strategic oversight group. I detect a growing confusion of the sort that we had with HAI. I am very disappointed by the strategy, which is light and weak and lacks the focus that is present in the department. One member referred to it as a \"work in progress\"\u2014that is exactly what it is.\nWe all want quality. It is vital that we have efficiency, but it is also vital that we do not return to the situation that existed in the 1980s, when efficiency savings meant cuts. Such cuts were made repeatedly across the board, with management presenting clinicians such as me with statements requiring us to cut 3 per cent from our budgets for the year, even if we had made substantial savings in the previous year and had improved efficiency. We must be far more sophisticated than that. Regrettably, the strategy does not provide the basis for such an approach.\nShona Robison Scottish National Party 4:48 pm, 13th May 2010\nI am grateful to all members for their participation in and contribution to the debate. We are implementing the health care quality strategy for the NHS in Scotland to support our NHS in delivering the best health care services to the people of Scotland, in a way that responds to what people have told us that they want and need. We are confident that, by doing that, we can make Scotland a world leader in health care quality. We are also confident that, through that shared approach, the NHS will not only be able to deliver the highest-quality health care, but be better placed to respond to the economic and social challenges that lie ahead. Our confidence in our ability in Scotland to achieve those aims for the NHS is built on a strong foundation.\nI say to Jackie Baillie that it is not good enough for the spokesperson for the major Opposition party in the Parliament to come to an important debate and offer absolutely nothing by way of constructive proposals, constructive criticism or anything else. She gave a rant that was a single transferable speech. To be fair to her back benchers and, to some degree, to Richard Simpson, her speech stood in stark contrast to theirs.\nWill the minister give way?\nI will let the member in later.\nLet me put some facts on the record. First, there will be no compulsory redundancies in the NHS. That is a real achievement, given the squeeze on the Scottish Government budget as a result of the \u00a3500 million of cuts from Westminster.\nSecondly, although there might be changes in how the community maternity unit in the Vale of Leven hospital operates, as Jackie Baillie said, at least the unit is still there. That would not have been the case under Labour, which was absolutely intent on closing it. Only the action of the Cabinet Secretary for Health and Wellbeing overturned the proposals to close the unit that were on the table. Let us have facts, not fiction.\nAnother fact is that there are 10,000 more staff working in the NHS than there were before the SNP Government came to power in 2007. Those 10,000 extra staff are delivering improvement in the quality of patient care. I do not mind debating points in the Parliament, but debates must be based on fact and not scaremongering, which was the whole basis of Jackie Baillie's speech. The staff in the NHS and the patients who receive NHS services deserve better from the political leaders in the Parliament.\nSpeaking of facts, is the minister denying NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde's workforce projections, in which 1,252 staff are cut? Is she denying that NHS Lothian said that 700 jobs would be lost? Is she denying NHS Tayside's reduction of \u00a330 million? Is she guaranteeing that that will have no impact on front-line services? She cannot have it both ways.\nThe Labour Party cannot have it both ways, either. The Labour Party cannot make cuts of \u00a3500 million in the Scottish Budget and then assert that somehow those cuts have no impact on how public services are delivered.\nWe expect our health boards to leave no stone unturned in ensuring that in delivering the health service with their budget, including the extra \u00a3264 million that they have, they protect front-line services. I would have thought that all members would get behind health boards in doing that.\nI pick up Jackie Baillie on another point. In her litany of accusations, she criticised changes to hospital-based mental health services for the elderly. However, only a few weeks ago Jackie Baillie stood up at the Convention of Scottish Local Authorities convention to back changes that shift resources from hospitals to communities. Is not that a case of a member saying one thing in the Parliament and something completely different outside the Parliament? That is not good enough.\nMore constructive speeches were made. Mary Scanlon asked why it was necessary in the strategy document to restate the key aims of the NHS. I think that the cabinet secretary explained well why it was important to do so. Ross Finnie and Jamie Stone talked about managementspeak. In a spirit of consensus, we concede that there is some managementspeak in the document. That does not detract from the important substance of the document. Any Government document might contain similar language\u2014Liberal Democrats might find that some of their UK Government documents contain managementspeak.\nRoss Finnie Liberal Democrat\nAt least the syntax and grammar would be correct.\nChristine Grahame, in her considered speech, referred to the useful evidence that was put on the record at the Health and Sport Committee.\nDuncan McNeil's speech was very constructive, in the main. However, in his intervention, he talked about reducing the IT budget for health. I remind him that Labour's proposal last year to cut the e-health budget would have really damaged the IT budget of the health service. He asked me specifically about the health service in his constituency and I asked him about a letter that is winging its way to him. He can read for himself the detail of that letter, but the last line says:\n\"I understand that further discussions between representatives of the Ardgowan Hospice and NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde regarding funding have now taken place and that a funding arrangement agreeable to both sides, has been reached.\"\nI hope that Duncan McNeil will welcome that in the spirit in which it is intended.\nA press release from Lorraine Dick, senior press officer for NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde, this week stated that there is clearly an issue:\n\"the hospice is actively pursuing new sources of funding to help us continue the much appreciated transport service.\"\nThere has been a cut. I look to the minister and the cabinet secretary to ensure that we continue to provide that voluntary transport service, for which the funding has been cut.\nI advise Duncan McNeil that the service is continuing and that an arrangement has been reached that is agreeable to both sides. He does the people at Ardgowan hospice no service when they have reached an agreement with the health board that is to their satisfaction. I suggest that, if it is good enough for them, it should be good enough for Duncan McNeil.\nMalcolm Chisholm made a constructive, if at times challenging, speech. He showed that he understands well the issues behind what is involved and could perhaps teach his front-bench colleagues a thing or two about how to get a point across in a more effective way. He showed that he had read the document\u2014so, full marks to him. We will reflect on the issues that he raised when we read the Official Report of the debate.\nAnne McLaughlin talked about the patient advice and support service, which will be for every patient, recognising individual needs. Communication support and translation is a significant aspect of the proposed service. I hope that that answers her question.\nJackson Carlaw made some important points in his summing-up speech, not the least of which was the important point that the \u00a336 million of resources that the NHS in Scotland would have had to find\u2014it would have had to come from somewhere, perhaps putting pressure on front-line budgets\u2014will no longer have to be found following the rejection of Labour's national insurance hike. That was an important point to make.\nThe strategy will not deliver change overnight, but it goes to the heart of what the NHS is all about. Staff in the NHS tell us that they chose to work in the NHS instead of working in other sectors because they wanted to deliver the best quality of care and treatment to patients. That is how the quality strategy came into being: it was driven by what the staff\u2014and, equally important, the patients\u2014were telling us that they wanted. We are absolutely committed to implementing the quality strategy and supporting everyone in Scotland to play their part in ensuring that our NHS delivers the health care that everyone wants and needs, now and into the future.\nWe have demonstrated why we believe that NHS Scotland can become a world leader. I am confident that everyone here supports that aim, which has been embraced by the NHS in Scotland. I hope that everyone will work with us to pursue the ambitions that we have set out in the quality strategy for our NHS.","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
+{"text":"ISL: ATK sign Australian striker David Joel Williams\n10:58 AM GMT 28\/06\/2019\nThe ISL outfit have signed the Australian striker who last played for Wellington Phoenix in the A-League...\nIndian Super League outfit ATK have added another forward in their ranks for the upcoming season with the signing of Australian striker David Joel Williams.\n31-year-old Williams last played for Wellington Phoenix in the Australian A-League where he forged a lethal partnership with fellow ATK recruit Roy Krishna. The pair bagged a total of 30 goals between them in the 2018-19 season with Williams himself accounting for 11 of them.\n\"I am happy to join ATK for the upcoming season of Indian Super League,\" the Australian said on his move.\nAfcon 2019: Jordan Ayew congratulates 10-man Ghana for holding 11-man Benin\nAfcon 2019: A draw against Benin is reasonable after red card - Ghana coach Appiah\nAfcon 2019: Ghana could have lost against Benin - Jonathan Mensah\nPaintsil: Black Stars can't afford to lose shape in the Afcon\n\"I am absolutely delighted that I will be able to play alongside my friend Roy Krishna.\n\"Hopefully, together as a team, we will be able to win the title and create memories.\"\nThe forward had represented Australia at the 2005 FIFA U17 World Cup in Peru and has also earned two caps for the senior national team. Williams has played in the A-League for the major part of his career with stints at Queensland Roar, Sydney FC, Melbourne City and Wellington Phoenix.\nHe has also undertaken two stints in Europe with Brondby in the Danish Superliga and with Haladas in the Hungarian League.\nATK head coach Antonio Lopez Habas has welcomed the forward's signing and is expecting Williams to recreate his partnership with Krishna.\n\"David Williams is another signing I am very happy with. His pace and technique will be valuable to us,\" Lopez stated.\n\"He also brings variety to the squad since he can play on either side of the wings as well. His understanding with teammate Roy Krishna will be crucial for us,\" he added.","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
+{"text":"All Business Report\nFlySafair reaches 1000 employees five years after the company's launch\nCompanies \/ 26 April 2019, 11:00am \/ Staff Reporter\nFlySafair has reached another milestone in just under five years, it now employs over 1000 people, four times the number it started with. Picture: Supplied.\nDURBAN - FlySafair has reached another milestone in just under five years, it now employs over 1000 people, four times the number it launched with in October 2014.\nElmar Conradie, Chief Executive at Safair Operations and FlySafair said, \"When FlySafair launched in 2014 with a 260-strong team, we couldn't have envisioned the creation of 820 new jobs within five years. We did, however, see a great opportunity in the South African market to make a difference. Not only have we opened the skies to more than 8 million fliers, we've created employment opportunities for South Africans from all walks of life, both directly and through our partner network\".\nOne such organisation is at First Car Rental. Melissa Nortje, Executive Head: Strategy, Development and Marketing at the organisation said, \"FlySafair's growth over the last few years has allowed us to push more volume through existing branches, creating both job security and the ability to serve customers more efficiently. Given that all FlySafair renters arrive in the same plane, at the same time, we are also able to continue the customer satisfaction journey\".\nSince launch, FlySafair has single-handedly disrupted South Africa's aviation industry. Due to its low fares, air travel has become accessible to more South Africans. People who would never have considered air travel - now can - making FlySafair's journey one of diversity and inclusion and a true South African success story.\nAccording to the World Travel & Tourism Council (WTTC), South Africa's travel and tourism industry contributed 1.5 million jobs and R425.8 billion to the economy in 2018, making it the largest tourism economy in Africa. It is estimated that by 2028, almost 2.1 million jobs will be created by travel and tourism, 11.1 percent of the country's total employment.\nAs this trend continues, FlySafair is ideally placed to boost both employment and tourism in South Africa.\nBUSINESS REPORT ONLINE\nFlySafair passengers can now receive their boarding passes via WhatsApp\nFlySafair has been named Best Airline in Africa by TripAdvisor\nINFOGRAPHIC: FlySafair dominates airline punctuality\nFlySafair technical issue irks commuters on 'most punctual airline in world'\nFlySafair launches pre-paid snack allowance feature for passengers\nInside BUSINESS REPORT\nBusiness Report Weekly\nSign up to receive our weekly edition of Business Report in your inbox.","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
+{"text":"IG report: Comey's FBI made 'significant' omissions in FISA applications\nJames Comey received his second bureaucratic slap on the wrist this year with Monday's release of the long-awaited Department of Justice (DOJ) inspector general's report on alleged abuses of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA).\nAfter months of build-up, Inspector General (IG) Michael Horowitz concluded that the FBI's investigation of the 2016 Donald Trump campaign was justified, but that the DOJ and FBI under Comey made \"significant\" omissions in seeking to spy on Trump campaign member Carter Page, Fox News reports.\nBut although the FBI clearly spied on the Trump campaign \u2014 and on flimsy pretenses, it would seem \u2014 Comey swiftly claimed \"no spying\" and tweeted out an op-ed congratulating himself Monday.\n\"So it was all lies. No treason. No spying on the campaign. No tapping Trump's wires,\" he tweeted. \"It was just good people trying to protect America.\"\nComey has repeatedly claimed that the FBI's spying on Trump in what was known as Operation Crossfire Hurricane was justified and \"totally normal,\" according to the Daily Caller, and he even quibbled with the term \"spying\" itself \u2014 but an investigation by the DOJ's Office of the Inspector General reached a far more subtle conclusion. Horowitz's report dealt a scathing rebuke to the FBI under Comey, even as it exonerated him and other FBI and DOJ officials of bias toward Trump.\nThe nearly 500-page report confirmed long-standing Republican suspicions about the FBI's abuse of the FISA process to spy on Page using an unreliable dossier riddled with deranged innuendo. The report found that Christopher Steele's salacious dossier was a core part of the applications and that it was not deemed wholly credible, but that it was used to justify spying on Page despite at least 17 \"significant inaccuracies and omissions\" that, the report hints, might have otherwise prevented the FBI from renewing the warrants.\n\"The Crossfire Hurricane team failed to inform department officials of significant information that was available to the team at the time that the FISA applications were drafted and filed,\" the report notes, according to Fox News. \"Much of that information was inconsistent with, or undercut, the assertions contained in the FISA applications that were used to support probable cause and, in some instances, resulted in inaccurate information being included in the applications.\"\nThe report also confirms that the FBI spied on Trump campaign members including Page and George Papadopoulos using informants, hardly a \"normal\" turn of events. Still, Horowitz somehow let Comey off the hook.\n\"We did not find documentary or testimonial evidence that political bias or improper motivation influenced the FBI's decision to seek FISA authority on Carter Page,\" the report said.\nThe Deep State skates again\nHorowitz's conclusion was expected after early leaks of the report led many to downplay the rather explosive hopes invested in it by supporters of President Trump, including Fox News' Sean Hannity. By the time of the report's release, some were prepared to write it off as the work of a bureaucrat \u2014 Horowitz is an Obama appointee \u2014 who was never going to bring the hammer down on Comey and other top foes of the president, like John Brennan and James Clapper.\nThe report marks the second time that Comey has avoided prosecution despite high expectations of some kind of reckoning for the \"Deep State.\" Horowitz referred Comey for prosecution over his memo leaks earlier this year, but the DOJ declined, according to NBC News.\nComey has admitted to leaking memos of his conversations with Donald Trump to spark a special counsel probe, an action that spurred the IG to denounce his \"dangerous example\" in its previous IG investigation of his memo leaks, according to the Associated Press. Still, the former FBI leader claimed vindication despite that scathing assessment of his leadership and demanded an apology from those who had accused him of crimes.\nCardinal Comey once again responded by playing the victim card with his tweet Monday, but in a sign of the deepening divide between Deep State loyalists and President Trump, Attorney General Bill Barr also issued a stunning statement Monday saying that the report \"makes clear that the FBI launched an intrusive investigation of a U.S. presidential campaign on the thinnest of suspicions that, in my view, were insufficient to justify the steps taken,\" according to NBC.\nBarr's prosecutor, John Durham \u2014 who is overseeing a separate, criminal probe of Russiagate \u2014 also took issue with Horowitz's conclusion and alluded to the wider scope of his probe, which is also looking into whether the CIA improperly influenced the FBI in launching Crossfire Hurricane. But for now, it looks like Comey will once again get off scot-free \u2014 unless Barr does something about it.\nMatthew Boose\nMatthew Boose is a staff writer for Conservative Institute. He has a Bachelor's degree from Stony Brook University and has contributed to The Daily Caller and The Stony Brook Press.","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
+{"text":"Home | About Us | News Press and Awards | Press Releases | PR-2022: Amy Hall Joins Equity Trust Company as Chief People and Human Resources Officer\nAmy Hall Joins Equity Trust Company as Chief People and Human Resources Officer\nCLEVELAND, OHIO, April 19, 2022\nAmy Hall has been named Chief People and Human Resources Officer at Equity Trust Company, a leading financial services company enabling investors to diversify retirement accounts into alternative assets.\nAmy will help attract, grow, and develop associates at Equity Trust, which has been named to the NorthCoast 99 list of top workplaces in Northeast Ohio for eight years. She will also oversee various efforts and initiatives including attracting top talent, training, compensation and benefits analysis, and the Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Task Force.\nEquity Trust continues to build on its people-first philosophy, assessing policies and adding workplace amenities to promote personal and professional growth, as well as work-life balance. Amy will lead the effort to advance this company culture.\n\"Equity Trust's values and people-first culture are what drew me to join this leadership team,\" said Amy Hall, Equity Trust's new Chief People and Human Resources Officer. \"I am excited to collaborate with them and build upon the company's momentum.\"\n\"I am extremely excited about Amy joining the Equity Trust Executive Team, as the scope of her experience is significant and crosses the vital areas of human resources, and her genuine passion for people and talent will help us continue our mission to foster a people-oriented culture,\" said George Sullivan, CEO of Equity Trust Company.\nAmy has over 17 years of human resources and business experience on a global scale. Most recently, she served as the Senior Vice President of Human Resources North America at AmTrust Financial where she has been since 2015 and was responsible for talent acquisition, human resources operations, employee relations, and mergers and acquisitions.\nPrior to her AmTrust role, she worked in various human resources capacities for Staples Corporation from 2010 until 2015, including assignments in The Netherlands and United Kingdom.\nAbout Equity Trust Company\nEquity Trust Company is a financial services company that enables individual investors and financial professionals to diversify investment portfolios using alternative asset classes such as real estate, tax liens, private equity, cryptocurrency, and precious metals. Equity Trust Company evolved from a predecessor brokerage firm founded in 1974, to a directed custodian today with over 45 years of experience and more than $34 billion in assets (as of 8\/31\/21).\nChief Financial Information Officer\nPrecious Metals and Investment Technology Expertise\nFormer Executive Vice President Named CEO","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
+{"text":"Home Cars 14 Luxury Car Makes That Disappeared From The Roads\n14 Luxury Car Makes That Disappeared From The Roads\nVukasin HerbezFebruary 20, 2018\nThe Stutz Motor Company was an American producer of high performance and premium cars based in Indianapolis, Indiana. Harry C. Stutz started the company in 1911. Since it was at the home of America's motorsport tradition, the Stutz was successful in races on the famous Indianapolis track.\nThe Stutz Bearcat model was the first American sports car, born out of the company's racing efforts. This also helped its reputation as a high performance, luxury brand. Stutz raced in Europe and introduced advanced 32-valve cylinder heads for its engines, which were the first ones on the market. With high performance hardware and quality construction, Stutz cars won numerous races and broke speed records in the 1920's.\nThis help them to establish the Stutz as the one of the fastest American cars ever. However, it wasn't enough to keep the company alive, so Stutz closed its doors in 1935. In 1968, they tried unsuccessfully to revive the Stutz name with a series of retro-looking custom cars.\nEntering the car industry in 1927, La Salle was a luxury brand established by General Motors. They wanted it to fill the market gap between luxury Cadillacs and common brands like Buick and Oldsmobile. La Salle was under the control of Cadillac, so they developed it alongside their own brand. The concept was successful, and La Salle was a relatively popular model.\nThe big part of its appeal was the design and technology. Buyers got a baseline Cadillac for less money, which appealed to a wider audience. However, by the end of the 1940's, General Motors realized having several brands covering the same market segment was not practical. So, they decided to kill the brand. In the 50.s and 60.s, the La Salle name reappeared on several GM concept cars.\nMarmon\nMarmon Motor Cars Company was another renowned luxury manufacturer from Indianapolis, Indiana. Howard Carpenter Marmon established the brand in 1902. It soon became famous for its innovative V2, V4, V6 and V8 engines. Marmon cars were fast and powerful for their time, so the next logical step was to enter the races. In 1909, the Marmon Wasp racing car was the first car to win the famous Indianapolis 500 race. This gave the company some valuable publicity.\nThe company was famous for luxurious, fast sedans, but over the years, it lost ground to its flashier, better marketed counterparts. In its last attempt to win the market over, Marmon introduced a V16 engine to compete with Cadillac. However, it just wasn't enough, so the company closed in 1933.\nDual Ghia\nNot many people know about Dual Ghia. It was an exclusive American car company they founded in 1956. But it was defunct just two years later in 1958. Businessman Eugene Casaroll, started Dual Ghia. Casaroll sent its chassis to Italy to be re-bodied by the famous Italian design house Ghia; hence, the name.\nIt was a producer of high powered, custom built convertibles that used Chrysler platforms and 315 V8 engines. The selling points were the body and luxury appointments. The Dual Ghia appeared in 1956 as the most expensive American car at the moment. They only made 117 Dual Ghias. However, A-list celebrities like Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin and Richard Nixon bought most of them.\nIf you think the Edsel is Ford's only failed luxury attempt, think again. In the mid-50's, Ford decided to establish a separate brand. They called it the Continental Division. It was supposed to produce new luxury cars positioned above the Lincoln brand. The first and only car was the famous Continental Mark II, which they introduced in 1955.\nFord's idea was to present a superb luxury coupe with the finest technology and comfort, and then market it as a separate brand. The idea sounded good, but the market response wasn't great. Ford shut down the Continental Division after just five years following the disappointing sales of the Mark II coupe, even though it was one of the finest American cars they ever made.\nThis list covered the forgotten luxury of those long lost American luxury car manufacturers. Most car fans respect and appreciate these vehicles and some would even like to see them return someday.\nCarsCameron EittreimNovember 27, 2020 12: Toyota Corolla FX-16 Another uncommon contender in the cheap and fun category was the...\nCarsCameron EittreimJanuary 15, 2020 13. Pontiac Grand AM GT The little brother of the much larger Grand Prix was...\nCarsVukasin HerbezApril 1, 2019 Aston Martin DB5 The first of several James Bond cars on this list is the...","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
+{"text":"Colen Campbell, 1676\u20131729, British, Lowther House, Westmorland: Principal and First Floor Plans, between 1718 and 1729\nColen Campbell, 1676\u20131729, British, Lowther House, Westmorland: Principal and First Floor Plans, between 1718 and 1729, Graphite, pen and black ink, gray wash, within triple-ruled border on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper bar scale of 1\/20 inch to 1 foot, Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection, B1977.14.1070\nColen Campbell, 1676\u20131729, British\nLowther House, Westmorland: Principal and First Floor Plans\nGraphite, pen and black ink, gray wash, within triple-ruled border on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper bar scale of 1\/20 inch to 1 foot\nSheet: 18 7\/16 x 11 1\/4 inches (46.8 x 28.6 cm)\nInscribed in pen and black ink, center: \"32 square\", \"30 | 21\", \"30 | 21\", \"19 | 21\", \"32 | 24\"\nWatermark: IV\narchitectural subject | designs | floor plans | house | Palladian\nCuratorial Comment:\nThis is one of a set of four surviving drawings at the Yale Center for British Art showing Campbell's proposal for rebuilding Lowther House for Henry Lowther, third Viscount Lonsdale (1694\u20131751) (see also B1977.14.1069\u20131072). The principal floor and first-floor plans in this drawing show a symmetrical design, the main rooms laid out on the center axis, with a clear vista through these spaces from one end of the house to the other. The thirty-two-foot square room overlooking the garden rises through two stories and may have been intended as a cube, thus evoking other Palladian designs, such as Inigo Jones's Queen's House at Greenwich, or Campbell's own Wanstead House (both featured in Vitruvius Britannicus, vol. I). Colen Campbell was probably introduced to the third Viscount Londsdale by Richard Boyle, third Earl of Burlington (1694\u20131753), a leading figure of the Palladian movement and an important early patron of Campbell. Lord Burlington helped launch the architect's career with introductions to influential and wealthy patrons in London and the north. Campbell made an early attempt to gain Lonsdale's patronage in 1717, when he dedicated to him a design for minor alterations to Lowther House in volume II of Vitruvius Britannicus. The architect's later design, as shown in the Center's drawings, was for a more drastic reconstruction, suggesting that it was submitted after the house's destructive fire. Despite the detailed proposals, Campbell's designs for Lowther House were never executed. Unfortunately for Campbell, Lonsdale's finances suffered greatly from the South Sea Bubble crisis in 1720. He sold off more than \u00a326,000 in estates, and he never salvaged the fire-damaged house. In 1806, Lowther House was rebuilt as a castellated mansion designed by Robert Smirke.","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
+{"text":"Home Achieve and maintain your goals: Start a nutrition program with Leslie today!\nPhoneAppointment Bookings\nFeatured Foods\nLeslie Beck's Three Month Diet & Nutrition Program\nLeslie Beck's Optimal Health & Nutrition Program\nLow FODMAP Diet Program for IBS\nNutrition Seminars and Workshops\nHealthy Ways to Lose Weight\nHealthy Ways to Gain Weight\nRecommended Portion Sizes\nQ & A with Leslie about The No-Fail Diet\nWhat's Inside The No-Fail Diet?\nSample Menu from The No-Fail Diet: Week 3, Sunday\nSample Menu from The No-Fail Diet: Week 7, Tuesday\nContact Leslie Beck\nSubscribe to Leslie's eNewsletter\nLeslie's RSS Feeds\nCanadian school program tackles childhood obesity\nFebruary 23, 2005 in Nutrition Topics in the News\nRecent Canadian research shows that a healthy-living program that promotes good nutrition with regular physical activity for children in primary school \u2013 drastically reduces the number of overweight children. The program, which is currently in place in 12 Nova Scotia schools includes healthy-eating curriculum, daily gym class, healthy and inexpensive cafeteria food and accessible after-school activities.\nResearchers claim that to be effective, a comprehensive, integrated approach is necessary to tackle the problem of childhood obesity. The research found that under the healthy-living program, the number of obese children fell even more dramatically than the number of overweight youngsters.\nIn schools without a healthy-living strategy, about 10 per cent of children were obese and 33 per cent were overweight, compared to schools with the program, where about 4 per cent of youngsters were obese and 18 per cent were overweight. The program resulted in children eating more fruits and vegetables, fewer fatty foods, playing more games and sports, and engaging in fewer sedentary activities, such as TV and video games.\nThe healthy-living program began in 1997, after parents became concerned about the poor quality of the food in their children's lunchboxes and in the cafeteria, which brought in food from local fast-food restaurants. After-school sports programs are also offered free of charge, and money has been allotted to a drive-home program to ensure all children who want to, can participate.\nAt Port Williams Elementary, a school with 275 students, the healthy-living program costs about $25,000 annually -- or less than $100 per student.\nThe study, which involved 5,200 Grade 5 students, compared body weight, diet and activities of children in schools with no program, with only a nutrition program, and with a comprehensive nutrition and physical-activity program. There was virtually no difference between the schools with a nutrition program and those offering nothing at all, but results were better across-the-board in the schools with comprehensive healthy-living programs.\nAll research on this web site is the property of Leslie Beck Nutrition Consulting Inc. and is protected by copyright. Keep in mind that research on these matters continues daily and is subject to change. The information presented is not intended as a substitute for medical treatment. It is intended to provide ongoing support of your healthy lifestyle practices.\nStart one of Leslie's Nutrition\/Weight Loss Programs today!\nThe truth behind six common weight loss rules\nWe hear a lot of diet advice from friends, family, personal trainers, celebrity doctors and, of course, the Internet. Chances are you're familiar\u2026\nKeep reading \u00bb\nThree Bean Garden Chili\nVitamin D protects against melanoma, study suggests\nBooks by Leslie Beck\nsee all books +\nAbout Leslie Beck, RD\nAbout Leslie Beck\nWorking with Leslie\nThree Month Weight Management Program\nOptimal Health & Nutrition Counselling Program\nLow FODMAP Diet for IBS\nBody Mass Index Calculator\nWaist\/Hip Ratio Calculator\nCopyright \u00a9 2023 Leslie Beck Nutrition Consulting Inc. All rights reserved. Privacy Policy.\nLeslie is regularly featured in:\nBook Leslie Beck as a speaker \u00bb","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
+{"text":"See also : China Song and Yuan Chinese art Ancient Chinese porcelain Tibet and Nepal Islam Egypt Japan and Korea Renaissance Italian painting 1300-1700 Ancient sculpture Madonna and Child Religious texts Chinese calligraphy Landscape Animals Horse Cats\nHimalayan Enlightenment\n2017 SOLD for $ 3.85M including premium\nThe art of gilded metal is millenarian in the mountains of the Himalayas. In the loneliness of their monasteries the artists developed and maintained some original features with great refinement and sharpness in the carving.\nOn September 13 in New York, Christie's sells a 51 cm high Buddha in golden bronze made in Nepal 800 to 600 years ago, lot 620 estimated $ 600K. This hollowed figure served as a reliquary and still preserves a mixture of scriptures, fabrics and herbs.\nThe Sage is figured at the moment when he reaches the enlightenment after having finally repelled the demons. He is sitting in the position of the bhumisparsha mudra : the palm of the left hand is open upward for an offering and the right hand touches the ground to signify that Buddha's body is now providing the mystical connection between Earth and Heaven. The gaze is in retrospection, the third eye is prominent and the toes are splayed.\nOn October 3 in Hong Kong, Bonhams sells a 34 cm high Buddha in the same posture except that the lightning appears under the right hand. It was made in Tibet 600 to 500 years ago in copper alloy, gilt with the exception of the lapis dyed hair and of the offering bowl which here has survived. This figure is estimated HK $ 15M, lot 22.\nOn this piece which is more recent than the statuette discussed above, the deviation from the Buddhist canon is more visible, including a triangular face emphasizing the broad forehead at the expense of the chin and a sharp edged nose. The bust and arms are too long, probably deliberately to accentuate the commanding attitude. The patchwork robe inlaid with turquoises, garnets and lapis is inspired by the Chinese imperial silk garments.\nIt is the first of the the three lots highlighted by Bonhams in the video below.\nNepal at Christie's : SOLD for $ 3.85M\nTibet at Bonhams : SOLD for HK$ 18M\n5 minutes with... A Himalayan gilt-bronze Buddha https:\/\/t.co\/w5LOJdSawk pic.twitter.com\/17nDyMqA3N\n\u2014 Christie's (@ChristiesInc) September 5, 2017\nRare and unique Tibetan gilt copper alloy figure of Akshobhya to lead Images of Devotion sale in HK https:\/\/t.co\/pN4aU822FR pic.twitter.com\/8X4nkG8NsJ\n\u2014 BONHAMS (@bonhams1793) September 8, 2017\n1305 Giotto stopped at Rimini\n2014 SOLD 5.7 M\u00a3 including premium\nAt the end of the thirteenth century, the small town of Rimini gained a political importance when Malatesta became its podesta. The condottiero embellished the city: Giotto realized for the cathedral the frescoes that were destroyed around 1450.\nThe date when Giotto was in Rimini is not documented but is certainly after his Assisi frescoes made \u200b\u200bin 1298. Through considerations on the evolution of his art, it is known that his work at Rimini is prior to his long stay in Padua started in 1303.\nGiotto was one of the greatest innovators of Christian art. Superseding the stiff Byzantine style, he provided clever compositions featuring characters in flexible and communicating attitudes.\nThe beginning of the Rimini school relies on the images by Giotto. At that time when artistic innovations were slowly spreading, Rimini long remained limited in the intermediate style of the maestro before the innovations of Padua.\nOn July 9 in London, Sotheby's sells a sumptuous panel made between 1300 and 1305 in tempera on gold made by a follower of Giotto. In an exceptional condition of preservation, it is estimated \u00a3 2M, lot 17.\nThe author is probably Giovanni da Rimini, one of the earliest Rimini painters best known for a copy dated 1309 from a Crucifix by Giotto and who tentatively must not be confused with Giovanni Baronzio.\nThis panel 53 x 34 cm shows biblical and hagiographic scenes in a bold composition joining vertically at the left side the upper two registers. It is the left wing of a diptych separated in the eighteenth century. The right wing displays in a stricter composition six episodes from the life of Christ. It is kept at the Galleria Nazionale d'Arte Antica in Rome.\nThis exceptional and very ancient painting was sold for \u00a3 5.7M including premium.\nearly Yuan - Jingdezhen with the Yuan\n\u200b2016 SOLD for HK$ 30M including premium\nAfter the perfection in material, robustness and geometry under the Song, the Chinese porcelain got a new artistic development with the Yuan. The blue and white porcelain was also known for a long time but the new Mongol dominance facilitated the import of cobalt from western Mongolia.\nThe Jingdezhen kilns were already operational under the Tang and Song but their activity is much developed by the Yuan. Responding to the taste of the Middle East, Jingdezhen potters are making complex shaped wares moulded with hollows and bumps for enhancing the decorative pattern. A technical influence from Persian silverware is likely.\nThe blue and white applied in spares or brush multiplies the figurative themes in the tradition of Chinese graphic art, of course, but also with pleasant vegetal themes that also support the export of Chinese porcelain to the Middle East. At that time the Chinese ceramics, especially those from Jingdezhen, are the only ones that are hygienic enough to bring no health risk to the user.\nOn October 5 in Hong Kong, Sotheby's sells a Yuan charger,lot 3636 estimated HK $ 25M. This massive piece successfully accumulates the technical difficulties with its mouldings, its bracket lobed rim and its very large size, 48 cm in diameter.\nThe decoration uses reserves to reveal the white by washing the blue background. Such pieces waste too much cobalt and in addition they were designed per unit. This technique was soon superseded by a blue on white without moulding, cheaper and suitable for a production in series.\nYuan - The Return of the Drunken Kings\n2016 SOLD for RMB 304M yuan including premium\nOn November 29, 2009, Christie's sold for HK $ 46.6M a Chinese hand scroll on the theme of the drunken kings, lot 815. Before the sale, I had discussed this unusual and nice picture as follows :\n\"It is a hand scroll 2.10 m long and 35 cm high painted in ink and colors. The title is remarkable : Five drunken kings return on horses. There are nine characters overall. The kings are riding in vacillating attitudes and four grooms attend to assure that their honorable masters will not fall.\n\"The artist was named Ren Renfa and lived under the Yuan dynasty 700 years ago. He was following a tradition dating back to the Tang dynasty and specialized in images of horses of great beauty. The irreverent nature of the theme is a proof of humor rare in art history suggesting a great artistic freedom at the time of the Mongolian rule.\"\nThis piece returns for sale in Beijing on December 4 at Poly Auction, lot 4050. It is in a very good contrast in spite of its age and has been carefully analyzed. The pattern of the paper is conformant to the Song technologies and is earlier than the Ming. The scroll includes ancient colophons as well as the seals of three Qing emperors.\nThese drunken kings can be identified and were the subject of a very ancient poem. Although his work is not uncommon, Ren Renfa was probably not a professional artist : he worked as an imperial official in charge of water control. Contrary to my 2009 enthusiasm, it is fool to discuss from that single example the freedom in artistic expression at Yuan time.\nThe Tang loved horses, for war and for pleasure. Artists like Han Gan and Zhang Xuan were drawing the riders with high realism and this tradition was still fresh under the Yuan. Another predecessor of Ren Renfa was the Song artist Li Longmian. The procession of drunken kings by Ren displays revealing similarities in its composition with an elegant promenade of women painted two centuries earlier by Li after Zhang and preserved at the Taiwan Museum.\n1334 An Annunciation in the Trecento\n2012 SOLD 4.1 M$ inclding premium\nPainting at the time of the first successors of Giotto is primarily intended for devotion. Diptych and polyptych are common forms of this art.\nThe painting on panel in tempera on gold background, 29 x 21 cm, for sale by Sotheby's in New York on January 26 was the right part of a diptych on the theme of the Annunciation.\nIt demonstrates a remarkable artist's intention to link the human and the wonderful, providing a subtle psychological dimension to the attitude of the Virgin Mary.\nShe is here a very young woman, dressed in a lavishly decorated cloak, pushed to the right by the breath of the invisible angel (the character of the lost left part of the diptych). She is in the process of deciding with a concern which does not extend to anxiety whether to accept or not what she is just being told.\nThe artwork is attributed by recent but strong considerations to one of the top masters of Siena, Simone Martini, circa 1334 and certainly before his move to Avignon which took place around 1340.\nIn addition to the iconographic quality, the consideration that the back of the panel was once silver coated is in line with a firm attribution to Simone, who could have been helped by the Lorenzetti brothers for the use of precious metals.\nWe do not have often at auction a major piece from a contemporary of Petrarch, but the estimate, $ 3M, remains cautious. Here is the link to the catalog.\nThis small painting is a remarkable witness of the questions posed by Christian art at the time of the successors of Giotto. It was sold $ 4.1 million including premium.\nI invite you to play the video shared by Sotheby's :\n\u200b1330s - 1360s Private Devotion in Florence\nOn April 14 in New York, Christie's sells as lot 125 an altar piece 77 cm high composed of panels in tempera and gold in an architectural structure in gesso. This complex piece in great condition is a witness of the religious art in Florence throughout the Trecento.\nThe central panel is the most ancient. Painted in the 1330s by Bernardo Daddi, it shows the Enthroned Madonna and Child.\nBernardo had worked with Giotto and is his best follower in Florence. These fresco masters also had clients for private devotion or portable pieces and knew to transcribe their grand art into miniature formats. In this charming scene, Bernardo uses a variety of soft colors. The lines are deliberately strengthened to provide a three-dimensional illusion.\nThe top and side pictures and the predellas were added about 30 years later and are attributed to the Misericordia Master who was the leading painter in Florence after the plague of 1348 in which Bernardo died. His name was not found.\nThese additional panels are shaped to match the gesso frame that has certainly been assembled at the same time for an unknown customer who can perhaps be identified by the coats of arms in the predellas.\nThe altar is now dominated by God the Father. On each side in symmetry, a pair of angels are ascending to God while trying to contemplate Him. The most daring, forward, overcomes the glare of light by using a dark glass. The other, still behind, has not found the solution and masks his eyes with his hand. This rare theme had previously adorned the pinnacle of a monumental altar by Giotto.\nI invite you to watch the video shared by Christie's.\n1340-1345 The Major-domo of a Powerful Mamluk Emir\nIn Egypt, the later reign of the Mamluk sultan An Nasir Muhammad was a short period of stability with the strengthening of the role of the viceroys who were emirs in charge of overseeing the territories of the kingdom. Being constantly on the field of war, the emirs left the direction of their home to mayors or major-domos who had their own place in the high nobility.\nA Mamluk candlestick for sale by Sotheby's in London on April 6 reflects this hierarchical structure. It is estimated \u00a3 2M.\nThe base is a truncated cone slightly curved, 34 cm in its largest diameter. It is topped by a stick that supports the candle holder, also a truncated cone, for a total height of 38 cm. This piece of brass inlaid with copper and silver is decorated on its whole surface with inscriptions, armorials and other animal, vegetal and geometric motifs.\nThe white eagles and cups in cartouches shaped as reversed teardrops are the blazon of the emir Tuquztamur, who was certainly famous in his time! The inscriptions testify to the faithfulness of the major-domo of his noble house.\nThe identification of the Emir enables to date the candlestick with some accuracy because his role of viceroy was limited to a period of five years (741-746 AH, 1340-1345 AD). Curiously, this information can not locate the object, since the emir executed several successive appointments in Egypt and Syria.\nThe great rarity and the complex decoration of the candlestick pushed it up to \u00a3 4.5 million including premium.\nIt takes its place among the important pieces of ancient Islamic art.\n\u200b1345 The Lotus Sutra\n\u200b2016 SOLD for HK$ 31.6M including premium\nThe Lotus Sutra is a fundamental text of Mahayana Buddhism, announcing the eternal nature of Buddha and defining the bodhisattvas. Translated into Chinese, it is the basis of the teaching of Buddhism in the Far East. All living beings can attain the quality of a bodhisattva. The white lotus is an immaculate flower that manages to thrive while having its root in the mud.\nOn May 30 in Hong Kong, Sotheby's sells as lot 368 a set of seven calligraphic albums 32 x 22 cm with fifty to sixty leaves each, constituting the whole of this sutra in the translation of Kumarajiva which was one of the earliest. Its writing in gold on dark blue paper displays an extreme luxury. The seventh album is dated to the fifth year of the Zhizheng period corresponding to 1345 in our calendar.\nUnder the Mongolian Yuan dynasty, Buddhism has almost the rank of an official religion in China. Zhizheng is the fourth era of the reign of Toghon Tem\u00fcr. Korea was a vassal state of the Yuan. Its king belonged to the Goryeo Dynasty.\nThe 28th Goryeo king had ceased to please the powerful Emperor of China, but all hopes were placed in his eldest son pushed to the throne in 1344 at the age of six. The Sutra manuscript was certainly prepared for the use of the young prince who died after a reign of four years.\n1350 Zhichuan Resettlement by Wang Meng\n2011 SOLD for RMB yuan 400M including premium by Poly\nResult reported by Artron.\n\u200bThe image below is shared by Wikimedia.\nlate Yuan - blue and white jar\n2005 SOLD 15.7 M\u00a3 including premium by Christie's\nLink to catalogue.\n1366 Two Lions at the Feet of the King\n\u200b2017 SOLD for \u00a3 9.4M including premium\nIn the long line of the kings of France the succession of Jean II in 1364 during the Hundred Years War is one of the most disputed. The 26 year old dauphin had been r\u00e9gent while his father was a prisoner and he was clever. Having won this ruthless dynastic competition, he will be Charles V le Sage.\nThe divine authority claimed by the legitimate heir is not sufficient to preserve and protect his power. Upon his accession Charles V multiplies the symbols of his superiority and of his prosperity. The lion is his emblem.\nTo maintain the chain of legitimacy they must also rehabilitate the ineffective Jean II. In the very first year of his reign Charles V decides to build the funerary monuments of Jean and of Jean's parents in the traditional necropolis of the Cap\u00e9tiens at Saint-Denis. He adds the commission for his own tomb, which is a considerable innovation for the time.\nThe contractor of the four monuments is the best sculptor of that period, known from a royal document as Andreu Bauneveu, Andr\u00e9 Beauneveu in modern French. The king is powerful and must be honored as a priority : his gisant (recumbent) is the best of the four with a beautiful polishing of the white marble. Beauneveu worked until 1366 on that site.\nThe royal monuments of Saint-Denis were dismantled in 1793. The outstanding pieces were recovered by the archaeologist Alexandre Lenoir, founder at the request of the government in 1791 of the Mus\u00e9e des Monuments Fran\u00e7ais for collecting artworks confiscated to the clergy by the R\u00e9volution. During the Restauration in 1816 King Louis XVIII obliged Lenoir to relocate to Saint-Denis what remained from the monuments of the necropolis including the gisant of Charles V by Beauneveu.\nThe monument of Charles V included a group of two addorsed lions which was placed at the feet of the king. This group was only known from one sketch drawing made by an antiquarian scholar. It has just been rediscovered in the descendance of an English collector who had acquired it in 1802, certainly bought to Lenoir whose financial backing was low at that time.\nThis group of lions is a marble of the same quality as its gisant and certainly executed by the same artist. The fixing points of this statue match exactly the distance of the associated points on the feet of the gisant.\nThe Beauneveu lions, 45 x 29 x 12 cm, will be sold as lot 10 by Christie's in London on July 6. Please watch the video shared by the auction house.\nMedieval re-discovery: Marble lions from the tomb of King Charles V of France lead our July Exceptional Sale https:\/\/t.co\/koBGpTxseZ pic.twitter.com\/Pjb4ckDSrf\n\u2014 Christie's (@ChristiesInc) February 21, 2017\nHongwu - The City of the High Hills\n2011 SOLD 41 MHK$ including premium\nSome cities had their rise ensured by fabulous natural resources. This is the case of the high hills of Jingdezhen in southern China, which had over a million inhabitants at the time of its greatest prosperity. The Chinese word for \"High Hills\" is Gaoling, which the French translated as Kaolin.\nJingdezhen ceramics were already known under the Tang. A clever mixture of clay and kaolinite later enabled the development of Chinese porcelain.\nDuring the Yuan dynasty, Jingdezhen kilns were already producing blue and white porcelains. But the Yuan, of Mongol origin, were northerners. Hongwu, who overthrew the Yuan and established the Ming dynasty, took Nanjing as his capital. The conditions became favorable for installing at Jingdezhen the Imperial workshops responsible for producing porcelain for the Court and for export. Later the wonderful Qing porcelains were made in this location.\nA large dish with floral decoration made during the reign of Hongwu is for sale on April 7 in Hong Kong at Sotheby's. It measures 45 cm in diameter with a rounded edge in the form of a string of accolades. The underglazed red color of its decoration is a technical feat for its time.\nThis piece about 620 years old is estimated HK $ 25M, lot 43.\nDating from the early Ming Dynasty, large size, in a rare underglaze red, with a nice pattern of chrysanthemums: this dish definitely had some top qualities. It was sold HK $ 41M including premium.","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
+{"text":"THE BOOKSHOP \u2014 Review by Susan Wloszczyna\nAugust 11, 2018 September 6, 2018 Susan Wloszczyna 0 Comments cherry jones. emily mortimer, Isabel Coixet, marcturtletaub. movie of the week, movie of the week #MOTW, patricia clarkson, the bookshop\nEmily Mortimer, Bill Nighy and Patricia Clarkson in one movie? That is a dream team right there. Despite such a quality cast, however, The Bookshop will likely test the patience of those who require peppier pacing and more compelling drama, even in a well-meaning film set in a British seaside village in 1959. Director Isabel Coixet's screenplay, based on Penelope Fitzgerald's novel, focuses on Florence, a young widow (Mortimer) who decides to open a book store in an old damp house in the heart of the community. That is despite protestations by the town's wealthy grand dame, Violet (Clarkson), who wants to use the same property for a local arts center \u2014 and will stoop to any means to get her way.\nDevices \u2014 such as the erratic use of a narrator (Julie Christie), the near-constant presence of rain showers and a reclusive bookworm (Nighy) who barely leaves his Bronte-esque homestead with its snake-like dead vines clinging to its exterior \u2014 only partly succeed in injecting some atmosphere into this rather simple storyline. When Florence decides to start selling the scandalous Lolita, complete with a full display in her front window, one might think that will lead to her store's demise.\nNot quite. As they often do, small towns apparently breed small minds, and the villagers launch a grand conspiracy that we hear about but never really see in action. At least the tension level rises at this point. As for the performances, Mortimer and Nighy share a lovely connection on the beach as he offers to be her white knight, Clarkson is allowed to show her genius as Violet rehearses her reactions right before receiving an incensed Nighy at her mansion. But all the adults are all upstaged by one Honor Kneafskey, Florence's schoolgirl helper, who does a killer eye roll beneath her atomic cloud of blonde curls.\nEDITOR'S NOTE: The Bookshop is AWFJ's Movie of the Week for August 24, 2018.\nTHE WIFE \u2014 Review by Susan Wloszczyna \u2192\nSusan Wloszczyna\nIn her nearly 30 years at USA Today, Susan Wloszczyna interviewed everyone from Vincent Price and Shirley Temple to Julia Roberts and Will Smith. Her coverage specialties include animation, musicals, comedies and any film starring Hayley Mills, Sandy Dennis or hobbits. Her crowning career achievements so far, besides having Terence Stamp place his bare feet in her lap during an interview for The Limey, is convincing the paper to send her to New Zealand twice for set visits, once for The Return of the King and the other for The Chronicles of Narnia and King Kong, and getting to be a zombie extra and interview George Romero in makeup on the set for Land of the Dead. Though not impressive enough for Pulitzer consideration, she also can be blamed for coining the moniker \"Frat Pack,\" often used to describe the comedy clique that includes Ben Stiller, Vince Vaughn and Will Ferrell. Her positions have included Life section copy desk chief for four years and a film reviewer for 12 years. She is currently a contributor for the online awards site Gold Derby and is an Oscar expert for RogerEbert.com. Previously, she has been a freelance film reporter and critic, contributing regularly to RogerEbert.com, MPAA's The Credits, the Washington Post, AARP The Magazine online and Indiewire as well as being a book reviewer for The Buffalo News. She previously worked as a feature editor at the Niagara Gazette in Niagara Falls, N.Y. A Buffalo native, she earned her bachelor's degree in English at Canisius College and a master's degree in journalism from Syracuse University.","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
+{"text":"Parkland Shooter Prosecutor Seeks Probe Of Juror Threat\nAn unnamed juror reported a perceived threat from a fellow juror as the panel deliberated mass killer Nikolas Cruz's punishment,\u2026\nBy admin , in Politics , at October 14, 2022\nAn unnamed juror reported a perceived threat from a fellow juror as the panel deliberated mass killer Nikolas Cruz's punishment, the prosecution said.\nThe prosecutor who unsucessfully urged a Florida jury to condemn the Parkland school mass shooter to death has asked for an investigation into a juror's allegation of a perceived threat by another member of the panel.\nAn unnamed juror identified as Juror X informed a court staffer that \"during deliberations she received what she perceived to be a threat from a fellow juror while in the jury room,\" the prosecution said in a filing asking Circuit Judge Elizabeth Scherer to order police to interview the juror, according to CNN. \"The State did not call Juror X back and instead, filed a Notice to the Court,\" the filing added.\nAfter deliberating for two days, the jury on Thursday recommended Nikolas Cruz be sentenced to life in prison for killing 17 people at Marjorie Stoneman Douglas High School in 2018. The prosecution argued Cruz deserved the death penalty, a sentence that would have required unanimous agreement from the 12-member panel.\nDenise Cunha, a member of the jury, wrote in a note to the judge on Thursday that the conversation among jurors was \"tense.\" Cunha denied she decided voting against the death penalty before the trial even started, according to The Associated Press.\n\"The deliberations were very tense and some jurors became extremely unhappy once I mentioned that I would vote for life,\" Cunha wrote in the note. It's unclear whether she is the person the prosecutor identified as Juror X.\nJury foreperson Benjamin Thomas told CBS News Miami he was disappointed with the panel's sentencing decision, but said everyone is entitled to an opinion. He said the verdict came down to one juror who argued Cruz should not get the death penalty because he was mentally ill.\n\"There was one with a hard no, she couldn't do it and there were another two that ended up, you know, voting the same way,\" Thomas said.\nThe decision enraged some of the families of those killed.\n\"You set a precedent for the next mass killing,\" said Dr. Ilan Alhadeff, whose 14-year-old daughter, Alyssa, was killed in the rampage.\nThe judge, who must follow the jury's recommendation, will formally sentence Cruz on Nov. 1.\nAccountant Testifies Trump Claimed Decade Of Huge Tax Losses\nTrump reported losses on his tax returns every year for a decade, including nearly $700 million in 2009 and $200\u2026\nElection SHOCKER \u2013 These Winners are DEAD!\nLots of Dead People are Winning Elections These Days When a candidate dies during an election cycle, they generally remain\u2026","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
+{"text":"Arizona Water Science Center\nAzWSC Capabilities: Hydrologic Gravity Monitoring\nGravity is a measurement of mass: the greater an object's mass, the stronger its gravitational pull. By measuring changes in gravity over time, inferences can be made about changes in mass. In hydrology, this can be used to study water in the subsurface. If the amount of groundwater in a particular area increases over time, through processes such as infiltration of rainfall or aquifer recharge, gravity will also increase. Likewise, losses of groundwater storage, resulting from processes such as pumping, discharge to streams, and evaporation, will cause gravity to decrease.\nThe U.S. Geological Survey's Arizona Water Science Center (AzWSC) is a worldwide leader in the development and use of gravity methods for hydrology. The AzWSC has developed gravity methods for monitoring recharge near an ephemeral-stream channel, monitoring aquifer-storage change in a compressible aquifer, estimating recharge at an artificial-recharge facility, and estimating specific yield through the correlation of gravity and water-level change in wells.\nApplications of Hydrologic Gravity Methods\nGravity monitoring has many applications including geodetic purposes as well as monitoring geothermal energy, petroleum, energy storage, magma, volcanoes, and subsurface water. Hydrologic gravity monitoring can be used in multiple ways to observe variations in water storage in soils, unsaturated zones (the zone above saturated material), and aquifer. Water mass change is the most prevalent and primary cause of gravity variation on the surface of the Earth over periods of decades or less. The basic observation of gravity change (corrected for atmospheric, earth-tide, and elevation variations) among repeated observations is caused by variation in subsurface water mass, unless other mass changes occurred.\nThere are three primary applications of hydrologic gravity measurement:\n\u2666 Monitoring individual stations\u2014Monitoring at individual stations provides a measure of subsurface water-mass change below the station. Any gravity record at an individual site can be viewed as a measure of groundwater-storage change. Another way to describe individual gravity records is as a noninvasive monitor well that only measures storage change but does not provide information about hydraulic head.\n\u2666 Monitoring at wells where water levels are also monitored\u2014Monitoring at wells with coincident water-level monitoring provides information about the local hydrogeology, including aquifer-storage properties (specific yield) where the storage change occurs in a single aquifer. Gravity records when combined with coincident water-level records at well sites can be used to improve understanding of the hydrogeologic conditions and to estimate specific yield of unconfined aquifers. Good examples of gravity and water-level relations and what they reveal are available from long-term monitoring across Arizona. Sites where water levels change but gravity does not (little storage change) are indicative of a confined aquifer (fig. 1). This site was expected to show a confined aquifer response on the basis of an assumed conceptual understanding of the local system. The combination of gravity and water-level monitoring verified this conceptual understanding. Relations at another nearby well, however, produce gravity and water-level variations that are semi-correlated (fig. 2), which suggests that storage changes are occurring in multiple unconfined aquifers and not only within the aquifer monitored by the water level in the well. The occurrence of multiple aquifers is verified by water cascading into the casing of nearby wells. Gravity and water levels are better correlated at a third nearby well (fig. 3a), which indicates an unconfined aquifer. The slope of a linear correlation of gravity and water level for an unconfined aquifer is a measure of aquifer specific yield (fig. 3b).\n\u2666 Monitoring at a network of stations\u2014Gravity change among a network of stations can be integrated to calculate total storage change in the network region as shown in figure 4. This estimate of storage change can then be used to improve groundwater budgets by supplying an estimate of a water budget component that is normally unknown or difficult to obtain through other methods. In fact, gravity monitoring is the only method of estimating large-scale groundwater-storage change.\nExamples of monitoring a network of gravity stations include networks designed to monitor recharge near ephemeral channels (fig. 4; Pool and Schmidt, 1997; Goodrich and others, 2004; Pool, 2005; and Hoffmann and others, 2007) and basinwide networks designed to monitor storage change for entire aquifers (Pool and Anderson, 2006; Ferr\u00e9 and others, 2007).\nA limited network of four stations was used to estimate ephemeral channel recharge along a profile across Walnut Gulch in the Walnut Gulch Experimental Watershed near Tombstone, Arizona, during 1999 and 2000. The small number of stations constrained the two-dimensional recharge volume very well. The two-dimensional volume was converted to a three-dimensional volume on the basis of the assumption that the two-dimensional distribution of gravity change also applies to the stream reach within 1 mile above the site. The resulting three-dimensional recharge volume was similar to the average of six other methods of estimating recharge (Goodrich and others, 2004).\nA network of gravity stations in the Tucson, Arizona, area was used to estimate total storage change in the region for the period from 1998 through 2002 (fig. 5). After accounting for known water withdrawals and inputs to the aquifer, the total annual recharge for the area was estimated using water-budget methods as a residual. Results indicated that nearly all of the recharge occurred during the first year of the monitoring effort, with much smaller rates of recharge occurring thereafter.\nInstruments Owned by the AzWSC\n(Use of trade names is for identification purposes only and does not constitute endorsement by the U.S. Geological Survey)\n\u2666 A10 Absolute Gravity Meter\u2014The A10 absolute gravity meter is a portable device, designed for field operation, which determines the acceleration due to gravity directly by measuring the position of a falling mass at different time intervals. It can be operated either from vehicle or battery power, in all field conditions. Each measurement is independent and the survey loops required for relative gravity meter studies are not needed.\nMicro-g LaCoste, Inc. A-10 Outdoor Absolute Gravimeter\n\u2666 Relative Gravity Meters\u2014These meters measure the relative difference in gravity between two stations. Field procedures and processing are more involved than the A10 absolute gravity meter, but they provide similar accuracy at reduced cost. They are most suitable for stations located relatively close together (up to a few miles) with good access on paved roads.\nTwo Lacoste and Romberg Model D Gravimeters\nOne ZLS Corporation Burris Gravity Meter\nOther Instruments Operated by the AzWSC\n\u2666 Superconducting Gravity Meters\u2014These meters provide the most precise gravity measurements possible. The AzWSC has previously deployed one at its Tucson office to measure gravity change associated with pumping from a nearby well from January 2010 to March 2011. Two of the latest generation superconducting gravimeters, the iGrav\u2122, are deployed at an artificial recharge facility from February 2012 to October 2012.\nGWR Instruments, Inc.\n\u2666 gPhone Relative Gravity Meters\u2014These meters are a temperature stabilized version of the LaCoste and Romberg relative meters that feature nearly linear drift. Over periods of months or longer, this drift can be removed to provide accuracy approaching 1 microGal. Three of these meters are to be deployed at an artificial recharge facility from March 2012 to October 2012.\nMicro-g LaCoste, Inc. gPhone Gravimeter\n\u2666 FG5 Absolute Gravity Meter\u2014This instrument is the most precise absolute gravity meter available. Unlike the A10, it is primarily intended to operate indoors or in climate controlled conditions. The AzWSC had partnered with the National Geodetic Survey to collect FG5 data at a number of sites in Arizona.\nMicro-G LaCoste, Inc. FG5 Absolute Gravimeter\nJeffrey Kennedy, Ph.D.\nResearch Hydrologist\nEmail: jkennedy@usgs.gov\nAdvanced Technologies and Modeling\nGravity Monitoring\nBelow are publications associated with Hydrologic Gravity Monitoring.\nlogstash-usgs-pw:palladium_root_topics\nSelect TopicsWater (6)\nSelect Year2012 (1)2011 (1)2008 (2)2007 (2)2006 (1)2001 (1)2000 (1)1999 (1)1998 (1)1997 (1)1995 (1)\nSelect TypeReport (9)Article (4)\nResults of the first North American comparison of absolute gravimeters, NACAG-2010\nThe first North American Comparison of absolute gravimeters (NACAG-2010) was hosted by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration at its newly renovated Table Mountain Geophysical Observatory (TMGO) north of Boulder, Colorado, in October 2010. NACAG-2010 and the renovation of TMGO are part of NGS's GRAV-D project (Gravity for the...\nSchmerge, David; Francis, Olvier; Henton, J.; Ingles, D.; Jones, D.; Kennedy, Jeffrey R.; Krauterbluth, K.; Liard, J.; Newell, D.; Sands, R.; Schiel, J.; Silliker, J.; van Westrum, D.\nAttribution: Arizona Water Science Center, Water Resources, Southwest\nResults of the first North American comparison of absolute gravimeters, NACAG-2010; 2012; Article; Journal; Journal of Geodesy; Schmerge, David; Francis, Olvier; Henton, J.; Ingles, D.; Jones, D.; Kennedy, Jeffrey R.; Krauterbluth, K.; Liard, J.; Newell, D.; Sands, R.; Schiel, J.; Silliker, J.; van Westrum, D.\nGravity data from the San Pedro River Basin, Cochise County, Arizona\nThe U.S. Geological Survey, Arizona Water Science Center in cooperation with the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, National Geodetic Survey has collected relative and absolute gravity data at 321 stations in the San Pedro River Basin of southeastern Arizona since 2000. Data are of three types: observed gravity values and associated...\nKennedy, Jeffrey R.; Winester, Daniel\nGravity data from the San Pedro River Basin, Cochise County, Arizona; 2011; OFR; 2011-1287; Kennedy, Jeffrey R.; Winester, Daniel\nGround-Water Storage Change and Land Subsidence in Tucson Basin and Avra Valley, Southeastern Arizona, 1998-2002\nGravity and land subsidence were measured annually at wells and benchmarks within two networks in Tucson Basin and Avra Valley from 1998 to 2002. Both networks are within the Tucson Active Management Area. Annual estimates of ground-water storage change, ground-water budgets, and land subsidence were made based on the data. Additionally, estimates...\nPool, Donald R.; Anderson, Mark T.\nGround-Water Storage Change and Land Subsidence in Tucson Basin and Avra Valley, Southeastern Arizona, 1998-2002; 2008; SIR; 2007-5275; Pool, Donald R.; Anderson, Mark T.\nThe utility of gravity and water-level monitoring at alluvial aquifer wells in southern Arizona\nCoincident monitoring of gravity and water levels at 39 wells in southern Arizona indicate that water-level change might not be a reliable indicator of aquifer-storage change for alluvial aquifer systems. One reason is that water levels in wells that are screened across single or multiple aquifers might not represent the hydraulic head and storage...\nPool, D.R.\nAttribution: Water, Arizona Water Science Center, Water Resources, United States of America\nThe utility of gravity and water-level monitoring at alluvial aquifer wells in southern Arizona; 2008; Article; Journal; Geophysics; Pool, D. R.\nEstimated infiltration, percolation, and recharge rates at the Rillito Creek focused recharge investigation site, Pima County, Arizona: Chapter H in Ground-water recharge in the arid and semiarid southwestern United States (Professional Paper 1703)\nA large fraction of ground water stored in the alluvial aquifers in the Southwest is recharged by water that percolates through ephemeral stream-channel deposits. The amount of water currently recharging many of these aquifers is insufficient to meet current and future demands. Improving the understanding of streambed infiltration and the...\nStonestrom, David A.; Constantz, Jim; Ferr\u00e9, Ty P.A.; Leake, Stanley A.; Hoffmann, John P.; Blasch, Kyle W.; Pool, Don R.; Bailey, Matthew A.; Callegary, James B.\nEstimated Infiltration, Percolation, and Recharge Rates at the Rillito Creek Focused Recharge Investigation Site, Pima County, Arizona; 2007; PP; 1703-H; Ground-Water Recharge in the Arid and Semiarid Southwestern United States; Hoffmann, John P.; Blasch, Kyle W.; Pool, Don R.; Bailey, Matthew A.; Callegary, James B.\nGeophysical Methods for Investigating Ground-Water Recharge\nWhile numerical modeling has revolutionized our understanding of basin-scale hydrologic processes, such models rely almost exclusively on traditional measurements?rainfall, streamflow, and water-table elevations?for calibration and testing. Model calibration provides initial estimates of ground-water recharge. Calibrated models are important yet...\nFerre, Ty P.A.; Binley, Andrew M.; Blasch, Kyle W.; Callegary, James B.; Crawford, Steven M.; Fink, James B.; Flint, Alan L.; Flint, Lorraine E.; Hoffmann, John P.; Izbicki, John A.; Levitt, Marc T.; Pool, Donald R.; Scanlon, Bridget R.\nGeophysical Methods for Investigating Ground-Water Recharge; 2007; PP; 1703-2; Ground-Water Recharge in the Arid and Semiarid Southwestern United States; Ferre, Ty P.A.; Binley, Andrew M.; Blasch, Kyle W.; Callegary, James B.; Crawford, Steven M.; Fink, James B.; Flint, Alan L.; Flint, Lorraine E.; Hoffmann, John P.; Izbicki, John A.; Levitt, Marc T.; Pool, Donald R.; Scanlon, Bridget R.\nSet standard deviation, repeatability and offset of absolute gravimeter A10-008\nThe set standard deviation, repeatability and offset of absolute gravimeter A10-008 were assessed at the Walferdange Underground Laboratory for Geodynamics (WULG) in Luxembourg. Analysis of the data indicates that the instrument performed within the specifications of the manufacturer. For A10-008, the average set standard deviation was (1.6 0.6...\nSchmerge, D.; Francis, O.\nSet standard deviation, repeatability and offset of absolute gravimeter A10-008; 2006; Article; Journal; Metrologia; Schmerge, D.; Francis, O.\nHydrogeology of Picacho Basin, south-central Arizona\nThe hydrogeology of Picacho Basin was studied to define the stratigraphy, basin structure, physical and hydraulic properties of the basin sediments, and predevelopment and postdevelopment conditions of ground-water flow as of 1985. The study area includes about 900 square miles and contains a sedimentfilled asymmetric graben. The greatest sediment...\nPool, Donald R.; Carruth, Rob; Meehan, Wesley D.\nAttribution: Water, Arizona Water Science Center, United States of America\nHydrogeology of Picacho Basin, south-central Arizona; 2001; WRI; 2000-4277; Pool, Donald R.; Carruth, Robert L.; Meehan, Wesley D.\nLand-subsidence and ground-water storage monitoring in the Tucson Active Management Area, Arizona\nThe Tucson Active Management Area (TAMA) comprises two basins--Tucson Basin and Avra Valley. The TAMA has been directed by Arizona ground-water law to attain an annual balance between groundwater withdrawals and recharge by the year 2025. This balance is defined by the statute as \"safe yield.\" Current ground-water withdrawals exceed recharge,...\nPool, Don R.; Winster, Daniel; Cole, K.C.\nLand-subsidence and ground-water storage monitoring in the Tucson Active Management Area, Arizona; 2000; FS; 084-00; Pool, Don R.; Winster, Daniel; Cole, K. C.\nAquifer-storage change in the lower Canada del Oro Subbasin, Pima County, Arizona, 1996-98\nAquifer storage was monitored using gravity methods in the Lower Canada del Oro subbasin from 1996 through 1998 to determine areas of infiltration and amounts of recharge along the Canada del Oro Wash after major surface flow and to estimate aquifer-storage change and specific-yield values for the regional aquifer. Both purposes were...\nAquifer-storage change in the lower Canada del Oro Subbasin, Pima County, Arizona, 1996-98; 1999; WRI; 99-4067; Pool, Donald R.\nUse of Microgravity to Assess the Effects of El Nino on Ground-Water Storage in Southern Arizona\nThe availability of ground water is of extreme importance in areas, such as southern Arizona, where it is the main supply for agricultural, industrial, or domestic purposes. Where ground-water use exceeds recharge, monitoring is critical for managing water supplies. Typically, monitoring has been done by measuring water levels in wells; however,...\nParker, John T.C.; Pool, Donald R.\nUse of Microgravity to Assess the Effects of El Nino on Ground-Water Storage in Southern Arizona; 1998; FS; 060-98; Parker, John T. C.; Pool, Donald R.\nMeasurement of ground-water storage change and specific yield using the temporal-gravity method near Rillito Creek, Tucson, Arizona\nThe temporal-gravity method was used to estimate ground-water storage change and specific -yield values at wells near Rillito Creek, Tucson, Arizona, between early December 1992 and early January 1994. The method applies Newton's Law of Gravitation to measure changes in the local gravitational field of the Earth that are caused by changes in the...\nPool, Donald R.; Schmidt, Werner\nMeasurement of ground-water storage change and specific yield using the temporal-gravity method near Rillito Creek, Tucson, Arizona; 1997; WRI; 97-4125; Pool, Donald R.; Schmidt, Werner\nBelow are multimedia items associated with this project.\nSelect MultimediaAudioBefore\/After ImageFileGalleryImageStereogramVideoWebcam\nMicrogravity Measurement for Groundwater Analysis\nA video discussing the Gravity Meters used at the USGS Arizona Water Science Center.\nAttribution: Arizona Water Science Center","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
+{"text":"Commission\/Contact\nJ. Stephon's purpose is to create art that produces emotional reactions while illustrating his own thoughts, perceptions, and analysis of the world.\n\u00a9 2023 by Alphabet. Proudly created with Wix.com","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
+{"text":"Tech-Platform\nChile leads technological development program to boost sustainable offshore aquaculture.\nNews \/ By Matthews\nTechnology with submersible systems could reduce operating costs by 18%, thanks to better and healthier growing conditions for fish, and contribute to the creation of a new world standard.\nWith a six-year horizon of applied research, the first technology development program of its kind in the country, seeks to develop the technical requirements for ocean aquaculture and lay the foundations for its future regulation.\nSantiago, December, 6th, 2021.-\nBreeding fish where it was not thought possible and in a sustainable way, taking care of animal welfare and environmental impact, is now feasible thanks to the technology developed by the Chilean company EcoSea.\nSince 2007, the company has been developing containment systems with antibacterial copper alloy meshes that are also antifouling, that is, they prevent the growth of organic layers in the cages, attributes that minimize the risky hours of diving and use of boats for cleaning, maintenance and replacement of traditional nylon meshes, generating significant reductions in operating costs.\nOver the past 12 years, EcoSea has deployed more than 70 of these systems around the world, growing more than 10 million salmon. In addition, 3 farming centers in Chile were recycled after a decade of useful life, resulting in a total of 420 tons of recycled and resalable product.\nThe recycling process stopped the use of 160 tons of nylon, the waste of 8,000 tons of fouling, which would have been deposited in landfills or on the seabed, and 184 tons of chemicals such as anti-fouling paint. It is estimated that the release of 10,300 tons of CO2 into the environment was avoided.\nOceanic Aquaculture\nIn mid-2018, EcoSea's technology caught the interest of CORFO, initiating the Technological Development Program for Ocean Aquaculture, Chile 2023, with a scope of 6 years of applied technology development and an investment of more than 6,300 million pesos.\n\"We are a country with more than 4,200 kilometers of coastline. We have extraordinary possibilities to successfully move towards a more sustainable aquaculture, far from the coastline and using state-of-the-art technologies that allow the industry to grow sustainably,\" says Fabi\u00e1n Avil\u00e9s, director of the Technological Development Program for Ocean Aquaculture.\nThe technological consortium is formed by EcoSea, which leads it; Invermar, as a partner; and the companies and technology centers Innovex, Novatech, Fraunhofer Foundation, Aex group, Sitecna, together with the Pontificia Universidad Cat\u00f3lica de Valpara\u00edso. The program is supported by the National Fisheries and Aquaculture Service (SERNAPESCA), the Undersecretariat of Fisheries (SUBPESCA) and the financial support of CORFO.\nThe novel initiative seeks to establish the technical requirements for offshore aquaculture with submersible cages, as well as to provide the basis for its future legislation in Chile. In addition, it offers a sustainable alternative to the current challenge of salmon farming, which has environmental, health and safety impacts, especially due to the lack of cultivation areas and the limited potential for growth in coastal areas.\nThe program completed the prototype test, with a 40-meter diameter submersible cage developed by EcoSea. The main benefits were low fish stress (no predator attacks or escapes); high growth rates; and an 18% drop in production costs.\nWhen comparing the performance of the EcoSea submersible cages versus the traditional nylon cages, it was demonstrated that the salmon grow at a better rate, because although in both cases, similar-sized fish were obtained, the prototype was planted two months later and with 47.5% smaller salmon; it also had a 2% lower mortality rate, and it is estimated that it avoided the emission of 27 tons of CO2.\n\"The production cycle with the submersible cage raft showed rapid growth development, low bacterial and parasite loads (Caligus), and zero losses due to sea lion attacks. From the operational point of view, the technology is very friendly, safe and efficient, with very low fouling adhesion, thus validating a robust and reliable aquaculture system,\" says Omar Cheuquepil, Head of Production at Invermar.\nThe test was carried out in accordance with SUBPESCA's regulatory framework, which regulates experimental aquaculture, in an inshore sea area of Chilo\u00e9, with a technological package that is expected to have better mooring and maintenance systems, better automated provision of feed and oxygen supply, and lower production costs.\nExpert human capital\nThe Doctorate Program in Aquaculture, taught jointly by the Pontificia U. Cat\u00f3lica de Valpara\u00edso, the U. de Chile and the U. Cat\u00f3lica del Norte, has incorporated ocean engineering, with emphasis on non-traditional sinking and mooring systems.\n\"The training of specialists must go with the technological advances in ocean aquaculture, in order to advance in this transition that will allow us to maintain the competitiveness and international recognition of the national aquaculture industry,\" concludes Fabi\u00e1n Avil\u00e9s.\nPress contact: +56997891507\nEcoSea logra reciclar el 100% de sus sistemas acu\u00edcolas\nCopper-alloy nets being trialed in Japanese aquaculture\nIDB Lab Supports Chilean EcoSea that Promotes the Sustainability and Efficiency of Aquaculture Worldwide\nEcoSea's Submersible Technology Allows Normal Operation During Typhoon Passage in Japan\nEmail: info@ecoseafarming.com","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
+{"text":"Home\u00bbPromoted Content\u00bbNB-IoT roll-out will rapidly increase narrowband IoT adoption\nNB-IoT roll-out will rapidly increase narrowband IoT adoption\nPromoted Content By Flickswitch 6 September 2021\nIn today's ever-evolving world, catching the Internet of things (IoT) wave is critical. Surveys show four out of five businesses are investing in IoT. However, there are always questions when it comes to delivering long-term IoT solutions. Power consumption, data cost and reliable connectivity are only a few of them.\nThat's why NB-IoT, or narrowband Internet of things technology, is expected to become a highly feasible option for IoT companies. Flickswitch, a leader in data Sim management solutions for enterprises in Africa, has expanded its SIMcontrol offering to include NB-IoT on the Vodacom South Africa mobile network as part of the managed APN solution. SIMcontrol now supports NB-IoT in South Africa as part of its drive to make IoT connectivity easier and more cost effective.\n\"Although it is a fairly new technology, many of our IoT customers are starting to test NB-IoT device connectivity in South Africa\" says Kees Snijders, MD of Flickswitch. \"In the low-power narrowband connectivity space, it will certainly drive IoT adoption across many industries.\"\nWhat is NB-IoT?\nNB-IoT is a type of low-power wide-area network (LP-WAN) used by mobile network operators. It operates in licensed spectrum to guarantee quality of service. It provides strong coverage over large areas, even when devices are underground or deep within buildings, and offers greater power efficiency.\nUsing power-saving modes and extended discontinuous reception options, IoT devices can run on batteries for up to a few years. And for the first time, it allows networks to support upwards of 50 000 devices in a single cell without congestion. It is specifically designed for dual-directional low-data IoT connectivity.\nTypical applications suited for NB-IoT devices include smart meters, remote sensors, asset tracking, security devices and agri-tech solutions.\nTake-up and coverage\n\"As an LP-WAN technology, NB-IoT has had a slow start. But being in the licensed spectrum, with the backing of a major mobile network in terms or quality of service, adoption is set to grow rapidly,\" says Snijders.\nAfter starting with commercial NB-IoT roll-out in 2017, NB-IoT coverage in South Africa started with main centres and continues to grow with over 3 500 active sites, with plans to have most of the current LTE sites enabled for NB-IoT by 2025.\nIt is also seen as a way for IoT device deployments to hedge against 2G and 3G spectrum thinning, which is said to be planned between 2023 and 2025.\nSIMcontrol managed APN\nNB-IoT connectivity in South Africa runs on the SIMcontrol managed APN, a full-service APN-as-a-service. It features pooled data, Sim quota management and next-generation software-defined networking all managed through the SIMcontrol online platform.\nThis makes IoT SIM deployment and managing quick and easy. \"Companies can set up a SIMcontrol account and get Sims provisioned for NB-IoT testing within a day or two,\" says Snijders. \"There are no APN contracts, and you only pay for what you use.\"\nSIMcontrol also offers NB-IoT roaming in 28 countries worldwide.\nIoT connectivity costs\nThe SIMcontrol see-what-you-spend approach eliminates the risk of Sim abuse and reduces data connectivity costs. No long-term contracts and no volume commitments mean you only pay for what you need while having a real-time view of your spending across the entire Sim base.\nSIMcontrol is built on core mobile network infrastructure to ensure maximum reliability which is critical for IoT deployments. Additional functionality required for IoT deployments include network location services, data session history, device setup SMSes, Sim profile look-ups, an advanced API for integration with customer systems, and a technical support team that understands IoT device connectivity issues.\nFor more, please visit flickswitch.co.za.\nFlickswitch Flickswitch SIMcontrol Kees Snijders NB-IoT SIMcontrol\nPrevious ArticleHow Vox is giving South African gamers the edge\nNext Article How Comair did digital transformation right","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
+{"text":"Why the NFL's 'socialistic enterprise' means the Chicago Bears win at the bank \u2014 even when they lose on the field\nColumn: Reeling Chicago Bulls need to pick up the pieces quickly \u2014 without Zach LaVine and Lonzo Ball \u2014 after their skid hits 4 games with a 119-106 loss in Memphis\nChicago cop reprimanded in reinvestigation of '04 death of David Koschman promoted to lieutenant\nColumn: Baseball's lockout is spoiling the best part of winter for anxious Cubs and White Sox fans\nCubs sign reliever Jason Motte, reportedly acquire catcher David Ross\nBy Paul Sullivan\nJason Motte during a workout with the Cardinals in 2014. (Zia Nizami, McClatchy-Tribune)\nJason Motte and his scruffy beard will be coming out of the Cubs' bullpen next year after the former Cardinals' closer agreed to a one-year, $4.5 million deal.\nAnd David Ross and his scruffy beard will be reunited with Jon Lester after multiple reports that the Red Sox's backup catcher agreed to a two-year deal worth $5 million.\nThose moves seemingly leave free agent outfielder Jonny Gomes, another Cubs' target, as the beard to be named later.\nOn a busy day in baseball, the Cubs also claimed another former Red Sox catcher, Ryan Lavarnway, and A's outfielder Shane Peterson Robertson off waivers.\nEfforts to reach Cubs President Theo Epstein for comment were unsuccessful.\nThe arrival of the two veteran catchers leaves Ross as the backup to Miguel Montero, Lavarnway as depth and incumbent Welington Castillo as trade bait.\nRoss, who turns 38 next season, is expected to be Lester's personal catcher after catching him with the Red Sox for the last two seasons. He's a career .233 hitter with six teams over 13 seasons, including a .184 average in 50 games in 2014.\nRoss also was mulling over offers from the Cubs, Padres and Red Sox. A report that spread across the Internet early Friday that Ross had signed with the Padres turned out to be inaccurate.\nBon Motte: Motte, 32, hopes to reestablish himself in his second season after undergoing right elbow Tommy John surgery and can earn another $2.5 million in incentives based on games finished. He will enter the spring as a setup man for Hector Rondon and insurance in case Rondon is injured or struggles.\n\"They told me 'We know what you're capable of doing, but also (to help) the younger guys out here,'\" Motte said. \"I'm not a rah-rah kind of leader, but I can show them how it's done and help out any way I can.\"\nMotte has a career 3.03 earned-run average in 311 relief appearances, with 290 strikeouts in 285 innings. He had 53 saves and a 2.43 ERA with the Cardinals from 2010-12, including 42 in '12, tying for the league lead.\nAfter sitting out 2013 following the elbow reconstruction surgery, he posted a 4.68 ERA in 29 outings for the Cardinals last season. Motte joins Pedro Strop, Neil Ramirez and Justin Grimm as the Cubs' late-inning bridge to Rondon.\nMotte was a workhorse with the Cardinals, throwing 68 and 72 innings, respectively, in 2011 and '12, before the injury.\nHe said his arm strength is back to normal, but the Cardinals were going in another direction and that made him expendable dispensable. While Motte hopes to return to closing, he said he's OK in whatever role manager Joe Maddon has for him.\nMotte's trademark beard has been trimmed down, he admitted, at the request of his wife, Caitlin, who told him it was \"a little obnoxious\" last spring training.\n\"It's still a fairly big beard for a normal person,\" he said. \"It's about as out-of-control as it has been. I don't plan on it going anywhere.\"\nWaiver claims: Lavarnway, 27, spent the last seven years with the Red Sox before the Dodgers claimed him off waivers Dec. 5 and then designated him for assignment five days later. He's a .201 career hitter in 279 at-bats. Peterson, 26, hit .308 with 40 doubles and 90 RBIs at Triple-A Sacramento last year, earning Pacific Coast League All-Star honors.\nTo make room for Lavarnway and Peterson on the 40-man roster, the Cubs designated infielder Logan Watkins and pitcher Donn Roach for assignment.\nThe Cubs will have to make another move when Ross officially signs.\npsullivan@tribpub.com\nTwitter @PWSullivan\nRyan Lavarnway\nHector Rondon\nWelington Castillo\nNeil Ramirez\nLatest Chicago Cubs\nChicago Cubs open the international signing period by reportedly agreeing to deals with 2 top-50 prospects","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
+{"text":"Dave Batista\nIs Vin Diesel Groot or Just a Troll?\nA select few saw, and most only heard about, the first peek at Guardians of the Galaxy when it was given at Comic-Con and part of the cast appeared on stage\u2026\nFormer WWE Champion Batista to Play Drax in 'Guardians of the Galaxy'\nIf you were looking for someone to fitting take on the role of a character whose last name is \"The Destroyer\", it isn't a shock to see that former WWE Champion\u2026","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
+{"text":"Fox Sports Premieres Inside PBC Boxing This Saturday\nFox Sports - December 14, 2018\nWBC Welterweight Champion Shawn Porter and Former Three-Division World Champion Abner Mares Serve as Analysts with Veteran Host Kate Abdo\nFOX Sports today announces the premiere of its new studio show INSIDE PBC BOXING on FOX on Saturday, Dec. 15 (3:00 PM ET). INSIDE PBC BOXING is the official show of Premier Boxing Champions, hosted by Kate Abdo, along with analysts WBC Welterweight Champion Shawn Porter and former three-division world champion Abner Mares. The show also features FOX Sports boxing insider Mike Coppinger, who will add breaking news and special reports.\n\"FOX Sports is thrilled to be expanding PBC boxing programming with this studio show,\" said Steve Becker, FOX Sports Vice President of Production. \"We look to go inside the stories of the PBC boxers with in-depth interviews and feature profiles, as well as previews of upcoming fights and breakdowns of the most-recent, thrilling matchups. Having current boxers Shawn and Abner working with us will provide some honest commentary on what's happening in the sport right now.\"\nPorter, who makes his first title defense against top-rated challenger Yordenis Ugas live on FOX on Saturday, March 9, 2019 is excited to be a part of the studio show: \"Honestly, sports is my thing! It's a Cleveland thing. That's what we do back home.\" Porter continued, \"So, I always knew past competing, I'd want to be involved in TV, talking boxing. To be doing this show on FOX right now is an incredible opportunity for myself, especially because I know the treats [that are] about to be delivered on network television to all the boxing fans out there.\"\nWhile Mares is waiting for his next opponent to be announced, he's enthusiastic about the studio opportunity as well: \"I'm thrilled to be a part of FOX Sports' new boxing show, INSIDE PBC BOXING and working with Kate, Shawn and Mike. I'm looking forward to talking to the biggest names in boxing, helping break down the most exciting fights, and telling viewers what's really happening inside the ring.\"\nAs a boxing enthusiast, who's also hosted several FOX PBC Fight Nights, Abdo is thrilled to be a part of the regular studio show. \"As a huge boxing fan, I could not be more excited to host FOX's new INSIDE PBC BOXING show. The PBC stable is second to none, and I can't wait to shine a light on all that talent. Talking boxing with Shawn and Abner will be zero work, all pleasure.\" She'll also continue to host FOX PBC Fight Nights throughout the year.\nPorter (29-2-1, 17 KOs) won the WBC belt with a decision victory over Danny Garcia in September. The Akron, Ohio native won the IBF Welterweight title against Devon Alexander on Dec. 7, 2013, then defended it in April 2014 with a two-knockdown, fourth-round stoppage of two-division champion Paulie Malignaggie, before losing a majority decision loss to England's Kell Brook in August 2014. His only other loss came in a Fight of the Year-caliber unanimous decision to champion Keith Thurman in June, 2016.\nMares (31-3-1, 15 KOs) is a strategic and crowd-pleasing boxer-puncher. His five-fight run between August 2011 and May 2015 produced world championships at 118, 122 and 126 pounds. Born in Mexico, Mares' split decision win over Jesus Cuellar in December 2016 regained him a 126-pound title, but he lost it in a second classic clash with fellow Los Angeles-based, three-division champion Leo Santa Cruz in June of this year.\nWith the recently announced deal, the FOX broadcast network and FOX Deportes will feature 10 marquee fight nights in prime time each year, while FS1 and FOX Deportes will telecast 12 fight nights annually. The Emmy Award-winning FOX Sports production team will produce more than 175 hours of original PBC boxing content per year across its channels, including INSIDE PBC BOXING on FOX and FS1, PBC COUNTDOWN and PBC FACE TO FACE shows prior to all fights.\nBruno Tarimo enters IBF top 15, eyes winner of Farmer Diaz\nAll PBC on FOX Sports programming and events will be streamed live on the FOX Sports app. Follow @PBConFOX on Twitter, Facebook and Instagram.\nFor more information on FOX Sports, visit FOX Sports Press Pass.\nPrevious boxing news: David Lemieux Off Tomorrow Night's Canelo Fielding Card, Hospitalised With Dehydration\nNext boxing news: Canelo vs. Fielding \u2013 Weigh In Videos\nYou are here: Home \/ Press Room \/ Fox Sports Premieres Inside PBC Boxing This Saturday","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
+{"text":"Page-36 of Current Affairs - October, 2016\nMaharashtra Government allocates land to LIGO India Project\nMaharashtra Government has allocated 40.68 hectare land to Department of Atomic Energy (DAE) to build LIGO (Laser Interferometer Gravitational Wave Observatory) India Project at Dudhala village in Hingoli district. With this, India will join elite league of countries consisting of US, UK, Italy, Germany and Japan that support on-going research on gravitational waves. Besides, it ..\nTopics: Gravitational Waves \u2022 LIGO India Project \u2022 Maharashtra \u2022 National \u2022 Places in News \u2022 Science and Technology\nRenowned Manipuri theatre legend Heisnam Kanhailal passes away\nRenowned Manipuri theatre legend Heisnam Kanhailal passed away. He was 75. He was actively been involved in threatre for the last 40 years in different roles of a playwright, director and also an actor. About Heisnam Kanhailal Born on 17 January 1941 in Keisamthong Thangjam Lairak, Imphal. He was the founder-director of Kalakshetra, the theatre ..\nTopics: Heisnam Kanhailal \u2022 Manipur \u2022 Obituary \u2022 Persons in News \u2022 States\nIndia to host 2016 Asian Ministerial Conference for Disaster Risk Reduction\nIndia is hosting the 2016 Asian Ministerial Conference for Disaster Risk Reduction (AMCDRR) from November 3 to 5, 2016 in New Delhi. This will be second time India hosting AMCDRR. The conference will be hosted by Union Government in collaboration with the United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction (UNISDR). Key Facts It will be ..\nTopics: Asia \u2022 Disaster Management \u2022 Events \u2022 National\nPresident Pranab Mukherjee inaugurates World Sustainable Development Summit\nPresident Pranab Mukherjee inaugurated the first edition of World Sustainable Development Summit (WSDS) at Vigyan Bhawan in New Delhi. The summit was organised by The Energy and Resources Institute (TERI) with the theme Beyond 2015: People, Planet and Progress. Key Facts WSDS has replaced TERI's earlier called Delhi Sustainable Development Summit (DSDS). The first DSDS ..\nTopics: Environment \u2022 Events \u2022 National \u2022 President Pranab Mukherjee \u2022 Sustainable Development \u2022 TERI\nIndia seeks greater Pharma market access in Japan\nIndia is seeking greater market access for the domestic pharmaceuticals sector in the Japanese market as India's share in the Japanese drug market continued to be below par. It was announced by Union Commerce Minister Nirmala Sitharaman in seminar on promoting India's exports to Japan under India-Japan CEPA (Comprehensive Economic Partnership Agreement) in New Delhi. ..\nTopics: Business \u2022 CEPA \u2022 Economy \u2022 india-japan \u2022 National \u2022 Pharma sector\n36 \/ 46<<<3435363738>>>","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
+{"text":"Priests who follow Church teaching on adultery and Communion are 'terrorists': British priest\nThis priest has a history of hostility to the Catholic faith.\nTue Dec 5, 2017 - 4:53 pm EST\nBy Matthew Cullinan Hoffman\nFollow Matthew\nDecember 5, 2017 (LifeSiteNews) \u2013 A well-known priest who writes a column for Britain's oldest ecclesiastical newspaper is denouncing pro-life and pro-family clergy as fanatical \"crypto-terrorists,\" and mocking Archbishop Joseph Naumann, the recently-elected chairman of the U.S. Catholic bishops' Pro-Life Committee.\nMgr. Basil Loftus, columnist for Britain's Catholic Times, says he's concerned about \"single-issue fanatics\" who are \"exercised about sex and marriage, about maniples and Communion-on-the-tongue, about celibacy of the clergy, about contraception, or about the right to carry loaded firearms in America while attending Mass,\" calling them \"fanatical partisans.\"\nLoftus warns of such people: \"their extremist and sometimes violent propensities make them, in all but name, terrorists.\"\nAmong such \"terrorists\" Loftus includes any priest \"who excludes females from the role of altar-servers, or refuses to wash their feet on Maundy Thursday, or who turns away from Communion a politician who voted not to criminalise abortion,\" as well as \"a bishop who refuses to back Pope Francis' plea for discernment in the matter of Communion for the divorced and remarried, and for those who live in non-conventional domestic situations,\" concluding that \"all of them are crypto-terrorists.\"\nLoftus' ire is particularly reserved for the \"purportedly pro-life antics of men such as Archbishop Naumann, the recently elected head of the American bishops' 'pro-life committee',\" claiming that he would like to \"erect marquees in papal colours in front of every abortion clinic, and staff them with a 24-hour guard of what Francis calls 'prune-faced' people reciting the rosary round the clock . . .\"\nJoseph Shaw, an Oxford philosophy professor and chairman of the Latin Mass Society of England, has been tracking Loftus' writings for several years and has sought to alert the bishops to his bitter attacks on orthodox Catholics. He transcribed Loftus' latest column, which only appears in print, in a recent blog post.\n\"Mgr. Loftus has for many years expressed the most bitter hostility to bishops and cardinals in England and Scotland, in Rome, and elsewhere, for upholding the Church's Faith and discipline, and sometimes for the most trivial things which happen to annoy him,\" Shaw told LifeSiteNews. \"In doing so he routinely twists their words, misrepresents their actions, or simply attributes to them attitudes and failings of his own invention. He is a living contradiction of the respect due to Catholic bishops, and their right to a good name.\"\n\"In attacking Archbishop Naumann he has taken his invective to a new level. Having claimed, on the basis of no evidence at all, that the Archbishop combines concern for the pro-life cause with a lack of human charity, he labels him, and those like him, 'terrorists.' The shocking nature of the accusation is matched by its absurdity and lack of grounds,\" said Shaw.\n\"It is a scandal that he was allowed to publish this libel in a newspaper which calls itself 'Catholic' and is sold in Catholic churches all over the United Kingdom,\" he said.\nShaw has composed a dossier of numerous statements made by Loftus that insult various Catholic prelates and question articles of the Catholic faith, such as the historicity of the resurrection of Christ from the dead and original sin. Although he has sent the dossier to several bishops, Loftus has been allowed to continue writing his column for the Catholic Times.\nContact information (please be polite and respectful in all correspondence):\nDiocese of Salford (which publishes the Catholic Times), whose bishop is John Arnold:\nDiocese of Leeds (where Mgr Basil Loftus is incardinated), whose bishop is Marcus Stock:\nDiocese of Aberdeen in Scotland (where Mgr. Basil Loftus lives) whose bishop is Hugh Gilbert:\nhttp:\/\/www.rcda.scot\/contact\/bishops-office\nabortion, basil loftus, catholic times, joseph naumann, joseph shaw, united kingdom\nPriests who follow Church teaching on adultery and Communion are\u2026 Priests who follow Church teaching on adultery and Communion are 'terrorists': British priest News By Matthew Cullinan Hoffman","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
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+{"text":"EPSRC Reference: EP\/K003976\/1\nTitle: Multi-scale Exploration of MultiPhase Physics In FlowS (MEMPHIS)\nPrincipal Investigator: Matar, Professor OK\nSimmons, Professor M Angeli, Professor P Markides, Professor CN\nPain, Professor CC Hewitt, Professor GF Azzopardi, Professor B\nAspen Tech Ltd BP CD-adapco\nChevron Johnson Matthey Procter & Gamble\nDepartment: Department of Chemical Engineering\nOrganisation: Imperial College London\nScheme: Programme Grants\nStarts: 01 September 2012 Ends: 31 December 2017 Value (\u00a3): 4,968,854\nChemicals Manufacturing\nPanel Date Panel Name Outcome\n08 Jun 2012 Programme Grant Interviews - 8 June 2012 (Engineering) Announced\nThis project is an opportunity to harness the synergy between world-leading scientists from four prestigious institutions to create the next generation modelling tools for complex multiphase flows. These flows are central to micro-fluidics, virtually every processing and manufacturing technology, oil-and-gas and nuclear applications, and biomedical applications such as lithotripsy and laser-surgery cavitation. The ability to predict the behaviour of multiphase flows reliably will address a major challenge of tremendous economic, scientific, and societal benefit to the UK. The Programme will achieve this goal by developing a single modelling framework that establishes, for the first time, a transparent linkage between input (models and\/or data) and prediction; this will allow systematic error-source identification, and, therefore, directed, optimal, model-driven experimentation, to maximise prediction accuracy. The framework will also feature optimal selection of massively-parallelisable numerical methods, capable of running efficiently on 10^5-10^6 core supercomputers, optimally-adaptive, three-dimensional resolution, and the most sophisticated multi-scale physical models. This framework will offer unprecedented resolution of multi-scale, multiphase phenomena, minimising the reliance on correlations and empiricism. The investigators' synergy, and their long-standing industrial collaborations, will ensure that this Programme will result in a paradigm-shift in multiphase flow research worldwide. We will demonstrate our capabilities in two areas of strategic importance to the UK: by providing insights into novel manufacturing processes, and reliable prediction of multiphase flow regime transitions in the oil-and-gas industry. Our framework will be sufficiently general to address a number of other industrial and environmental global challenges, which we detail herein.\nOrganisation Website: http:\/\/www.imperial.ac.uk","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
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Save $40 when you subscribe for a whole year!\nA Place at the Table: On the \"New American Haggadah\"\nBy Erika Meitner\nIN MY CHILDHOOD memories of Seder, what looms largest are the rituals: my grandmother attaching her squeaking meat grinder to the side of the kitchen counter to pulverize whitefish or carp into gefilte fish; my aunt opening the door to the empty Queens street to usher in Elijah the prophet; the way the lace of my grandmother's tablecloth cascaded onto our heads like veils when my cousins and I would dive under the table to search for the afikomen. I grew up celebrating Pesach with family and extended family, in an area of New York that was so Jewish our bagel places and pizza parlors closed for the entirety of Passover. Many people we knew had separate Passover kitchens in their basements. I have, however, been in exile from New York for more than half my life now. Because I'm an academic, because I live far from home and travel mid-week during the semester is close to impossible, it has been over 20 years since I've spent Passover with my family.\nIn that time, I've participated in massive Hillel Seders, radical feminist Seders, queer Seders, vegetarian Seders, chocolate Seders, and piecemeal graduate student Seders. This year I helped organize a Seder for 25 people (nine of whom were kids under the age of six). I currently live in rural Southwest Virginia, in a town that has only a lay-led Jewish Community Center and a relatively new Chabad house. Our Jewish community is a motley crew of Israeli expats and refugees from Jewish hometowns married to non-Jews, all of us employed by the large state university in town: physicists, economists, liberal arts professors, administrators, business school faculty, and school teachers.\nThe one thing all of my Seders have in common since I've left New York is the ubiquitous photocopied Haggadah, the manual for the Passover Seder. Because I'm a poet and English professor moonlighting part-time as a doctoral student in religious studies, I'm usually in charge of the Haggadah. For the past two years we've been using a hacked-up-and-amended version of the free-to-download The Velveteen Rabbi's Haggadah for Pesach, assembled by Rabbi Rachel Barenblat. Her politics resemble those of most of the liberal egalitarian academic Jews at our Seder, so it's an easy fit.\nEnter the New American Haggadah, edited by Jonathan Safran Foer, with translations by Nathan Englander. I should preface any discussion of this Haggadah by saying that I am huge fans of both authors \u2014 their novels and short stories are among my favorite things to read for pleasure. My initial question for the New American Haggadah is this: would I use it for Seder? Could the New American Haggadah replace our photocopied version? Would I want it to?\nThere are many editions of the Haggadah \u2014 literally \"the telling\" \u2014 from around the world, but each generally has the same core Hebrew text composed from a pastiche of Jewish sources: biblical text, blessings, instructions for the conduct of the Seder, rabbinic commentary originally found in the Mishnah and the Talmud, and liturgical poems and songs (many of which were added in the Middle Ages). The main text recounts the story of the Jews' Exodus from Egypt, and Seder participants are meant to narrate this history as if they themselves had been liberated from slavery. Commentaries were added, and a large portion of the current version was completed by the end of the Talmudic period (500\u2013600 CE). The original Haggadah was a section within the Jewish prayer book, but the earliest stand-alone Haggadah can be traced back to 13th-century Spain; the earliest printed version appeared in 1486. Since the 15th century, more than 4,000 printed editions of the Haggadah have been published.\nIn the United States, the Haggadah is the Jewish book with the largest number of copies in print. The first Haggadah printed in America, officially (and snappily) titled Service for the Two First Nights of the Passover in Hebrew and English, According to the Custom of the German and Spanish Jews, was published in New York by S.H. Jackson in 1837. The first rendition of a distinctly American Haggadah was the 1879 Liberman-Chicago edition; while other illustrated 19th century American Haggadot used European drawings, this Haggadah contained contemporary drawings that represented Jewish life at that time in Chicago. In 1908, the Reform movement issued the Union Haggadah, which included added content: English poems and hymns, and transliterated Hebrew blessings. The most popular American Haggadah, however, has been the Maxwell House version, which was first published in 1932 as a promotion for Maxwell House coffee. Copies came free with a coffee purchase, which made it easy to give each Seder-goer their own Haggadah. More than 50 million copies of the Maxwell House Haggadah have been printed, it is still free with a coffee purchase, and it remains in use today in many Jewish homes. Paperback and small, it's easy to toss onto, or under, a dinner plate.\nA quick glance at New American Haggadah reveals two practical stumbling blocks. The first is cost; at $29.99, outfitting my entire Seder with copies would cost almost $500. The second is its size; clocking in at eight inches by 11 inches, in hardback, there's no way this book would even fit on an already over-crowded table. The book is extremely unwieldy to handle. To read the timeline at the top of nearly every page, running perpendicular to the book's main text, you must turn the book 90 degrees counterclockwise. That said, the timeline, created by Mia Sara Bruch, is extremely compelling, as it locates various Jewish figures and communities in actual history (in a diachronic way) running alongside the telling of the Exodus (which takes place synchronically, in every time). Spanning from 1250 BCE to 2007, it includes everything from Jewish population statistics to film trivia about The Ten Commandments, tidbits from literary works to facts about historic cases of Jewish persecution. The timeline also recounts various Haggadot through the ages and serves as a breath of diversity \u2014 we hear about women, Muslims, Buddhists, Rastafarians, lesbians, and gay men. We hear from Edward Said and Paul Celan, James Joyce and Martin Luther King Jr. We hear about feminist Seders and interfaith, interracial Seders. These additions provide a broader sense of historical community for seder-goers as well as connections to cultural representations of the Passover story in real time. But in order to read the timeline, we have to physically disrupt the main text and turn the book sideways \u2014 the marginalized as marginalia.\nThe same logistical issues with the commentary, inserted betweeen the traditional text, force the reader to turn the book vertically \u2014 this time, 90 degrees clockwise \u2014 to read them. The commentary tackles topics (like \"Four Sons\" or \"Ten Plagues\"), rituals (like \"Afikomen\"), or textual bits of the Seder (like \"Next Year in Jerusalem\"), and uses four subheadings for the musings of four separate authors: Nation (Jeffrey Goldberg), Playground (Lemony Snicket), Library (Rebecca Newberger Goldstein), and House of Study (Nathaniel Deutsch). The commentary provides the sort of humorous musings, scholarship, and philosophical asides your Seder guests might deliver themselves if you happen to have an award-winning journalist, a best-selling children's author, a brilliant philosopher-novelist, and a Guggenheim-winning Jewish Studies professor at your Seder.\nExcessive book-flipping and neighbor-elbowing aside, the book itself is physically beautiful. The design is clean and a little whimsical, the typography pleasing to the eye for both the Hebrew and English text, and the designer Oded Ezer's abstract letterforms add captivating texture and color to the book without distracting focus from the primary text. Ezer's work is what might happen if a medieval tattoo artist-calligrapher met a MOMA installation. Passover is a sentient holiday, and, like all rituals, is oral, aural, visual, tactile, and intellectual, all of which lead us (on good days) to the spiritual.\nThe artwork in the New American Haggadah felt both intriguing and uplifting to me (and the freeform designs offer great camouflage for errant wine and haroset stains). In my family, we always alternated between two Haggadot, neither of which were especially visually appealing to me when I was young. There was Rabbi Nathan Goldberg's mustard and rust-colored Passover Haggadah, which featured extremely literal artwork \u2014 WPA-esque black and white block prints of ritual Seder items, and scenes from Exodus, like Egyptians whipping Jewish slaves. We also used the vaguely terrifying The New Union Haggadah, with calligraphy and extremely creepy watercolors by visual artist Leonard Baskin. Which is to say that artwork matters, sometimes as much as text.\nBecause the Haggadah is meant as an educational tool \u2014 particularly one that should be appealing to children \u2014 it became acceptable to illustrate Haggadot. There are many famous illuminated and illustrated versions, like The Sarajevo Haggadah (which dates back to the mid-14th century), and The Prague Haggadah (1526). In a piece he wrote for The New York Times Opinion pages, Safran Foer muses that fatherhood was perhaps partially the inspiration for this project, and goes on to tell us how much his six-year-old loves stories \u2014 especially the story of Moses. But this is not a kid-friendly book. From the lack of English transliterations for even the four questions (meant to be recited by the youngest Seder-goer in Hebrew) to the tastefully abstract artwork, this is squarely a book for an all-adult Seder. This adult-focus isn't a failure of the Haggadah, after all, there are plenty of kid-friendly Haggadot, like Sammy Spider's First Haggadah (truncated, rhyming, colorful, heavy on the songs), or even adult Haggadot with kid-friendly artwork, like The Agam Haggadah, which offers Seder-goers traditional content with joyful rainbow illustrations.\nBut the lack of English transliterations for any of the Hebrew in here not only precludes younger children with limited Hebrew skills from being able to participate \u2014 it also means Jews and non-Jews unfamiliar with Hebrew won't be able to join in for the shorter blessings commonly chanted in unison, or the songs sung during and after the Seder. For a book called the New American Haggadah to leave out transliteration in a day and age where more than half of American Jews are married to people who are not Jewish, on a holiday that specifically welcomes strangers to the table at the start of the Seder with the words \"let all who are hungry come and eat\" (or in this case, \"All who are bent with hunger, come and eat\") seems insular and shortsighted.\nThe main reason we won't be using the New American Haggadah at our Seder next year has to do with Englander's translation. \"You are blessed, Lord God-of-Us, King of the Cosmos,\" begins the first, and all of the blessings in this Haggadah. God-of-Us is a lovely reworking of the traditional \"our God,\" and implies that God walks with us, rather than belongs to us. It makes a possessive into a spiritual statement \u2014 God is part of us, among us, in us. In the introduction, the New American Haggadah says this: \"The Haggadah is our book of living memory. We are not merely telling a story here. We are being called to a radical act of empathy. Here we are, embarking on an ancient, perennial attempt to give human life \u2014 our lives \u2014 dignity.\" The introduction also speaks of the new Haggadah as part of a quest to \"engage everyone at the table in a time that is unlike any that has come before. Our translation must know our idiom.\" But this Haggadah, in referring only to our forefathers, in referring only to the four sons, in opting in every blessing to affirm God's maleness, is one that does not allow me, as a woman, to participate in this story as if it were mine.\nAll of my Seders are egalitarian, and always have been. This is something my mother, raised in an Orthodox home, insisted on for her daughters: the right to claim a place at the table, with dignity. The introduction to the New American Haggadah claims that it \"makes no attempt to redefine what a Haggadah is, or overlay any particular political or regional agenda.\" But when the majority of Haggadot published in the last 20 years use egalitarian language in their translations, Englander's choice to go back to a specifically gendered, masculine translation reads as a political act \u2014 especially in a year in America when it seems like women's bodies and rights are under constant attack.\nEnglander opts for lyricism and creativity in so many other parts of his translations: the plague of darkness becomes \"a clotted darkness \u2014 too thick to pass,\" while \"hail\" becomes \"hail-full-of-fire.\" A simple four word blessing, baruch hamakom baruch hu \u2014 literally, blessed is the space, blessed is he \u2014 becomes, in Englander's translation, \"Blessed is the One that is Space and the Source of Space, the One that is the World but Whom the World Cannot Contain.\" Is it so hard, then, to imagine \"fathers\" instead as ancestors? Even the unbelievably static Maxwell House Passover Haggadah, which hadn't seen a translation update since the original 1932 edition, chose in 2011 to reprint their Haggadah using gender neutral translations \u2014 four children, our ancestors, God the Eternal, Monarch of the Universe. \"It was not our fathers alone who were delivered by the Holy One, Blessed is He,\" says the New American Haggadah, and I wonder, immediately, about our mothers, about me. I become, from the first page of this new version of an old book, an exile in the story of my people.\nNew American Haggadah\nBy Nathan Englander, Jonathan Safran Foer\nPublished 2012-03-05 00:00:00\nAmazon.com IndieBound\nThe Good, The Bad, and The Unsettling: On the \"New American Haggadah\"\nBy Sharon Brous\nDavening in Newton: On the \"New American Haggadah\"\nBy Daniel Torday\nHeart-Shaped Box: LARB Poetry Valentine Edition\nBy Sean Hill\nTrading Faith for Wonder: On Judaism's Literary Legacy\nBy Jacob Silverman\nA Song Heard on the Road: Leopardi's Nihilistic Genius\nBy Alan Williamson\nLost Between Scripture and Self\nBy Ilana Sichel\nDisjecta Membra: Adina Hoffman and Peter Cole's \"Sacred Trash\"\nBy Benjamin Balint\nYizkor Bukher\nBy Louise Steinman\nVOTE NOW DISMISS\nSubscribe to LARB's FREE Weekly Newsletter:\nCONTINUE BROWSING LARB\nBy submitting this form, you are granting: Los Angeles Review of Books, 6671 Sunset Blvd., Ste. 1521, Los Angeles, California, 90028, United States, http:\/\/lareviewofbooks.org permission to email you.\nEXISTING SUBSCRIBER? 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+{"text":"Home \u00bb Stocks skid as physical, economic toll of virus worsens\nStocks skid as physical, economic toll of virus worsens\nApril 1, 2020 | Associated Press\nKeywords Coronavirus Outbreak \/ Diseases \/ Health Care \/ Health Care & Insurance \/ Public Health\nIndyCar's virtual race to be aired on NBC Sports Network\nACLU: Indiana virus directive shouldn't restrict abortions\nAnthem waiving out-of-pocket costs for COVID-19 treatments\nAs Indiana COVID-19 cases rise, testing appears to have slowed\nTHE LATEST: Nursing home resident dies; Children's Museum extends closure; Lilly expands drive-thru testing\nWall Street and markets around the world fell sharply Wednesday as the economic and physical toll caused by the coronavirus outbreak mounts\u2014and as experts say they still can't predict when it will end.\nThe S&P 500 lost 4.4% after the White House said anywhere from 100,000 to 240,000 Americans could die from COVID-19, even if the country follows guidelines to avoid shopping trips, eating at restaurants and other activities through April. Florida's governor became the latest to issue a statewide stay-at-home order.\nSuch restrictions have already deeply gashed the economy, and Whiting Petroleum, one of the biggest drillers in the Bakken shale formation, filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection Wednesday, with the price of oil near $20 a barrel. Automakers also reported sharp drops in U.S. sales for March, including a 43% plunge for Hyundai. Mortgage applications tumbled 24% from year-ago levels as open houses are all but shut down.\n\"There is a lot of uncertainty,\" said Megan Horneman, director of portfolio strategy at Verdence Capital Advisors. \"The negative news is really taking over.\"\nThe negative news was also global. Japanese stocks took some of the world's heaviest losses, down 4.5%, after a survey of business sentiment there fell to its worst result in seven years. Britain's FTSE 100 fell 3.8% after big banks there scrapped dividend payments, part of a worldwide effort by companies and households alike to conserve cash.\nStocks have plunged this year as the coronavirus pandemic forces economies into what is expected to be a steep, sudden recession. The S&P 500 just closed out its worst quarter since 2008 with a 20% loss.\n\"The challenge for investors is you don't know how deep and how wide this downturn may be,\" said Rob Haworth, senior investment strategist at U.S. Bank Wealth Management. \"It ends up being a true leap of faith that the forecast and the duration of the pandemic will be accurate.\"\nA report on Wednesday said that private U.S. employers cut 27,000 jobs last month, which was actually much milder than economists were expecting. The survey used data from March before the number of people seeking unemployment benefits exploded to a record.\nEven Friday's more comprehensive jobs report from the government may not show the full scale of the layoffs sweeping the country, according to Rhea Thomas, senior economist at Wilmington Trust. Small businesses are seeing the sharpest declines in employment, and some firms that closed may not be responding to the survey.\nThe government's weekly jobless claims report may offer a better view. The next batch of numbers comes Thursday, and economists say it could blow past last week's total of nearly 3.3 million initial claims, which itself was quintuple the prior record.\nThe number of infections keeps rising, which worsens the uncertainty. The United States has more than 206,000 cases, according to a tally by Johns Hopkins University. That leads the world, which has more than 911,000 confirmed cases.\nFor most people, the coronavirus causes mild or moderate symptoms, such as fever and cough that clear up in two to three weeks. For some, especially older adults and people with existing health problems, it can cause more severe illness, including pneumonia, and death.\nStocks had cut some of their severe losses in recent weeks as Washington swooped in with aid for the economy and markets.\nThe S&P 500 jumped nearly 18% in just three days last week as Congress struck a deal on a $2.2 trillion rescue package for the economy and the Federal Reserve promised to buy as many Treasurys as it takes to get lending markets running smoothly.\nHouse Democrats are already collecting ideas for a possible fourth round of aid for the economy, and Trump has tweeted his support for a $2 trillion infrastructure package. But top Republicans in Congress say they first want to see how well their just-approved programs do.\nThe S&P 500 fell 114.09 points to 2,470.50, and all 11 sectors that make up the index lower. Among the few gainers were Kellogg, Dollar General and other companies selling day-to-day essentials that households are stocking up on to ride out stay-at-home orders.\nOn the losing end was Macy's, whose drop Wednesday brought its loss for 2020 so far to nearly 74%. So much of the company's market value has vanished that S&P Dow Jones Indices is removing it from the S&P 500 index of big U.S. companies, skipping its index of mid-sized stocks and placing it into its small-stock index, effective Monday.\nThe market's hardest-hit areas included banks, utilities and other dividend payers.\n\"There are more worries now about this rippling through dividend payments and cutting back on the income investors are getting,\" said Jeffrey Kleintop, chief global investment strategist at Charles Schwab.\nThe Dow Jones industrial average lost 973,65, or 4.4%, to 20,943.51, and the Nasdaq composite fell 339.52, or 4.4%, to 7,360.58.\nThe yield on the 10-year Treasury dropped to 0.60% from 0.70% late Tuesday. A bond's yield drops when its price rises, and investors buy long-term Treasurys when they're fearful because they see U.S. government bonds as having virtually no risk of default\nOne thought on \"Stocks skid as physical, economic toll of virus worsens\"\nDOUG T. says:\nHow many retail companies will use this as the go ahead and shutter more stores. Where before they would have tried longer, this gives them the ammo to retrench and maybe look at on line as a bigger part of the mix finally.","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
+{"text":"UC San Francisco Electronic Theses and Dissertations\nExtrathymic Aire-Expressing Cells\nAuthor(s): Gardner, James Morgan\nAdvisor(s): Anderson, Mark S\nClonal diversity within the adaptive immune system, while endowing organisms with the ability to respond to a broad range of potential pathogens, presents a substantial risk for autoimmunity. Numerous complementary mechanisms have evolved to prevent such deleterious outcomes, and to establish and maintain appropriate tolerance to self. Medullary epithelial cells of the thymus play an essential role in this process by displaying a diverse set of tissue-specific antigens via a mechanism dependent on the Autoimmune regulator (Aire) gene. Here we describe a discrete population of extrathymic Aire-expressing cells (eTACs) in the secondary lymphoid organs. We show that Aire regulates a diverse range of tissue-specific antigen genes in eTACs distinct from those presented in the thymus. To define a potential role for this population in immune tolerance, we demonstrate that self-antigen expression in eTACs is sufficient to prevent T cell-mediated autoimmune diabetes mediated by CD4+ or CD8+ T cells. We demonstrate that such tolerance is established via anergic or deletional mechanisms for CD4+ or CD8+ cells, respectively, and does not require the presence or induction of regulatory populations. Further, we show that tolerance induction by eTACs is highly resistant to conversion to immunogenicity. Finally, we describe the development of a novel transgenic mouse model for depletion of mTECs and eTACs, and suggest that the absence of these populations predisposes to autoimmunity. Together this work identifies self-antigen expressing eTACs as a population with potential significance in both physiologic and therapeutic maintenance of self-tolerance.\nMechanisms of Lysosome Mediated Immune Evasion and Regulatory Mechanisms of MHC-I in Pancreatic Ductal Adenocarcinoma\nVenida, Anthony\nEarly perturbation of Wnt signaling reveals patterning and invagination-evagination control points in molar tooth development\nKim, Rebecca Yewon\nDissecting the Mechanisms of Brain Injury for Treatment of Cognitive Dysfunctions\nFrias, Elma Stephanie\nEarly Life Inflammation Primes a Th2-Fibroblast Niche in Skin\nBoothby, Ian Chen\nBrainstem control of neonatal vocalizations\nWei, Xin Paul","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
+{"text":"The Nightly Nerd\nPast Events & Promotions\nFanFest\nTales Of Arise ESRB Rating Revealed \u2013 Includes Blood And Violence\nBandai Namco will release the next main entry into their famous Tales Of RPG series later this year. Tales of Arise is set to release on the PS5, PS4, Xbox One, Xbox Series X, and PC on September 10th. Like all video games released in North America that means the game has been rated by the ESRB board. The Tales Of Arise ESRB rating is revealed and it includes blood, violence, and more.\nIn case you're unaware all games that go through this process also receive a summary of why it was rated the way it was. In very rare cases that report can be used to glean details about the story or game mechanics. That doesn't seem to be the case this time, but it is still interesting to check out why the game is rated as it is. It helps give us an idea of what to expect when the game launches.\nThe rating for Tales Of Arise has been revealed as T for Teen. This isn't surprising, by any means. The reasons for this rating include Alcohol Reference, Blood, Language, Suggestive Themes, and Violence.\nHere is the full summary for Tales Of Arise's ESRB Rating.\n\"This is a role-playing game in which players lead characters on a quest to battle an evil force in the fantasy world of Dahna. From a third-person perspective, players traverse various environments, complete quests, interact with characters, and battle fantasy characters (e.g., giant insects, armored knights, feral beasts). Players use swords, firearms, and magic spells to defeat enemies; battles are accompanied by screen-shaking effects and impact sounds. Cutscenes depict additional acts of violence and blood: a woman bleeding on the ground after being impaled; a man stabbed in the back; characters impaled in the chest; a woman burned at the stake. Blood is also seen splattering players' screen on occasion. Some female characters wear outfits that reveal large amounts of cleavage; some characters' breasts also jiggle. A hot-springs sequence contains some innuendo and suggestive dialogue (e.g. 'It's so silky-smooth. I wanna reach out and touch it'; 'Hey, hands off, remember'; \"You wouldn't deny me the chance to be a man, would you?\"). In a side quest, characters engage in a prolonged conversation about an alcoholic substance called cillagin, with dialogue\/text referencing alcohol (e.g., 'So it's not just a buzz you're after'; 'Not until you're the right age, Rinwell'; 'Quest Complete: Hard Liquor'); characters are also seen drinking and\/or discussing alcohol in taverns (e.g., 'Maybe we've just had to much too drink and have started to hear things.'). The word 'a*shole' appears in dialogue.\"\nCheck out Tales Of Arise when it launches on September 10th for all the platforms listed above.\nAlexander Ouellet\nAlexander is passionate about everything related to gaming, comics, television, and film. You can usually find him watching some kind of DC show and can also find his writing on Multiversal News, something he's helping to build.\nMission Impossible 8 Set to Film In New Location\nThe Flash's Ezra Miller Tells KKK to Kill Themselves in an Instagram Video, Says to Use 'Your Own Guns'\nEvangeline Lilly Attends Anti-Vax Protect in DC and Social Media is Blowing Up, Going After Her\nArnold Schwarzenegger Announces New Movie 'Zeus'\nSpider-Man No Way Home: Tobey Maguire Shares How it Felt to Put Back on the Suit\nPokemon Legends: Reveals New Pokemon and Forms for Arceus\nEA Announces 3 New Star Wars Video Games\nAvatar: New Mobile Game in Development\nHalo Infinite: XBox Surprisingly Drops Online Multiplayer Early \u2013 And It's FREE!\nThe Walking Dead: Fortnite May Add Rick Grimes after Teaser Image Revealed\nScrubs Reunion Announced\nMarvel Show Daredevil Returns To The Top On Netfilx\nEobard Thawne's Legends of Tomorrow: Season 7 Role Released\n\"Broken Toys\" Batwoman Series Teases Villain Return\nBill Cosby Blasts New Showtime Documentary on His Sexual Assault Allegations\nOur goal is to create a truly fun experience. Whether it's latest reviews, news, or industry scoop at FanFest.com, we want to give fans fun ways to interact with the things that they love.\n\u00a9 Fan Fest News and the Fan Fest News logo are trademarks of Dharma Initiative Inc. All contents of this website are \u00a92021 by Dharma Initiative Inc. All worldwide rights reserved. Third party images are used under the fair use doctrine. All information and materials on this website are provided for general information and entertainment purposes only. FanFest.com is not associated with\u2014and we have no \"official\" relationship with\u2014any production company, film or television studio, or any subsidiary or affiliate of the same. The goals of FanFest.com are to provide quality entertainment and useful, interesting information. Questions? Contact: [email protected]","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
+{"text":"Coups Return to Latin America | Latin American Current Events\nCoups Return to Latin America\nGabriel I. Rossman\nOn June 22, the Paraguayan Congress impeached President Fernando Lugo, a progressive who assumed office in 2008. Although technically legal, Lugo's removal threatens the very integrity of democracy in Paraguay. It is the latest in a disconcerting series of attacks against progressive governments in South America that highlights the vulnerability of its nascent democratic institutions and calls into question the trend of democratization in the region.\nLugo's victorious election campaign was historic. It ended more than 60 years of dominance by the Colorado Party. This right-wing coalition of landed and military elites used violence and coercion to dominate Paraguay through the extensive state bureaucracy created by dictator Alfredo Strossner, a Colorado strongman who ruled from 1954 to 1989. The Party's legitimacy gradually eroded through its land-grabs and corruption scandals involving high-level officials. It was also implicated in political assassinations, most notably that of Vice President Luis Maria Argana in 1999, after which President Raul Cubas was forced to resign and flee the country.\nLugo, a progressive who proposed numerous social reforms, was widely known in Paraguay as the \"bishop of the poor.\" Pledging to fight corruption, reduce poverty, and enact agrarian reform in a country where 38 percent of people live in poverty and 2 percent of the population controls 75 percent of fertile land, Lugo won 41 percent of the popular vote in 2008, beating out the Colorado candidate by 10 percentage points. Despite this electoral success, the conservative legislature and the tenuous coalition of center-right parties that helped bring him to power systematically frustrated Lugo's progressive efforts at reform.\nThe Impeachment\nLugo was impeached on grounds of \"malfeasance\" after 17 people were killed in a clash between police and landless squatters protesting land inequality. This legal formality, however, obscures the fact that Lugo's ouster, long-desired by those who opposed his democratic reforms, was politically motivated.\nA leaked 2009 U.S. diplomatic cable claimed that the \"shared goal\" of General Lino Oviedo and ex-President Nicanor Frutos, both Colorado party members, was \"to change the current political equation, break the political deadlock in Congress, impeach Lugo and regain their own political relevance.\" The cable, which was classified as \"secret,\" includes this prophetic sentence: \"Oviedo's dream scenario involves legally impeaching Lugo, even if on spurious grounds.\"\nSouth American governments from all across the political spectrum immediately condemned Lugo's abrupt removal (he was given less than 24 hours notice and just two hours to defend himself). Mercosur suspended Paraguay and refused to recognize the new government. Venezuela unilaterally halted all fuel shipments to Asuncion. Brazil and Mexico withdrew their ambassadors, as did Colombia, whose president, Juan Manuel Santos, is a staunch conservative. Argentina's President Cristina Fernandez Kirchner publicly called Lugo's impeachment a \"coup d'\u00e9tat.\"\nRegional Trend?\nThe removal of Lugo is particularly disturbing because it is the latest in a series of actions against progressive populist governments in Latin America. In a 2009 coup, democratically elected Honduran President Manuel Zelaya, who had raised the national minimum wage despite strong opposition from the business elite, was removed at gunpoint. In 2010, Ecuadorean President Rafael Correa was tear-gassed, assaulted, and held captive by insurgent police officers in an attempted coup that ended in a shootout.\nAn international fact-finding team arrived in Asuncion on Monday to collect information on the events leading up to the impeachment, Lugo's satellite government, and the major players in the recent events. The U.S. State Department said it was \"quite concerned\" about the rapidity of Lugo's impeachment. The United States is unlikely to take a more definitive stance until the OAS team submits its report in the coming days.\nOne thing is certain: few people want a repeat of what happened in Honduras. Since the 2009 coup, political dissidents have been assassinated, minorities have been targeted, and violence and disorder have ensued. Honduras now has the world's highest homicide rate.\nThe fact-finding mission's report should elucidate the details of a political upheaval that remains opaque. So far, there is no indication that any outside powers played a role in the coup.\nThe impeachment's rapidity and the vote's unprecedented margin (in the House of Representatives, the vote was 73 in favor and 1 against impeachment) suggest that Lugo's impeachment was not a response to his \"malfeasance\" surrounding the killings by the police. It was coordinated and politically motivated, likely by domestic landowning and business elites, with powerful allies in Congress, who opposed Lugo's progressive agenda and preferred a return to the right-wing Colorado party.\nIronically, the state that has benefitted the most from Lugo's ouster may be Venezuela. 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+{"text":"PlayStation 4 due in 2013 - Report\nSources say Sony to ship new console next year; company flirted with idea of download-only system, but decided against it over bandwidth concerns.\nBy Eddie Makuch on December 25, 2012 at 3:40PM PST\nThe PlayStation 4 will hit store shelves next year, sources have told the Wall Street Journal. The unnamed tipsters said Sony is aiming to hit this date, but did not elaborate further. A Sony representative declined to comment for GameSpot.\nThe PS4 could hit next year.\nOn top of outing a release window for the PS4, the paper's sources explained Sony considered making it download-only, but ultimately decided against it. According to the report, Sony's flirtation with such a system came to a halt mainly because of concerns regarding the prevalence and reliability of Internet connections around the world.\nA user in a region with a relatively slow Internet connection would face lengthy download times, and this turned Sony off to the idea, the source said. A Sony representative told GameSpot, \"This is rumor and we do not comment on rumor.\"\nIf Sony had moved forward with a digital-only home console, it would have followed the company's PSP Go in ditching boxed games. That system shipped in 2009 and during one week in February 2011 was outsold by its PSP predecessor 1,000-to-1 in Japan.\nThe site also reports that Microsoft's next Xbox will boast an optical disc drive, as was suggested earlier this year when rumor had the new console sporting a Blu-ray drive. The source told the paper that Microsoft also harbored concerns regarding access to reliable Internet connections when devising plans for its upcoming console.\nFor more on speculation concerning the PS4 and next Xbox, check out GameSpot's rumor roundup feature.","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
+{"text":"Trump to sign government funding bill and declare national emergency \u2013 live\n9.41pm GMT21:41 Beto O'Rourke is heading to Wisconsin for a closed press event in Madison at the University of Wisconsin. Matt Viser (@mviser) Beto O'Rourke is heading to University of Wisconsin-Madison campus for meet and greet with students and faculty. He's slated to be on campus for a two-hour event early Friday evening. Event is\u2026\nPosted on February 14, 2019 Author Blu2017\tComment(0)\nSearch for Shackleton's Endurance called off after loss of submarine\nThe search for Sir Ernest Shackleton's lost ship, Endurance, has been called off after extreme weather trapped an underwater vehicle under a sheet of ice. Explorers working on the Weddell Sea Expedition had hoped to find the Antarctic explorer's vessel, which was crushed by ice and sank in 1915 during his ultimately unsuccessful attempt at\u2026\nRecord numbers of patients wait more than four hours at A&E\nMore patients than ever before had to wait more than four hours for A&E treatment last month as winter put unprecedented strain on the NHS. Hospital A&E units in England dealt with just 76.1% of patients within four hours last month, statistics released on Thursday showed. That was their worst performance against the target since\u2026\nShoreham airshow trial: pilot admits very limited experience with plane that crashed\nThe pilot whose plane crashed during the Shoreham airshow in 2015, killing 11 people, had \"very limited\" experience of flying that aircraft, he has told a court. Andrew Hill flew a 1950s Hawker Hunter fighter jet in the display on 22 August that year. The aircraft plunged to the ground and exploded into a fireball\u2026\nSpirited away: Canadian thieves steal more than $9,000 in iceberg water\nPolice in Canada are investigating a chilling theft in a Newfoundland community after the disappearance of 30,000 litres of valuable iceberg water. Thieves are believed to have covertly pilfered the water from a storage facility in the coastal town of Port Union last week. The water was intended for vodka production, said police. Iceberg water\u2026\nIsis fighters shot escaping family members, says coalition\nIslamic State fighters shot and wounded fleeing family members trying to escape from its besieged enclave in Syria, according to a coalition commander, as Kurdish forces continued to tighten the noose on the remaining extremists. The battle to recapture the group's last speck of territory is now only days from completion, Kurdish commanders said, with\u2026\nSalisbury poisoning: website says it has identified third GRU suspect\nA third suspect linked to the poisoning of the former Russian double-agent Sergei Skripal and his daughter in Salisbury has been identified as a high-ranking officer in Russian military intelligence by the investigative website Bellingcat. Bellingcat reported that Denis Sergeyev, a graduate of the Military Diplomatic Academy, a training ground for intelligence officers, is the\u2026\nCraggy island for sale: gulls, grass, wind and no mod cons\nA craggy island off the west coast of Ireland which was home to iron age settlers, medieval monks and a poet in search of inspiration has gone on sale for \u20ac1.25m (\u00a31.1m). High Island, an 80-acre swath of rock, heather and wind probably too remote even for Father Ted, sits in the Atlantic two miles\u2026\nNew AI fake text generator may be too dangerous to release, say creators\nThe creators of a revolutionary AI system that can write news stories and works of fiction \u2013 dubbed \"deepfakes for text\" \u2013 have taken the unusual step of not releasing their research publicly, for fear of potential misuse. OpenAI, an nonprofit research company backed by Elon Musk, says its new AI model, called GPT2 is\u2026\nWhy world's biggest passenger jet was grounded\nAirbus pulls plug on superjumbo as airlines want smaller, more fuel-efficient planes","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
+{"text":"An AI startup founder is teaming up with a former hostage negotiator to help businesses boost their sales\nCaroline Cakebread\nBusiness InsiderBlack Swan CEO Chris Voss is a former FBI hostage negotiator.\nIt sounds like the set up to a joke: a former FBI hostage negotiator and a founder of an artificial intelligence startup walk into a room \u2026\nIn this case, though, it's no joke, but the basis for a lecture series. Sponsored by AI startup Node and targeted at sales and marketing executives and managers, the series is designed to help companies understand how they can boost their business by combining AI with the emotional intelligence possessed by their human workforce.\n\"We're going to marry AI with emotional intelligence and we are going to smash through barriers really fast,\" said Chris Voss, the CEO of Black Swan group, who is teaming up with Node founder Falon Fatemi to put on the lecture series, which kicked off with a half-day event Tuesday in San Francisco.\nAI technologies such as Node's have become so advanced that they can not only help managers find the right people to talk to for potential business deals, they can even suggest conversation openers. That's potentially taken a lot of the tedious work out of sales jobs \u2014 and opened up opportunities for sales managers.\n\"Technologies like artificial intelligence are going to be so pervasive we're going to be freed up to really be able to focus on interactions with one and other,\" said Fatemi.\nNodeFalon Fatemi's startup, Node, uses artificial intelligence to help companies find sales leads.\nThat's where Voss, the former hostage negotiator, comes in. As he explains it, technology like AI has created the Jetsons-like world that we now live in. But emotionally and psychologically, people are still in the Fred Flintstone era. Business leaders can use technology to get sales leads, but they still need to know how to relate to and interact with other human beings.\n\"My stuff helps you understand what's going on in Fred Flintstone's head so we can get to live in a Jetsons world.\" he said.\nThe marriage of the two approaches could offer big benefits. Voss said he's seen people who have combined AI with human-based emotional intelligence techniques quadruple their sales rates.\nThe initial event included sessions on advanced negotiating techniques, scenario planning, and examples of how to pair Voss' human skills with AI to close sales deals.\nNode plans to offer future events in the series in New York and Los Angeles, depending on demand.\nai artifical intelligence business to business marketing chris voss clusterstock enterprise marketing node sai-us sales","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
+{"text":"Home \u00bb Asking for Astaxanthin\nAsking for Astaxanthin\nAntioxidants possess almost mystical powers, and scientists continue to learn about their role in scavenging and quenching free radicals and reactive oxygen species, preventing disease.\nAstaxanthin, an antioxidant, is the main carotenoid found in algae and sea life such as salmon, trout and shrimp. Studies show its ability to protect against UV photo oxidation and DNA damage; stimulate the immune system by increasing T and B-cell production; and help inhibit formation of oxidized LDL, which is associated with plaque formation in blood vessels. It also reduces inflammation, and may prevent the formation or production of tumors.\nAlgatechnologies Ltd. has a plant in Kibbutz Ketura in the Arava desert, in Israel, and has taken advantage of the desert sun to farm the microalgae Haematococcus pluvialis for the industrial production of astaxanthin. The company cultivates the microalgae in a closed system, providing complete protection from environmental contaminants. Algatechnologies is the biotechnology company responsible for the science behind AstaPure\u00e2\"\u00a2 natural astaxanthin. The consistent, kosher ingredient is offered in several forms, including two new products: AstaPure 2.0% astaxanthin vegetable beadlets and AstaPure 0.4% astaxanthin NSSL, a transparent, viscous, concentrated oil that consists of 0.4% natural astaxanthin. It can be incorporated into liquid dietary supplements and beverages. AstaPure is also available as a dry biomass containing 3.5%-4.0% astaxanthin, as a 10% standardized oleoresin, beadlets and water-dispersible beadlets.\nAstaxanthin is recognized as being about 500 times more effective than vitamin E, making it significantly more potent than other carotenoids such as lutein, lycopene and beta carotene. Because of its special ability to cross the blood-brain barrier, research has suggested it has a role in protecting the central nervous system, and can protect against cataracts. The ingredient has had huge interest in Japan and is generating a growing interest in Europe and U.S. markets as well. Algatechnologies' patented production process allows it to offer astaxanthin at competitive prices. NS\nAlgatechnologies Ltd., Hevel Eilot, Israel\nEfrat Kat \u2022 +972-8-6356425 \u2022 efratk@algatech.com\nwww.algatech.com\n2013 Ingredients for Health Reference \u2013 Antioxidants for Health\nProducts -- September 2008","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
+{"text":"Celine Dion at The Colosseum\nThe show, directed by long time Grammy Awards producer Ken Ehrlich, includes Celine's biggest hits mixed with timeless classics and pays tribute to some of the most celebrated songs and artists of all time. Featuring 31 musicians, consisting of a full orchestra and band, Celine is set to a visually stunning backdrop designed exclusively for the 4,300-seat state-of-the-art venue.\nOctober: 30, 31\nNovember: 2, 3, 6, 7, 9, 10, 13, 14, 16, 17\nDecember: 28, 29, 31\nJanuary: 2, 4, 5, 8, 11, 15, 16, 19, 20\nTickets may be purchased in person at The Colosseum at Caesars Palace Box Office, by calling 866-320-9763, or online at thecolosseum.com or axs.com. Orders are subject to additional service charges and fees. Ticket prices are $250\/$175\/$140\/$95\/$55 (prices include 9% Live Entertainment Tax as assessed by the state of Nevada). For groups of 10 or more, call 866-574-3851. All shows are scheduled for 7:30 p.m.\nCeline at The Colosseum at Caesars Palace is a glamorous show directed by legendary Grammy Awards producer Ken Ehrlich and presented jointly by AEG Live and Caesars Entertainment. Celine's updated Las Vegas show includes her biggest hits mixed with timeless hits by iconic artists that celebrate all generations and genres of music ranging from Elvis to the Bee Gees, Queen and Prince. The show features a full orchestra and band and is set to a visually stunning presentation designed exclusively for the 4,300-seat state-of-the-art venue. For show information visit www.celineinvegas.com.\nAbout Celine:\nOne of the most immediately recognized, widely respected and successful performers in pop music history, Celine Dion has sold almost 250 million albums during her over 30-year career. She has earned five Grammy Awards, two Academy Awards, seven American Music Awards, 20 Juno Awards (Canada) and an astonishing 40 Felix Award (Quebec). In 2004, Celine received the Diamond award at the World Music Awards recognizing her status as the best-selling female artist of all time. In 2007 she was honored with the Legend Award at World Music Awards in recognition of her global success and outstanding contribution to the music industry.","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
+{"text":"Corporate Criminality and Genocide\nJan 30, 2013 John HurshCriminal Law\nMichael J. Kelly, Prosecuting Corporations for Genocide Under International Law, 6 Harv. L. & Pol'y Rev. 339 (2012).\nJohn Hursh\nAs his title suggests, Professor Michael J. Kelly offers a sound legal argument for prosecuting corporations for genocide under international law. While there is much to admire about this article, perhaps its greatest strength is the straightforward manner in which Kelly systematically refutes possible challenges to his position and the even-handed tone Kelly employs when discussing the often divisive topic of corporate regulation. Rather than resorting to polemics or incendiary rhetoric, Kelly begins with the basic premise that \"anyone who commits genocide should be held accountable\" (339). Noting that international law holds individuals, states, and organizations accountable for genocide, Kelly asks simply: \"Why not corporations\" (339)?\nKelly grounds much of his argument for prosecuting corporations for genocide on the lack of distinction between a legal and natural person in the 1948 Genocide Convention (339). Applying the interpretative framework set forth in the Vienna Convention on the Law of Treaties, Kelly moves from the treaty text to the travaux preparatoires, where he finds no definitive evidence that delegates intended to include or exclude corporations from the treaty's reach. Still, citing the \"plain meaning of the term 'persons' at the time\" and the drafters' decision not to delineate between legal and natural persons, Kelly argues that corporations should be considered persons under the convention (346). He bolsters this argument by noting an accordant view from Harold Koh, Legal Advisor to the U.S. Department of State, and by appealing to our basic sense of fairness to recognize that the unprecedented growth and influence of corporations requires a similar level of responsibility (347). Continue reading \"Corporate Criminality and Genocide\"\nRethinking Perpetual Trusts\nJan 28, 2013 Jeffrey CooperTrusts & Estates\nLawrence W. Waggoner, From Here to Eternity: The Folly of Perpetual Trusts, Univ. of Michigan Public Law Working Paper no. 259, available on SSRN.\nJeffrey Cooper\nOne of the notable current developments in modern estate planning is that of the dynasty trust, a device for passing family wealth though the generations without the imposition of estate, gift or generation-skipping tax along the way. Fueled by the combination of clients seeking a measure of immortality, state legislatures seeking to attract trust business, and lawyers and trust companies seeking to secure a \"client\" that will last for generations, the device has become a must-consider technique for wealthy Americans.\nProfessor Lawrence Waggoner does not think dynasty trusts represent good public policy, a theme he has addressed in many of his earlier writings. However, his argument in this piece is slightly different. Addressing his remarks not only to state legislatures, but to those clients considering implementing a dynasty trust, he contends that dynasty trusts may not serve any useful interest for the very clients clamoring to establish them. His argument takes two major forms. First, utilizing some mathematical modeling, he illustrates how the passage of time dramatically multiplies the number of eligible trust beneficiaries of a hypothetical dynasty trust and dramatically dilutes their genetic relationship to the individual who originally establish the trust. For example, Prof. Waggoner calculates that some 325 years after its inception, a typical dynasty trust might have over 100,000 beneficiaries, and after 450 years might have well over one million such beneficiaries. Continue reading \"Rethinking Perpetual Trusts\"\nCyberHealth: Computerizing Personalized Comparisons of Treatment Effectiveness\nJan 25, 2013 Frank PasqualeTechnology Law\nSharona Hoffman & Andy Podgurski, Improving Health Care Outcomes through Personalized Comparisons of Treatment Effectiveness Based on Electronic Health Records, 39 J.L. Med. & Ethics 425 (2011).\nFrank Pasquale\nEconomists are beginning to lose faith in technological progress. As one wag puts it: instead of cancer cures, \"Captain Kirk & the USS Enterprise, we got the Priceline Negotiator and a cheap flight to Cabo.\" Even formidable companies like Google have fled the health field, daunted by the complex legal environment. Some have called for radical deregulation as a solution. But a more viable approach is to turn to the work of some of the smart, committed, and impartial legal scholars who are pioneering the field of cyberhealth law. Particularly instructive is Sharona Hoffman & Andy Podgurski's article, Improving Health Care Outcomes through Personalized Comparisons of Treatment Effectiveness Based on Electronic Health Records.\nIn an information economy, even cheesecake can be optimized using data-driven methodology. Unfortunately, leading health care providers often resist such methods of improvement. Pharmaceutical firms have sometimes continued to market drugs even after reports emerge that undermine the rationale for taking the drug, let alone paying for it.That troubling method of attaining short term profits at the cost of long term sustainable business models needs to be countered by sophisticated methods of analyzing (and disseminating) data on the real effect of medical interventions. Hoffman and Podgurski help develop a legal and technical framework for assuring that happens. Continue reading \"CyberHealth: Computerizing Personalized Comparisons of Treatment Effectiveness\"\nJan 23, 2013 Michael MadisonIntellectual Property Law\nAaron Perzanowski, Intellectual Property Norms in the Tattoo Industry, Wayne State University Law School Research Paper No. 12-14, available at SSRN.\nMichael Madison\nTattooing has gone mainstream. In the introduction to Intellectual Property Norms in the Tattoo Industry, Aaron Perzanowski lets the facts speak for themselves: \"An estimated twenty-one percent of adults in the United States\u2014more than sixty-five million Americans\u2014have at least one tattoo. For those under the\u00ad age of 40, that percentage nearly doubles. Not surprisingly, the tattoo business is booming. By some estimates, the U.S. tattoo industry generates $2.3 billion in annual revenue.\"\nSmall wonder, then, that Perzanowski has tackled the originality and copying norms adopted by the communities of tattooers, extending in certain respects \u2013 and distinguishing in others \u2013 recent work on informal IP norms among stand-up comics, fashion designers, French chefs, magicians, roller derby queens, and fans of jam bands. The first great contribution that Perzanowski makes in this paper is assembling and describing a collection of qualitative data about the relationship between formal IP rules and informal norms among yet another group of people with their own distinct sets of creative and copying practices. It's not surprising, perhaps, that despite the mainstream popularity of tattooing, tattooers continue to regard themselves as outsiders, pirates even, and that they have little use for or reliance on formal IP rules. Yet unlike their counterpart comics, designers, chefs, and magicians, tattooers have ample opportunity to integrate their work with copyright law. Tattoos are copyrightable subject matter, and infringement claims, while rare in practice, are hardly unimaginable legally.\nWhat makes this paper compelling is that Perzanowski goes beyond the instinct to look at informal anti-copying norms in tattooer communities primarily as substitutes for or complements to formal copyright law. The insight offered by earlier work on comics, fashion designers, and so on has been that copyright's formal structure is often overbroad, because creative communities may thrive even when copyright falls short. Informal social norms can pick up the slack, guiding creative practice and policing copying where needed. The lesson is specific: efforts to extend and broaden copyright law in those domains may cause more harm than good. Continue reading \"Tattoo You\"\nEconomic Analysis of Personal Jurisdiction\nJan 21, 2013 Alexandra LahavCourts Law\nDaniel Klerman, Personal Jurisdiction and Product Liability, 85 S. Cal. L. Rev. ___ (forthcoming 2013).\nAlexandra Lahav\nHere is a practical problem: Where should a person who was harmed by a product be able to sue the manufacturer of that product?\nHere is a complex judicial answer to that problem: Combine \u00bd cup state sovereignty and \u00bd cup due process, cook on low simmer and stir with circular reasoning, adding three or four new factors every twenty years. After ingesting this concoction you might feel a bit ill, as did one civil procedure student who wrote on an exam: \"personal jurisdiction is a pain in the _____\" (original language omitted). Felix Cohen said it more eloquently when he described the kind of reasoning that still passes for personal jurisdiction doctrine as \"transcendental nonsense,\" but the student's reaction is more direct.\nDaniel Klerman's new article, Personal Jurisdiction and Product Liability, is a welcome antidote to the combination of creeping transcendentalism in the Case of the Giant Shears (the Supreme Court's most recent personal jurisdiction case, more commonly known as J. McIntyre v. Nicastro), and the proliferation of factors that characterizes personal jurisdiction doctrine today. Personal jurisdiction is an area of law for which economic analysis especially well-suited because of the policy implications entailed. As hard as it is to imagine, Klerman's is the first article to apply economic analysis to personal jurisdiction doctrine. I am glad he was the one to do it. Continue reading \"Economic Analysis of Personal Jurisdiction\"\nAgainst the Law?\nJan 18, 2013 John GoldbergTorts\nW. Jonathan Cardi, Randy Penfield & Albert Yoon, Does Tort Law Deter?, Wake Forest Univ. Legal Studies Paper No. 1851383 (2011), available at SSRN.\nJohn Goldberg\nWhy have tort law? After all, other laws and institutions cover a lot of the same ground. If we want to punish bad actors, there is criminal law. If we want to ensure safety, there is regulatory law. If we want to aid injury victims, there is public and private insurance. What's left for tort?\nA standard answer is that tort, with its threat of liability, deters people from engaging in conduct that unduly risks harm. Tort law is needed for this purpose, the answer continues, because a good deal of risky conduct falls outside the ambit of criminal and regulatory law. For example, injuring someone by careless driving usually isn't a crime, so the threat of negligence liability fills the void. Of course this answer assumes that the prospect of liability will actually induce people to act more carefully. Does Tort Law Deter?, by Professors Cardi, Penfield, and Yoon, is an innovative attempt to harness social science methods to investigate that assumption. Continue reading \"Against the Law?\"\nIntegrating Tax and Development Policy\nJan 16, 2013 Adam RosenzweigTax Law\nMitchell A. Kane, Bootstraps and Poverty Traps: Tax Treaties as Novel Tools for Development Finance, 29 Yale J. Reg. 255 (2012).\nAdam Rosenzweig\nA quiet, but powerful, movement seems to be emerging in the field of international tax \u2013 the explicit recognition that development policy is integral to any analysis of international tax policy.1 Put differently, if the initial distribution of resources affects the return on resources, which itself affects the taxation of resources and thus the provision of public goods (which themselves feed back into the return on resources), distribution must be incorporated into the efficiency analysis of international taxation rather than thought of as a second, unrelated \"fairness\" step.2\nMitchell Kane contributes to this evolution in his thoughtful new article, Bootstraps and Poverty Traps: Tax Treaties as Novel Tools for Development Finance, 29 Yale J. Reg. 255 (2012). In this article, Kane attempts to integrate development economics into the tax treaty calculation itself \u2013 the exact opposite of traditional tax treaty policy. Originally, the policy behind tax treaties was to lower tax barriers to cross-border trade \u2013 as barriers dropped, trade increased, making everyone better off. What this theory did not take into account, however, was that this only worked for countries between which trade would flow. That is, countries with roughly similar economies. But what about small, capital poor countries? What would they get in return for signing a tax treaty with a wealthy country? The emerging consensus is: nothing. So why would they ever sign a treaty with a wealthy country such as the United States? Continue reading \"Integrating Tax and Development Policy\"\nObamacare and the Competing Conceptions of Insurance\nJan 14, 2013 Abigail MoncrieffHealth Law\nKenneth Abraham, Four Conceptions of Insurance, ___ U. Pa. L. Rev. ___ (forthcoming 2013), available at SSRN.\nAbigail Moncrieff\nIn the highly contentious debates over the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (ACA or \"Obamacare\"), different conceptions of health insurance vied for supremacy. But the struggle occurred silently. The debaters never explicitly acknowledged\u2014and may not have completely understood\u2014that the foundation of their disagreement might be their underlying sense of what health insurance is and ought to be. Ken Abraham has ably shone a light on this silent struggle in his recent article, Four Conceptions of Insurance.\nAbraham lays out and critiques four views of insurance: as contract, public utility, product, and regulator. In the end, his conclusion is simple. All four visions have some explanatory power for the content of modern insurance law, which necessarily means that none of the four visions is fully descriptive of modern practice. Modern law sometimes treats insurance as contract, sometimes as public utility, sometimes as product, and sometimes as regulator. But one's preferred conception of insurance has much to do with one's preferences as to what the law should be. When law treats insurance as a contract, those who see insurance as akin to a public utility are quite unhappy. Continue reading \"Obamacare and the Competing Conceptions of Insurance\"\nReconsidering Work and Family with \"the Marriage Equation\"\nJan 11, 2013 Kerry AbramsFamily Law\nDeborah A. Widiss, Changing the Marriage Equation, 89 Wash. U. L. Rev. 721 (2012).\nKerry Abrams\nEvery day, married couples make decisions about how to allocate work within their relationships. Some couples specialize, with one person performing a breadwinning role and the other doing the lion's share of caregiving tasks. Others divide breadwinning and caregiving tasks fairly evenly, and still others perform the breadwinning role together while outsourcing caregiving to housekeepers, gardeners, and nannies. When spouses make a decision about how to allocate work, the decision often feels like a private choice. Feminist scholars have long argued that, to the contrary, choices regarding breadwinning and caregiving are largely shaped, or even coerced, by law.\nDeborah Widiss's article Changing the Marriage Equation provides a new way of analyzing the complicated interaction of law, social norms, and individual choice that leads to gendered roles in marriage. Widiss argues that choices regarding the allocation of paid and care work are profoundly shaped by three factors, which together make up what she calls the \"the marriage equation.\" Two of the factors of the marriage equation are legal\u2014sex-based classifications within marriage law, and the substantive law of marriage. The third is social\u2014the gender norms of marriage. The article argues that all three factors affect couples' decisions about the allocation of labor. Widiss also argues that the first factor, sex-based classifications within marriage law, was largely dismantled during the equal protection revolution of the 1970s, but that the other two factors continue to work together to produce gendered outcomes in the allocation of work within marriages. She then suggests that same-sex marriage can provide a natural experiment for assessing the relative strength of substantive marriage law and gender roles within the marriage equation. Continue reading \"Reconsidering Work and Family with \"the Marriage Equation\"\"\nUncomfortable Marriage\nJan 9, 2013 Robert LeckeyEquality\nYuvraj Joshi, Respectable Queerness, 43 Colum. Hum. Rts. L. Rev. 415 (2012).\nRobert Leckey\nMuch legal scholarship about same-sex marriage by liberals presents arguments for judges to use when interpreting constitutional rights. Another current of critical research, from queer, feminist, or other left scholars, explores how expanding access to marriage may disadvantage those who will not or cannot marry, undermine an intersectional queer politics, or both. Much less writing has explored the impact, for gay men and lesbians who might marry or who have married, of the lobbying and litigation that made doing so possible.\nSome reasons for this relative neglect are obvious. It may be too early to have meaningful data. The question may be one for sociologists. But surely another is that a lot of people assume that same-sex marriage is a good thing for at least those who take it up. Yuvraj Joshi's paper joins the critical research about the potential harms arising from the campaign for same-sex marriage and its realization for those who wouldn't walk down the aisle even if they could. But it also enriches legal scholarship by exploring the psychological effects of same-sex marriage for those who marry. Continue reading \"Uncomfortable Marriage\"","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
+{"text":"Nothing But a Neurochemical Reaction\n\u272e\u272e\u272e\u272e\nRob Drummond's In Fidelity\nEdinburgh Festival Fringe | Edinburgh\ndirected by Steven Atkinson\nHow do you define love? It's a word that we use frequently, but one that we struggle to pin down and describe \u2013 or at least the audience at In Fidelity did. Is love elusive? Special to each individual person? Rob Drummond (writer and 'host') describes himself as believing in love, but sometimes not sure if he is really feeling it. This is followed by murmurs of agreement from the audience. But if we don't really know what love is, how do we look for it?\nIn Fidelity has three key strands. First, the story of the couple Drummond has randomly selected from the audience who go on their 'first date' onstage in front of us. Second, the marriage of Charles and Emma Darwin, which was impacted considerably by Charles' work, and lastly Drummond's own marriage which might be showing the first cracks after his foray into online dating for research.\nThe first strand, the 'Blind Date'-style setup, sounds a little gimmicky and the set compounds this, with its garish logo and projections, Drummond squeezing onto the sofa beside the two nervous volunteers. But this actually works well as a bit of humour and light relief to go alongside the intense scrutiny of our basic human inclination towards relationships and love. We see that Drummond's brain reacts in exactly the same way to an image of his wife as an image of Anna Kournikova. In physical terms, it would seem he feels the same about both women. So what of our unique and special love? We watch two people start to fall in love onstage; therefore love can be manufactured, it would seem. But at the same time our abstract ideas of love begin to erode, the first sparks of a blossoming new love still seem as magical as ever.\nAlthough it is only two members of the audience who fully take part in the experiment, every person in the room is immersed in the experience. We are asked to indicate whether or not we consider ourselves to be in a relationship, whether or not we have cheated or been cheated upon. By encouraging everyone to give to the performance, even if it is something as small as a raised hand, a deep sense of empathy is created. We are all implicated in the discussion and the date onstage; so we re-evaluate our own ideas of love and trust under a new light.\nDespite being frequently awkward, sometimes uncomfortable and occasionally a little depressing In Fidelity is a major achievement. It is a fun and fascinating piece of experimental theatre, pushing the boundaries of our conceptions of love while, ultimately, being a great love letter to love itself.\nphoto | \u00a9Eoin Carey\n#edinburgh","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
+{"text":"Related Categories: East Bay | LGBTI \/ Queer\nView other events for the week of 10\/29\/2005\nPeaceOUT: The 5th Annual World Homohop Festival,Oct. 28-30, Oakland\nDate Saturday October 29\nTime 7:00 PM - 11:00 PM\nJuba Kalamka\nFestival Director\ninfo@peaceoutfestival.com\nPeaceOUT:\nThe 5th Annual World HomoHop Festival\nOctober 28 to 30, 2005\n21 GRAND\n416 25th Street (at Broadway)\n(exit 19th Street Station downtown Oakland)\nOakland,California\nall shows $10 - ALL AGES\n*21 GRAND is wheelchair accessible*\n*nearby AC Transit Transbay bus runs to SF all night*\n$20 FestivalPass available at\nhttp:\/\/www.peaceoutfestival.com\nEvent Type Concert\/Show\nOrganizer\/Author juba kalamka\nJen Loy\nKitchen Sink Magazine\njen@kitchensinkmag.com\nSUGARTRUCK RECORDINGS\nKitchen Sink Magazine,Mama Buzz Caf\u00e9,Planet Janice Films\nA.C.R.O.N.Y.M. Records and Phat Family\nproudly presents\nPeaceOUT:The 5th Annual World HomoHop Festival\nOctober 28-30, 2005 at 21 GRAND.\nWhat is PeaceOUT?\nPeaceOUT is an international gathering of lesbian, gay,bisexual and transgender hip-hop artists, activists, fans and supporters to celebrate the LGBT presence in hip-hop music and culture, hosted and produced by Sugartruck Recordings in conjunction with A.C.R.O.N.Y.M.Records. The\nfestival will take place over the weekend of October 28-30 in Oakland,California and will feature live music,DJs,spoken word, dance\/performance events.\nThe first PeaceOUT World Homo Hop Festival (Then known as Cypher) was held in August 2001 at Oakland's East Bay Pride and has become an annual tradition.Its popularity enabled the creation of the recent 2nd\nAnnual PeaceOutEast (NYC-July 14-17,2005) PeaceOUT UK (London,August 5-6,2005),\nlast year's PeaceOutSouth (Atlanta,Sept.5)and the upcoming PeaceOutNorthwest,(Portland Oregon, Spring 2006).\nThe evolution of PeaceOUT and the lives of performers in the scene are chronicled in the feature documentary PICK UP THE MIC (Planet Janice Films) which recently premiered to rave reviews at the 30th Annual Toronto International Film Festival. For more info on the film,reviews,and details on its upcoming release, visit\nhttp:\/\/www.pickupthemic.com\nA number of LGBT hip-hop performers are listed on the Phat Family Records and Sugartruck Recordings homepages. Most of them have their own websites\nwith photos, MP3s and CDs available for sale.Many any of them have appeared on one or more Phat Family Records CD compilations.Please visit\nhttp:\/\/www.phatfamily.org and http:\/\/www.sugartruckrecordings.com for more info.\nAll news and updates will be announced on the Phat Family Announcements mailing list and Kitchen Sink's monthly e-newsletter. Updates and show\ninformation will also be available at Mama Buzz Cafe\n(2318 Telegraph Ave, Oakland.)\nArtists and fans interested in the latest information on PeaceOUT and other Sugartruck and Phat Family Records events are encouraged to sign up\nby sending e-mail to phat-family-announce- subscribe@yahoogroups.com.\nIf you are in need of more specific info, email us at\ninfo@peaceoutfestival.com or events@kitchensinkmag.com.\nKitchen Sink, the magazine for people who think too much, is a non-profit, quarterly print magazine that explores thought, art, culture, identity and politics. It is the premiere program of the Neighbor Lady Community Arts Project, an Oakland-based arts organization, was recently named 2004 Best Cultural Happening by San Francisco Magazine, is the recipient of the 2003 Utne Independent Press Award for Best New Title, and the Best of the Bay 2003 awards from the SF Weekly, SF Bay Guardian, and East Bay Express.\nMama Buzz is a cafe, gallery and gathering place for artists, creators and their communities. Mama Buzz was also named Best Hipster Hangout by The East Bay Express, Best Coffee with the Kitchen Sink by the SF Bay Guardian, and Best Indoor\/Outdoor Cafe by San Francisco Magazine.\nEditor in Chief**Kitchen Sink Magazine\nCo Owner\/Event Coordinator**Mama Buzz Cafe\nkitchensinkmag.com\nmamabuzzcafe.com\n*KS 11: the hook-up issue now available!\n*Best of the Bay: KS named Best Cultural Happening by San Francisco Magazine\n*KS: Winner, 2003 UTNE Independent Press Award, Best New Title\nAdded to the calendar on Monday Oct 10th, 2005 12:32 PM","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
+{"text":"MySA Homepage\nVandeweghe knows Nets present huge challenge\nNBA great files $77M suit against ex-adviser who defied Duncan\nSan Antonio spots dubbed 'Flavortown' by Guy Fieri\n12 San Antonio restaurants known for their iconic puffy tacos\nBrice from Enkyboys speaks out after his father died from cancer\nNew hot springs now open near original S.A. Hot Wells site\nReport: KSAT 12 sports anchor arrested on DWI charges\nNew 380-acre nature park coming to San Antonio's Southside\nSports \/\/ Mike Monroe\nMike Monroe: When Kiki Vandeweghe moves from his spot in the Nets' front office to his new role as head coach Thursday, he'll take over the NBA's worst team.\nMike Monroe\nFirst order of business for the new coach of the NBA's only winless team: Buy some new clothes.\nKiki Vandeweghe's reputation as one of the NBA's most laid-back personalities began in his first season. Then, he famously lived in a Denver apartment with one piece of furniture and wore the same gray sweater through an entire season.\nOn Tuesday, he wore a coat and tie to the press conference at which his new duties with the Nets were announced but admits he needs more David Stern-approved duds to patrol the sidelines.\nHe will take over head-coaching duties Thursday, and by the time his new position becomes official, the Nets probably will have established an all-time low for start-the-season futility. Assistant Tom Barrise, who took over for Lawrence Frank on an interim basis, will be in the hot seat for tonight's game against the Mavericks. Barring an upset, Vandeweghe is apt to inherit an 0-18 team when he makes his NBA coaching debut.\n\"On some level,\" he said in a Tuesday afternoon phone interview, \"I am excited, but let's not sugarcoat it. This is something I haven't done before, and the team is going through a very, very tough time.\"\nAhead of Royal Rumble in San Antonio, Doudrop opens up about bout with COVID, her WWE future\nWWE's Kevin Owens opens up on The Bloodline, Sami Zayn and WWE sale rumors ahead of the Royal Rumble in San Antonio\nVandeweghe's move from the front office to the bench continues something of a trend. Earlier this season, GM Jeff Bower took over as the Hornets' coach after Byron Scott was fired. Portland's Kevin Pritchard finished out the 2004-05 season on the bench, then went back to the front office when Nate McMillan was hired.\nVandeweghe, too, wants to go back to the front office, but that will depend on what Mikhail Prokhorov decides about the team's basketball management when, and if, he is approved as the team's new owner.\n\"This job was taken,\" Vandeweghe said, \"because we needed to do something. I understand it, but it also was taken with the caveat I'd go back to the front office.\"\nWorking the sidelines, he said, will give him a different perspective from which to evaluate the players who will be available in next summer's free-agent market, when the Nets will have about $30 million in salary-cap space to spend.\n\"It's a different look than sitting in the stands and watching them,\" he said. \"Do I know the players? Of course I do, but it provides a different kind of look I think will be very beneficial that you just don't get in the stands.\"\nVandeweghe will try to get the Nets running more, which is what you'd expect from someone who played for Doug Moe and sat behind Don Nelson's bench in his only assistant coaching stint.\nHe won't be a screamer but insists he will leave his easy-going persona at the door on game nights.\nCould he be the NBA's most laid-back head coach?\n\"It's possible,\" he said, \"but I'm not always the nicest guy in the world, either. Nobody gets to an NBA level, even as a player, without having a little bit of an edge.\"\nMoe, the ex-Spurs coach who had Vandeweghe as a Nuggets rookie, often screamed at him in practice in hopes he could send his laid-back player over the edge.\nVandeweghe rarely accommodated.\n\"I'm going to have to call Doug,\" Vandeweghe said. \"I'll bet he's laughing his ass off.\"\nmikemonroe@express-news.net\nThe 15 best items in Disney's Valentine's Day collection\nlululemon's new Mini Belt Bag is the perfect on-the-go...\nIs the Stanley Quencher tumbler worth its TikTok hype?\n5 hotels where 49ers fans can book a stay in Philly\nReach Mike on\nAfter practicing sports journalism in Colorado for 35 years Mike Monroe headed to South Texas, where the air is less rarefied and a hard frost is considered a traumatic winter weather event. He joined the sports staff of the Express-News in 2004, reporting and writing exclusively about the NBA and the Spurs. Since 1985 he has primarily covered NBA basketball, but over a 45-year newspaper career has reported on all manner of sporting events, from football, baseball and golf to ski jumping, cycling and motorsports. He has covered NBA and NBA-related games from Honolulu to Rome and from St. Johns, Newfoundland to Mar del Plata, Argentina. Mike is married to Express-News Social Studies columnist Nancy Cook-Monroe.\nTop shopping picks\nBest deals on Amazon: Here's how to save 20% on essentials\nSamsung's coveted Galaxy Buds 2 are under $100 on Amazon\nWhen to order Valentines Day flowers to avoid hefty delivery fees\nSuper Bowl parties: Get tickets for Cardi B, Offset and more\nMake breakfast a breeze with this $7 Instant Pot egg bites tray\nGuide To SA","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
+{"text":"This section is a source of information for health care providers to guide them in their clinical practice regarding the Universal Influenza Immunization Program (UIIP).\nThe Health Protection and Promotion Act 1990 (HPPA), R.S.O., 1990, outlines the requirements for physicians, practitioners, laboratories, and institutions to report any suspect or confirmed influenza cases to the Medical Officer of Health. This information is collected under Regulation 569 of the HPPA. Influenza is to be reported by the next working day. If the individual presents with a novel or emerging respiratory infection, please report immediately to the Medical Officer of Health.\nGeneral information regarding Ontario's influenza immunization program:\nGeneral information regarding influenza\n2021\/2022 Universal Influenza Immunization Program (UIIP)\nMinistry of Health Memo to Health Care Providers Re: Ontario's UIIP Program\nInformation for Windsor-Essex County providers who administer influenza vaccines:\nPublic Health Ontario \u2013 Influenza Vaccines for the 2021\/2022 Influenza Season\nVaccine Storage and Handling Guidelines\nNational Advisory Committee on Immunization (NACI): Canadian Immunization Guide Chapter on Influenza and Statement on Seasonal Influenza Vaccine for 2021\/2022\nAdverse Events Following Immunization (AEFIs):\nCanadian Immunization Guide section on early vaccine reactions including anaphylaxis (includes details on the management of anaphylaxis).\nAdverse Events Following Immunization (AEFIs)\nOntario Ministry of Health and Long Term Care. Universal influenza Immunization Program (UIIP).\nHealth Care Provider Qs & As:\nInformation for the 2021\/2022 Influenza Season\nInformation for individuals 6 months to 64 years of age\nInformation for individuals > 65 years of age\nInformation regarding the use of cell culture-based influenza vaccine (Flucelvax Quad) in pregnancy\nPregnant women are recognized as a priority group for influenza vaccination, as influenza infection in pregnancy increases the woman's risk of hospitalization and other serious complications, as well as the baby's risk of adverse neonatal outcomes. Vaccination of pregnant women also helps protect the baby from influenza in the first few months of life.\nInfluenza vaccination in pregnancy is a safe and effective method for protecting pregnant women and their babies from influenza.\nThe National Advisory Committee on Immunization (NACI) recommends offering any age-appropriate inactivated influenza vaccine product to all pregnant women, at any stage of pregnancy. This recommendation has been in place for over a decade in Canada and is considered the standard of care for pregnant women.\nFlucelvax\u00ae Quad was licenced for use in Canada in November 2019. Mammalian cell culture-based inactivated influenza vaccines have been used in other jurisdictions for over a decade.\nThe NACI Supplemental Statement: Mammalian Cell Culture-Based Influenza Vaccines recommends that Flucelvax\u00ae Quad be considered among the quadrivalent inactivated influenza vaccine products offered to adults and children \u2265 9 years of age. NACI has advised that this recommendation was intended to apply to pregnant women (personal communication, NACI). Thus, as with other inactivated influenza vaccines, Flucelvax\u00ae Quad can be offered to pregnant women.\nAdvisory Committee Statement (ASC): Supplemental Statement: Mammalian Cell Culture-Based Influenza Vaccines\nDiagnostic Testing Updates:\nPublic Health Ontario Laboratory: Influenza testing with nasopharyngeal swab\nPublic Health Ontario Laboratory: Labstract (October 2020) - Respiratory Virus Testing Update\nTreatment Updates:\nAntiviral Medication Use During an Influenza Outbreak: Congregate Living Settings (Public Health Ontario)\nPublic Health Ontario Factsheet: Influenza Antiviral Treatment\nInfluenza Immunization Awareness Posters:\nBrowse a list of downloadable immunization posters from Immunize Canada, available in English and French.\nTuesday, September 28, 2021 - 2:14pm","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
+{"text":"NAGPRA aims to preserve history\nAlden Naranjo has been the NAGPRA coordinator for the Southern Ute Indian Tribe since 1990 when the Native American Graves Protection Repatriation Act was first established. The Act consists of historical remains being returned from museums and institutes to their appropriate tribes.\nThu Apr 30th, 2015\nDamon Toledo\nCategories: Top Stories\nThe Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act (NAGPRA) was established in 1990 to ensure that cultural objects and remains of historical significance are returned to the affiliated Indian Tribes. Since its formation, hundreds upon hundreds of native remains and artifacts have been brought back to their tribes in one piece. However, there are still many artifacts across the globe that is still waiting for their return home.\n\"I became the NAGPRA coordinator in 1990 when the act was past,\" Alden Naranjo, NAGPRA Coordinator said. \"[The act] covers all artifacts, remains, and any associated items that belong to whichever tribe is in that area when the excavation was made. These were items that ended up being used in repositories and museums.\"\nFor many years, tribal leaders have visited museums and institutions and would find Native American remnants stored away in boxes in locked rooms with little to no information on exactly where they came from. This issue was first addressed back in 1976 when the Colorado Commission of Indian Affairs was created, particularly for these concerns alone.\nThe laws surrounding NAGPRA have changed vastly. It is now a criminal offense to traffic in Native American remains without right of possession or in Native American cultural items obtained in violation of the Act, which can lead to imprisonment and a hefty fine.\nNAGPRA goes through a particular process in which museums and agencies determine the rights of certain artifacts to the lineal descendants connected to the Indian tribes and Native Hawaiian organizations. If the descendants of the artifacts\/remains cannot be identified, then the objects will go directly to the associated tribes.\nIn December 2013, the Southern Ute Indian Tribe signed a memorandum of understanding that provided available lands for a number of remains that were set for reburial on the reservation. Those remains have now been properly laid to rest.\nHaving these artifacts of cultural significance returned to their appropriate habitat opens the doors for education. Plenty of work is involved, but showing the honor and respect for these historical items is significant to the community, according to Naranjo.\n\"A lot of these artifacts are priceless,\" he said. \"Educationally, tribal members will be able to see and have an understanding of what that particular item is and what it's been used for, and who it belonged to. Everything is sacred, and we must [appreciate] that.\"\nBGC Valentine's Buy A Heart\nSMHW-Instant Pot 101\nMPF: February Senior Breakfast\nNative American Heritage Mass\nBlood Drive at Ignacio High School\nWhere do you view The Southern Ute Drum?\nPrinted Newspaper\nNewspaper Website","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
+{"text":"Posted on June 25, 2019 by Al_Khaliq_iZ\nReport Suggests Live Nation Is Now the Sole Owner of Bonnaroo\nAccording to a new report, Live Nation plans on exercising a buyout clause to purchase the rest of Bonnaroo. Live Nation bought a controlling interest in the festival back in 2015.\nBillboard reports that the transaction will take place before next year's festival.\nBonnaroo 2019 was the last year Superfly Entertainment produced the festival. Now, a limited role for Superfly going forward is currently being discussed.\nAC Entertainment and C3 Presents will produce future Bonnaroo events. Live Nation purchased C3 Presents back in 2014.\nAs part of the original 2015 agreement, Superfly and Ashley Capps Entertainment were retained as operators. Organizers purchased the Great Park Stage site \u2014 also known as the Farm \u2014 in 2007. Bonnaroo is an annual gathering for jam bands but has expanded its lineup for multiple genres.\nLive Nation booked U2 for the festival in 2016 as the only festival stop for the Joshua Tree tour. This year's festival was headlined by Phish, Childish Gambino, Post Malone, Odesza, the Lumineers and more.\nBonnaroo has had as many as 80,000 daily attendees but usually averages around 60,000.\nSuperfly was hired to produce the event at Watkins Glen, but the company pulled out over a disagreement with the organizers. Woodstock 50 has been left without a producer or the iconic Watkins Glen location after the festival failed to meet milestone goals.\nSuperfly co-founder Rick Farman will also be departing and won't have a role in organizing future Bonnaroo events going forward.\nJust recently, four paramedics working the 2018 Bonnaroo festival were . At least 37 attendees were hospitalized with links to CO poisoning from the festival.\nOn the somewhat-less-toxic front: the festival also experimented with tackling body odor by for those with severe BO.\nCategoriesMUSIC Tagsad, Entertainment, hea, new, No, Post Malone, reports, trolling\nHip Hop Album Sales: Dreamville's\u2026\nElvis Biopic Casts Its Lead\u2026\nIs Traditional Radio About to\u2026\nNas Issues Reminder That \"Untitled\"\u2026\nNelly Weighs In On Taylor\u2026\nCardi B & Offset Blow\u2026\nR. Kelly's Alleged Sex Slaves\u2026\nTracy Morgan's Back In His\u2026\nKylie Jenner Heads To Turks\u2026\nDrake's Luxurious Mansion Features An\u2026","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
+{"text":"Home World Asia News Pope Francis arrives in Philippines for three-day visit\nPope Francis arrives in Philippines for three-day visit\nHundreds of thousands of cheering people who waited several hours in steaming heat have greeted Pope Francis at his arrival in the Philippines.\nPeople lined the streets of the capital Manila to glimpse his motorcade.\nMillions more are expected to come out to see him over his five-day visit to the nation's 80 million Catholics.\nPope Francis said that a priority of his visit would be to send a message to the poor who face \"social, spiritual and existential\" injustices.\n\"The central nut of the message will be the poor, the poor who want to go forward, the poor who suffered from Typhoon Haiyan and are continuing to suffer the consequences,\" the pontiff said while travelling to the Philippines from Sri Lanka.\nTyphoon Haiyan killed or left missing more than 7,300 people, razing villages to the ground in the centre of the Philippines in 2013.\nLeyte province was especially badly affected, and it is there where Pope Francis will seek to console survivors on January 17.\nThe Pope said that also prominent in his mind were some Filipino workers at the Vatican who had left their families for jobs overseas.\nPhoto Reuters\nThe Philippines is one of the world's largest exporters of labor \u2013 it is estimated that about a tenth of the population has left the country in search of work \u2013 and reports of their abuse and exploitation are commonplace.\nPresident Benigno Aquino has also spoken of his determination to eradicate poverty, although he has been at loggerheads with the local Roman Catholic Church over a 2012 reproductive health law that promotes artificial birth control.\nAfter leaving the airport, Pope Francis boarded an open-sided Popemobile to travel the 7 mile route to the Apostolic Nunciature in Manila, where he is staying.\nThe highlight of Pope Francis' visit will be a huge open-air Mass in Manila on January 18 and a visit to Tacloban to meet survivors of a devastating typhoon in November 2013.\nSecurity will be tight after failed attempts to kill two previous popes.\nTens of thousands of soldiers and police have been deployed.\nPope Francis is the fourth pontiff to visit the Philippines \u2013 80% of its 100 million people are Catholic.\nA three-day public holiday has been declared in Manila to clear the traffic.\n[youtube gsz1YxxGP2A 650]\npapal hat\nCharlie Hebdo cartoonists funerals held in Paris\nPope Francis loses papal hat at Manila airport\nWikimedia Foundation sues NSA and DoJ over secret surveillance program\nWikimedia Foundation has filed a lawsuit against the National Security Agency alleging its mass surveillance program violates US laws on \u2026Read More \u00bb\nTamerlan Tsarnaev text messages sent to his mother reveal he was willing to die for jihad\nA disturbing flurry of text messages has revealed Tamerlan Tsarnaev was willing to lay down his life for his Muslim \u2026Read More \u00bb\nScott Thorson claims he was Michael Jackson's lover\nScott Thorson, who was Liberace's one time toy-boy companion, claims he had an even more famous lover, in the shape \u2026Read More \u00bb\nGaza conflict: UN condemns Israel's military actions\nUN High Commissioner for Human Rights Navi Pillay has condemned Israel's military actions in the Gaza Strip, saying that war \u2026Read More \u00bb\nBeardski: bearded ski-mask is the new Xmas hit\nBeardski is the ultimate facial fashion accessory and\u2026 is a full on beard. If you've always wanted to try out \u2026Read More \u00bb","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
+{"text":"CES 2012: OmniMount ActionMounts put TVs right where you want them\nBy Clare Newsome published 10 January 12\nPlay20, Play20X and Play40 ActionMounts allow you to raise or lower your TV - and pan it - to suit everything from sofa-surfing to yoga lovers and stand-up games\nIf you and your family enjoy different ways of watching TV, OmniMount has a new range of wall brackets that allow you to move your flatscreen to exactly where you want it.\nThe three new 'full-motion' TV brackets in OmniMount's ActionMount range allow your set to be raised or lowered by up to 50cm (20in) to put it at the perfect height for a range of uses.\nFor example, you could lower your set to suit children or yoga enthusiasts sitting on the floor (see above), or move it to a higher-than-normal level for games that get you up on your feet (as below).\nThe mounts could also be used to put flatscreens in a more discreet position when not in use, but then elevated\/lowered into the best viewing position when needed.\nThe new mounts additionally allow for 180-degree panning, which means the TV can be seen from multiple viewing areas within a room.\nThe three mounts - the Play20, Play20X and Play40 - suit different sizes and weights of screen. Each uses patented 'Constant Force' technology, designed to provide fluid, light-touch adjustments.\nThe mounts - made from polished aluminium with a black trim - come with cable-management clips to hide trailing wires.\nThey will be available shortly, priced from $129; we hope to get UK information soon.\nJoin whathifi.com on Facebook","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
+{"text":"Hotspur's Revenge: A Review of Three Books\nMay 16, 2018 by Mark Gamin No Comments\n\u2022 Inheritors of the Earth: How Nature is Thriving in an Age of Extinction (Chris D. Thomas, Public Affairs)\n\u2022 The Aliens Among Us: How Invasive Species Are Transforming the Planet \u2013 and Ourselves (Leslie Anthony, Yale)\n\u2022 The Evolution of Beauty: How Darwin's Forgotten Theory of Mate Choice Shapes the Animal World \u2013 and Us (Richard O. Prum, Doubleday)\nI am a human being, so I am entitled to, and I do, say that the starling is an ugly bird. But I can admire people who, even knowing of their depredations (on other birds, on crops, and on home siding \u2013 i.e., mine), nevertheless appreciate and celebrate starlings and starlingness, including their excellent mimicry. That was a quality known to Shakespeare when he had his creation, Hotspur, threaten his King: \"I'll have a starling shall be taught to speak \/ Nothing but 'Mortimer' . . .\"\nShakespeare was, supposedly, the reason starlings, house sparrows, and other non-native birds were introduced to North America. And it might well be that, if I saw the European Starling in its native habitat, including Stratford-upon-Avon, I would think it lovely. The trouble is, the definition of \"native habitat\" is, for starlings and many other species, now quite elastic.\nAll that is preliminary to saying that we shouldn't get too far into the New Year before noting three good books published in 2017, all having to do, to greater or lesser extent, with evolution and Darwinism, invasive species, avifauna (as well as other fauna, and flora), how beauty comes to be and why beauty is important, and a slew of other good stuff.\nYou could not have two books more different from each other in slant, outlook, and prognosis than Inheritors of the Earth (the Thomas book) and The Aliens Among Us (Anthony). Each is centered on the subject of invasive species but, other than that similarity, it's as if the authors are writing about different planets: it is edifying, not to mention entertaining, to read them back-to-back.\nThomas acknowledges that the Anthropocene epoch, the age of humans, is bringing a sixth great extinction, but that, by itself, is not something he much mourns. It is \"the regrettable end of the evolutionary story\" for many species, he says, \"but it also represents the beginning of many new species.\" Ecologists (and all earthlings) can legitimately celebrate what will follow extinction: \"the sixth mass genesis of new biological diversity.\"\nFor humans to set themselves up as arbiters of what is proper in nature, and who belongs where, is, moreover, inconsistent, hubristic, and doomed to failure. Ten thousand years ago, Thomas notes, house sparrows were unknown in Britain. By the time of Queen Elizabeth I, they were considered vermin, a bounty placed on their small heads. Now, there are still 10 million of them there but, due in part to a population dip after 1970, it is, in the reign of the second Elizabeth, illegal to kill them intentionally. Why? What's magic about 1970? What, for that matter, is normal?\nChange is normal, Thomas would say \u2014 dynamism is the norm, and, as his Chapter 7 title says, \"Evolution Never Gives Up.\" There are, for example, many examples of species that have moved due to (pre-human) climate changes \u2013 a dung beetle , now present only in altitudes over 3,000 meters in Tibet, was once the most common dung beetle is northwestern Europe. In other words, \"we should never assume that where we see a species today is where that creature's ancestors originated.\"\nThomas's exposition and argument are, at minimum, well worth serious consideration. He concludes with his four-part philosophy of conservation: accept change, maintain flexibility for future change, recognize that human activity is part of the evolutionary history of life, and realize that we still must live within planetary bounds.\nOne hundred-eighty degrees from Thomas is Leslie Anthony and his book The Aliens Among Us. Where Thomas is sanguine, Anthony is an eco-Jeremiah; where Thomas sees invasive species as bringing beneficent diversity, Anthony thinks the life of the world is becoming monotonous, with the inevitable result being \"a long, slow dissolve to zonal homogenization.\"\nHis examples are many, and his descriptions of them are cranked up to 11, from the \"pure ecological mayhem\" of the Great Lakes, to Japanese knotweed, a plant that \"is actually eating the world.\" Anticosti, in the Gulf of St. Lawrence, is the \"Strangest Island in the World,\" where, in a biotic reversal, introduced deer (who ate berries) chased away the bears, and where introduced frogs made the island, weirdly, a watery northern wilderness without many bugs.\n(And, yes, he discusses the pestilent starling, as well.)\nAnthony introduces many ecologists and biologists attempting to undo the damage already done by invaders. Due to various political, monetary, and other factors, their efforts must often, he says, \"lapse into a regimen of expensive control in perpetuity.\" In other words, compared to these people, Sisyphus had it easy.\nMust all environmental debate now be made via invective? In the climate change area, that has been obvious for some time; perhaps it will come to plague writing about invasive species, as well. Anthony's book includes an abundance of snark: St. Catharines, Ontario, has, among its other supposed flaws, \"more churches than make any sense,\" [says who?]; the aforementioned knotweed \"invite[s] analogies the way conservatives invite condemnation \u2013 through their very existence\" [what does that even mean?]. The work of those writers who doubt that species invaders are an existential issue (such as Thomas, though he isn't named) is described with such terms as \"nonsense,\" \"crackpot,\" \"foolishness,\" and a passel of other pejoratives.\nBut if the reader can get past Anthony's occasionally shrill tone, there is worthwhile material in his book \u2013 as, in his conclusion, when he draws analogies between invasive species and viruses in cells, diseases in populations, and even cultural memes in social media.\nYou may be surprised, if you go to the \"New Books\" shelves of your public library, to see how many books are published regularly on Charles Darwin and Darwinism \u2014 pro, con, and in-between. One of those that got a good deal of buzz last year was The Evolution of Beauty, previously given a thorough, discerning review by Donna, here. Suffice it to say, then, that you might want to have a look at the book, if you haven't already: it will give you much to think about, and Richard Prum's prose is a pleasure to read.\nUnlike the Thomas and Anthony books, The Evolution of Beauty is concerned mostly with birds. Indeed, it's when Prum tries to apply his theories (viz., that \"beauty happens\" and that evolution is often a result of female preferences, rather than \"survival of the fittest\") to humans that he seems to veer off (as he admits) into speculation, rather than proven science.\nThere are two centerpieces of The Evolution of Beauty, both, in Prum's treatment, incredibly detailed and incredibly fascinating. One is duck sex, which can be, he says, \"elaborately aesthetic or shockingly violent and deeply troubling.\" The other, not troubling but rather marvelous and beautiful, is manakin activity in leks.\nIf you're reading this, you, like me, are a mere human, and so can't understand, really, what a starling or any other bird is thinking. But take a look at the two male manakins in this video from the Cornell Labs Bird Cams Project, and the female. The expression on her face, trying to figure out which of the two is Mr. Right \u2013 that is to say, which is the more beautiful \u2014 is, to this human anyway, priceless.\nbook review ecology evolutionary biology invasive species\nWritten by Mark Gamin\nMark Gamin is a lawyer, writer, and editor. He became a birder at Antioch College, where he studied with the ornithologist Jim Howell, and first saw the secretive Virginia Rail. Physically Mark is resident in Cleveland, but in his mind he is often at his small farm in Appalachian Ohio, on the very edge of civilization.\nGrand River Brewery: 313 Polish Lager\n\"A Flanders Brown Thanksgiving\" - Casa Agria Specialty Ales: Zarza Marr\u00f3n\nKaufman Field Guide to Insects of North America\nRavens Are Way Cool!\nWeek 15: The Darwin area has some great birds, and Crocodiles!","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
+{"text":"Game Notes (April 16)\nApril 16, 2019 - South Atlantic League (SAL) - West Virginia Power News Release\nThe Power plays the middle match of a three-game series against the Lakewood BlueClaws tonight at Appalachian Power Park, with first pitch set for 7:05 p.m. RHP Clay Chandler (0-0, 0.82 ERA) toes the slab for West Virginia.\nPENA WALKS IT OFF IN 11 INNINGS: Onil Pena came through with a walk-off RBI single in the 11th inning to give West Virginia a 5-4 comeback win over the Lakewood BlueClaws Monday evening at Appalachian Power Park. Logan Gilbert shined in his home debut for the Power, working five innings for the second straight start and allowing just two hits, though one was a 420-foot blemish on Ben Pelletier's solo shot that gave the BlueClaws a 1-0 lead in the fourth. Lakewood would extend their lead in the sixth on a wild pitch from Bryan Pall, but West Virginia would respond in the home half off the inning against new reliever Tyler McKay. After the first three batters reached via two walks and a single, Jarred Kelenic and Pena came through with back-to-back RBI groundouts to tie the game at two. Both teams traded zeroes through the final three innings of regulation, as well as a run each in the 10th. The BlueClaws jumped back in front in the top of the 11th on an RBI double by Alec Bohm, but Kelenic answered with his own run-scoring double in the bottom of the frame to knot the score at four, setting the stage for Pena's heroics. Ben Onyshko picked up the win after spinning the final two innings and ceding two unearned runs on one hit while striking out four batters.\nWALK OFF WINNERS: Pena tallied West Virginia's first walk-off win of the season with his 11th-inning RBI knock, giving the Power their first walk-off win since July 6, 2018, when Oneil Cruz down Lexington in extra frames with a base hit to left. Overall, West Virginia is 1-2 in walk-offs in 2019 and 2-3 in last at-bat wins.\nEXTRA, EXTRA: The Power played extra innings for the third time this season Monday night, securing their second win (2-1) in their longest game of the season. West Virginia also downed Greenville, 1-0, in 10 innings on Opening Night in South Carolina. The Power has been a part of the third-most extra innings in the South Atlantic League this year at 3.2 (Hickory, 5.0 and Greensboro, 4.0). West Virginia was 6-8 in extra-inning affairs last season.\nGILLY, GILLY: Gilbert has continued to impress in his inaugural Minor League season. Through his first three starts in the Minor League, the Stetson product has given up just one run on five hits over 14 innings of work while striking out 22 batters compared to three walks. Opposing batters are hitting just .109 against the right-hander. Gilbert's 22 strikeouts are the most on the Power, as well as the third-most in the South Atlantic League (Shawn Semple, 26, Charleston, S.C.)\nPILING UP THE STRIKEOUTS: The Power struck out 19 more batters Monday afternoon, equaling their season-high that they set on April 6 at Greenville. The 19 punchouts upped their season total to 132, which is tied for the most in the South Atlantic League (Delmarva Shorebirds). West Virginia has not struck out more than 19 batters in a contest since April 9, 2017, when they set down 20 Rome Braves. Three of West Virginia's five starters are amongst the top 11 strikeouts leaders in the league, with Gilbert in third (22), Steven Moyers tied for sixth (17) and Ryne Inman tied for 11th (15). West Virginia's arms have compiled 54 strikeouts during the first four games of this homestand.\nKELENIC STARTING TO KELE-CLICK: Kelenic has busted of his road woes in a major way in the first four games of this homestand against Augusta and Lakewood, averaging .438 (7-for-16) with a home run, two doubles and five RBIs. The Mariners' second-best prospect per MLB.com and Baseball America stroked his first South Atlantic League home run Friday, blasting one 369 feet to right-center field in the fifth inning for his seventh career Minor League homer, and his first since August 23, 2018. He recorded his first two RBI of the season and posted West Virginia's third three-hit game of the year Thursday. Prior to this homestand, Kelenic was mired in an 0-for-11 slump and started the year 2-for-25.\nSTRUGGLING TO CONVERT: Through their first 11 games, West Virginia has struggled mightily with runners in scoring position. West Virginia went 2-for-10 with RISP Monday evening, stranding six men on base. As a team, the Power is averaging .145 (16-for-110), second-worst in the SAL (Columbia Fireflies, .142 [16-for-113]).\nTIP OF THE CAP TO THE HATTER: Onyshko picked up his first South Atlantic League win with two scoreless frames out of the bullpen, allowing just the placed on runners to score in both the 10th and 11th innings while giving up one hit and striking out a career-high four batters. The former Hatter has not surrendered an earned run over his first 11 innings of 2019, spanning four games, during which he has fanned 11 batters compared to one walk. Onyshko did not give up an earned run in eight of his final 10 outings with the Everett AquaSox (Short-Season, Seattle) in 2018.\nPOWER POINTS: Pall struck out a career-best five batters in his third career appearance last night... Nolan Hoffman has yet to give up an earned run in his first 4.2 innings... Cesar Trejo swiped his second stolen base of the year.\nCheck out the West Virginia Power Statistics\n\u2022 Discuss this story on the South Atlantic League message board...\nSouth Atlantic League Stories from April 16, 2019\nGreat Eighth Gives 'Birds Eighth Straight - Delmarva Shorebirds\nRiverDogs Lose Heartbreaker in Ninth to Drive - Charleston RiverDogs\nDrive Rally in Ninth for 4-3 Win at Charleston - Greenville Drive\nPitchers Duel Ends in GreenJackets Favor - Augusta GreenJackets\nKelenic's Four-Hit Night Jolts Power to 7-1 Win - West Virginia Power\nPitching Strong, But Crawdads Fall to Tourists 2-0 - Hickory Crawdads\nKelenic, Power Top Claws 7-1 on Tuesday - Lakewood BlueClaws\nRolison, Tourists Flip the Script on Crawdads - Asheville Tourists\nBraves Swat Fireflies 8-1 on Tuesday Afternoon - Rome Braves\nGame Notes - Hagerstown Suns\nButto Shines, But Columbia Falls in Middle Game of Series - Columbia Fireflies\nGame Notes (April 16) - West Virginia Power\nFireflies Game Notes: April 16 at Rome (Game 12) - Columbia Fireflies\nPena's RBI Single Walks It off in 11 Innings - West Virginia Power\nFajardo's Single Saves 'Birds in 10th - Delmarva Shorebirds\nOther Recent West Virginia Power Stories\nFarris Returns to Power as Manager in 2020\nPower Praises Congressional Effort to Save Minor League Baseball\nOfficial Statement from the West Virginia Power on MLB's Proposal\n2020 Season Tickets on Sale Now\nSupport the 14th Annual Trick Or Beat on October 29","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
+{"text":"How to enhance or suppress memories\nPublished by Admin Team on April 4, 2019 April 4, 2019\nStimulating various parts of the brain can rotate up or down tenacity\nWhat if scientists can manipulate your brain so that traumatic memory loses its emotional power over your soul? Steve Ramirez, a Boston University neurologist fascinated by memory, believes that small structures in the brain can hold the key to future therapeutic techniques to restore depression, control, and PTSD, a few days later asking doctors to improve positive or negative memories.\nIn our brain, a cashew-shaped structure called the hippocampus stores sensory and emotional information that forms memories, whether positive or negative. There are no two memories that are the same, and also, every memory we have in a unique combination of brain cells that contains all the environmental and emotional information associated with that memory. The hippocampus itself, although small, consists of many different subregions which all work together to remember certain memory elements.\nNow, in a news paper in Biology Now, Ramirez and a team of collaborators have proven memory that is flexible if you know which parts of the hippocampus to stimulate \u2013 which today can help care for people haunted by memories that are very popular.\n\"Many psychiatric disorders, mostly PTSD, are based on thinking about having a truly traumatic experience, this person cannot continue because they understand their fear repeatedly,\" said Briana Chen, the first author of this paper. , which is currently the result of ongoing research at Columbia University.\nIn their study, Chen and Ramirez, the senior author of the paper, showed how traumatic memories \u2013 such as memories at the root of disorders such as PTSD \u2013 can become loaded with dialogue. By activating cells artificially in the lower part of the brain's hippocampus, negative memories can become more complete. Better, stimulating memory cells at the top of the hippocampus can eliminate bad memories from their emotional zest, making them less traumatic to understand.\nWell, rarely if you are a mouse.\nUsing a technique called optogenetics, Chen and Ramirez map which cells in the hippocampus enable compilation of male mice to make new memories of positive, neutral, and negative experiences. Positive experience, for example, can be a publication of female rats. Apparently, a negative experience can receive a successful electric shock but light on the foot. Then, for which cells are part of the memory-making process (which they do with the help of luminous green proteins designed to actually complete activated compilation), they are able to use the specific memory memory needed later, using a laser light to activate memory cells -cell.\nTheir study revealed the importance of the role of the upper and lower hippocampus. Activating the upper part of the hippocampus activates effective exposure therapy, activating trauma reactivating bad memories. However, activating the lower part of the hippocampus can provide lasting fear and changes related to thought, suggesting that this part of the brain can become too active in compiling memories to be so emotional that they allow.\nThe difference, said Ramirez, is very important. He said that it proves against excessive activity in the lower part of the hippocampus that helps it be used to treat PTSD and overcome recovery. This could also be the key to improving cognitive skills, \"like Limitless,\" he said, a film that could star in Bradley Cooper 2011 in which the main character takes special pills that improve memory and brain function.\n\"The field of memory manipulation is still young \u2026. Sounds like sci-fi but this research is a sneak preview of what's to come in terms of our ability to improve artificially or remember,\" said Ramirez, a BU Arts & Science College Assistant, professor of science psychology and brain. While this study began compiling Chen and Ramirez together doing research at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, the data has become the backbone of the first paper that came out of a laboratory group founded by Ramirez in BU in 2017.\n\"We are still far from being able to do this in humans, but the proof of concept is here,\" Chen said. \"As Steve said, 'never say never.' Nothing is impossible.\"\n\"This is the first step in separating what these [brain] regions do to this truly emotional memory \u2026 The first step towards translating this to people, which is a holy cup,\" said memory researcher Sheena Josselyn, a University in London. Toronto neuroscientists who were not involved in this study. \"[Steve] 's group is truly unique in trying to see how the brain stores memories in order to help people \u2026 they not only play around but do it for a purpose.\"\nAlthough the rat brain and human brain are very different, Ramirez, who is also a member of the BU Center for Systems Neuroscience and the Center for Memory and Brain, says that learning how these basic principles are played in mice helps his team map a blueprint of how memory works in people . Being able to activate specific memory on demand, as well as targeted brain areas involved in memory, allows researchers to see exactly what side effects come along with various areas of the brain that are experiencing excessive stimulation.\n\"Let's use what we learn in mice to make predictions about how memory functions in humans,\" he said. \"If we can make a two-way path to comparing the workings of memory in mice and humans, we can then ask specific questions [on mice] about how and why memory can have a positive or negative effect on psychological health.\"\nThis work is supported by the National Institutes of Health Early Independence Award, Grant Young Investigator from the Brain and Behavior Research Foundation, the Ludwig Family Foundation Grant, and the McKnight Foundation Memory and the Cognitive Disorders Award\nCategories:\tHealth\nOn the heels of nonstop flights from Sea-Tac and 'Crazy Rich Asians,' Singapore hopes to increase U.S. tourism from Seattle\nThe 14 Best Budget Travel Destinations for 2018\nAzam, Partiban and Shahrel confirmed out of trip to Vietnam\nAn Exciting School Ski Trip to the USA\nOnline Travel Guides Having a Heyday\nAs Seattleites have become more interested in travel to Southeast Asia, Singapore's tourism board is hoping to increase tourism from the Pacific Northwest to the small country located just south of Malaysia. One entry point Read more\u2026\nIf you are planning a major trip in 2018, here are some epic destinations that will be surprisingly affordable. Check your passport, pack your bags, and save.Malaysia Patrick Foto\/Shutterstock A fantastic alternative to its more Read more\u2026\nOwning a dog is influenced by our genetic make-up\nA team of Swedish and British scientists has studied the heritability of dog ownership using information from 35,035 twin pairs from the Swedish Twin Registry. The new study shows that genetic variation explains more than Read more\u2026","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
+{"text":"SOILWORK Discuss New Single, 'St\u00e5lf\u00e5gel' In Video Trailer\nSwedish visionary metallers SOILWORK have released a video trailer in which singer Bj\u00f6rn \"Speed\" Strid talks about the band's most recent single, 'St\u00e5lf\u00e5gel'.\nSee the trailer here: https:\/\/youtu.be\/eB6Br1maU7w\nCheck out the music video here: https:\/\/youtu.be\/8-kcWrCX9rA\nThe song is taken from their impatiently awaited 11th album, 'Verkligheten', which marks their first in more than three years and also the first to feature Thusgaard on drums, who replaced Dirk Verbeuren in 2016.\nAlso watch the official music video for 'Full Moon Shoals' and pre-order the album here:http:\/\/nuclearblast.com\/soilwork-verkligheten\nGet\/listen to the song here: http:\/\/nblast.de\/SoilworkFullMoonShoals\n'Arrival' visualizer: https:\/\/youtu.be\/nuItul-D0PA\nStudio webisode #1: https:\/\/youtu.be\/wc6BaYOI3h4\nStudio webisode #2: https:\/\/youtu.be\/9SRtzjDKnr0\nStudio webisode #3: https:\/\/youtu.be\/YtcATGBBHNs\nAlbum Trailer #1: https:\/\/youtu.be\/8w0UdGCAY4Y\nAlbum Trailer #2: https:\/\/y\u2026\nDream Theater Release New Single & Video 'Untethered Angel' From Upcoming New Album\nProgressive masters Dream Theater have unveiled a new single and video for 'Untethered Angel' taken from their upcoming new album 'Distance Over Time' which will be released February 22nd 2019. The album also marks the first for the band's new label InsideOut Music.\nCheck out the video for 'Untethered Angel' below:\n\"Distance Over Time\" will be available as: standard CD jewel case, special edition digipak (including one bonus track), 180g gatefold 2LP edition (including one bonus track, an eight-page-LP-booklet and the entire album on CD), limited-edition artbook (including one bonus track, 5.1 mix with video animations, instrumental mixes and high-res files of the album, stems for \"Untethered Angel\", extended liner notes, additional artwork, including photos from the writing session and additional video content), as deluxe collector's box set (including lenticular cover card, artbook, 180g 2LP gatefold edition with exclusive artwork an\u2026\nCHILDREN OF BODOM Release First Single & Video From New Album 'Hexed'\nFinland's melodic death superstars CHILDREN OF BODOM are proud to the announce the release of their tenth album, Hexed, on March 8, 2019 via Nuclear Blast Records. The band revealed the official music video for 'Under Grass And Clover' which can be seen here: https:\/\/youtu.be\/1gpfzCxiQ-A\nCOB frontman, guitarist, and mastermind Alexi Laiho comments, \"'Under Grass and Clover' is the sound of COB on fire and has been my favorite song since it was written. It's fast, melodic, heavy and dark but also short and sweet. Someone told me that it's kinda like old school Dimmu Borgir and AWKand that's pretty damn cool in my books so we must've done something right .\"\nPre-order your copy of Hexed here: http:\/\/nblast.de\/COBHexed\nHexed saw the return to Finland's Danger Johnny Studios where they were reunited with Mikko Karmila (I Worship Chaos, Halo Of Blood, Hatebreeder, Follow the Reaper & Hate Crew Deathroll)who recorded everything except keyboards and also produced the albu\u2026\nMammothfest Kicks Off This Friday - Stage Times Revealed\nMammothfest 2018 kicks off this Friday the 5th October with headliners Bleed From Within, so with the festival so close now is time to start planning your schedules!\nSaturday the 6th October sees Polish death metallers Decapitated playing a not to missed UK exclusive headliner set. Find out all the bands performing and times below in this handy clashfinder:\nhttps:\/\/clashfinder.com\/s\/mammothfest2018\nThe clashfinder doesn't contain the Sunday battle of the bands running order but this was revealed in a live-streamed video on the 30\/9\/18 on Mammothfest's Facebook page with the director Steve Dickson, pulling out the names at random to form the schedule for Sunday. The result was:\n19:00 - 19:30 NORTHAMPTON - Prognosis\n18:15 - 18:45 CHESTER - In Depths\n17:30 - 18:00 BRIGHTON - Tales of Autumn\n16:45 - 17:15 CORK Ireland - GOD ALONE\n16:00 - 16:30 CHESTER - Callus\n15:15 - 15:45 CHELTENHAM - Heriot\n14:30 - 15:00 WOLVERHAMPTON - Recall the remains\n13:45 - 14:15 LONDON - Jackknife seizure\nPublic Sales Date For 70000TONS OF METAL 2019 Cruise Announced\n70000TONS OF METAL\u2122, The Original, The World's Biggest Heavy Metal Cruise, has announced the Public Sales date and the first 28 of 60 bands for their ninth voyage, sailing January 31 - February 4, 2019, from Miami \/ Fort Lauderdale to beautiful Labadee and back.\nPublic Sales will begin on Wednesday, October 3, 2018, at 12:00 PM EDT.\nOnly 3,000 tickets will be sold. Prices start at USD 766.00 plus Taxes and Fees per person and includes on board accommodation, access to all performances, meals, and numerous special events including meet and greets with all bands on board.\nSales for 70000TONS OF METAL Survivors (festival goers who have attended the event before) began on September 5, 2018, so limited tickets remain. Visit 70000tons.com\/booking to book your cabin before they are gone.\nThe first 28 of 60 bands that have been announced are: ACCEPT, ARKONA, CORONER, DARK FUNERAL, DELAIN, ELUVEITIE, ENSIFERUM, GLORYHAMMER, GOD DETHRONED, GRIM REAPER, HEIDEVOLK, IN VAIN, KALMAH, NE OBLIVISCARIS, N\u2026\nMetallica Announce Huge European 2019 Tour With Ghost\nMetallica have announced a massive European tour including 2 UK dates at London and Manchester.\nThe metal legends will play Manchester's Etihad Stadium on June 18 next year, before heading to London's Twickenham Stadium on June 20.\nSupport comes in the form of Ghost and Bokassa.\nSee the full European dates and details below:\nTickets will go on sale on September 28.\nVisit Metallica.com for more information.\nPALLBEARER RELEASE COVER OF THE PINK FLOYD CLASSIC 'RUN LIKE HELL'\nAfter a triumphant live set at Saint Vitus Bar that was streamed across Kerrang! Magazine's social media, ascending Arkansas progressive doom quartet Pallbearer have released a sublime cover of the Pink Floyd classic, 'Run Like Hell'. The track is part of a compilation in tribute to the iconic album, The Wall. Compiled by Magnetic Eye, the collection is called THE WALL [REDUX] and joining Pallbearer areMelvins, Mark Lanegan, Ruby the Hatchet and Mars Red Sky to name a few. Listen to the track, over on Spotify: open.spotify.com\/track\/6SBDtPZIxl4aqkKYPUE2fu\nPurchase the compilation, here: reduxrecords.bandcamp.com\/album\/the-wall-redux-3\nThe band recently teamed up with Audiotree to record a special live video for new track, 'Dropout', which can be viewed online, here: https:\/\/youtu.be\/Qq1pWl-ObjE\nOrder 'Dropout' digitally, here:https:\/\/apple.co\/2K9lVDW\nPallbearer's latest album HEARTLESS was released in March 2017. Order your copy below:\nCD or Vinyl - nblast.d\u2026\nNORTHWARD Release lyric video for 'Get What You Give'\nNORTHWARD, the hard rock project from masterminds Floor Jansen and Jorn ViggoLofstad, will release its debut self-titled album on October 19th, 2018. After recently releasing their first single 'While Love Died', the duo unleash their second powerful single 'Get What You Give' today, including a lyric video.\nWatch the video via this link: https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=0Q-Tsd8vF94\nYou can get the single here: http:\/\/nblast.de\/NWGetWhatYouGive\nYou can also find 'Get What You Give' in Novelties playlists: http:\/\/nblast.de\/SpotifyNovelties\nhttp:\/\/nblast.de\/AppleMusicNovelties\nPre-Safe at Spotify: http:\/\/nblast.de\/NORTHWARDpreSav\nIn case you missed NORTHWARD's first single, 'While Love Died', check it out here:\nWatch the video: https:\/\/youtu.be\/bAiPeSsqD-4\nGet the single: http:\/\/nblast.de\/NWWhileLoveDied\nPre-save on Spotify: http:\/\/nblast.de\/NORTHWARDpreSav\nThe album is now available for pre-order via this link: http:\/\/nblast.de\/NWNorthward\n01. While Lo\u2026\nOzzy Osbourne Announces Last UK Tour With Judas Priest\nOzzy Osbourne has announced his last ever UK headline tour in 2019.\nThe iconic rockstar that is Ozzy Osbourne who is also dubbed as 'the Godfather of heavy metal' is best known for being the lead vocalist of the legendary Black Sabbath who disbanded last year in 2017. He will celebrate an impressive five decades in the music industry, performing his final UK show at the O2 in London in February.\nTickets for the shows go on general sale at 9am on September 7. They can be bought here.\nThe full list of shows is below:\nFebruary 1, 2019 \u2014 Nottingham, Motorpoint Arena\nFebruary 3, 2019 \u2014 Manchester Arena\nFebruary 5, 2019 \u2014 Newcastle, Metro Radio Arena\nFebruary 7, 2019 \u2014 Glasgow, the SSE Hydro\nFebruary 9, 2019 \u2014 Birmingham, Genting Arena\nFebruary 11, 2019 \u2014 London, the O2\nJudas Priest will act as tour support on select dates.\n\"I've been extremely blessed to have had two successful music careers,\" Osbourne said of the tour.\n\"I'm looking at this final tour as being a huge celebrat\u2026\nEX-HIM Frontman Ville Valo Reveals New Band & Album\nEx-HIM Frontman Ville Valo has announced his return to music with his new band, Ville Valo & Agents, with their debut single, a cover of Rauli Badding Somerjoki's 'Orpolapsi Kiurun'('Orphan Child Of The Skylark') to drop later this month on the 21st September, with an album to follow in 2019.\nVille has teamed up with Esa Pulliainen, guitarist with veteran Finnish band Agents, to record an album of songs inspired by late Finnish rock'n'roll singer Rauli Badding Somerjoki.\n\"This story begins three years ago,\" says Pulliainen, whose band played with Badding in the 80s. \"Upon finding three demo cassettes in my drawer which had been sent to me by Badding back in the day, I knew I had to contact Ville right from the get-go. I was aware he knows his Badding inside out. I'm really happy that we were able to finalize this project. Badding meant for these songs to be recorded and even if it took us 30 years to make that happen, I feel I've kept my promise.\"\nBadding is\u2026\nMammothfest Announce UK Exclusive Set From Decapitated, Final Show From King Leviathan & More!\nMammothfest are proud to announce that Decapitated will now be doing a UK exclusive headline set on Saturday the 6th October in Brighton. So make sure you come down and witness the death metal carnage that ensues from the Polish act.\nThe festival also has some other line-up changes, as unfortunately Cypecore who were due to headline on Sunday can now longer attend but Mammothfest local legends King Leviathan are taking the headline slot which is actually also their last ever local performance, so don't miss this momentous goodbye for the blackened thrash metallers. See the updated new Sunday line-up poster below!With the festival now fast approaching, the MAMMOTHFEST 2018 limited edition tees now available to pre-order!\nOrder here: https:\/\/www.mammothfest.uk\/store\/MAMMOTHFEST-2018-Ltd-edition-tees-p113441071\nFor more on Mammothfest:\nhttps:\/\/www.mammothfest.uk\/\nhttps:\/\/www.facebook.com\/MammothfestUK\nANTI-FLAG Announce UK\/ EURO Tour W\/ SILVERSTEIN & CANCER BATS + Release Video For 'TROUBLE FINDS ME'\nPittsburgh political punk band Anti-Flag have just announced a UK\/Euro tour this fall with Silverstein, Cancer Bats, and Worriers. Tickets are on sale now.\n\"Anti-Flag have always seen punk rock as a vehicle for change; community leads to recognizing commonality, which leads to a recognition of our collective power, which leads to us knowing we have the power to create the future we want to see.\nThis tour, this line-up, eclectic in sonics but all bands believe in sharing empathy over apathy, optimism over cynicism. The goal is to bring people from all walks of life through the door. Introducing them to new people, new friendships, new ideas.\nSilverstein: a band we have done countless Warped Tours with... have been comrades in arms for years (hell, Chris #2 and Paul Marc play ice hockey together). They're a powerful band, we've shared stages all over the world, but this will be our first club tour together.\nCancer Bats: some of our oldest friends... we've toured together in Canada, the\u2026\nDREAM STATE Release New Video 'New Waves' + Announce European\/UK Tour With Amity Affliction\nWelsh 5 piece and Kerrang! Awards 2018 'Best British Breakthrough' winners DREAM STATE can now reveal the video for their huge single, and recent Radio 1 Annie Mac exclusive first play, 'New Waves'. The track is taken from the bands new 'recovery' EP which is out now through UNFD.\nWatch 'New Waves' - HERE and below!\nFrom DREAM STATE vocalist CJ on the single\/video - \"I wanted to show our fans, as I know a lot of them are going through their own troubles, that they have it in them to push through it. Sometimes we have to face our battles alone, but there is always going to be that inner voice that tells you that you've got this and that is the one you need to be listening to. We had so many amazing quotes sent through that any weak moment I had during the filming process, I had all these amazing, positive quotes surrounding me that brought a tear to my eye and it helped me perform better than I ever have. I hope our listeners can take from this an\u2026\nSTEVE HEWITT Releases Free Download Of Live Album Tracks & Live Video Footage\nBritish singer\/songwriter 'Steve Hewitt' presents a taste of things to come from his debut LP, with the release of his free-download album sampler and live video single.\nRecorded as 'live' renditions of tracks selected to feature on the highly anticipated 'Bigger Than Words' set for release later in 2018, the songs 'Healing & Hurt', 'Move On' and 'Holding Me Back' showcases Steve at his most intimate and organic; allowing his songwriting & performance abilities to carry his soul-bearing honesty and desire to emotionally connect with his audience. A formula that has enabled Hewitt to share stages with artists such as Newton Faulkner, Emma Stevens, Toploader, StarSailor plus many more. In addition to this generous download EP offer, Steve has also released live video footage of his fan-favoured track 'Sad Sad Old World'.\nSad Sad Ole World (Live)\nhttps:\/\/youtu.be\/RKp0QVco_So\nThe Kent (UK) native has been collaborating with local\u2026\nDECAPITATED Release 'Kill The Cult' Music Video\nPolish death metal masters DECAPITATED have released a music video for the song 'Kill The Cult', here: https:\/\/youtu.be\/kQUTQTNChbE\nThe track comes from their latest album Anticult, which was released July 7, 2017 via Nuclear Blast Records. The video was directed by \u0141ukasz Jaszak, who previously directed the music video for 'Never' and created the cover art for DECAPITATED's three most recent albums.\nOrder Anticult:\nLimited Edition Vinyl (inc signed insert): http:\/\/nblast.de\/DecapAnticultRS\nLimited Edition Digipack CD: http:\/\/nblast.de\/AnticultDigCDAMZ\nDECAPITATED festival appearances:\n10.08. NL Leeuwarden - Into the Grave\n16.08. CZ Litomerice - Death Coffee Party\n18.08. PL Cieszanow - Rock Festiwal\n25.08. PL Walbrzych - Metal Mine\n31.08. PL Lyski - Magia Rocka\n01.09. PL Szczecinek - Materiafest\n02.09. UK Edinburgh - Heavy Scotland\n07\/08.09. RL Beirut - Beirut Metal Fest\n06.10. UK Brighton - Mammothfest\n03.11. DK Aalborg - Metal Festival\n16\/17.02.2019 UK Birmingham - HRH Metal\nMammothfest Summer Sale, Day Splits & Best Band Competition\nMammothfest are offering a one-off summer sale which ends 31st July, which will be your last chance to secure savings! The festival wants to continue to bring you the finest and up and coming talent to Brighton, UK and to help this they are offering some deals to cater for your needs of what you can afford and to help support the local scene and the event...\nBelow are 3 ticket links... 0% discount (full price), 25% discount and 33% discount. If full price is too much for you, get a cheaper ticket if you want!\nFull price: https:\/\/www.gigantic.com\/mammothfest-2018-tickets\n25% discount: https:\/\/www.gigantic.com\/mammothfest-2018-various-brighton-venues-2018-10-05-00-00-27664\nThe future of the festival is unclear but one thing is for certain that 2018 is going to be a blast, so come and be a part of this awesome weekend!\nFind out more about what bands are appearing across the weekend below an\u2026\nMIDNATTSOL Release Lyric Video For 'THE AFTERMATH'\nNordic symphonic metal masters MIDNATTSOL have just released the official lyric video for the title track of their upcoming new album \"The Aftermath\" which will be released on May 25th via Napalm Records.\nMIDNATTSOL now has true full sister power featuring Liv Kristine and Carmen Elise! The name \"Espen\u00e6s\" rightfully makes a lot of people swoon \u2013 as both sisters have been a vital part of a magnitude of gothic \/ symphonic \/ folk metal milestones. Until this point a supergroup involving both sisters sharing microphone duties was only the stuff only dreams were made of. Now it is a reality!\nThe band comments on the track:\n\"As a huge thank you for waiting for us all these years, here is another song for you before the release of our new album! It contains a message that we want to reach out with; What do you think it is?\"\n\"The Aftermath\" relies much more heavily on folk influences lending atmospheric density to the melancholic symphonic metal compositions. A sumptuous and sensual affair a\u2026\nREVIEW: Spiricom - Hammer Of Witches EP\nSpiricom is a instrumental act comprised of duo Steven K. Smith (percussion,keyboards and synths) and Marc Cody (Guitarist) from Ohio. This new EP consists of three companion pieces which evoke how men wielded pain, fire, and unyielding conviction in the pursuit of holy purification. So join them on their enlightening discover...\nThe opening song 'Strappado' which translates as a form of torture is tense with hush voices and alarming synth noises which seems fitting but it quickly progresses into something more calming and ethereal yet keeps an underlying sense of sorrow. It features more layers and tunefulness as it goes on and the ending cleverly picks up where the beginning started and ends with some eerie spoken words making for a captivating start.\n'The Burn' is the shortest offering and is ambient, hopeful and depthful, making for a great and pleasant track and one to let wash over you and reflect upon life.\nThe final song 'The Witch Hammer' has a more omino\u2026\nSERENE DARK (formerly Endemise) Unleash A Brutal \"Dualitatem\"\nLike a blackened metallic phoenix rising from the ashes of their previous band Endemise; Ottawa's SERENE DARK intends to take their extreme metal to new heights. Recently morphing from Endemise to SERENE DARK, these demons have joined forces for the premiere of their debut track \"Dualitatem\", which will be featured on the band's 2018 album.\nGuitarist Dale Sauve explains:\"We have been making metal with our current line-up for the past 7 years and decided a new name and fresh start was in order. Our former band Endemise formed over 12 years ago and it went through so many line-up changes and musical directions, we decided to put that band to rest and create Serene Dark as a fresh start.\"\nInspired by Septicflesh, Behemoth, Watain, Dark Funeral and Dissection, SERENE DARK's sound is dark, heavy, entrancing, emotional, and orchestral.\nSauve adds:\n\"It will be received as a new, but familiar sound for any previous fans of our last band\u2026We want our fans to get lost in the music. We want to peak s\u2026\nTHE BUDDZ Release Official Music Video for \"CRAZY\"\nBristol, TN Alternative Hard Rock Band THE BUDDZ has released the official music video for \"CRAZY,\" off of their newest album, BURN DOWN. Produced by Grammy-winning producer Dave Fortman, BURN DOWN is out now.\n\"This album represents everything we are as a band; a spark ready to ignite burning down everything around it. We will make our mark!\" - The Buddz\n1. Burn Down\n3. Home Is On My Mind\n4. Crazy\n6. Bring Me Down\n7. Wrong\n8. In Your Head\n9. Ticket\n10. Let It Die\nhttp:\/\/www.thebuddz.com\/\nhttps:\/\/www.facebook.com\/TheBuddz\nhttps:\/\/twitter.com\/The_Buddz\nMammothfest Add More Acts To Line-up Including INGESTED\nMammothfest UK has announced new additions to the 2018 line-up:\nINGESTED, DEAD WITCHES, CYPERCORE, FORGOTTEN REMAINS and more join already announced headliners DECAPITATED, BLEED FROM WITHIN, UNFATHOMABLE RUINATION, CYTOTOXIN and more, making up another utterly devastating line up for the festival.\nDECAPITATED headline MAMMOTHFEST 2018 and are now joined by an arsenal of stunning other live bands!\nWorld Wide Slam Kings INGESTED are firm favourites in Brighton obliterating their crowds to bits every time while holding the throats of all sceptics, proving time and time again they lead the way in British extreme metal, getting stronger and more devastating with every offering.\nFocused brutality at its best, their fourth chapter, THE LEVEL ABOVE HUMAN available via Unique Leader records sees the band tour the world extensively and so it was only right we got them back as main support to DECAPITATED on Saturday 6th October 2018.\nhttps:\/\/www.facebook.com\/ingesteduk\/\nCYPERCORE takes place in 2133\nSOILWORK Discuss New Single, 'St\u00e5lf\u00e5gel' In Video ...\nDream Theater Release New Single & Video 'Untether...\nCHILDREN OF BODOM Release First Single & Video Fro...\nMammothfest Kicks Off This Friday - Stage Times Re...\nPublic Sales Date For 70000TONS OF METAL 2019 Crui...\nMetallica Announce Huge European 2019 Tour With Gh...\nPALLBEARER RELEASE COVER OF THE PINK FLOYD CLASSIC...\nNORTHWARD Release lyric video for 'Get What You Gi...\nOzzy Osbourne Announces Last UK Tour With Judas Pr...\nEX-HIM Frontman Ville Valo Reveals New Band & Albu...\nMammothfest Announce UK Exclusive Set From Decapit...\nANTI-FLAG Announce UK\/ EURO Tour W\/ SILVERSTEIN & ...\nDREAM STATE Release New Video 'New Waves' + Announ...\nSTEVE HEWITT Releases Free Download Of Live Album ...\nMammothfest Summer Sale, Day Splits & Best Band Co...\nMIDNATTSOL Release Lyric Video For 'THE AFTERMATH'...\nSERENE DARK (formerly Endemise) Unleash A Brutal \"...\nTHE BUDDZ Release Official Music Video for \"CRAZY\"...\nMammothfest Add More Acts To Line-up Including ING...","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
+{"text":"Impacts of newly established non-indigenous green crab (Carcinus maenas) on native fauna in Placentia Bay, Newfoundland\nRossong, Melanie A. (2016) Impacts of newly established non-indigenous green crab (Carcinus maenas) on native fauna in Placentia Bay, Newfoundland. Doctoral (PhD) thesis, Memorial University of Newfoundland.\nThe recent invasion of the European green crab (Carcinus maenas) populations in Placentia Bay, Newfoundland and Labrador (NL) raises great concern about potential impacts on local fisheries and native biodiversity. Green crab are highly adaptable and in both native and invaded areas, green crab are well established predators that can outcompete other similarly sized decapods. The main objectives of this thesis were to: 1) identify the native species that green crab compete with for resources; 2) determine the depths and substrate types in which these interactions likely occur; 3) assess the indirect effects of green crab on native crustaceans and their changes in behavior; 4) assess the impacts of green crab on benthic community structure; 5) compare the NL population with other Atlantic Canadian populations in terms of competitive abilities; and 6) compare morphological features of the NL population with other Atlantic Canadian populations. I found that green crab overlap in space and diet with both rock crab (Cancer irroratus) and American lobster (Homarus americanus), potentially leading to a shift in habitat. Laboratory studies on na\u00efve juvenile lobster also suggested shifts in behavior related to green crab, in that lobster decreased foraging activity and increased shelter use in the presence of green crab. Benthic community analyses showed fewer species in mud, sand, and eelgrass sites heavily populated by green crab compared to sites without green crab, although results depended on the taxa involved and I could not eliminate environmental differences through a short term caging study. Foraging ability of green crab varied in intraspecific competition experiments, with populations from NL and Prince Edward Island dominating longer-established populations from Nova Scotia and New Brunswick. Additional studies excluded claw size as a factor driving these results and behavioral differences likely reflected differences in invasion time and population genetics. Overall, green crab in Placentia Bay appear to be altering community structure of benthic invertebrates through predation and they also appear to indirectly impact native crustaceans through competition.\nThesis (Doctoral (PhD))\ninvasive species, green crab, benthic biodiversity, foraging behaviour, American lobster\nScience, Faculty of > Biology\nAtlantic Ocean--Placentia Bay; Canada--Atlantic Provinces\nCarcinus maenas--Behavior--Newfoundland and Labrador--Placentia Bay; Carcinus maenas--Habitat--Newfoundland and Labrador--Placentia Bay; Exotic marine organisms--Ecology--Newfoundland and Labrador--Placentia Bay; Carcinus maenas--Atlantic Provinces--Morphology","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
+{"text":"ff kirchheim teck\n1214 Budapest II. See all . In 1270, Duke Conrad II of Teck initiated the construction of a city wall. Rautatieyhteyden kaupunki sai 1864. 7,069 people follow this. Search the world's information, including webpages, images, videos and more. Try finding a good, unobstructed view of the horizon. Always Open. Kirchheim unter Teck Temperature Yesterday. _____. All Protestant churches in the city are administered by the office of the Dean of Kirchheim unter Teck as part of the Evangelical-Lutheran Church in W\u00fcrttemberg. Not Now. In 1967, a second church was built, the Mary Queen of Heaven church. Unsere Freizeit f\u00fcr eure Sicherheit. 73230 Kirchheim unter Teck, Henriettenstra\u00dfe 86. [3], Z\u00e4hringin suku alkoi saada jalansijaa Alppien etumaalla vuoden 1060 paikkeilla. Over two centuries later, it became the dower house for the Duchy and later Kingdom of W\u00fcrttemberg. FF&E Hotel Hafner 18\u20ac Hotel Hansa ... Rome2rio makes travelling from Kirchheim unter Teck to K\u00f6ngen easy. Kirchheim unter Teck is located ideally at the foot of the enigmatic Swabian Alb mountain ranges and by the banks of the Lauter River. Kirchheim unter Teck; Created with Sketch. Volksbank Kirchheim-N\u00fcrtingen BIC: GENODES1NUE IBAN: DE90 6129 0120 0309 5630 38 Entry fees: 60 \u20ac for seniors, 35 \u20ac for rookies, 0 \u20ac juniors (up to 18 years) Jury: Jury-president and three (3) jury-members from the participants from different nations; the election is done before the start of the We have reviews of the best places to see in Kirchheim unter Teck. Kirchheim unter Teck has a field office of the Tax Office N\u00fcrtingen, a branch of the District Office Esslingen, a Notary and a District Court that belongs to the Oberlandesgericht district of Stuttgart. Dec 20, 2020 . Calendar GoogleCal. The town also had wool-spinning establishments and breweries and a corn exchange. The circular concrete pads on which the Bachem Ba 349s and their launch towers once stood still exist. 2 were here. Feuerwehrhaus Jesingen. The districts of Jesingen and Nabern were also introduced early to the Reformation, due to their being part of W\u00fcrttemberg as well. Hours 8:00 AM - 12:00 PM, 12:30 PM - 5:00 PM. Kirchheim unter Teck is a town in Baden-W\u00fcrttemberg, Germany, in Esslingen District.It is located on the small river Lauter, a tributary of the Neckar.It is situated near the Teck castle, approximatively 25 km southeast of Stuttgart.It is the fourth largest city in the Esslingen district, forming a district center for the surrounding communities. It is located on the small river Lauter, a tributary of the Neckar. In the center of each of the three concrete plates is a square hole approximately 50 centimeters deep, which once served as the foundation for the launch tower. Schulerberg 1 73230 Kirchheim unter Teck. +\/- Kirchheim unter Teck Notzingen \u00e9s Wernau k\u00f6zs\u00e9gekkel hat\u00e1ros. The population of Kirchheim unter Teck originally belonged to the Bishopric of Constance and was assigned to the Archdeanery circa alpes, chapter Kirchheim. Professionelle Fahrzeugaufbereitung Fahrzeugaufbereitung Kfz- Werkstatt Autowerkstatt Lackiere Karosserie Lack Karosserie Unfall-Instandsetzung Meisterbetrieb Felgen Ortschaften Kirchheim unter Teck Plochingen N\u00fcrtingen Esslingen [2] Kirchheim unter Teck ja koko Esslingenin piirikunta kuuluu Stuttgartin metropolialueeseen. conveyor belt in Kirchheim_unter_Teck, conveyor belts in Kirchheim_unter_Teck, Baden-W\u00fcrtt. \u20ac1,250.00. 722 people like this. Return to Results. Max-Eyth \u2026 Rilatoj al Esperanto. Page Transparency See More. Since the district reform of 1973, Kirchheim unter Teck is one of the municipalities of the district of Esslingen. Create New Account. DEULA provides agricultural technical training. Ensimm\u00e4inen kirjallinen maininta Kirchheimista on vuodelta 960, ja samalta ajalta on maininta my\u00f6s Martinin kirkosta (Martinskirche).Paikkakunta siirtyi tuolloin Churin piispakunnalta Otto I Suuren l\u00e4\u00e4nityksiin. Date. Send money reliably through the Western Union located at Alleenstr 34 Kirchheim Unter Teck, Baden Wuerttemberg 73230. Kirchheim (Teck) station is serviced by the Teck Railway, a railway that connects Wendlingen am Neckar to Lenningen. Suvusta erkaantuneet Teckin herttuat m\u00e4\u00e4rittiv\u00e4t paikkakunnan historiaa 300 vuoden ajan. VfL Kirchheim\/Teck is a German association football club from the city of Kirchheim unter Teck, Baden-W\u00fcrttemberg. Alleenstr 34 Kirchheim Unter Teck, Baden Wuerttemberg 73230 +49-7021-8049625. Seuraavalla vuosisadalla he myiv\u00e4t kaupunkinsa v\u00e4hitellen W\u00fcrttembergin kreiveille. It is a regional edition of the S\u00fcdwest Presse. Fine de decembro 2018 la komunumo havis 40 523 lo\u011dantojn. The Martin Church was the seat of the Dean of the Kirchheim Church District. Weisser Ochse - Schank und Speisewirtschaft (36) 3 min $$ - $$$ French. Nonprofit Organization. Kirchheim - Teck. Since the 14th century, the council considered themselves as representatives of the citizenry. Closed. Kirchheim (Teck) a\u016d Kirchheim unter Teck estas urbo en Germanio. Search the world's information, including webpages, images, videos and more. Sun, Dec 20 \u21916:15 am. Altes Forstamt (99) 2 min $$ - $$$ German. They built the St. Ulrich church in 1910. Log In. Best Dining in Kirchheim unter Teck, Baden-Wurttemberg: See 1,185 Tripadvisor traveler reviews of 83 Kirchheim unter Teck restaurants and search by cuisine, price, location, and more. Media Markt Stuttgarter Stra\u00dfe Kirchheim unter Teck - Electronics. Venus is visible by day, but may be hard to find. Kirchheim\/Teck: Hilfskomitees der evangelischen Umsiedler aus der Bukowina, 1981. Of health facilities, the city has a district hospital of the district of Esslingen. Within the central city of Kirchheim, separately named residential areas can be distinguished, whose names have emerged in the course of history. Wanner Walter 8,574 views. The city also has several Free Churches and congregations, including the United Methodist Church and the Evangelical Free Church (also known as Baptists). B\u00fcroservice is an accounting company based out of 10 Reu\u00dfensteinstra\u00dfe, Kirchheim-Teck-Jesingen, Germany. Since 1 April 1956, Kirchheim unter Teck has the status of Gro\u00dfe Kreisstadt. Kirchheim unter Teckiin liitettiin vuonna 1935 \u00d6tlingen ja Lindorf ja vuonna 1974 Nabern ja Jesingen. This Swift code COBADEFF619 is applicable for Kirchheim Teck location in Germany. Go play. Body type coupe. Create a Trip. Open Google Maps. 5. The election result was as follows:[2]. 64 reviews. It is the fourth city in the Esslingen district, forming a district centre for the surrounding communities. 14 (8,282.80 km) 73230 Kirchheim unter Teck, Germany. THE FIRST CHARLATAN. \u00d6sterfeld station is located in the Stuttgart district of Vaihingen in the German state of Baden-W\u00fcrttemberg.It was built in 1985 at the junction of the main line of the Stuttgart S-Bahn where it emerges from the Hasenberg tunnel and connects with the G\u00e4u Railway (German: G\u00e4ubahn), which runs above ground.. Herttuat kohottivat paikkakunnan kaupungiksi noin 1220\u20131230. Modellsport-Club Kirchheim\/Teck e.V. on Facebook. Feuerwehr Kirchheim - Unsere Freizeit f\u00fcr Ihre Sicherheit! Schedule for next 7 Days. Sodan j\u00e4lkeen alkoi nopean kehityksen vaihe: rakennettiin uusia teollisuusalueita, uusia asuinalueita ja parempia liikenneyhteyksi\u00e4. Although the first written mention of Kirchheim dates only to the year 960, the town certainly existed during the Alemannic era of the 6th and 7th century. 2 directors currently run the company: 2 managers. His deputy is the first Alderman, with the title of \"mayor\". Hours . The two districts are separated by an industrial area; the built up area is now continuous. Created with Sketch. Google has many special features to help you find exactly what you're looking for. A weekly farmers market offers a wide variety of seasonal fruits, vegetables and fresh flowers amongst other regional specialties. Best nearby. The district has an area of 262 ha; about 1,500 people live in Lindorf. 138 pp. Today. RECARO has a showroom in Kirchheim\/Teck where all seats, motorsports shells and commercial vehicle, are exhibited. In early times, the head of the city Kirchheim unter Teck was called an Amtmann (\"bailiff\/magistrate\"); and later the title was Obervogt (\"chief advocate\"). R\u00e1k\u00f3czi Ferenc u.189., Hungary Phone: +36 (1) 278 5300 Fax: +36 (1) 278 5335 For more information, please contact our Customer Support Center. 365 Tage f\u00fcr Sie da! In 1864, it became the terminal of the first private railway in W\u00fcrttemberg, the line Unterboihingen-Kirchheim. In the 19th century, the mayor held the job title of \"Stadtschulthei\u00df\". 39 Restaurants within 0.3 miles. Contact Kirchheim - Teck on Messenger. Drive, bike, walk, public transport directions on map to TOTAL - HERE WeGo Alemannien asutuksesta on l\u00f6ydetty j\u00e4lki\u00e4, jotka alkavat 300-luvulta. Heinkelstra\u00dfe 19-21, 73230 Kirchheim unter Teck. Herzlich Willkommen auf dem offiziellen Facebook-Auftritt der Fu\u00dfballjugend des VfL Kirchheim! This exchange is for all students in each school who are musically talented and who are in the school band in both schools. Things to Do in Kirchheim unter Teck, Baden-W\u00fcrttemberg: See Tripadvisor's 107 traveler reviews and photos of Kirchheim unter Teck tourist attractions. ferrari ff 2dr auto. Agent. The following towns and villages border the town of Kirchheim Teck, clockwise starting in the East: Kirchheim (Teck) a\u016d Kirchheim unter Teck estas urbo en Germanio. Schloss Kirchheim is a castle and palace in the old town of Kirchheim unter Teck, in the German state of Baden-W\u00fcrttemberg.The palace was built in the 16th century by Ulrich, Duke of W\u00fcrttemberg as a castle and part of a greater system of defensive works. Berno-Maria Feuring, gesch\u00e4ftsf\u00fchrer, 23 Mar 2010 - J\u00fcrgen Hahn, gesch\u00e4ftsf\u00fchrer, 2 \u2026 Find a table . After Duke Ulrich returned from exile in 1539, Kirchheim was expanded to a fortress of W\u00fcrttemberg and at the same time, the ducal palace was constructed. 10, 73230 Kirchheim unter Teck. Created with Sketch. Heinrich N\u00fcscheler's work took him to the gallows. Go back a century and you're there where nature has that eternal quality that beguiles you into thinking you have actually stepped back in time. Some early companies do not exist any longer, such as the textile company Kolb & Sch\u00fcle AG, the Schrauben- und Flanschenfabrik Emil Helfferich Nachfolger, the engineering works Kirchheim, the iron foundry Gr\u00fcninger and Prem, or the MBB armaments factory. This line provides fast transport to Stuttgart and beyond every 30 minutes. Historische Altstadt Kirchheim unter Teck. See more of Freiwillige Feuerwehr Kirchheim i.I. Kirchheimin unter Teckin vanhankaupungin ilmett\u00e4 hallitsevat ristikkotalot, Martininkirkko, vanha raatihuone ja Schloss Kirchheim. 6,805 people like this. Save this restaurant. The Community College Kirchheim unter Teck eV (founded in 1947), provides a wide range of courses. www.kaffeekutsche.com. Kirchheim (Teck) station (1864\u20131899: Kirchheim u Teck) is the most important station of the Baden-W\u00fcrttemberg town Kirchheim unter Teck. Today. Food Truck. Area. Kaupungin teollinen rakenne on monipuolinen: siell\u00e4 toimii muun muassa kolme Daimler AG:n tyt\u00e4ryhti\u00f6t\u00e4 ja purjelentokoneita valmistava Schempp-Hirth Flugzeugbau. 134 people follow this. TOTAL Im Hag Kirchheim unter Teck - Petrol Station. All Kirchheim unter Teck Hotels: Find the best Kirchheim unter Teck hotel deals for 2020 on Expedia.com. Zum Fass (67) 6 min $$ - $$$ Italian. My\u00f6s vanhaa kantakaupunkia saneerattiin.[3]. Additional seasonal fairs are held in March, November and a Christmasmarket in December. Start planning for Kirchheim unter Teck. Color silver. Kirchheim unter Teck sijaitsee Sinisen banaanin vy\u00f6hykkeell\u00e4. Visit the Western Union\u00ae agent location at Alleenstr 34 Kirchheim Unter Teck, Baden Wuerttemberg 73230. Kirchheim unter Teck is a town in Baden-W\u00fcrttemberg, Germany, in the district of Esslingen. Marktstr. Google has many special features to help you find exactly what you're looking for. Hier finden Sie Infos \u00fcber aktuelle Eins\u00e4tze & Aktivit\u00e4ten, zu Jugendfeuerwehr und Feuerwehrverein. Max Eyth Strasse, 73230 Kirchheim unter Teck, Baden-Wurttemberg Germany. Auto. EU-DSGVO for applicants (m\/f\/d). Paikallishistoriallinen k\u00e4\u00e4nnekohta oli vuoden 1690 kaupunginpalo, joka tuhosi l\u00e4hes koko rakennuskannan. SCHAD-SINTEC GmbH has 12 employees at this location and generates $708,107 in sales (USD). The Schafhof district, however, which was built in the 1970s, is not adjacent to the rest of the city. In 1938, the Oberamt Kirchheim was included in the Landkreis N\u00fcrtingen. Modellsport-Club Kirchheim\/Teck e.V. Kirchheim unter Teck; Created with Sketch. During the 14th century, when the Dukes of Teck played a leading role in the city government, the rise of the middle classes brought an economic boom, especially in the textile industry and the textile trade. Log In. The New Apostolic Church is also represented in Kirchheim unter Teck. Choose Hotels near Griechisch-orthodoxe Kirche based on your preferences like cheap, budget, luxury or based on the type of hotels like 3 star, 4 star or 5 star. The Lauter itself arrives at the south side of the city, coming from Dettingen unter Teck, then flowing through the city center (to the right of the old town), then turning north west, flowing through the district of \u00d6tlingen and then leaving the city towards Wendlingen am Neckar, where it flows into the Neckar. Get Directions . Questions and answers Log in or sign up to ask a public question. Trust is the basis for a long and good cooperation. Lindorf is located about two kilometres (1.2 miles) west of Kirchheim. Create New Account. Today, the district of \u00d6tlingen has approximately 6,400 inhabitants. Bundesstrasse 297 (Lorch - T\u00fcbingen) passes through the town, which is also a terminus of Bundesstrasse 465 that leads south through the Lenningen valley on its way to Leutkirch im Allg\u00e4u. The chairman of the municipal council is the mayor. View just before sunrise. One of the main high schools in Kirchheim unter Teck, the Ludwig-Uhland-Gymnasium, has been running an exchange with students from Upholland High School, Orrell, United Kingdom, since 1995. F & H Feuring lmmo GmbH has its registered office in Kirchheim, Germany. The Teckbote is a daily newspaper published in Kirchheim unter Teck. Community See All. Open Google Maps. In particular, the region encompasses the towns of Bissingen an der Teck, Dettingen unter Teck, Erkenbrechtsweiler, Holzmaden, K\u00f6ngen, Lenningen, Neidlingen Notzingen, Ohmden, Owen, Weilheim an der Teck and Wendlingen am Neckar. Volksbank Kirchheim-N\u00fcrtingen BIC: GENODES1NUE IBAN: DE90 6129 0120 0309 5630 38 Entry fees: 60 \u20ac for seniors, 35 \u20ac for rookies, 0 \u20ac juniors (up to 18 years) Jury: Jury-president and three (3) jury-members from the participants from different nations; the election is done before the start of the Current job offers. Wir stellen ihnen hier die ehrenamtlichen Einsatzkr\u00e4fte vor, die 365 Tage im Jahr rund um die Uhr f\u00fcr die B\u00fcrger unserer Gemeinde bereit stehen. 2 were here. Website +49 7021 502555. 2 talking about this. Fine de decembro 2018 la komunumo havis 40 523 lo\u011dantojn. Brand and model Ford Ka. Die evangelische Kirchengemeinden Neu-Zadowa und Nikolausdorf von ihrer Gr\u00fcndung bis zur Umsiedlung 1883-1940. Forgotten account? La dua nomparto aludas al la ruino de la fortika\u0135o Teck, kiu kronas super la urbo. 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+{"text":"Platinum Champ... Um, Empire Wrestling 4\/26\/2012\nBefore we get started I want to point out that I have no idea if I'm going to keep Needless Things on schedule this Summer. I have a trainee at work and am not sure how much opportunity I am going to have to write or how much I am going to be able to write. We'll see. Things look okay right now, as I've got a few minutes to get started on my recap of the excellent Empire Wrestling show from last Thursday night.\nI went with Rescue John and Angry Matt, a nice old-school PCW group. I saw Corey of Team All-You-Can-Eat as soon as we walked in. He was keeping an eye on Dany Only's son for the night. The Human M-80 was doling out punches to Corey while we were talking and the big man mentioned how solid they were. I was curious to feel the impact of an Only family fist, so I told him to lay into me. I think he was concerned about punching a stranger the first time, but after I told him I knew Dany Only's kid could hit harder than that he let me have a real one. Corey was right. It was a solid punch. If his son's power is any indication I do not ever, ever want Dany Only punching me. Or even flicking me.\nI headed for the bar and ordered the first beer of too many while Angry Matt and Rescue John secured a table. The adorable little bartender was not there Thursday night. In her place was a somewhat surly bartender. Even my massive charm \u2013 and I am pretty charming \u2013 could not bring a smile to her face.\nBefore we knew it Grant Case was in the ring announcing out first match for the night! It was as close to on-time as I've ever seen my favorite fed. Stephen Platinum was back at the announce table accompanied by a guy whose name I'll probably remember after two or three more shows. He was the ring announcer at the PCW Arena last time I was there.\nAlso, I took much better pictures this time thanks to the brilliant idea I had to move around and try to find a better spot to take pictures. Sometimes I am a damned genius. This worked to my benefit in another way, as well, but we'll get to that.\nSylar Cross & Master Jae w\/Jonathan Malick of Empire\nThe Washington Bullets\nSo Sylar Cross has finally clicked with me. I already respected his dedication, but only last Thursday did I finally get him as an in-ring personality. He's a solid big man, but he is a very good douchey heel. He has a lot of important little things down like clapping for his manager and giving the ref shitty looks when the guy actually does his job for the babyfaces. He really irritated me Thursday night \u2013 in a good way.\nAll four men really kicked it out for this one. PCW tends to have strong openers and this match was no exception. Team Empire utilized the typical tactic of isolating one of the faces. Trey Williams plays the Face In Peril extremely well and I honestly think Jon Williams' mutant ability is to project his emotions onto others because when he is straining across that top rope trying to tag his beaten and battered brother you can feel his frustration.\nJae and Cross took turns competently beating the Bullets down until we finally got the Hot Tag and Jon Williams came in and took control. After a couple of double-team moves the brothers hit the Marion Barry and got the win. This was a fast-paced exciting match that started the night strong. The Bullets are always a tough act to follow.\nYOUR WINNER \u2013 The Washington Bullets\nThe Vandal\nTommy Daniels\nApparently Tommy Daniels has decided the key to winning matches is being a dick. He used not every but an awful lot of the dirty tricks in the book and still lost. The match was brief but satisfying, as both men were on it and kept my interest throughout. This was a case where action could have taken a backseat to storytelling but didn't.\nYOUR WINNER \u2013 Vandal\nDaniels stomped off to the back afterwards and Vandal did a sort of \"I'm great, what are you gonna do?\" pantomime. There was a quick \"Ashy!\" chant, but no powder was thrown.\nWe Are 3 (Brian Blaze, Aisha, and Geter)\nFred Yehi, Pandora, & \"Demigod\" Mason\nGeter was replaced by Jagged Edge in this match. It was a last-minute change, because earlier in the night it had been announced that Jagged Edge would be facing somebody else entirely. I found Fred Yehi, Pandora, and Mason to be an odd combination, but it worked. Especially given the bizarre rules of the match. Here's the deal, as best I could understand it:\nThere were two teams of three. You eliminate your opponents by throwing them over the top rope. Once eliminated, you can return to the match by pulling somebody from the opposing team out of the ring. If a team has all three members eliminated at the same time, that team loses.\nOn the one hand, matches with somewhat inscrutable, Raven-style rules annoy the shit out of me. But on the other, they can be a lot of fun and honestly, the rules don't matter if the match is entertaining enough and the competitors know what they're doing.\nPandora and Aisha certainly know what they're doing. They eliminated themselves early by brawling over the top rope. Naturally, being the two toughest, craziest broads in wrestling; they just kept beating on each other pretty much the rest of the night. As a matter of fact, I bet they're still fighting now.\nMason got taken out and Jagged Edge and Blaze double-teamed Fred Yehi for a while. Actually they tried to double-team Yehi. The sometime DamNation member held his own quite well until Jagged Edge hit a big body slam and Brian Blaze followed up with a wicked elbow from the top turnbuckle. But then Mason pulled Blaze out of the ring and he and Yehi went after Jagged Edge.\nMeanwhile, Pandora and Aisha continued beating the shit out of one another.\nMason and Yehi worked on Jagged Edge together for quite some time but just could not eliminate the big man. Some chain of events led to Pandora, Aisha, Mason, and Brian Blaze being in the ring. Yehi was eliminated but refused to leave the ring, so the ref disqualified him and sent him to the back.\nBlaze caught Mason in some kind of wild modified leg lock that looked extremely painful, but the PCW champ started to make his way to the ropes. But then all of a sudden Jagged Edge shows up at ringside with a little kid in a crossbody hold!\nWHAT THE FUCK!?!\nI knew Jagged Edge was a heel, but this act was beyond despicable. He gestured menacingly towards Mason, making it clear that if Mason didn't tap out the child was going to be BROKEN IN TWO! So Mason did the only thing he could and tapped, losing the match for his team (which proves I was wrong about the rules, but also proves I was right about how little they matter). Pandora and Mason checked on the terrified tot while Jagged Edge, Aisha, and Blaze celebrated their ill-gotten victory.\nStephen Platinum \u2013 ever the PCW Paragon of Virtue \u2013 stepped out from behind the announce table to condemn the actions of We Are 3's temporary member. But just as Platinum was spitting hot fire into the mic, Jagged Edge slipped a bill of undetermined monetary value into the greasy paw of the child he had so recently been threatening!\nTHE KID WAS A PLANT ALL ALONG! SONOVABITCH!\nPlatinum changed tactic and voiced the hope that the child's parents had stopped after one rotten kid and would procreate no more. Meanwhile, the victorious team made their way backstage, only to be jumped by the pissed-off pair of Pandora and Mason. THIS ISN'T OVER!\nI think it was during that match that something totally uncomfortable for me happened. This dude came up and asked if he could get a picture with me. Obviously I'm standing around wearing a mask and I am a \"personality\" of sorts, but people should be watching the wrestling, not paying attention to my goofy ass. I don't ever want to take attention away from the actual athletes that are in the ring working their asses off. But I also didn't have any good reason to be rude to this guy. So I posed with him and he moved on.\nBut then he came back a minute later while I was trying to take pictures and watch the match and wanted another one. I told him to wait a minute and took another one. This sort of thing is just going to happen, but I kind of wish the guy had waited between matches.\nThe next match was the professional wrestling equivalent of El Ni\u00f1o, or what Henry Rollins would call a \"motherfucker\".\n\"Do or Die\" Chip Motherfucking Day & \"The Attraction\" Hayden Young\n\"Human Hand Grenade\" Dany Only & The Phantom of DamNation\nPutting Dany Only up against Chip Motherfucking Day is like asking me to choose between Batman and Doctor Who. Adding Phantom and Hayden Young is like throwing Leatherface and Firefly (the Cobra saboteur, not the show \u2013 a TV show can't wrestle; stop being ridiculous) in as their partners.\nThis match gave me serious allegiance problems.\nBut I cannot break with tradition, and seeing as Chip Day is the Official In-Game Avatar of the DCW Hooligans, I had to support the Young & the Reckless. Even once the Young portion of that duo started heeling it up to the apparent protests of his partner.\nAfter Only maintained control of the opening portion of the match, Young tagged in and gained the advantage. Once he had it, however, he kept pressing by throwing Only out of the ring and hitting a few legal but shady maneuvers. He followed up by choking the Human Hand Grenade on the middle rope.\nThe Young & the Reckless maintained the advantage with some quick tags and double-teaming followed by a series of leg drops from Young. Only finally managed to tag Phantom in and the DamNation Duo hit one of the sickest (and slickest) double team moves I've ever seen:\nPhantom grabbed Hayden Young and fell back, hitting a kind of sideways lungblower while Dany Only hit Young in the chest with a lariat. IT was totally unreasonable and amazing that it worked. Phantom went for the pin (which was completely reasonable), but Day broke it up.\nCorrection - Dany Only let me know that the double-team move was him performing an urunage while Phantom hit a backbreaker, which is actually even more impressive. It's a move Only uses with all of his tag partners. I would know this if I were a better fan.\nYoung tagged in Day who went on a tear and knocked Only out of the ring where Young went to work on him again. Day took the advantage over Phantom and went for his knee drop from the top turnbuckle. Platinum said the name of the move, but I can't remember what it's called. I just know it isn't \"The Living Daylight\", which is a shame. Maybe it's \"Daybreak\"? I dunno. I love puns.\nOnly and Young made it back into the ring and Only picked Young up and tried to kill him (In a good way, not an \"oops\" way). The Human Hand Grenade put the Attraction over his shoulders and hit what was less a Cop Killer and more a reverse Piledriver. Either way it was sick.\nThe match ended after Phantom hit a move that I believe was a springboard Diamond Cutter and Only got the pin.\nYOUR WINNER \u2013 Dam Nation\nThat match was OUTSTANDING. If I had been in a seat I would have been on the edge. The four competitors each gave their all and put on a match I would watch multiple times if I could. I hope very much to see this combination again. In a night full of awesomeness, this one was the Match of the Night. And not just because my two favorite PCW wrestlers were involved.\nOf course, all good things must come to an end, and after the men from the previous match exchanged gestures of Good Will and Sportsmanship this happened:\nLike somebody taking a shit on top of a perfect slice of Key Lime pie, Jeff G. Bailey followed up that beautiful match with some ill-intentioned blathering. Proving once again that he is the master of douchery, he cut an amazing heel promo and never even gave me the chance to yell, \"SHUT THE FUCK UP\" like I wanted to. It was amazing. You could tell the Masquerade crowd was waiting on tenterhooks (whatever that means) to give the Empire mastermind a \"what?\" or two, but he never even paused in his amazing three minutes of delivery. It was a hell of a promo from Jeff G. Bailey.\nI hate him so much.\nCurry Kid w\/ Jonathan Malick\nMask versus Mask!\nThis match was set up back at the 3\/30 show at the PCW Arena. Curry Kid made some ludicrous claims about being the modern progenitor of Lucha Libre and challenged Supernatural to this match.\nThis bout was also amazing and admittedly got me more fired up than the previous tag match. Curry Kid opened up with dastardly deeds and ripped Supernatural's mask off as soon as he had the smaller man down. As Platinum pointed out, this would have been a disqualification on Mexico, but WE'RE NOT IN MEXICO! THIS IS PCW (or Empire, whatever) AND THE MATCH MUST GO ON!!!\nSo the ref recovered Supernatural's hood and passed it out of the ring, but the tiny dynamo had already recovered and reemerged wearing the signature mask of Mexican legend and former World Championship Wrestling Chairman La Parka!\nHe hit Curry Kid with a missile dropkick off the top turnbuckle and mostly maintained the advantage for the rest of the match. Curry Kid had a couple of reverse hope spots (what do you call heel hope spots?), but Supernatural pretty clearly had it in the bag. The only unknown was how much impact Jonathan Malick's presence might have.\nThe action spilled out of the ring at one point and Supernatural hit a move that lived up to his name. He grabbed Curry Kid by the head and ran up the stomach of one of the members of Team All-You-Can-Eat to hit a Sliced Bread #2.\nOkay, I don't think he actually ran up Corey's stomach, it was probably a chair. But I couldn't quite tell from my angle and I'm just going to pretend it was the former.\nThere was a lot more action:\nBut in the end, Supernatural hit an impressive (look up this driver) on Curry Kid and got the pin. The crowd rejoiced and I even jumped up and down a few times. The ref declared Supernatural the winner and the small wonder reached down and pulled off Curry Kid's mask, and it turned out that the man underneath the mask all that time had actually been\u2026 um, this guy:\nYOUR WINNER \u2013 Supernatural\nThis, too was an amazing match that paid off a relatively brief story big time. I suppose the payoff wasn't so much Supernatural's victory as it was Curry Kid's comeuppance for being such a jerkbag the past few months.\nOh, goody. It's Screamin' Marty Freeman.\nAt least his jacket only made me mildly nauseous Thursday night. And it almost matched the gear of his charge, Zach Daniels.\nApparently something happened with Daniels' tag partner Zackary Blaine because Freeman made a big deal out of the fact that Blaine was not in attendance and introduced Daniels' new partner, Corey Hollis. Hollis is super-tiny, but that means nothing in the world of professional wrestling and less than nothing in PCW.\nZach Daniels & Corey Hollis w\/ Screamin' Marty Freeman of Empire\nOh, hell.\nDaisho hit the ring and for a second it looked like it was going to be another squash for the dominant tag team of Kyle Matthews and Vordell Walker. They hit their signature moves, but then the Empire guys got some momentum and hit just enough offense to stop Daisho's assault and turn this into a competitive match.\nI returned to my spot on the other side of the ring to make sure I got good pictures of the action. I was not going to miss the first full tag match featuring Daisho.\nA few minutes into the action I faced a dilemma. I was standing there with my camera, enjoying the match when somebody walked up and tapped me on the arm. I turned to my right and none other than Dany Only was standing there, holding out a hand. I shook it and he told me he enjoyed my recaps and reiterated an earlier offer to link to them through the Dany Only page, where you can also by the way read Only's insights on the sport.\nFrom Joey Belladonna to the random dude at the comic show to O'Rourke from Fifty Two Ways to Dany Only, anybody telling me they enjoy my writing is awesome.\nThe dilemma came from the fact that I have been interested in talking to Dany Only for a while now. He's a great wrestler, a dad, and appears to have good taste in music. I guess I'm just curious to know how he does what he does. I can barely find time to put these blogs together. This guy trains, works out, works a job, takes care of his kid, and even finds time to sew patches onto his shorts. I can only imagine that kind of work ethic. So it was a cool opportunity to talk to the guy.\nBut Daisho was having a wrestling match. I had been waiting months to see that. And who knew when I was going to be able to see it again.\nBefore I could totally decide which route to take, Only went backstage again.\nI can't remember how this damn match ended. I want to say Daisho got counted out. There was some kind of indecisive finish.\nYOUR WINNER \u2013 Daniels & Hollis. I think.\nBut the awesome is far from over, as the Washington Bullets appeared on stage to challenge Daisho to match! And not only that, the match is going to take place on May 11th, which just so happens to be the day I am celebrating my birthday with a night out at Savage Pizza followed by the live show at the PCW Arena! Happy birthday to me!\nAnd as is always the case, the flow is followed by some serious ebb, as Empire accompanies Mr. Eric to the ring. Jonathan Malick talks about how great Mr. Eric is and claims that it's a shame nobody in the back is up to the task of taking him on.\nThat's when the Magic Mangina hits.\nLed by Quasi Mandisco in some damn white jeans and the inimitable (female valet), the Marvelous One, Marko Polo made his way to the ring to answer Mr. Eric's challenge.\nThere wasn't a whole heck of a lot of match, but it was entertaining. Polo got the win.\nYOUR WINNER \u2013 Marvelous Marko Polo\nAnd with that ladies and gentlemen,\nYour Platinum Championship Wrestling Main Event!\nStryknyn\nShane Marx\nFor the Empire Championship\nI was very curious to see this match. I had only ever seen Stryknyn in tag matches where he was a chickenshit heel, so it was going to be interesting seeing him wrestle as the fan favorite. Because going against the massively heelish Shane Marx makes one a babyface by default. You could put Marx in the ring with Sean Waltman and the man who never let DX go would get cheered.\nSide Note: It's funny how X-Pac was the sole member of D-Generation X for like five years after everybody else moved on but had nothing to do with the eighteen different reunions they had a couple of years ago.\nDany Only came out to the stage to watch his Hate Junkies tag team partner compete, adding a \"big deal\" vibe to the match.\nStryknyn started the match by Greco-Roman whooping the piss out of Marx. He got the champ down in the corner and whaled on him, then put him on the middle rope, took off one of his studded belts, and whaled on Marx with that. The ref jumped in and took the international object away from the kilted warrior, but Stryknyn simply took the second belt off of his waist and went to work on Marx with that one. That was a funny fucking spot.\nFrom there the match turned fairly standard, but I mean that in the best way possible. Both men hit some big moves and the momentum teetered back-and-forth enough to keep the crowd fully invested. Every match on the card last Thursday had great pacing.\nSadly, ladies and gentlemen, I did not catch the final move and have no idea what happened. I just managed to get this shot of Marx getting the pinfall before my camera died. Bastard.\nYOUR WINNER \u2013 Shane Marx\nI do believe there was some business after the match, but of the promo variety, not the fighting variety.\nThis was easily the best PCW\/Empire show I have been to. Every single match on the card was at least very good, with most being great. Of particular note were the tag matches and the Main Event. Actually, the solid Main Event was the most impressive, as I usually have issues with the way PCW shows end. I'm not a big fan of the locker room emptying every time. I get it, I just don't care for it.\nIf I felt I had any business rating wrestling shows I'd give this one a 4.97 out of 5, but I don't do that sort of thing.\nIf you'd like to see a TON more pictures from the event, go check out my album on Photobucket.\nLabels: Empire Wrestling, PCW, platinum championship wrestling, wrestling commentary\nTimeGate 2012 Recap - Part 3\nTimeGate 2012 Recap\nToy Review \u2013 Masters of the Universe Classics Stin...\nTimeGate 2012\nToy Review \u2013 Marvel Select Black Widow (Disney Sto...\nVarious Events of the Past Few Weeks\nMiscellaneous Debris May 2012\nToy Review \u2013 Masters of the Universe Classics Orko...\nPhantom Who: Spearhead From Space\nToy Review \u2013 Masters of the Universe Classics Drae...\nMother's Day Special: Mom Action Figures\nToy Review \u2013 Marvel Legends Arnim Zola By Hasbro\nMovie Review \u2013 The Avengers\nToy Review \u2013 Marvel Legends Fantomex By Hasbro\nToy Review \u2013 Masters of the Universe Classics Thun...","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
+{"text":"\u2190 The Masters 2016: The Finale\nHump Day Musings \u2013 #SB2k16 \u2192\nHungover With Grace \u2013 Final Thoughts On RBC Heritage\nPosted on April 17, 2016 by shutfacegolf\nI'm Back Bitches\nDid I leave you in a lurch after the Masters? Yeah, I did, and without any warning. I figured 8 straight days of posts were enough and you wouldn't miss me. Besides, we all had Masters hangovers until about Saturday anyway, didn't we? Truthfully I made my fantasy pick for the week, Matt Kuchar, and then blew town for work. I was tied up all week and didn't have time to post. But I'm back now and our normal schedule should resume. What did I miss? I missed a drab performance at the RBC Heritage and a U.S. Open breaking out at the Open de Espana (more on that later).\nThat's South Africa's Branden Grace. He's the newest first time PGA Tour winner thanks to his final round 66 at Pete Dye's Harbor Town course. Grace started the day just inside the top 10 and then cruised past the leaders with his front nine 32 that included 5 birdies. Grace never opened the door for anyone to catch him after that. He made two more birdies on the back and then a very clutch par on 16 that put the last nail in his challenger's coffins. His swings on 18 were very much stress free thanks to the two shot lead he built.\nGrace isn't a household name to many American fans but he might be soon. He was poised to win the U.S. Open at Chambers Bay last year before a 71st hole hiccup. He's also won 10 time around the world before today. He was a thoroughbred on past Presidents Cup teams too. South African golf godfather Gary Player predicted Grace would win the Masters last week. While the Heritage is not the Masters, Grace does get that spiffy tartan jacket with his trophy for his efforts. Gary the godfather was off a week.\nIn victory Grace showed poise, a great short game, and a zest for shot making while shaping his ball around Harbor Town's narrow alleys and chutes. He also had a wind-cheater driver swing working that got the ball running on the ground some 50 to 60 yards at times while hiding from the wind. Grace will be several millions of people's 'dark horse' pick at the next two majors. He should be picked. He's not a dark horse.\nGrace also made noise on Sunday when his fiancee was captured by CBS waiting for BG to come off the 18th green. Her name is Nieke Coetzee. I've talked about her on SFG before when Branden won the Qatar Masters in 2015. My comments from that 2015 post still stand today. Here's more of her because I know you pervs are probably in heat.\nAfter seeing her on CBS today I think I'm becoming a bigger fan (even with that urban sombrero on). Why was she wearing that? The interwebs tell me she's a bit of a country girl. She's in to horses. I've always been told to look out for the \"horse girl\" but the future Mrs. Grace seems to lack whatever quality it is that will send most guys running from said \"horse girl\".\nOutside of Grace's Sunday round the action at the Heritage was pretty boring. I watched a good chunk of the tourney both Saturday and Sunday. Am I the only one that felt like Luke Donald was stuck at -7 like he was in a time warp? Was my DVR stuck? Luke did play well enough to make you think he could be relevant again on the Tour for the rest of the year, but be careful with that line of thinking. Harbor Town is the course he plays the best on. His T2 performance could be a fluke. He lead for most of the 72 holes of the Heritage but didn't have enough in the tank this week to hang with Grace over the last nine holes. I'd like to see another top five finish before I can confirm he's found his game.\nDonald has been out of the limelight of professional golf for a few years now. I hadn't realized how much he'd aged. Did you see his head of gray hair? That's what having daughters can do to you. It got me (though not nearly as bad as Luke) and its already getting Adam Scott!\nAs I told you it would happen last week Bryson DeChambeau turned pro and put all his new Cobra and Puma gear in play at the Heritage. Then BC went out and finished T4. He also lead the field in ball striking. Not a bad start. Bryson made about 250k for his efforts but more importantly he finished high enough to get him into the Texas Open next week. That means he doesn't have to use one of his 6 remaining sponsor exemptions. He has to make about $750,000 in his limited schedule to earn his card without going through the Q-School\/Web.com bullshit.\nJason Kokrak played in the final group with Donald. I thought he held together pretty well with all that was on the line\u2026..right up until the final hole. He missed the green badly at 18 from the fairway and then made a sloppy double that not only cost him a bunch of cash but helped DeChambeau earn a little extra without hitting a shot.\nKokrak's double bogey at 18 was a $35,000 gift for Bryson DeChambeau, who jumped from 2-way tie for 5th to 2-way tie for fourth.\n\u2014 Gary VanSickle (@GaryVanSickle) April 17, 2016\nKokrak keeps knocking on the door. He's likely to break through at some place like Memphis or the Byron Nelson in the next 7 weeks or so. I also liked how he and Donald's games were such complete opposites yet here they were playing in the final group. CBS even showed us why this happens at Harbor Town with data on their tee shot distance this week compared to the rest of the season. If only they hadn't had dim-witted Dottie Pepper doing the explanation the whole production might have come off smoother. And while we're dissing CBS\u2026..no, no\u2026.I'm not going there today. I don't have the energy and you already know what their problems are.\nJason Day was in Hilton Head this week. He was also the 36 hole leader. Then he shot a Saturday 79 to fall off the cliff at the end of the leaderboard. I still don't know what the fuck happened. When was the last time the world number 1 lead after 36 holes and was 8 over in his 3rd round? And for that matter, when was the last time the current world number 1 played the Heritage? Kudos to Day for playing. I don't think he'll be back.\nShot Of The Day\nIf this doesn't prove the Masters hangover theory I don't know what will. Zach Johnson wins the Shot of the Day. Ugh. That hurts to type. But Zachie Poo earned it even if there was probably more luck involved in the shot than skill.\nEverything but in.#QuickHits https:\/\/t.co\/CcPL0cBL2H\nWhat? What do you want from me? I only have so many choices when it comes to SOTD. Did you want Bill Haas' flagged iron shot from 17? Too bad. Billy gooched that short putt and made a par. Pars don't win awards.\nWho's The Beef?\nWhat's better than waking up on Sunday morning and watching live golf with a guy named Beef leading the field? Outside of golf at the 4 majors, nothing. Meet Andrew Johnston, AKA \"Beef\". Johnston won the Open de Espana by one shot on a tough course in tough conditions with a +1 score to par. Here's how he felt about it:\n#Beef \ud83d\ude02 \ud83d\ude02 https:\/\/t.co\/miXd9mrPQm\n\u2014 The European Tour (@EuropeanTour) April 17, 2016\nThat's a mug only a mother could love. Between Danny Willett winning the Masters, Lee Westwood finishing 2nd, and now Beef winning the Open de Espana the golfing Brits have had quite a nice run in April. What's the over\/under on Beef's Sunday night beer consumption? I'll set it at 18 and probably would still take the over. God bless him.\nThis entry was posted in Tour Talk, WAGS and tagged Andrew Johnston, Beef, Branden Grace, Bryson DeChambeau, Euro Tour, Jason Day, Jason Kokrak, Luke Donald, Open de Espana, RBC Heritage, Shot of the Day, Zach Johnson. Bookmark the permalink.\n4 Responses to Hungover With Grace \u2013 Final Thoughts On RBC Heritage\nKent says:\nTwo weeks ago, the best non-American players yet to win on the PGA Tour were almost certainly Danny Willett and Branden Grace!\nshutfacegolf says:\nGood observation. So who's next?\nMaybe Aphibarnrat or Cabrera Bello?\nCoop says:\nKokrak had Brent Henley on the bag for the first time this week (I think). One of the best caddies on Tour, could really help Jason out this summer\u2026.","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
+{"text":"A Falsified Birth Certificate\nThere is an enduring literary mystery around Percy Bysshe Shelley and a baby girl born in Naples in the winter of 1818\/19. The date on the birth certificate \u2013 December 27 \u2013 does not agree with the age given on her death certificate.\nOn both documents, the father of the child is given as Percy Bysshe Shelley. Shelley took financial responsibility for little Elena Adelaide even though she never lived with Percy and his wife Mary.\nThe birth certificate, retrieved from the Neapolitan archives in the 1930's, is reproduced here. You can just make out the name \"Elena Adelaide\" at the bottom in this image with an elaborately drawn \"E\" and \"A\" and \"d\"\nDetail of Elena Adelaide's birth certificate\n\u200b Unfortunately the writing in this reproduction, taken from N.I. White's 1940 biography of Shelley, is very faint, but we are told that the mother's name is given as \"Marina Padurin.' You can see the large swoop-down of the letter \"M\" on the fourth line from the bottom.\nIvan Roe, writing in 1955, said that \"Godwin\" has been misread as \"Padurin,\" \"a slip resulting from unfamiliarity with the Italian script used in the certificate.\"\nYet subsequently, many biographers have reported that the name is given as \"Marina (or Maria or Mary) Padurin.\" Padurin is a Russian surname and no-one has suggested a Shelley connection to this name.\n\u200b Even though it is agreed that Mary Godwin Shelley could not be the mother of Elena Adelaide and may even have been kept in the dark about Shelley claiming paternity for the child, many scholars have assumed that Shelley intended to give his wife's maiden name for the birth certificate.\nShelley's signature on the birth certificate\nShelley biographer Richard Holmes thinks \"Padurin\" is a \"phonetic rendering\" of \"Godwin.\" Biographer James Bieri also thinks the clerk must have mis-heard \"Godwin\" as \"Padurin,\" that is, mis-heard a two-syllable name as a three-syllable one, and likewise mis-heard 'p' for 'g', 'd' for 'w' and inserted an 'r' where there was none. I am not convinced of this explanation and it is certainly a slur against the capabilities of 19th-century Italian civil servants.\nShelley spoke Italian and was standing right in front of the registrar, giving him the information. His signature appears on the birth certificate. So if he meant \"Godwin,\" why did he say \"Padurin\" or allow the clerk to write \"Padurin\"?\nAnd if he meant to give his wife Mary as the mother, why did he give the wrong age? Why was the mother's age given as 27 when Mary Shelley was 21 at the time?\nBeatrice Cenci\nMary Shelley biographer Emily W. Sunstein suggests \"Padurin\" should be \"Paterin,\" which is the name given to an obscure medieval Christian sect that Mary Shelley was researching around that time, planning to use them in one of her novels.\nI have my own fanciful explanation, which I think is as plausible as claiming that Padurin is a phonetic rendering of Godwin. \"Padurin\" should be \"Pandurin,\" a combination of Pandemos and Uranus, a combination of the different types of love described by Plato, which Shelley had been studying and translating the previous year. Only one letter is missing. Shelley had a lifelong habit of bestowing nicknames on his friends and family members.\nHowever, it must be acknowledged that there is also a baptism certificate which apparently lists the mother as \"Mary Godwin.\" Shelley took the baby to the church in the Parish of St. Joseph where she was baptised, presumably as a Catholic. The baptism certificate says the baby was \"lawfully begotten,\" that is, Elena Adelaide is the daughter of Percy Shelley and his wife, which we know cannot be true, at least as far as Mary is concerned. The baby was baptised on February 27th, the same day that Percy Shelley went to the registrar and registered the birth.\nElena Adelaide was listed as being fifteen months and twelve days old when she died on June 9th, 1820, which would place her birth at the end of February, and Shelley registered her birth at the end of February, but said she was born on December 27th. Did he, in addition to lying about the mother, lie about her date of birth?\nJames Bieri suggests that \"Shelley possibly selected December 27 as the child's birth date in order to conceal association with its actual mother.\" A child due in February would have been conceived in the summer, when Shelley spent some time apart from his wife. A child born in December would have been conceived the previous spring, which would have been an alibi for Shelley, because he was living with his wife at the time.\nWe know from their journals that a doctor came to the Shelley's house to see Claire on December 27th and that she had been having unspecified health problems through the previous fall.\nAnd Richard Holmes points to a reference to December 27th as an important date in Shelley's tragic verse play, The Cenci, a date singled out with \"transparent bitterness.\" The evil Count gloats as he announces the death of two of his rebellious sons:\nAll in the self-same hour of the same night\nWhich shows that heaven has special care for me\nI beg those friends who love me, that they mark\nThe day a feast upon their calendars.\nIt was the twenty-seventh of December.\nIt is as though the date has special dark significance for Shelley.\nAnd again, the number \"27\" is reported as the mother's age on the birth certificate. Neither Mary Shelley, nor her sister Claire Clairmont, nor the nursemaid Elise, who was pregnant that winter, were 27 years old. Perhaps Elena Adelaide's real mother, whoever she was, was 27 years old.\nNext: What happened to Elena Adelaide? And other mysteries featured in my upcoming novel, A Different Kind of Woman\n(PS, warning, the true story of Beatrice Cenci is very tragic, so don't read about her if you don't want to feel very sad.)\nShelley and the Mysterious Lady\nShelley: Pursued or Pursuer?\nIn the Deep Wide Sea of Misery\nWho was Elena Adelaide?","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
+{"text":"Nicholas School Internship Blogs\nOur Internship Blogs\nPosts About Internships\nAuthor: Matt Rogan\nMatt is currently pursuing a Master of Environmental Management degree with a concentration in Ecosystem Science and Conservation. Matt focuses his studies on wildlife conservation in sub-Saharan Africa with a particular interest in carnivores. Before coming to the Nicholas School, Matt spent two years living in Tanzania managing a safari lodge in the Selous Game Reserve, the largest protected area and one of the most remote locations in East Africa. Previously, Matt volunteered as a research assistant in the Selous and as a volunteer project manager for a community tourism project in Njombe, Tanzania. His first introduction to African carnivores came during a semester abroad in college for which Matt researched man-eating lions in Babati District, Tanzania.\nMatt Rogan\nAugust 26, 2013 Matt Roganconservation, internships, students, Studying Carnivores in Namibia, travel\nMy Final Post\nA week ago, I arrived back in the States after 30 hours of travel (not including the day of driving from Neuras back to the N\/a'an ku s\u1ec7 headquarters near Windhoek). In my final weekContinue reading\nThe Dragons of Neuras\nOn June 18th, we observed a female leopard at one of the Neuras waterholes. We then observed her again at a few more sites around the estate. We noticed that she was very thin inContinue reading\nAugust 8, 2013 Matt Roganconservation, internships, students, Studying Carnivores in Namibia, travel\nI Think They're Catching On\nA spiteful leopard is out there. A couple of weeks ago, Matt and Kate set a leopard trap-cage on a neighboring property in order to capture Lightning, a female leopard and a N\/a'an ku s\u1ec7Continue reading\nWhere Did All The Hyenas Go?\nWhen I began writing this blog, I mentioned that I am particularly interested in the resident large carnivores of Neuras, both leopards and spotted hyenas. Since those early posts, I have not mentioned hyenas once.Continue reading\nJuly 25, 2013 Matt Roganconservation, internships, students, Studying Carnivores in Namibia, travel\nLeopard Identifications\nAbove are three photos of leopards. Two photos show the same leopard and one photo shows a different leopard. Can you tell the difference? Not sure? I'll help you out. Start with the clearest photo,Continue reading\nLearning to Count: Part II\nThe first half of the field study is over: we've moved the ten camera traps to new locations on the other side of the Neuras Estate. We had success with the first set of sites,Continue reading\nJuly 18, 2013 Matt Roganconservation, internships, Studying Carnivores in Namibia, travel\nDon't Forget the Little Guys\nOne of the study sites, DRY 2, has been relatively quiet. In four weeks, it has recorded fewer than 20 observations, and no large carnivores. Yet this site has produced some pretty cool captures, particularlyContinue reading\nJuly 11, 2013 Matt Roganconservation, students, Studying Carnivores in Namibia, travel\nBig Cats With Spots\nI am deeply peeved when people who ought to know better confuse leopards and cheetahs. If you're unfamiliar with big cats, that's different; it's confusing. They're both big and they both have spots. What's the difference?Continue reading\nJuly 8, 2013 Matt Roganconservation, internships, students, Studying Carnivores in Namibia, travel\nLearning to Count: Part I\nRecently, we saw a bulk of cheetah photographs. Cheetahs may not be residents on Neuras, but we know they pass through from time to time using the farm as a corridor in the larger landscape.Continue reading\nJune 28, 2013 Matt Roganconservation, internships, Studying Carnivores in Namibia, travel\nPlaytime at the Fountain\nUsually, what I really want is for the animals at the camera traps to pause and stand still. Every so often, however, the cameras catch a bit of behavior. Sometimes it's a relief toContinue reading\n\u00a9 2017 Nicholas School of the Environment at Duke University | Box 90328 | Durham, NC 27708\nhow to contact us > | login to the site > | site disclaimers >","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
+{"text":"Social Media in Education: Tips from 3 Pros\nRob Fougner\nCorporate Accounts Education, Hootsuite\nSocial media is a powerful and cost-effective way for colleges and universities to engage prospective and current students\u2014along with alumni and the wider community.\nBut you don't have the time or budget to reinvent the wheel.\nWatch this webinar featuring social media pros from the Southern Alberta Institute of Technology (SAIT), Duke University, and the University of Cambridge.\nThey'll share how they overcame their social media challenges\u2014and leveraged the power of social media to accomplish their school's' strategic goals.\nYou'll discover:\nHow they got executive buy-in on the importance of social media (and what they learned when rolling it out)\nWhat metrics they use to track their social progress\u2014including insight into how their efforts are interpreted by the public in real time\nThe tactics they used to grow from a handful of solo practitioners to an integrated social team spanning departments and campuses\nUse the form on the right to watch the webinar now, and learn how you can surpass your school's social media goals.\nPlease complete the form to watch\nRob Fougner directs Hootsuite's Corporate Accounts for Higher Education. Rob has been working with Universities to drive the most value from their digital media ever since he joined Hootsuite back in 2013. Rob holds a BCOM from the University of British Columbia.\nRobFougner\nCara Rousseau\nSocial Media Manager, Duke University\nCara manages digital and social media for the Office of News and Communications and the Office of Undergraduate Admissions, and leads social media strategy for the university. She joined Duke in 2011 after serving as director of partnership initiatives for the Research Triangle Foundation of North Carolina, where she focused on marketing, strategic initiatives, social media efforts and partnership relations. Cara holds an MBA from the Kenan-Flagler Business School and an undergraduate degree in economics and political science, both from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.\nDukeU\nNicole Ingwersen\nDigital Communications Strategist, Southern Alberta Institute of Technology\nNicole is a storyteller, collaborator, Internet junkie, expert Googler, and laughter enthusiast. As a Digital Communications Strategist, she shares the stories that make (SAIT) a leader in applied education while working to strengthen relationships between all of the institutions' stakeholders. Since joining the Communications and Marketing team in 2012, Nicole has played a key role in a number of initiatives including the development of a social media liaisons group, social policy, guidelines and governance and most recently, the groundwork for an institutional digital voice strategy.\nSAITPolytechnic\nBarney Brown\nHead of Digital Communications at The University of Cambridge\nBarney Brown's career in Digital Communications has been split between web development and communications teams spanning the education sector, the Forestry Commission and the music industry. As Head of Digital Communications at the University of Cambridge, Barney works in a team of three focussing on the production of guidelines and assets to aid in the management of thousands of websites and social media profiles\nCambridge_Uni\nRelated Webinars\n3 Ways to Elevate Your Company's Marketing Performance\nSocial Customer Advocacy\nHow to Attract the Best Talent (and Keep Them!) with Employee Advocacy\nSocial Trends 2023: Unboxing the Future of Social\nWhat's That Stat!? Final Episode\nWin Big on Social with Paid and Organic Together\nShould My Business Be On TikTok?\nThe Dos and Don't-You-Dares of Copywriting\nWhat's Hot (or Not): Social Trends on Trial\nSocial Trends 2021","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
+{"text":"Tag: IceCube Neutrino Observatory\nThe Earth Does Stop the Occasional Neutrino\nAt the Amundsen\u2013Scott South Pole Station in Antarctica lies the IceCube Neutrino Observatory \u2013 a facility dedicated to the study of elementary particles known as neutrino. This array consists of 5,160 spherical optical sensors \u2013 Digital Optical Modules (DOMs) \u2013 buried within a cubic kilometer of clear ice. At present, this observatory is the largest neutrino detector in the world and has spent the past seven years studying how these particles behave and interact.\nThe most recent study released by the IceCube collaboration, with the assistance of physicists from Pennsylvania State University, has measured the Earth's ability to block neutrinos for the first time. Consistent with the Standard Model of Particle Physics, they determined that while trillions of neutrinos pass through Earth (and us) on a regular basis, some are occasionally stopped by it.\nThe study, titled \"Measurement of the Multi-TeV Neutrino Interaction Cross-Section with IceCube Using Earth Absorption\", recently appeared in the scientific journal Nature. The study team's results were based on the observation of 10,784 interactions made by high-energy, upward moving neutrinos, which were recorded over the course of a year at the observatory.\nThe IceCube Neutrino Observatory at the South Pole. Credit: Emanuel Jacobi\/NSF\nBack in 2013, the first detections of high-energy neutrinos were made by IceCube collaboration. These neutrinos \u2013 which were believed to be astrophysical in origin \u2013 were in the peta-electron volt range, making them the highest energy neutrinos discovered to date. IceCube searches for signs of these interactions by looking for Cherenkov radiation, which is produced after fast-moving charged particles are slowed down by interacting with normal matter.\nBy detecting neutrinos that interact with the clear ice, the IceCube instruments were able to estimate the energy and direction of travel of the neutrinos. Despite these detections, however, the mystery remained as to whether or not any kind of matter could stop a neutrino as it journeyed through space. In accordance with the Standard Model of Particle Physics, this is something that should happen on occasion.\nAfter observing interactions at IceCube for a year, the science team found that the neutrinos that had to travel the farthest through Earth were less likely to reach the detector. As Doug Cowen, a professor of physics and astronomy\/astrophysics at Penn State, explained in a Penn State press release:\n\"This achievement is important because it shows, for the first time, that very-high-energy neutrinos can be absorbed by something \u2013 in this case, the Earth. We knew that lower-energy neutrinos pass through just about anything, but although we had expected higher-energy neutrinos to be different, no previous experiments had been able to demonstrate convincingly that higher-energy neutrinos could be stopped by anything.\"\nThe Icetop Tank, the neutrino detectors at the heart of the IceCube Neutrino Observatory. Credit: Dan Hubert\nThe existence of neutrinos was first proposed in 1930 by theoretical physicist Wolfgang Pauli, who postulated their existence as a way of explaining beta decay in terms of the conservation of energy law. They are so-named because they are electrically neutral, and only interact with matter very weakly \u2013 i.e. through the weak subatomic force and gravity. Because of this, neutrinos pass through normal matter on a regular basis.\nWhereas neutrinos are produced regularly by stars and nuclear reactors here on Earth, the first neutrinos were formed during the Big Bang. The study of their interaction with normal matter can therefore tell us much about how the Universe evolved over the course of billions of years. Many scientists anticipate that the study of neutrinos will indicate the existence of new physics, ones which go beyond the Standard Model.\nBecause of this, the science team was somewhat surprised (and perhaps disappointed) with their results. As Francis Halzen \u2013 the principal investigator for the IceCube Neutrino Observatory and a professor of physics at the University of Wisconsin-Madison \u2013 explained:\n\"Understanding how neutrinos interact is key to the operation of IceCube. We were of course hoping for some new physics to appear, but we unfortunately find that the Standard Model, as usual, withstands the test.\nLooking down one of IceCube's detector bore holes. Credit: IceCube Collaboration\/NSF\nFor the most part, the neutrinos selected for this study were more than one million times more energetic than those that are produced by our Sun or nuclear power plants. The analysis also included some that were astrophysical in nature \u2013 i.e. produced beyond Earth's atmosphere \u2013 and may have been accelerated towards Earth by supermassive black holes (SMBHs).\nDarren Grant, a professor of physics at the University of Alberta, is also the spokesperson for the IceCube Collaboration. As he indicated, this latest interaction study opens doors for future neutrino research. \"Neutrinos have quite a well-earned reputation of surprising us with their behavior,\" he said. \"It is incredibly exciting to see this first measurement and the potential it holds for future precision tests.\"\nThis study not only provided the first measurement of the Earth's absorption of neutrinos, it also offers opportunities for geophysical researchers who are hoping to use neutrinos to explore Earth's interior. Given that Earth is capable of stopping some of the billions of high-energy particles that routinely pass through it, scientists could develop a method for studying the Earth's inner and outer core, placing more accurate constraints on their sizes and densities.\nIt also shows that the IceCube Observatory is capable of reaching beyond its original purpose, which was particle physics research and the study of neutrinos. As this latest study clearly shows, it is capable of contributing to planetary science research and nuclear physics as well. Physicists also hope to use the full 86-string IceCube array to conduct a multi-year analysis, examining even higher ranges of neutrino energies.\nThis event display shows \"Bert,\" one of two neutrino events discovered at IceCube whose energies exceeded one petaelectronvolt (PeV). Credit: Berkeley Labs.\nAs James Whitmore \u2013 the program director in the National Science Foundation's (NSF) physics division (which provides support for IceCube) \u2013 indicated, this could allow them to truly search for physics that go beyond the Standard Model.\n\"IceCube was built to both explore the frontiers of physics and, in doing so, possibly challenge existing perceptions of the nature of universe. This new finding and others yet to come are in that spirit of scientific discovery.\"\nEver since the discovery of the Higgs boson in 2012, physicists have been secure in the knowledge that the long journey to confirm the Standard Model was now complete. Since then, they have set their sets farther, hoping to find new physics that could resolve some of the deeper mysteries of the Universe \u2013 i.e. supersymmetry, a Theory of Everything (ToE), etc.\nThis, as well as studying how physics work at the highest energy levels (similar to those that existed during the Big Bang) is the current preoccupation of physicists. If they are successful, we might just come to understand how this massive thing known as the Universe works.\nFurther Reading: Penn State, Nature\nNeutrino Detection Could Help Paint an Entirely New Picture of the Universe\nThe IceCube neutrino observatory buried at the South Pole is one cool telescope. It has detected extremely high-energy neutrinos, which are elementary particles that likely originate outside our solar system. The discovery of 28 record-breaking neutrinos was announced earlier \u2013 with two of the particles \u2014 nicknamed Bert and Ernie \u2013 drawing particular attention because of the their off-the-chart energy of over 1,000,000,000,000,000 electron volts or 1 peta-electron volt (PeV).\nNow, a new analysis of more recent data discovered 26 additional events beyond 30 teraelectronvolts \u2014 which exceeds the energy expected for neutrinos produced in the Earth's atmosphere, and one of those events was almost double the energy of Bert and Ernie. This one has been dubbed \"Big Bird,\" and in combination, these events provide the first solid evidence for astrophysical neutrinos from distant cosmic accelerators, which might help us understand the origin of origin of cosmic rays. The detection has suggested a new age of astronomy is beginning, offering a new way to look at the Universe using high-energy neutrinos.\n\"While it is premature to speculate about the precise origin of these neutrinos, their energies are too high to be produced by cosmic rays interacting in the Earth's atmosphere, strongly suggesting that they are produced by distant accelerators of subatomic particles elsewhere in our galaxy, or even farther away,\" said Penn State Associate Professor of Physics Tyce DeYoung, the deputy spokesperson of the IceCube Collaboration.\nThis event display shows \"Bert,\" one of two neutrino events discovered at IceCube whose energies exceeded one petaelectronvolt (PeV). The colors show when the light arrived, with reds being the earliest, succeeded by yellows, greens and blues. The size of the circle indicates the number of photons observed. Credit: Berkeley Labs.\nHigh-energy neutrinos can pass through normal matter, and billions of neutrinos pass through the Earth every second. The vast majority of these are lower-energy particles that originate either in the Sun or in the Earth's atmosphere. Far rarer are the high-energy neutrinos that more likely would have been created much farther from Earth in the most powerful cosmic events \u2014 gamma ray bursts, black holes, or the birth of stars. These neutrinos have been highly sought because they can carry information about the workings of the highest-energy and most-distant phenomena in the Universe.\n\"Scientists have been searching high and low for these super-energetic neutrinos using detectors buried under mountains, submerged in deep lakes and ocean trenches, lofted into the stratosphere by special balloons, and in the deep clear Antarctic ice at the South Pole,\" said Doug Cowen, also from Penn State, who has worked on IceCube for over a decade. \"To have finally seen them after all these years is immensely gratifying.\"\nIceCube is located inside a cubic kilometer of ice beneath the South Pole and is comprised of more than 5,000 digital optical modules melted into in a cubic kilometer of ice at the South Pole. The observatory detects neutrinos through the fleeting flashes of blue light produced when a neutrino interacts with a water molecule in the ice.\nThe IceCube collaboration said they are continuing to refine and expand the search with new data and new analysis techniques, which may reveal additional high-energy events and possibly point to their astrophysical source or sources.\nFor more information, see the teams paper in Science, a free version is available on arXiv, press releases from Berkeley Labs, Penn State, and DESY. More information about the IceCube collaboration is here.\nPosted on April 19, 2012 December 23, 2015\nCosmic Rays: They Aren't What We Thought They Were\nThe origin of cosmic rays has been one of the most enduring mysteries in physics, and it looks like it's going to stay that way for a while longer. One of the leading candidates for where cosmic rays come from is gamma ray bursts, and physicists were hoping a huge Antarctic detector called the IceCube Neutrino Observatory would confirm that theory. But observations of over 300 GRB's turned up no evidence of cosmic rays. In short, cosmic rays aren't what we thought they were.\nBut, just like Thomas Edison who said that \"every wrong attempt discarded is another step forward,\" physicists view this latest finding as progress.\n\"Although we have not discovered where cosmic rays come from, we have taken a major step towards ruling out one of the leading predictions,\" said IceCube principal investigator and University of Wisconsin\u2013Madison physics professor Francis Halzen.\nCosmic rays are electrically charged particles, such as protons, that strike Earth from all directions, with energies up to one hundred million times higher than those created in man-made accelerators. The intense conditions needed to generate such energetic particles have focused physicists' interest on two potential sources: the massive black holes at the centers of active galaxies and gamma ray bursts (GRBs), flashes of gamma rays associated with extremely energetic explosions that have been observed in distant galaxies.\nIceCube is using neutrinos, which are believed to accompany cosmic ray production, to explore these two theories. In a paper published in the April 19 issue of the journal Nature, IceCube scientists describe a search for neutrinos emitted from 300 gamma ray bursts observed, most recently in coincidence with the SWIFT and Fermi satellites, between May 2008 and April 2010. Surprisingly, they found none \u2013 a result that contradicts 15 years of predictions and challenges one of the two leading theories for the origin of the highest energy cosmic rays.\nAurora seen behind the IceCube Lab. Photo by: Sven Lidstrom\/NSF\nThe detector searches for high-energy (teraelectronvolt; 1012-electronvolt) neutrinos, and in their paper the team said they found an upper limit on the flux of energetic neutrinos associated with GRBs that is at least a factor of 3.7 below the predictions. This implies that either GRBs are not the only sources of cosmic rays with energies greater than 1018More info on IceCube.\nPaper in Nature.\nSource: IceCube\/University of Wisconsin","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
+{"text":"World War Cthulhu: Europe Ablaze\nFrom HKTRPG - \u4efb\u4f55\u4eba\u90fd\u53ef\u4ee5\u589e\u52a0\u4fee\u6539\u7684TRPG\u767e\u79d1\u5168\u66f8\n\u6a94\u6848:World War Cthulhu - Europe Ablaze.jpg\nPublisher: Cubicle 7\nProduct Code: CB71940\nPublishing Year: 2014 (July)\nAuthor(s): Walt Ciechanowski, Scott Dorward, Paul Fricker, Andy Nicholson, Nick Robinson, Matthew Sanderson\nArtist(s): Jon Hodgson (cover and interior), Scott Purdy\nSetting(s): World War II\nFormat(s): Softcover and PDF\nWorld War Cthulhu: Europe Ablaze is a companion volume to the WWII setting book World War Cthulhu: Their Darkest Hour, presenting six scenarios for that setting.\nOn the 16th July, 1940, Winston Churchill told Hugh Dalton, the newly appointed head of the Special Operations Executive, to \"set Europe ablaze\". With this simple instruction Churchill set in motion some of the most dangerous and brilliant actions of the Second World War. The men and women of SOE performed acts of sabotage, subversion and espionage so extraordinary that if they were portrayed as fiction, they would beggar belief. These agents pushed bravery and human endurance past limits that most of us can only imagine.\nEurope Ablaze presents six missions demanding such resourcefulness and determination, all set in the European theatre of operations. Some are inspired by SOE missions or historical events, while others take a more imaginative view of the conflict, but all are rooted in the all-too-real horrors that the Second World War brought about. All of them also add that special twist that being part of N's network demands, and the dangers of the Mythos will prove at least as deadly as a bullet from the Gestapo.\nSleeper Agents \u2013 Nick Robinson presents the machinations of a small network of occultists in northern France who have had their minds touched by a lost Mythos deity. N has dispatched a team to contain the situation at all costs. Keeping the true nature of this mission hidden is the tricky part, and the investigators will soon be drawn into a large-scale programme of assassinations.\nThe Play is the Thing \u2013 Walt Ciechanowski takes us to Italy, where a troupe of players prepares to perform a radio adaptation of a supposedly harmless derivation of The King in Yellow. Of course nothing relating to the Mythos is ever harmless, and the agents will have to avoid the watchful gaze of the Italian authorities as they try to stop the creation of a permanent gateway to Carcosa.\nWe Will Remember Them \u2013 Paul Fricker presents a mission to sabotage a power plant in Norway, inspired by the real SOE Operation Musketoon. This is only the beginning, as the team is diverted to investigate a Norwegian scientist's unwholesome experiments with alien technology, and what the agents discover will leave them changed forever.\nLift Not Thy Hands \u2013 Andy Nicholson sends the investigators into occupied Belgium, ostensibly to help the Belgian resistance wiretap a telephone exchange and learn the plans of the local Gestapo. Being part of N's network, things are not so simple, and they also need to recover a lost Mythos artefact. This would be hard enough, had said artefact not resurrected a long-dead evil in the Wallonian countryside.\nThe Angel of the Abyss \u2013 Matthew Sanderson takes inspiration from the real Operation Harling, when SOE united disparate factions of the Greek Resistance, ahead of the assault on the Gorgopotamus Bridge. In this version of events, the mission is complicated by the resurgence of a forgotten death cult and their inhuman allies.\nStowaways \u2013 Scott Dorward offers a spin on the first exchange of Allied and Axis prisoners in neutral Spain. The Intelligence Corps in Alexandria believe that they have uncovered a plan to sabotage the British vessel repatriating German POWs, and N has had reports that there may be a hitherto-unknown alien parasite on board. The investigators need to find a way of containing both threats without creating a diplomatic incident.\nScenarios: Sleeper Agents (Robinson), The Play is the Thing (Ciechanowski), We Will Remember Them (Fricker), Lift Not Thy Hands (Nicholson), The Angel of the Abyss (Sanderson), Stowaways (Dorward)\nFront Cover Text\nNo Additional Text\nBack Cover Text\nList all the text on the back cover.\nComments \/ Trivia\nLink to outside reviews\n[Link 1]\nSpoilers - Keepers Eyes Only\nPlayers should not read any further.\nComment here to Keepers about this book. Comments on specific Scenarios and Campaigns go on their respective pages. Keep DISCUSSION on the talk page.\nRetrieved from \"https:\/\/www.hktrpg.com\/wiki\/index.php?title=World_War_Cthulhu:_Europe_Ablaze&oldid=1090\"\n\u6a94\u6848\u9023\u7d50\u640d\u58de\u7684\u9801\u9762\nCoC:Supplements\nAbout HKTRPG - \u4efb\u4f55\u4eba\u90fd\u53ef\u4ee5\u589e\u52a0\u4fee\u6539\u7684TRPG\u767e\u79d1\u5168\u66f8","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
+{"text":"The Last Dream...\nThirty-four years ago today Walt Disney Productions announces its plan to build the \"Experimental Prototype Community of Tomorrow aka: EPCOT... Walt's last dream.\nIt will not be exactly what he envisioned, but truthfully, even Walt wasn't completely sure of what it would be. He had several ideas, but it wasn't fleshed out completely or exactly what it was to be. This is why Imagineers had such a difficulty coming up with a workable design...\nIt will come to fruition sixteen years after his passing. The Mouse's commitment on completing his final wish reassures fans across the world that the magic of Disney(the company and the man) will go on.\nEven after his life had ended...\nPosted by Honor Hunter at 7:57 AM\nLabels: Epcot, Florida Project, Imagineering, Themeparks, Walt Disney, WDW\n\"This is why Imagineers had such a difficulty coming up with a workable design...\"\nEnter Ray Bradbury\nBlue Sky Disney Archive\nWill Marshall Captain A New Pirates' Ship...\nPrepping The Landing...\nWhere To Begin, More Flynn...\nDisney Buys War...\nCopy Right...\nStan Lee's Work With Disney Goes Backwards...\nGoing Back Before It All Began...\nRapunzel Begins To Let Down Her Hair...\nAll Tron, All The Time...\nEpic Disney...\nGive Me A Villain...\nThe Seeds Of Disneyland...\nQuality Is In the Ingredients From New Chef...\nA Lost Secret Agent For The Mouse...\nHearing The Legacy...\nJudge Me By My Second Season, Do You...\n1 And 2 In 3D...\nThe Empire Has More From Persia...\nIt Had To Happen...\nMore Chuck For Your Buck...\nTime Lapse...\niGo Down The Rabbit Hole...\nWorld Upside Down...\nBeauty And The Release...\nInterview With A Cult Survivor...\nWe're Here To Kick Dat Little Wizard's Butt...\nThoughts On 3...\nGeeky Cool...\nFrom Conception To Birth...\nSighting Pirates...\nIn Like Flynn At Comic-Con...\nJonah Hex Redux...\nThe Art The World Of TRON: Legacy...\nIt Finally Has A Name...\nDefying Gravity...\nGo Watch Alice...\nThe Everything\/Anything 2009...\nFrom Evil Dead To Webhead To Warcraft...\nWant Your Computer To Get A Virus?\nHonk Kong Disney Villain...\nAlice Shows Her Face...\nEmpire Has A Prince...\nMarvel's Rival...\nAnything Is Possible If You Simply Believe...\nThe Happiest Retirement Party On Earth...\nColor On The World...\nApple Playing Games With Competition...\nOfficially An Entertaining Prince...\nWhat All Started In 55, Turns 54...\nClassic, Scary Quarter\/Season...\nCalifornia Preview...\nGill & Stanton, Together Again...\nThe Rush...\nUnknown Equations...\nScary Mountain...\nDespicable Trailer...\nKarma\/Envy...\nIndy Is An Oldie, But A Goodie...\nThor Finds His Maiden...\nNo Longer Stinging...\nA Riddle Wrapped In An Enigma...\nNerdvana: Day Four Schedule...\nDecades Ago, In A Galaxy Far, Far Away...\nNerdvana: Day Three Schedule...\nHalloween By The Sea...\nReynolds Is The Emerald Warrior...\nNerdvana: Day Two Schedule...\nArtwork In Progress...\nWho's Looking After \"The Beaver,\" Anyhow...\nNerdvana: Day One Schedule...\nApps Store: Year One...\nIt's \"Go\" Time...\nIn Brightest Day, In Blackest Night...\nMouse @ Nerdvana...\nMea Culpa...\nIt Has Begun...\nSeparate But Equal...\n20,000 Writers Under The Sea...\nThe Two Towers...\nMore Focus On The Frog...\nForging My Friday Nights...\nSecond To None, But One...\nBlue Sky Buzz: California Sweet...\nOverseas Christmas...\nRoadblocks...\nCelebrating Liberty's Birth...\nAn Offer You Can't Refuse...\nCreating Surrogates Awareness...\nPredatorial Direction...\nThe STAR WARS Animated Series I Want To See...\nTime's Timeless Timing...\nThe Return...\nPreviewing Saturday's Previewing...\nColonel Kurtz\nDecadent Dave\nHonor Hunter\nShrunken Ned\nTHX-1138\nTron Unit\nBlue Sky Disney is not connected to or affiliated with the Walt Disney Company\nThe opinions represented here are of the authors entirely, and do not represent the views or policies of anyone else, or other companies.","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
+{"text":"School-History\nSchool HistoryCurrently selected\nHome > About > School History\nIn November 1948 Archbishop Duhig purchased the land where our school, the church and the priory now stand. This land was being used as a poultry farm. With the original parish known as \"Our Lady of Graces and Blessed Martin de Porres, Belmont\", it was clear that the original vision included a church community and a parish school. St Martin's primary school continues to be an important part of Our Lady of Graces Parish community serving Carina, Carindale and surrounding areas.\nIt has been almost sixty years since the first Dominican priests came to Belmont. January 25th, 1954, saw the first students enrol at St Martin's. The numbers were far beyond expectations! Initially the Sisters were responsible for the majority of teaching, including Art, Music, and Instrumental Music. Today we have specialist teachers for these areas, as well as teacher assistants, other teachers and various specialist staff, committed to quality education. Sadly, in 1993 we farewelled the last of the Dominican Sisters. However, we retain strong ties with the Dominican Order and the Dominican heritage continues to be a strong foundation for our community.\nOver the years St Martin's has seen many physical changes. The present Art centre was actually built as the first permanent Church! This replaced the marquee where the early Masses were held. It was known as the Dominic Centre. The original two storey brick building, with the entrance off Broadway Street, was initially used as both Church and School. The lower floor was the school and the upper was the school during the week and the church on the weekends.\nIn 1979 more classrooms, an Administration block and a Library, were added. The next twenty years saw numbers swell. The facilities changed to include another new Administration block, a demountable and a modern brick Library. The old staffroom was converted to more classrooms.\nThe De Porres Centre was built in 1999. Named after the school patron saint, Martin de Porres, the two-story brick building accommodated the Pre-school classes until the new Prep facilities were built. It is now used for our specialist areas of Music, LOTE and Instrumental Music.\nThe ten hectares of land have been enhanced over the years with the planting of trees, the addition of netball courts, covered eating and seating areas, outdoor play areas and water tanks. Throughout all of these changes the school has managed to keep much of its beloved playing area, affectionately known as 'the valley', which is also the home of our Wishing Tree.\nWe continue to grow and change! 2009 saw the original St Martin's building replaced with ten Early Years classrooms. As well as the continued refurbishment of classrooms, extensions to other rooms, and significant changes to the Resource Centre layout, 2011 saw the latest building project, our new Assembly \/ Indoor Sports Hall, completed. The school takes every opportunity of utilising this fabulous facility, The Dominic Centre, and enjoy yet another milestone in the history of St Martin's.\nBeing Dominican is loving to learn.\nBeing Dominican is being prayerful.\nBeing Dominican means being fair and just to all.\nBeing Dominican is being yourself \u2013 an individual.\nBeing Dominican means being a protector of our environment.\nBeing Dominican is being a veritas or truthful person.\nSt Martin's strives in each and every day to aim towards the Dominican motto: \"Live the truth\"","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
+{"text":"Results 1 - 10 of 151,920\nThe Semantics Of Constraint Logic Programs\nby Joxan Jaffar, Michael Maher, Kim Marriott, Peter Stuckey - JOURNAL OF LOGIC PROGRAMMING , 1996\n\"... This paper presents for the first time the semantic foundations of CLP in a self-contained and complete package. The main contributions are threefold. First, we extend the original conference paper by presenting definitions and basic semantic constructs from first principles, giving new and comp ...\"\nAbstract - Cited by 872 (14 self) - Add to MetaCart\nand complete proofs for the main lemmas. Importantly, we clarify which theorems depend on conditions such as solution compactness, satisfaction completeness and independence of constraints. Second, we generalize the original results to allow for incompleteness of the constraint solver. This is important\nOn agent-based software engineering\nby Nicholas R. Jennings, Michael Wooldridge - ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE , 2000\n\"... Agent-oriented techniques represent an exciting new means of analysing, designing and building complex software systems. They have the potential to significantly improve current practice in software engineering and to extend the range of applications that can feasibly be tackled. Yet, to date, there ...\"\nAgent-oriented techniques represent an exciting new means of analysing, designing and building complex software systems. They have the potential to significantly improve current practice in software engineering and to extend the range of applications that can feasibly be tackled. Yet, to date\nLogP: Towards a Realistic Model of Parallel Computation\nby David Culler , Richard Karp , David Patterson, Abhijit Sahay, Klaus Erik Schauser, Eunice Santos, Ramesh Subramonian, Thorsten von Eicken , 1993\n\"... A vast body of theoretical research has focused either on overly simplistic models of parallel computation, notably the PRAM, or overly specific models that have few representatives in the real world. Both kinds of models encourage exploitation of formal loopholes, rather than rewarding developme ...\"\ndevelopment of techniques that yield performance across a range of current and future parallel machines. This paper offers a new parallel machine model, called LogP, that reflects the critical technology trends underlying parallel computers. It is intended to serve as a basis for developing fast, portable\nPDDL2.1: An Extension to PDDL for Expressing Temporal Planning Domains\nby Maria Fox, Derek Long , 2003\n\"... In recent years research in the planning community has moved increasingly towards application of planners to realistic problems involving both time and many types of resources. For example, interest in planning demonstrated by the space research community has inspired work in observation scheduling, ...\"\nthat PDDL2.1 has considerable modelling power \u2014 exceeding the capabilities of current planning technology \u2014 and presents a number of important challenges to the research community.\nK-SVD: An Algorithm for Designing Overcomplete Dictionaries for Sparse Representation\nby Michal Aharon, et al. , 2006\n\"... In recent years there has been a growing interest in the study of sparse representation of signals. Using an overcomplete dictionary that contains prototype signal-atoms, signals are described by sparse linear combinations of these atoms. Applications that use sparse representation are many and inc ...\"\nthat alternates between sparse coding of the examples based on the current dictionary and a process of updating the dictionary atoms to better fit the data. The update of the dictionary columns is combined with an update of the sparse representations, thereby accelerating convergence. The K-SVD algorithm\nConcurrent Constraint Programming\nby Vijay A. Saraswat, Martin Rinard , 1993\n\"... This paper presents a new and very rich class of (con-current) programming languages, based on the notion of comput.ing with parhal information, and the con-commitant notions of consistency and entailment. ' In this framework, computation emerges from the inter-action of concurrently executing agent ...\"\nThis paper presents a new and very rich class of (con-current) programming languages, based on the notion of comput.ing with parhal information, and the con-commitant notions of consistency and entailment. ' In this framework, computation emerges from the inter-action of concurrently executing\nCognitive load during problem solving: effects on learning\nby John Sweller - COGNITIVE SCIENCE , 1988\n\"... Considerable evidence indicates that domain specific knowledge in the form of schemes is the primary factor distinguishing experts from novices in problem-solving skill. Evidence that conventional problem-solving activity is not effective in schema acquisition is also accumulating. It is suggested t ...\"\nConsiderable evidence indicates that domain specific knowledge in the form of schemes is the primary factor distinguishing experts from novices in problem-solving skill. Evidence that conventional problem-solving activity is not effective in schema acquisition is also accumulating. It is suggested that a major reason for the ineffectiveness of problem solving as a learning device, is that the cognitive processes required by the two activities overlap insufficiently, and that conventional problem solving in the form of means-ends analysis requires a relatively large amount of cognitive processing capacity which is consequently unavailable for schema acquisition. A computational model and experimental evidence provide support for this contention. Theoretical and practical implications are discussed.\nSNOPT: An SQP Algorithm For Large-Scale Constrained Optimization\nby Philip E. Gill, Walter Murray, Michael A. Saunders , 2002\n\"... Sequential quadratic programming (SQP) methods have proved highly effective for solving constrained optimization problems with smooth nonlinear functions in the objective and constraints. Here we consider problems with general inequality constraints (linear and nonlinear). We assume that first deriv ...\"\nSequential quadratic programming (SQP) methods have proved highly effective for solving constrained optimization problems with smooth nonlinear functions in the objective and constraints. Here we consider problems with general inequality constraints (linear and nonlinear). We assume that first derivatives are available, and that the constraint gradients are sparse. We discuss\nThe nas parallel benchmarks\nby D. H. Bailey, E. Barszcz, J. T. Barton, D. S. Browning, R. L. Carter, R. A. Fatoohi, P. O. Frederickson, T. A. Lasinski, H. D. Simon, V. Venkatakrishnan, S. K. Weeratunga - The International Journal of Supercomputer Applications , 1991\n\"... A new set of benchmarks has been developed for the performance evaluation of highly parallel supercomputers. These benchmarks consist of ve \\parallel kernel \" benchmarks and three \\simulated application\" benchmarks. Together they mimic the computation and data movement characterist ...\"\nA new set of benchmarks has been developed for the performance evaluation of highly parallel supercomputers. These benchmarks consist of ve \\parallel kernel \" benchmarks and three \\simulated application\" benchmarks. Together they mimic the computation and data movement characteristics of large scale computational uid dynamics applications. The principal distinguishing feature of these benchmarks is their \\pencil and paper \" speci cation | all details of these benchmarks are speci ed only algorithmically. In this way many of the di culties associated with conventional benchmarking approaches on highly parallel systems are avoided. 1\nAbduction in Logic Programming\nby Marc Denecker, Antonis Kakas\n\"... Abduction in Logic Programming started in the late 80s, early 90s, in an attempt to extend logic programming into a framework suitable for a variety of problems in Artificial Intelligence and other areas of Computer Science. This paper aims to chart out the main developments of the field over th ...\"\nAbduction in Logic Programming started in the late 80s, early 90s, in an attempt to extend logic programming into a framework suitable for a variety of problems in Artificial Intelligence and other areas of Computer Science. This paper aims to chart out the main developments of the field over the last ten years and to take a critical view of these developments from several perspectives: logical, epistemological, computational and suitability to application. The paper attempts to expose some of the challenges and prospects for the further development of the field.","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
+{"text":"An attendant shows an automotive product to a driver in front of a display with new fuel prices at a gas station in Quito, Ecuador, Tuesday, Oct. 15, 2019. The recent strike that paralyzed the Andean nation for almost two weeks, has left a gaping hole in Ecuador's economy, this after President Lenin Moreno called back his elimination of fuel subsidies which provoked the violent protests. (AP Photo\/Dolores Ochoa)\nAfter ending protests, Ecuador faces dire economic outlook\nQUITO, Ecuador (AP) \u2014 President Len\u00edn Moreno survived the toughest political crisis of his presidency by negotiating an end to indigenous anti-austerity protests. Now he faces an even tougher challenge. Ten years of populist rule and a drop in oil prices have left Ecuador with a $64 billion public...\nOne of the protesters shakes hands with a security officer as they celebrate the announcement that the government cancelled an austerity package that triggered violent protests, in Quito, Ecuador, Sunday, Oct. 13, 2019. Ecuadorian President Lenin Moreno and leaders of the country's indigenous peoples have struck a deal to cancel the disputed austerity package and end nearly two weeks of protests that have paralyzed the economy and left several people dead. (AP Photo\/Dolores Ochoa)\nEcuador deal cancels austerity plan, ends indigenous protest\nQUITO, Ecuador (AP) \u2014 Ecuador celebrated a deal President Len\u00edn Moreno and indigenous leaders struck late Sunday to cancel a disputed austerity package and end nearly two weeks of protests that have paralyzed the economy and left seven dead. Under the agreement, Moreno will withdraw the...\nBudget office estimates US deficit just under $1 trillion\nWASHINGTON (AP) \u2014 The government ran a budget deficit of just under $1 trillion in the just-closed fiscal year, the Congressional Budget Office said Monday. The $984 billion deficit tally for 2019 came in more than $200 billion more than last year's, despite very low unemployment and continuing...\nFILE - This Aug. 23, 2019, file photo shows the New York Stock Exchange in New York. The U.S. stock market opens at 9:30 a.m. EDT on Wednesday, Oct. 2. (AP Photo\/Frank Franklin II, File)\nStocks slide again as worries about global economy grow\nNEW YORK (AP) \u2014 Stocks tumbled again on Wednesday as worries about a weakening global economy boomeranged around the world. The S&P 500 lost as much as 2.2% in afternoon trading and was on track for its first back-to-back loss of at least 1% since late last year, when fears about a possible...\nChristine Lagarde, President-elect of the European Central Bank, speaks at the Bloomberg Global Business Forum, Wednesday, Sept. 25, 2019 in New York. (AP Photo\/Mark Lennihan)\nTop ECB official resigns after questioning stimulus\nFRANKFURT, Germany (AP) \u2014 A member of the European Central Bank's top leadership has resigned after publicly questioning the need for the bank's stimulus efforts, shaking up the institutions' top executive body amid public criticism of its policies by some of its own policymakers. Sabine...\nA woman walks by an electronic stock board of a securities firm in Tokyo, Tuesday, Sept. 24, 2019. Shares have edged higher in Asia as U.S. Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin confirmed that China-U.S. trade talks were due to resume in two weeks' time. The Shanghai Composite index rose 0.8% and shares also rose in Tokyo and Hong Kong. (AP Photo\/Koji Sasahara)\nAsian shares edge higher as China-US trade talks planned\nBANGKOK (AP) \u2014 Shares edged higher in Asia on Tuesday after U.S. Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin confirmed that China-U.S. trade talks were due to resume in two weeks' time. The Shanghai Composite index rose 0.3% to 2,985.34 while Japan's Nikkei 225 added 0.1% to 22,098.84. Markets in China were...\nFederal Reserve Board Chair Jerome Powell speaks at a news conference following a two-day meeting of the Federal Open Market Committee, Wednesday, Sept. 18, 2019, in Washington. (AP Photo\/Patrick Semansky)\nWhat the Fed's rate cut means for you\nThe Federal Reserve has cut its benchmark interest rate again, big news for the U.S. economy but something that will likely have a muted impact on Americans' personal finances, experts say. That's because the reduction doesn't offset the increases of recent years. And as the key rate creeps closer...\nJohn Wilson, with the New York Stock Exchange, monitors stock activity, Monday, Sept. 16, 2019. Global stock markets sank Monday after crude prices surged following an attack on Saudi Arabia's biggest oil processing facility. (AP Photo\/Mark Lennihan)\nStocks slip as surge in oil brings fresh economic worries\nNEW YORK (AP) \u2014 Stock markets around the world took an apprehensive step backward Monday after an attack on Saudi Arabia's biggest oil processing facility sent the price of oil surging. The attack, which Yemeni rebels said they were behind, raised worries about the risk of more disruptions for oil...\nTraders Edward Curran, left, and Gregory Rowe work on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange, Friday, Sept. 13, 2019. Stocks are having a mixed performance early on Wall Street Friday as gains in banks and energy companies are offset somewhat by a drop in technology stocks. (AP Photo\/Richard Drew)\nUS stocks are mixed as banks gain, technology drops\nNEW YORK (AP) \u2014 U.S. stocks gave a mixed performance in midday trading on Friday as health care, banks and industrial companies gained ground and offset a decline in technology stocks. Still, stocks are on track for their third straight weekly gain, having been bolstered in prior sessions by an...\nIn this Sept. 10, 2019, photo, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell of Ky., arrives for a news conference following a Senate policy luncheon on Capitol Hill in Washington. Fights over abortion and President Donald Trump's U.S.-Mexico border wall have thrown Senate efforts to advance $1.4 trillion worth of agency spending bills into disarray, threatening one of Washington's few bipartisan accomplishments this year. (AP Photo\/Andrew Harnik)\nAbortion, border wall put major spending bills into disarray\nWASHINGTON (AP) \u2014 Fights over abortion and President Donald Trump's U.S.-Mexico border wall have thrown Senate efforts to advance $1.4 trillion worth of agency spending bills into disarray, threatening one of Washington's few bipartisan accomplishments this year. A government shutdown remains...","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
+{"text":"Campus Development > Newsroom > News > Brief | Nov 2021\nA construction workers gives a warm, delightful smile for the camera as he busily works to install duct work in the new hospital\nHalf-Way There! |Get Your Life Back Campaign\nThe West Park Foundation celebrated a significant milestone by fundraising more than 50 per cent of its Phase I goal of $50 million. Thank you to all the generous donors for supporting West Park so that we may deliver the best care possible to our patients!\nAt the virtual event, guests viewed a video of the construction progress since the Groundbreaking Celebration in 2018 and a sneak peek at feature areas taking shape in the new hospital.\nThe Foundation also unveiled a special endeavor \u2013 the West Park Time Capsule whereby messages of hope and best wishes for our patients and the new hospital are being collected for the inclusion of a time capsule that will be buried on the campus.\nAgain, thank you to everyone who is supporting West Park! While the provincial government covers 90 per cent of the cost for the new facility, West Park must cover its \"local share\" of the remaining 10 per cent, plus furniture and equipment. The Foundation's Get Your Life Back Campaign aims to raise $50 million by 2023 (Phase I) to help cover West Park's local share and equipping the new hospital.\nAfter 2023, the Campaign will raise an additional $30 million (Phase II) to support the new hospital, bringing the total campaign goal to an ambitious $80 million \u2013 the largest fundraising endeavor in the history of West Park.\nTo donate, please visit westparkfoundation.ca\nA Look at the New West Park\nIn a pre-recorded video at the Foundation's event mentioned above, Shelley Ditty, Vice-President of Campus Development and Support Services, provided guests with a virtual tour of key areas of the new hospital.\nWe will be releasing segments of the virtual tour in the coming weeks.\nLast week, we released a peek at the Main Lobby and Feature Stair. If you missed it, you can watch it here.\nGoodbye to Thunderbird!\nWest Park's beloved Crane #3 is now tentatively leaving the campus on Friday, December 10.\nThe crane is endearingly named Thunderbird after First Nations elder Shannon Thunderbird, whose husband was a patient at West Park and presided over West Park's Tree and Land Blessing Ceremony prior to construction.\nConstruction on East-West Road and Buttonwood Ave.\nEllisDon continues to install and connect communication, hydro and storm lines to the new hospital along the East-West Road and is expected to be complete in mid-December. This same work is being done on Buttonwood Avenue, which began earlier this month.\nA Look at the New Hospital: Main Lobby and Feature Stair","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
+{"text":"Courtesy of Tribune News Service\nColumn: Disney's media consolidation stint dangerous for entertainment industry\nBy Stephanie Justice\n| 04\/18\/2019 | 8:25am\nLet's admit it: Disney hasn't been all that great lately. All of its recent remakes are pure money grabs, and it hasn't been coming out with much original material. They bought both Star Wars and Marvel, and who knows what will be next?\nDisney's recent acquisition of 21st Century Fox and 20th Century Fox movie studio, however, is crossing the line into monopolization. As Disney continues its journey in media acquisition, consumers are facing far fewer choices in who produces and controls the media they enjoy.\nEven though, for now, the market remains an oligopoly, Disney has been relentless in its pursuit of acquiring as much as they can without producing quality original content, such as recent live-action remakes that don't bring anything new to the table and are just blatant cash cows. Additionally, some fans of Marvel and Star Wars are disappointed by how the movies coming out of their favorite franchises have become noticeably laden with typical childish Disney humor.\nDisney also announced last week that its new streaming service, Disney+, will come out on Nov. 12. While Netflix has been slowly increasing its streaming price over the years \u2014 currently starting at $8.99 per month \u2014 a subscription to Disney+ will go for $6.99 per month.\nNow, Netflix has been doing a lot lately. Well-received Netflix original movies and series have been coming out left and right, and most subscribers haven't minded the increasing price tag.\nHowever, when Disney comes out with its streaming service, it will have the ability to buy out Netflix's subscribers with the allure of a huge vault of animated movies that captured the hearts of so many people for years, alongside its own original shows that will venture further into the Marvel and Star Wars franchises.\nEven investors seem to be wary about Disney+ and what it will mean for Netflix. Disney's stock has risen 12% since Disney announced its streaming service, while Netflix's stock has gone down 3%.\nLet's not forget that before Disney merged with Fox, it had a 30% stake in Hulu. They now own 60% of it, with NBCUniversal owning 30% and Warner Bros owning a meager 10%. It wouldn't come as a surprise if Disney decided to buy up the rest of Hulu and structure Disney+ around it by enticing subscribers to pay just a couple of extra dollars per month to have access to Disney's vast library of original content. By buying the rest of Hulu, Disney can turn the streaming service, which has always severely underperformed compared to Netflix, into a major competitor.\nDisney's recent lack of originality is also concerning. Fox has continually made some of the most critically-acclaimed movies in recent years, such as \"The Post\" and \"The Favourite.\" Disney just continues to announce remakes of its original animated movies, which makes it seem like Disney is only interested in making more money through empty blockbusters than creating films that make a statement.\nIt's hard not to be nervous about the future of the movie industry when Disney owns a huge portion of it and has made no promise of living up to Fox's previous films.\nWill Disney actually monopolize the entertainment industry? Probably not. Is competition the backbone of today's capitalist market which drives companies to make better content? Yes, of course. However, we're just one step closer to a world in which only a few companies own all of the media providers in the world. This means that consumers will have no other choice but to suffer at the hands of these companies' corporate and political interests.\nMedia consolidation is scary. Disney is only feeding the terror.\nMore ARTS AND CULTURE\nBest of Carolina 2017: Print edition\nBy The Daily Gamecock staff | 02\/23\/17 9:18pm\nCockstock 2016 exceeds expectations as Homecoming's newest event\nBy Shayla Nidever | 11\/05\/16 4:42am\nSundance Film Festival Tour brings independent, distinctive films to the Nickelodeon\nBy Hailey Covell | 09\/08\/16 2:58am\nFall fashion trends\nBy Hailey Covell | 09\/01\/16 12:46am\nRoad Trip Towns: Staunton, VA\nBy Emily Barber and Debbie Clark | 04\/21\/16 3:36am\nPulitzer Prize-winning author draws in large crowd for Open Book Series\nBy Rachel Minetti | 04\/08\/16 3:06pm","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
+{"text":"Find the right Ivy League school for you\nAugust 15, 2022 December 28, 2022 admin 0 Comments\n1. Brown University\n2. Columbia University\n3. Cornell University\n4. Dartmouth College\n5. Harvard University\n6. University of Pennsylvania\n7. Princeton University\n8. Yale University\nQuestion.1 Will athletic scholars apply for Ivy League schools?\nQuestion 2 Is Stanford part of the Ivy League?\nQuestion 3 Which Ivy League school is the easiest to enter?\nBrown University is a leading research and educational institution known for its approach to student-centered education. Students who succeed at Brown have a strong sense of intellectual curiosity and a desire to change the world. Brown is the only leading research university in the country where undergraduates can design their own path of study. Their approach to acceptance is complex and contextualized. Self-service applicants are successful in this area because they can use Brown's Open Curriculum to explore a wide range of courses before opting for academic emphasis.\nTo become a competitive candidate, you must spend your high school years in and out of the classroom and challenge. Selected applicants must have their own motivation. If you can show that you are already in the direction of your intellectual and creative progress, you will rise.\nAt Columbia University, undergraduates begin a regular core course that includes literature, philosophy, physics, art, history, and music, as well as core courses. Because each session has only 22 students, students have many opportunities to connect with professors. Engineering and computer science are prominent STEM programs in Columbia. Because Columbia is located near Manhattan, New York, many university students are interested in politics and take part in politics throughout the city.\nThe Columbia Institution, known as the \"best university in town\", is also one of the most diverse schools in the Ivy League with students from all 50 states and more than 100 foreign countries. . Columbia takes a holistic approach to reception. They take the time to identify applicants and select individuals who they believe would benefit the Columbia community and make a significant contribution. Columbia University provides comprehensive financial assistance to qualified students.\nAlso Read Invertis University Review (2022)\nCornell's goal is to discover, preserve and disseminate knowledge. They do this by creating a unique and new work that transcends the university and the wider world. Cornell may be the school for you if you are interested in improving the lives of individuals around you and around the world. They support public service and outreach in New York and abroad. Nanotechnology, biotechnology, supercomputers and genomics are among the interdisciplinary research centers of Cornell's world.\nCosts cannot be an obstacle to Cornell's success, as they provide students with a variety of financial aid options. Their admissions process is highly personalized. That is, they examine individuals as a whole. The student body consists of a wide group of talented, open and compassionate people. To find out if you're good at Cornell, explore the culture and philosophy of the university.\nDartmouth College is one of the oldest and most famous universities in the United States. Dartmouth scholars are experts in their fields and passionate about passing on their knowledge. First-year students are also taught by older academics. Dartmouth professors are one of the most respected teachers in the United States. Their term approach is great for students who want to take advantage of all the university's educational opportunities. Dartmouth is of the opinion that applicants should emphasize all aspects of their application. If you have a unique skill or passion, be sure to include it in your application.\nHarvard provides special education for passionate individuals and those who are still looking for their way, with access to world-renowned research opportunities, thought-provoking courses, and teacher mentors. Harvard College Home System connects learning and life and provides the foundation for a college experience. Each house has an indoor dining room, lounges and academic, entertainment and cultural facilities for 350-500 people.\nAlso Read myMDC: Simple Guide to Access MDC Student Portal 2022\nStudents who enjoy learning new things, asking complex questions, and pursuing their hobbies are well-suited to the Harvard community.\nThe University of Pennsylvania is full of American history and is located near the heart of Philadelphia. Students are encouraged to participate in activities outside the classroom, such as discovering the cultural, social and political life of the city. Award-winning professors lead courses and encourage students to follow their passions, solve problems and change the world.\nThe University of Pennsylvania is interested in knowing everything about you. They want to know about your abilities, problems and passions, as well as how you intend to change the world. If you give them a complete picture, they can decide if Penn is a place where you can actively engage and prosper.\nPrinceton is a university that focuses exclusively on undergraduate education. They have a generous financial aid program that ensures that all admitted students, despite their financial need, can graduate without debt. Princeton University is looking for enlightened people from a variety of cultural, racial and economic backgrounds. Princeton encourages students to collaborate and expects them to conduct original, creative research. The university has found that life experiences are as important as education. They encourage students to take part in extracurricular activities, live on duty and pursue personal interests, hobbies and friendships outside the classroom.\nPrinceton deals with more than just your numbers and test results. They are interested in hearing your story and learning more about you. Tell them how you plan to use your opportunities at Princeton to give it back to your community, and how Princeton helps change the world. Remember to write in a style that expresses your personality.\nAlso Read Traductor Cambridge: How to Access Cambridge Translator in 2022\nYale is a research university and Liberal Arts College that selects students they believe will maximize their resources and make a significant contribution to the Yale community. They are looking for students who are ready and able to move to new heights.\nPay attention to your passions and tell them about it. Be honest with yourself. Ask the teachers you know best. Log in and relax!\nNo, athletic scholars are not available in Ivy League schools. However, they offer many financial assistance packages. Athletic scholars are available at many leading colleges and universities.\nStanford University is not a member of the Ivy League. Given its selection and popularity, it has always been a mistake for the Ivy League. Stanford, called \"Harvard in the West,\" attracts some of the smartest and most talented students in the world.\nCornell University is the most accessible for Ivies. For 2020, the acceptance rate is 14.1%. In the same year, that percentage more than doubled the admission rate to 4.5% at Harvard University, the school with the most difficult entry into the Ivy League.\n\u2190 How to Get MBA Scholarship through GMAT? 2022\nWhat are the Qualities that Ivy League schools look for in an Application? \u2192\nCUCHD Blackboard: Helpful Guide to Chandigarh University Blackboard\nSeptember 7, 2022 January 3, 2023 admin 0\nWhat is a Good GMAT Score?\nAugust 15, 2022 December 28, 2022 admin 0\nCPP Blackboard Complete Student Login Guide 2022\nSeptember 15, 2022 January 3, 2023 admin 0\nETSU GoldLink: Helpful Guide to ETSU Login Portal 2022\nmyUSAO: Helpful Guide to Access USAO Login Portal 2022\nUniversity of Phoenix Student Login: eCampus\nCMU Academic Calendar 2022-2023: Important Dates\nPurdue Owl Faqs: Everything you Need to Know 2022\nFull Forms\nStudents Desk is the best blog where you can find useful information about how to log into your student portal, academic dates , and your email.\nCopyright \u00a9 2023 Student Desk. 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+{"text":"Home >> News: May 31st, 2018 >> Story\nInmarsat's Jet ConneX Is Quickly Connecting Now Celebrating 275th Installation of Business Aviation Inflight Wi-Fi\nIn less than 18 months Inmarsat's (LON: ISAT) Jet ConneX business aviation inflight WiFi service has been installed and activated on 275 business jets worldwide. Business jet manufacturers Gulfstream, Bombardier, Dassault and Embraer have all selected Jet ConneX as a preferred line-fit option. In addition, Inmarsat has experienced substantial adoption of the solution on a retrofit basis, with more than 40 type certificate and supplemental type certificate (STC) approvals already secured, including for all Boeing and Airbus VVIP type models.\nThe impressive milestone highlights its rapid uptake across the world. As the only global, high-speed inflight Wi-Fi option for business jets today, it offers the same connectivity in the air that has previously only been available on the ground. Using Inmarsat's advanced Ka-band satellite network, Jet ConneX offers data plans up to 15Mbps and consistent global coverage across all airline routes enabling the business traveler to do business wherever and whenever.\nMichael Rack, Senior Vice President of Core Business, Inmarsat Aviation, said that the fact that 275 aircraft have been installed with Jet ConneX in such a short space of time is a major endorsement of the service from customers. In the business aviation market, it's clear that manufacturers, owners and passengers all compete to have the very best products and services, so positive word-of-mouth about standout offerings travels fast.\nHe continued saying that early adopters of Jet ConneX from Fortune 500 flight departments have put the solution through their own rigorous testing and commended its merits after experiencing the results first-hand. Without their endorsement they would not be reaching this milestone so quickly. Inmarsat is delighted that manufacturers, maintenance professionals and owners all recognize the unparalleled quality and potential of this solution. Since entering commercial service, Jet ConneX adoption has made ground-breaking progress globally and they see no signs of it slowing down. Demand continues to be incredibly strong among executive travelers, particularly among Fortune 500 companies, and they look forward to even more activations in the coming months.\nAircraft connect to the service using Jet Wave hardware, which is manufactured exclusively by Honeywell Aerospace. To date, more than 1,000 of these JetWave systems have already been delivered by Honeywell to business aviation and commercial airline customers","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
+{"text":"It's Sooo Hot in the City! Cheap (or free!) Activities To Do With Kids of All Ages in NYC during the summer\nParent Category: Advice - Activities\nCategory: Activities Advice Articles, Summer Fun, Kid Friendly New York\nAre you looking for fun ideas with what to do with your toddlers & Kids this summer? Here are some tips & suggestions that PSP Members have shared. Do you have any you would like to add? Let us know!\nOutdoors:\nFerries, Transport & Islands\nIndoors:\nMuseums & Libraries\nFrom NYC.gov: Beat the Heat\nOutdoor Activities:\nOne parent says, \"go to a Splash Pad or Playground with water features (the LeFrak Center in Prospect Park, Harmony Playground, Imagination Playground, Brooklyn Bridge Park).\"\nOther parks and playground suggestions:\nBotanical Gardens - \"is free on Tuesday and before noon on Saturday!\"\nProspect Park - \"Pretend to be explorers in Prospect Park! As one parent shares: \"One of my favorite free places to take my boys (2.5 and 4.5) is the woods in prospect park. the whole east side of the park has random trails that are fun to get lost on. I usually just let them lead the way and I follow. Yes, sometimes we walk in circles but that's actually really fun when they realize that we've just come back to where we were.\"\nPier 6 - \"Pier 6 is awesome. Has super huge sand park, water area and climbing gyms.\"\nBattery Park City - \"I really like Battery Park City in the summer. There is so much there you can spend a whole day...the slides, the mini golf, the older playground with trapeze nets and interesting pedal horse toy, the poetry library, a cool Irish monument\/installation, tribeca playground is well shaded and has water play and whole foods is a great place to eat. I always have a good time. Plus you are right on the water and can just feel the breeze.\"\nHudson south of 14th Street - \"If in Manhattan, playground on Hudson just south of 14th street is small but has nice playground, water, and sand combination (and free star gazing--saw Hugh Jackson there)\nConey Island - HERE is an article from a local mom shared about her trip to Coney Island.\nStaten Island Ferry - \"The Staten Island ferry is free and, while not indoors, cool and comfortable, with great views. There's also the ferry to Ikea from lower Manhattan, or the bus to Ikea (Ikea has very cheap kids' meals).\"\nGovernors Island - \"The ferry leaves from pier 6 in Brooklyn.\"\nRoosevelt Island - one parents recently took the tramway to Roosevelt Island and reported: \"My daughter loved it.\" This parent also shares that \"no food is allowed at new FDR memorial.\"\nThe Subway - \"Also want to mention that for us, just riding the subways is a great way to stay cool and have fun. My young son is completely entranced by the train and actually cries when we leave the subway platform.\"\nGo HERE for read more tips PSP about local pools and Brooklyn and be sure to check the NYC Parks website HERE for opening and closing times (often city pools close for an hour in the afternoon for cleaning).\nJacob Riis - \"There's a whole food court complete with hammocks, tables with shade and bands\/djs. A fun scene. Info here.\"\nBrighton Beach - \"I love Brighton Beach- easy drive, I always find parking, and have been taking my girl (now 8) almost since she was born\"\nRobert Moses Beach - \"Robert Moses Beach is an hour away on Long Island but gorgeous and worth it. It had parking, showers, rentals for chairs and umbrellas and a concession stand. I just went Monday for the day. Sometimes a little traffic heading back of you leave between 5 and 6 but again worth it.\nRockaways (pictured) - \"Easy access by the A train.\"\nZoos & Acquariums\nWildlife Conservation Society - \"My best recommendation for your kid's ages is to get a membership from WCS - a membership to them gets you free admission to all the zoos in NYC and the aquarium. The Aquarium has parking and it is on the coney island walkway so you have beach (not the nicest beach in the world but suitable for a little running around and splashing) and an amusement park, plus the baseball field all nearby. The aquariums and the zoos all have indoor and outdoor spaces so you can get out of the heat. You can even take the kids to a 3D movie at the zoos. We are also members of the Natural History Museum - rain or heat - its a great place to skip the lines, let the kids wander, and learn a thing or two - from dinosaurs to space this is the best kids museum in the city. Most the big museums in NY are priced for SUGGESTED DONATION so feel free to pay what you can afford not what they ask. But the reason you get a membership is to skip the lines - and its worth every penny.\"\nBrooklyn Museum - Check out the free first Saturday events. One parent also suggestion the \"Egyptian Collection at The Brooklyn Museum.\"\nNew York Transit Museum\nNatural History Museum - \"Go up to the Ross Terrace, where there are dancing fountains kids can play in.\"\nThe Children's Museum of the Arts - \"I am also a big fan of Childrens Museum of the Arts in Soho. It is not an affiliate of the above museums, so you pay per visit or can become a member. They have a very hands on art program. They also have free hands-on classes on Governor's Island (the calendar for governor's island - you get the ferry for free at the playground at the pier where Atlantic avenue ends).\"\nBrooklyn Children's Museum - \"Get a membership to the Childrens Museums - now there are two Childrens museums in NYC - one is the Childrens Museum of Manhattan and one is the Brooklyn Childrens Museum - they are both members of the same museum society so you should be able to buy one membership and go to Both BUT THAT IS NOT HOW IT WORKS - they have created a special exception so you cant use your card at both places BUT you can become a member of an affiliated museum - Like Port Discovery in Baltimore and then you get free admission to both NYC museums. You do not however get to skip the lines like members of the NYC museum can, and you dont get discounts on classes etc. But, it saves you money and gives you options. If you already had a membership in your old location, it may be valid here - I know we have used ours in Atlanta, Houston and CA.\"\nMuseum of Mathematics - 6th St btwn 5th\/Madison - \"Yes, many of the concepts would be lost on a toddler but it's an amazing place and there were so many fun things for my 18mo to do. A plus is that Madison Square Park is just around the corner and on Tues\/Thurs mornings (10:30AM) they host free kid concerts, art and more until Aug 8th. We saw Recess Monkey last week and they were awesome! There's also a nice playground (w\/overhead sprinkler!) in the park.\"\nThe Brooklyn Public Library - view what PSP members say about BPL here for the central branch, the Park Slope branch, and the Brooklyn Public Library Cafe!\nMore on PSP: Kid Approved Art, Museum & Music Events\nLocal & Private Businesses\nIkea - \"Sounds odd, but if you can get there, there's a lot of good playing to be had in the kids' room vignettes and toy department, and the food is super cheap.\" and another parent also suggests it for being \"Cheap! Ferry! Kids' meals in the restaurant are seriously cheap (and even free on Tuesdays).\" And as another parent says, \"there is plenty of space to play (and there is a child play area) in the IKEA in Red Hook, and its lovely to have lunch at the Fairway in Red Hook and then walk along the water to one of the near by Parks.\"\nToys-R-Us - \"Toys R Us Times Square (has an indoor Ferris wheel and life-sized T-Rex dinosaur, in addition to a train table and gigantic Barbie dollhouse).\"\nBarnes & Noble - \"has story times during the week.\"\nScholastic Store\nWorld Financial Center - One parents describes how it \"has lots of great restaurants and stores. Plus, they offer free arts programming.\"\nAMC Theaters - Go see a movie! \"AMC Theaters offer half-price movies before noon, every day. There are none in our neighborhood, but some in Manhattan are easily reachable.\"\nCoffee shops and restaurants - see PSP reviews HERE for local restaurants and cafes.\nClick HERE to read more reviews and recommendations on PSP about Play Spaces in Brooklyn\nGot a Teenager and looking for things to do? Get some ideas HERE.\nPhoto credits: Staten Island photo via here: https:\/\/flic.kr\/p\/RJstjd, Rockaway photo via here: https:\/\/flic.kr\/p\/cgb9to, Natural History Museum via here: https:\/\/flic.kr\/p\/SaMwQp, all other photos via Pixabay","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
+{"text":"Nation in Remarque's All Quiet on the Western Front and Eastwood's Flags of Our Fathers\nBrent M. Smith-Casanueva, Stony Brook University\nIn his article \"Nation in Remarque's All Quiet on the Western Front and Eastwood's Flags of Our Fathers\" Brent M. Smith-Casanueva explores the commonalities between the antiwar narratives of Erich Maria Remarque's novel All Quiet on the Western Front (1929) and Clint Eastwood's film Flags of our Fathers (2006). Taking the position that narration of nation must be considered a site of hegemonic struggle, Smith-Casanueva argues that both texts employ a similar deconstructive logic to subvert the nationalist discourses and dominant war narratives of their respective nations and the national myths constructed through these narratives. In particular, both All Quiet on the Western Front and Flags of our Fathers destabilize narration of nation through challenging dominant war narratives' claim to a universality of national interests and the essentializing character of national myth, as well as through disrupting the linear temporality of narration of nation.\nSmith-Casanueva, Brent M. \"Nation in Remarque's All Quiet on the Western Front and Eastwood's Flags of Our Fathers.\" CLCWeb: Comparative Literature and Culture 14.1 (2012): <https:\/\/doi.org\/10.7771\/1481-4374.1758>\nThe above text, published by Purdue University Press \u00a9Purdue University, has been downloaded 4692 times as of 07\/01\/19.\nComparative Literature Commons, Critical and Cultural Studies Commons","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
+{"text":"Salesforce.com Named to Ethisphere's \"World's Most Ethical Companies\" List for Fifth Consecutive Year\nSalesforce.com recognized for exceptional ethical leadership along with Adidas, American Express, Ford Motor Company, PepsiCo, Starbucks and Xerox Corporation\nSAN FRANCISCO, April 27, 2011 \u2013 Salesforce.com [NYSE: CRM], the enterprise cloud computing (http:\/\/www.salesforce.com\/cloudcomputing\/) company, today announced it has been recognized by the Ethisphere Institute as one of the World's Most Ethical Companies for the fifth consecutive year. Salesforce.com is joined by industry leaders Adidas, American Express, Ford Motor Company, PepsiCo, Starbucks and Xerox Corporation on the list for standout efforts in ethics and compliance. According to Ethisphere, \"they are the companies who force other companies to follow their leadership or fall behind. These are the companies who use ethical leadership as a profit driver.\"\n\u2022\t\"We are honored to make Ethisphere's list of the world's most ethical companies for the fifth straight year,\" said Marc Benioff, chairman and CEO of salesforce.com. \"Transparency and trust have always been key values at salesforce.com, and have a direct impact on our ability to deliver success to our customers,\"\n\u2022\t\"As companies strive to maintain a competitive advantage, good ethics translate into better business, and better business means better bottom lines. Salesforce.com recognizes the important role that principled practices play in brand reputation, which ultimately is the most valuable asset for a corporation,\" said Alex Brigham, executive director of the Ethisphere Institute. \"Each year, the competition gets more intense for the World's Most Ethical Companies and this year was no exception with a record number of organizations vying for this distinguished honor. Ethisphere congratulates salesforce.com on being one of the 2011 World's Most Ethical Companies.\"\nAbout the 2011 World's Most Ethical Companies\n\u2022\tThis is the fifth year Ethisphere, a think-tank dedicated to the creation, advancement and sharing of best practices in business ethics, corporate social responsibility, anti-corruption and sustainability, has published the WME rankings, which appear in Ethisphere Magazine's Q1 issue.\n\u2022\tThe methodology for the WME ranking includes reviewing codes of ethics, litigation and regulatory infraction histories; evaluating the investment in innovation and sustainable business practices; looking at activities designed to improve corporate citizenship; and studying nominations from senior executives, industry peers, suppliers and customers.\n\u2022\tEthisphere reviewed thousands of companies and evaluated a record number of applications utilizing its propriety methodology through in-depth research and multi-step analysis, naming 110 companies that surpassed their industry peers to this year's World's Most Ethical Companies. The 2011 list features companies in 38 industries including 43 companies headquartered outside the United States.\n\u2022\tRead about the methodology and view the complete list of the 2011 World's Most Ethical Companies at http:\/\/ethisphere.com\/worlds-most-ethical-companies-rankings\/.\nAbout Ethisphere Institute\nThe research-based Ethisphere Institute is a leading international think-tank dedicated to the creation, advancement and sharing of best practices in business ethics, corporate social responsibility, anti-corruption and sustainability. The Institute's associated membership groups, the Ethisphere Council and Business Ethics Leadership Alliance, are forums for business ethics that includes over 200 leading corporations, universities and institutions. These groups are dedicated to the development and advancement of members through increased efficiency, innovation, tools, mentoring, advice, and unique career opportunities. Ethisphere Magazine, which publishes the globally recognized World's Most Ethical Companies Ranking\u2122, is the quarterly publication of the Institute. Ethisphere provides the only third-party verifications of compliance programs and ethical cultures, Ethics Inside Certification\u00ae, Anti-Corruption Leader Verification and Compliance Program Verification. More information on the Ethisphere Institute, including ranking projects and membership, can be found at http:\/\/www.ethisphere.com.","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
+{"text":"Birdhouses 101 - Northern Saw-Whet Owl\nNorthern Saw-Whet Owl\nAbout The Northern Saw-Whet Owl\nThe Northern Saw-Whet Owl is a quite a small owl that resides in just about all sorts of woodlands. During winter, the Northern Saw-whet Owl is found roosting in dense, small coniferous trees. When found, this type of owl only sits still in its perch, which gives off the impression that it is usually docile by nature. It measures at about 7 to 8 inches in length, and it has no tufts on the ears. It has a characteristic white face that is defined with brown and white outlines. Its undersides are a brown-streaked white, while the back, tail and wings brown and white-spotted. It has yellow eyes, a black bill, white stripes on its brown forehead, and white marking above and in between the eyes that is shaped like the letter Y.\nThe Northern Saw-Whet Owl Nesting Preferences\nThe female of this breed has 5 to 6 eggs at a time, and incubates them, while the male gathers food for her. This continues until the end of the brooding period of about 18 days. After that, she is free to help the male gather food for the young ones, or sometimes leave the nest to find a new partner to bring up a new brood. After about 30 days from hatching, the young ones may leave the nest, but still depend on its parents' feeding. Nonetheless, Northern Saw-whet Owls younglings can fly quite well upon leaving the nest.\nBuilding a Birdhouse For The Northern Saw-Whet Owl\nThe Northern Saw-whet Owl readily uses birdhouses. The basic specifications for the birdhouse are 8 inches length x 8 inches width x 14 inches height. Its entrance should be 3 inches across, and the birdhouse elevated at 10 to 30 feet from the ground. Some chips of wood on the flooring will help make the birdhouse feel more like home for this species.\nThe Northern Saw-Whet Owl Mating Habits\nIn general Northern Saw-whet Owls are monogamous, though polygamy becomes common when there is an abundance of prey. The male owls select and guard their territories, where he lures the opposite sex by calling. Females, on the other hand, get to select the cavity in which the nest will be situated. Usually, the cavities are old nest holes of Northern Flickers or others of the woodpecker kind. They may choose different nest-hole locations every year.\nThe Northern Saw-Whet Owl Feeding Preferences\nRodents are a main part of the Northern Saw-whet Owls' diet\u2014deer mice might be a favorite. Other possible fares include voles, young squirrels, shrews, other tiny mammals, large insects and tiny birds. It normally hunts during the night, waiting at low perches.\nInteresting Northern Saw-Whet Owl Facts\nAs the female Northern Saw-whet Owl tends to do most brooding and incubation of its young ones, it only leaves the nest for just up to two quick trips every night, usually to rid itself of waste.\nWhen Northern Saw-whet Owls eat adult mice, these are usually divided to as two separate meals. This specie is scientifically named Aegolius acadicus. It is classified as order Strigiformes and family Strigidae.","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
+{"text":"\/ Getty Images To Go Public In $4.8B SPAC Deal\nGetty Images To Go Public In $4.8B SPAC Deal\ntbonepickens November 19, 2021\nGetty Images, the famous licensee of stock images and videos to businesses and news outlets, is returning to the public markets. This time, it's through the route of merging with a special-purpose acquisition company (SPAC).\nGetty has agreed to merge with CC Neuberger Principal Holdings II (NYSE: PRPB), a SPAC formed as a partnership between investment firms CC Capital and Neuberger Berman. The merger values Getty Images at $4.8bn and is expected to raise cash proceeds of $1.2bn, barring investor redemptions.\nThe cash proceeds include funds held in trust by the SPAC ($720mn), subject to investor redemptions, and additional investments committed by CC Capital and Neuberger Berman. The average redemption rate in SPAC deals was 52% in this year's third quarter, so we can expect a significant part of the cash held in the trust to be handed back \"redeemed\" to investors. CC Capital and Neuberger Berman, the sponsors, have committed up to $300mn to backstop investor redemptions to curb this.\nWith this deal, Getty is returning to the public markets that it first stepped into with a 1996 IPO and got out of in 2008 when it sold to private equity firm Hellman & Friedman for $2.4bn. Hellman, in 2012, sold Getty to a rival PE firm, Carlyle Group, for $3.3bn; and Carlyle, in 2018, sold the company to the founding Getty Family for an undisclosed price. It's the family that'll mainly benefit from this SPAC merger, and secondly, Carlyle, which held onto some minority financial interest in Getty following the sale.\nAs expected with SPAC mergers, Getty Images opened the books into its finances. The company brought in $814mn in revenue in 2020, down from $846mn in 2019 and $868mn in 2018. It posted a net loss of $39mn in 2020, down from $51mn in 2019. Getty has significant debt on its books, and interest payments on that debt is a primary reason for its losses. In fact, the company says it'll use $576mn of its merger proceeds to pay down debt.\nGetty has a simple business model, selling licensed images and videos to businesses and news outlets. Lately, the subscription model for licensed footage is making up a great deal of Getty's revenue, 46% in 2020 compared to 29% in 2016. The company says it's looking towards markets outside the western hemisphere for growth prospects.\nGetty Images' business also includes the stock photo marketplaces iStock and Unsplash.\nFollowing the merger, Getty will start trading on the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) with the ticker symbol \"GETY\".\nGetty Images raises $500 million from Koch investment arm\nSPAC: BuzzFeed To Go Public In $1.5B Deal\nSPAC: Fintech Startup Acorns To Go Public In $2.2B Deal\nFertitta Entertainment To Go Public With SPAC Deal\nICE's Bakkt To Go Public With SPAC Deal\nPrev News\nGerman Grocery Startup Flink Raises $750M, Valued At $2.9B\nDeal: Pfizer Buys Drugmaker Arena Pharmaceuticals For $6.7B","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
+{"text":"Suzanne B. Matthews\nSuzanne B. Matthews - Canton, MA\n742 Washington StCanton, MA 02021- 3039\nCanton Family Law Firm\nAttorney Matthews is a 1976 graduate of Boston College and a 1985 graduate of Suffolk University School of Law. She was admitted to practice law in 1985.\nFrom 1985 through 1988, Attorney Matthews was an Assistant Attorney General in Consumer Protection Division of the Massachusetts Department of the Attorney General where she handled litigation in the Supreior Court. From 1988 through 1989, she was an Assistant Attorney General in the Executive Division where she handled...\nFrom 1985 through 1988, Attorney Matthews was an Assistant Attorney General in Consumer Protection Division of the Massachusetts Department of the Attorney General where she handled litigation in the Supreior Court. From 1988 through 1989, she was an Assistant Attorney General in the Executive Division where she handled administrative appellate matters. She joined Cosgrove, Eisenberg and Kiley, P.C. in September 1990 and continued in this firm until June of 1999. While at the firm during that time she concentrated in domestic relations and employment law. Since 1999 Attorney Matthews has practiced law as a sole practitioner in Canton, MA concentrating on zoning and real estate law, domestic relations and civil litigation. In 2009, she rejoined Cosgrove, Eisenberg and Kiley, P.C. on a part-time basis, where she again focuses on the practice of domestic relations and civil litigation. She also continues to handle real estate and zoning law.\nAttorney Matthews is a member of the Norfolk Bar Association and the Massachusetts Bar Association.\nAbout Suzanne B. Matthews\nCivil Litigations\nSuzanne B. Matthews (Attorney)","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
+{"text":"This article includes a list of general references, but it remains largely unverified because it lacks sufficient corresponding inline citations . Please help to improve this article by introducing more precise citations.(December 2013) (Learn how and when to remove this template message)\nOne of the Seven basic tools of quality\nFirst described by\nWalter A. Shewhart\nTo determine whether a process should undergo a formal examination for quality-related problems\nControl charts, also known as Shewhart charts (after Walter A. Shewhart) or process-behavior charts, are a statistical process control tool used to determine if a manufacturing or business process is in a state of control. It is more appropriate to say that the control charts are the graphical device for Statistical Process Monitoring (SPM). Traditional control charts are mostly designed to monitor process parameters when underlying form of the process distributions are known. However, more advanced techniques are available in the 21st century where incoming data streaming can-be monitored even without any knowledge of the underlying process distributions. Distribution-free control charts are becoming increasingly popular.\nChart details\nChart usage\nChoice of limits\nCalculation of standard deviation\nRules for detecting signals\nAlternative bases\nPerformance of control charts\nCriticisms\nTypes of charts\nIf analysis of the control chart indicates that the process is currently under control (i.e., is stable, with variation only coming from sources common to the process), then no corrections or changes to process control parameters are needed or desired. In addition, data from the process can be used to predict the future performance of the process. If the chart indicates that the monitored process is not in control, analysis of the chart can help determine the sources of variation, as this will result in degraded process performance. [1] A process that is stable but operating outside desired (specification) limits (e.g., scrap rates may be in statistical control but above desired limits) needs to be improved through a deliberate effort to understand the causes of current performance and fundamentally improve the process. [2]\nThe control chart is one of the seven basic tools of quality control. [3] Typically control charts are used for time-series data, also known as continuous data or variable data. Although they can also be used for data that has logical comparability (i.e. you want to compare samples that were taken all at the same time, or the performance of different individuals); however the type of chart used to do this requires consideration. [4]\nThe control chart was invented by Walter A. Shewhart working for Bell Labs in the 1920s. [5] The company's engineers had been seeking to improve the reliability of their telephony transmission systems. Because amplifiers and other equipment had to be buried underground, there was a stronger business need to reduce the frequency of failures and repairs. By 1920, the engineers had already realized the importance of reducing variation in a manufacturing process. Moreover, they had realized that continual process-adjustment in reaction to non-conformance actually increased variation and degraded quality. Shewhart framed the problem in terms of Common- and special-causes of variation and, on May 16, 1924, wrote an internal memo introducing the control chart as a tool for distinguishing between the two. Shewhart's boss, George Edwards, recalled: \"Dr. Shewhart prepared a little memorandum only about a page in length. About a third of that page was given over to a simple diagram which we would all recognize today as a schematic control chart. That diagram, and the short text which preceded and followed it set forth all of the essential principles and considerations which are involved in what we know today as process quality control.\" [6] Shewhart stressed that bringing a production process into a state of statistical control, where there is only common-cause variation, and keeping it in control, is necessary to predict future output and to manage a process economically.\nShewhart created the basis for the control chart and the concept of a state of statistical control by carefully designed experiments. While Shewhart drew from pure mathematical statistical theories, he understood that data from physical processes typically produce a \"normal distribution curve\" (a Gaussian distribution, also commonly referred to as a \"bell curve\"). He discovered that observed variation in manufacturing data did not always behave the same way as data in nature (Brownian motion of particles). Shewhart concluded that while every process displays variation, some processes display controlled variation that is natural to the process, while others display uncontrolled variation that is not present in the process causal system at all times. [7]\nIn 1924, or 1925, Shewhart's innovation came to the attention of W. Edwards Deming, then working at the Hawthorne facility. Deming later worked at the United States Department of Agriculture and became the mathematical advisor to the United States Census Bureau. Over the next half a century, Deming became the foremost champion and proponent of Shewhart's work. After the defeat of Japan at the close of World War II, Deming served as statistical consultant to the Supreme Commander for the Allied Powers. His ensuing involvement in Japanese life, and long career as an industrial consultant there, spread Shewhart's thinking, and the use of the control chart, widely in Japanese manufacturing industry throughout the 1950s and 1960s.\nA control chart consists of:\nPoints representing a statistic (e.g., a mean, range, proportion) of measurements of a quality characteristic in samples taken from the process at different times (i.e., the data)\nThe mean of this statistic using all the samples is calculated (e.g., the mean of the means, mean of the ranges, mean of the proportions) - or for a reference period against which change can be assessed. Similarly a median can be used instead.\nA centre line is drawn at the value of the mean or median of the statistic\nThe standard deviation (e.g., sqrt(variance) of the mean) of the statistic is calculated using all the samples - or again for a reference period against which change can be assessed. in the case of XmR charts, strictly it is an approximation of standard deviation, the [ clarification needed ] does not make the assumption of homogeneity of process over time that the standard deviation makes.\nUpper and lower control limits (sometimes called \"natural process limits\") that indicate the threshold at which the process output is considered statistically 'unlikely' and are drawn typically at 3 standard deviations from the center line\nThe chart may have other optional features, including:\nMore restrictive upper and lower warning or control limits, drawn as separate lines, typically two standard deviations above and below the center line. This is regularly used when a process needs tighter controls on variability.\nDivision into zones, with the addition of rules governing frequencies of observations in each zone\nAnnotation with events of interest, as determined by the Quality Engineer in charge of the process' quality\nAction on special causes\n(n.b., there are several rule sets for detection of signal; this is just one set. The rule set should be clearly stated.)\nAny point outside the control limits\nA Run of 7 Points all above or all below the central line - Stop the production\nQuarantine and 100% check\nAdjust Process.\nCheck 5 Consecutive samples\nContinue The Process.\nA Run of 7 Point Up or Down - Instruction as above\nIf the process is in control (and the process statistic is normal), 99.7300% of all the points will fall between the control limits. Any observations outside the limits, or systematic patterns within, suggest the introduction of a new (and likely unanticipated) source of variation, known as a special-cause variation. Since increased variation means increased quality costs, a control chart \"signaling\" the presence of a special-cause requires immediate investigation.\nThis makes the control limits very important decision aids. The control limits provide information about the process behavior and have no intrinsic relationship to any specification targets or engineering tolerance. In practice, the process mean (and hence the centre line) may not coincide with the specified value (or target) of the quality characteristic because the process design simply cannot deliver the process characteristic at the desired level.\nControl charts limit specification limits or targets because of the tendency of those involved with the process (e.g., machine operators) to focus on performing to specification when in fact the least-cost course of action is to keep process variation as low as possible. Attempting to make a process whose natural centre is not the same as the target perform to target specification increases process variability and increases costs significantly and is the cause of much inefficiency in operations. Process capability studies do examine the relationship between the natural process limits (the control limits) and specifications, however.\nThe purpose of control charts is to allow simple detection of events that are indicative of an increase in process variability. [8] This simple decision can be difficult where the process characteristic is continuously varying; the control chart provides statistically objective criteria of change. When change is detected and considered good its cause should be identified and possibly become the new way of working, where the change is bad then its cause should be identified and eliminated.\nThe purpose in adding warning limits or subdividing the control chart into zones is to provide early notification if something is amiss. Instead of immediately launching a process improvement effort to determine whether special causes are present, the Quality Engineer may temporarily increase the rate at which samples are taken from the process output until it is clear that the process is truly in control. Note that with three-sigma limits, common-cause variations result in signals less than once out of every twenty-two points for skewed processes and about once out of every three hundred seventy (1\/370.4) points for normally distributed processes. [9] The two-sigma warning levels will be reached about once for every twenty-two (1\/21.98) plotted points in normally distributed data. (For example, the means of sufficiently large samples drawn from practically any underlying distribution whose variance exists are normally distributed, according to the Central Limit Theorem.)\nShewhart set 3-sigma (3-standard deviation) limits on the following basis.\nThe coarse result of Chebyshev's inequality that, for any probability distribution, the probability of an outcome greater than k standard deviations from the mean is at most 1\/k2.\nThe finer result of the Vysochanskii\u2013Petunin inequality, that for any unimodal probability distribution, the probability of an outcome greater than k standard deviations from the mean is at most 4\/(9k2).\nIn the Normal distribution, a very common probability distribution, 99.7% of the observations occur within three standard deviations of the mean (see Normal distribution).\nShewhart summarized the conclusions by saying:\n... the fact that the criterion which we happen to use has a fine ancestry in highbrow statistical theorems does not justify its use. Such justification must come from empirical evidence that it works. As the practical engineer might say, the proof of the pudding is in the eating. [10]\nAlthough he initially experimented with limits based on probability distributions, Shewhart ultimately wrote:\nSome of the earliest attempts to characterize a state of statistical control were inspired by the belief that there existed a special form of frequency function f and it was early argued that the normal law characterized such a state. When the normal law was found to be inadequate, then generalized functional forms were tried. Today, however, all hopes of finding a unique functional form f are blasted. [11]\nThe control chart is intended as a heuristic. Deming insisted that it is not a hypothesis test and is not motivated by the Neyman\u2013Pearson lemma. He contended that the disjoint nature of population and sampling frame in most industrial situations compromised the use of conventional statistical techniques. Deming's intention was to seek insights into the cause system of a process ...under a wide range of unknowable circumstances, future and past....[ citation needed ] He claimed that, under such conditions, 3-sigma limits provided ... a rational and economic guide to minimum economic loss... from the two errors:[ citation needed ]\nAscribe a variation or a mistake to a special cause (assignable cause) when in fact the cause belongs to the system (common cause). (Also known as a Type I error or False Positive)\nAscribe a variation or a mistake to the system (common causes) when in fact the cause was a special cause (assignable cause). (Also known as a Type II error or False Negative)\nAs for the calculation of control limits, the standard deviation (error) required is that of the common-cause variation in the process. Hence, the usual estimator, in terms of sample variance, is not used as this estimates the total squared-error loss from both common- and special-causes of variation.\nAn alternative method is to use the relationship between the range of a sample and its standard deviation derived by Leonard H. C. Tippett, as an estimator which tends to be less influenced by the extreme observations which typify special-causes. [ citation needed ]\nThe most common sets are:\nThe Western Electric rules\nThe Wheeler rules (equivalent to the Western Electric zone tests [12] )\nThe Nelson rules\nThere has been particular controversy as to how long a run of observations, all on the same side of the centre line, should count as a signal, with 6, 7, 8 and 9 all being advocated by various writers.\nThe most important principle for choosing a set of rules is that the choice be made before the data is inspected. Choosing rules once the data have been seen tends to increase the Type I error rate owing to testing effects suggested by the data.\nIn 1935, the British Standards Institution, under the influence of Egon Pearson and against Shewhart's spirit, adopted control charts, replacing 3-sigma limits with limits based on percentiles of the normal distribution. This move continues to be represented by John Oakland and others but has been widely deprecated by writers in the Shewhart\u2013Deming tradition.\nWhen a point falls outside the limits established for a given control chart, those responsible for the underlying process are expected to determine whether a special cause has occurred. If one has, it is appropriate to determine if the results with the special cause are better than or worse than results from common causes alone. If worse, then that cause should be eliminated if possible. If better, it may be appropriate to intentionally retain the special cause within the system producing the results.[ citation needed ]\nEven when a process is in control (that is, no special causes are present in the system), there is approximately a 0.27% probability of a point exceeding 3-sigma control limits. So, even an in control process plotted on a properly constructed control chart will eventually signal the possible presence of a special cause, even though one may not have actually occurred. For a Shewhart control chart using 3-sigma limits, this false alarm occurs on average once every 1\/0.0027 or 370.4 observations. Therefore, the in-control average run length (or in-control ARL) of a Shewhart chart is 370.4.[ citation needed ]\nMeanwhile, if a special cause does occur, it may not be of sufficient magnitude for the chart to produce an immediate alarm condition. If a special cause occurs, one can describe that cause by measuring the change in the mean and\/or variance of the process in question. When those changes are quantified, it is possible to determine the out-of-control ARL for the chart.[ citation needed ]\nIt turns out that Shewhart charts are quite good at detecting large changes in the process mean or variance, as their out-of-control ARLs are fairly short in these cases. However, for smaller changes (such as a 1- or 2-sigma change in the mean), the Shewhart chart does not detect these changes efficiently. Other types of control charts have been developed, such as the EWMA chart, the CUSUM chart and the real-time contrasts chart, which detect smaller changes more efficiently by making use of information from observations collected prior to the most recent data point. [13]\nMany control charts work best for numeric data with Gaussian assumptions. The real-time contrasts chart was proposed to monitor process with complex characteristics, e.g. high-dimensional, mix numerical and categorical, missing-valued, non-Gaussian, non-linear relationship. [13]\nSeveral authors have criticised the control chart on the grounds that it violates the likelihood principle.[ citation needed ] However, the principle is itself controversial and supporters of control charts further argue that, in general, it is impossible to specify a likelihood function for a process not in statistical control, especially where knowledge about the cause system of the process is weak.[ citation needed ]\nSome authors have criticised the use of average run lengths (ARLs) for comparing control chart performance, because that average usually follows a geometric distribution, which has high variability and difficulties.[ citation needed ]\nSome authors have criticized that most control charts focus on numeric data. Nowadays, process data can be much more complex, e.g. non-Gaussian, mix numerical and categorical, or be missing-valued. [13]\nProcess observation\nProcess observations relationships\nProcess observations type\nSize of shift to detect\nx\u00af{\\displaystyle {\\bar {x}}} and R chart Quality characteristic measurement within one subgroup Independent Variables Large (\u2265 1.5\u03c3)\nx\u00af{\\displaystyle {\\bar {x}}} and s chart Quality characteristic measurement within one subgroup Independent Variables Large (\u2265 1.5\u03c3)\nShewhart individuals control chart (ImR chart or XmR chart) Quality characteristic measurement for one observation Independent Variables\u2020 Large (\u2265 1.5\u03c3)\nThree-way chart Quality characteristic measurement within one subgroup Independent Variables Large (\u2265 1.5\u03c3)\np-chart Fraction nonconforming within one subgroup Independent Attributes\u2020 Large (\u2265 1.5\u03c3)\nnp-chart Number nonconforming within one subgroup Independent Attributes\u2020 Large (\u2265 1.5\u03c3)\nc-chart Number of nonconformances within one subgroup Independent Attributes\u2020 Large (\u2265 1.5\u03c3)\nu-chart Nonconformances per unit within one subgroup Independent Attributes\u2020 Large (\u2265 1.5\u03c3)\nEWMA chart Exponentially weighted moving average of quality characteristic measurement within one subgroup Independent Attributes or variables Small (< 1.5\u03c3)\nCUSUM chart Cumulative sum of quality characteristic measurement within one subgroup Independent Attributes or variables Small (< 1.5\u03c3)\nTime series model Quality characteristic measurement within one subgroup Autocorrelated Attributes or variables N\/A\nRegression control chart Quality characteristic measurement within one subgroup Dependent of process control variables Variables Large (\u2265 1.5\u03c3)\n\u2020Some practitioners also recommend the use of Individuals charts for attribute data, particularly when the assumptions of either binomially distributed data (p- and np-charts) or Poisson-distributed data (u- and c-charts) are violated. [14] Two primary justifications are given for this practice. First, normality is not necessary for statistical control, so the Individuals chart may be used with non-normal data. [15] Second, attribute charts derive the measure of dispersion directly from the mean proportion (by assuming a probability distribution), while Individuals charts derive the measure of dispersion from the data, independent of the mean, making Individuals charts more robust than attributes charts to violations of the assumptions about the distribution of the underlying population. [16] It is sometimes noted that the substitution of the Individuals chart works best for large counts, when the binomial and Poisson distributions approximate a normal distribution. i.e. when the number of trials n > 1000 for p- and np-charts or \u03bb > 500 for u- and c-charts.\nCritics of this approach argue that control charts should not be used when their underlying assumptions are violated, such as when process data is neither normally distributed nor binomially (or Poisson) distributed. Such processes are not in control and should be improved before the application of control charts. Additionally, application of the charts in the presence of such deviations increases the type I and type II error rates of the control charts, and may make the chart of little practical use.[ citation needed ]\nAnalytic and enumerative statistical studies\nCommon cause and special cause\nDistribution-free control chart\nW. Edwards Deming\nSeven Basic Tools of Quality\nWilliam Edwards Deming was an American engineer, statistician, professor, author, lecturer, and management consultant. Educated initially as an electrical engineer and later specializing in mathematical physics, he helped develop the sampling techniques still used by the U.S. Department of the Census and the Bureau of Labor Statistics.\nSix Sigma (6\u03c3) is a set of techniques and tools for process improvement. It was introduced by American engineer Bill Smith while working at Motorola in 1986. A six sigma process is one in which 99.99966% of all opportunities to produce some feature of a part are statistically expected to be free of defects.\nA Z-test is any statistical test for which the distribution of the test statistic under the null hypothesis can be approximated by a normal distribution. Z-tests test the mean of a distribution. For each significance level in the confidence interval, the Z-test has a single critical value which makes it more convenient than the Student's t-test whose critical values are defined by the sample size.\nWalter Andrew Shewhart was an American physicist, engineer and statistician, sometimes known as the father of statistical quality control and also related to the Shewhart cycle.\nCommon and special causes are the two distinct origins of variation in a process, as defined in the statistical thinking and methods of Walter A. Shewhart and W. Edwards Deming. Briefly, \"common causes\", also called natural patterns, are the usual, historical, quantifiable variation in a system, while \"special causes\" are unusual, not previously observed, non-quantifiable variation.\nIn statistics, a sampling distribution or finite-sample distribution is the probability distribution of a given random-sample-based statistic. If an arbitrarily large number of samples, each involving multiple observations, were separately used in order to compute one value of a statistic for each sample, then the sampling distribution is the probability distribution of the values that the statistic takes on. In many contexts, only one sample is observed, but the sampling distribution can be found theoretically.\nThe standard error (SE) of a statistic is the standard deviation of its sampling distribution or an estimate of that standard deviation. If the statistic is the sample mean, it is called the standard error of the mean (SEM).\nStatistical process control (SPC) is a method of quality control which employs statistical methods to monitor and control a process. This helps to ensure that the process operates efficiently, producing more specification-conforming products with less waste. SPC can be applied to any process where the \"conforming product\" output can be measured. Key tools used in SPC include run charts, control charts, a focus on continuous improvement, and the design of experiments. An example of a process where SPC is applied is manufacturing lines.\nIn probability theory and statistics, the coefficient of variation (CV), also known as relative standard deviation (RSD), is a standardized measure of dispersion of a probability distribution or frequency distribution. It is often expressed as a percentage, and is defined as the ratio of the standard deviation to the mean . The CV or RSD is widely used in analytical chemistry to express the precision and repeatability of an assay. It is also commonly used in fields such as engineering or physics when doing quality assurance studies and ANOVA gauge R&R. In addition, CV is utilized by economists and investors in economic models.\nThe Western Electric rules are decision rules in statistical process control for detecting out-of-control or non-random conditions on control charts. Locations of the observations relative to the control chart control limits and centerline indicate whether the process in question should be investigated for assignable causes. The Western Electric rules were codified by a specially-appointed committee of the manufacturing division of the Western Electric Company and appeared in the first edition of a 1956 handbook, that became a standard text of the field. Their purpose was to ensure that line workers and engineers interpret control charts in a uniform way.\nIn statistical process monitoring (SPM), the and R chart is a type of scheme, popularly known as control chart, used to monitor the mean and range of a normally distributed variables simultaneously, when samples are collected at regular intervals from a business or industrial process. It is often used to monitor the variables data but the performance of the and R chart may suffer when the normality assumption is not valid. This is connected to traditional statistical quality control (SQC) and statistical process control (SPC). However, Woodall noted that \"I believe that the use of control charts and other monitoring methods should be referred to as \"statistical process monitoring,\" not \"statistical process control (SPC).\"\"\nA process is a unique combination of tools, materials, methods, and people engaged in producing a measurable output; for example a manufacturing line for machine parts. All processes have inherent statistical variability which can be evaluated by statistical methods.\nIn statistical quality control, the p-chart is a type of control chart used to monitor the proportion of nonconforming units in a sample, where the sample proportion nonconforming is defined as the ratio of the number of nonconforming units to the sample size, n.\nNatural process variation, sometimes just called process variation, is the statistical description of natural fluctuations in process outputs.\nIn statistics, the 68\u201395\u201399.7 rule, also known as the empirical rule, is a shorthand used to remember the percentage of values that lie within an interval estimate in a normal distribution: 68%, 95%, and 99.7% of the values lie within one, two, and three standard deviations of the mean, respectively.\nIn statistical quality control, the individual\/moving-range chart is a type of control chart used to monitor variables data from a business or industrial process for which it is impractical to use rational subgroups.\nIn statistical quality control, the and s chart is a type of control chart used to monitor variables data when samples are collected at regular intervals from a business or industrial process. This is connected to traditional statistical quality control (SQC) and statistical process control (SPC). However, Woodall noted that \"I believe that the use of control charts and other monitoring methods should be referred to as \"statistical process monitoring,\" not \"statistical process control (SPC).\"\"\nLaboratory quality control is designed to detect, reduce, and correct deficiencies in a laboratory's internal analytical process prior to the release of patient results, in order to improve the quality of the results reported by the laboratory. Quality control is a measure of precision, or how well the measurement system reproduces the same result over time and under varying operating conditions. Laboratory quality control material is usually run at the beginning of each shift, after an instrument is serviced, when reagent lots are changed, after equipment calibration, and whenever patient results seem inappropriate. Quality control material should approximate the same matrix as patient specimens, taking into account properties such as viscosity, turbidity, composition, and color. It should be simple to use, with minimal vial-to-vial variability, because variability could be misinterpreted as systematic error in the method or instrument. It should be stable for long periods of time, and available in large enough quantities for a single batch to last at least one year. Liquid controls are more convenient than lyophilized (freeze-dried) controls because they do not have to be reconstituted, minimizing pipetting error.\nIn statistical quality control, the EWMA chart is a type of control chart used to monitor either variables or attributes-type data using the monitored business or industrial process's entire history of output. While other control charts treat rational subgroups of samples individually, the EWMA chart tracks the exponentially-weighted moving average of all prior sample means. EWMA weights samples in geometrically decreasing order so that the most recent samples are weighted most highly while the most distant samples contribute very little.\n\u2191 McNeese, William (July 2006). \"Over-controlling a Process: The Funnel Experiment\". BPI Consulting, LLC. Retrieved 2010-03-17.\n\u2191 Wheeler, Donald J. (2000). Understanding Variation. Knoxville, Tennessee: SPC Press. ISBN 978-0-945320-53-1.\n\u2191 Nancy R. Tague (2004). \"Seven Basic Quality Tools\". The Quality Toolbox. Milwaukee, Wisconsin: American Society for Quality. p. 15. Retrieved 2010-02-05.\n\u2191 A Poots, T Woodcock (2012). \"Statistical process control for data without inherent order\". BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making. 12: 86. doi:10.1186\/1472-6947-12-86. PMC 3464151 . PMID 22867269.\n\u2191 \"Western Electric History\". www.porticus.org. Archived from the original on 2011-01-27. Retrieved 2015-03-26.\n\u2191 \"Western Electric \u2013 A Brief History\". Archived from the original on 2008-05-11. Retrieved 2008-03-14.\n\u2191 \"Why SPC?\" British Deming Association SPC Press, Inc. 1992\n\u2191 Statistical Process Controls for Variable Data. Lean Six sigma. (n.d.). Retrieved from https:\/\/theengineeringarchive.com\/sigma\/page-variable-control-charts.html.\n\u2191 Wheeler, Donald J. (1 November 2010). \"Are You Sure We Don't Need Normally Distributed Data?\". Quality Digest. Retrieved 7 December 2010.\n\u2191 Shewhart, W A (1931). Economic Control of Quality of Manufactured Product. Van Nordstrom. p. 18.\n\u2191 Shewart, Walter Andrew; Deming, William Edwards (1939). Statistical Method from the Viewpoint of Quality Control. University of California: Graduate School, The Department of Agriculture. p. 12. ISBN 9780877710325.\n\u2191 Wheeler, Donald J.; Chambers, David S. (1992). Understanding statistical process control (2 ed.). Knoxville, Tennessee: SPC Press. p. 96. ISBN 978-0-945320-13-5. OCLC 27187772.\n1 2 3 Deng, H.; Runger, G.; Tuv, E. (2012). \"System monitoring with real-time contrasts\". Journal of Quality Technology. 44 (1). pp. 9\u201327. doi:10.1080\/00224065.2012.11917878. S2CID 119835984.\n\u2191 Wheeler, Donald J. (2000). Understanding Variation: the key to managing chaos. SPC Press. p. 140. ISBN 978-0-945320-53-1.\n\u2191 Staufer, Rip. \"Some Problems with Attribute Charts\". Quality Digest . Retrieved 2 Apr 2010.\n\u2191 Wheeler, Donald J. \"What About Charts for Count Data?\". Quality Digest . Retrieved 2010-03-23.\nDeming, W. E. (1975). \"On probability as a basis for action\". The American Statistician. 29 (4): 146\u2013152. CiteSeerX 10.1.1.470.9636 . doi:10.2307\/2683482. JSTOR 2683482.\nDeming, W. E. (1982). Out of the Crisis: Quality, Productivity and Competitive Position . ISBN 978-0-521-30553-2.\nDeng, H.; Runger, G.; Tuv, Eugene (2012). \"System monitoring with real-time contrasts\". Journal of Quality Technology. 44 (1): 9\u201327. doi:10.1080\/00224065.2012.11917878. S2CID 119835984.\nMandel, B. J. (1969). \"The Regression Control Chart\". Journal of Quality Technology. 1 (1): 1\u20139. doi:10.1080\/00224065.1969.11980341.\nOakland, J. (2002). Statistical Process Control. ISBN 978-0-7506-5766-2.\nShewhart, W. A. (1931). Economic Control of Quality of Manufactured Product. ISBN 978-0-87389-076-2.\nShewhart, W. A. (1939). Statistical Method from the Viewpoint of Quality Control. ISBN 978-0-486-65232-0.\nWheeler, D. J. (2000). Normality and the Process-Behaviour Chart. ISBN 978-0-945320-56-2.\nWheeler, D. J.; Chambers, D. S. (1992). Understanding Statistical Process Control. ISBN 978-0-945320-13-5.\nWheeler, Donald J. (1999). Understanding Variation: The Key to Managing Chaos (2nd ed.). SPC Press. 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+{"text":"Luxembourg Herald\nFresh News from the heart of Grand Duchy of Luxembourg\nGavin Williamson at centre of row over chancellor's cancelled China trip\n18th February 2019 Finance 21978\nThe defence secretary, Gavin Williamson, was at the centre of a growing cabinet row on Saturday night as senior government sources blamed him for offending the Chinese and causing the cancellation of a crucial trade visit to Beijing by the chancellor, Philip Hammond.\nSenior Conservatives said it was time to rein in Williamson, who has earned the nickname Private Pike in Whitehall after a series of gaffes. Treasury insiders said comments the defence secretary had made in a speech last week about sending the aircraft carrier HMS Queen Elizabeth to the Pacific had caused such \"clear irritation\" in Beijing that the trip scheduled for this weekend could not take place.\nThe Treasury issued an official comment saying \"the chancellor is not travelling to China at this time\" and adding that \"no trip was ever announced or confirmed\". But sources confirmed that Williamson's clumsy and undiplomatic language had caused real upset that had been relayed back to London by the Chinese authorities.\nThe result was that a visit that been planned for many weeks \u2013 and that would have focused on opening up Chinese markets to UK exports \u2013 has been put off until the diplomatic damage is repaired.\nWilliamson said in the speech last Monday that the aircraft carrier would be sent to an area where Beijing has been involved in a dispute over territorial claims in the South China Sea. The remarks incensed the Chinese just days before Hammond was due to arrive for a series of meetings, including one with the Chinese vice premier, Hu Chunhua.\nGovernment sources said there was disbelief across Whitehall departments, particularly as the comments came at a time when the UK is desperate to negotiate better trading arrangements across the globe as it prepares to leave the European Union on 29 March. Williamson said in his speech that the UK was prepared to use lethal force to deter countries that flout international law \u2013 an apparent reference to China's expansionist ambitions in the South China Sea.\nHammond and Williamson have had a tense relationship for months, partly as a result of the defence secretary's attempts to secure more money for his budget at a time when the chancellor has been under intense pressure to deliver more funds for the NHS.\nOn Saturday night former Tory cabinet minister and governor of Hong Kong Chris Patten said it was time to \"bring back the grown-ups\". Lord Patten said China should be welcomed to the global economic community, although it should play by the same rules as everyone else. He stressed that a careful diplomatic balance had to be struck: \"You don't win deals by cowering whenever China gets cross, nor on the other hand does stamping a foot persuade the Chinese that we are more important than we are.\"\nAnother senior Tory said Theresa May should issue an order to \"pipe down, Private Pike\".\nThe chairman of the all-party parliamentary group on China, the Tory MP Richard Graham, said: \"The crucial thing is that we do need to engage with China, and we do need to be sensitive with the tone, and I suspect that is where the issue is at the moment.\"\nSteve Tsang, the director of the School of Oriental and African Studies' China Institute, said: \"It is a silly thing for Gavin Williamson to have said, particularly when there is no compelling reason to say it now and the ship he was referring to is not even ready to send.\" But he added that there was nothing wrong, in principle, with a navy vessel sailing in the South China Sea. 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+{"text":"Home \u00bb Britam recovers from pandemic effects to post Sh376.3 in net profit\nBritam recovers from pandemic effects to post Sh376.3 in net profit\nBy Wanjiku Njugunah on August 31, 2021 Africa, Kenya\nBritam Building\/ courtesy\nRegional financial services firm, Britam Holdings PLC has posted a profit after tax of Kshs 376.3 million from a loss after tax of Kshs 1.6 billion posted in the six months ending June 2021.\nAccording to the firm, the improved performance is attributed to growth in premiums from new business and investment income from its broad investment portfolio.\nThe firm also registered significant growth in investment income following the moving of its investment portfolio to increase yields.\nInvestment income during the period grew to Kshs 4.9 billion, representing a 35 per cent growth compared to a similar period last year.\nThe Group also realized growth in revenue from both its local and regional businesses.\nThe regional businesses contributed 24 per cent of the Group's gross earned premiums.\nThe Group's gross earned premiums and fund management fees were up 5.7 per cent to Kshs 14.9 billion.\nBritam's Group Managing Director, Tavaziva Madzinga said: \"The Group remains optimistic of sustaining profitability in 2021 on the back of an improving operating environment and gains from our new transformative strategy. In the short term, we will however continue to pursue prudent cost management initiatives and maintain a stable solvency position.\"\nBritam recently completed its transformation process which entailed creating a leaner, agile and more customer-centric organization.\nBritam adopts survival tactics for market dynamics\nMadzinga added that the transformation exercise is expected to accelerate delivery of its new strategic plan, which focuses on preparing the firm for growth by organizing the business around delighting the customer; leveraging technology; turning around key cost drivers and optimizing the profile and returns of its investments.\nCommenting on the firm's outlook, the company said the operating environment remains uncertain as the effects of Covid-19 on economic activities continues to impact individuals, businesses, and the economy in general.\n\"As the local and regional economies recover from the effects of the Covid-19 pandemic, the firm is optimistic of improved performance across its local and regional businesses in the second half of 2021,\" the firm said.\nThe Board of Directors did not recommend the payment of an interim dividend for the six-month period to June 2021.\nDigital uptake\nThe results have been announced at a time when the firm says it has generated Kshs 1.4 billion in new business under its revamped digital channels following the outbreak of Covid-19 in 2020.\nThe company operationalized a digital business transformation strategy that saw investments in automation of operations to improve customer experience.\n\"Currently, business efficiency has increased by 30 per cent across all operations with transactions processing cycle-time reducing from over 7 days in 2019 to the current less than 24 hours,\" the company said.\nThe company has attributed its improved performance to growth in premiums from new business and investment income from its broad investment portfolio \/ courtesy\nBritam said the move enables customers to manage their insurance portfolios, update and process their policies. Additionally, they will also be able to purchase their preferred investment options from the comfort of their smartphones.\nMadzinga said that since they adopted a technology-led strategy, Britam has realized significant achievements.\n\"This move is firmly anchored in our 2021-2025 Strategic Plan that seeks to enhance customer experience by ensuring that we become a more customer centric organization. We are leveraging more on customer insights to drive relevant innovations\" he said.\nThe MD said the Covid-19 pandemic catalyzed a more digital-savvy approach to growing and retaining their customer numbers.\nBritam in yet another profit warning for 2018\nHe added: \"We will continue to digitize more products and grow customer numbers and revenue. Our plan is to fully eliminate manual processes by introducing standardized faster efficient systems by 2022.\nThe firm currently has digital partnerships with fintech and taxi-hailing apps to drive insurance and investment through innovative solutions and provide greater choices for customers.\nSome of the key digital partnerships under Britam's portfolio driving high investment appetite include \u2013 a partnership with KOA, a Kenya-based fintech startup, to support savings and investments penetration, a deal with Little Cab that will see it provide insurance cover to more than half a million customers currently using the taxi-hailing app service and a pact with Cellulant that aims to provide its customers in Kenya with a seamless digital platform that offers them access to savings and investment products\nBritam Holdings Featured Kenya Kenya Insurance Industry\nWanjiku Njugunah\nWanjiku Njuguna is a Kenyan-based business reporter with experience of more than eight years.\nKenyan SME Cake City opens ninth branch as part of ongoing expansion strategy\nKenya's economy to grow by 5% in 2023 amid rise in commodity prices\nKenyan startup Kwara raises US$3 million in funding, to acquire Kussco subsidiary","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
+{"text":"About \u2022 Paintings \u2022 Drawings \u2022 Illustrations \u2022 Contact\nMy inspiration is the natural world in all its forms: from my vegetable garden, woodland paths and its seasonal blooms, to fields of seed pods. I keep a knife in my purse and clippers in my car, foraging from feathers to flowers.\nI draw on my rich background in illustration and design to start my process. Com- position first, drawing second then painting. Sometimes I finish at a drawing. Other times I build up my paper with layers of paint, ink, and pencil, capturing the es- sence of the object. I paint with expression and energy. For me, that emotion is what I feel about the space or object.\n\"Bringing the outside world inside. I try to capture elements which represent the seasons of change. For just this moment they are still, a gift for us to enjoy.\"\nDiane Lemonides Biography\nDiane Lemonides was born in Brooklyn NY in 1960 and was raised on Long Island. She spent summers taking classes at the Art Students League in NYC and attended the Rhode Island School of Design summer program. Diane then attended and graduated from Carnegie Mellon University with a BFA in painting, with a focus on illustration. Upon graduation in 1983, she moved to Melbourne Australia, where she lived and worked as a painter and graphic designer in magazine publishing for three years. She returned to live and work in NYC, where she was the art di- rector for many magazines and book publishing companies. Diane launched her company, Verve Marketing & Design, recipient of local, national and global awards for creative excellence which is now celebrating its 30th year. Diane has been a passionate environmentalist and lover of the natural world all her life, from which she draws her creative inspiration. She resides in Glen Mills PA. with her husband, two adult sons, and rescue dog. Diane recently completed the Botanical Illustration program at Cornell University and is working on further expressing her painting voice to capture the natural world.\ncopyright: dianelemonides.com | phone: 484-319-1485 | email: LemonidesArt@gmail.com | instagram: @diane_lemonides_artist","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
+{"text":"Around UND\nLeaders in Action\nApril 6, 2017\tby Kaylee Cusack\nIn search of 'intellectual souvenirs'\nUND Atmospheric Sciences researcher is one of many faces temporarily leaving campus to bring back advanced work and knowledge\nUND Associate Professor of Atmospheric Sciences Gretchen Mullendore is one of 13 UND faculty members who have been approved for developmental leave opportunities in the coming academic year. The first part of her sabbatical will allow her to spend three months at Texas A&M University as a visiting scientist. Photo by Jackie Lorentz.\nGretchen Mullendore is one of those people who doesn't run from disasters\u2014she embraces them.\nThe UND associate professor of atmospheric sciences' research blows past wind speeds and rain gauges to discover how severe weather actually works.\n\"It's very hard to open up a storm. If you care about how a clock works, or how a radio works, you can open it up and look inside. But how do we look inside a big storm, particularly when it's really violent inside?\" Mullendore mused.\nLike the inner workings of a clock or a radio, Mullendore's research has many pieces. One question she must answer to bring the pieces together is how mid-latitude convection\u2014like convection in North Dakota\u2014differs from tropical convection. And to find that answer, she'll need some time away from campus.\nMullendore is one of 13 UND faculty members who have been approved for developmental leave opportunities in the coming academic year. The first part of her sabbatical will allow her to spend three months at Texas A&M University as a visiting scientist.\n\"I'm going to be collaborating with scientists who do more tropical work. I do a lot of mid-latitude work, so we can bring our theories together and learn from each other,\" she explained.\nMullendore will also sit in on tropical meteorology classes\u2014both undergraduate and graduate\u2014in hopes of developing those courses back at UND. From there, it's off to the University of Melbourne in Australia, where Mullendore will continue research toward a unified convective theory, but also gain more knowledge in turbulence due to convection and how storms affect aviation hazards.\n\"As air traffic has become more and more global, it's now typical for people to fly across the oceans. As part of that traffic, we have a lot of planes flying over tropical areas\u2014even if they're not going to tropical places,\" Mullendore said. \"We don't have very good observations of the kind of hazards that planes experience over the open oceans, particularly in tropical areas.\"\nDevelopmental importance\nIt's hard to be a pioneering scientist when one's schedule is filled with class time, meetings and other University commitments. Mullendore says her leave will allow her to focus her energy on not only research and course development, but also writing grant proposals to bring research funding to UND.\nBut she looks forward to her return to campus, and the intellectual souvenirs she'll share.\n\"The whole point of the University is to bring in ideas from all around the globe. We want our students to be able to experience the latest in research in all of the fields,\" she said. \"That might be the most important thing I'm bringing back\u2014not classroom material or anything, just excitement for science and the newest research going on.\"\n\"Gretchen is a phenomenal researcher and teacher,\" said UND Provost and Vice president for Academic Affairs Tom DiLorenzo. \"She is exactly the type of person we want to nurture and support through a developmental leave.\"\nDiLorenzo added that the University strongly supports being away from campus during developmental leave. \"Faculty need some time to work in external archives or someone else's laboratory and to learn new skills, so that they can grow their work and research and be more competitive in getting grants,\" he said.\nAccording to DiLorenzo, cancelling developmental leaves could have been an easy way to trim in a time of budget restraints. But he says the phenomenal quality of research and work that was completed last year helped the University decide that the program should carry on.\n\"In tight times, we should be spending money where our priorities are,\" DiLorenzo said. \"An important part of being a research university is having an opportunity to work on, update and extend one's teaching and research capabilities. I am pleased to say we're continuing to do that.\"\nWorld of research\nTwelve other faculty members were also approved for developmental leaves. The following are partial summaries of what their leaves will allow them to accomplish:\nXiaozhao Huang (English) \u2013 Huang will collaborate with scholars in China to collect data and analysis for research in the sociolinguistic use of Mandarin Chinese in particular social settings. He will also attend an academic conference that focuses on teaching English to non-native speakers, including K-12 students.\nMelissa Gjellstad (Languages) \u2013 Gjellstad will complete a manuscript and revise\/renew a previously unpublished scholarship, as well as complete a monograph entitled, \"Parental Parity: Mothers and Fathers in Millennial Norwegian Literature?\"\nEmily Cherry (Theatre Arts) \u2013 Cherry will serve as a guest artist at Texas Wesleyan University and will direct one of their productions. She will collaborate with an award-winning actor and teacher regarding the pedagogy of teaching acting courses in a university environment.\nMichael Niedzielski (Geography) \u2013 Niedzielski will develop new concepts and models in the area of accessibility research. He also plans to develop instructional material for high school teachers about incorporating accessibility objectives in land use planning.\nSean Valentine (Management) \u2013 Valentine will continue working on current research projects and start several new projects. He also plans to publish a 16th edition of a human resources textbook.\nYun Ji (Chemical Engineering) \u2013 Ji will conduct research projects in the bio-based products area, including using lignin to make renewable fuels and chemicals. He will also conduct research in the water usage reduction area to benefit the pulp and paper industry and oil recovery industry.\nReza Fazel-Rezai (Electrical Engineering) \u2013 Fazel-Rezai will expand his research in the area of brain-computer interface (BCI) systems.\nSima Noghanian (Electrical Engineering) \u2013 Noghanian will travel to the University of California, San Diego, to expand her research in wireless communications.\nDeborah Worley (Education Leadership\/Higher Education) \u2013 Worley will explore how culture is communicated by institutions of higher education through campus traditions with visits to other campuses.\nKara Wettersten (Counseling Psychology) \u2013 Wettersten hopes to publish a curriculum titled \"Friendships that Work\", a program currently geared for 5th-8th She will collaborate with the Community Violence Intervention Center (CVIC) and rural schools as a part of her research.\nCheryl Hunter (Educational Foundations and Research) \u2013 Hunter plans to develop a new line of research in curricular models in doctoral education.\nDonna Pearson (Kinesiology & Public Health Education) \u2013 Pearson will study interculturalization as related to, and integrated into, teacher education and educational professional development.\nMore in Research\nA different perspective on parasites January 16, 2020\nBuilding a better forecast in 'Blizzard Alley' January 16, 2020\nBlue Origin rocket takes UND students' experiment into space December 17, 2019\nCopyright \u00a9 2020 UND Today. 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+{"text":"Sixers need to give Paul Reed and Charles Bassey an opportunity\ncan screen protectors crack\nIt was entirely predictable that the Sixers' signing of DeAndre Jordan wouldn't help their backup center situation. It was a better idea in theory, when you thought of the prototypical center that could complement James Harden in non-Joel Embiid minutes \u2014 a high-flying rebounder, rim roller, and shot blocker. Someone with the skills that made Jordan so impactful in his prime.\nBut that isn't who Jordan is anymore. He's declined a lot over the last few seasons, to the point where his motor, speed, agility and defense have dropped off so much that he can't consistently fill the rim-running, shot-blocker role even in short stints off the bench.\nAs you'd expect, Jordan has immediately taken sole possession of the Sixers' backup center spot. With his history with Doc Rivers and experience at 33 years old, he's a well-known veteran and other bigs on the roster (Paul Millsap, who was understandably replaced, Paul Reed and Charles Bassey) haven't had a shot to try to crack the rotation again. And through his first five games, the DeAndre Jordan experience hasn't gone well.\nIn his 12.8 minutes a night, Jordan has averaged 3.8 points, 5.4 rebounds (2.2 offensive) and 0.6 blocks. His basic numbers don't really matter, though. The problem is that he still has the same weaknesses that have increasingly bothered him over the last few years \u2014 such as reduced mobility when defending near the perimeter, and reduced energy, explosion, and attentiveness as a rim protector. Jordan can't be relied on to man the back of a defense in nearly the same way anymore, and too often he can be beat by opponents getting downhill or attacking off a ball screen due to how much slower he is sliding his feet now.\nThen there are useless lapses in focus and activity like the play below, where Jordan completely lost track of none other than Nikola Jokic at the arc, allowed a free cutting lane, and only started to move once Jokic already had the ball in the paint:\nWhile the Sixers only need their backup center to survive without getting burned for around 8-10 minutes in a playoff game, you can expect teams will look to target Jordan through switches and high pick-and-rolls.\nJordan has typically been a highly efficient finisher at the rim and will likely get back on track soon, but he's been struggling in this area so far as well. He's only made 46.2 percent of his (easy) shots within three feet of the basket since coming to Philly.\nAfter the Sixers' loss to the Nuggets on Monday, Doc Rivers was overly positive with his review of Jordan's performance so far, clearly reinforcing his confidence in the team's new veteran center.\n\"He's been great overall,\" Rivers said. \"I thought today he struggled a little bit but still, he's the one roller on our team. He gets downhill. He sprints the floor, and that's so important for our team. So he's been really good. He's really bought in to what we're trying to do.\"\nIn Jordan's defense, he has had some solid moments. He's still 6-foot-11 with enough leaping ability to catch a few lobs next to Harden (even if Jordan can't fly down the lane like he used to), he still has a massive 7-foot-6 wingspan, he can grab a few offensive rebounds, and he's made a few decent rotations around the rim and picked up three blocks. At the very least, he's better than the smaller, older, less bouncy Paul Millsap.\nBut that's such a low bar to clear, and while Jordan's finishing will inevitably bounce back to his usual level to correct some of his early offensive shortcomings (he made 73.5 percent of his shots within three feet over the previous five seasons), Rivers shouldn't just be settling on his rotation because of Jordan's age and familiarity and not let others even get on the court.\nUnderstandably, Paul Reed has had his ups and downs with the Sixers so far. He can be somewhat out of control, trying to do too much offensively and committing unwise fouls at times, then at others he'll look like a disruptive defender and athletic finisher. However, he has an edge over Jordan in terms of his high motor, speed, and impressive mobility when moving outside at 6-foot-9. When Reed averaged 14.7 minutes a night in the last three games before the All-Star break, he provided some of his best NBA play yet with highly active defense (he snatched seven total steals in this stretch) and controlled offensive play in a smaller role as a rebounder and play finisher.\nThere's some upside to at least giving Reed a shot with his athleticism to cut off Harden's playmaking, and the agility he offers on defense to potentially embrace a more switchy approach, or at least move around the perimeter better than Jordan.\nThen there's Charles Bassey, who is probably the Sixers' best option to get some run at center.\nBassey has only appeared in 23 games and played 168 minutes this season. He's still made some mistakes with his positioning and typical rookie errors, yet his early flashes have been fairly encouraging, showing some of the rim-rolling and defensive qualities that stood out while he was in college.\nHe has good size with his 6-foot-11 frame and 7-foot-3 wingspan, solid instincts and timing as a shot blocker, and fine lateral quickness for his size. He was a strong rebounder in college and he plays with energy. Even if he's going to make some mistakes and a couple of bad fouls as he grows used to the NBA, you can at least count on Bassey for his physical tools and effort.\nBassey has looked promising when he's had chances to play, especially when he picked up a handful of games with 10-20 minutes played in November and December.\nBassey's sturdy frame helps him when guarding the post, too. He held up about as well as you could ask for against Nikola Jokic back on Nov. 18, when the rookie tallied 12 points, seven rebounds (four offensive), one steal and three blocks, while defending with physicality and reasonable discipline:\nHe's also athletic enough to catch a few lobs and likely benefit with easy dump-off finishes playing next to Harden, who has always gotten more out of rim-rolling backup bigs.\nSo, are Reed and Bassey ready to be constant positive role players, or be completely reliable in the playoffs? Of course not. Players in their first and second seasons need time, and maybe they won't end up growing into backup bigs of the future for Philly. If they play and it doesn't work out this regular season? Fine. It's not like they'll be way worse than Jordan to cause much damage in a few minutes anyway.\nThe young guys just need a chance. The Sixers will never know exactly what they have in Reed and Bassey unless they give them opportunities to play, a chance to show whether they can be better options than Jordan or to at least develop into players who could be. The end of the regular season should be a time to finish experimenting and see if there's an upgrade from Jordan already on the roster.\nAfter all, if the Sixers are going to commit so many roster spots to backup bigs rather than bolstering their wing depth (which is a whole conversation for another time), they might as well try them out.\nAs I mentioned above, Bassey in particular deserves a chance. When active this season, he's had stints that have been superior to what Jordan is doing right now. And compared to Reed, Bassey has an advantage in size and strength that help him as a rim protector and full-time center, and he's been a little more steady in general.\nUltimately, it's this simple: with Jordan's level of play at this stage of his career, the Sixers really have nothing to lose.\nRazer launches new set of Streaming Products to make your livestreams even more attractive to viewers!\nHands on: Xiaomi 12 Review\nThe best iPad Mini 6 (2021) screen protectors\nRing in the new year with 50% off Totallee's thin iPhone cases, screen protectors and more\nOnePlus 10 Pro: Restoring faith in flagships\n\"You Keep Filming!\": The Oral History of Odd Future's Chaotic, Joyous \"Oldie\" Video","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
+{"text":"Get Quotes from Competing Local Dealerships\nSave Time (You Don't Have to Visit Each Dealer)\nSave Money (Online Quotes Tend to be Generous)\nGet your free, no-obligation lease quotes now!\nWe are sorry but there is no chosen make and model currently available in our dealer inventory. The world is experiencing a vehicle shortage due to supply line distributions caused by COVID-19, and this may affect your search for a new car. Please consider researching vehicles that are currently available to expedite your search. Many of our customers find that as they are driving their current used vehicles longer they will save substantial money and headaches by purchasing an extended vehicle warranty from a trusted company, which we can also help you with\nNew Car Options\nMake Select a Make\nModel Select a Model\nTrim Select a trim\nBase MSRP:\nDiscounted Price: Request a Quote!\nPre-Qualified Dealers\nTip: Select up to four local dealers and compare quotes\nDealers have been located. Please proceed with the form submission.\nSelect All Dealers\nReceive Competing Price Quotes\nSearching for your dealers in\nPhone +1\nPlease wait while we perform a live search of our database for best deals on:\nSearchin Dealers...\nSearchin Deals...\nSearchin Prices...\nSearchin Trims...\nProgress 0 %\nThe Least Expensive 2016 Sedans to Insure\nGenerally, a combination of low price and high safety ratings will bring insurance rates down more than anything else. The problem with that is that lower-priced vehicles sometimes have lower safety ratings. It's larger vehicles that are often safer. And larger vehicles are generally more expensive. So smaller cars aren't necessarily a lot cheaper to own, even though they're more efficient. Which sedans are cheapest to insure? We've gotten some help from nerdwallet to answer this question.\n#1 Ford Fiesta\nAvg. Annual Premium: $1,104\nThe Fiesta has a 4-star safety rating and a low MSRP, making it insurable without spending too much money. It also gets an impressive 31 mpg in the city and 43 on the highway, making it even more affordable.\n#2 Chevy Cruze\nThe Cruze is an example of a roomy compact car with lots of trims and options. It has a 5-star safety rating and a low price tag, like the Fiesta. It's about a foot longer than the Fiesta; however, and it provides a quiet, comfortable ride.\n#3 Toyota Camry\nThe Camry's a big step up, in terms of price, from the previous vehicles. Although, since it gets 25 mpg in the city and 35 on the highway, it's not expensive to own. An additional reason it's inexpensive to drive is the low annual premium you'll pay when you own it. The new Camry is peppy enough for a little excitement and it finally got a facelift.\n#4 Honda Accord\nThe Accord is probably the cheapest midsize car to own for five years when you factor in every expense you can. It's also extremely comfortable and equipped with good electronics. It's not a Tesla, with collision avoidance, but it doesn't cost nearly as much as a Tesla. It's a Honda, one of the most trusted brands we can think of.\n#5 Toyota Corolla\nThe corolla may be the most reliable car ever built. Although today's Corollas are a little more complex than they were years ago, they're still very reliable. They're still inexpensive to maintain, as well. Driving a Corolla is kind of like driving a smaller Camry or Accord. It's a good choice for fuel efficiency.\n#6 Honda Civic\nTied with the Corolla in terms of insurance costs is the newly redesigned Civic. it's a little more expensive to purchase and (probably) to lease but it has a little more power, 26 hp more, and it's actually a little bit more fuel efficient, getting one more mpg in the city (31) than the Corolla and the same mpg as the Corolla on the highway (42). That's a strong value proposition.\n#7 Nissan Altima\nAtypically of Nissan, the Altima is a little bit less powerful than the Honda Accord. It is slightly more efficient, as a result. It gets 27 mpg in the city and 39 on the highway. The Altima isn't styled with the aggressive lines the Accord and the Camry have. It does look pretty, though.\n#8 Lexus ES350\nYou would expect something like a Chevy Malibu or a Kia Optima to be here but, instead, it's a luxury brand! It's quite a bit more expensive than the car in the #7 spot. That is, in part, due to the 80 extra horsepower it has. It also comes with a better warranty. Whereas the Nissan comes with a 3-yr\/ 36,000 mile basic and a 5-yr \/ 60,000 mile drivetrain warranty, Lexus gives you a 4-yr \/ 50,000 mile basic and a 6-yr \/ 70,000 mile drivetrain warranty.\nReady to get quotes for your next vehicle? Get them online instead of visiting dealerships. It's faster, easier and it's free. Get quotes from every local dealer so you're sure you've located the best offer. Then use competing quotes as negotiating leverage. Click here to get started.\nThe lease rate I got by calling the dealer was $67 higher than the rate I got from Car Leasing Secrets. It's all about the local competition. So happy with my Benz!\nCristoph Wiese\nThis is probably the easiest way to get quotes and compare them. I got one from each dealer in my city. One of them was surprisingly low. The quotes are free. No worries there.\nKristen Fletcher\nWhat a great way to shop around! I wanted a Corolla. There's only one Toyota dealership in my city but I got a quote for a Honda Civic and decided to go with that one because I got such a good offer.\nCopyright 2023 CarLeasingSecrets.com, INC. All Rights Reserved.","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
+{"text":"Mauritania Public Holidays\nOther popular Mauritania pages\nIndependence Day 2022, 2023 and 2024 in Mauritania\nMauritania became an independent nation by on 28 November 1960 by declaration of its \"Constituent Assembly\". Independence Day is celebrated on this date each year to remember this important historic event.\n2022 28 Nov Mon Independence Day\n2023 28 Nov Tue Independence Day\n2024 28 Nov Thu Independence Day\nAlthough Berbers and other tribes had lived in the region for as long as anyone can remember, there was no \"Mauritania\" as such before the arrival of the French colonialists. They essentially created a new colony that incorporated the lands of numerous local tribes in the region into one \"new country\".\nFrance colonised what is now Mauritania to block the expansion of Spanish Morocco and to create a \"land bridge\" between French Algeria and French West Africa. Their conquest of the area began at Adar and moved inland.\nAfter the French established a new constitution in 1958, they had hoped that Mauritania might remain within the \"French Community\" even if they opted for independence. But instead, the country fully left being under French influence by 1960. After independence, Morocco tried to oppose them or dominate them, but Mauritania successfully resisted.\n2021 28 Nov Sun Independence Day\n2020 28 Nov Sat Independence Day\n2018 28 Nov Wed Independence Day\nMauritania Holidays","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
+{"text":"The latest...\nPurgatory Road (Unearthed Films) Blu-ray Review\nComic Books (1348)\nDVD And Blu-ray Reviews A-F (1604)\nDVD And Blu-ray Reviews G-M (1494)\nDVD And Blu-ray Reviews N-S (1544)\nDVD And Blu-ray Reviews T-Z (756)\nLinks Worth Checking (1)\nLive Music (76)\nMovie News (258)\nMusic News (46)\nTheatrical (11)\nIan Jane\nReleased by: Unearthed Films\nReleased on: February 12th, 2019.\nDirector: Mark Savage\nCast: Gary Cairns, Luke Albright, Trista Robinson, Geoff Falk, Tom Parnell\nPurchase From Amazon\nPurgatory Road \u2013 Movie Review:\nPurgatory Road opens with a scene where a young boy named Vincent is unable to stop a thief from stealing his father's savings. Shortly after this, his father commits suicide in front of his two sons. This turns out to be something that Vincent blames himself for as he grows into adulthood. It also results in Vincent finding religion, and hard.\nAs an adult, Vincent (Gary Cairns) works as a priest, albeit one with a rather unorthodox modus operandi \u2013 he and his brother Michael (Luke Albright) drive the highways of the American southwest in a large van, offering salvation and confession to anyone interested. There is, of course, a bit of quirk to all of this, besides the obvious: they tend to kill anyone who confesses to thievery, in hopes of saving their souls, of course. When a woman named Mary-Francis (Trista Robinson) takes an interest in what they're doing, she proves her loyalty to them by murdering someone who threatens to expose the truth behind their 'ministry.' This quickly endears her to Vincent, which results in an offer to join them on their journey, but things quickly spiral out of control for all involved. When Michael takes an interest in a local woman named Ruby (Sylvia Grace Crim), his relationship with Vincent starts to show signs of cracking.\nDirected by Mark Savage (read our interview with him here!), and co-written by Savage and actor Tom Parnell, Purgatory Road is as grim as it is compelling and well-made. Hardly 'feel good movie of the year material,' it's a tightly paced picture that borrows from films like The Confessional while still cutting out its own unique path. Setting the film in the American Southwest gives it its own unique feeling and Savage and cinematographer Andrew Giannetta do a fine job of using this backdrop to help build a very specific type of atmosphere. The dusty locals contrast of the exteriors contrast in interesting ways with the lighting used inside the confessional can. It's here, inside the van, that the film makes use of some bold lighting choices, using strong primary hues to bath those baring their secrets to Vincent in eerie shades of red and yellow. For a film made on a modest budget, the visuals here and the production values that go alongside them are impressive.\nPerformances from the main leads are good, sometimes very good. Cairns is a strong choice to play Vincent. He has a very sort of staunch look to him so that when he speaks what he believes are his religious truths, he does so with enough conviction to convince the audience he means it. He and Albright, also quite good here, have a good chemistry and we can buy them as brothers without any trouble. Initially, Trista Robinson seems like she might be a weak link but her performance will win you over \u2013 she turns out to be great in the part, we just can't go into much detail about it or we'd head into spoiler territory.\nThe movie does have one flaw worth pointing out, and that's that the murder set pieces, while strong in both content and execution, get a bit repetitive \u2013 but this is easy to forgive when the bulk of the film works as well as it does.\nPurgatory Road \u2013 Blu-ray Review:\nUnearthed Films brings The Purgatory Road to Blu-ray using an AVC encoded 1080p high definition transfer framed at 1.78.1 widescreen. Shot on HD digital video, there's obviously no print damage or grain here. The picture has very nice color reproduction going for it and pretty solid black levels as well. Typically, detail is strong, though there are some scenes where the colored lighting dilutes things a tad. Still, this was likely done on purpose as it suits the tone of the scenes in question quite nicely. No noticeable compression issues to complain about here, and all in all, the picture quality is solid enough.\nThe English language LPCM 2.0 Stereo track on the disc is problem free. Dialogue stays clean and clear throughout the duration of the movie. Balance is fine and there are no problems to note with any hiss or distortion.\nExtras start off with a feature length commentary track featuring director\/co-writer Mark Savage and co-writer\/actor Tom Parnell. It's an interesting and informative track with the two discussing where some of the themes and ideas that the picture explores came from, working with the cast and crew, locations that were used for the shoot, casting the picture, changing up certain aspects of the script as the production progressed and quite a bit more. The track goes at a good pace and it's worth a listen if you want to know more about what went into making this picture.\nAfter that, dig into a twenty-minute Q&A session featuring Savage and actor Gary Cairns wherein they talk about working primarily with local talent in terms of casting the film (leads excepted), their approach to making horror pictures, contributions of the different cast and crew members and more. The disc also contains a twenty-nine-minute featurette with actors Gary Cairns and Luke Albright and actress Trista Robinson entitled The Actors Speak. Here the two cast members explain their thoughts on the characters that they play, their impressions of the script, their thoughts on the film and more. Parnell shows up again in an eight-minute featurette called Beyond The Day Job where he talks about how he got into screenwriting, collaborating with Savage and what it was like to work with him and his approach to acting. All of these pieces are put together nicely and quite interesting.\nAdditionally, we get a still gallery that showcases 'The Grisly Art Of Marcus Kock & Cat Bernier' and trailers for Brutal, Dark Side of the Moon and The Song Of Solomon.\nPurgatory Road \u2013 The Final Word:\nPurgatory Road is tense stuff, a grim slice of religiously themed horror told with style and performed by a pretty solid cast. Savage keeps the pacing quick yet still manages to craft interesting characters to hold our attention, while the story offers a few genuinely unexpected twists and turns before it all wraps up. The Blu-ray release from Unearthed Films is a good one, presenting the picture in very nice shape, with solid lossless audio and with a good collection of extra features as well. Recommended!\nClick on the images below for full sized Purgatory Road Blu-ray screen caps!\nDVD And Blu-ray Reviews N-S\nTags : blu-ray, blu-ray review, gary cairns, geoff falk, luke albright, mark savage, purgatory road, tom parnell, trista robinson, unearthed films\nKeeth - 03-24-2019, 02:41 PM\nI watched it last night & thought it was well-made, etc. but the female character I didn't like at all esp. her squeaky voice. I need to check the director's past movies out again. Not sure P.R. is one I'll be re-visiting any time soon.\nRecent Article Comments Widget\nZachariah (Kino Lorber) Blu-ray Review\nI really liked this one. The soundtrack is cool- esp. the James Gang stuff.\nDavid H 07-14-2019 09:04 PM\nSix Swedes In Ibizia (Sechs Schwedinnen Auf Ibizia)\nThe softcore cut is almost hardcore anyway. Its a shame though that ascot couldn't spend the money...\nLalala76 07-12-2019 02:46 PM\nSavage Beach (Mill Creek Entertainment) Blu-ray Review\nIt has them yeah, you can see them in some of the caps.\nIan Jane 07-12-2019 08:14 AM\n\"the disc is free of obvious compression artifacts.\"\n\"obvious compression artifacts do appear...\nFundi 07-11-2019 07:27 PM\nWatched this and Picasso Trigger on tuesday and was very pleased with the PQ on both.\nI had my...\nmoviegeek86 07-11-2019 06:42 PM","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
+{"text":"ENDURANCE RACER WITT SET FOR DUBAI 24HRS RETURN WITH SCHUBERT MOTORSPORT'S NEW BMW M4 GT3\nPosted by sportscarracingnews \u22c5 December 10, 2021 \u22c5 Leave a comment\nFiled Under 2022, BMW M4 GT3, dubai 24 hour, Jens Liebhauser, Jordan Witt, Marcel Lenerz, Schubert Motorsport, sportscar racing, sportscar racing news\nBritish race ace Jordan Witt will make a welcome return to the annual Hankook 24H Dubai in January after signing a deal with top team Schubert Motorsport to pilot the squad's stunning new BMW M4 GT3 \u2013 and both driver and team have their sights set on challenging for outright victory.\nMarking the first competitive outing for the German team's brand new BMW M4, the twice-round-the-clock encounter at Dubai Autodrome on Friday, 14th January, and Saturday, 15th January, will be a hugely important event, one which Schubert Motorsport previously won in 2011.\nCheshire's Witt, who will be backed by long-standing sponsors Vibe Audio and Yelir World for his return to action in the 24H Series, is to team-up with fellow Briton Nick Yelloly and German duo Jens Liebhauser and Marcel Lenerz in a particularly impressive line-up.\nAbsolutely relishing such a fantastic opportunity to race the latest state-of-the-art BMW M4 GT3, Witt cannot wait to head out to the United Arab Emirates in the New Year for the traditional curtain raiser to the international endurance racing year.\n\"This is such an awesome opportunity, I can't thank everyone at Schubert enough and I obviously cannot wait to get behind the wheel of the BMW M4 GT3 for the first time \u2013 it's a mega car and if it goes as fast as it looks, we've got a great chance in the Dubai 24 Hours\", said the Nantwich driver.\n\"The guys have put together a strong line-up with Nick, who is obviously a BMW works driver, Marcel and Jens and I really am looking forward to teaming with them. I've got a lot of experience in a variety of GT3 cars, including Lamborghini, Bentley and McLaren, so it's an exciting prospect to be racing a new marque.\"\nWitt, who was GTC Class Champion in British GT in 2011, GT Cup Champion in 2016 and Silver Cup winner of the prestigious Total 24 Hours of Spa in 2019, raced a Lamborghini in the Fanatec GT2 European Series this year as well as in the Lamborghini Super Trofeo Europe. Additionally, he contested the final round of the British GT Championship season in a Bentley Continental GT3.\nHis only prior experience of the Dubai 24H came in 2019, racing in the GT4 class at the wheel of a Mercedes-AMG, and so next month's encounter will deliver a series of firsts for Witt with a new car, new team and new team-mates.\n\"Although the BMW M4 GT3 is new to me and it'll be the first time working with Schubert, I'm very confident we have a fantastic package and will be able to hit the ground running\", he added, \"It's an exciting new challenge, and there will be a lot to learn, but I really am very confident we can try to fight for the win.\"\nSchubert Motorsport is based in Oschersleben, Germany, and was established in 1999. Becoming one of the most successful teams in GT3 endurance racing, the squad has won the Dubai 24H, won the Team Championship in the ADAC GT Masters and is also a title winner in VLN, now the Nurburgring Endurance Series.\nSource. Marc Orme\/Photo. Schubert Motorsport\n\u00ab AVL TO PROVIDE VEHICLE BALANCING FOR THE DTM AND DTM TROPHY IN 2022\nALLIED-RACING TEAM SET TO ENTER THE GERMAN GT CHAMPIONSHIP WITH PORSCHE IN 2022 \u00bb","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
+{"text":"Neil Young. Coming to Israel this summer\nNeil Young headed to Israel\nCanadian rock legend to perform at Tel Aviv's Yarkon Park on July 17; ticket sales underway online\nAmi Friedman|Published: 01.15.14 , 19:41\nVIDEO - Another rock legend will be making its way to Israel this summer: Neil Young, one of the most important and influential figures in the history of rock music, is expected to visit the Holy Land in July for one concert, Ynet has learned.\nThe Shuki Weiss production company, which will be bringing the singer to Israel, said in an official statement Wednesday that the concert will be held on July 17 at Tel Aviv's Yarkon Park.\nSummer Rocks\nPixies, Soundgarden to perform in Israel this summer\nAmi Friedman\nNew music festival brings two of biggest names in 90s rock to Israel for first time. Pixies were scheduled to appear in Israel in 2010, but canceled in aftermath of Gaza flotilla incident\nTickets are currently being sold online, with prices ranging from NIS 340 (about $97) to NIS 1,400 ($400) for VIP seating.\nNeil Young was born in Toronto, Canada in 1945. He began performing on his own with an acoustic guitar and harmonica, and in 1966 he moved to the United States and joined the Buffalo Springfield band as a guitarist. When the band split up, he launched a solo career and recorded his debut album, \"Neil Young,\" in 1968.\nNeil Young. Back to Israel after two decades (Photo: MCT)\nIn 1969, he joined the members of the Rockets band, which later changed its name to Crazy Horse, and together they recorded the highly successful album \"Everybody Knows this is Nowhere.\" Later that year, Young Joined Crosby, Stills & Nash as a fourth member, but continued recording albums with Crazy Horse.\nIn 1972, Young released the album \"Harvest,\" which included the classic \"Heart of Gold,\" and became his most successful album until then. Due to the death of friends and colleagues, the 1970s were a gloomy period in Young's life, and his albums from that time \u2013 including \"Zuma\" and \"American Stars 'N Bars\" \u2013 reflect his personal pain.\nOver the years, Young's work became more political and social, and in the 1980s he released albums which his fans and critics considered disappointing due to his attempt at electronic music and country music.\n\"Freedom,\" released in 1989, was considered by many as Young's return to his prime years, mostly thanks to the song \"Rockin' in the Free World,\" which turned into one of the singer's biggest hits.\nThe 1992 album \"Harvest Moon\" was a return to the acoustic sound. In the 1990s, Young was nicknamed the \"Godfather of Grunge\" due to his direct influence on the work of that period's most successful rock bands, including Nirvana and Pearl Jam. Young even joined forces with Pearl Jam several times, and its members were featured in his album \"Mirror Ball.\"\nHis latest album, \"Psychedelic Pill,\" was released in 2012 and received positive reviews.\nThis will be Neil Young's second visit to Israel. In the summer of 1995, he performed with Pearl Jam members (excluding lead vocalist Eddie Vedder) at Jerusalem's Sultan Pool and at the Caesarea Amphitheater.","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
+{"text":"OSAT Middle Level Social Studies (CEOE) (027): Practice & Study Guide\nCh 40: Civil Rights in the U.S.\nWatch video lessons about the history and progress of civil rights in the U.S. Learn about the origins of civil rights as well as the issues and court cases that shaped their development.\nCivil Rights in the U.S. - Chapter Summary\nIn this chapter, you'll find lessons concerning the historical roots and progressions of civil rights in the United States. Our instructors will guide you through the details of civil rights beginnings before delving into cases, social issues, and laws that have contributed to the evolution of U.S. civil rights. By the end of the chapter, you'll have gone over:\nThe origins of civil rights\nMinority civil rights\nThe civil rights of women\nCivil rights victories for Americans with disabilities\nEqual protection under the Fourteenth Amendment\nEfficient video lessons taught by professional instructors allow you learn about these topics both quickly and thoroughly. Through the course of any video lesson, you may also skip ahead or go back to main points as you wish using convenient video tags in the timeline. You'll also be able to measure your progress by testing yourself with quizzes that you can take and re-take at your discretion.\n6 Lessons in Chapter 40: Civil Rights in the U.S.\n1. The Origins of Civil Rights: History & Overview\nMost people know that a major victory for civil rights was won when the slaves were freed after the American Civil War, but that was just the beginning. In this lesson, we'll look at civil rights and the Civil Rights Movement in America.\n2. Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka, Kansas: Definition, Decision & Significance\nIn this lesson, we will learn about the landmark case Brown v. Board of Education. We will take an in-depth look at the facts surrounding Brown and the aftermath of the decision.\n3. The Civil Rights of Other Minorities: Issues & Actions Taken\nIn this lesson, we will review the timeline of several smaller minority groups. We will take a closer look at the background of basic human civil rights, how the groups are fighting for their rights and what they mean to society today.\n4. The Civil Rights of Women: Timeline, Leaders & Ongoing Issues\nIn this lesson, we will review the timeline of the civil rights of women. We will take a closer look at the background of the rights, what they include and what they mean to society today.\n5. The Civil Rights of Americans with Disabilities: Judicial & Legislative Victories\nIn this lesson, we will review the timeline of the civil rights of Americans with disabilities. We will take a closer look at the background of the rights, what they include and what they mean to society today.\n6. Equal Protection Under The Fourteenth Amendment: Definition & Summary\nIn this lesson, we will learn about the Equal Protection Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment. We will take a closer look at the history behind this clause, what it contains and what it means to society today.\nVisit the OSAT Middle Level Social Studies (CEOE) (027): Practice & Study Guide page to learn more.\nNew Jersey Middle School Social Studies Certification\nJobs that Involve Social Studies\nSocial Studies in Early Education\nHow to Become a Social Studies Teacher in Connecticut\nSocial Studies Essay Topics for Teachers\nDevelopmentally Appropriate Social Studies Instruction\nMaster's in Health & Human Services Programs in Dallas\nDevelopmental Neuroscience Graduate Programs\nMedical Office Administrator: Job Description, Duties and Requirements\nAverage Starting Salary of a Finance Major\nMasters Degree in Corporate Training Program Information\nCertificate Programs in NYC\nMaster of Arts (MA): Communication Arts Degree Overview\nNaval Architecture PhD Program Overviews\nOther chapters within the OSAT Middle Level Social Studies (CEOE) (027): Practice & Study Guide course\nMesopotamian, Egyptian & Kush Civilizations\nOverview & History of Ancient Greece\nRoman Republic & Roman Empire\nEarly West African Culture & Development\nHistory of the Dark Ages\nHistory of the Medieval Warm Period\nArt & Culture in the Renaissance\nThe Age of Exploration & Discovery\nEuropean Religion & Politics During the Reformation\nEmpire and Expansion in the 18th Century\nIndustrialization from 1700-1900\nGlobal Politics (1760-1848)\nThe Age of Nationalism\nEuropean Life & Trends\n19th and 20th Century Imperialism\nThe Great War (1914-1919)\nHistory Between World Wars\nEarly American Civilizations\nSettling North America & the Colonies\nImportant Events Leading to the American Revolution\nEvents & Leaders of the American Revolution\nThe Making of a Nation after the American Revolution\nJacksonian Democracy\nEveryday Life in Antebellum America\nBuildup to the American Civil War\nThe American Civil War\nAfter the Civil War: Reconstruction\nWestward Expansion, Industrialization & Urbanization (1870-1900)\nAmerican Imperialism & World War I\nThe Progressive Era of the Early 20th Century\n1920s America\nAmerica and the Great Depression\nAmerica & World War II\nCivil Rights & Other Movements in the US (1954-1973)\nWorld Events & Politics After World War II (1946-1959)\nAmerica in the 1970s\nThe 1980s in America\nOklahoma's Culture, History & Geography\nIntroduction to American Government\nElections & Electoral Systems\nThe Origin & History of Life On Earth\nOverview of Microeconomics\nOverview of Macroeconomics\nIntroduction to Geography\nLand Resources Geography\nThe Relationship Between Humans and the Environment\nCulture, Socialization & Social Interaction\nAnalyzing Historical Information\nApplying Social Study Skills\nOSAT Middle Level Social Studies (CEOE) (027) Flashcards","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
+{"text":"Dropbox Q1 2018 earnings \u2013 Business Insider\nDropbox beat Wall Street's Q1 targets and gave a greater-than-anticipated enterprise forecast on Thursday in its first quarterly report card as a public firm. But with buyers having already bid up the inventory sharply within the first few weeks since its IPO, shares of Dropbox slipped barely after the \"beat-and-raise\" report.\nThe cloud storage firm's income elevated 28% within the first three months of the yr, above the 24.5% clip anticipated by Wall Street.\nAnd Dropbox mentioned income within the second quarter would vary between $328 mililon and $331 million, topping the $325.6 million anticipated by analysts.\nShares of Dropbox, that are up roughly 50% because the firm's March IPO, fell three% in after hours buying and selling on Thursday following the report.\nHere's what Dropbox reported:\nRevenue (GAAP) for the quarter: Dropbox reported $316 million, up 28% from the yr earlier than. Analysts anticipated $308.7 million.\nEarnings per share (Adjusted) for the quarter: Dropbox reported $zero.08. Analysts anticipated $zero.02.\nNet loss (GAAP) was $465.5 million, as in comparison with a lack of $33.1 million in the identical interval final yr, however $418.7 million of that's associated to its IPO.\nQ2 Revenue steerage: $328 mililon to $331 million, versus $325.6 million anticipated by analysts.\nFull yr 2018 steerage: $1.343 billion to $1.355 billion, versus $1.33 billion anticipated by analysts.\nAnalysts additionally saved their eyes peeled for Dropbox's paid consumer development, common income per consumer, non-GAAP gross margin and free money circulate.\nDropbox had a complete of 11.5 million paying customers, in comparison with 9.three million for a similar interval final yr.\nThe common income per paying consumer was $114.30, in comparison with $110.79 for a similar interval final yr.\nNon-GAAP gross margin was 74.2%, in comparison with 63.5% in the identical interval final yr.\nFree money circulate was $51.9 million, in comparison with $56.5 million in the identical interval final yr.\nDropbox did not give steerage in its earnings press launch however mentioned it could share these figures on its earnings name. Analysts are searching for a income steerage (GAAP) for fiscal 2018 of $1.33 billion, and an earnings per share steerage (adjusted) of $zero.15.\nDropbox, now valued at $12.5 billion on the general public markets, started buying and selling on the Nasdaq on the finish of March in what was widely considered a successful IPO.\nBusiness Insider is masking Dropbox's outcomes and earnings name, so refresh this page or click here for all the latest details.\nRead more about what analysts expected from Dropbox here on BI Prime.\nPrevious California's Solar Roof Law Will Raise Housing & Energy Prices But Do Little to Reduce Emissions\nNext Tesla smashes into Los Gatos coffee shop","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
+{"text":"MCPS Receives the Highest Recognition for Financial Reporting\nMontgomery County Public Schools (MCPS) has received the highest recognition possible for accounting practices and financial reporting.\nMCPS has received the Government Finance Officers Association (GFOA) Certificate of Achievement for Excellence in Financial Reporting. The award was given for the district's 2010 Comprehensive Annual Financial Report.\nAccording to the GFOA, the award was created in 1945 \"to encourage and assist state and local governments to go beyond the minimum requirements of generally accepted accounting principles to prepare comprehensive annual financial reports that evidence the spirit of transparency and full disclosure and then to recognize individual governments that succeed in achieving that goal.\"\n\"This award is further proof that MCPS conducts its business in a transparent, ethical manner and to the highest levels of professionalism and expertise,\" said Superintendent Jerry D. Weast. \"I am extremely proud of our financial staff and congratulate them for their excellent work.\"\nFor more than 20 years, MCPS has received the Certificate in Excellence in Financial Reporting from the Association of School Business Officers (ASBO). This nationally recognized program reviews and critiques district account practices and rewards districts that adhere to sound accounting and reporting principles.\nMCPS' Comprehensive Annual Financial Report website\nInformation on the GFOA Award\nInformation on the ASBO Certificate","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
+{"text":"HighTower adds LCK Wealth Management as partner\nHighTower, a US-based advisor-owned financial services company, has added LCK Wealth Management as its partner.\nLCK Wealth Management specializes in combining personalized wealth management strategies with investment services for families, trusts, foundations, charitable organizations and other non-profit entities.\nLCK Wealth Management is the 41st team to enter the HighTower partnership since the firm's inception in 2008. The team will be managed by Laurie Kamhi, who joins HighTower as partner and managing director.\nIn addition, the team will also include Christine Torrey, senior financial analyst, and Karman Tong, senior private wealth associate.\nCommenting on the deal, Kamhi said: \"HighTower allows us to build on the white-glove service and commitment to bottom-line results that define our team, while integrating the support of an entire partnership.\"\nMichael LaMena, president of HighTower, said: \"Kamhi's team combines the dedication to client service and adherence to accountability that define the HighTower brand, and we welcome them to our partnership.\"\nCompetitor Profile: RBC Wealth Management\nCompetitor Profile: UBS Global Wealth Management\nCompetitor Profile: Goldman Sachs Wealth Management\nAdvisory Mandates: Implications for Wealth Managers","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
+{"text":"Heterologous signals allow efficient targeting of a nuclear-encoded fusion protein to plastids and endoplasmic reticulum in diverse plant species\nGnanasambandam, A., Polkinghorne, I.G. and Birch, R.G. (2007) Heterologous signals allow efficient targeting of a nuclear-encoded fusion protein to plastids and endoplasmic reticulum in diverse plant species. Plant Biotechnology Journal, 5 (2). pp. 290-296.\nArticle Link(s): http:\/\/dx.doi.org\/10.1111\/j.1467-7652.2007.00241.x\nPublisher URL: http:\/\/www3.interscience.wiley.com\/cgi-bin\/home\nApproximately 30% of plant nuclear genes appear to encode proteins targeted to the plastids or endoplasmic reticulum (ER). The signals that direct proteins into these compartments are diverse in sequence, but, on the basis of a limited number of tests in heterologous systems, they appear to be functionally conserved across species. To further test the generality of this conclusion, we tested the ability of two plastid transit peptides and an ER signal peptide to target green fluorescent protein (GFP) in 12 crops, including three monocots (barley, sugarcane, wheat) and nine dicots (Arabidopsis, broccoli, cabbage, carrot, cauliflower, lettuce, radish, tobacco, turnip). In all species, transient assays following microprojectile bombardment or vacuum infiltration using Agrobacterium showed that the plastid transit peptides from tomato DCL (defective chloroplast and leaves) and tobacco RbcS [ribulose bisphosphate carboxylase (Rubisco) small subunit] genes were effective in targeting GFP to the leaf plastids. GFP engineered as a fusion to the N-terminal ER signal peptide from Arabidopsis basic chitinase and a C-terminal HDEL signal for protein retention in the ER was accumulated in the ER of all species. The results in tobacco were confirmed in stably transformed cells. These signal sequences should be useful to direct proteins to the plastid stroma or ER lumen in diverse plant species of biotechnological interest for the accumulation of particular recombinant proteins or for the modification of particular metabolic streams.\n\u00a9 Blackwell Publishing Ltd.\nEndoplasmic reticulum retention signal; endoplasmic reticulum signal peptide; green fluorescent protein; plastid targeting; stromules; transit peptide.\nScience > Botany > Plant physiology","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
+{"text":"Discover York, one of England's most historic cities\nPicture-perfect valley views from around the world\nOut-of-this world celestial events taking place in 2020\nThe coolest destinations in the world to celebrate New Year 2020\nThe world's biggest tourist attractions in winter and summer\nVintage travel posters and luggage labels from yesteryear\nSee Again\nAtomium - Brussels - This impressive structure was built in 1958 for that year's Brussels World's Fair.\nEden Project - United Kingdom - These domes were made to house miniature versions of all the climates that can be found on planet Earth.\nThe Cube Houses - Rotterdam, Netherlands - The goal is for the houses to look like trees and create the illusion of an urban forest.\nMontreal Biosph\u00e8re - Canada - The biosphere was constructed for the Expo 67 by the US Government. Although it was supposed to be temporary, it is still standing today.\nThe Basket Building - Ohio, United States - The Longaberger Company produces baskets. Their headquarters are quite fitting - a building in the shape of a basket.\nCayan Tower - Dubai - This incredible skyscraper in the United Arab Emirates took seven years to be completed. It was started in 2006 and finished in 2013.\nHabitat 67 - Montreal, Canada - This apartment complex was built for the Expo 67 and is now a residential area.\nCathedral of Bras\u00edlia - Brazil - This impressive structure weighs 90 tons and includes 16 concrete columns. It was the first monument created in Bras\u00edlia.\nThe Hole House - Texas, United States - Two houses slated for demolition were turned into a work of art for a few months that became known as The Hole House.\n10 \/ 31 Fotos\nChapel of the Holy Cross - Arizona, United States - The chapel in the rocks was voted to be included as one of the Seven Man-Made Wonders of Arizona in 2007.\nKansas City Public Library - Missouri - The building exhibits 22 book titles chosen by Kansas city residents.\nNational Library of Belarus - This is without a doubt one of the most unique libraries in the world. It is one of Minsk's main attractions and includes an observatory overlooking the entire city.\nHouse Attack - Vienna, Austria - This building was created by Austrian artist Erwin Wurm for the sole purpose of attracting attention.\nHallgr\u00edmskirkja - Reykjavik, Iceland - The architecture of the church was supposedly designed to imitate the flow of lava in Iceland.\nAtlantis Hotel - Dubai - The luxury resort was constructed on one of the various artificial islands in Dubai.\nWonderworks - Pigeon Forge, United States - This science museum is an upside-down building.\nWaldspirale - Darmstadt, Germany - Here you can find more than 1000 windows and none of them have the same shape!\nStone Castle - Fafe, Portugal - This house was built between 1972 and 1974 by a Portuguese family who wanted to fulfill their dream of owning a house in the country.\nEdif\u00edcio Mirador - Madrid, Espanha - This Spanish structure was built by a Dutch architecture company, called MVRDV. The enormous hole in the middle attracts the most attention.\nRyugyong Hotel - Pyongyang, North Korea - Often seen as one of the ugliest buildings in the world, the structure is also known as the 105 Building in reference to the number of floors it has.\nElephant Building - Bangkok, Thailand - It is one of the most well-known buildings in the city and often seen as one of the most iconic skyscrapers in the world.\nCastel Meur - Plougrescant, France - Houses located among rocks seem to be the new trend. This tourist attraction is fantastic.\nKrzywy Domek - Sopot, Poland - This small shopping center was built in 2004 and designed by Szoty\u0144scy & Zaleski. They were inspired by illustrations by Jan Marcin Szancer and Per Dahlberg.\nSanzhi UFO Houses - Sanzhi, Taiwan - They were originally built to shelter American soldiers in East Asia, but the project was abandoned in 1980 and the houses were demolished in 2008.\nLotus Temple - New Delhi, India - The Bah\u00e1'\u00ed House of Worship was built in 1986 and has won many architecture awards.\nOdeillo solar furnace - Odeillo, France - The building was built in 1969 for the purpose of scientific research and is used for studying materials at high temperatures.\nWalt Disney Concert Hall - Los Angeles, United States - One of the most well-known structures in the world was designed by famous architect Frank Gehry. It took 16 years (1987-2003) to build.\nAir Force Chapel - Colorado, United States -\nWhen it was first created in 1962, the design was extremely controversial. However, it became one of the best examples of modern architecture in the world.\nTurning Torso - Malm\u00f6, Sweden - This skyscraper was created by famous architect Santiago Calatrava, based on the form of a twisting human torso.\nRoyal Ontario Museum - Toronto, Canada - It is known as one of the most beautiful museums in the world and has already been expanded three times since its opening in 1914.\nSHARE THIS GALLERY\nThe most bizarre buildings in the world\nYou'll be shocked by the architectural designs of these buildings\n23\/03\/18 | StarsInsider\nTRAVEL buildings\nFrom residential houses to museums, none of these buildings escaped a completely innovative and bizarre architectural design. 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+{"text":"Markets Update Wednesday 02\/12\/2020 \u2013 Great Britain first\nGreat Britain first\nA weak US dollar and on the other side, a strong euro in the foreign exchange market weighed differently on the international stock markets today. While the strong euro mainly negatively impacts European companies, the weak greenback primarily supports exporting US companies.\nTrade with the Best UK Forex Brokers\nThe other most important news, how could it be otherwise, was again about COVID-19, the current situation and the vaccine hopes. Today, the vaccine producers BioNTech and Pfizer in Great Britain received approval for their corona vaccine, the first in Europe.\nWall Street trading saw only smaller moves on Wednesday.\nThe Dow Jones fell 0.2 per cent higher at 29,883.79 points, while the NASDAQ Composite ended the day marginally 0.05 per cent lower at 12,349.37 points.\nAfter reaching new record highs the previous day, Wall Street took a breather on Wednesday. There were several reasons for this: For one thing, the number of corona deaths in the USA rose again within 24 hours, and for another, investors remain sceptical about whether the parties in Washington can agree on a new government aid package.\nBesides, the latest figures are disappointing for the US labour market. US companies have created far fewer jobs than expected by market analysts. Meanwhile, according to the Federal Reserve's Beige Book, the US economy has grown only moderately in most of its districts.\nThe Asian stock markets showed different signs today. After strong gains, the day before, Japan's leading index Nikkei 225 was finally 0.05 per cent stronger on Wednesday at 26,800.98 points. The Shanghai Composite also moved around the zero lines, but ultimately closed marginally 0.07 per cent lower at 3,396.64 points. In Hong Kong, the Hang Seng fell 0.13 per cent to 26,532.58 points.\nTailwind came fundamentally from the USA, where the evening before hopes of a coming corona vaccine gave investors access to the market. In addition, the latest inflation data from South Korea were also positive. However, investors paused for the most part because a \"wait and see show\" was to be followed, among other things, concerning the US aid package, according to some market strategists.\nMarkets Update Friday 29\/01\/2021 - Rise of the Trading Punks\nThe mood on the European stock markets tended to be negative on Wednesday. The EuroSTOXX 50 had already opened with a minus and finally ended the day 0.15 per cent lighter at 3,519.78 points.\nThe leading German index Dax 30 was down throughout the entire trading day and closed 0.52 per cent lower at 13,313.24 points. The TecDAX also lost ground after a virtually unchanged start and closed the evening with a loss of 0.69 per cent at 3,094.61 points.\nThe euro climbed to its highest level since April 2018. A stronger common currency could tend to become a problem for export companies from the eurozone, as it would make their goods more expensive outside the eurozone. This, in turn, could dampen demand. Today, the strong euro has already weighed on the European stock markets.\nFor the German stock market, there was another negative factor to digest after the German government extended the partial lockdown until January 10, 2021.\nIn the Forex market, the euro continued its rally that started in November. For the first time since April 2018, the common currency managed to jump above the 1.21 US dollar mark, reaching a high of 1.2108 US dollars. Most recently, the euro was still traded at 1.2097 dollars.\nThe oil prices were on the rise today again because in the course of the trade data on the development of the US oil reserves caused a price increase. According to official data of the US government, the stocks of crude oil had decreased in the past week by 0.7 million barrels to 488.0 million barrels. Thus the barrel North Sea Brent cost 89 cents more with 48,31 US Dollar. Also, the US light oil of the WTI variety rose by 93 cents to 45,48 dollar.\nThe precious metals market continues to benefit from the weak US dollar, but is also receiving tailwind as technical reversal patterns are intact. Gold increased by another 18 dollars to close at $1,831 per troy ounce. The precious yellow metal managed to blast through the strong resistance at $1,818 and accelerated its ascend afterwards as expected, later turning the $1,818 level from resistance into support.\nStock Take 16\/03\/2021\nThe cryptocurrency market was quite stable today. Most top-tier coins remained in a relatively tight trading range throughout the day, which is a bullish sign in the current market environment. Bitcoin increased its value by 1.6 per cent to $19,200, while Ethereum and XRP gained between 0.3 and 0.8 per cent on the daily chart to $596 and $0.6230 respectively.\nSales in the German retail sector rose much more strongly than expected in October. As reported by the Federal Statistical Office (Destatis) based on provisional data, sales after deducting inflation were up 2.6 per cent on the previous month. Economists surveyed by Dow Jones Newswires had only forecast growth of 0.9 per cent.\nEmployment in the US private sector rose less than expected in November. The number of employees increased by 307,000 month-on-month, the private labour market service provider ADP announced in Washington on Wednesday. Analysts had expected an average increase of 440,000. The recovery on the labour market after the collapse in spring thus continued. However, the pace has slowed down again.\nThe situation in the eurozone labour market eased somewhat in October. The unemployment rate fell by 0.1 percentage points to 8.4 per cent compared with the previous month, the Statistics Office Eurostat announced in Luxembourg on Wednesday. Economists had expected this rate. The rate is thus 1.0 percentage points higher than in the same month last year. In the European Union (EU) as a whole, the rate was 7.6 per cent, as in the previous month.\nManufacturer prices in the eurozone are falling less sharply. Compared to the same month of the previous year, producer prices fell by 2.0 per cent in October, according to a report published by the statistics office Eurostat in Luxembourg on Wednesday. In September the rate had been minus 2.3 per cent, in the months before it had been much lower. Analysts had expected prices to fall by 2.3 per cent in October.\nBrexit deal still, not insight\nIn the negotiations after the Brexit for a trade agreement with Great Britain, a breakthrough remains questionable. According to a diplomat, EU chief negotiator Michel Barnier told the member states on Wednesday that he could not say whether an agreement was still possible. According to another diplomat, however, the talks are now \"rapidly approaching a moment of decision\". The British Prime Minister Boris Johnson, on the other hand, was \"optimistic\" about reaching an agreement.\nMarkets Update Tuesday 13\/07\/2021 - Through the Roof\nCelebrities join Cannabis-Start-up\nThe Berlin cannabis start-up Sanity Group receives prominent investors: US music producer and songwriter Will I am, Hollywood actress Alyssa Milano, professional soccer player Mario G\u00f6tze and former soccer player Dennis Logo are among the investors who have joined in a financing round. This brings the total investment to around 25 million euros. \"We see great potential in the Sanity Group and with the investment the chance to participate in a strongly growing and promising innovation market,\" explains Friedrich Droste, Managing Director of Bitburger Ventures, which also participated in the start-up. Mario G\u00f6tze sees according to press release very exciting study results with the cannabis product CBD, which is already used in sports for muscle regeneration but also to facilitate healthy sleep.","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
+{"text":"Albury Park, Guildford, Surrey:...\nAllanbank, Berwickshire: (unexecuted)...\nAstrop Park, Kings Sutton,...\nAynhoe Park, Northamptonshire:...\nBagden Lodge, Savernake Forest,...\nBagshot Park, Surrey: survey drawings...\nBanbury, Oxfordshire: unexecuted...\nBarons Court, County Tyrone, Northern...\nBeauport, East Sussex: greenhouse for...\nBenacre Hall, Suffolk: (unexecuted)...\nBentley Priory, Harrow, London:...\nBerry Hill House, Taplow,...\nBetchworth Castle (Surrey):...\nBlundeston House, Suffolk: (executed)...\nBuckland, Berkshire: (unexecuted)...\nBurn Hall, County Durham: designs for...\nCadland, Hampshire: designs for...\nCairness House, Aberdeenshire: (not...\nCamolin Park, Co.Wexford,...\nCastle Eden, County Durham:...\nCastle Forbes, County Longford,...\nCastle Hill, Devon: (executed)...\nChillington Hall, Staffordshire:...\nChilton Lodge, Chilton Foliat,...\nCockley Cley, Norfolk: designs for...\nColombery House, St Helier, Jersey,...\nCombe House, Gittisham, Honiton,...\nCoombe House, Kingston upon Thames,...\nCosgrove, Northamptonshire:...\nCowes, Isle of Wight: unexecuted...\nCricket Lodge, Cricket St Thomas,...\nCuffnells near Lyndhurst, Hampshire:...\nDown Ampney House, Gloucestershire:...\nDownhill, County Derry, Northern...\n? Dunton Bassett, Leicestershire:...\nDunninald House, Craig, Angus:...\nEarsham, Norfolk: (executed)...\nEverton House near Biggleswade,...\nFairford House, Gloucestershire:...\nFonthill Splendens, Wiltshire:...\nGawdy Hall, Suffolk: working drawing...\nGreat Dunmow, Essex: preliminary...\nGunthorpe Hall, Norfolk: designs for...\nHalsnead, Lancashire: designs for...\nHamels Park, Hertfordshire: designs...\nHamels Park, Hertfordshire:...\nHethersett, Norfolk: designs for a...\nHinton St George, Somerset: survey...\nHockerill, Hertfordshire: (executed)...\nHolwood House, Kent: (executed) two...\nKelshall, Hertfordshire: (not as...\nLampton: unexecutied design for a...\nLangley Park, Norfolk: unexecuted...\nLees Court, Kent: (executed) stables,...\nLetton Hall, Norfolk: (executed)...\nLittle Green, Sussex: unexecuted...\nMalvern Hall, Warwickshire:...\nMoggerhanger, Bedfordshire:...\nMulgrave Hall, North Yorkshire:...\nNackington, Kent: (executed)...\nNetheravon House, Wiltshire:...\nNorth Mymms Park, Hertfordshire:...\nNorwood Hall, Norwood Green,...\nOssington Hall, Nottinghamshire:...\nPell Wall Hall, Market Drayton,...\nPembroke Lodge, Richmond Park,...\nPetworth House, Sussex: designs for...\nPiercefield, Gwent: (executed)...\nPitmurthly, Perthshire: working...\nPitshill, Tillington, Sussex: (partly...\nPitzhanger Manor, Ealing, London:...\nPort Eliot, St German's, Cornwall:...\nPutteridgebury, Hertfordshire: survey...\nRamsey Abbey, Huntingdonshire (now...\nRectory Manor, Walthamstow, London:...\nSaxlingham Rectory, Norfolk:...\nShotesham Park, Norfolk: (executed)...\nSkelton Castle, Yorkshire North...\nSouth Hill Park, Bracknell,...\nSpencers Wood, Berkshire:...\nSteephill, Isle of Wight: (not...\nStowe, Buckinghamshire: design for...\nSulby Lodge, Northamptonshire:...\nSunbury, Middlesex : survey and...\nSydney Lodge, Hamble, Hampshire for...\nTaverham Hall, Norfolk: eating room...\nTawstock Court, Devon: designs for...\nTaymouth Castle, Kenmore, Perthshire:...\nTendring Hall, Suffolk: (executed)...\nThatched House Lodge, Richmond Park,...\nTofts, Norfolk: design for a keeper's...\nTortworth Court (Gloucestershire):...\nTyringham House, Newport Pagnell,...\nUnidentified house, High Wycombe,...\nUnlocated: design for two...\nUnlocated: (unexecuted) alternative...\nWall Hall, Hertfordshire: new...\nWardour Castle, Wiltshire: (executed)...\nWhitley Abbey, Coventry,...\nWilliamstrip, Gloucestershire:...\nWimpole Hall, Cambridgeshire:...\nWiston Hall, Nayland with Wissington,...\nWokefield Park, West Berkshire: a...\nWoodeaton Manor, Oxfordshire: office...\nWorlingham Hall, Suffolk:...\nWreatham Hall, Norfolk: unexecuted...\nWycombe Abbey, Buckinghamshire:...\nCastle Forbes, County Longford, Ireland: (unbuilt) dower house for the Dowager Countess of Granard, 1790 (4)\nSoane made several designs for a dower house for the Granard family seat in Castle Forbes, Ireland. Soane was probably introduced to the client, Lady Georgina August Granard, through her elder sister Lady Elizabeth Craven, for whom Soane had designed a dairy and other garden buildings in 1781 (which remained unbuilt). The dower house remained unexecuted. Soane was paid \u00a36 6s 0d.\nSoane made a preliminary design on 5 April 1790. Three days later, John Sanders (pupil 1784-October 1790) delivered a copy of this design to the client. The client must not have been satisfied, however, as two more designs were delivered by Soane a few weeks later, on April 25th (Ledger C). A drawing at the Victoria and Albert Museum is dated 24 April 1790; it is probably one of the two designs presented by Soane to the client. The V&A drawing is for a more elaborate scheme, with circular rooms flanking the entrance hall and stairwell (see catalogue by P. du Prey).\nDrawings corresponding to Soane's earlier design were published in his Sketches in Architecture, 1793. The publication also includes upper floor plans of the proposed house, showing a drawing room, ante-room and one bedroom on the first floor and four bedrooms in the attic.\nLiterature: P.du Prey, Sir John Soane, 1985, in series of 'Catalogues of architectural drawings in the Victoria and Albert Museum', catalogue 65-66, pp. 43-44; P. Dean, Sir John Soane and the country estate, 1999, p.181.\nMadeleine Helmer, 2012\nPreliminary design for a house (2)\n(2) Monday Ap.5:1790\n(1-2) Soane\nSM (1) volume 42\/156 (2) volume 42\/157\nPresentation drawings, 8 April 1790 (2)\n(3) Copy April 8th 1790 (4) Copy April 8th 1790\n(3-4) attributed to John Sanders (pupil, 1 September 1784-90)\nSM (3) 29\/5A\/1 (4) 29\/5A\/2","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
+{"text":"U.S. Pacific intel chief: Coming Chinese attack on Taiwan could target other nations\nBeijing attempt to reclaim Taiwan 'matter of time,' Adm. Studeman warns\nBy Bill Gertz - The Washington Times\nChina's growing military power in Asia has increased the danger Beijing will launch a war against a neighboring state, with Taiwan just one of several likely future targets, the admiral in charge of intelligence for the Pentagon's Indo-Pacific Command warned this week.\nRear Adm. Mike Studeman, the top intelligence officer, or J-2, for the East Asian command, said in a conference Wednesday that U.S. military forces are bolstering arms and equipment for when conflict could break out in the region over Taiwan or another American ally or partner.\n\"What are we warning about: It's danger on all fronts,\" Adm. Studeman told an online conference via telephone from the command's headquarters in Hawaii. \"This idea that it's only a Taiwan scenario vs. many other areas where the Chinese are being highly assertive, coercive, is a failure in understanding complexity, because it's not that simple.\"\nAdm. Studeman said it would be a mistake to wait to act until intelligence agencies receive a warning that China is preparing to launch an amphibious assault against Taiwan, the island nation China's Communist leaders have vowed to reunite with the mainland.\n\"That is one scenario and, frankly, it may not be the most likely,\" he said. China's Communist regime is placing pressure on \"lots of its neighbors.\"\nChina in recent months has engaged in disputes with India, Australia, Japan, Taiwan and countries around the South China Sea in what analysts say is an increase in bullying by Beijing. In the past, the leaders of the ruling Chinese Communist Party sought to avoid multiple entanglements with neighbors and the new assertiveness is seen as a sign of China's growing power and military confidence.\nRegarding Taiwan, China has engaged in low-intensity conflict against the island that has increased the dangers across the 100-mile-wide Taiwan Strait. The campaign has involved information operations and economic pressure, Adm. Studeman said.\n\"It's already a struggle underway,\" he said. \"Whether or not the Chinese resort to a military option is in question. To us, it's only a matter of time, not a matter of 'if,' because if you understand the problem set, you understand that Taiwan will unlikely fold based on economic, and informational and diplomatic influence alone.\"\nThe admiral was reflecting earlier comments by the former and current chiefs of the Indo-Pacific Command, who said in testimony to Congress earlier this year that China appears to be preparing for a move against Taiwan by 2030 or before. Adm. Studeman said the United States needs to approach countering China with the same type of effort used against the Soviet Union during the Cold War.\n\"And we're not there yet as a nation in understanding how to in fact employ our energy, our treasure to be able to grapple with\" the danger, he said.\n\"Much of what we do,\" he added, \"is internal to us \u2014 ensuring that people are ready for a very bad day\" if war breaks out.\n'Too late'\nAdm. Studeman said naval intelligence officials sum up the current situation with China in two words used by Gen. Douglas McArthur in discussing the failure to head off World War II.\n\"'Too late,'\" Adm. Studeman said. \"Too late in comprehending the deadly purpose of a potential enemy. Too late in realizing the mortal danger. Too late in preparedness. Too late in uniting all possible forces for resistance.\"\nThe command's intelligence unit has provided Washington policymakers with strategic warning of the dangers and intentions of China in the region. The admiral's blunt warnings about China contrast with a more measured assessment of the risk of a conflict with China from Army Gen. Mark A. Milley, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff.\n\"I think China has a ways to go to develop the actual, no-kidding capability to conduct military operations to seize through military means the entire island of Taiwan if they wanted to do that,\" Gen. Milley told a congressional hearing last month.\nSeveral days later Gen. Milley voiced concerns about the capabilities of the U.S. military in waging an extended conflict with China. A war with China \"would be an enormous expensive undertaking in terms of all measures and I would be concerned about the ability to sustain a long-term conflict,\" he said.\nAdm. Studeman said he feels confident U.S. forces would have adequate warning of a Chinese military attack on Taiwan.\n\"The issue is even if you had, let's say 90 days of strategic warning for Taiwan, whether or not we have \u2026 have built up the capacities and the capabilities that we need to be able to handle the type of scenario which may be unfolding,\" he said.\nAdversaries like China have a different concept of war than the United States. For them, \"every day is a day of war in terms of the continuous struggle for advantage and disadvantage for influence,\" he said.\nDespite reluctance to compare the threat from China to the Cold War with Moscow, Adm. Studeman said the scale and breadth of the danger is \"absolutely awesome and it has every dimension we saw in the 20th century.\" China, he argued, is not simply seeking to become a leading world power but plans to surpass the United States and become the world's most powerful state.\n\"That's what Xi Jinping's course looks like,\" he said, referring to the Chinese president. \"And he's been very aggressive across the way. He's very Machiavellian. It's not unfair to say that the Chinese rise has come through lying, cheating and stealing.\"\nChina is expected to employ cyber warfare and anti-satellite attacks in any future conflict. Beijing is also investing heavily in space in anti-satellite weapons, including electronic jammers, and missiles capable of blasting orbiting satellites and conducting attacks with other satellites.\n\"They are on the march,\" Adm. Studeman said. \"It's clear as day what they're putting into the investments.\"\nU.S. forces also are investing heavily in space defenses \"and it will be a game of measures, and countermeasures, and counter-countermeasures\" in a future space conflict.\nChina's government has used its technological capabilities around the world to gather masses of data that can be used for what the admiral called \"effective control\" over populations, such as in Xinjiang and Hong Kong.\n\"This is a foreshadowing of what Chinese effective control will look like in other places,\" he said.\nChina is seeking to simultaneously gain control over contested areas such as the border with India, areas around Bhutan in South Asia, the Mekong region of Vietnam, the South China Sea, the East China Sea and the Taiwan Strait, he said. Internally, the ruling Chinese Communist Party, has strong institutions of power and the regime does not appear to be threatened by dissension that could produce serious opposition, the admiral added.\n\u2022 Bill Gertz can be reached at bgertz@washingtontimes.com.\nBiden migrant surge sets all-time record for most arrests at southern border\nWith its social media biz under siege, Facebook looks to build a new 'metaverse' empire\nUS Citizenship Test - Could You Pass?\nYoungkin goes solo, McAuliffe leans on surrogates in home stretch of Va. governor's race\n'Fair share': Democrats eye billionaire's tax to help push Biden spending bill across finish line\nNext generation combat rifles\nAG Garland defends Jan. 6 prosecutions, denies he'll shield school boards from vocal parents\nEconomists demand better labeling of Chinese forced-labor goods\nDoctor: \"Doing This Every Morning Can Snap Back Sagging Skin (No Creams Needed)\"\nBiden admin. doubles estimate of Americans left behind in Afghanistan\nU.N. 'not doing its job' on North Korea sanctions, U.S. ambassador says\nCan you pass a world history test?\nBiden uses gesture liberals denounce as white supremacist\nDemocrats try to make a trillion 'sound normal'\nMost controversial ad campaigns\nPeople tried to register accounts before Trump's social platform launches\nBiden delays release of secret JFK assassination documents\nHow much do you know about U.S. presidents?","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
+{"text":"Singapore condemns violence in Sri Lanka, says no reports of Singaporean casualties\n#Singapore News Singapore\nCtoI News Desk Monday, April 22nd 2019\nIn a statement on Sunday, April 21, the Singapore Government said strongly condemns the series of chain bombings in Sri Lanka that happened over the Easter weekend.\nMinistry of Foreign Affairs (MFA) said those were 'heinous acts of violence' which led to significant loss of civilian lives. Almost 200 people were killed, including at least 27 foreigners, at three churches and four hotels.\n\"We convey our condolences to the families who have lost their loved ones and our wishes for speedy recovery of those injured.\"\nPhoto courtesy: MFA\nMFA has also reached out to Singaporeans who are e-registered in Colombo, Sri Lanka. Thus far, there are no reports of Singaporean casualties in the incidents, the statement said.\nThe Singapore Honorary Consulate-General in Colombo is in close contact with the Sri Lankan authorities and is monitoring the situation closely.\nSingaporeans in Colombo are advised to remain vigilant, follow the advice of the local authorities, stay in touch with their family and friends to relay their safety status. \"Singaporeans who require consular assistance can contact the Honorary Consulate-General in Colombo at +94 77 00 44 868 or the 24-hour MFA Duty Office at +65 6379 8800\/8855.\"\nCtoI News Desk \u2013 CtoI\nSingapore-headquartered online media company targeting Indian Diaspora across Singapore, US, UK and Dubai. Connected to India covers developments around Indians abroad, informing, engaging and entertaining its audiences.\nTough IPL auction ahead for CSK, can't retain all former teammates, says Dhoni\nDhoni bats for local coaches, teaching atmosphere for kids in his new academy\nDhoni's master class for budding cricketers of Singapore\nNew microsensor by NUS scientists is tiny enough to be injected under the skin\nFullerton, Merlion and ArtScience Museum light up the CBD to welcome 2020\n5 best places in Singapore to countdown to 2020","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
+{"text":"Jadon Sancho: Borussia Dortmund say door closed on any Man Utd deal for forward\nUnited missed Dortmund's August 10 deadline for the deal to be completed but came in with a \u00a391.3m offer which was rejected earlier this week\nBy Gary Cotterill, Joe Tanner\nSunday 4 October 2020 14:52, UK\nSky Sports News reporter Gary Cotterill has the latest from Borussia Dortmund, where players and fans expect Jadon Sancho to remain with the club beyond Deadline Day\nBorussia Dortmund sporting director Michael Zorc insists Jadon Sancho's move to Manchester United during the current transfer window will not happen.\n\"The door is closed, I have said this 27 times!\", Zorc told reporters on Saturday.\nSancho: The state of play ahead of Deadline Day\nChelsea reject Bayern loan bid for Hudson-Odoi\nDeadline Day: What does every PL club need?\nTransfer Talk Podcast: Are Man Utd set up for success?\nIt is a view shared by the rest of Dortmund's hierarchy, head coach Lucien Favre, the club's players, and fans in the North Rhine-Westphalia city.\nClub captain Marco Reus has expressed his delight that his attacking team-mate is remaining at Signal Iduna Park.\nOther players have not been permitted to talk about Sancho to the media, but Thomas Meunier could not resist telling Sky Sports News: \"Sancho is staying\", while walking into the club's Brackel training centre.\nPrice on ear defenders ban: I've got to grin and bear whatever comes my way\nBorussia Dortmund's sporting director Michael Zorc confirms the club has been in contact with Manchester United over Sancho, but does not expect a deal to be done\nA total of 11,000 fans were let into the stadium for Saturday's match against Freiburg, with Bundesliga clubs currently permitting a reduced number of supporters to return to stadia, its usual capacity is just over 81,300.\nOne Dortmund fan said: \"I think he is definitely going to stay because there was a deadline and there is no option for a transfer anymore.\"\nTransfer Centre latest\nMan Utd transfer rumours\nLatest done deals\nMan Utd close to signing Cavani\n\"I think he will stay this season, and the next year he will leave us,\" was another supporter's prediction on the Sancho saga.\nManchester United placed a \u00a391.3m bid earlier this week, which was turned down by Dortmund.\nThe offer, which fell short of Dortmund's \u00a3108m asking price, was for an initial \u00a373m, rising to up to \u00a391.3m.\nGary Cotterill provides an update from Dortmund as it appears Manchester United's bid to sign Sancho may have come to an end\nSancho has not trained with Favre's squad since United tabled their bid because of an ongoing respiratory infection.\nHe missed the 4-0 victory over Freiburg and also sat out of the German Supercup final against Bayern Munich. The forward has tested negative for coronavirus.\nSancho has been United's No 1 target throughout the summer, with Donny van de Beek the only other arrival so far at Old Trafford, but the club missed Dortmund's August 10 deadline for the deal to be completed.\nSave over 25% with a NOW TV Sky Sports Pass\nCatch the action for only \u00a325 a month with this limited time offer. Watch the Premier League, Formula 1, PGA Tour and much more. Cancel any time.\nPrior to their late bid, United had made a breakthrough in negotiations with Sancho's representatives earlier in September, with wages and agents fees no longer thought to be an issue for the Premier League club, but on September 23 Dharmesh Sheth told The Transfer Show that Dortmund had been left \"bemused\" by United's attempts to sign him.\nGareth Southgate selected Sancho for England's upcoming Nations League games against Belgium and Denmark and a friendly against Wales, with the Three Lions squad due to meet up at St George's Park on October 5, which coincides with Transfer Deadline Day.\nTransfer Deadline Day - October 5\nThe summer transfer window closes at 11pm on Monday October 5 with a feast of activity throughout the day involving the biggest names in football.\nSome of the highlights to enjoy on Sky Sports News and across our Sky Sports platforms:\nBreakfast with David Ginola and Rachel Yankey\nThe Football Show Special with Dwight Yorke and Andy Cole\nCountdown with Harry and Jamie Redknapp\nSupporters at the heart of the show with Sky VIP fan wall\nYou can also follow the stories on Sky Sports' digital platforms, with our dedicated Transfer Centre blog.\nHere's all you need to know about Deadline Day and how to keep across all the deals and drama with Sky Sports.\nONE MILLION POUNDS! Can you imagine?\nYou read correctly. Do not miss your chance to scoop \u00a31m for free in this week's Super 6 round. Play for free, entries by 3pm Saturday.","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
+{"text":"Michael Clifford: The Man Behind The Guitar\nAmber Nordberg April 11, 2016, 4:43 pm\nMichael Clifford the guitar player. Michael Clifford the funny one. Michael Clifford the one battling depression? When you go past the outside perception of the 5SOS lead guitarist you will find a man fighting a battle with himself, a man who would rather battle than disappoint. He would rather fight his own battles than disappoint his family, his fans.\nMichael Clifford has a strong connection and relationship with his fans. He relates with them more than either of them even knows. As a teenager Michael was often alone in his bedroom playing video games hiding from the world. Struggling with the 'norm' of staying in school and ignoring the voice telling him to follow his passion. The same struggles his fans face on a daily basis.\n\"It's unbelievable how you can affect someone so deeply and never know.\"\n2013 was a huge year for Michael and his band mates. Getting to be the opening act of One Direction, the biggest band in the world is something most only dream of. After two years of being the support act the band was finally able to do their own tour. The headlining band touring across the globe seems surreal and something a band from Australia can only dream about.\nAlthough the boys of 5SOS have reached a status of fame only grasped by some, the appreciation and love they have for their fans has only grown.\nyou guys have shown next level dedication with these SGFG numbers all over the world. we love you. I am going to sob deeply all day\n\u2014 meowchael (@Michael5SOS) November 2, 2015\nIn 2015 the boys released their 2nd studio album, Sounds Good, Feels Good. Michael wrote on this album, just as he did with their first album. When we first heard it, there was something a little different about Michael's songs. They were written with more emotion, more love, more sadness.\nCalum and Michael co-wrote \"Jet Black Heart\", the third single off Sounds Good, Feels Good. In the song you can hear the battle of emotions he is feeling, the emptiness and lack of self worth. In the video you see different fans from around the world dealing with a daily struggle sometimes not seen from the outside. When you listen and watch it, it's telling you its okay to not be okay sometimes.\n\"Real bands save fans, real fans save bands.\"\nThere is a bond between Michael and his fans, a bond some of us can't understand but a bond that is beautiful. A bond that is much deeper than music. One built on knowing you're not alone and that there is someone who cares for you when you feel like no one else does.\nWe love you Michael, and that whatever bumps are in your road we know you will pass them and be stronger than before.\nTweet us at our 5SOS Twitter and tell us what you love about Michael!\nThe 1975 are performing at Madison Square Garden\n16 Of The Best Pop Culture Moments Of 2016\n16 of the best breakthrough artists of 2016\n16 of the biggest songs in country music this year\n16 Of The Best Covers From 2016\nThe 10 Best Pop Albums Of 2016","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
+{"text":"LINES OF THE WEEK\nIn The Big Inning ...\n1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 R H E\nFlorida 1 0 0 0 4 0 0 1 2 8 10 0\nBoston 14 2 1 2 1 0 1 4 x 25 28 1\n%% \"It was wild,\" Johnny Damon said, \"but we loved every single bit of it.\" And every double, triple, home run and sacrifice fly. Before the 50-minute first inning was over Friday night at Fenway Park, the Red Sox had rewritten the record book: 14 runs in the first, 10 runs before an out was recorded, Damon with a record-tying three hits in an inning, becoming the first player to hit a single, double and triple in an inning.\nAnother Dozen To Go In K.C.\nApproximate number of doughnuts Kansas City-area Krispy Kremes have given away through a promotion in which fans can redeem their Kauffman Stadium ticket stubs for a free dozen when the Royals get 12 or more hits. The Royals have done it 12 times already this season and fans are scooping up stubs and scarfing down doughnuts. \"One guy came into a store with 125 [stubs],\" Kelly Lehman, Krispy Kreme's marketing director for Missouri and Kansas, told the Kansas City Star.\nYount, Fisk And ... Rolls?\nHR -- Rolls 2 (2) off Clemens\nThe Devil Rays' Damian Rolls hadn't hit a home run since 2001 before going deep in consecutive at-bats off a future Hall of Famer Monday night in a 4-2 victory over the Yankees. The last two players to homer in consecutive at-bats off Roger Clemens are already in the Hall of Fame: Robin Yount and Carlton Fisk.\nRiding Le Carrousel In Montreal\n2B -- Wilkerson (19); 3B -- Wilkerson (2); HR -- Wilkerson (9) off Torres\nAdd a bunt single and you have Brad Wilkerson's cycle, the fifth by a Montreal Expo. The 4-for-4, four RBI performance came in a 6-4 victory over the Pirates on Tuesday. Wilkerson did it in order, too. Single in the second, double in the fifth, triple in the sixth and two-run homer in the seventh.","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
+{"text":"Accuracy of ''On the sea ice near Rigolet, Labrador'' *dateline* in NYTimes online called into question: was reporter there in fall of 2017? She was not.\nToe touch?\nRE: From The New York Times:\n''Reporters Get New Datelines So They Won't Seem Out of Place''\nThe Times is changing how it shows where articles were written, hoping to more clearly convey that \"we are on the scene around the world.\"\nhttps:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2017\/04\/16\/insider\/dateline-byline-reporters.html?mwrsm=Email\nWhy Lost Ice Means Lost Hope for an Inuit Village\n[Very well-reported and researched by James Reston Reporting Fellow for the New York Times Livia Albeck-Ripka]\nThe only road to Rigolet, Labrador, is the ice. But climate change is making that ice vanish, and the mental health impact runs deep. A New York Times intern visited the region in January 2017 before she was a NYT employee and still a freelance writer so there is no NYT dateline\nThe important article was published on NOV. 25, 2017\n[ORIGINAL FAUX DATELINE HAS BEEN DELETED HERE FOR EDITORIAL REASONS AND STANDARDS AND PRACTICES OVERSIGHT]\nLeaning over the handlebars with one knee up on the seat, Derrick Pottle commanded his snowmobile between rocks and sheets of gray sea ice before stopping suddenly at the mouth of a bay.\n\"It's open,\" Mr. Pottle said, turning off his machine. Ten yards away, the ice had cracked and opened a dark hole in the water that made it impossible to drive across the inlet.\nIt was Jan. 7, 2017 (when the reporter was not a New York Times employee and paid for the trip through her own funds or a generous un-named media sponsor) unusually late in the season for Mr. Pottle's first trip to his winter cabin \u2014 a few hours drive by snowmobile from his hometown, Rigolet \u2014 over what should have been more than 60 miles of frozen trails and solid ice.\n[When a New York Times article has an unvetted ''dateline'' that reads ON SEA ICE NEAR RIGOLET, Labrador \u2014 with a sentence that reads ''that made it impossible to drive across the inlet. It was Jan. 7, unusually late in the season for Mr. Pottle's first trip to his cabin'' ....does this mean the article was researched and reported and that the reporter was there in Canada on January 7, 2017 when she was not a NYT staffer or in November 2017 when she was an intern at the NYT?\nSEE NYT's own take on the use of datelines:\nSEE JACK SCHAFER's take a few years ago on this topic:\nWhat is a dateline?\nhttps:\/\/www.library.illinois.edu\/village\/globalnews\/mod1\/pg17.htm\nFirst, you have to know what a dateline is -- and what it is not.\nThe dateline of a news story has important information -- it indicates the city the journalist was in when he or she reported on the story. It also indicates the date the story was filed.\nHowever, the dateline does not indicate the place of publication. For example, an article that was published in a US-based newspaper, website, or TV network was produced in the US for an audience of Americans. It can thus be considered to have the US as its place of publication -- regardless of the dateline. (See example, right).\nDateline - Wikipedia\nhttps:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Dateline\nA dateline is a brief piece of text included in news articles that describes where and when the story was written or filed, though the date is often omitted. In the ...\nhttp:\/\/www.easymedia.in\/what-is-a-dateline-and-how-it-is-written\/\nToe Touching\nIn journalism, the term \"toe-touch\" is means \"to make a quick trip to a particular place, just so you can claim that location in the dateline of the published story.\" It's considered an unethical practice, since the dateline implies that the writer actually did the reporting in that location, when in fact they might have done all the reporting via internet.\nRick Bragg's \"Dateline Toe-Touch\"\nA New York Times writer gets gets caught cutting corners.\nhttp:\/\/www.slate.com\/articles\/news_and_politics\/press_box\/2003\/05\/rick_braggs_dateline_toetouch.html\nand TIME magazine controversy over a dateline with Laurie Goodstein\nhttps:\/\/www.mrc.org\/articles\/times-commits-dateline-toe-touch-episcopal-churchs-anaheim-convention\ntoe-touch - A Way with Words\nhttps:\/\/www.waywordradio.org\/toe_touch_1\/\n2004\u5e749\u670815\u65e5 - toe-touch \u00abVisiting a scene to claim a dateline for an article ...\nThe man who took the New York Times for a ride | US news | The ...\nhttps:\/\/www.theguardian.com \u203a US News \u203a Newspapers & magazines\n- This, alleges Blair, led to a practice known as the \"toe-touch\", which he ... to get a dateline on a story by reporting and writing it in one location, ...\nA short editors note or authors note before or after article help readers better understand when article was written and where either before nyt gig or during current nyt intern gig. When did livia make the toe touch embedded in the dateline? Honesty would help.\nSo far the NYT is not responding to this, so.....LET IT BE. Water under the bridge. The article is very very good and the dateline issue is not important at all. Moving on.\nTaiwanese film director \u856d\u96c5\u5168 [Hsaio Ya-Quan] came t...\nI'm over the moon on this one!\nTwo British novelists debut their cli-fi novels th...\nDRAMA: Cli-fi farce staged on stage at DeBartolo P...\nGlobal OpEd by Paul Wallis in Australia: \"Hate is ...\nCLIMATE CHANGE & Cli-Fi Novels and Movies: OUR LEG...\nA Letter to America and the All of Nations as Well...\nDiffractions: Sleepwalking Toward Calamity: The 20...\nOne for the ages, with humor, which we all need in...\nAccuracy of ''On the sea ice near Rigolet, Labrado...\nO ambiente como protagonista? 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+{"text":"India All India 09 Jul 2019 Anna Hazare appears before court in Nimbalkar murder case, records statement\nAnna Hazare appears before court in Nimbalkar murder case, records statement\nPublished : Jul 9, 2019, 3:30 pm IST\nUpdated : Jul 9, 2019, 3:30 pm IST\nFormer NCP MP Padamsinh Patil, an accused in the case, was also present in the court of Special Judge AL Yawalkar.\nAnandi Devi had challenged the trial court order before the Bombay High Court which also rejected her plea. (Photo: File)\nMumbai: Social activist Anna Hazare appeared on Tuesday before a special CBI court in Mumbai as a prosecution witness in the 2006 murder case of Congress leader Pawan Raje Nimbalkar and recorded his statement.\nNimbalakar was murdered in June 2006 in Kalamboli area of Navi Mumbai. His wife Anandi Devi had moved the trial court seeking Hazare be made a witness in the case.\nThe court had, however, rejected her plea, saying that he was not a direct witness in the case and his statement could just be \"hearsay\".\nAnandi Devi had challenged the trial court order before the Bombay High Court which also rejected her plea.\nLater, she filed a plea in the Supreme Court which set aside the high court order and directed the CBI to make Hazare a witness in the case.\nIn 2002, Hazare had alleged that Padamsinh Patil threatened to kill him.\nTags: anna hazare, supreme court, pawan raje nimbalkar","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
+{"text":"Sreerama Koteswara Rao Surapaneni\nHe is a Member of the Institute of Chartered Accountants of India and the Senior Partner of Brahmayya & Co., Chartered Accountants. He was Regional Council Member of SIRC of ICAI during 1985-1992 and was its Chairman during 1990-1992. He was the President of Federation of Andhra Pradesh Chamber of Commerce & Industry, director of Andhra Pradesh State Financial Corporation and member of Tirumala Tirupati Devasthanams Trust Board. He is presently a Director in Sanzyme Ltd., Kakatiya Textiles Ltd., Deccan Auto Ltd., Tera Software Limited and Corona Bus Manufactures Pvt. Ltd., and Treasurer in Vignana Jyothi - a non-profitable organisation working in field of education.\nKrishna Kishore Kuchipudi\nExecutive Vice Chairman, Managing Director\nMr. Kishore, a Postgraduate from Andhra University, he is the Chief architect of Jeevan Mitra Chit Fund Private Limited, Hyderabad. Under his aegis and stewardship as Chairman and Managing Director, the Company has grown impressively in size and stature to become a leading chit fund concern in the State of Andhra Pradesh.\nSnigdha Mothukuri\nMs. Snigdha Mothukuri is an enthusiastic honors graduate from the finest educational institutions across the globe. She pursued two master's degrees, one in the field of Management Science from a leading Ivy Leagues School - Columbia University in New York and the other in the field of Technology from the prestigious Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Madras. She completed her Bachelor of Technology from IIT Madras.\nDuring her tenure with the company i.e. since 2018 onwards, she played a key role in the overall organizational growth including Strategy Deployment, Operations, Project Management and Finance which have significantly contributed to the financial performance of the company.\nPrior to Jeevan Scientific Technology Limited, she worked with reputed organizations like Lansum Estates LLP (India), Louis Vuitton (USA), Fresh Direct (USA), University of British Columbia (Canada) and Aarvee Associates (India).\nHaving worked with global teams in highly distributed environments, she gained industry experience in domains ranging from Health Care, Pharma, Civil Engineering, Transportation, Supply Chain to Operations and Finance. While working at Lansum Estates, she was part of the Management team and handled the construction of the tallest residential towers in the State of Andhra Pradesh - Lansum Oxygen Towers.\nShe has proved to be a technical and research person, an astute analyst as well as a team player and a team leader.\nY. Nageswara Rao\nNageswara Rao is an experienced professional in the areas of Management, Operations, Finance Marketing and Administration. Currently a Director of Sri Surya Wheels Private Limited, he has an overall experience of over 30 years successfully managing multiple organisations - Sri Surya Automobiles, Sri Surya Transport Corporation, Sri Surya Wheels Private Limited, Sri Surya Electronics and Home Appliances.\nHe has gained multiple awards in the field of marketing and has rich experience in managing multiple teams across various levels and locations.\nJeevan Krishna Kuchipudi\nExecutive Director & CFO\nMr. Jeevan Krishna Kuchipudi is the CEO & Executive Director of Enhops Solutions Private Limited & Enhops Inc. As a passionate entrepreneur, Jeevan has diverse global experience, exceptionally in IT and Finance. He is constantly engaged with development of new products through his out of the box and consumer intensive ideas.\nJeevan holds an MBA in Finance from San Diego State University. Through his academic and career moves, Jeevan has showcased the vision to be an all-encompassing team leader as well as a team player. He embraced progressive skills in various segments which include Software Development, Quality Assurance, Financial Analysis, Business Analysis, and Project Management. Jeevan played active roles in finance, credit, insurance, technology and healthcare domains while working for giants like Core Logic Credco, Boingo Wireless, Humana, Tata Consultancy Services and Jeevan Softech Limited.\nRavi Babu Thammareddy\nMr. Ravi Babu completed his MBA Degree from Symbiosis Institute of Management, Pune, he has over 14 years of experience in freelancing, advertising and consulting computer graphics and also worked as Director of Cinematography in Indian Broadcasting Company at New York for 4 years. His exposure includes \u2013 Advanced Cinematography Film in Television Workshops, Rockport Main, USA and Advanced Online Editing Systems Management from Sony Institute of Applied Video Technology, San Jose, California, USA.\nBhanu Prakash Gali\nMr. Bhanu Prakash completed his MBA and MS from University of Bridgeport, USA and the Managing Director of Bhanu Prakash Power Projects Pvt. Limited. He is also the founder and Managing Partner of Jai Ganesh Constructions, an infrastructure development company with projects under execution in Irrigation and Public Health sectors. Mr. Bhanu Prakash brings a wealth of experience in domestic and international strategic development, operations, marketing, sales, distribution and general management.\nRama Krishna Prasad Kakarala\nMr. K. R. K. Prasad completed his Bachelor of Engineering from Bangalore University in 1982. He started his career as Graduate Engineering Trainee in Hyderabad at Allwyn Ltd in 1983 to 1985. He was Director Incharge of Lakshmisri Constructions during 1986 to 1994 for execution of the various projects. Later in 1994 started own venture - Akhila Motors Pvt. Ltd (Sales and service of automotive field). In 1996 entered in to civil construction and real estate business. With his diversified experience in various fields, started Navo Systems Private Limited - software development and consultancy firm in 2002.\nDr. G. Venkata Subbarao\nDr. G. Venkata Subbarao is Founder Director of Spansules Pharma Group. A Technocrat with 3 Decades of Techno - commercial experience in Pharmaceutical Sciences and Technology, working with several leading pharmaceutical companies in India and Abroad. He has expertise in Research and Development of complex generics products from lab scale to commercial scale. He has experience in Designing and execution of specialty projects for pharmaceutical Industry. With his Business Development acumen and experience of more than 30 years he is responsible for the Vision and growth strategy of Spansules Pharma Group Companies.\nB. Suryaprakasa Rao\nB. Suryaprakasa Rao is Chartered Accountant by profession. He is a partner in M\/s. Pundarikashyam and Associates. Expertise in specific functional areas specialize in Audit, Accounts, and Finance and in Banking, Tax Planning, Stock Audit, Credit Audit and Concurrent Audit of Banks.","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
+{"text":"HomeNewsCharlotte Flair On Being 'The Opportunity': I Don't Need To Hold A Championship To Be The Champion\nCharlotte Flair On Being 'The Opportunity': I Don't Need To Hold A Championship To Be The Champion\nCrusher April 28, 2021\nposted on Apr. 28, 2021 at 11:13 am\nCharlotte Flair is the champion, whether she has gold around her waist or not.\nCharlotte was a guest on WWE's The Bump on Wednesday and talked about her status in WWE and the new moniker of \"The Opportunity\" she's been using recently. Charlotte said there's plenty of people with an opinion about her, but she realized that she needs to embrace it and put a spin on what's being said about her by her detractors.\n\"I think every opinion, I'm just going to take and I don't know\u2026 I don't know how to properly say it,\" Charlotte explained, \"but that's this idea of being 'The Opportunity' is everyone's saying 'Oh, she takes everyone's opportunities!' so you just spin it and you put some truth into it. 'Well yes, because I am The Opportunity.'\"\nFlair was also asked if she feels like she's bigger than the recognized championships in WWE. While she said she \"[doesn't] want to diminish what the championships mean\", Flair does see herself as a champion, whether she has gold or not.\n\"I don't want to say bigger, but I don't need to hold a championship to be the champion,\" Flair said. \"I don't know how else you say it. You don't need to be a face of the division to hold the gold.\"\nWhen asked who she has a bigger beef with between Asuka and Rhea Ripley, Charlotte said both, but also called out Ripley for stealing her spot at WrestleMania.\n\"Both simultaneously, but that snake [Rhea Ripley] took my match at WrestleMania. That snake! They all talk about each other,\" she said, \"but she took my spot!\"\nRead More: Sonya Deville Defends Reinstating Charlotte Flair, Says Her Relationship With Adam Pearce Is Complicated\nEscobar's Electric Win, What's Next For Cole? (NXT Post-Show)\nBillie Kay Files Trademark On 'Jessie McKay'","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
+{"text":"Egypt: On Understanding Egypt\nOn Understanding Egypt\nBy Ralph Ellis\nFor many people, and perhaps most of all for Americans, Egypt is a very misunderstood country. As an Islamic country, bordering the Middle East but actually in North Africa, it is an Arabic republic, but at the same time, altogether different than any other. This is due to its 5,000 year old heritage, as well as its strategic location and other unique attributes. Current analysts often refer to Egypt as a \"Moderate Islamic State\", but in characterizing Egypt in this manner, one really fails to grasp its essence as a modern member of the world community.\nThe Old Shepeard's Hotel was the Heart and Soul of Visiting English Society\nSpecifically, Egypt as a country is worldly, more than a little influenced by ancient Mediterranean, more recent European and even more recent western media influences. Throughout the ages, Egypt has often been forced to open its eyes to the world and foreign influences, while other countries in the region were allowed to sleep a little longer. It is the entertainment capital of the Middle East and Northern Africa, as well as a power broker and regional peace maker.\nEgypt's first tourists might be considered to be the Greeks, who came to Egypt perhaps because of its mysteries. Indeed, probably no other country on earth has been influenced so much by tourism. Even as Egypt's importance as an agricultural breadbasket to Rome, and later as a crosswords of East and West by Europeans, and to all a gateway to Africa, many people came to Egypt either to explore the antiquities, or often just to escape the European winters.\nOf course, while Egypt's mysteries may have bought attention to the country, its strategic location and agricultural potency sustained that interest. Mostly, Egypt's worldliness comes from its European heritage, though of course the Greek influence is still felt particularly on the North Coast. But it was the French and English that established themselves in the country and influenced what is today's Egypt. The French came for conquests, but bought with them inventive ideas, the French language, still widely known in Egypt, French culture as well as social and diplomatic influences. The British seem to have come because of the the French, and bought with them railways, politics and money. Together, they practically made a European city of Cairo, aided by the Egyptian rulers themselves.\nBoth the British and French built important transportation systems that would add considerably to Egypt's exposure to foreign influence. The French, of course, built the Suez canal, though in reality it was built with Egyptian labor, and eventually, with Egyptian money. But the English also built the rail line between Alexandria and Cairo, along with a telegraph, opening up an important route between Briton and India. With the railway came English merchants, clergymen and teachers, middle class girls looking for husbands and Thomas J. Cook, who in 1860 organized his first tour to Egypt for thirty-two ladies and gentlemen. Hence, he began the modern era of tourism to Egypt.\nIn fact, in the mid 1800s as war raged in the U.S. and European countries sought other sources for King Cotton, almost every European country had citizens living in Cairo. By 1872 there were three hundred thousand people living in Cairo, and eighty-five thousand of them were non-Egyptians. Other countries in the region had little to offer these Europeans, and so their cultures developed along different paths, less effected by the outside world. Even today, Cairo maintains a huge presence of foreign residents, numbering at least in the hundreds of thousands.\nThese foreigners bought with them there own standards and ideas on almost everything, including the houses they lived in, their food, their entertainment and other tastes. These had a great influence on local pashas, merchants and princes, and by the mid 1800s many Egyptians had also been abroad, and they too bought back their own ideas of clothing, how stores should operate, what streets should look like and what sort of houses they wished to live in.\nThey bought in foreign architects from Italy, France, Austria and Briton, and the combination of rich pashas, imported capital and foreign experts changed Cairo forever. By now, Ismail, Mohammed Ali's grandson ruled Egypt. He had been educated in France and had traveled extensively in Europe. His dream was that Cairo should rival modern Paris, and he set about to accomplish this ambitious scheme.\nHis plan was to establish a new quarter to the west of Cairo proper and he had this area laid out according to French plans with straight streets and roundabouts, and the organized pattern of modern Cairo is the results. To populate the area, Ismail gave land to anyone who would build within eighteen months a house or building worth at least thirty thousand francs. the rich instantly obliged, and while the buildings at first were mostly residential, soon banks and consulates also built their new headquarters, moving across the borderline of Ezbekiya from the old Rosetti quarters to develop this new commercial district that was not going to be Arab, but rather European. Greek and German brasseries and French cafes also sprang up along the new streets, and many of them had orchestras or bands. It was a lavish time in Egypt for the rich, and even middle class.\n1869 was an astonishing year for Egypt because of the opening of the Suez Canal. For the Europeans living in Egypt, and the rich Egyptians, it was a year of balls, banquets, theaters, operas and races. More Europeans came, including such notables as the Prince of Wales and without doubt Egypt was the destination of anyone with style and money.\nCompleted in 1869 to host Verdi's Rigoletto, the Old Cairo\nOpera House was an exact copy of La Scala of Milan\nEventually the money would run out, and in the end, European bankers basically foreclosed on Egypt, capturing the country without a shot being fired. Much of the money used for buildings, roads, and the Suez Canal itself had been borrowed at lofty costs, and so Egypt fell even further under the influence, and now outright control of Europeans.\nIn 1952, Egypt again became a free country, and certainly things have changed over the years. But its worldly attitude remains, and it is a country so very different than its Arab and Islamic neighbors. The French Restaurants, British banks and hotels of every nationality have been supplemented by modern American fast food chains and even Radio Shacks. In fact, Egypt reminds me so very much of America, with its convergence of cultures, rising middle class and raging free enterprise. Also very similar to the U.S., Egypt certainly has its own distinctive culture, but it is tented by global influences.\nWhile its marriage to Europe was often uncomfortable, particularly for the poor, a tradition of welcoming visitors with open arms continues, for Egypt's tourism heritage is over two thousand years old and hospitality has become a matter of considerable national pride.\nAdam Henein by Lara Iskander\nArabic Music by David Scott\nAhmed Askalany's Incredible Palms by Heba Fatteen Bizzari\nA Bedouin Dinner in the Sinai by Julia Kaliniak\nCairo's Gold Mine of Used Books Still Offers Treasures by Dr. Maged El-Bialy\nChildren in Modern Egypt by Catherine C. Harris\nCoptic Christians of Egypt, An Overview of the by Lara Iskander and Jimmy Dunn\nEgypt's 1960s Remarkable Virgin Mary Sightings by Amargi\nEgyptian Arabic by Jimmy Dunn writing as Ismail Abaza\nEgyptian Food by Joyce Carta\nEgyptian Hajj Painting by Sonny Stengle\nThe Egyptian Middle Class by Jimmy Dunn\nEgyptian Porcelain Center: A New Showcase for Egyptian and World Artists by The Egyptian Government\nThe Egyptian Wedding by Dr. Maged El-Bialy\nEid: Celebration for the Young and Old by Mohamed Osama\nIslam in a Nutshell by Seemi AhmadIslam\nKoshary by Heba Fatteen Bizzari\nThe Legends of the Cretan House by Dr. Maged El-Bialy\nMarvelous Melokiyah by Mary Kay Radnich\nEl Misaharaty: The Ramadan Drummers by Heba Fatteen Bizzari\nModern Egyptian Houses by the Egyptian Government\nModern Egyptian Pottery by the Egyptian Government\nMoulids! by Lara Iskander\nThe Mysteries of Qurna by Sonny Stengle\nNaquib Mahfouz's Classic: Bedaya Wa Nihaya, A Review by Adel Murad Naquib Mahfouz (1911-August 30th, 2006)\nNever Mind, Just Crossing the Moon By Arnvid Aakre\nOn Understanding Egypt by Ralph Ellis\nParty for the God in Luxor by Jane Akshar\nEgypt's Rafat Wagdy by Heba Fatteen Bizzari\nRamadan in Al Hussein Square by Seif Kame\nlRamadan in Egypt by Sameh\nRamadan in Korba, Heliopolis by Seif Kamel\nRamadan Lanterns in Egypt by Heba Fatteen Bizzari\nThe 8th Annual Scupture Symposium for Stone in Aswan by The Government of Egypt with revisions by Jimmy Dunn\nThe Sebou Ceremony Welcoming a New Born Baby in Egypt by Heba Fatteen Bizzari\nSham el Nessim, Egypt Spring Festival by Heba Fatteen Bizzari\nSheikh Yusuf al-Haggag, His Mosque and Moulid In Luxor by Jane Akshar\nUmm Kalthoum by Lara Iskander\nYou Don't Have to Go to the Khan El-Khaliliby Dr. Maged El-Bialy\nThe Zar Ceremony by Heba Fatteen Bizzari\nLast Updated: June 22nd, 2011","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
+{"text":"Instagram Analytics \u2022 Mar 11, 2019\nPhoto by William Hook on Unsplash\nSince Facebook bought Instagram in 2012, Instagram has been known for adopting and emulating our favourite features from parallel apps. Taking on video content, direct messaging and advertising early into the buy, the social media platform has been squeezing out competition ever since. In August 2016 Instagram added Stories as its answer to Snapchat. In December 2017 Instagram added the ability to archive these stories, and more recently the adding of the Memories feature has rid users of the need to turn to Facebook and Timehop to drizzle themselves in nostalgia of years gone by. On July 9th 2018, it was stated on Forbes.com that Timehop had more than 21 million users. It makes sense that Instagram, a company owned by Facebook itself, would like to get in on that attention. Then in June 2018 IGTV took on YouTube, increasing video content length limits to 60 minutes, all in-app on Instagram.\nNow this\u2026\nInstagram appears to be testing out a new in-app local business profile page feature. It looks like a cross between the 'About' section of Pages on Facebook and the information of local businesses on Google Maps.\nIf you're one of the lucky few who are able to view this feature, here's how you can find it:\nGo to a business profile.\nClick on the address at the top of the profile page.\nClick 'View Location Info'.\nClick 'View Information'.\nWhy are they doing this?\nThe monopolisation of the online space is the game these big social media fish are playing, so the minimisation of diverted attention and the need to use any other platform(s) are up there as the main reasons. Of course the top dogs aren't going to want you to have a reason to go anywhere else if they can provide a solution for your needs.\nIt's interesting witnessing Instagram taking on more roles in order to maintain attention and stop users needing to go onto other platforms to access both information and entertainment. Attention is always key online. If users have to go onto another platform to find the information they want, then they are being taken away from the platform. At the end of the day, Instagram is a business that wants to make money, and the currency in social media is governed by the need to dominate attention. If there's no attention on the platform, there are no business opportunities.\nWhy is this good for your brand on Instagram?\nWith fewer reasons to venture off Instagram and onto YouTube, Facebook and now\u200a\u2014\u200ain part\u200a\u2014\u200aGoogle, Instagram may expect to see a lot more action from their current users. More attention to the platform potentially means more eyeballs on your own brand's Instagram page. More eyeballs means more awareness, and awareness is the building block of growth.\nAccording to statista.com there is a higher percentage of 18\u201324 year olds Instagram users than there are of the same demographic of Facebook users. If your brand's target market is an audience that fits within this bracket, you'd be wise to embrace changes that keep your audience in one place.\nAdditionally, it opens up the option for your business to have more information on the app. With these online business cards being built into the platform, if they do roll out worldwide, you'll be able to claim yours and link it to your location. This is good news for potential customers.\nSomething to keep in mind\u2026\nInstagram does test a lot of features. While some users will have access to all the latest features, others have to wait for a global roll out. You'll most probably need to have the latest version of Instagram and any applicable updates, and you may still find that you can't access every feature. This doesn't stop me pondering the end result of the evolution of Instagram. Will it end up squeezing out a substantial amount of apps in its continual development? Could Instagram be the one-stop-shop for millennials and generations to come? Or will it become irrelevant by taking on too many roles?\nOne thing's for sure\u200a\u2014\u200ait's not going anywhere just yet.\nAs a brand, the more information you have to hand, the more control you have to take your business to the next level. Whatever developments that are to come from Instagram in the future, use the features you have at your disposal and be willing to adapt your strategy. Keep tabs on your KPIs, learn what is working for your brand (and what isn't) and optimise your posts with Minter.io. Start your 14 day free trial today, to see how we can help you get the most from your brand on Instagram.","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
+{"text":"Claudio Bravo wins first Zamora Trophy\nFC Barcelona's Chilean goalkeeper takes home award for top goals against average in La Liga Season record includes 23 shutouts, surpassing Vald\u00e9s and Zubizarreta on Club's all-time list\nClaudio Bravo will have some personal hardware to go along with FC Barcelona's La Liga title this season. The Chilean goalkeeper not only played a huge role in FC Barcelona's league championship campaign this season, but he'll also add his very first Ricardo Zamora Trophy, awarded to the La Liga goalkeeper with the best goals againsta average.\nBravo's numbers are spectacular, having only given up 19 goals in 37 league games this season, well ahead of Valencia's Diego Alves, who conceded 29. Bravo did not play the final game of the season, giving way to Jordi Masip after the team had clinched the La Liga title with a game to spare. With Saturday's two goals conceded to Deportivo, Bar\u00e7a have given up 21 in total this season. No team has surrendered fewer goals since the 1993\/94 season, when Deportivo only gave up 18.\nBravo's 0.51 goals against per game put him third on the all-time list in La Liga, only behind Paco Lia\u00f1o's 0.47 average with Deportivo in that 1993\/94 season, and V\u00edctor Vald\u00e9s' 0.50 with Bar\u00e7a in 2010\/11. Vald\u00e9s, however, only played in 32 of the 38 La Liga matches that year.\nBravo the record breaker\nIn addition to the Zamora Trophy, Claudio Bravo set two new records this season. He set a new La Liga record by going 754 minutes without conceding to open the season, surpassing Pedro Maria Artola's previous record of 560 minutes which was set in 1977\/78. In addition, Bravo racked up a record 23 shutouts in the 37 games he played. The previous record of 20 was achieved by both Vald\u00e9s (2004-05) and Andoni Zubizarreta (1988\/89).","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
+{"text":"'Black Panther: Wakanda Forever' Gets Official Rating For 'Strong Violence'\nScreenCrush Staff Published: October 31, 2022\nBlack Panther: Wakanda Forever is the 30th film in the Marvel Cinematic Universe. And, for the 30th straight time, an MCU movie has been rated PG-13 by the Motion Picture Association of America.\nWakanda Forever is officially rated PG-13 for \"sequences of strong violence, action and some language.\"\nFor sake of comparison, the original Black Panther from 2018 was rated PG-13 for \"prolonged sequences of action violence, and a brief rude gesture.\"\nThe wording is different, but the rationale is basically the same \u2014 although it would be terrific if someone from the MPAA would explain the difference between \"prolonged sequences of action violence\" and \"sequences of strong violence\" and also \"action.\" Is there a difference? Have their stock descriptions for these sorts of comic-book movies and their big setpieces changed? Should parents interpret at this two descriptions differently? It's hard to tell.\nBlack Panther: Wakanda Forever is directed, like Black Panther, by Ryan Coogler. It continues the story of the first film's cast, minus its central figure: T'Challa, whose role was not recast following the death of Chadwick Boseman in the summer of 2020. Here is the latest teaser for the movie:\nThe film stars Letitia Wright, Lupita Nyong'o, Danai Gurira, Winston Duke, Michaela Coel, Florence Kasumba, Martin Freeman, Angela Bassett, Tenoch Huerta as classic Marvel character Namor, and Dominique Thorne as Riri Williams, whose Ironheart character will soon be spun off into her own Disney+ TV series.\nBlack Panther: Wakanda Forever is scheduled to open in theaters on November 11.\nMarvel's Upcoming Phase Four, Five, and Six Movie and TV Lineup\nHere's every movie and show Marvel currently has scheduled for release in Phase Four, Five, and Six of their cinematic universe.\nSource: 'Black Panther: Wakanda Forever' Gets Official Rating For 'Strong Violence'\nFiled Under: Black Panther, Black Panther: Wakanda Forever, marvel, Marvel Cinematic Universe, MPAA\nShawn Levy Says He Won't Let 'Deadpool 3' Be Rated PG-13\n'Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3' Trailer Teases the End of the Team\n'Avatar: The Way of Water' Receives Official MPAA Rating\nThe Worst Marvel Moments of 2022\n'Black Panther': Everything You Need to Know Before 'Wakanda Forever'\nThe Best and Worst Superhero Movies Ever Made\n'Black Panther: Wakanda Forever' Could Have Biggest Opening Weekend of 2022\nMarvel Delays 'Deadpool 3,' 'Fantastic Four,' And More\nIs There a Second Black Panther in the 'Wakanda Forever' Trailer?","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
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(firm), 12 results 12\nHooper, Thomas, 1857-1935, 11 results 11\nBithell, J., 11 results 11\nRochfort, William D'Oyly, 1884-1943, 10 results 10\nBirley, Wade and Stockdill Architects, 10 results 10\nGriffith, Henry Sandham, 1865-1943, 9 results 9\nBirley, Studley Patrick (1904-1962), 8 results 8\nSavage, Hubert, 7 results 7\nDouglas Street (Victoria, B.C.), 57 results 57\nHillside Avenue (Victoria, B.C.), 33 results 33\nCook Street (Victoria, B.C.), 29 results 29\nYates Street (Victoria, B.C.), 28 results 28\nGorge Road (Victoria, B.C.), 25 results 25\nFort Street (Victoria, B.C.), 22 results 22\nPandora Avenue (Victoria, B.C.), 21 results 21\nGovernment Street (Victoria, B.C.), 17 results 17\nBlanshard Street (Victoria, B.C.), 14 results 14\nFairfield Road (Victoria, B.C.), 14 results 14\nDemolition, 1 results 1\nEmergency management, 1 results 1\nArchitectural plans, 737 results 737\nPosters, 1 results 1\nWartime Housing Limited : Victoria, B.C. : Project No. 2. : house type H 31 & 32B\nCoV-CR-0144-1-0001\nPart of City of Victoria fonds\nConsists of architectural plans for building at 110 Michigan Street.\nProposed plan for duplex for Mr. & Mrs. I. Finlay\nConsists of architectural plan for building at 1036 Collinson Street.\nResidence of J. Sommers, Esqre, Lot No. 5, Superior Street, Victoria, B.C.\nConsists of architectural plans for building at 644 Superior Street.\nProposed house for Mr. & Mrs. Pearce, Victoria, B.C.\nProposed house on Stadacona Ave., Victoria, B.C.\nConsists of architectural plan for building at 1412 Stadacona Avenue.\n[Alterations and enlargement]\nConsists of architectural plan for building at 1152 Yates Street.\n[Two-storey house]\nConsists of architectural plan for building at 1716 Fort Street.\nPlan of house for H.T. Knott Esq., Victoria, B.C.\nConsists of architectural plan for building at 1750 Oak Bay Avenue.\nProposed residence for Mr. Campbell, Richmond Road, Victoria, B.C.\nConsists of architectural plans for building at 754 Richmond Avenue.\n356 St. Charles Street, Victoria, B.C.\nConsists of architectural plan for building at 356 St. Charles Street.\nCottage on Sea Terrace\nConsists of architectural plans for building at 715 Sea Terrace.\n[One-storey house with basement]\nConsists of architectural plan for building at 650 Alpha Street.\nPlan of house on Alpha St. for Mr. A.J. Grist\nProposed alterations & additions to convert 773 Hillside Ave. to a duplex\nConsists of architectural plan for building at 773 Hillside Avenue.\n[One-storey house]\nConsists of architectural plan for building at 2519 Government Street.\nA. 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Stewart, Belcher Street, Victoria, B.C.\nConsists of architectural plans for building at 1611-1613 Belcher Avenue.\nWartime Housing Limited : Victoria, B.C. : Project No. 2. : house type H 22B\nConsists of architectural plans for building at 488 Burnside Road East.\nConsists of architectural plan for building at 3019 Carroll Street.\nPlan of dwelling know as No. 24 Battleford Ave., Saanich, B.C., owned by Mr. Michael Riedlmeyer of 306 Gorge Road E., to be moved onto Lot 21, 489 Cecilia [sic] Road, Victoria, B.C.\nConsists of architectural plan for building at 489 Cecelia Street.\nProposed 5 room house for Mr. Duncan Bissett, Victoria, B.C.\nProposed alterations to 1815 Chambers St., Victoria, B.C.\nConsists of architectural plan for building at 1815 Chambers Street.\nProposed residence for Len Lee, Victoria, B.C.\nConsists of architectural plans for building at 3030 Cedar Hill Road.\nPlan of addition to existing residence\nConsists of architectural plan for building at 1239 Balmoral Road.\nProposed residence for Mr. & Mrs. K. 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Litz\nConsists of architectural plan for building at 3065 Scott Street.\n[One-storey duplex]\nConsists of architectural plans for building at 1767-1771 Bay Street.\nResidence to be erected for A.P. Moffatt Esq., Victoria, B.C.\nProposed house for Gurchain Singh Basi, Victoria, B.C.\nConsists of architectural plans for building at 2633 Graham Street.","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
+{"text":"Frau Nein's shock treatment is dangerous for the eurozone\nGermany is crucifying Greece but is failing to do what it could do to help the eurozone.\nBy John Wyles\nAngela Merkel is again 'Frau Nein', the role in European politics that now seems to come naturally to her. Her rigid insistence that the eurozone should withhold any explicit guarantees of a rescue package for Greece was perfectly in line with the desires of German political parties and public opinion. Her rejection of French President Nicolas Sarkozy's urging to take a step towards European economic government is uncompromising. Her nailing of George Papandreou's government to the cross of extraordinary austerity, to be practiced under equally extraordinary scrutiny, is intended to discourage others from fiscal laxity and the presentation of mendacious statistics to their partners.\nIn both principle and practice, Merkel is thus upholding the fundamental tenets of German policy established during the negotiations on monetary union in the early 1990s and drilled into the resulting Treaty of Maastricht in 1992. At that time, Germany did not want European monetary union and its citizens greatly lamented their sacrifice of the deutschemark. But the Germany led by Helmut Kohl was still seized of the need to be 'good Europeans' and recognised that monetary union would have to be the bromide with which its European partners \u2013 above all, France \u2013 would swallow the pill of German reunification. Nevertheless, a new Germany did emerge during the Maastricht negotiations, and its profile has been sharply defined in the past 15 or so years. Where it was once diffident in trying to push partners towards its position, Berlin has become rather more careless of their sensitivities.\nIn 1990, France's then president, Fran\u00e7ois Mitterrand, told the UK's prime minister, Margaret Thatcher: \"The problem of reunification has provoked a psychological shock with the Germans. This has revived certain characteristics that one had forgotten, a certain brutality and an elimination of all other problems apart from those corresponding to their own preoccupations. I say that the Germans have the right to self-determination, but I say also I have the right to take into account the preoccupations of the rest of Europe.\"\nThis focus on their own preoccupations is common to nation states and a familiar feature of French policy over the decades. So why should German management of the eurozone \u2013 for that is what we are witnessing \u2013 be a cause for concern? Germany is behaving like any other member state in defence of national interests that are founded on protecting the stability of the monetary union and the total independence of the European Central Bank.\nWe should worry for at least two reasons. The first is that the rules of the economic and monetary union, especially the stability and growth pact, need to be reviewed and re-worked, but there is no evidence that Berlin is prepared to do so. It is not ready to call into question its position in the Maastricht negotiations that monetary union should not be accompanied by any form of political union, or that members of the eurozone should not assume the liabilities of other members (\"no bail-out\"). The stability pact was conceived in Berlin (repelled by the austerity of its name, it was France that insisted on adding 'growth') as the best available means of pressuring member states to meet their commitments to low deficits and balanced budgets.\nIt has not worked, not least because France and Germany took no notice and ran very loose fiscal policies for several years after 2002. Merkel knows that the eurozone will have to rescue Greece if it defaults and cannot roll over debt. But the down-payment demanded of Athens is severe austerity and surveillance so penetrating that it amounts to a humiliating loss of national sovereignty.\nAt this stage we cannot know whether the treatment being meted out to Greece at Merkel's behest pour d\u00e9courager les autres will dissuade others from careless rejection of budgetary discipline. But it will certainly bring the Greek economy to its knees, with only a distant prospect of recovery. If Greece really were to cut its budget deficit from 12.7% of gross domestic product (GDP) to less than 3% by 2012, the reduction of GDP required would be around 15%. Is there any EU government that would not fear for its political and social stability in applying such savage medicine?\nShock treatment of this kind risks undermining political solidarity, since eurozone governments will begin to agree that the one country that could do something very practical to help put others on the path to recovery is showing little interest in doing so. Martin Wolf, the Financial Times' economic commentator, last week argued that Germany must urgently re-balance its economy, reducing its excessive dependence on exports to become a much stronger source of demand for the products of the eurozone's struggling economies. Those countries would still have to allow nominal wages to fall, cut public spending and raise taxes, but if Germany helped drag them towards recovery, disaster could be avoided.\nHe concluded that \"a currency union whose core country not only exports deflation, but also stands aside as members collapse is in deep trouble. Germany alone can decide whether it wants this union to prosper or not\". This is a warning that should be taken seriously.\nJohn Wyles is chief strategy co-ordinator for the European Policy Centre, a think-tank.\nMore from ... John Wyles\nRomania's prime minister accused of plagiarism as rivals demand probe\nNicolae Ciuc\u0103 denies the allegation.\nRoberta Metsola elected European Parliament president\nMaltese center-right MEP wins top job in first round of voting.\nBy Ana Fota\nBy Ma\u00efa de La Baume\nFrance\tGermany\tGreece\tUnited States","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
+{"text":"The USB Port\nState of California says the Tesla S isn't a driverless car\nBy Pablo Luna -\nState of California says the Tesla S isn't a driverless car. Image credit: Car and Driver.\nCalifornia's regulations for autonomous vehicles were further revised and released on September 30, by the Department of Motor Vehicles (DMV) on their official website.\nThe biggest change includes a regulatory clause that allows the absence of a driver in some cases providing the vehicle is always connected to the company's network. This means the self-driving car can never be left alone completely.\nCalifornia is the number one state in autonomous vehicle testing, a position that has lead to many breakthroughs and setbacks, such as last week's accident involving a Google Lexus. These trials are partially responsible for inspiring these types of legislation which include the recently published Federal Automated Vehicles Policy.\nThe DMV forbids the Tesla S model to be called an autonomous car\nSeveral self-driving car manufacturers have come forward to criticize the original draft of these regulations, citing concerns on innovation and fearing reduced testing of autonomous vehicles. The first version of the report was released in December 2015.\nOther complaints included those made by certain disabled groups, who stated these policies hurt the people self-driving cars are attempting to aid, according to an article on Business Insider.\nThe DMV released three different revised documents. The first one is a glossary that explains words such as 'autonomous' and forbids their use in cars such as the Tesla Model S, a car that still needs a human driver behind the wheel, even when using its Autopilot mode.\nThe other documents include an open invitation to discuss these regulatory policies later this month and an official statement regarding the Federal mentioned above Automated Vehicles Policy released by the NHTSA.\nHighlights from the revised documents\nThe DMV's Workshop Notice states their new approach will focus on allowing autonomous car makers more room for testing and the eventual 'deployment' of these vehicles on public roads. 'Deployment' means the vehicle's future availability to be purchased and used by the general public.\nIt also classifies autonomous vehicles in five different levels, from driver-assisted cars to fully self-driven models. This classification was created by the Society of Automotive Engineers (SAE) and adopted by the DMV on their original draft.\nThe revised regulation states only SAE Level 3 vehicles will be obligated to have an operator with a driver's license. Examples of a Level 3 car could include both the Tesla's and Google's Lexus cars, which, like the regulation states, need a person to \"be ready to take back control when the automated system requests.\"\nA public hearing is scheduled for further discussion of these policies on October 19 at the Capitol building in Sacramento.\nSource: Department of Motor Vehicles DMV DMV Automated vehicle policy\nWhatsApp's Privacy Policy Update Postponed till May 15\nSony Releases More Info on its Soon to Launch 360 Reality Audio Speakers\nApple to Reduce Its Store Fees to 15% for Most Developers from January 1, 2021\nThe 2022 Ford E-Transit Electric Van Unveiled With a Price Tag of $45,000\nYouTube Experienced Widespread Global Outage; Problem Appears Fixed\nTikTok Petitions CFIUS over Pending Case that Seems to Have Been Ignored\nUpdates You Should Not Miss\nWalmart to Hire 150,000 New Workers and Pay Out $550 Million in Bonuses\nPablo Luna - March 22, 2020\nMajor Airlines to Lay Off Workers Without Federal Bailout; Small Cities Could Lose Air Flights\nOut With The Old \u2013 5 Trends That Are Revolutionizing The Business World\nHow To Get The Best Deal When Selling Your Electric Car\nTricks For Boosting Your Broadband Speed\n\u00a9 Copyright 2020. The USB Port. All Rights Reserved.","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
+{"text":"What are the Different Types of Intestinal Parasites?\nIntestinal Parasites Symptoms\nIntestinal Parasites Treatment\nIntestinal Parasites Humans\nIntestine Parasites\nIntestinal Worms Parasites\nTreating Intestinal Parasites\nMary McMahon\nThe Giardia parasite can cause acute diarrhea.\nThere are two main groups of intestinal parasites: helminths and protozoa. Collectively, these organisms cause millions of infections around the world every year, in regions which vary from the urban United States to the remote areas of Africa. Left untreated, intestinal parasites can cause long term health problems or even death in the patient, and the patient can also act as a carrier to spread the parasites to other members of the community.\nIntestinal parasites can be transmitted due to poor hygiene.\nIntestinal parasites can be ingested in a variety of ways, with one of the leading modes of transmission being fecal to oral contact due to poor hygiene. Infections can also occur when parasites colonize water or soil, or in the case of zoonotic parasites which infect animals consumed by humans. In all cases, the parasites feed off the body to the detriment of the patient, interfering with nutrient absorption and causing a variety of symptoms.\nThose with an intestinal parasite may experience abdominal pain.\nPeople may develop symptoms right away, or they may be infected for years without being aware of it. When symptoms do appear, abdominal pain, nausea, vomiting, diarrhea, and cramping are all very common. The presence of intestinal parasites can be diagnosed with the use of a fecal sample which is examined for traces of organisms which could be causing infection. Patients should be aware that sometimes a sample may yield false negative or inconclusive results, necessitating another sample.\nDiarrhea and abdominal cramping are common symptoms of interstinal parasites.\nHelminths or worms are multi-celled organisms which are typically found in undercooked food, although it is also possible to be infected via contaminated water or soil. Tapeworms, roundworms, and pinworms are among the most famous and widespread. One of the classic signs of infection with worms is the presence of worms or segments in the feces.\nProtozoa such as amoebas, giardia, and cryptosporidium are one celled organisms which can multiply freely in the intestinal tract. It can sometimes be difficult to identify protozoa because they are so small and difficult to identify in the feces. People who have traveled recently should alert their doctors to this fact when they request medical attention for symptoms which suggest infection with intestinal parasites, as travel is a major risk factor for infection.\nNausea and vomiting are common when symptoms of intestinal parasites manifest.\nSeveral medications can be used to eliminate intestinal parasites from the body. These drugs are generally available by prescription only to encourage patients to go to the doctor for a diagnosis so that the correct medication can be selected to eliminate the particular species causing the infection. Some patients also have success with herbal and other alternative therapies.\nEver since she began contributing to the site several years ago, Mary has embraced the exciting challenge of being a researcher and writer. Mary has a liberal arts degree from Goddard College and spends her free time reading, cooking, and exploring the great outdoors.\nWhat Is a Creeping Eruption?\nWhat Is Gnathostomiasis?\nWhat Is Blastocystis Hominis?\nWhat is Small Intestinal Bacterial Overgrowth?\nWhat are the Different Types of Body Parasites?\nWhat are the Common Symptoms of Parasites in Humans?\nWhat are the Different Types of Internal Parasites?\nlluviaporos\nIntestinal parasites and malaria are two of the major reasons it is so difficult for developing countries to get on their feet.\nWhen you think about how many people are suffering from these illnesses, which cause weakness and slow people down even in their mild forms, it's a wonder any work can get done at all.\nThat's one of the reasons major charities like the Bill Gates foundation and others are trying to start targeting diseases like this and completely eliminate them.\nIt's not just the human suffering, although that is a good enough reason.\nIt's also that intestine parasites contribute to economic poverty for the whole region.\nKoiwiGal\nWhen I was traveling in Africa I had a friend with me who we were sure had amoebas. She had all the awful intestinal parasite symptoms, in extreme form.\nShe would be constipated for three weeks, then suddenly spend a week without leaving the toilet. It was really terrible for her and she felt sick. We got her tested three times and each time she came back negative. She started worrying that it was some kind of psychosomatic thing. And the doctors refused to put her on medication.\nBut then she got tested a fourth time.\nShe came back to the hotel waving the test results and was almost jumping up and down crowing \"I have amoebas!\"\nFinally they could put her on medication and she quickly got better.\nSo, yeah, if you feel sick, don't be afraid to keep getting tested, because those suckers don't always show up when you need them to.\nBy: Iqbal Osman\nBy: GraphicCompressor\nBy: sframe\nBy: jovanmandic\nBy: alexandre zveiger\nBy: elisabetta figus\nIntestinal parasites can be ingested in a variety of ways.\nBy: michaeljung\nIf a patient has traveled recently, they should alert their doctor if they start experiencing symptoms of intestinal parasites.\nBy: graphicgeoff\nIntestinal parasites commonly cause abdominal pain, nausea, vomiting, diarrhea and cramping.","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
+{"text":"Tensions hardly rising but local and global drivers mean the tit-for-tat status quo will endure for the foreseeable future\nBy Andrew Salmon\nAsia-Pacific Research, December 23, 2022\nAsia Times 22 December 2022\nRegion: East Asia\nTheme: Defence\nAll Global Research articles can be read in 51 languages by activating the Translate Website button below the author's name.\nTo receive Global Research's Daily Newsletter (selected articles), click here.\nFollow us on Instagram and Twitter and subscribe to our Telegram Channel. Feel free to repost and share widely Global Research articles.\nWhile real-life carnage unfolds across Ukraine, the phony war continues predictably on, around and above the Korean peninsula.\nThe actions of recent days may hearten jingoes and depress peaceniks on both sides.\nOn December 14, the US announced that a Space Force command unit had stood up inside US forces based in South Korea. In Ukraine, the space domain has proven crucial, providing satellite data for Kiev's network-centric precision munitions.\nOn the same day, North Korea tested a solid-fuel engine for its missiles and on December 16 test-fired two medium-range ballistic missiles. On December 18, it offered apparent proof \u2013 images of South Korean cities \u2013 of its nascent reconnaissance satellite capability.\nOn December 20, the US deployed B-52 strategic bombers and F-22 stealth fighters to the skies just south of the peninsula to drill with South Korean F-35 and F-15 fighters.\nFor headline writers in multiple media, these developments represent \"rising tensions.\" For cynics, they are signs that the peninsula's status quo drags on. For South Koreans, they are business as usual.\nAnd don't expect any major change in the new year: There is more of the same to come.\nRoll on 2023\nOn December 20, South Korean Defense Minister Lee Jong-sup said South Korea and the US will conduct 20 training exercises in 2023, including amphibious assault drills. The decision was taken to \"expand the scale and types of combined field drills\u2026in light of advancing North Korean nuclear and missile threats,\" Lee said.\nSeoul announced today that it is mulling major joint artillery drills in 2023 to mark 70 years of the bilateral alliance, which was signed as the smoke from the Korean War cleared in 1953. The last time such drills were held was in 2017.\nBetween 2018 and 2021, multiple training drills were put on hold under Seoul's progressive Moon Jae-in administration. This happened, firstly, to enable diplomacy with North Korea, and, latterly, due to Covid-19 risks.\nBut under the conservative Yoon Suk-yeol administration, which took office in May, drills have restarted with a vengeance. While joint drills are essential to ensure military interoperabilities and overall credibility, they are a red rag to North Korea.\nPyongyang considers drills to be war preparations. The country has borrowed heavily from Soviet-Russian doctrine, and in February this year, Moscow did, indeed, use winter exercises to pre-deploy units for its Ukraine invasion.\nMeanwhile, there are continued expectations among Pyongyangologists that North Korea will soon conduct what would be its seventh nuclear test \u2013 albeit, this alarm bell has been ringing constantly, and so far incorrectly, since the beginning of 2022.\nAt a time when differences between the authoritarian bloc and liberal democracies appear to be solidifying on the global chessboard, the peninsula's status quo looks to be further cemented. Yet this dire outlook is not reflected in fear in South Korea.\nAll quiet on the Korean front\nWhile generals, politicians and editors fret over \"tensions,\" nobody is digging bunkers behind South Korean apartment complexes, nor are shocks decimating South Korean capital markets.\n\"This is the unique nature of Korean society: We live right next to North Korea,\" said Chun In-bum, a retired South Korean general. \"It is like living next to a volcano, but if you don't have the option to move, you just continue and hope for the best.\"\n\"For the US, it is like a fire across the river \u2013 but that is different from your house burning,\" Chun continued. \"For South Koreans, it is such a nightmare that ignorance is bliss so we act as if nothing is wrong.\"\nAnother Seoul resident agrees.\n\"There is proximity and geography and force deployed close together, with historical animosity \u2013 we live in the shadow of that,\" said Dan Pinkston, an American international relations professor at Troy University.\nBut he added that he does not fear his home being hit by a missile: \"It's not so much tension, its clickbait,\" he said.\nIn fact, one of North Korea's recent developments might actually lessen tensions.\n\"If you look even at US analysts' writings, they paradoxically say that North Korean spy satellites might make the situation more stable,\" said Andrei Lankov, a Russian specialist in North Korea who teaches in Seoul's Kookmin University.\n\"North Korea is afraid of attack as they don't get reliable intelligence in real-time so rely on agents who are unreliable,\" Lankov explained. \"If they have real reliable information, they are less likely to worry over sudden attacks so the chance of confrontation goes down.\"\nStill, Lankov admits that Pyongyang's apparent advances in solid fuel engines increase risk.\nLiquid fuel missiles need to be fueled up before being launched, providing defenders with both a warning and a window of opportunity to pre-empt them. Solid fuels lessen the vulnerability of a missile that requires time to take on propellant at or near its launch site before being fired.\nCold War 2.0\nOutside the peninsula, virtually all indications are that the gap between the authoritarian bloc and the liberal democracies is widening to a chasm.\nMoscow's assault upon Ukraine has unified the Global North, with prosperous democracies as far distant from the action as Australia, Japan and South Korea joining North America and Western Europe in funneling aid and arms to Kiev.\nIran is providing direct military aid to Russia, indications are increasing that North Korea is supplying munitions and missiles, and China is providing diplomatic backing, if not more.\nMeanwhile, the US, constantly fretting over a potential Chinese attack on Taiwan, is upping its semiconductor embargo on Beijing. As part of that chip war, Washington is rail-roading its allies into a struggle that could end up costing their chip companies scores of billions of dollars.\nAnd Japan, after two years of discussion since abandoning its Aegis Ashore missile defense system in 2020, last week formally announced plans to create a missile-based counterstrike force to balance potential Chinese, North Korean and Russian threats.\nGiven these various signs of global bifurcation, up-arming and technological weaponization, there seems little likelihood that the Korean Peninsula \u2013 which was from 1950-53 the site of a civil war that spiraled into a murderous Cold War hot war \u2013 will break free of the wider trend.\nThat is true even though Pyongyang might like to widen its economic dependence beyond Beijing.\n\"The North Koreans would be far more comfortable outside the Chinese sphere of influence,\" Lankov said. \"But none of their opposite numbers is willing to make concessions strong and attractive enough for them to engage in negotiations.\"\nAmid this big-picture backdrop, the Korean peninsula remains a pivot point of compressed big-power confrontation. And stakeholders have selfish interests: The Kim regime seeks to entrench its survival while arms manufacturers benefit from the threat that the up-arming regime represents.\nAll this argues for a continuance of rising-falling tensions as North Korea hones its weapons and military systems, and for continued deterrence efforts as South Korea and the US shore up their alliance.\n\"The Korean peninsula is a microcosm but what are the choices? Appease, acquiesce, sign a peace treaty and give them what they want \u2013 or prepare for the worst?\" Pinkston said of the conundrum facing strategists. \"If liberal democracies did nothing and just took it on the chin, that would be unusual.\"\nNote to readers: Please click the share buttons above. Follow us on Instagram and Twitter and subscribe to our Telegram Channel. 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+{"text":"Rodney McAllister Memorial\n\/ \/ Uncategorized\nUnkempt Memorial to Receive Care from Women's Voices Members\nAnn Ruger, Holly Goldfarb and Crista Carr Shatz spent an afternoon at Ivory Perry Park to beautify the Rodney McAllister memorial.\nTucked away in a corner of Ivory Perry Park, on Belt Avenue, just a few blocks north of Delmar Blvd., is a memorial to a little boy whose horrifying death shocked all St. Louisans when he was killed on March 5, 2001.\nTen-year-old Rodney McAllister was playing alone in the park when he was attacked by a pack of stray dogs. His homework assignment was in his pocket.\nHis teacher and the principal at Clark Accelerated Academy, where Rodney was in the fourth grade, arranged for the memorial. It features a tree, a bronze plaque, some ground cover, and a concrete surround where Rodney's classmates left their handprints.\nClark Academy is now closed and the teachers and former students have moved on. But Washington University professor Bob Hansman has not forgotten the memorial. It was the last stop on the \"Grief, Love and Fury\" tour that he conducted for our members last October.\nSeveral Women's Voices members on that tour were dismayed at the condition of the memorial, which is best described as \"unkempt.\" Under the leadership of Jenny Birg\u00e9, they contacted the St. Louis City Department of Parks and Recreation and received approval to clean up, improve and maintain the memorial.\nOn a cold November morning, Birg\u00e9, Holly Goldfarb, Ann Ruger and Crista Carr Shatz met at the memorial to rake leaves and clean the plaque, then determine what needed to be done in the spring. They have agreed to tend to the memorial and the border immediately surrounding it.\nTo honor Rodney's memory, there will be a short program at the memorial on Thursday, March 5, 2020, the 19th anniversary of his death. Please look for specific details in the February Loud & Clear and on our website. We hope you will attend in remembrance of this tragedy with hopes it will never be repeated.\nWhile this activity may not easily fit into everyone's definition of \"social justice,\" it does demonstrate compassion, caring and the determination to remember that Rodney McAllister's life mattered.\nVolunteers will be welcomed to join the effort in early spring.\nJoin Us \/ Renew","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
+{"text":"Enrollment, Absences, Lack of Engagement Top Challenges During COVID\nNew Online Telescope for Educators Brings Space Exploration to the Classroom\nOnline Ed\nEducators behind World's Largest MOOC Launch New Course\nBy Dian Schaffhauser\nThe individuals behind the most popular MOOC are coming out with a new massive, open, online course. Barbara Oakley, a professor of engineering at Oakland University, and Terrence Sejnowski, a professor at the Salk Institute for Biological Studies, launched \"Learning How to Learn: Powerful mental tools to help you master tough subjects,\" a perennial favorite, on Coursera through the University of California San Diego. According to the Online Course Report, 1,192,697 people have attended this four-week course since its launch in 2014.\nThe same two individuals are behind the creation of a new Coursera course, \"Mindshift: Break Through Obstacles to Learning and Discover Your Hidden Potential,\" which began this week. This four-week course requires about two hours of study per week for four weeks. It will be delivered through McMaster University, where Oakley is a scholar of global digital learning.\nCoursera is making a big push to have people pay $49 to attend the program to earn a certificate; however, learners can gain access to all course materials for free by choosing to \"audit\" the course.\nThe subject of mindshift, which focuses on learning in order to boost career prospects, is explored by Oakley in her new book, Mindshift, which comes out April 18, 2017. According to the MOOC syllabus, topics cover change, \"happy learning,\" learning and careers and adopting a \"learning lifestyle.\"\nDian Schaffhauser is a former senior contributing editor for 1105 Media's education publications THE Journal, Campus Technology and Spaces4Learning.","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
+{"text":"Albanian \/ Amharic \/ Arabic \/ Bengali \/ Bosnian \/ Chinese \/ Dutch \/ English \/ Finnish \/ French \/ German \/ Hindi \/ Indonesian \/ Malay \/ Persian \/ Oromo \/ Russian \/ Swedish \/ Somali \/ Tamil \/ Telugu \/ Thai \/ Turkish \/ Urdu\nThe Quran and the Sword\nJames M. Arlandson, Ph.D.\nThis article should be contrasted with the previous one about the Gospels and the sword, in our comparative study of the two religions.\nIn Mecca, Islam was nonviolent, and maybe tolerant, up to a degree. Muhammad did, after all, preach against polytheism (belief in many gods), which all monotheists (belief in one God) have a right to do. But in terms of forcing them to convert to his new religion, he told the Meccan pagans they could have their religion, while he could have his (Quran 109:6).\nAnd in the very earliest stages of his new life in Medina, Islam issued a decree of religious freedom: \"There is no compulsion in religion.\" (Quran 2:256).\nHowever, he decided that he needed to have access to the Kabah shrine, though he did not know when at that early stage. Rather than letting the black stone go and build his new religion in Medina, by his way of thinking the Meccans were unjust for driving him out. So he attempted to weaken them by sending out raids against their trading caravans. Eventually the skirmishes peaked into large-scale battles. He increased his fortune and resources by these armed conflicts.\nThus gradually he elevated raids to a jihad. As things evolved, he won these battles, so he needed to define the rules of jihad. These rules seem to have been developed as victories piled up. They favor him.\nWe can examine jihad in three sections: its goal, its rules, and its spoils.\nFor a more thorough and longer study of the goal, rules, and spoils of jihad and qital, see the article Jihad and Qital in the Quran, Traditions and Classical Law.\nThe Goal of Jihad\nA complicated practice like jihad can have multiple goals or purposes, but this one can be said to best summarize them. Muhammad intends to make Islam prevail over every religion. Quran 9:33 says:\n33 It is He who has sent His Messenger with guidance and the religion of truth, to show that it is above all [other] religions, however much the idolaters may hate this[1] (Quran 9:33).\nThis verse is repeated two more times, word for word, in Quran 61:9 and 48:28, and this repetition shows theologically and religiously how important it is that Islam must prevail. As noted, while in Mecca Muhammad had said, \"You have your religion and I have mine\" (Quran 109:6). Now, however, Islam must prevail over all religions. Muhammad and his community may use preaching and persuasion, but as we shall see below, the Medinan verses in the Quran permit them to fight and kill Jews, Christians, and pagans. The sword made all the difference.\nWaging jihad and qital to make Islam prevail is a perfect description of a holy war.\nMuhammad's later followers, specifically the four so-called rightly guided caliphs, will use these three identical verses to justify attacking remote territories, like Persia (Iran) and Cyprus.[2] As for the monetary motive for jihad, this will be covered in the spoils of jihad, below.\nThe Rules of Jihad\nThe Quran provides guidance for Muhammad and his Muslim community in the rules of jihad, establishing what is permitted or prohibited as Islamic armies go out to war. In any warfare, people and resources (e.g. money or productive property) are important, so they are the main reason for selecting these rules. They are placed in chronological order, whenever this could be obtained, and sometimes in thematic order, not necessarily for priority.\n1. Women captives are sometimes forced to marry their Muslim masters.\nThe next verse in its context finds Muhammad establishing rules for his community within two to five years after his hijrah or emigration in A.D. 622. He lays down laws for marriage. What happens to slave women who are captured during the raids that the Muslims went out on? Quran 4:24 says:\n24 Also (prohibited are) women already married except those whom your right hands possess[3] . . . . (Quran 4:24)\nThe clause \"your right hands possess\" means those who are in one's control (cf. \"handmaid\"), whether captured in war or bought at a slave sale, regardless of the immediate historical context when this verse was revealed.[4] The clause will be applied throughout Islam's wars under the four caliphs.\nWorse still, women captives were sometimes forced to have sex with their Muslim captors, without the benefit of marriage.[5] But that's a topic for the series on shariah (see Part 5, Slavery, in that separate series).\n2. Conquered women and children may be enslaved.\nIn AD 627 Muhammad and his followers and allies withstood a large army of Meccans and their allies, without a pitched battle. He had dug trenches in spots around Medina to diminish the advantage that the Meccans had with their cavalry. After about a month the Meccans withdrew because of a fair that was about to begin, and it brought in money for the Meccans.\nBut Muhammad was not finished. He besieged a large tribe of Jews in Medina, called the Qurayza tribe, in their fortress. After some negotiations and a trial that went against them, the men were beheaded and their bodies and heads dragged and tossed into the trenches, whereas the women and children were sold into slavery. These three verses, especially v. 26, in Quran 33 deal with this verdict:\n25 Allah turned back the unbelievers [Meccans and their allies] in a state of rage, having not won any good, and Allah spared the believers battle [q-t-l]. Allah is, indeed, Strong and Mighty. 26 And He brought those of the People of the Book [Qurayza] who supported them from their fortresses and cast terror into their hearts, some of them you slew [q-t-l] and some you took captive. 27 And he bequeathed to you their lands, their homes and their possessions, together with land you have never trodden. Allah has power over everything.[6] (Quran 33:25-27)\nAllah permits the enslavement of Qurayza women and children, and Muhammad sold them. Allah permits Muhammad to take the Jewish clan's property on the basis of conquest and his possession of all things. Selling humans produced a lot of wealth.\nSee Part Five, Slavery, in a separate series on shariah.\n3. A captured enemy may be killed, ransomed by money or an exchange, imprisoned, or released freely.\nIt is one of the great ironies of the Quran that Chapter 47 can be titled either \"Muhammad\" or \"War\" (Qital). It was written in the first year of his new life in Medina, when he had decided to wage war on the Meccans. Verse 4 says:\nSo, when you meet (in fight \u2013 Jihad in Allah's cause) those who disbelieve, smite (their) necks till when you have killed or wounded many of them [th-kh-n], then bind a bond firmly (on them, i.e. take them as captives). Thereafter (is the time) either for generosity (i.e. free them without ransom), or ransom (according to what benefits Islam), until war lays down its burden[7] . . . . (Quran 47:4)\nImprisonment may be just, if the captured enemy can return to fight against the conquerors at a later time. But selling prisoners of war back to their clan was an Arab custom. Money could be made. It should be noted that the Quran offers release \"by grace\" or freely.[8]\nThe root th-kh-n in brackets means \"subdue thoroughly, have a regular fighting, cause much slaughter, have a triumphant war . . . to do something great, make much slaughter, overcome, battle strenuously.\"[9]\n4. Property may be confiscated.\nA conquering army at this time was permitted by custom and sheer power to take the wealth of the conquered. Recall that the historical context of Chapter 8 of the Quran concerns Muhammad's and his militia's surprise victory over the much-larger Meccan force at Badr in 624, in which over 300 Muslims won a surprise victory over about 1,000 Meccans. The Meccans had received word of this raid and sent their army up north to protect their caravan that was heading south back to Mecca.\nQuran 8:7 says that the jihadists wanted the unarmed group (the caravan loaded with supplies), but Allah gave them that one, plus the Meccan army.\n7 Remember how God promised you [believers] that one of the two enemy groups would fall to you: you wanted the unarmed group to be yours, but it was God's will to establish the truth according to His Word and to finish off the disbelievers.[10] (Quran 8:7)\nMuhammad and his militia were able to take the property the caravan had gotten in Syria. Now he was wealthy, especially compared to his poverty before he won this battle. And recall that Quran 33:25-27 say the Muslim community was permitted to confiscate the property of the Qurayza Jews in 627.\nFinally, it will be seen in Part Eight that the four caliphs indeed confiscated wealth, since Muhammad set the institutional genetic code for them, but they often allowed the conquered people to work the land because then the wealth flowed back to Medina, the early Islamic capital.\n5. Fruit trees and homes may be destroyed.\nIn 625, Muhammad was strong enough to exile the Nadir tribe of Jews, besieging them in their strongholds for fifteen days until he started destroying their date palms.[11] Their livelihood undergoing destruction, they departed to the city of Khaybar, seventy miles to the north, where they had estates. This takeover helped relieve the ongoing poverty of many Muslims at that time, who took over their date orchards. This passage in the Quran says:\n5 Whatever you [believers] may have done to [their] palm trees \u2013 cutting them down or leaving them standing on their roots \u2013 was done by God's leave, so that He might disgrace those who defied Him.[12] (Quran 59:5)\nIt is not clear in later Islamic history whether all of the caliphs actually destroyed fruit trees, and if so how many. They probably did not do this very often since that destruction would lose money for Medina and Islam.[13] The trees that bore fruit, like dates, needed to be cultivated to profit from conquests.\nIn the same chapter of the Quran and during the same conflict, Muhammad destroys the homes of the Jewish tribe of Nadir who lived in Medina.\n2 ... God came upon [the Jews of the Nadir tribe] from where they least expected and put panic into their hearts: they brought ruin to their own homes by their own hands, and the hands of the believers [Muslims].[14]... (Quran 59:2)\nIt is not known in precise terms how many homes the Muslim armies under the four caliphs destroyed, but surely some were torn down, just from the nature of warfare. But Medina wanted the money from taxes, so surely the armies could not be too destructive.\n6. The conquered pagans are at first allowed to convert or go free, but later they are forced to convert or be killed.\nAs noted, Muhammad fought the Battle of Badr, against the Meccans. Their caravan was traveling south from Syria back to Mecca, and Muhammad intended to capture it. In Quran 8:70, Muhammad proposes these options to his captives.\n70 Prophet, tell those you have taken captive, \"If God knows of any good in your hearts, He will give you something better [Islam] than what has been taken from you [the caravan], and He will forgive you\"... (Quran 8:70)[15]\nSo Muhammad tells the Meccans that they should realize that Allah had a divine plan: expose them to Islam. This is better than all the material riches they can trade in. A Muslim militia just defeated the Meccans and stood behind this message of conversion, so it is not clear how free they were to decide such weighty matters of conscience.\nQuran 2:256 says: \"There is no compulsion in religion.\" This verse reflects the historical reality that he had just left persecution in Mecca. And even in Medina when this early verse was uttered, he needed to preach tolerance because he had not yet achieved military strength.\nHowever, when Chapter 9 of the Quran was written about eight years later, Muhammad was very powerful militarily. Now pagans did not have the option to live under Islam, pay a tax, and keep their religion, as the People of the Book did. Quran 9:5 says:\n5 . . . Then fight and slay [q-t-l] the Pagans wherever ye find them, and seize them, beleaguer them, and lie in wait for them in every stratagem (of war); but if they repent and establish regular prayers and practice regular charity, then open the way for them.[16] (Quran 9:5)\nIf pagans accept Islam, they could live. If not, death.[17] Recall that Muhammad had said, back in Mecca, long ago, that the Meccan pagans could have their religion, while he could have his (Quran 109:6). Acceptance and tolerance had prevailed. Now, however, things have changed. He is militarily powerful. So he could hunt them down and kill them.\nIt will be seen in Part Eight that the earliest generations of Muslims, after Muhammad's death, implemented this policy towards pagans, as the jihadists conquered the Arab peninsula and then many places north, west, and east. However, sometimes the caliphs let polytheists outside of the Arab peninsula live because Islamic leaders needed their tax money, like the jizyah.\nThis tax money in this verse is called the zakat, and it is the required charity tax, which is the third of the Five Pillars of Islam.[18]\nThen Muhammad continues in his denunciations and requirements imposed on pagan Arabs, especially those around Mecca.\n11 If they repent, keep up the prayer, and pay the prescribed alms [zakat], then they are your brothers in faith: We make the messages clear for people who understand . . . 14 Fight [q-t-l] them: God will punish them at your hands, He will disgrace them, He will help you to conquer them, He will heal the believers' feelings. (Quran 9:11, 14)\nIn v. 11, these rituals are the signs of Islam, and pagans who follow them are essentially Muslims. However, if they do not keep their oaths and mock Muhammad's religion (vv. 12-13), then v. 14 says to fight them, using the three-letter root q-t-l.[19] The last clause in that verse says God will heal the believers' feelings, which corresponds to Muhammad's hatred for the pagans (Quran 5:2).\n7. Three options are imposed on Jews and Christians.\nQuran 9:29 lays out some conditions for the People of the Book (Jews and Christians):\n29 Fight [q-t-l] against those who (1) believe not in Allah, (2) nor in the Last Day, (3) nor forbid that which has been forbidden by Allah and His Messenger (Muhammad), (4) and those who acknowledge not the religion of truth (i.e. Islam) among the people of the Scripture (Jews and Christians), until they pay the Jizyah with willing submission, and feel themselves subdued.[20]\nThe options are as follows: Jews and Christians may (1) Fight and die; (2) convert; (3) keep their religion, but pay a tax, called the jizyah while living under Islam.[21] In this verse, Muhammad lifts his sight far beyond the Kabah in Mecca, but to other religions and resources. The first four caliphs were mainly consistent with this policy, though another tax may be imposed.\nThe Spoils of Jihad\nArab custom demanded that the raiders and warriors get a share of the spoils of raids and wars. The Meccan Muslims who originally immigrated to Medina worked with their hands in the craft trade, while Medina was more agricultural. So they were impoverished. Something had to be done. Getting the spoils of Meccan caravans would do nicely.\nChapter 8, celebrating their first major victory at Badr, is titled \"the Spoils.\" Muhammad says in v. 41:\n\"Know that one-fifth of your battle gains belongs to God and the Messenger [Muhammad]\"[22] . . . . (Quran 8:41)\nThat is, Muhammad gets twenty percent for himself and for the needy in his community, as he distributes the newly acquired wealth. The implication is that the jihadists were to get eighty percent. This distribution was a strong motive or inducement to keep alive the Arab custom of raiding and warring. In fact, spoils may have been the main goal of early Islam.\nThe first four caliphs mostly maintained this policy of one-fifth going back to Medina or the generals or governors, while four-fifths went to the soldiers. Sometimes, however, the leaders put variations on this policy, depending on how generous they were at the moment.\nBut the conquests mentioned in Quran 9:6, 9:11-16 and 9:29, above, and the subsequent taxes that flowed into Medina were also strong inducements to keep on fighting and conquering.\nFor a longer and more thorough study of the goal, rules, and spoils of jihad and qital, see my article Jihad and Qital in the Quran, Traditions, and Classical Law.\nIn Mecca, early in Muhammad's preaching career, he preached nonviolence (Quran 109:6 and 2:256). He was not strong militarily, and perhaps he really believed in tolerance. But in Medina he began his raids because he wanted to return to the pagan Kabah shrine in Mecca; it was unjust that the Meccans forced him out of his hometown.\nAfter Muhammad transitioned from the path of peace to warfare, he had to establish the goal, rules, and results (or spoils) of jihad. He seems to have come up with them in an ad hoc manner. As he went out on a skirmish or battle and won, he sized up the situation, and decided on what to do, like how to divide the spoils of war. At these times he got revelations. They worked out in Islam's favor.\nFrom here on, Muhammad's life and his Quran are consistent. He waged war, and the later Medinan verses in the Quran reflect this practice. Jihad and qital appear much more frequently in the Medinan chapters than in the Meccan ones. He set the institutional genetic code.\nAnd now there is no ambiguity for his community after he died in A.D. 632. They may also wage war. Quran 9:33, 61:9, and 48:28 \u2013 all identical \u2013 say that Islam will prevail over all other religions, and these verses permitted Muhammad to wage war for at least one religious reason. Indeed, for many centuries later, the Muslim community, wherever it was strong, has implemented jihad.\nReligion and the state were embodied in his one person, Muhammad, especially in his control of the military and taxes. Often he said that to obey Allah is to obey his messenger \u2013 Muhammad himself (Quran 8:1, 13, 20, 24, 46; 9:54, 62-63, 71, 84, 91; 47:33; 48:10, 17). All four chapters (8, 9, 47, and 48) were given in Medina and in the context of war and power politics.[23]\nWe can only speculate as to what might have been, if he had given up the pagan shrine, not devotionally kissed the black stone housed there, and begun his own sacred site in Medina and allowed the Meccans to have their religion, while he has his (Quran 109:6). He could have risen above his own culture; then surely the raids and wars would have never started in the first place, and surely peace would have won out, then and now.[24]\nHowever, the tolerance of original Islam in Mecca all those years before his flight to Medina in 622 and the tolerance of Islam during his first year in his new city were now left behind.\nIn late A.D. 630, when Quran 9:11, 14 were revealed, Muhammad's war on the pagans was going strong until they convert and pay the zakat tax. If not, they die. And Quran 9:29 gives jihadists permission to war against Christians and Jews, until they convert, die in battle, or pay a jizyah or poll (submission) tax.\nSo, if Christians and Jews fought and died, Islam could take over their resources. If they submitted and kept their religion, Islam could get their taxes. Either way, wealth flowed back to Medina and to the jihadists.\nWhy would Muhammad get a revelation that would dry up this money flow, for the benefit of peace and tolerance? He didn't.\n[First published: 1 May 2012]\n[Last updated: 3 August 2012]\nArticles in the Series:\n2. The Mission of Jesus and the Sword\n3. The Mission of Muhammad and the Sword\n4. The Gospels and the Sword\n5. The Quran and the Sword\n6. Two Kinds of Swords\n7. The Early Church and the Sword\n8. The Early Muslim Community and the Sword\n9. The Sword and the Jews\n10. Martyrdom and the Sword\n11. Q & A on the Sword\n[1] Abdel Haleem, The Quran, rev. ed. (New York: Oxford, 2010). The word in brackets is the translator's. The three-letter Arabic root z-h-r can mean \"to become distinct . . . ascend, be manifest, mount, get the better of, distinguish, be obvious, conspicuous . . . get the upper hand over.\" (Omar, Dictionary, 353-54). It can also mean \"triumph\" or \"victorious\" or \"prevail,\" in this case over all religions. The last three words come from various translations of the verse. Cf. 9:8 \"get the upper hand over you\"; 61:14 \"who came out on top\"). If readers would like to see various translation of the Quran, they may go to the website quranbrowser.com and type in the references.\n[2] The four caliphs were Abu Bakr (r. 632-634), Umar (r. 634-644), Uthman (r. 644-656), and Ali (r. 656-661). \"Caliph\" means \"successor,\" \"deputy,\" or \"representative.\" For the relevant use of the word \"caliph\" (kh-l-f) in the Quran, see, e.g., 2:30; 6:156; 7:69, 74, 142, 169; 10:14, 73; 19:59; 27:62; 35:39; and 38:26.\n[3] Abdullah Yusuf Ali, the Meaning of the Holy Quran, 11th ed., (Belleville, Maryland: Amana, 2004). The parenthetical note is his. He says in a comment on the verse that the clause \"whom your right hands possess\" means \"captives in a Jihad\" (note 537). Sayyid Abul Ala Maududi, a respected Muslim commentator, agrees and says about the verse that is it lawful for Muslims to marry women prisoners of war even when their husbands are still alive (The Meaning of the Quran, 4th ed., vol. 1, trans. Ch. Muhammad Akbar, ed. A. A. Kamal, [Lahore, Pakistan: Islamic Publications, 2003] 319, note 44). His translation and commentary are available online at englishtafsir.com.\n[4] Khumus is one-fifth of the spoils of war, which goes to the commander or back to Medina. This hadith says:\nThe prophet sent Ali [soon to be the fourth caliph] to Khalid [a general] to bring the Khumus (of the booty) and . . . Ali had taken a bath (after a sexual act with a slave-girl from the Khumus). \"Do you hate Ali for this? ...Don't hate him, for he deserves more than that from Khumus\" (Bukhari, Military Expeditions, 5.4350, in Sahih Bukari, 9 vols. trans. Muhammad Muhsin Khan (Riyadh: Darussalam, 1997), hereafter cited as Bukhari; the parenthetical comments are the translator's; bracketed comments are added).\nThe hadith are searchable online at the Center for Muslim-Jewish Engagement, under the aegis of the University of Southern California.\n[5] Bukhari, Marriage, 007.062.137; cf. idem Military Expeditions, 005.059.459 and 637, and Manumission 003.046.718. Muslim, Jihad and Expeditions, 19.4345.\n[6] Yusuf Ali's translation. The words in brackets are added and not those of the translator.\n[7] Al-Hilali and Khan, The Noble Qur'an, (Riyadh: Darussalam), 2002; all insertions are theirs. Yusuf Ali goes says that this chapter was revealed early in Medina, and the fledgling Muslim community was \"under threat of extinction by invasion from Makkah\" (i.e. Mecca). However, the Muslim community conducted small but growing raids against Meccan caravans within a year of arriving in Medina, so the threat is exaggerated.\n[8] Hadith collector and editor Abu Dawud (d. 870) in Sunan Abu Dawud, trans. Ahmed Hasan (Lahore, Pakistan: Sh. Muhammad Ashraf, 1984, 2004), hereafter cited as Abu Dawud, says that a captured enemy combatant may be killed (Jihad, 2.2680); he may be tied with chains as a slave (ibid. 2.2671-2674); he is allowed to be beaten in order to extract information (ibid. 2 2675); he may be released freely (ibid. 2.2682-2683), or he may be ransomed; that is, he may purchase his freedom (ibid. 2.2684-2688).\n[9] Omar, Dictionary, 80-81. It is used only twice in the Quran, here in 47:4 and 8:67.\n[10] The word in brackets is added by Abdel Haleem.\n[11] These hadiths refer to this historical event surrounding the Nadir tribe and approve of it: Muslim ibn al-Hajjaj, Sahih Muslim, 4 vols., trans. and ed. Abdul Hamid Siddiqi (Lahore, Pakistan: Sh. Muhammad Ashraf, 1992), Jihad and Military Expeditions, 3.4324-4326, hereafter cited as Muslim; Abu Dawud Jihad, 2.2609.\n[12] Abdel Haleem's bracketed notes.\n[13] Yusuf Ali in his translation notes to Quran 2:190 says that Islam may wage war, but under well-defined limits. \"In any case, strict limits must not be transgressed: women, children, old and infirm men should not be molested, nor trees and crops cut down\" . . . (note 204). However, rules 1-6 in this article, based squarely on the Quran, contradict Yusuf Ali's claims. His commentary is helpful much more often than not, but he frequently \"soft sells\" the harsh aspects of Islam, so his footnoted commentary to his translation must be used with caution, and so does his translation. Balance it out with Al-Hilali and Khan's translation.\n[14] Ibid. The bracketed notes have been added.\n[16] Yusuf Ali's translation, and the parenthetical note is his. The note in the brackets was added. He goes on to say that verse 6 says that some pagans among them may seek asylum and Muslims should grant it (note 1253)\n[17] In one tradition, women and children should not be killed (Bukhari, Jihad, 4.3014, 3105; Muslim, Jihad and Military Expeditions, 3.4319-4320; Abu Dawud, Jihad, 2. 2662). But this makes economic sense, because the victors could sell them into slavery or enjoy more sexual license with them. However, in another tradition, the women and children of polytheists are permitted to be killed during nighttime raids when visibility is low. A soldier asked Muhammad \"about the polytheist whose settlement were attacked at night when some of their offspring and women were smitten [killed]. The Prophet . . . said: They are of them\" (Abu Dawud, ibid. 2.2666; Bukhari, ibid. 4.3012; Muslim, ibid. 3.4321-4323). That is, they are all the same \u2013 they are polytheist, so they do not matter.\n[18] The Five Pillars are as follows: (1) Profession of faith; (2) regular prayer five times a day; (3) zakat or required charity tax; (4) fasting during Ramadan; (5) pilgrimage or hajj.\n[19] Bukhari says that Muhammad was ordered by Allah to call people to accept Islam (Jihad, 4.2946; cf. nos. 25 and 1399). If they convert, then their lives and property will be kept safe from him. These hadith from Bukhari make the same offer: ibid. 4.2937, 2940, 3010, 3058.\n[20] Al-Hilali and Khan's translation; the parenthetical notes are theirs; the note in the bracket has been added. Karen Armstrong, former nun and essayist-historian on religion, who favors Islam, writes the following about Jews and Christians submitting to Islam. \"The Dhimmi system [policies governing Christians and Jews] was not perfect. Later Islamic law evolved some rather humiliating legislation: dhimmis were not allowed to build without permission; their places of worship must not tower over the mosque; they had to bow when the presented the jizyah tax were forbidden to ride on horseback, and had to wear distinctive clothing, although these rules were not rigidly enforced\" (Jerusalem: One City, Three Faiths, [NY: Ballantine, 1997], 231).\n[21] Hadith editor Muslim says that Muhammad would exhort his jihadists to make three offers when their army surrounds a town or settlement: (1) the surrounded enemy may convert; (2) they may refuse to accept Islam and pay the jizyah or poll tax, which allows non-Muslims to live under the \"protection\" of Islam; or (3) they must be fought if they refuse the first two (Jihad and Military Expeditions, 3.4294; see Abu Dawud, Jihad, 2.2606).\n[22] Abdel Haleem's translation. The note in brackets is added by me.\n[23] A religious leader or founder of a new movement can command obedience (Jn. 14:15), but Muhammad backed his call to obedience with the sword and combined political power with religion.\n[24] Muslim apologists believe that the Meccans were bothering Muhammad all the way up in Medina 250 miles to the north. However, they were glad to get rid of him and went on conducting their trade. And if he was still afraid for his life, he could have formed a bodyguard until the heat cooled down. But he instead chose to send out or lead raids against their caravans. It is no wonder that the conflict never stopped during his lifetime.","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
+{"text":"Tag: Gai Behar\nBallet BC dancers Scott Fowler and Parker Finley in rehearsal for the company's final program of the season, which features all Jewish community choreographers. (photo by Michael Slobodian)\nBallet BC concludes its season May 9-11 with Program 3, featuring all Jewish community choreographers: Israel's Sharon Eyal and Gai Behar, Vancouver's Serge Bennathan and Israel's Ohad Naharin.\nProgram 3 begins with the North American premi\u00e8re of Eyal and Behar's Bedroom Folk and concludes with the return of Naharin's Minus 16, a crowd-pleaser that Ballet BC presented in 2017. The middle piece, by Bennathan, is a world premi\u00e8re, commissioned by Ballet BC.\n\"Emily Molnar invited me to create a work for the company,\" Bennathan told the Independent in a phone interview. \"That's it. All the rest is for me to create what I want for them.\"\nGiven that leeway by Molnar, Ballet BC's artistic director, Bennathan said he wanted to create a work for all the dancers.\n\"I'm so in love with the company that I felt it will be wonderful to have them all, mostly for the kind of work I do,\" he said.\n\"When I create work, whatever it is, for my company or another company, I always say I like to have the group of people that are strong individuals that make sense together,\" he explained. \"That is exactly what the company is right now. If you take Ballet BC now \u2013 individually, they are quite fantastic, each of their personalities, they're fine, but they make so much sense together. That's the beauty of it.\"\nBennathan was born in France and came to Canada more than 30 years ago. Artistic director of Toronto's Dancemakers from 1990 to 2006, he then came to Vancouver, where he founded Les Productions Figlio.\n\"My work, I would say, is quite physical, but my point of departure is to work from the energy. Not the energy being exuberant or something like that, but the energy that makes you move. So, you have to be present in the moment with your body and move from inside\u2026. You have to find it in yourself to move.\"\nBennathan has created many full-length works, both for his own companies and others, and he has a long history with Ballet BC.\n\"My first-ever commission was the first time I came to Vancouver. Reid Anderson was the artistic director,\" he said. \"I had just arrived in Canada. I was a young immigrant and I was doing work here in Vancouver and they saw my work and they invited me to create. The first-ever piece was a duet. And then, throughout the years, the invitations kept coming, so I created.\"\nSet to an original score by Montreal-based composer Bertrand Ch\u00e9nier, Bennathan shared a little about next month's premi\u00e8re, as well as his creative process.\n\"It's [about] how do you find the form of resilience. How do you sustain that [thing] that keeps your head above water? That's what it is,\" he said of the work.\n\"Before I create the piece with dancers, I spend time [on my own] \u2013 I paint, I sew and I write and I explore these ideas that come to me through painting; not to paint movement \u2026 but to try to extract what it means in a poetic way. So, when I 'write,' in the studio with the dancers, what happens is, when I choreograph, I don't think about the piece. I let my body talk because I believe that the mounds and mounds and mounds that I read \u2013 like, for this one, I read a lot of poetry, I painted, I wrote poetry \u2013 when I'm in the studio with them, I just let my body talk when I choreograph. And then they grab it. But this is only the beginning. After that, there is another period. I don't want them to do exactly what I did. The movement can transform itself \u2013 what needs to stay true is the essence of why we did this movement at the beginning.\"\nFor Bennathan, dance is more than an art form.\n\"I left my family quite early, I was 14 years old. Let's say, my life was taking a direction that, deep inside me, I knew it was not the direction I wanted to take. I want to say [that] to people because, sometimes we see a lot of youth and we say, 'Oh, you should get out of this, or you should do this \u2026' but the fact is, sometimes, mostly when you are young, you are taken into a spiral and you cannot get out. And, if you do not have the opportunity, or create yourself the opportunity, to lead you to someone that can tell you a word or a phrase that will change you or offer something you can open the door to, you are in a terrible situation, you cannot get out. I was able to have this in my life and \u2026 at 14, I said, 'OK, I'm going to leave this, I'm going to Paris, I'm going to study dance, and that's what I want to become, a dancer. This saved me, literally. I needed to do this to get out of a situation I didn't want for me.\"\nBennathan described dancers as \"courageous, at all levels; not courageous just to apply themselves physically \u2013 because it's there, they have the courage to abandon themselves into this art form \u2013 but, at the same time, to live as a dance artist. And, even more in our days, you have to be courageous, you have to have resilience.\"\nHe said he can't just invite talented dancers from other parts of the country to come work with him here because Vancouver has become so expensive. \"Young artists or young families cannot come live here anymore. That's the thing. And you have to be courageous to say, 'OK, I'm going to come.'\u2026 These days, you don't just say, 'Oh, I'm going to live in Vancouver.'\"\nBennathan believes in the power of dance, and art in general, to improve the world.\n\"A lot of people say 'art can save the world,' but why can you say that? It's because we need the inspiration, we need poetry in our lives. Sometimes, poetry, these days, is dismissed. We so forget the importance of the inspiration of poetry in our day-to-day lives. There is a reason, not only in North America, but everywhere in the world right now \u2026 why cynicism is the most important thing\u2026. It's because we left all this \u2013 whether it's writing poetry, written poetry or dance or music \u2013 we stop these art forms at the door instead of inviting them into our lives.\" If we did invite them in, he said, \"we would talk differently and we would start to see things differently.\"\nProgram 3 is at Queen Elizabeth Theatre May 9-11, 8 p.m., and Ballet BC will celebrate 10 years with Emily Molnar as artistic director with a reception after the closing performance on May 11. For tickets to the performances, visit balletbc.com. Tickets for the reception are available via eventbrite.ca.\nFormat ImagePosted on April 19, 2019 April 17, 2019 Author Cynthia RamsayCategories Performing ArtsTags Ballet BC, dance, Emily Molnar, Gai Behar, lifestyle, Ohad Naharin, Serge Bennathan, Sharon Eyal","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
+{"text":"MELD Advertising Unveils New Brand, Website\nNEW YORK, Aug. 30, 2021 \/PRNewswire\/ \u2014 MELD Advertising, a leading full-service marketing agency, has announced the launch of its new branding, complete with a new logo and a refresh of its website.\n\"We have grown so quickly and we've been working so hard for our clients' brands that we realized we'd been neglecting our own,\" said Derek Wood, MELD's Founder and Executive Creative Director. \"We're excited to unveil our new branding because it better reflects who we are as an agency and the value we bring to the table.\"\nThe updated website has been introduced at meldadvertising.com and reflects the new brand identity, showcases MELD's work for its clients, details the agency's capabilities, and more. The new logo, which can be seen throughout the new website, has a more colorful design that conveys a warmer, more confident tone.\nAs part of the brand refresh, MELD also has an updated value proposition: Inspiring trust by ensuring your success.\n\"To me, the new value proposition was one of the most important aspects of the refresh,\" said Wood. \"One of the biggest things that sets us apart from other agencies is the relationships we have with our clients. I don't think it's a coincidence that most of our new business comes from client referrals. It means we've earned their trust and proves that MELD succeeds when we help our clients succeed. And the new value proposition conveys that.\"\nAbout MELD\nMELD was built on a solid foundation \u2013 focusing on humanity, transparency, and strong ethics. From there, talent from every type of advertising agency was brought in. As everyone is given a voice, clients get the best of everyone. MELD is composed of seasoned professionals from every discipline, offering proven expertise in creative and content; strategy, technology and analytics; engagement and influence; and media.\nTo see the new MELD brand, visit meldadvertising.com.\nMELD Advertising\nMonika Nagarsheth\nSOURCE MELD Advertising","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
+{"text":"NextHome Owner Heidi Powell Recognized as a Powerful Woman in Franchising\nBy NextHome Corporate \u2014 April 23, 2021\nNextHome Corporate\nPleasanton, CA \u2014 April 23, 2021 \u2014 As part of Franchise Business Review's annual Top Franchises for Women research, FBR surveyed over 8,000 female franchise owners to get their perspective on owning a franchise business in 2021. Earlier this year, NextHome was named a Top Franchise for Women in Franchise Business Review's 2021 report.\nThe past year has been difficult for many business owners yet women franchise owners have demonstrated their resilience and commitment to their local communities.\nWhile franchising has historically been a male-dominated industry, women business owners have made significant strides in the past decade. Today, women are opening one out of every three new franchise businesses and female franchise ownership has increased significantly.\nFranchise Business Review shared a series of 27 inspiring stories from female franchise owners who are experiencing success as business owners \u2013 breaking through the barriers and challenges unique to being a woman in the business world. One of those stories featured Heidi Powell, Owner of NextHome Dynamic located in Freeport, Pennsylvania. Read on to learn more about Heidi, and click here to read the full article.\nAs a real estate agent, Heidi Powell wanted to support her community in finding their next homes.\n\"It's not about the houses, the land, the numbers \u2013 it's about the human factor,\" she says. \"We're dealing with the human factor: The view over the kitchen table as you watch the kids play in the yard. The memories that will be made around the dining room table.\"\nHeidi initially started her career with a different franchise, but quickly found that her morals clashed with the numbers-driven goals of corporate. When her agreement ended, her research led her to NextHome and in July 2018 she became the 300th business with the franchise.\n\"Anyone who's thinking of franchising, the research is so very important,\" says Heidi. \"To meet and speak with other franchisees.\"\nThe NextHome franchise community has supported and uplifted Heidi while allowing her to follow her own initiatives. Early on in the pandemic and realizing how many in her community were struggling, Heidi partnered with a group of volunteers to provide and deliver free lunches to those in need.\n\"Any time you can do something for your local community, it's not about business,\" Heidi says. \"It's so important to support the community that takes care of us every other time of the year.\"\nWe're thrilled to see Heidi's dedication to her community and being a proud example of being a woman in business recognized by Franchise Business Review. Her passion for putting humans over houses couldn't be more of an encompassing representation of a NextHomie.","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
+{"text":"You are here: Im Kinsky \u203a Kinsky News \u203a Blog\nNo shrinking violets in the art\nThe women at the im Kinsky aren't shrinking violets! Whatever different art periods they may come from, they're confidently looking out into the world. Please find a selection of fascinating ladies, painted by strong artists, below.\nSensitivity and mastery\nFaistauer's wife Ida has melancholically rested her chin on her left arm, dreaming and withdrawn, she is shown in a slight profile view from the right. They were married in 1913, and unto her early death in 1919 the artist painted her sixty times. The portrait is a very sensitive characterization of the model and shows at the same time the masterful use of color in his early portraits.\nThe artist is also renowned for his frescoes. In 1926, with the help of some assistants, he completed the Foyer of the Salzburger Festspielhaus, which became his international breakthrough.\nsold for: 45.000 \u20ac\n\"The Jew's daughter\" is a poem from a collection by Achim von Arnim and Clemens Brentano regrouping old German Lieder. It speaks of a beautiful Jewish girl, who does not want to get baptized, event though some men tell her to. She drowns herself in the sea to escape. Kokoschka illustrated throughout his whole life poems and works of literature. Often, these would be published in Herwarth Walden's magazine \"Der Sturm\". This drawing is the title sheet for Walden's music piece \"The Jew's daughter\".\nThe work is separated in two styles. The wide and thick brushstrokes used for the man and the background are typical for drawings and oil paintings at the beginning of the 20-ies. The female figure seems fine, almost translucent thanks to small brushstrokes and many spare spaces. On the one side fragile and fleeting, on the other strong and decisive \u2013 this distinguishes these two figures. This work is a fascinating translation of the poem into art. Kokoschka displays his virtuoso drawsmanship and aplomb in the depiction of emotions.\nBeauty and power\nEspecially in his early work, Putz centered on the image of the beautiful woman, in different variations. His wife, the landscape painter Frieda Blell, often posed as his model. The third Reich though deemed his art as \"entartet\" (degenerated) and put a work ban on him. After having been interrogated by the Gestapo a few times, Putz escaped to South Tyrol. There, he mainly painted castles and landscapes. He died in 1949 in his birth city of Meran.\nThe figurine of Judith with the head of Holofernes has probably been shaped according to the example of Conrad Meist from 1525\/1528 which is kept in the Bavarian National Museum. Judith saved the inhabitants of her hometown by killing the enemy commander Holofernes in his sleep. Contrary to the story, Meist and also our artist depicted Judith in the nude. However, this is not about an erotic representation, the bodily beauty of the woman is to be seen as a voucher for her moral integrity.\nFashion and naked skin\nA very different side of his artistry is shown by Alfons Walde in this drawing. He presented in 1921 a first collection of nude representations, but his erotic depictions did not find the recognition he was hoping for. He therefore kept them away from the public and worked on them aside from his popular, \"official\" art. Only very seldom they made their way to collectors. Waldes' female models are nude or only sparingly clothed with fashionable, sexy accessories like shoes or fishnet stockings. Especially due to their intimate character, these erotic subjects count among the most interesting creations of Walde's Oeuvre. Without doubt, they enrich the work of the \"snow painter\" by a very special artistic and peculiar side. It is here that the painter could realize his private obsessions, all the time winking at the viewer. The theme of the female nude is one that was always on the artist's mind, however, it was only relatively late that the painter indulged in it.\nZach is especially known for his painted small statues in the style of the art deco. He liked depicting tall, athletic, dominant women, including all their female attributes. Here, the wind is lifting the lady's dress, we can see her high heeled booties and slender legs. Another interesting detail is that of the umbrella handle: it represents a monkey's face.","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
+{"text":"Ananda Temple,Bagan\nMandalay Hill,Mandalay\nBoat with leg rowers\nShwedagon Pagoda\nEnchanting Discoveries\nTop Exeriences\nWalk Through Biggest Book\nPray at shwedagon pogoda\nMeet Longneck Ladies\nCommunity Visit In Myanmar\nExploring History & Culture\nTraditional Myanmar\nShopping in Yangon\nMore Experience\nIternaries\nHow to get to Myanmar\nE \u2013 Guides\nTraditional Costume\nMyanmar China Korea Russia Spain Germany Italy Thailand Vietnam Japan\nCoronavirus Situation Updates\nMyanmar is a wealth of different cultures. If you are looking to experience the cultural side of it, we promise to make you happy. There are 135 distinct ethnic groups in Myanmar with their own culture and traditions. It is reflected in everything they do: cuisine, dressing, faith, occupation and much more. We welcome you to enjoy the diversity of Myanmar's traditions.\nMyanmar Betel or Kun Ya is made up of betel nut, slaked lime and catechu which are then wrapped up in a betel leaf., but the recipe inside the betel leaf changes from shop to shop and some shops input tobacco, chilli and jam. Its taste is a little bitter and has to be savoured while chewing slowly. There are many little betel shops located all over the country. You must try Kun Ya or Betel when you are in the country.\nMyanmar cigar or cheroot is a roll made with the dried leaf of carbia myx (Thanet Phat) or corn. Insides the leaf is a mixture of dried wood and tobacco. The old people in Myanmar rolled their own cigars to suit their individual taste. Cigars come in different sizes and the smallest one is a little bigger than cigarettes. There are many cigar factories in Myanmar especially in the tropical zone.\nNovitiation Ceremony\nThe ceremony is mostly held before July and August, and during the summer vacation between March and May. To become a novice, three stages must be passed - shaving hair, wearing a robe and believing in Buddha. Buddhist parents in Myanmar believes that they will not suffer in hell if their sons become a novice for at least once in their lifetime.\nPathein Umbrella\nThe beautiful and colourful Pathein umbrella represents the Myanmarese feminine beauty. The canopies of the umbrella are made with cotton, silk and beautiful artistic floral painting on them. The shaft and ribs are made of bamboo which can be obtained from Rakhine Yoma Mountain Range near Pathein.\nPottery has been the earliest craft in the history of human civilisation. For 2,000 years, the Myanmarese have used pottery to store and cook food. Pots can be produced cheaply and are useful in many ways even though they are fragile. Nowadays, the main pottery workshops in Myanmar are located in riverside towns.\nTea Shops\nYou will find tea shops in every street corner in Myanmar. Tea is a common drink for the locals and you must taste it when you are in the country. The traditional tea is a potent combination of strong black tea leaves mixed with evaporated and condensed milk and is delicious.\nTHANAKA\nThanaka is a yellowish-white cosmetic paste made from ground bark. You will find the locals, especially women and girls use it extensively on their face and arms. The reference of Thanaka can be found in a poem written by King Razadarit during the 14th century. The wood from different trees can be used to create Thanaka. The trees must be perennials and at least 35 years old to produce good Thanaka.\nLongyi is the native dress of the Myanmar People. Ideal for Myanmar's humid climate, this versatile long wrap-around cloth is traditionally worn by both genders with distinct features separating the two. The Longyi worn by men is called a Paso while those worn by women are called a Htamein. A Paso usually comes in stripes or checks and can even be worn inside out while a Htamein comes in countless floral and coloured designs.\nWELL-KNOWN ARTS & CRAFTS\nPANCHI\nPUNPU\nPANYUN\nPANBE\nPANPOOT\nPANYAN\nPANTAUT\nPANTAMAUT\nPANTAIN\nPANTE\nPanchi refers to the art of painting that illustrates live animals and inanimate objects using different colours. Artists paint the figures of human beings, animals, objects, drawings, scenery designs, cartoons and caricatures human scene. These paintings originated from Bagan and hold a lot of influence of Buddhism. If you want to explore paintings in particular, you should visit Bagan where you will find ancient traditional paintings and masterpiece of A.D 11th Century. Wall painting sculptures in Bagan are the best representations of Panchi. Paintings of Konbaung Period are lively, beautiful and colourful, especially the wall paintings in Mahamyatmuni Pagoda at Mandalay which are sculptures of Yadanarpon Period.\nPunpu is the art of creating sculptures, figures and floral motifs from wood. Myanmar's craftsmen are highly skilled in carving materials ranging from bone, jade, stone and especially wood. They can make the figure of human beings, animals and floral motifs from any material. They are especially skilled in crafting Buddha images or figurines using wood. If you want to explore the Punpu art of Yadanarpon Period in Myanmar, you must visit the Shwe In Bin Monastery in Mandalay, Bargayar Monastery in Innwa. A wooden sculpture from the Bagan period is the oldest pagoda Shwezigon portal in Nyaung-U.\nPanyun means an art that produces materials in bamboo, wood and thick blackpaint (thit-se). Lacquer ware, known as Yun in Myanmar refers to a process that uses natural organic ingredients to decorate anything from a chest of drawers to a mug. What sets it apart is the immense time and skills required to finish a single piece. Each item is first crafted using bamboo or wood. Then a detailed process of application is followed by a resting period often in an underground cellar for up to ten days. On a detailed framework of process, finely cut strips of bamboo, mixtures of thit-see resin with clay and ash are carefully built-up and finally polished with the ash of fossil wood. The designs are then etched or painted by hand. The most traditional Burmese lacquer ware is of a unique terracotta colour with scenes from the Jataka Stories, the Buddha's former existence. Bagan is the home of this craft. Lacquer-ware craftsmen commonly produce alms bowls (bowls for monks), food bowl, tea bowl, bowl for pickled tea, drinking cups, traditional betel box (especially held at the Myanmar Houses to serve guests), cigar boxes, etc. As with most other artistic aspects of Myanmar PanYun industry, Lacquer ware forms an important part of social life.\nA part of the artistic wonders of the world, Panbe is a kind of blacksmith who create various products using iron, heated in the oven. They make iron axles used in oxcarts, rubber, hammer, ax, various kinds of knives, swords, hoe, dig hoe and scissors. The metal industry of the country was started during the middle period of Bagan and Yadanarpon Periods. Head to Inlay region to catch the interesting site of Panbes in action. Don't forget to buy a memento for your trip!\nThe art of Panpoot is an art of making wooden utensils by using turners lather. The end products include the shaft of an umbrella, table legs, legs of the bed, guardrails and turnery posts for pavilions and railings. This traditional craft began at the Bagan period in the 8th century A.D, Ava and Yatanarpon period. The variety of products produced using this art is very interesting and includes food containers, boxes, bowls, tables and chairs, apart from what has been mentioned earlier. They look extremely attractive. The Panpoot art exhibits a heavy influence of the Mon culture.\nPanyan means constructing a building using bricks, stone and concrete. The Masons, commonly known as Panyan men build houses, pagodas, bridges, and many more. Myanmar's traditional masonry work is well-known for the ancient pagodas and other religious buildings around the Bagan Area. The country's traditional masonry of Bagan period is the best developed among all the other historical periods. The craftsmanship exhibits remarkable strength, beauty, volume, detail and decorations. Myanmar's traditional masonry has derived from the Mon People's culture of Suvanna Bhumi Region. It is known that masonry in Myanmar was first started during the Pyu period of 1st century A.D.\nPantaut refers to the craft of making decorative designs embossed in stucco. The craftsmen carve figures of lions, dragons and floral patterns with stucco. Myanmar traditional stucco carving emerged before the Bagan period and it was widely practised during the Bagan, Amarapura and Yadanarpon period. According to historic records, stucco works were very famous during the Bagan period and had detailed decorations. After the Bagan period, stucco carvings of mid-Konbaung or Amarapura period exhibited finesse in authentic Burmese style. The curled leaves and buds look very beautiful. You can explore this culture at the Menu's brick monastery at Innwa. The great building itself is a work of art to command our admiration for the Pantaut Art.\nThis art refers to the art of stone carving. The craftsmen make many religious items, mainly Buddha images and stone slabs for inscription. Other figures such as elephants, deer, circular flat stone pestle, mortar and table are also made to order. Sculpture in stone is a significant feature of Myanmar fine arts and is considered to be an honour of the local people. There are sculpture workshops in Yangon, Mandalay and other towns, the most notable being near the Mahamyatmuni Pagoda in Mandalay. Fine works of art in stone can be seen at plaques depicting the life of the Buddha at Ananda Temple, Bagan. The great Buddha image at Kyauktawkyi Pagoda at the foot of Mandalay Hill is another example of excellent Pantamaut.\nPantain is an enterprise of making items of gold or silver. Silversmiths of the country are famous in making drinking bowl, receptacle bowl, prize-cup, shield and belt. Goldsmiths are skilled in making various kinds of jewellery. Myanmar's traditional art and craft involve artistic creation of gold and silver wares. Creating silverware has been a part of Myanmar for the past 1,200 years. It is indeed something for the country to be proud of. According to the crystal palace chronicles during the reign of King Anawrahta, the relics of Buddha and the three repositories of Buddhist scriptures were brought to Bagan from Suvunna Boumi, the Mon capital. Along with them came Mon artisans and Mon arts and crafts, gold and silverware etc.\nThis is the art of producing materials of copper, bronze or brass. The artisans carve a range of products from these materials such as the triangular brass gong and brass bowls for the monks, weights in the shape of brainy ducks, trays, copper pots, cups, bowls, dishes, cymbals, bells and small brass gongs. Myanmar's traditional coppersmith's craft emerged before the Bagan period and it improved during Bagan and Ava period. Every pagoda in Myanmar has bells which were struck to tell the people about good deeds that are done. They are triangular bells, which twirl when struck and ring with a sweet rising and falling tone which gradually fades away. Moreover, there are gongs slung from carved ivory or wooden elephant trunks which are prized as dinner gongs. Different sizes and shapes of bells, all unmistakably Burmese in design are popular as souvenirs, and so are other castings such as weights and cowbells.\nSILK & COTTON WEAVING INDUSTRY\nSilk and cotton weaving is one of the main professions of the Amarapura and Bagan People. The cotton is mostly grown in Central Myanmar. First, they make the cotton thread from raw cotton by using a machine, which is operated by hand and weave on the international wooden loom. Over one hundred looms are used to create beautiful and intricate designs and patterns as silk wear is worn in special and ceremonial occasions. Being a famous and interesting cottage industry, this is something you should definitely experience.\nLOTUS WEAVING AT INLE LAKE\nOne of the highlights from Inle Lake is the lotus weaving industry. Lotus weaving is the main profession for many people who live near Inle Lake. Many years ago, women from Inle began weaving textiles using fabrics obtained from lotus flowers. There are many villages where this art is practiced out of which Phaw Kone and Kyaing Khan Villages are most famous. You can visit these villages to understand how this art is done.\nThe whole process from the beginning to the end is really amazing. Most old women cut the lotus stem into small pieces and extract fibre by hand using a knife. Then these fibres are moistened and rolled together to obtain threads. To finally produce the long, fine threads used to weave lotus, the above process is repeated again and again. Workers need to be very patient because all the processes are equally important. This industry is very labour intensive and hence lotus weaving products are among the most expensive textile products in the world. They are ideal for gifting.\nMUSICAL INSTRUMENTS & TRADITIONAL DANCE\nOO ZI\nDOBAT\nPATMA\nSIDAW\nPAT WAIN\nKYEY SE\nSAUNG\nPATAL\nThe pot-drum (Oo zi) is a single-headed drum on a long hollow stalk which is flared at the bottom. That single head has a membrane tightly stretched over a round frame. The pot drum is tuned by sticking a piece of tuning dough made of rice and ash to the head. The pot-drum is the chief instrument for the lively pot-drum dance and is played for group dancers as well. Though the pot-drum is single-headed, it can be played to produce a complete set of sounds.\nThe double-headed slung drum (Dobat) is the most popular musical instrument in the countryside. Dobat can be played on both sides. The left side of the drum is called the female side and the opposite side is the male side. The female side is tuned to the fundamental (taya) while the male side is tuned to the dominant (tayo). The female side requires more tuning dough. A Dobat is played briskly and joyously. The player uses both hands to strike the drum so that the left hand hits the female side, and the right hand strikes the male side. Fingers, palms, or the heels of palms, and sometimes elbows are used. It was mostly played by Myanmar farmers for inviting the harvest time or to call for rain. It can also be seen at pagoda festivals, charities and at labor contribution functions when the villagers come out to build a road or to reap the harvest.\nThe principal drum or Patma is a part of the Saing Wine (Myanmarese orchestra). It used to be hung on a horizontal beam placed on tripods, but now it is placed on a long piece of hard bamboo with nodes at short intervals. The beam assumes five components of a pyinsa-rupa, a mythical animal with a serpent's head, the antlers of a deer, the hooves of a horse, the wings of a birdlike creature (galon) and the tail of a carp (ngajin). When the Patma is played together with the large cymbals, it sounds most effective. The musician who plays the Patma in the ensemble is also responsible for the six small graduated upright drums and the medium horizontal sakhun.\nThe royal drum or Sidaw was played on royal occasions, auspicious gatherings, and for favourable portents in the villages. Historically, the Sidaw was played as a part of palace rituals and during royal ceremonies and occasions. It was played during the entrance and exit of the king and queen into the Audience Hall, or when the monarchs were attending grand dramas or marionette shows. The Sidaw was also played at ploughing ceremonies, city visits, and ceremonies marking the beginning and end of the sitting of the Hluttaw. Gift presentation ceremonies were also marked by use of the Sidaw, as was the beginning of the Thingyan Water Festival.\nThe centre of each Burmese ensemble, giving name to the idea of instruments hung up in a circle \"hsain wain\", is the pat wain drum circle. This instrument consists of 19 (traditionally), or 21(after 1920) tuned drums with heights ranging from 13 to 41 cm, hung from a circular wooden rack or stand with the player in the middle. One of the most fascinating aspects of South East Asian music is the idea of the melodic use of percussive instruments, such as the drum circles, gong ensembles and xylophones. The drums in the pat wain get tuned by filling in \"pa sa\", a paste of rice and ashes. The more pa sa is filled, the lower the drum will sound. The pat wain player is known as \"hsain hsaya\", which means he is the \"master of hsain\" and thus the main leader and director of the complete ensemble.\nThe Kyey se (\"kyeezee\") gong is also sometimes called the \"Burmese bell\". It is a flat, triangular solid brass gong which appears in many ensemble performances in different shapes and sizes. It can also be found in ceremonial use in temples, or even with monks when they walk down the streets in the morning to beg for alms. A wooden mallet is used to hit the gong on the left or right side of the triangle, so that it starts spinning with a high tempo and thus creates a vibrating sound. Depending on the size and the corner where it is hit, the pitch changes. It is famous for its long sustaining tone.\nA \"harp\" is called a \"saung\" in Myanmar. There are basically two types \u2013 the Byat Saung and Saung Gauk (bent harp). The Saung is an arched horizontal harp where the resonator body is more horizontal compared to the Western harp, which has a vertical resonator. The harp is played by sitting on the floor with its body in the lap, and its arch on the left. The strings are plucked with the right hand fingers from the outside. The left hand is used to dampen the strings to promote clarity and produce staccato notes. The main parts of the harp are the body, the long curved neck, carved out of the root of a tree, and a string bar running down the centre of the top of the body. The top of the resonator body is covered with a tightly stretched deer hide, heavily lacquered in red with four small circular sound holes. The neck terminates in a highly decorated representation of the bo tree leaf. The harp body and stand are decorated with pieces of mica (\"Mandalay pearls\"), glass, gilt and red and black lacquer. The saung's strings are made of silk or nylon.\nThe Hne is a multiple reed oboe with a remarkable crooked form. It has seven nearly equidistant playing holes which are basic for the development of the main Burmese scales in both chamber and ensemble music. There are two common sizes of the hne, \"ci\" (big) and \"kalei\" (small) which are used for different purposes. The bigger one is for slow tempo and the smaller one is for festive occasions. Sometimes the bamboo flute \"palwei\" accompanies the \"hne\" during festivals as it also has equally set playing holes resounding in the same scale.\nThe flute (hne) is one of the traditional wind instruments in Myanmar. It has been used in Myanmar since ancient times and is created by using a metal horn, a wooden flute and a palm reed. The oboe is a double-reed woodwind instrument having a high pitch and penetrating tone. There are two kinds of Myanmar oboe namely big oboe and small oboe. Big oboe has more bass than the small. Big oboe has been used in Myanmar for many years and is said to have come into use as early as 211 AD. It is used to play melodies, particularly in Byawsi, Yegin, Nayi, Thapyay and Yadu music. The small oboe has been commonly used from 1290 and 1300 in the Myanmar era up to now.\nPATAL \u2013 XYLOPHONE\nThe name Patala means a musical instrument with which you can play all ranges \u2013 from the crescendo to the bases. Patala instruments are usually the War Patala or Wood Xylophone and Pattalar, the Burmese bamboo xylophone. These are ancient musical instruments. Old versions of these instruments had a sound box underneath, with seven graduated keys. The xylophone is played with two sticks wrapped in cloth. The Bamboo Patala consists of 24 bamboo plates placed above a resonating box, starting with the lowest pitch on the players left side and the highest pitch on the player's right side. The plates get beaten by two mallets, actually tuned in a diatonic scale and ranging over three octaves.\nTRADITIONAL DANCES AND FOLK DANCES OF MYANMAR\nDance has always been an intrinsic part of the culture of Myanmar. The movement of the human body and the discipline of form and posture often characterise local dance techniques. From inaugurating capital cities to the commencement of a battle, all royal functions began and ended with a dance. Today, dance is still an integral part of daily life, be it at weddings, pagoda festivals or Shinbyu (novice monk initiation ceremonies). It plays a vital part in celebrating each occasion. Pwe or dramatic dance performances set to music often add colour to local pagoda Festivals.\nTRADITIONAL DANCE\nTraditional dance in Myanmar is supple, graceful, elaborate, well-refined and floral. What makes it even more unique is that every dance movement draws inspiration from flowers. A flower is believed to resemble a dancer. The bloom is the head. The leaves are the hands and the stem the body. In the gust of a gentle breeze, the flower comes alive and dances to the accompaniment of nature. This purity of movement often forms the foundation of traditional dance in Myanmar.\nFOLK DANCE\nBased on the changing seasons and fertile lands, folk dance in Myanmar has always been an integral part of farming communities. As such, most folk dances reflect everyday life with songs and lyrics that flow with the movement of the dancer. A popular folk dance is U Shwe Yoe, a comic act that portrays the dancer dressed as a typical Myanmar gentleman with a long neatly trimmed moustache holding a Pathein Parasol, a scarf around his neck, a spotted turban or headgear, and a square patterned sarong around his waist. In the dance, he makes comic faces as he holds a lady's gestures that dramatize his search for a young attractive girl. Always a popular act, his antics are an eagerly anticipated item on every agenda.\nCHINLONE\nChinlone, also known as cane ball, is the traditional, national sport of Myanmar and a combination of sports and dance. It is a completely non-competitive game, with typically six people playing together as one team, with no opposing teams. Although there is no competition, it is a highly demanding sport that requires skill and teamwork. The ball they use is usually made from hand-woven rattan (called Chinlone). It is played by individuals passing the ball between each other within a circle, without using their hands. One of the six players moves to the centre of the circle while all other players try to assist him or her by passing the ball that he strikes back to him in a single attempt. The important point of the game is to keep the ball in the air without hitting the ground as much as possible. While playing, a traditional orchestra plays motivational songs and the crowd cheers the players to give their best. An Annual Waso Chinlone Festival is held in a small stadium off the famous Maha Myat Muni Pagoda in Mandalay. This festival takes place for a month around the full moon of Waso.\nTRADITIONAL TATTOO\nTattooed women are one of the main attraction of Myanmar. Each ethnic group has its own pattern which distinguishes them from one another. No one knows exactly how the custom originated, but one theory is that the tattoos began years ago as a form of identification when women were captured or kidnapped by neighbouring tribes. Another legend is that the tattoos were a way of intentionally disfiguring the woman's beauty so that they would not be taken to marriage by the Burmese King. Most of them got their tattoos when they were around 12 years old. The whole process can take up to 3 days. The tattoo needles are usually made from bamboo skewers or from thorns. The ink is a mixture of ox bile, soot, plants and lard. The Chin Women are famed for their tattooed faces. Although the tradition of tattooing faces is disappearing, it is still prominent in the southern part of the state, particularly in Mindat and Kanpetlet.\nMYANMAR'S PUPPETS\nA traditional artefact of the country and something that the locals are proud of are Marionettes \u2013 Myanmarese puppets. Spend a little time and you may find one that has been discarded from a show. Marionettes showcase character and often have their own story to tell. Beautifully handcrafted, these make wonderful mementoes of your adventures in Myanmar. Puppets or marionettes formed the 'Yoke-the Pew' or marionette theatre which entertained kings and royalty during the 18th century.\nMARIONETTE DANCE\nA standard troupe consists of 28 puppets comprising of a cast of animals, kings and queens, courtiers, princes, and clowns. Plots are usually taken from the 550 Jatakas, or from the Ramayana handling these marionettes. The puppeteers also provide the essential accompaniments of songs and narrative to make a complete performance. A rare art of form, marionette theatres still exist in small pockets across the country and is a treat you wouldn't want to miss.\nPopular in Myanmar\nTREASURE OF MYANMAR\nCommunity Visit\nMyanmar Must Do\nDiving Must Do\nOffice (33), Ministry of Hotels & Tourism, Nay Pyi Taw, Myanmar\n+95 67 340 6458, +95 67 340 6247,","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
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Jin, E. Michielsen, and J. Song (eds.), Fast and Efficient Algorithms in Computational Electromagnetics, Artech House, Boston, 2001.\n16. Taflove, A., Computational Electrodynamics: The finite Difference Time Domain Method, Artech House, Boston, 1995.\n17. Hafner, C., The Generalized Multipole Technique for Computational Electromagnetics, Artech House, Boston, 1990.\n18. Silvester, P. P. and G. Pelosi, Finite Elements for Wave Electromagnetics, IEEE Press, New York, 1994.\n19. Maystre, D. and P. Vincent, \"Diffraction d'une onde \u00e9lectromagn\u00e9tique plane par un objet cylindrique non infini- ment conducteur de section arbitraire,\" Opt. Commun., Vol. 5, 327-330, 1972.\ndoi:10.1016\/0030-4018(72)90025-9\n20. Abramovitz, M. and I. Stegun, Handbook of Mathematical Functions, Dover Publications, New York, 1970.\n21. Courant, R. and D. Hilbert, Methods of Mathematical Physics, Vol. 2, Vol. 2, Interscience, New-York, 1962.\n22. Kong, J. A., Electromagnetic Wave Theory, EMW Publishing, Cambridge, 2000.\n23. Roger, A., \"Reciprocity theorem applied to the computation of functional derivatives of the scattering matrix,\" Electromagnetics, Vol. 2, 69-83, 1982.\n24. Maystre, D. and M. Cadilhac, \"Singularities of the continuation of the fields and validity of Rayleigh's hypothesis,\" Journal of Mathematical Physics, Vol. 26, 2201-2204, 1985.\n25. Schwartz, L., Mathematics for the Physical Sciences, Addison-Wesley, Reading, Mass., 1966.\n26. Cessenat, M., \"The use of the calderon pro jectors and the capacity operators in scattering,\" Scattering in Volumes and Surfaces, 255-268, 1990.","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
+{"text":"Rene J. Ethier\nSep 5, 2012 at 12:01 AM\nBLACKSTONE - Rene J. Ethier, 86, formerly of Blackstone, MA went to the Lord with family by his bedside on Sept. 2 at Hebert's Nursing Home in Smithfield, RI where he was a resident for 7 years.\nHe is survived by 3 daughters, Tammy Ethier of Woonsocket, Cheryl Coleman of Millville, and Carol Nault and her husband Roger of Narragansett, RI; 1 son Gary Ethier of Pawtucket, RI; 4 sisters Blanche Pelletier of Uxbridge, Sylvia (Figuerido) McCausland of Mapleville, RI, Yvonne Coyle of NJ, and Ellen Bowen of Millville; 4 grandchildren, and 2 great grandchildren; and a large family of nephews and nieces. He is predeceased by his loving companion, Thelma Leclerc of Uxbridge, MA, a son Alan; 6 brothers Leo, Oliver, Leonard, Omer, Alphonse, and William Ethier; 3 sisters, Regina Laliberte, Bella Wayland, and Viola Balon.\nBorn in Millville on Jan. 4, 1926 he was one of 14 children born to Alphonse and Flora (Cabana) Ethier. He learned at a very young age the responsibilities of incessant work details shared with his siblings on the family-owned Chestnut Hill Diary Farm in Millville, MA.\nMr. Ethier received an honorable discharge from the U.S. Navy in Dec. of 1945. His work in the medical field as a navy enlistee encouraged him to pursue employment in local nursing homes and hospitals. He also worked in local textile mills and was responsible in various capacities as a long time worker at the Southwick Wild Animal Farm and was influential in its inception. He enjoyed entertaining, having been raised within a family of professional entertainers. Taking on the name of \"Ray Moore\" he became a weekly voice as DJ in the early days of radio station WNRI, Woonsocket, RI. Rene loved his family and enjoyed the many family reunions and would relish participating in impromptu presentations with family members. He will long be remembered for his wit, outgoing personality, love of laughter, and was a huge Red Sox fan.\nHis funeral Mass will be held on Thurs. Sept. 6 from Tancrell-Jackman Funeral Home, 35 Snowling Rd., Uxbridge with a Mass of Christian burial at 11 a.m. at St. Augustine's Church, 17 Lincoln St., Millville. Burial will follow in St. Paul's cemetery in Blackstone. Rene's relatives and friends are invited to his viewing on Thurs. Sept. 6 from 9 - 10:30 a.m. To leave a condolence message for the family online, please visit\njackmanfuneralhomes.com","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
+{"text":"18 Dec 1963Age: 56\nActor, Producer\nZodiac sign Sagittarius\n5.11 ft 78 lb\nHeight: 5.11 ft\nWeight: 78 lb\nWhere is Brad Pitt from?\nShawnee, Oklahoma, USA.\nWhat is the net worth of Brad Pitt?\nIn 2019, Brad Pitt's net worth is $300 Million dollars.\nBrad Pitt Major Industry Awards\nBrad Pitt Movies\nBrad Pitt Fears\nBrad Pitt Girlfriend \/ Spouse\nBrad Pitt Pets\nBrad Pitt Facts and Trivia\nBrad Pitt Cars\nBrad Pitt House\nBrad Pitt Hobbies\nBrad Pitt Quotes\nBrad Pitt Tattoos\nWho Is Brad Pitt?\nOne of the hottest faces in Hollywood, Brad Pitt is an American actor and film producer. The multiple award-winning actor known for his portrayal of unconventional characters and for his good looks.\nBrad Pitt's screen debut came in 1987, when he had uncredited parts in No Way Out, No Man's Land and Less Than Zero.\nBrad Pitt studied from Kickapoo High School in Springfield, Missouri. He was active in sports in his school times.\nOnce Upon a Time ... in Hollywood (2019) Cliff Booth\nAd Astra (2019) Roy McBride\nWar Machine (2017) Glen McMahon\nAllied (2016) Max Vatan\nBy the Sea (2015) Roland\nFury (2014) Don 'Wardaddy' Collier\nWorld War Z (2013) Gerry Lane\nMoneyball (2011) Billy Beane\nThe Tree of Life (2011) Mr. O'Brien\nInglourious Basterds (2009) Lt. Aldo Raine\nBurn After Reading (2008) Chad Feldheimer\nThe Curious Case of Benjamin Button (2008) Benjamin Button\nThe Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford (2007) Jesse James\nMr. & Mrs. Smith (2005) John Smith\nOcean's Twelve (2004) Rusty Ryan\nThe Mexican (2001) Jerry Welbach\nFight Club (1999) Tyler Durden\nSeven Years in Tibet (1997) Heinrich Harrer\nSe7en (1995) Mills\nInterview with the Vampire: The Vampire Chronicles (1994) Louis de Pointe du Lac\nBrad Pitt and Angelina Jolie has a total of 6 children. 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They separated in Sep 2016 and divorced on 12th Apr 2019.\nCharlize Theron (2019) Brad Pitt is rumored to have hooked up with Charlize Theron in January 2019.\nNeri Oxman (2018) Brad Pitt is rumored to have hooked up with Neri Oxman in Mar 2018.\nElla Purnell (2017) Brad Pitt is rumored to have hooked up with Ella Purnell in Oct 2017.\nSienna Miller (2017) Brad Pitt and Sienna Miller had an encounter in Jun 2017.\nKate Hudson (2017) Kate Hudson is rumored to have hooked up with Brad Pitt in Mar 2017.\nKarolina Kurkova (2007) Czech model Karolina is rumored to have hooked up with Brad Pitt in 2007.\nJennifer Aniston (1998 - 2005) Brad Pitt and Jennifer Aniston were married for 5 years.\nDemi Moore (1998) Brad Pitt is rumored to have hooked up with Demi Moore in 1998.\nClaire Forlani (1997 - 1998) Brad Pitt and Claire Forlani dated from 1997 to December, 1998.\nGwyneth Paltrow (1994 - 1997) The couple were engaged on 20th Dec 1996 but later separated in May 1997.\nThandie Newton (1994 - 1995) British actress, Thandie Newton and Brad Pitt dated from 1994 to 1995.\nJitka Pohlodek (1993 - 1994) American model Jitka and Brad Pitt dated from Jun, 1993 to Sep, 1994.\nJulia Ormond (1993) Brad Pitt had a short romance with actress Julia Ormond in the year 1993.\nJuliette Lewis (1990 - 1993) Actress Juliette and Brad Pitt Lewis dated from 1990 to Oct, 1993.\nChristina Applegate (1989 - 1990) Brad Pitt and Christina Applegate dated from 1989 to October, 1989.\nElizabeth Daily (1989)\nJill Schoelen (1988 - 1989)\nShalane McCall (1987 - 1988) Brad Pitt and Shalane McCall dated from Jan, 1987 to Apr, 1988.\nSinitta (1987) Brad Pitt and Sinitta had an encounter in 1987.\nRobin Givens (1986 - 1987) Brad Pitt and Robin Givens dated from 1986 to 1987.\nBlanco ( Mix breed )\n\"Personally I like ageing. 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Love chooses you.\" - Brad Pitt\n\"Fame makes you feel permanently like a girl walking past construction workers.\" - Brad Pitt\nThe classical-style main house, built in 1913, has been restored and renovated to the spirit of its original vintage while incorporating some modern upgrades.\nPrice: $24.5 million\nBmw Hydrogen 7\nLexus LS 460 F SPORT\nWWII-era Supermarine Spitfire\nPlaying the guitar\nHe has a tattoo on his forearm, which is an outline of \u00d6tzi the Iceman, also known as Frozen Fritz and Similaun Man.\nBicep Tattoo is a variation of a romantic poem by Rumi. \"There exists a field, beyond all notions of right and wrong. I will meet you there\".\nBrad has a tattoo on his right forearm for the love of his whole family. A for Angelina, M for Maddox, P for Pax, Z for Zahara, S for Shiloh, K for Knox and V for Vivienne.\nThe silhouette of a standing man and his shadow.\nBrad Pitt has a motorbike tattoo on his left bicep which shows his love for motorbikes.\nFear of sharks\nFear of divorce\nHe thanked Chuck Palahniuk, the author of Fight Club, for creating the character Tyler Durden, which he said was one of the most enjoyable acting roles of his career.\nTurned down a role as an astronaut in Apollo 13 (1995) to accept his role in Se7en (1995).\nHad to learn to fly-cast for his role in A River Runs Through It (1992). He practiced on top of buildings in Hollywood. During these practices, he frequently hooked himself in the back of his head.\nHe and ex-wife Jennifer Aniston campaigned in the United States to save EastEnders (1985) from being axed there (2003).\nBrad Pitt met with the director to discuss the role of Cable in Deadpool 2 (2018), but could not commit due to scheduling conflicts, so the role was given to Josh Brolin. Although he was cast as Vanisher instead.\nHe gained 20 pounds for his role in the movie Troy in 2004.\nBest Motion Picture of the Year in 12 Years a Slave (2013)\nBest Performance by an Actor in a Supporting Role in a Motion Picture in Twelve Monkeys (1995)\nBAFTA Film Award 2014\nBest Film in 12 Years a Slave (2013)\nOutstanding Television Movie in The Normal Heart (2014)\nSaturn Award 1996\nBest Supporting Actor in Twelve Monkeys (1995)\nhttps:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Brad_Pitt\nhttps:\/\/people.com\/celebrity\/brad-pitt-new-hobby-sculpture\/\nhttps:\/\/www.hotcars.com\/planes-motorcycles-and-cars-sitting-in-brad-pitts-huge-garage\/\nhttps:\/\/www.whosdatedwho.com\/dating\/brad-pitt\nhttps:\/\/bodyartguru.com\/brad-pitt-tattoos\/\nhttps:\/\/imdb.com\/name\/nm0000093\/\nPlease help us to update Brad Pitt profile","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
+{"text":"Home Entertainment Philip Seymour Hoffman's death: Drugs and addiction treatment medication found in his...\nPhilip Seymour Hoffman's death: Drugs and addiction treatment medication found in his apartment\nNew details about Philip Seymour Hoffman's apparent drug overdose emerged Monday.\nPhilip Seymour Hoffman, 46, was found dead in his New York City apartment just after 11:30 a.m. Sunday \u2013 with a hypodermic needle still in his arm.\nAccording to law enforcement sources, authorities at the scene found roughly 50 bags of heroin, numerous syringes, addiction treatment medication, blood pressure medication, and a muscle relaxant.\nOfficials also discovered a few books about Truman Capote, the legendary author Philip Seymour Hoffman won an Academy Award for playing in the eponymous 2005 film.\nLaw enforcement officials also said that toxicology tests will likely determine Philip Seymour Hoffman's cause of death.\nA city police lab is testing unused heroin found in the actor's apartment to determine potency.\nPhilip Seymour Hoffman was found dead in his New York City apartment on Sunday\nIt was too soon Monday to know if the heroin Philip Seymour Hoffman injected was tainted, if he mixed levels between two heroin \"brands,\" or if the actor took too much of the drug.\nAuthorities also found six bottles of prescription drugs \u2013 including the blood pressure medication clonidine hydrochloride; the addiction treatment drug buprenorphine; the attention-deficit disorder treatment drug vyvanse; the anti-anxiety drug hydroxyzine; and the muscle relaxer methocarbamol.\nThree of the bottles had a prescription to Philip Seymour Hoffman on them, but the vyvanse, buprenorphine and hydroxyzine did not. It was not immediately clear if the latter three drugs were prescribed to Philip Seymour Hoffman but just not properly labeled.\nPhilip Seymour Hoffman had spoken openly about past substance abuse battles, saying he quit using drugs and alcohol and \"got sober\" at 22 years old.\nHowever, in early 2013, Philip Seymour Hoffman checked himself into rehab for 10 days.\nAt the time, Philip Seymour Hoffman told TMZ that he had begun using prescription medicines, and his use escalated to heroin.\n[youtube 82OmE825d1U 650]\nRussia urges Ukrainian opposition leaders to end campaign of ultimatums and threats\nToyota forecasts record annual earnings for 2013\nLisa.Felice\nOur Fashion addicted Lisa is responsible for the Entertainment category. She likes to be on top of all the news about celebrities and events related to them.\nDonald Trump's Jerusalem Announcement Sparks Protests in Occupied West Bank\nAt least sixteen Palestinians have been injured in clashes in the occupied West Bank, during protests against President Donald Trump's \u2026Read More \u00bb\nWashington mudslide victims formally identified\nThe latest three victims of the Washington mudslide have been formally identified. The Snohomish County Medical Examiner's Office positively identified \u2026Read More \u00bb\nNicolas Sarkozy and Francois Hollande trade insults in the final debate\nPresident Nicolas Sarkozy and his rival Francois Hollande have traded insults in their only TV debate of the election campaign. \u2026Read More \u00bb\nPaula Broadwell, the biographer behind David Petraeus' resignation\nCIA Director David Petraeus resigned on Friday after allegedly having an affair with his biographer, Paula Broadwell, it has been \u2026Read More \u00bb\nAnders Breivik trial: he wants acquittal or death penalty\nNorwegian mass killer Anders Behring Breivik has told his trial in Oslo he believes there can be only two \"just\" \u2026Read More \u00bb","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
+{"text":"Eaton Corporation: Portfolio Transformation and The Cost of Capital (Abridged)\nby Benjamin C. Esty, E. Scott Mayfield, Daniel Fisher,\nEaton Corporation: Portfolio Transformation and The Cost of Capital (Abridged) ^ 221070\nBenjamin C. Esty\nE. Scott Mayfield\nDaniel Fisher\nMergers and acquisitions,Operations strategy,Corporate finance,Finance and investing\nIndustry: Industrial sector\nIn 2000, Eaton Corporation was a broadly diversified industrial conglomerate. But its strategy was evolving and its focus was narrowing around \"power management\" and more recently on \"intelligent power,\" the use of digitally enabled products and services designed to enhance efficiency and reliability. To implement this transition, Eaton had acquired more than 70 companies and divested another 50. Such active portfolio management required Eaton to regularly assess the prospects of each business unit-the profit and growth potential-and to explore opportunities to enhance its capabilities through acquisitions. In January 2020, Eaton got an offer from Danfoss, a Danish conglomerate, to buy its hydraulics business for $3.3 billion. Recently appointed CEO Craig Arnold must decide whether this deal makes sense strategically and financially. In particular, he must decide if $3.3 billion is a fair price for the firm's hydraulics business. This abridged version is shorter than the original version (HBS Case #221-006) and does not contain the appendix that explains and derives the formulas for the WACC using the capital asset pricing model (CAPM).\nRelated Topics: Mergers and acquisitions, Operations strategy, Corporate finance, Finance and investing,\nMarriott Corp.: The Cost of Capital (Abridged)\nBy Richard S. Ruback,\nEncana Corporation: The Cost of Capital\nBy James E. Hatch, Larry Wynant, Ken Mark,\nEaton Corporation: Portfolio Transformation and The Cost of Capital\n| Exercise\nJoy4Home Brands: Pricing Matters\nBy Elie Ofek, Oded Koenigsberg, Marco Bertini,\nBy Joshua D. Margolis, Fernanda Miguel,\nMarv Tseu at Active Reasoning\nBy William A. Sahlman, Christina Darwall,","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
+{"text":"Bonus Podcast: An Irish Childhood in a Stately Mansion\nTV series like Downton Abbey offer a sensationalised view of life in Stately Homes but what was it really like? This podcast uses the never before published words of Florence Doreen Wandesforde who wrote a short account of her childhood in Castlecomer House before she died in 1999 at the age 95.\nPublished September 19, 2016 in Irish History Podcasts\nThis is a fascinating insight to the world of upstairs-downstairs. Doreen and her family had their own butler, cook, servants and even gym instructor. Their house had a heated swimming pool in the early 20th century! She even met King George V and Queen Mary. However she also gives an insight into the simplicity of children's games and the tragedies inflicted on her family during World War I.\nThis Podcast?\nConsider becoming a monthly donor or giving a once off donation. Or simply share this podcast with your friends.\nWandesforde, Doreen Wandesforde, Castlecomer House, Downton Abbey, Stately Home\nUnlock Exclusive Episode Content\nYou can support Historian Fin Dwyer to produce award winning, high quality content - become a patron and unlock exclusive content painstakingly researched by Fin.\nUnlock Extras\nThere are over 130 Podcasts on Irish History Podcasts - view them all\nFin Dwyer\nMy Name is Fin Dwyer, I am 36 year old historian, author and podcaster. I studied archaeology and Greek and Roman Civilisation in University College Dublin and completed a masters in archaeology in 2004. Find out why I started Irish History Podcasts.","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
+{"text":"Buy eBook $3.99 Buy eBook $5.99 Buy Paperback $19.99 Buy Paperback $25.49 Buy Hardcover $29.99 Buy Hardcover $37.99\n1. eBook Edition\nMOBI format\n2. Paperback Edition\n3. Hardcover Edition\nFiction, Romance, Historical, 20th Century\nFiction, War & Military\nFiction, Gay\nCanadians in WW II, Wartime Romance, Italian Campaign, War Trauma, Canadian History, Historical Fiction, Queer Fiction\nA Wake For The Dreamland\nby Laurel Deedrick-Mayne\nFriends William, Robert, and Annie are on the cusp of adulthood while the world is on the brink of war. It is a Canadian summer in 1939 and Robert and Annie's love has blossomed, even as the inevitability of the boys joining up means separation and the first of many losses. Fearing he might not return, Robert makes William promise to take care of Annie. Every arena of their lives is infiltrated by the war, from the home front to the underground of queer London to the bloody battlefields of Italy. Even in the aftermath, in the shadow of The Dreamland, these friends fight their own inner battles: to have faith in their right to love and be loved, to honour their promises and ultimately find their way \"home.\"\nA Wake for the Dreamland was on the Edmonton Journal Bestseller List for 35 weeks before winning the Alberta Readers' Choice Award.\nwww.awakeforthedreamland.com\n\"Laurel Deedrick-Mayne recreates, with astonishing depth and nuance, a part of our war history that hasn't been written about nearly enough. For that alone, this book is a must-read: and yet there is so much more, too, to enthral us in A Wake for the Dreamland. Here is a novel which takes us from the big-sky beauty of Alberta to the shimmering hills of Italy, from the energetic buzz of young Edmonton to the swinging step of wartime London to the dark heart of war itself. And it takes, us, as well, deep into a shattered mind, into broken hearts, into the shame and rapture of lust \u2014 and the joy of love. Accomplishing all this in one novel is an extraordinary feat; this is an extraordinary book. By turns hilarious, harrowing, and heartbreaking, it will dig deep into your heart and never let you go.\"\nMelanie Little, author of\nThe Apprentice's Masterpiece and Confidence\nLaurel Deedrick-Mayne was born and raised in Lacombe, Alberta but has spent her adult life as a city dweller and now makes Edmonton her home. Once an arts administrator (dance publicist, concert promoter and ad copywriter) Laurel has become a juggler: raising a family, managing her private massage therapy practice, serving on multiple arts boards ... and writing. This book is a tribute to the generation of her parents, grandparents, aunts, and uncles who took the time to hang on to family letters, clippings, stories, and poetry \u2014 all those treasures that inspired this story. A Wake For The Dreamland is Laurel's first novel.\nLaurel Deedrick-Mayne\nFriesenPress Editions\nSupport our self-published authors and buy directly from FriesenPress. All Prices shown are in US Canadian Dollars.\nOther eBook Editions\nThis book is also available in eBook format from these sites.\nAmazon Kindle Store\nKobo Store\nNook Store\nLearn how you can self-publish your own book with FriesenPress.\nDownload Publishing Guide","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
+{"text":"Xbox Play Anywhere coming in September \u2013 report\nImage: IDGNS\nLast month, Microsoft representatives took the stage at E3 and announced Xbox Play Anywhere where gaming will be able to play certain Xbox One games on your PC. Now we now know when we can expect this new era of cross-platform gaming to arrive.\nOn Friday, Microsoft told Polygon that Xbox Play Anywhere would arrive on 13 September.\nAccording to the report, Xbox Play Anywhere will require the upcoming Windows 10 Anniversary Update (previously known as Redstone), as well as a future Xbox One software update that's due something this summer.\nFor now, the list of supported games isn't that extensive, but it includes popular titles such as Gears of War 4, ReCore, Forza Horizon 3, and We Happy Few, among others.\nMicrosoft has already taken significant steps to unify gaming across its platforms \u2013 the Xbox app for Windows 10 is a good example of just that. Since then, it has worked to bring the two even closer together. For instance, the version of the Xbox One Experience released last November featured some interface similarities with the Xbox app for Windows. Xbox Play Anywhere represents the biggest step forward in this regard and likely not the last.\nRead More: Gaming Xbox Xbox Play Anywhere","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
+{"text":"What's on FOX 51\nJudges, law enforcement officers to get raises\nFOX 51 Gainesville\nTALLAHASSEE, Fla. (NSF) - Florida Supreme Court justices are in line for a 24 percent pay raise in the new state budget.\nThe 2018-2019 budget, which is expected to be approved Sunday, would provide $42,180 raises for the seven justices on the state's highest court, increasing their salaries to $220,600.\nLawmakers said a factor in the raise is that three vacancies will have to be filled in January as longtime justices Barbara Pariente, R. Fred Lewis and Peggy Quince leave the bench because of a mandatory retirement age.\nHouse and Senate leaders finished negotiating the budget Thursday and published it, setting up an expected vote Sunday following a 72-hour \"cooling off\" period. The budget then will go to Gov. Rick Scott, who has line-item veto power.\nUnder the spending plan, assistant state attorneys and assistant public defenders would receive $2,000 pay raises or $4,000, if they have more than three years of service.\nThe new budget does not include a general pay raise for state employees, but it would provide a 7 percent pay hike for law-enforcement officers working in various state agencies including the Florida Highway Patrol, the Florida Department of Law Enforcement and the Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission. The increase would be 10 percent for officers with more than 10 years of service.\nState firefighters would receive $2,500 pay raises in the new year. Probation and detention officers in the Department of Juvenile Justice would receive a 10 percent pay raise.\nAgriculture Commissioner Adam Putnam issued a statement thanking lawmakers for pay raises for his department's law-enforcement officers and wildland firefighters, describing them as \"demonstrably underpaid compared to other state and local agencies.\"\n\"These raises will help us recruit and retain the best of the best to keep Floridians and visitors safe when lives and property are on the line,\" Putnam said.\nInformation provided by The News Service of Florida.\nTeachers weigh in on Biden's 'American Rescue Plan'\nCOVID-19 vaccine: When Central Florida school employees will get it this week\nCounty-by-County: How to get the COVID-19 vaccine in Central Florida\n2 dead, 1 critical after shooting in Ocoee; no arrests made\nSheriff: Hillsborough deputy killed, one day before retirement, in crash involving suspect\nFPL outlines plan for base rate increases\nFlorida reports almost 15K new COVID-19 cases, 161 more deaths\n$5,000 reward for information leading to arrest of suspect who scraped 'TRUMP' on manatee's back\nFlorida lawmakers respond after FBI warns of armed protests in all 50 state capitals","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
+{"text":"You are here: Home \/ Michelle Carlstrom\nMichelle Carlstrom, MSW, BCC, CTM\nAs principal consultant and executive coach of Build a Better Culture, Michelle draws on 20 years of expertise and workplace leadership in employee assistance, work\/life and cultivating professionalism. She is an expert on the impact of coworker behaviors and has been a go-to partner for executives, deans and HR professionals in areas of managing at-risk and complex people problems; managing disruptive behavior, workplace bullying, and threats of violence; coaching abrasive leaders; cultivating professionalism; and fostering a positive work\/life culture. With an MSW specializing in workplace social work, she is on the faculty at University of Maryland School of Social Work.\nMichelle Carlstrom-Full Bio\nSpeaking Experience\nMichelle has extensive speaking experience in employee sessions, leadership forums, and at national, regional, and local conferences. She has authored publications for print and online media and served as an interviewee, media contributor and subject matter expert on workplace culture, work\/life topics, the impact of disruptive behavior at work, stress, resilience, crisis response, and grief. She has presented in a variety of organizations including higher education, academic medicine, government agencies, law firms, tech, non-profit organizations, and Fortune 500 companies.\nFounder and Principal Consultant, Build A Better Culture\nMichelle Carlstrom is the founder and principal consultant of Build a Better Culture. Drawing on 20 years of experience and expertise in employee assistance, work\/life and workplace violence risk assessment, Michelle is an expert on the impact of workplace behaviors. She understands the very real challenges that prevent the culture changes you are trying to make. She brings highly relevant experience partnering with executives, deans, and HR leaders across a broad range of working environments to include higher education, academic healthcare, community hospitals, non-profit, local, State and Federal governments, law firms, corporations, and Fortune 500 company environments.\nExecutive Director, LifeWork Strategies, Adventist Healthcare\nAs the chief executive of an employee assistance program (EAP) and work\/life organization in the Washington D.C. area for many years, Michelle understands the importance of research-based practice and data-driven decision making. Michelle's areas of expertise include managing at-risk and complex people problems; managing disruptive behavior, workplace bullying, and threats of violence; coaching abrasive leaders; cultivating professionalism; fostering work\/life culture; training executives on the power of strengths-based leadership, compassion, and emotional intelligence to mitigate burnout and build a culture where people feel valued and are engaged.\nSenior Director, Safe at Hopkins & Work, Life and Engagement, Johns Hopkins University\nIn a similar role Michelle more recently spent 10 years as a senior director for the Johns Hopkins University and the Johns Hopkins Health System Corporation, where she led what became nationally recognized and award-winning programs, both in work\/life, employee assistance, and disruptive behavior at work. Michelle created and co-developed Safe at Hopkins\u2014a research-based professionalism program to address disruptive and bullying behaviors at work\u2014and has spoken nationally on this topic. She continues to advise organizations on issues of disruptive behavior and their impact on a culture of safety and professionalism. She led the multi-disciplinary Threat Management Team covering incident management and violence risk assessments for Johns Hopkins University and the Johns Hopkins Health System Corporation (~50,000 employees).\nCertified Threat Manager (CTM)\nMichelle was among the first 50 in the U.S. to achieve the prestigious Certified Threat Manager designation (CTM), signaling distinct knowledge, expertise and years of experience in workplace risk assessment and threat management. She focuses on managing disruptive behavior as an approach to preventing affective workplace violence.\nFaculty, University of Maryland, School of Social Work\nMichelle holds a Masters in Social Work (MSW), is a licensed mental health professional (LCSW-C), is a certified threat manager (CTM), is a Board-Certified Executive Coach (BCC), and is certified in Emotional Intelligence training and tools (EQi 2.0). She is currently on the faculty at University of Maryland School of Social Work and a guest lecturer at Johns Hopkins University.","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
+{"text":"To the Wonder 2013 premiere\nby mikeseravello-41380 | created - 3 months ago | updated - 3 months ago | Public\nTuesday April 9th, Pacific Design Center 8687 Melrose Ave, West Hollywood, CA 90069\nList Order Date Added\n1. Ben Affleck\nProducer | Argo\nAmerican actor and filmmaker Benjamin G\u00e9za Affleck-Boldt was born on August 15, 1972 in Berkeley, California, and was raised in Cambridge, Massachusetts. His mother, Chris Anne (n\u00e9e Boldt), is a school teacher, and his father, Timothy Byers Affleck, is a social worker; the two are divorced. Ben has...\n2. Rachel McAdams\nActress | The Notebook\nRachel Anne McAdams was born on November 17, 1978 in London, Ontario, Canada, to Sandra Kay (Gale), a nurse, and Lance Frederick McAdams, a truck driver and furniture mover. She is of English, Welsh, Irish, and Scottish descent. Rachel became involved with acting as a teenager and by the age of 13 ...\n3. Morena Baccarin\nActress | Deadpool\nMorena Baccarin was born in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, to actress Vera Setta and journalist Fernando Baccarin. Her uncle was actor Ivan Setta. Morena has Italian and Brazilian Portuguese ancestry. She moved to New York at the age of 10, when her father was transferred there. She attended the LaGuardia...\n4. Olga Kurylenko\nActress | Oblivion\nOlga Kurylenko, a Ukrainian-born actress and model, went from sharing a cramped flat with her aunt, uncle, grandparents and cousin to starring as a Bond girl opposite Daniel Craig.\nShe was born Olga Konstantinovna Kurylenko on November 14, 1979, in Berdyansk, Ukraine, Soviet Union. Her mother, ...\n5. James Woods\nActor | Vampires\nJames Howard Woods was born on April 18, 1947 in Vernal, Utah, the son of Martha A. (Smith) and Gail Peyton Woods, a U.S. Army intelligence officer who died during Woods' childhood. James is of Irish, English, and German descent. He grew up in Warwick, Rhode Island, with his mother and stepfather ...\n6. Kayte Walsh\nWriter | WhyUGotDumped\n7. Kelsey Grammer\nActor | Cheers\nA six-time Emmy Award winner, Kelsey Grammer was born in Saint Thomas, U.S. Virgin Islands, to Sally (Cranmer), a singer, and Frank Allen Grammer, Jr., a musician and restaurateur. He was raised in New Jersey and Florida. Grammer was drawn to the works of William Shakespeare and spent two years at ...\n8. Fallon Goodson\nActress | Lake Mead\nFallon Goodson was born as Fallon Patricia Goodson. She is an actress and producer, known for Lake Mead, Maladies (2012) and Child of God (2013).\n9. Wes Craven\nWriter | A Nightmare on Elm Street\nWes Craven has become synonymous with genre bending and innovative horror, challenging audiences with his bold vision.\nWesley Earl Craven was born in Cleveland, Ohio, to Caroline (Miller) and Paul Eugene Craven. He had a midwestern suburban upbringing. His first feature film was The Last House on ...\n10. Arden Myrin\nActress | Insatiable\nArden Myrin was born on December 10, 1973 in Little Compton, Rhode Island, USA. She is an actress and writer, known for Insatiable (2018), Shameless (2011) and Orange Is the New Black (2013). She has been married to Dan Martin since December 30, 2007.\n11. Kelly Lynch\nActress | Drugstore Cowboy\nKelly Lynch was born in 1959 in Minneapolis, Minnesota. She started her acting career with a small job at the Guthrie Theater. She studied under acting teacher Sanford Meisner and became a model for the famous Elite Modeling Agency. She first gained acclaim for acting in the Gus Van Sant film ...\n12. Mitch Glazer\nWriter | The Recruit\nMitch Glazer was born in 1953 as Mitchell Aram Glazer. He is a writer and producer, known for The Recruit (2003), Great Expectations (1998) and Scrooged (1988). He has been married to Kelly Lynch since December 6, 1992. He was previously married to Wendie Malick.\n13. Zachary Levi\nActor | Chuck\nThe middle child between two sisters, Zachary Levi was born as Zachary Levi Pugh on September 29, 1980 in Lake Charles, Louisiana, to Susan (Hoctor) and Darrell Alton Pugh. He uses his middle name as his stage surname because his birth name, \"Pugh\", which is of Welsh origin, sounds too much like \"...\n14. Q'orianka Kilcher\nActress | The New World\nAt fourteen years old, Q'orianka Kilcher emerged into the front ranks of young actresses with her portrayal of Pocahontas opposite Colin Farrell and Christian Bale in Terrence Malick's 'The New World', an epic about the encounter between English and North American societies in the early 1600s. Her ...\n15. Alexander DiPersia\nActor | Lights Out\nAlexander John DiPersia was born on March 6, 1982 in New York City, New York. Born into a diverse background Alexander's mother Ronna (Kaufman) worked as an artist and his father John DiPersia worked as a lawyer. His grandfather, Robert Kaufman, was a successful real estate developer. He was raised...\n16. Katie Aselton\nActress | The Freebie\nKatie Aselton was born on October 1, 1978 in Milbridge, Maine, USA as Kathryn Anne Aselton. She is an actress, known for The Freebie (2010), The Gift (2015) and Black Rock (2012). She has been married to Mark Duplass since August 26, 2006. They have two children.\n17. Justin Chatwin\nActor | Dragonball Evolution\nOn the big screen, Chatwin recently appeared in Warner Bros.' Dax Shepard-directed feature, CHIPS, in which he stars opposite Vincent D'Onofrio And Michael Pena. He has also wrapped production on four independent films: THE SCENT OF RAN & LIGHTENING, along with Maika Monroe, Maggie Grace and Will ...\n18. Josh Radnor\nActor | Liberal Arts\nJosh Radnor was born in Columbus, Ohio, the son of Carol Radnor, a high school guidance counselor, and Alan Radnor, a medical malpractice lawyer. Radnor has two sisters, Melanie Radnor and Joanna Radnor Vilensky. He grew up in Bexley, Ohio, a small city nested inside Columbus. Radnor attended ...\n19. Mark Duplass\nActor | Safety Not Guaranteed\nMark Duplass was born on December 7, 1976 in New Orleans, Louisiana, USA as Mark David Duplass. He is an actor and producer, known for Safety Not Guaranteed (2012), Creep (2014) and The One I Love (2014). He has been married to Katie Aselton since August 26, 2006. They have two children.\n20. Sarah Green\nProducer | The Tree of Life\nSarah Green is a producer and production manager, known for The Tree of Life (2011), Loving (2016) and Fahrenheit 451 (2018). She has been married to Hugo Burnham since June 16, 2018.\n21. Nicolas Gonda\nNicolas Gonda is a producer, known for The Tree of Life (2011), To the Wonder (2012) and Age Out (2018).\n22. Jonathan Dayton\nDirector | Little Miss Sunshine\nJonathan Dayton and Valerie Faris have built an impressive body of work by perpetually seeking innovative projects in a variety of mediums.\nAfter introducing bands such as R.E.M. and Red Hot Chili Peppers on their ground-breaking MTV show The Cutting Edge (1992), Jonathan and Valerie continued to ...\n23. Valerie Faris\nAfter introducing bands such as REM and The Red Hot Chili Peppers on their ground breaking MTV show The Cutting Edge, Jonathan and Valerie continued to work in ...\n24. Scott Cooper\nDirector | Crazy Heart\nScott Cooper was born in 1970 in Abingdon, Virginia, USA. He is an actor and director, known for Crazy Heart (2009), Out of the Furnace (2013) and Hostiles (2017).\n25. Jocelyn Cooper\n26. Ronny Turiaf\nProducer | N.O.L.A Circus\nRonny Turiaf was born on January 13, 1983 in Le Robert, Martinique, France. He is an actor and producer, known for N.O.L.A Circus (2015), #ModernMillennial (2015) and The Playboy Morning Show (2010).\nList your movie, TV & celebrity picks.\nViews: 26 | in last week 0\nShare this list:\nFeedback? Tell us what you think about this feature.\nOther Lists by mikeseravello-41380\nStar Wars: Episode I - The Phantom Menace 1999 premiere\nFor the Boys 1991 premiere\nSunset Boulevard 1993 opening night premiere\nMy Red Carpet premiere faves\nSorry to Bother You 2018 premiere\nSee all lists by mikeseravello-41380 \u00bb","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
+{"text":"Driver killed in fiery crash identified\nCouncil Bluffs police have identified a Jacksonville, Fla., man as the driver who died in a fiery truck crash on Interstate 29 in western Iowa.The Council Bluffs Nonpareil reports that the Iowa State Medical Examiner's Office identified 54-year-old Samil Meskic as the driver and lone occupant of the semitrailer on Sunday afternoon that flew off an overpass in Council Bluffs, just across the Missouri River from Omaha, Neb.The examiner's office says Meskic died from internal injuries, not the fire.The crash and blaze shut down the section of I-29 while engineers determined whether the fire had damaged the bridge.\nCOUNCIL BLUFFS, Iowa \u2014\nCouncil Bluffs police have identified a Jacksonville, Fla., man as the driver who died in a fiery truck crash on Interstate 29 in western Iowa.\nThe Council Bluffs Nonpareil reports that the Iowa State Medical Examiner's Office identified 54-year-old Samil Meskic as the driver and lone occupant of the semitrailer on Sunday afternoon that flew off an overpass in Council Bluffs, just across the Missouri River from Omaha, Neb.\nThe examiner's office says Meskic died from internal injuries, not the fire.\nThe crash and blaze shut down the section of I-29 while engineers determined whether the fire had damaged the bridge.","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
+{"text":"YourMechanic Launches App to Bring Auto Repair Directly to Car Owners' Homes Nationwide\nBURLINGAME, Calif.\u2013(BUSINESS WIRE)\u2013YourMechanic, the leading mobile auto repair provider, announces its consumer iOS and Android app, enabling car owners to seamlessly order hundreds of warranty-backed auto repair and maintenance services right to their home driveways or office parking lots.\nThe launch comes at a time when the car care provider seeks to simplify its user journey and efficiently meet surging demand from millions of customers who have come to rely on YourMechanic's mobile car repair in more than 3,000 cities nationwide during and after the pandemic.\nThis year, strong consumer demand led to YourMechanic's highest quarterly consumer revenue to date in the company's ten year history. With repeat customers driving 40 percent of the business, the app was built in response to the needs of frequent users who seek to have full visibility and control over their cars' health and maintenance. The app's mindful, intuitive design aims to provide customers' with a complete 360 degree view of their car's health, history, and service requirements.\nThe new app incorporates YourMechanic.com's most popular features, including transparent price quotes, instant repair scheduling, and detailed vehicle service reports. Through the app, users can see their technicians' eta; chat with mechanics prior to appointments; quickly act on time-sensitive car maintenance requirements; and track multiple vehicle's health. These features simultaneously serve to create a more frictionless user experience for mechanics who prefer to focus on auto repair rather than administrative tasks such as texting their estimated arrival time when they're en route to a customer appointment.\n\"We built the app for our regulars who use YourMechanic three to four times per year and want a faster way to manage their car care with one simple solution,\" said YourMechanic CEO Anthony Rodio. \"With this launch, we're ten steps closer to making auto repair as easy as ordering pizza to your door.\"\nThe app is available for free for Apple and Android users today. The company will also continue providing service through its site YourMechanic.com for both desktop and mobile users.\nAbout YourMechanic: YourMechanic is the leading nationwide automotive mobile maintenance and repair provider, operating in more than 3,000 cities and 7,000 zip codes across the U.S. The technology platform provides over 500 services directly at consumers' and fleets' locations. All services are backed by a 12-month\/12,000-mile warranty guarantee, and a $1 million liability policy. Since 2011, YourMechanic has proudly served over 1.6 million vehicles and has earned a Net Promoter Score of 91. The company has raised over $41M in funding from Andreessen Horowitz, Verizon Ventures, and former General Motors Co. chairman and CEO Rick Wagoner. Download the app on Android or Apple here. Access YourMechanic's app screen grabs and jpeg images here.\nPosted in Auto RepairTagged #App #Auto #bring #car #homes #launches #Nationwide #owners #Repair #YourMechanic\nRM Sotheby's Offers Pagani Zonda R Evolution Supercar During Monterey Car Week\nSat Aug 14 , 2021\nA 2010 Pagani Zonda R Evolution supercar is available via a direct sale for US$6.5 million at RM Sotheby's. Karissa Hosek 2021 Courtesy of RM Sotheby's Text size A 2010 Pagani Zonda R Evolution supercar is available via a direct sale for US$6.5 million at RM Sotheby's, as the auction [\u2026]\nAAA honors Auto Repair Specialists in Freeport for excellence\nLocally Owned Vehicle Repair Announces Referral Programs \u2013 MVR Auto Repair also offers DUI Device Install and Removal Center\nWisconsin firms buy Med City auto shop for $4 million\nBiggest Car Repair Errors\nQ&A with YouTuber Eric Obrochta, auto mechanic in Avoca, NY\nMan charged in shooting of repair shop employee","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
+{"text":"Ash released from Martinez refinery contained unusual amounts of heavy metals, officials say\nByTony Hicks, Bay City News\nResidents of Martinez discovered their cars and businesses covered by a mysterious powder the day after Thanksgiving. Contra Costa Health officials are now investigating what appears to have been a release of possibly harmful chemicals that they say they were never informed of.\nMARTINEZ, Calif. -- Contra Costa Health (CCH) officials say they were not informed by the Martinez Refining Company (MRC) that there would be a 12-hour-long release of possibly harmful chemicals the night of Thanksgiving last week.\nState law and county policy require the MRC to report chemical discharges to the CCH within 15 minutes. However, officials say the release was only brought to their attention through social media posts and when they contacted the refinery themselves a day-and-a-half following the discharge.\nRELATED: Mysterious white ash coats neighborhoods near Martinez Refinery; health dept. investigating\nAt about 9:30 p.m. the day after Thanksgiving, local residents reported a powdery substance on their cars and around the area. This continued into Friday morning.\nSamples of the \"spent catalyst\" substance that were taken by the health department over the weekend showed that it contained higher-than-normal amounts of heavy metals such as aluminum, barium, chromium, nickel, vanadium, and zinc. The county public health director, Dr. Ori Tzvieli, says there have been no reports of illness related to the release.\nHad the MRC notified the CCH, Matthew Kaufman, the deputy director of health services for the county, says an alert would have likely been sent out via the community's warning system.\nIn a Facebook post by the MRC, they say that they are providing information on the incident to both the CCH and the Bay Area Air Quality Management District. MRC has also made arrangements with Autopia Car Wash to provide residents and businesses affected by the discharge with free car washes through this Friday.\nWhile Tzvieli says \"a single event like this would be unlikely to cause any major health problems,\" he says that they are lucky the release happened during a time when most people were in their homes as exposure to these metals over a long period of time could cause health issues.\nThe CCH is currently investigating the incident. Charges against the refinery could come from the county District Attorney's Office along with penalties issued by the health department.\nMore information about the release is being posted to cchealth.org as it becomes available.\nCopyright 2023 by Bay City News, Inc. Republication, re-transmission or reuse without the express written consent of Bay City News, Inc. Is prohibited.\nHEALTH & FITNESS MARTINEZ BAY AREA AIR QUALITY MANAGEMENT DISTRICT CHEMICALS CHEMICAL PLANT CHEMICAL LEAK\nResearchers gather data on storm pollution impact on SF Bay\nHigh levels of toxic chemicals in sports bras, watchdog warns\nBrut, Sure sprays recalled due to presence of benzene\nCracker Barrel to pay $9.4M after man was served glass with chemical\nSF supervisor says $1.45B plan to end homelessness won't work\nTraveler faces nightmare after flight canceled, airline denies refund","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
+{"text":"Azelle Rodney: Unlawfully killed\nLeslie Thomas QC\nAllison Bailey\nIfeanyi Odogwu\nAzelle Rodney was shot dead by a Metropolitan Police officer on 30 April 2005. Today, in a historic report, Sir Christopher Holland, the Chairman of the Azelle Rodney Inquiry, found that the death of Azelle Rodney was unlawful.\n\"I similarly have to find that there was no lawful justification for shooting so as to kill\" (paragraph 21.13)\n\"Azelle Rodney was not engaged in any attack justifying shooting at sight. Shooting at him could only be justified as a reasonably necessary response to the threat on the basis of observed actual conduct indicative of imminent armed response ... There was no such observed actual conduct.\" (paragraph 21.2)\nFurther, he found that there was no legal basis provided by criminal law to justify the action of the officer.\nHe found E7 'overreact[ed]' when he shot Azelle Rodney (paragraph 24.42)\n\"I am wholly satisfied that firing so as to kill him (shots 5, 6, 7 and 8) was disproportionate and therefore unreasonable and unlawful. There was little justification for shots, 2, 3 and 4 and no justification for the ensuing shots.\" (paragraph 21.13)\nSir Christopher Holland also found a number serious defects and failures in the risk assessment and planning of this pre-planned firearms operation. The Chairman said there was a lack of 'threat and risk assessment' by the police and this had an impact on the death (paragraph 24.42). Had there been a threat and risk assessment this would have given the police 'focused better-informed attention' in arresting Azelle Rodney earlier in the day perhaps in the Harlesden area (paragraph 24.43).\nIn commenting on Leslie Thomas' questioning of the Silver Commander's tactics, the Chairman noted at paragraph 24.46:\n\"In the course of cross-examination, Mr Thomas on behalf of Ms Alexander challenged the tactics for the later stages of Operation Tayport as directed by Silver. His contention, in short, was that it was in Harlesden that the suspects should have been arrested and their weapons seized. Had the tactics provided for this then the probabilities were that Azelle Rodney's life would have been spared. Initially this line of argument had little appeal. As it seemed to me, I was being invited to exercise hindsight in a pressure-free environment as to decisions made eight years ago when under pressure and, as it were, 'on the hoof'. However, by the conclusion of oral submissions, I was persuaded that the adopted tactics were at least open to comment by me and to appraisal in the course of the recommended review, perhaps so as to contribute to future training exercises for Silver Commanders.\"\nThe inquiry into Azelle Rodney's death was the first public inquiry which was set up to replace an inquest into a death in police custody. This was due to the fact that there was secret evidence which an ordinary Coroner would not have been allowed to see.\n[caption id=\"\" align=\"aligncenter\" width=\"300\"] The family and their legal team discuss the report at a press conference.[\/caption]\nNever before has there been such a clear and unequivocal finding in a fatal case of wrongdoing by a state agent (police officer) in the line of his duty. This case has made history.\nLeslie Thomas made this observation:\n\"This is truly a great day for Azelle's mother, Susan Alexander. She is an incredibly brave and determined woman. It is bad enough losing a child, but when your son is lost in circumstances such as these it makes that loss all the worse. Susan Alexander has had to wait over eight very long years through no fault of her own to get justice for her son. I am just very privileged to have been a part of the legal team to help her achieve this. I wish to pay tribute to the fantastic legal team that I was part of, including Daniel Machover and Helen Stone of Hickman Rose solicitors, my junior Adam Straw of Tooks Chambers, and also Isabelle Maguire, Allison Bailey and my pupil Ifeanyi Odogwu, all of Garden Court Chambers.\"\nSusan Alexander, Daniel Machover and Helen Shaw, co-director of INQUEST responded to the report at a press conference held at Garden Court Chambers. Their statements are reproduced on the INQUEST website.\nThe Report of The Azelle Rodney Inquiry is available from the Azelle Rodney Inquiry website, together with an Executive Summary. The Inquiry website also has copies of transcripts of its hearings.\nThe case has been widely reported, including by the BBC, Channel 4 News, Sky News, The Guardian, The Independent, The Daily Mail, LBC radio and the London Evening Standard.\nLeslie Thomas has been defending civil liberties for over 25 years. He is a member of the Garden Court Claims Against the Police and Inquests Teams.\nFor media enquiries, please contact Ben Walker, tel: 020 7993 7671.","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
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+{"text":"Athletes Unlimited Basketball\nFeb. 23 - Mar. 25\n$15-$35*\nFebruary 23 | Thursday at 5:00PM 5:00 PM Buy Tickets\nFebruary 24 | Friday at 5:00PM 5:00 PM Buy Tickets\nFebruary 26 | Sunday at 1:30PM 1:30 PM Buy Tickets\nMarch 1 | Wednesday at 5:00PM 5:00 PM Buy Tickets\nMarch 3 | Friday at 5:00PM 5:00 PM Buy Tickets\nMarch 4 | Saturday at 5:00PM 5:00 PM Buy Tickets\nMarch 10 | Friday at 5:00PM 5:00 PM Buy Tickets\nMarch 11 | Saturday at 5:00PM 5:00 PM Buy Tickets\nMarch 15 | Wednesday at 6:00PM 6:00 PM Buy Tickets\nView All Showings\nAthletes Unlimited Basketball is a women's professional basketball league in the United States. The league features 44 of the best women's professional basketball players in the world.\nSHORTER SEASON. HIGHER STAKES. MORE OPPORTUNITY.\nFive weeks of nonstop action, where the teams change weekly and every play is an opportunity to win.\nAthletes Unlimited is providing more opportunities for women to play professionally in the U.S. and also giving WNBA players the option to remain in the U.S. year-round.\nPLAYER-DRIVEN DECISIONS\nOff the field, the athletes recruit fellow pros, create league rules, and retain equity in the league. On the field, the top four players become new captains each week and draft their teams from scratch for each week's games.\nANYONE CAN SCORE BIG\nIn our new radical scoring system, every player can lose or win points during every game. Athletes score points as individuals and as a team to win MVP titles and cash bonuses. Each week, players and fans get a chance to vote for their MVP.\nAdditional Ticket Information\nEach game day is a doubleheader, and your ticket is good for both games!\n*All tickets are subject to applicable fees.\nAthletes Unlimited Website\nSaturday | Feb 11, 2023\nHot Chocolate Run\nFair Park\nEvent Starts 7:30 AM\nBuy TicketsMore Info\nMar 3 - 5, 2023\nNorth Texas Irish Festival\nSo What?! Music Festival\nOn Sale SoonMore Info","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
+{"text":"Atlantic Canada > Opinion\nLETTER: Cape Bretoners needs better communication from Houston government\nContributed | Posted: Jan. 7, 2022, 11:58 a.m. | Updated: Jan. 7, 2022, 3 p.m. | 2 Min Read\nBefore the New Year was even a few days old, I'd received dozens of phone calls and emails about the lack of appointments available for PCR testing and rapid test kits in the Cape Breton Regional Municipality (CBRM).\nOn Tuesday, trying to find answers, I learned from a news reporter that there would be test kits handed out at two locations on Wednesday. Later, an email from Minister Brian Comer confirmed that more testing kits were coming.\nAlthough it's good to see the problem being fixed, a lack of proper communication from the Houston government has caused anxiety for many people. When some were even driving to Neil's Harbour and Antigonish for testing, where was the reassurance that help was on the way?\nPeople in Cape Breton continue to struggle to access health care generally. Ambulance offload delays made the news over the holidays, exacerbating people's frustration during this fourth wave.\nThe CBRM deserves the same level of health-care services as other regions of the province. We also deserve the consideration of being clearly informed of where and when we can access these services. There are more COVID-19 cases in Cape Breton than ever before, and it feels like the Progressive Conservatives in Halifax have forgotten about us.\nCape Bretoners have no trouble speaking out when our health care needs aren't being met. The premier had better be ready to listen.\nKendra Coombes\nNDP MLA for Cape Breton Centre-Whitney Pier\nOp-ed Disclaimer\nSaltWire Network welcomes letters on matters of public interest for publication. All letters must be accompanied by the author's name, address and telephone number so that they can be verified. Letters may be subject to editing. The views expressed in letters to the editor in this publication and on SaltWire.com are those of the authors, and do not reflect the opinions or views of SaltWire Network or its Publisher. SaltWire Network will not publish letters that are defamatory, or that denigrate individuals or groups based on race, creed, colour or sexual orientation. Anonymous, pen-named, third-party or open letters will not be published.\nClearing COVID-19 confusion: New self-isolation quick facts for Nova Scotians\nUpdated Jan. 7, 2022 |4 min read\nCape Breton woman questions call for COVID-19 rapid testing volunteers in CBRM\nJohn Ivison: Canada's neglected military reaching point of being 'irrelevant'","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
+{"text":"About JWU Providence\nMeet Our Chancellor\nHome \/ Campuses \/ Providence \/ Faculty and Staff \/ Scott Palmieri\nScott Palmieri\nProfessor + Department Chair, College of Arts & Sciences\nScott.Palmieri@jwu.edu\nJohn Hazen White\nTeaching [the JWU class] Sports in Film & Literature connects to my time as a college baseball player, which allowed sports to lead me to the academic life.\nWhether through the description of a dramatic baseball game or the lines of a Robert Frost poem, Scott Palmieri has always loved the power of words. More specifically, he has loved how stories and poems can bring to life what is so difficult to express in our everyday lives.\nTeaching Sports in Film & Literature connects to his time as a college baseball player, which allowed sports to lead him to the academic life. The course The Working Life is an extension of Palmieri's dissertation, which was devoted to examining work literature, specifically the work poetry of Philip Levine.\nPalmieri is ever grateful for his work in his career at Johnson & Wales University, where he teaches a variety of writing and literature courses. His teaching is enriched by his experience as a writer. His poetry has been published in such academic and\/or literary journals as Teacher as Writer, The Alembic, The Leaflet and The Maze. His sports literature has been published in Aethlon, Hobart and Sport Literate. Since 2014, Palmieri has served as department chair of JWU Providence's English department.\nWork Literature\nSports Literature\nILS 2090: The Working Life\nILS 4176: Sports in Film and Literature\nILS 2010: Modern Identities: 20th Century Literature\nEmcee, Baldwin for Books Charity Event with Alec Baldwin. Central Falls Library, 2017\n\"Philip Levine's Working Time.\" Popular Culture Association Conference, 2013\n\"Food for Thought, Food for Writing.\" Northeast Association of Teachers of English Conference, 2013\nPhD, Salve Regina University\nMA, University of Rhode Island\nBA, Providence College\n8 Abbott Park Place, Providence, Rhode Island 02903","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
+{"text":"The Differences Between Types of Computer Games\nWhile there are a large number of different video games, most people associate them with fighting games, walking simulators, and collecting toys. These games are, however, far from the only types of video games. There are many other types of games as well, so it's important to know the differences between each. In this article, we will explore the differences between these types of computer games and look at the pros and cons of each. Then, we'll talk about the differences between these two categories.\nVideo games have a number of benefits. First, they're a form of entertainment, where players interact with a computer or other player through the medium of a video game. Some games even involve other players, such as computer programs. These activities are generally designed to evoke positive and negative emotions in players. And, of course, they're fun to play! Whether you're just looking for a stress-reliever or an escape from reality, there's a video game for you!\nThere are various types of games, with the most common being board games. They involve pieces moving around on a flat surface, with a specific goal in mind. Some of these games involve competition and the object of reaching a specific endpoint. Others are designed to be competitive, with the goal of scoring more goals. Ludwig Wittgenstein was the first academic philosopher to address this question. His analysis of the nature of games led to his discovery that they are not merely \"invented\" clones.\nVideo games, like tabletop games, are a form of interactive entertainment that involves the interaction of two players and a computer. A game's goal is to solve a problem and make the player the winner. In many ways, these games are stress-relievers as well. A game is a way to relieve stress, and they're good for people of all ages. In the end, everyone wins! The question of what makes a game a videogame is as old as the history of human civilization.\nA game is a type of activity with a goal and a means to achieve it. By contrast, a game is an activity that is intended to be fun for both the player and the environment. As a result, it can be a form of therapy. Those who play games regularly may find them more beneficial than those who only play for fun. They may also be a great way to relieve stress for those who suffer from mental health problems.\nVideo games are a popular form of entertainment, but there are many other types of gaming. Some are not purely for entertainment, but instead have a purpose. While some are for money, others are not. In both cases, there is an element of play that is intended to entertain, such as an emphasis on teamwork. In a video game, players manipulate resources to achieve a goal. Ultimately, this is what defines a video game.\nThis entry was posted in Breaking News on January 2, 2022 by bathmatearticle.\n\u2190 How to Make the Most of Your Gaming Time The Definition of Beauty \u2192","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
+{"text":"Leatherhead backroom team now in place\nMay 14, 2019 | Headlines\nLeatherhead manager Nikki Bull is delighted that Martin McCarthy has agreed a deal to stay on next season in his role as assistant manager and both are looking forward to the new season.\nAlthough the season has just finished, they are working hard in the close-season to continue the success of last season. They are currently speaking to the current squad and other options with the aim of building a squad of players who want to work hard to move the club forward. They expect in the coming weeks to announce that numerous members of last season's squad will be staying, as well as making new additions.\nPlayers identified will continue the club's philosophy of getting in players who have a desire to work hard within a dynamic team framework which is geared towards positive results on the pitch.\nChairman Richard Brady said: \"We did everything we could to ensure Macca stayed with us next season. I look forward to working with him again over the coming season.\"\nNikki Bull commented: \"It's great that Macca will be continuing in assisting me next season. I now need to work hard to assemble a competitive squad for next season.\"\nMartin McCarthy said: \"This club means a lot to me and I'm delighted to be staying on next season. The fans have been fantastic with me since day one and I can't thank them enough. I am looking forward to working with players who fit our model here at Leatherhead and the hard work starts now.\"\nBull is also pleased to confirm that Michael Quinn will continue in his role as Head of Medical: \"Mick contributed massively to our success last season. His extensive expertise and experience enabled us to keep players fit and on the pitch. Mick gave up considerable time last season treating our players in his own private clinic without charging for the club for this service. Mick's skills are as important as any player that goes out on to the pitch for us and we are lucky to have him.\"\nMark Allen will also continue in his role as Kit Man: \"It's great to have Mark with us; first and foremost he is a fan and that passion and enthusiasm for the club rubs off on everyone. His dedication and commitment last season was remarkable and we are so grateful to have him at the club.\"\nCompleting the backroom team is Martin O'Connell (Biz), who has also agreed to return this season in his role as Matchday Support.\n\"Biz is a greatly valued member of the team who assists and helps with so many things on a match day that it's hard to give him an actual job title. Another person who without his help, support and knowledge, the club cannot function.\"\nSource: www.leatherheadfc.com","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
+{"text":"St. Clair Receives 12th Consecutive \"A\" Rating for Patient Safety\nBy Nancy Kennedy\nFor twelve consecutive grading periods, St. Clair Hospital has received an \"A\" grading for patient safety from the Leapfrog Group, a highly regarded national non-profit healthcare ratings organization. The Leapfrog Safety Grades range from A through F and are assigned on the basis of a hospital's performance in preventing falls, medical errors, infections, injuries and accidents. The Leapfrog Hospital Safety Grades for Spring 2018 awarded St. Clair an \"A\" for its continuing commitment to setting and meeting the highest safety quality standards in the nation.\nSt. Clair has a dynamic, far-reaching patient safety program that encompasses every aspect of the Hospital's operations and every corner of its facilities. A multidisciplinary safety committee collaborates in safety data collection, data analysis, benchmarking and trending. The safety program, which includes a fall prevention program, has created an entire patient safety culture within St. Clair, involving every staff member; staff members help by identifying patient safety issues, responding to safety risks and incidents, documenting safety events for further analysis and taking actions to prevent harm to patients. The Hospital has an online patient safety newsletter, Safety Corner, which is issued to all staff to keep them informed about safety issues and apprised of new strategies. St. Clair is constantly seeking opportunities to improve patient safety.\nReceiving the highest possible rating for 12 consecutive grading periods places St. Clair in the highest echelon of hospitals throughout the USA for patient safety. St. Clair is one of 2,600 hospitals rated twice a year by the Leapfrog Group in 27 separate safety categories, including patient falls, a major quality indicator.\nThe Leapfrog Group was developed in 2000 to measure hospital quality and safety; the Safety Grades program is one of their primary initiatives and is intended to empower consumers by providing them with potentially lifesaving information. Having information about a hospital's safety record, and being able to view their track record over a period of years, helps consumers make informed decisions about their healthcare and that of their families. The Safety Grades program was developed by a Blue Ribbon panel of hospital safety experts from around the country. Leapfrog's findings are peer-reviewed, transparent and available for public review at www.leapfrog.org.","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
+{"text":"Politics selected\nThe Alex Salmond story\nBy Brian Wheeler Political reporter, BBC News\nhttps:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/uk-politics-29219165\nMedia captionA look at Alex Salmond's career in SNP politics spanning more than 40 years from his student days to his role as first minister\nHe is the man who took a rag-tag bunch of political misfits to the brink of achieving their dream of an independent Scotland.\nHe defied the odds at every stage of his career, conjuring impossible victories at the ballot box and outmanoeuvring his political opponents with a trademark blend of mischief and guile.\nAs he departs as Scottish National Party leader and first minister, after losing Scotland's independence referendum, it is difficult to believe we have seen last of Alex Salmond.\nHe has bounced back many times before during his extraordinary 20 year career at the head of Scotland's independence movement.\nAnd even as he announced his decision to quit, to make way, he said, for a new generation of leaders, there were hints that we had not seen the last of him.\nSo what was it about the ebullient, quick-witted former economist, who never seemed lost for words - except, perhaps, when he was contemplating the destruction of everything he had worked for since his student days - that made him such an effective political leader?\nImage copyright BBC News\nImage caption Salmond joined the SNP at St Andrews university\nDespite his public image, Salmond is often described as a very private person. No one has ever doubted his commitment to the nationalist cause and the incredible drive and energy he has devoted to it during the course of his long career. But where did it come from?\nMost look for clues in his modest upbringing.\nThere is still \"something of the chippy, working-class boy who made it to St Andrews [university] and has been determined to show how much cleverer he was than everyone else,\" a former Salmond aide told David Torrance in his 2010 biography of the SNP leader Against the Odds.\nImage copyright Getty Images\nImage caption Linlithgow Palace was Salmond's gateway to Scottish history\nAfter all, Alexander Elliott Anderson Salmond grew up on a council estate in Linlithgow, a small town in the central belt of Scotland, a traditional Labour Party stronghold. The second of four children, his father, a civil servant, voted Labour and his mother was, in Salmond's words, a \"Churchill Conservative\".\nAll four of the Salmond children went to university and it was a politically aware household. In an interview with The Independent in 2008, Salmond fondly remembers how Hogmanay celebrations, which fell on his birthday, invariably ended in a political debate in the small hours.\n'Beautiful swing'\nHis enthusiasm for sport - and Heart of Midlothian football club - predated his interest in politics although his asthma restricted his prowess on the football field. He got his lifelong passion for golf from his father and, according to David Torrance's book, played most Saturday mornings from the age of five. The result, he told The Independent, is \"a beautiful swing, a wonderful swing, but I can't chip or putt any more\".\nImage copyright PA\nImage caption Golfing pal Sean Connery was drafted in to boost the party\nHorse racing was another early passion. Salmond likes to recall his first bet, at the age of nine, when his uncle put half a crown on Arkle, the winner of the 1964 Cheltenham Gold Cup, and they crowded round the family's black and white television set to watch the race. Salmond wrote a tipping column for The Scotsman and continues to enjoy a flutter.\nHe always cites his grandfather, who filled him with tales of Scottish history, as a source of inspiration. The family lived a short walk from Linlithgow Palace, birthplace of Mary Queen of Scots, and it was here that the young Salmond began to learn about his country's bloody past.\n\"The most important person in my life was my grandfather,\" Salmond recently told broadcaster Derek Bateman.\nMedia captionSarah Smith takes a light-hearted look at the life and times of Scotland's First Minister, Alex Salmond\n\"He was the town plumber in Linlithgow. And my grandfather was a local historian. He was a national historian. He took me around Linlithgow. He showed me where all the great things had happened. I got Braveheart from my grandfather's knee.\"\nSalmond often recalls the time a Labour Party canvasser came to the door. \"That's OK,\" said the Labour man, when told about Mrs Salmond's Tory allegiances. \"Just as long as she's not voting for the Scottish Nose Pickers.\" His father, who was friends with an SNP supporter, was so incensed by the slur that he switched to the nationalist side, and his young son followed suit. Or so the story goes.\nHis political roots set, Salmond took to campaigning for the SNP from an early age, even winning a mock election for the party at his primary school by promising to replace free school milk with ice cream.\n'Blazing row'\nBut he did not cut his ties with Labour and join the SNP officially until he got to St Andrews University, where he studied medieval history and economics. He got involved in student politics but was growing increasingly disillusioned with Labour's commitment to the Union.\n\"I had a blazing row with a [Labour-supporting] girlfriend from Hackney and she said 'if you feel like that - go and join the bloody SNP', so I did,\" he told The Guardian in 1991.\nImage caption The student Salmond was serious about his politics\nAccording to David Torrance's biography, Salmond and a friend went to the AGM of the university branch of the Federation of Student Nationalists the following day and, being the only two fully paid-up SNP members on campus, they were duly elected president and treasurer.\nSalmond was \"very serious about politics\" at university, says BBC Scotland political editor Brian Taylor, a St Andrews contemporary, but he was also \"motivated by mischief\", something that is still evident in the SNP leader today, he adds.\nAfter leaving St Andrews, Salmond was unemployed for six months. He is reported to have considered becoming a Church of Scotland minister, and attempted to get a job in journalism with the BBC, before passing the civil service exam and starting work as an economist in the Department of Agriculture and Fisheries for Scotland, in Edinburgh.\nIt was here that he met and fell in love with his future wife Moira.\nMuch has been written about the 17 year age gap between the couple - he was 27 and she was 44 when they married - and the fact that she has stayed out of the spotlight.\nSome Salmond-watchers see significance in the fact that the couple do not have children. Did that make him even more determined to leave something lasting behind?\nSalmond is quick to dismiss such talk, and equally quick to praise Moira's loyalty and grace.\nImage caption Moira Salmond has stayed out the spotlight\nIn her only media interview, nearly 25 years ago, she said: \"I married Alex not politics. That's his life and I am happy to be in the background.\"\nShe also revealed that they liked to play Scrabble together in the home they share in the Aberdeenshire village of Strichen, although they sometimes fell out because Salmond kept changing the rules.\nShe is, by all accounts, a well-liked figure in the party and is thought by those closest to Salmond to be a key factor in his political rise.\nShe is often credited with knocking some of the rough edges off Salmond and giving him a more mature outlook. She even taught him to drive shortly after they were married.\nSalmond was a committed socialist at this stage and starting to make waves as a firebrand speaker at SNP gatherings.\nFrustrated by life in the civil service, he managed to land a prestigious role as an economist with the Royal Bank of Scotland, specialising in oil and energy markets.\nSorry state\nHis new job strengthened his commitment to independence still further, he told The Guardian in 1991, \"exposing for me a mythology I grew up with: that Scotland was a small, poor, dependent country reliant on munificence from outside\".\nThis is a common theme whenever Salmond is asked about the roots of his nationalism - his belief that Scotland has what it takes to go it alone as \"a country which can hold its head up\".\nImage caption Salmond and John Swinney were not always this close\nBut the SNP in the early 1980s was in a sorry state.\nThe party had been dealt a body blow by the result of March 1979's Scottish devolution referendum. The majority of Scots that took part in the vote backed home rule - but the Labour government had set a threshold of 40% of the total electorate for the result to stand.\nIn the general election that followed, the SNP lost nine of its 11 MPs and looked like it might he heading for extinction as a political force.\nSalmond had hitched his star to the \"79 Group\", a small band of left-wing rebels dedicated to transforming Scotland into an independent socialist republic.\nThey managed to get up the noses of the party's traditionalist wing, which held sway under the moderate, centrist leadership of Gordon Wilson. In 1982, after one publicity stunt too many, and controversial efforts to forge links with Labour supporters, seven of the group, including Salmond, were expelled from the party.\n'Tartan Tories'\nThe ultra-nationalist - some would say neo-fascist - Siol nan Gaidheal faction was expelled around the same time as Wilson battled to stop the party from splitting.\nSalmond was only re-admitted when he signed a loyalty oath - but he continued to be frustrated by the party's lack of political direction. Its conferences brought out an odd mix of angry socialists in leather jackets, broadsword-wielding men in kilts dreaming of William Wallace and tweedy former Conservatives.\nImage caption Salmond and former miner's leader Arthur Scargill show solidarity with striking Timex workers in 1993\n\"Because we weren't anchored to a political base, we were vulnerable to being called all sorts of ridiculous names; tartan Tories and tartan Trots at the same time. If you don't own up to a particular identity, you can't complain if someone pins one on you,\" said Salmond in 1991.\nHis mission was to carve out a distinct, left-wing political identity for the SNP. Something that would appeal to traditional Labour-voters in West and Central Scotland - voters that would be key to any future independence referendum.\nIn 1987, he defeated Tory MP Albert McQuarrie in Banff and Buchan to win a seat in the House of Commons. Now, at last, he had the national stage he needed for a bit of trademark Salmond mischief.\nThe following year he grabbed headlines around the world by interrupting Conservative Chancellor Nigel Lawson's Budget speech.\n\"What I said, although they turned my microphone off, was 'Poll tax for the poor, tax cuts for the rich, nothing for the National Health Service - an obscenity!' That was my wee speech,\" Salmond recalled earlier this year in an interview with Derek Bateman.\n'Notoriety'\nThe sitting was suspended for more than 20 minutes as MPs voted - by 400 to 23 - to expel the SNP troublemaker. He emerged to a sight that would soon become very familiar to him - a media scrum begging for a soundbite for the evening news.\n\"I walked out from total nonentity to notoriety,\" he recalled decades later, still relishing the moment.\n\"It was a very astute thing to do, but that was Alex Salmond,\" says Murray Ritchie, former Scottish Political Editor of The Herald. \"He was an opportunist of considerable talent.\"\nImage copyright Jeff J Mitchell\nHis next goal was the party leadership and in 1990 he got it, after a divisive battle with the only other contender, SNP grandee Margaret Ewing.\nIn one early coup he persuaded his golfing pal Sean Connery to star in a party political broadcast - his financial support for the party had reportedly almost cost the James Bond actor his knighthood.\nSalmond began to move the SNP in a more moderate direction, easing back on some of his earlier left-wing rhetoric and talking about how an independent Scotland would seek to join the European Union. He began to make the economic case for independence more loudly, and shift perceptions of the party as a bunch of narrow \"little Scotland\" nationalists.\nHe recently revealed that he is haunted by Michael Foot's withering put down of David Steel, that he \"went from boy wonder to elder statesman with no intervening period whatsoever.\" He took the decision to grow into a more statesmanlike figure, someone who could lead a country not just a pressure group.\nMany of the heavyweights that might have proved a threat to his supremacy in Scotland, such as Gordon Brown, Charles Kennedy or Alistair Darling, chose to make their careers in London, leaving the field clear for Salmond to dominate.\nHe kept the party's commitment to a fully independent Scotland but joined forces with Scottish Labour Leader Donald Dewar and Scottish Lib Dem leader Jim Wallace to campaign for devolution in the 1997 Scottish referendum.\n'Dictatorial'\nThe fundamentalist wing of the party - the \"fundies\" - scented betrayal. Their anger was further stoked when news came through that Salmond had accepted an invitation to tea with Prince Charles. The SNP man explained his ideas for a \"slimmed down monarchy\" to the heir to the throne. While Salmond may have thought he was playing the long game, to his growing army of internal critics it looked like he was consorting with Scotland's enemies and his \"gradualist\" philosophy was just a polite way of saying he had sold out.\nAnd there was another problem.\nThe SNP leader had always been something of a lone operator. Despite his clubbable image, he never had a large circle of friends or even much of a fan club within the party itself. He was described by critics as \"aloof\" and \"intellectually arrogant\". Now they were calling him \"dictatorial\".\nImage copyright WPA Pool\nImage caption The former republican struck up a friendship with Prince Charles\nIt did not help Salmond that the party was struggling to make headway against Labour at the ballot box. The best it could manage in the first elections to the new Scottish Parliament, in 1999, was becoming the main opposition to the Labour-Lib Dem coalition government.\nIndependence Day had been put back again. \"Free by '93\" had once been the SNP's battle cry. Now Salmond was talking about 2007. Some nationalists believed their newly-pragmatic leader would have been happy to settle for much less.\nIn 2000, Salmond got into a spat with one of his most vocal critics over the party's finances and then - to the surprise of most observers, for whom the SNP was Alex Salmond - he stood down as leader.\nTelling the media he was \"knackered\", he quit his Scottish Parliament seat to concentrate on life as an MP at Westminster.\nHis exile lasted just four years - during which time John Swinney led the party - before grassroots members begged him to return.\n\"I did not expect to be ever doing the job again, however time and circumstances change,\" he told a news conference with his choice of deputy, Nicola Sturgeon, at his side.\nImage caption Salmond's decision to team up with Labour and Lib Dems in the 1997 referendum angered some in his party\n\"I am not just launching a campaign to be SNP leader,\" he told reporters. \"I am launching my candidacy to be the first minister of Scotland.\"\nThe old swagger was still there - but there were serious doubts about whether he could ever win the majority he would need to secure a referendum in a Scottish political system specifically designed to prevent one party rule.\nNot for the first time, Salmond's opponents, particularly those in the Scottish Labour Party, underestimated him.\nThe SNP broke the system. If Labour was shocked to lose to the nationalists by a single seat in 2007, ushering in a minority SNP government at Holyrood with Salmond as first minister, it was nothing compared to what was to come.\nWith a 15-point lead in some polls, the 2011 Scottish election was Labour's to lose - and that's precisely what they did.\nAlex Salmond made history by becoming first minister in a majority Scottish government and, after all the decades of frustration, false starts and in-fighting, a referendum was now on the table.\nThe only problem, claimed the pundits, was that Salmond, ever the canny strategist, did not really want one. At least not now, with the global financial system in meltdown and any hopes of signing up to the euro, becoming the next \"Celtic tiger\", having disappeared down the drain.\n'Political conjuror'\nSo confident was Prime Minister David Cameron - he had seen the polls putting the pro-Union camp 20 points or more ahead - that Salmond did not want a referendum that he took to taunting him from the Conservative Party conference stage to name a date.\nWhen the two men finally sat down to hammer out an agreement on the referendum, many Westminster pundits thought Cameron had outfoxed Salmond by refusing to allow a third question on the ballot paper.\nImage caption The economic case for independence has always been central to Salmond's pitch\nCameron was confident that the SNP could not win in a straight yes\/no contest, so rejected Salmond's demands for a third \"devo max\" option - more powers for the Scottish Parliament in lieu of full independence - to be added to the ballot paper.\n\"He [Salmond] may well be forced to hold a referendum knowing that he will lose. The greatest political conjuror of recent times will have run out of tricks,\" wrote commentator Steve Richards in The Independent.\nIn the event, Salmond came far closer to winning the referendum than anyone thought possible when it was announced. The Yes campaign's late surge in the polls shocked the Westminster establishment into offering what may amount to a form of \"devo max\" after all, before a single vote had been cast.\nPerhaps the old conjuror has a few tricks left up his sleeve after all.\nSalmond called the referendum a once in a lifetime opportunity for the Scottish people. He will soon turn 60 and may not get another shot at it.\nThat, he suggested, was one reason why he had decided to step down as SNP leader. Twenty years as SNP leader, with a four year break, and seven years as first minister, something that has been \"the privilege of my life\" was, he said, a \"fair spell\".\nBut with characteristic defiance, he said Scotland \"could still emerge as the real winner\" and suggested his legacy was the tens of thousands of \"energised activists\" that had been drawn into politics through the Yes campaign, \"who I predict will refuse to go meekly back into the political shadows\".\nHe may have departed the stage but, he told the reporters, he would \"continue to contribute\" and said the dream of Scottish independence \"will never die\".\nScotland Decides\nPolitics Sections","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
+{"text":"Archives > 2017 Film List\nSVJFF Opening Night Gala Event\nJungle Join us for Opening Night Event with the Northern California premiere of \"Jungle\" and our special guests, author\/speaker Yossi Ghinsberg and producer Dana Lustig.\nDaniel Radcliffe stars as an enthusiastic young adventurer who follows his dreams into the Amazon jungle with two friends and a guide with a mysterious past.\nThe arrival of two Orthodox Jews upsets the wedding day of a rural town clerk's son in Hungary in this elegant drama.\nThe 90 Minute War\nAfter decades of strife and failed peace talks, both sides in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict decide to settle their differences on a soccer field in this bold satire.\nAida's Secrets\nFamily connections lost in the aftermath of WW II are amazingly found again almost 70 years later.\nA Jerusalem stabbing attack bonds two despondent women in this story of faith, understanding, acceptance, and love.\nThe Bloom of Yesterday\nThis audacious comedy pokes fun at the hypocrisy of Germany's culture of remembrance and sets the grandchildren of the perpetrators and victims on a collision course.\nA gay couple would like to marry, but problems with their families' beliefs and a paternity issue complicate matters in this comedy.\nFanny's Journey\nBased on a true story, Fanny's Journey is an incredible tale of bravery, strength and survival set in 1943 Europe.\nGermans and Jews\nA personal look at Germany's changing narrative of the Holocaust and its transformation since the end of World War II.\nHanna's Sleeping Dogs\nA young girl learns the truth about her family's secret identity in a 1960s provincial Austrian town still harboring prejudices from the past.\nThree Arab-Israeli women share an apartment in Tel Aviv and try to balance their traditions with the modern world.\nAn Israeli Love Story\nThis passionate story of love and independence set in pre-state Israel is based on the true story of theatre director and actress Pnina Gary.\nJoe's Violin\nFREE SCREENINGS\nA 91-year-old Holocaust survivor's violin donation during an instrument drive changes the life of a 12-year-old Bronx girl.\nKeep the Change\nA man and a woman form a close bond who live in a group home for adults who suffer from autism.\nMenashe\nIn the heart of New York's ultra-orthodox Hasidic community, a kind clerk struggles to make ends meet and parent his son following his wife's death.\nA socially awkward young woman takes her first tentative steps toward independence and fulfilling a lifelong dream in this Dutch romantic dramedy.\nMy Hero Brother\nJoin us for the Centerpiece Event with the Northern California Premiere with our special guest, director Yonatan Nir.\nIn this documentary, a group of remarkable young people with Down syndrome embarks on a demanding trip through the Himalayas, accompanied by their brothers and sisters.\nNorman: The Moderate Rise and Tragic Fall of a New York Fixer\nRichard Gere stars in this comic and compassionate story of a New York fixer's rise and fall.\nTwo Israeli sisters delve into the dark mystery of their father's former life in WWII-era Poland.\nA Quiet Heart\nIn Jerusalem, a city increasingly dominated by religious fanaticism, a secular young woman, seeks refuge from the pressure of her life in Tel Aviv as a concert pianist.\nSara Stein - Shalom Berlin, Shalom Tel Aviv\nIn vibrant contemporary Berlin, a Jewish criminal investigator tries to solve the murder of an Israeli DJ.\nThe Second Time Around\nTwo senior citizens discover it's never too late to fall in love in this unabashedly sentimental romance.\nThe Women's Balcony\nA collapsed synagogue leads to a gender rift in a devout Orthodox community in Jerusalem, in this rousing, good-hearted tale about women speaking truth to patriarchal power.\nSVJFF Closing Night Special Event\nBen-Gurion, Epilogue\nJoin us for the Closing Night with special guests, director Yariv Mozer, and David Ben-Gurion's grandson, Alon Ben-Gurion.\nNewly discovered 1968 interview footage of David Ben-Gurion reveals his prophecy, his dedication to Zionism, and a life filled with self-examination.","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
+{"text":"ReCheck Air\nReCheck Green Box\nReCheck Wallet\nReCheck SDK\nUse CasesSmart BuildingsNews & AnnouncementsBusiness & Blockchain TechnologyArticles in Bulgarian Language\nHome - Business & Blockchain Technology - EU Taxonomy Tags Sustainability And Puts An End to Greenwashing\nEU Taxonomy Tags Sustainability And Puts An End to Greenwashing\nMay 24, 2021 February 1, 2022 ReCheck B.V.Business & Blockchain Technology\nLast month, the European Commission adopted a comprehensive package comprising of a few measures that will strengthen investments in sustainable activities across the European Union. The measures are meant to make investors shift to more sustainable technologies and businesses.\nBasically, the package will further contribute to the EU's goal to position itself as a global leader in applying standards for sustainable finance.\nIn fact, the EU Taxonomy Regulation, the Sustainable Finance Disclosure Regulation and the Benchmark Regulation that were enacted during the last few years laid out the foundation for a sustainable financial system that supports the transition towards a climate-neutral Europe.\nWhy an EU taxonomy?\nIn order to reach the objectives set in the European Green Deal, the European Union has committed to direct investments towards sustainable projects and business activities. Ultimately, the effects of such efforts will make our economies more resilient against environmental wrecks.\nAnd to achieve such goals, the EU set a clear definition of what undertakings can be defined as 'sustainable'. As a result, the \"EU Taxonomy\" was created as a common classification system for sustainable economic activities.\nWhat is the EU taxonomy?\nThe EU taxonomy establishes a list of environmentally-friendly economic activities that are defined as sustainable. It is an important instrument to increase sustainable investment and to enforce the European Green Deal.\nProviding clear and concise input on which economic activities are considered environmentally sustainable, the EU expects to create peace of mind for investors and protect private investors from greenwashing. Additionally, the Commission is currently developing an online tool that will facilitate the use of the taxonomy.\nWhen the Taxonomy Regulation entered into force last year, it also established six environmental objectives:\nThe sustainable use and protection of water and marine resources\nThe transition to a circular economy\nPollution prevention and control\nThe protection and restoration of biodiversity and ecosystems\nIn order to define the technical screening criteria for each environmental objective, the European Commission is enforcing delegated acts.\nShifting towards sustainable finance\nThe comprehensive package that the European Commission adopted just last month consists of a few very particular measures in a way that it builds on and develops the framework set by the Taxonomy Regulation:\nThe EU Taxonomy Climate Delegated Act\nThe EU Taxonomy Climate Delegated Act is expected to formally be adopted by the end of this month. It introduces the first set of technical screening criteria that will define whether an economic activity contributes to two of the environmental goals under the Taxonomy Regulation \u2013 climate change adaptation and climate change mitigation.\nThe technical screening criteria in the Act was created based on advice from the Technical Expert Group (TEG) on sustainable finance. Initially, the Delegated Act is supposed to cover the economic activities of roughly 40% of listed companies operating in sectors responsible for almost 80% of the greenhouse gas emissions in Europe. It currently includes sectors such as energy, forestry, manufacturing, transport and buildings. However, criteria will be subject to regular review in order to ensure that new sectors and economic activities are accordingly added over time.\nCorporate Sustainability Reporting Directive\nA proposal for a Corporate Sustainability Reporting Directive (CSRD) that will improve the flow of sustainability data. The Directive will make sustainability reporting more consistent so that investors can use comparable and trustworthy information on sustainability activities.\nThe Directive aims to create a set of rules that will level sustainability reporting to financial reporting. It will extend the EU's sustainability reporting requirements to all large companies and all listed companies. Nearly 50,000 companies in the European Union will now have to follow detailed EU sustainability reporting standards. Currently, that number is 11,000 companies. The Commission is also planning to develop standards proportionate standards for SMEs, which non-listed SMEs can use voluntarily.\nAmendments to Delegated Acts on investment and product governance\nThe six amendments that are part of the package will encourage the financial system to support sustainable businesses and also strengthen the EU's efforts against greenwashing. The amendments define the responsibilities of financial companies when assessing their sustainability risks, such as the impact of floods on the value of investments. Furthermore, manufacturers of financial products and financial advisers will have to consider sustainability factors when designing their financial products.\nIn the next few years, the business landscape in Europe will have to adjust to the new political reality. 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+{"text":"Weekly Tour Recap: 2017 RBC Heritage\nTour Rookie Wesley Bryan Wins At Harbour Town\nBefore 2017, Wesley Bryan was a social media celebrity, performing golf trick shots on Youtube with his brother. Now, in 2017, he's a PGA Tour Champion. Bryan earned his way on to the PGA Tour by way of the Web.com Tour last year. He shot a final round 67 en route to the victory at Harbour Town Golf Course in Hilton Head, South Carolina.\nAfter a first round 69, Bryan trailed leaders Luke Donald and Graham Delaet by four strokes. Bryan shot another sub-70 round, carding a 67 on Friday, but still trailed Donald and Delaet by four, as they matched the second round 67.\nOn Saturday, Jason Dufner grabbed the 54-hole lead after a third round 65. Bryan kept himself in contention, however, with a solid four-under 68. The top of the leaderboard began to slip backwards as well, but Bryan still found himself trailing Dufner by four shots.\nIn the final round, Bryan got off to a slow start with a bogey at the third, then turned on the jets. He birdied the next four holes, before making another bogey at the 8th. He made the turn with a 2-under 34. On the back nine, Bryan kept the bad numbers off of the card, while turning in birdies at the 14th and 15th holes. He finished with a final round 67, bringing him to 13-under for the tournament, ahead of Luke Donald by one stroke.\nThe win at Harbour Town is Bryan's first on Tour, to go along with three wins on the Web.com last year. Bryan has really made a name for himself this year with four top 10 finishes, including three straight in February and March. Bryan now has a two year exemption on Tour, as well as a ticket to the 2018 Masters.\nWesley Bryan's Winning What's In The Bag\nDriver: Callaway GBB Epic \u2013 8.5\u00b0 (True Temper HZRDUS Black 6.5)\nFairway Wood: Callaway GBB Epic \u2013 13.5\u00b0 (True Temper HZRDUS Red 6.0)\nHybrid: Callaway Apex \u2013 18\u00b0 (Graphite Design Tour AD-DI 95X Hybrid)\nIrons: Callaway Apex Pro '16 \u2013 4 to PW (True Temper Dynamic Gold Tour Issue X100)\nWedges: Callaway MD3 Milled \u2013 50\u00b0, 54\u00b0 (True Temper Dynamic Gold Tour Issue X100)\nCallaway Mack Daddy Forged \u2013 58\u00b0 (True Temper Dynamic Gold Tour Issue X100)\nPutter: Odyssey Metal-X Milled #2\nBall: Callaway Chrome Soft X\nTommy O'Connell\nContributing Tour Editor\nTommy is California-born and currently lives and works in Chicago. When not traveling the United States and beyond for work, Tom can often be found spending too much time at the golf course or surfing the web to stay up to speed on everything golf, hockey, college basketball, and football.\nLatest posts by Tommy O'Connell (see all)\nLoudmouth Woodworth Collection Apparel Review - January 26, 2018\nGet To Know: Uther \u2013 Golf Towels and More - December 8, 2017\nSound Caddy Portable Speaker Review - October 6, 2017","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
+{"text":"Who illegally painted curb red in Chatsworth? A\u2026\nNewsCrime + Public Safety\nWho illegally painted curb red in Chatsworth? A Valley councilman wants to know\nThis photo posted to Los Angeles City Councilman Mitchell Englander's Facebook page shows a portion of a curb on Nordhoff Place and Oakdale Avenue in Chatsworth Englander says was illegally painted red. (Photo courtesy Mitchell Englander via Facebook)\nBy Wes Woods II | wwoods@scng.com | Daily News\nPUBLISHED: August 1, 2017 at 6:58 pm | UPDATED: August 28, 2017 at 5:35 am\nA section of curb was illegally painted red at Nordhoff Place and Oakdale Avenue sometime this weekend in Chatsworth and Los Angeles City Councilman Mitchell Englander is looking for the culprit.\n\"It's very serious because not only are you defacing public property but you're altering a traffic control device,\" said Englander on Tuesday, adding he learned of the crime on Sunday from a social media post. \"Red curbs are considered a traffic control device and it could be prosecuted as a felony.\"\nThe paint will eventually be removed and Englander's office has asked for the public's help to solve the crime committed on city property.\n\"We asked the police department to conduct an investigation and file charges as appropriate,\" said Colin Sweeney, Englander's communications director.\nSweeney added the curb was painted red for two city blocks, or roughly a quarter mile, which is unusual.\n\u2022 VIDEO: See the section of street sporting an illegal red curb in Chatsworth\nPreviously, the area had no-parking signs posted for tree trimming and filming and someone took advantage of it, Sweeney explained.\n\"They used the wrong type of paint,\" he said. \"We would need to remove it regardless because of the liability. When it's wet outside it's very slippery.\"\nIn response to Englander's initial Facebook post showing video of the red curb, multiple commenters suggested whoever painted the curb did so to deter people from parking their motor homes on the street \u2014 an issue city officials have recently addressed amid Los Angeles' surge in homelessness.\nIn a follow-up post on Facebook , Englander said \"we all know\" the curb is not the issue.\n\"Homelessness is a serious matter for neighborhoods throughout Los Angeles with many federal and state laws governing how we are allowed to proceed,\" he wrote.\nOn Tuesday, Englander said he is working \"vigorously\" everyday on the homelessness issue which includes having a staff member for homelessness as well as opening a shelter without taxpayer funds and a mobile shower.\nBesides the possibility of being prosecuted as a felony, which would likely send the culprit to jail longer than a year, there is also a cost to taxpayers, Englander said.\n\"To repair this and restore it back to its original state it could be tens of thousands of dollars,\" Englander concluded.\nThe initial timeline was to have the curb fixed by Friday but it will likely take longer because of weather issues, Sweeney added.\nAnyone who has more information is asked to contact Erich King in Englander's office at 818-882-1212 during regular business hours.\nDavid Crosby confronts life and death in Cameron Crowe-produced documentary 'Remember My Name' \u2013 Daily News\necho code\nWes Woods II\nWes Woods covers breaking news for the Los Angeles Daily News.\nFollow Wes Woods II\t@JournoWes\nRep. Katie Hill leads her Republican challengers in early 2020 campaign fundraising\nThousands protest immigrant detention centers at 'Lights for Liberty' vigils in Southern California\nWe're all reading election polls as 2020 nears; here's how to be smart about it","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
+{"text":"Racism against NE people continue - Manipur man brutally beaten by employer in Gurgaon\nA 29-year-old youth from Imphal, Manipur, recovering at a local hospital, has claimed he was brutally thrashed and humiliated by his employers in an alleged racist attack. The employers, who accused the youth of stealing company data, however, denied the claim.\nAccording to the FIR filed by Udyog Vihar police station, the victim, Romen Abrambam, who lives in Delhi's Mahipalpur, was called by his manager Abhimanyu Madan on January 13, in the presence of CEO Puneet Kumar and Deepak, co-owner of his employer TGS IT Solution, and questioned about data theft. Abrambam said he had only joined in November, 2016, and while other employees also had access to the same data, \"he was singled out unnecessarily\".\n\"My phone was confiscated (company's policy in such cases). I was taken to a colleague's home in Delhi and then brought back to the office and humiliated in front of other employees,\" Abrambam said. He added \"four bouncers\" were called to beat him up. \"I was kicked with shoes, stripped and beaten mercilessly by the bouncers and other people. The onlookers made videos. They kept asking me to reveal who had stolen the data. I fell unconscious,\" he said.\nAccording to Abrambam, he was later taken to Neelkanth Hospital in DLF Phase 3, where the employers tried to convince him not to reveal he was thrashed. \"The manager told doctors I fell down the stairs. Without being examined, I was given an injection and discharged,\" he alleged. After visiting the trauma centre at AIIMS the next day for further treatment, Abrambam said he contacted Delhi Police's northeast helpline, who referred him to Gurgaon police.\nAn FIR has been registered under sections 147, 149, 323 and 506 of the IPC, against seven persons. The accused have not been interrogated yet.","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
+{"text":"Russia [European Russia] (1)\nHong Kong SAR (China) (1)\nCentral America & Caribbean (1)\nAlmohad (4)\nMarinid (2)\nAlmoravid (2)\nCorporate architecture (1)\nEarly Medieval (1)\nMixed Use (1)\nColonial African (1)\nFrench Colonial (1)\nAghlabid (1)\nHafsid (1)\nMoorish (1)\nWestern European (1)\nDomesticity (1)\nIdrisid (1)\nHistoricism (architectural style) (1)\nEnvironmental design (1)\nNasrid (1)\nUmayyad (1)\nFatimid (1)\nColonials (people) (1)\nAfrican (general continental cultures) (1)\nIndigenous people (1)\nOther plant materials (1)\nThatch (1)\nMud brick (1)\nBaked brick (1)\nRammed earth (1)\nPeter Olley\nBob Cather\nBob Cather aduated in Materials Science from the University of Bath. He initially worked with The Marley Tile Co. Ltd on product development and subsequently spent more than 30 years with Ove Arup & Partners. Bob has considerable expertise in the selection, design and performance of materials in the built environment. This expertise has enabled specialist contribution to projects and for clients worldwide, covering all areas of construction. Author affiliation details are correct at time of print publication.\nDavid Doran\nDavid Doran graduated in 1950 with an external BSc (Eng). He then undertook National Service with the Royal Engineers in Malaya from 1953 to 1955. He is a Fellow of ICE and IStructE, a former member of Council of IStructE and Chairman of five Task Groups. From 1965 to 1985 he was Chief Engineer with George Wimpey plc, where he was Manager of the Civil & Structural Design Department with a staff of 300, and Head of QA for Wimpey Construction. Upon leaving Wimpey, David became an independent consultant and is retained by GBGeotechnics, Cambridge. He has been involved in several important publications since 1988. Author affiliation details are correct at time of print publication.\nConstruction Materials Reference Book\n... Peter Olley Director, C. Olley & Sons Ltd Bob Cather BSc CEng FIMMM Consultant, formerly Director of Arup Materials Consulting David Doran FCGI BSc(Eng) DIC CEng FICE FIStructE Consultant, formerly Chief Engineer with Wimpey plc Contents...\nThe Historic Hamm\u0100ms of Damascus and Fez\nMagda Sibley\nMagda Sibley is a senior lecturer in architecture at the University of Liverpool. She has studied the urban form and architecture of world heritage Islamic cities in North Africa and the Middle East with the aim of informing new design projects. She has co-edited Courtyard Housing: Past, Present and Future published in 2006 by Taylor & Francis and participated in the European HAMMAM project. Author affiliation details are correct at time of print publication.\nLessons from Vernacular Architecture\n... THE HISTORIC HAMM\u0100MS OF DAMASCUS AND FEZ Magda Sibley Introduction Bath houses, or public baths, have existed since the Hellenistic period and flourished throughout the time of the Romans and Byzantines. Although the bathing tradition...\nConsumption Studies and the Home\nVictor Buchli\nVictor Buchli is Reader in Material Culture at the Department of Anthropology, University College London, UK, and Editor of Home Cultures. Author affiliation details are correct at time of print publication.\nAn Anthropology of Architecture\nBloomsbury Academic, 2013\n...1 In the postwar period, consumption-oriented approaches emerged with particular force. This large body of literature on consumption studies and the home emerged predominantly from an intersection of Marxist analysis, feminist critique...\nThienVinh Nguyen\nEngaged Urbanism : Cities & Methodologies\nI.B. Tauris, 2016\n...When I first moved to London, I explored the city by walking. For my first few weeks, without the use of a smartphone and GPS map app, I relied on drawing maps and writing down directions to get from place to place. In minimising my writing...\nPrimitive to Performative\nElizabeth M. Golden\nElizabeth M. Golden is a registered architect in the United States and in Germany. She has contributed her expertise to the design and construction of the Gohar Khatoon Girls' School, the largest institution of its kind in Afghanistan, and to Niamey 2000, an urban housing proposal for the rapidly expanding capital of Niger. As an Assistant Professor in the Department of Architecture at the University of Washington, she teaches courses focused on design, materials, and building technology, with an emphasis on sustainable systems. She is also co-director of the Philippines Bamboo Workshop. Author affiliation details are correct at time of print publication.\nBuilding from Tradition : Local Materials and Methods in Contemporary Architecture\n... Primitive to Performative .1 Earthquake-resistant construction at the Aknaibich Preschool. properties intrinsic to their fundamental origins. ceramic tiles. Here, the inevitable has been allowed Builders often capitalized...\nCase studies 1\u201318\nStephen Verderber\nStephen Verderber is an award-winning scholar, researcher, and registered architect (US) whose core specialty is architecture, design therapeutics, and health. He is Professor at the John H. Daniels Faculty of Architecture, Landscape and Design and at the Dalla Lana School of Public Health, at the University of Toronto, Canada. He holds a doctorate in architecture from the University of Michigan, is cofounder of R-2ARCH, and is widely published. His books include Healthcare Architecture in an Era of Radical Transformation (2000), Compassion in Architecture: Evidence-Based Design for Health (2005), Innovations in Hospice Architecture (2005), Innovations in Hospital Architecture (2010), Sprawling Cities and Our Endangered Public Health (2012), and Innovations in Transportable Healthcare Architecture (2016). Author affiliation details are correct at time of print publication.\nInnovations in Transportable Healthcare Architecture\n... 6 The projects Modular and containerized systems 1 Women's Health Clinic, Port-au-Prince, Haiti: STANTEC\/STACK Design 2 Mobile Field Hospital System 3:1, Germany: Zeppelin Mobile Systems (ZMS), GmbH, Germany 3 Contertainer, Batu, East...\nRon Slade\nRon Slade is Structural Director at WSP | PB Group. Ron received his B.Sc. First Class Honours in Civil Engineering at City University, London and became a chartered member of the Institution of Structural Engineers in 1971 when he was awarded the Institution's A. E. Wynn prize. He was first appointed as a director in 1982. Author affiliation details are correct at time of print publication.\nSketching for Engineers and Architects\n... PART 3: 3.0 INTRODUCTION The following pages show examples of how hand sketches are team have decided to go, and it is good and reassuring to show put to various construction-related uses \u2013 they are taken from you have followed a train...\nAfrica, 1830\u20131914\nEdward Denison\nEdward Denison is an independent architectural historian, writer and photographer, and also Associate Professor in Architectural History and Theory at the Bartlett School of Architecture, University College London, UK. Author affiliation details are correct at time of print publication.\n...In the mid-nineteenth century, much of Africa appeared mysterious and unknown to the rest of the world. Various colonial powers had settled around its coastal periphery, conspicuous by their alien constructions \u2013 forts, warehouses...\nThe Islamic West (North Africa, Iberia and Sicily), 700\u20131492\nGlaire Anderson\nGlaire Anderson is Senior Lecturer in Islamic Art at the University of Edinburgh, UK. Author affiliation details are correct at time of print publication.\n...The Islamic West comprised the Iberian Peninsula (present-day Spain and Portugal, known in Arabic then as al-Andalus), the Maghreb (Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia and Libya) in North Africa, and Sicily. This era of the history of the Islamic...","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
+{"text":"6 quirky places to get craft beer in central Iowa\nMatthew Leimkuehler\nmleimkuehler@dmreg.com\nBeer Crazy\nAs if the name didn't give it away, this Urbandale store is the go-to for all things beer in the metro. Not only does it carry a vast selection of local beer -- Beer Crazy's website says there's over 600 beers in stock -- for purchase, you can buy supplies you need to start home-brewing, wine making or cheese making right in one shop.\nLocation: 3908 NW Urbandale Dr\nHours: 10 a.m.-6:30 p.m. Monday-Saturday, 10 a.m.-4 p.m. Sunday\nInfo: 515-331-0587 or beercrazy.com\nel Bait Shop\nel Bait's undoubtedly the staple beer spot in downtown Des Moines. According to the website, there's 180 beers on tap \u2014 that's like the Willy Wonka & Chocolate Factory equivalent of beer. The selection of beer \u2014 including many Iowa beers \u2014 is unprecedented, the atmosphere is always vibrant, and the location, just a few blocks north of Principal Park, is what makes it an energetic addition to Des Moines' thriving downtown.\nLocation: 200 SW 2nd St\nHours: 11-2 a.m. daily\nInfo: 515-284-1970 or elbaitshop.com\nFlix Brewhouse\nNow, here's a cool concept. Flix Brewhouse teams up two seemingly unrelated things: beer and movies. That's right \u2014 it's a brewery, restaurant and movie theater all in one. You can either grab a seat at the bar, the huge dining room or in one of the theaters and be served from a selection of in-house beers or other Iowa favorites on draft \u2014 there are over 40 beers to choose from total. Try the 10 Day Scottish Ale for a light, manageable Scottish-style ale perfect for sipping during one of this fall's upcoming feature films.\nLocation: Merle Hay Mall, 3800 Merle Hay Rd #1300\nHours: See flixbrewhouse.com\/des-moines for showtime hours\nInfo: 515-612-9200 or flixbrewhouse.com\/des-moines\nAlluvial Brewing\nAlluvial's a fairly new brewery situated on the northwest outskirts of Ames. What makes it interesting isn't as much the beer \u2014 albeit great \u2014 but the location and aesthetic of the building. It's a beautiful building, in the country, overlooking acres of Iowa farmland. Going to Alluvial provides a totally different atmosphere from other craft beer spots because of its unique, rural isolation. Try The Franklin IPA for something crisp and delicious.\nLocation: 3715 West 190th St., Ames\nHours: Thursday and Friday 4-10 p.m., Saturday 12-10 p.m., Sunday 12-6 p.m.\nInfo: 515-337-1182 or alluvialbrewing.com\nThe Keg Stand\nThe Keg Stand is interesting because the bar doesn't have a strong aesthetic to set the place off \u2014 it's decked out like a normal, everyday bar. But, with over 80 beers on tap, it has an outstanding selection of local, regional and national craft beer. Be on the look out, the bar also throws tap takeovers \u2014 your favorite brewery could be taking over next.\nLocation: 3530 Westown Pkwy, West Des Moines\nHours: 3 p.m.-2 a.m. Monday and Tuesday, 11-2 a.m. Wednesday-Friday, 9-2 a.m. Saturday, 12 p.m.-2 a.m. Sunday\nInfo: 515-327-7429 or facebook.com\/thekegstand\nUp-Down\nUp-Down is another one of Des Moines' niche bars that help make the nightlife scene so unique. What's great about Up-Down, that isn't the nostalgic gaming, is the bar's craft beer selection. The taps are always rotating with new beers and there's always something to grab from Iowa. Be on the look out for an occasional tap takeover and don't be afraid to try to something new. Craft beer and video games \u2014 it's such a perfect combination.\nLocation: 500 E Locust St.\nHours: 5 p.m.-2 a.m. Monday-Friday, 2 p.m.-2 a.m. Saturday and Sunday\nInfo: 515-243-4322 or updowndsm.com\n10 must-try Iowa beers\n3 food and beer pairings\nBeer vocabulary with Mark David","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
+{"text":"HomeLEEWARDS\nST. KITTS-NEVIS LABOUR PARTY RELEASED VIDEO ON ITS HOUSING REVOLUTION\nSTEVE WRENSFORD \u2013 A MAN OF SERVICE PREPARING TO LEAD\nMr. Steve Wrensford, former Deputy Director of Social Security, was recently honoured for his truly outstanding service to our nation. Steve who served the institution for twenty years received an award for his indelible contribution [\u2026.]\nSTANDARDS OF JUSTICE GONE AWRY IN ST. KITTS AND NEVIS\nOn taking office in February 2015, the first illegal act of the Timothy Harris administration was to sack the Director of Public Prosecution (DPP) Travers Sinanan who was at the time investigating the allegation of [\u2026.]\nEARLY SUNDAY MORNING FIRE GUTS SUN ISLAND CLOTHES OUTLET ON CENTRAL STREET\nBasseterre, St. Kitts, August 26, 2018 \u2013 Fire gutted the inside of the Indo Caribe Shop and Sun Island Clothes outlet on Central Street, downtown Basseterre on Sunday morning. According to reports a passer-by alerted [\u2026.]\nNEVISIAN YOUTH ALLEGEDLY SHOT BY POLICE IN ST. KITTS GIVES PARTIAL ACCOUNT OF EXPERIENCE\nBasseterre, St. Kitts, August 25, 2018 \u2013 A video has been circulated with a young man lying on a hospital bed recounting his experience being shot on Friday morning allegedly by law a law [\u2026.]\nLABOUR PROMISES EVEN STRONGER RECORD IN HOUSING\nAfter three and a half years in office, on the eve of general elections, the Team Unity administration after all the promises whilst in opposition has delivered just forty houses to the people of St. [\u2026.]\nSTATEMENT BY LEADER OF THE OPPOSITION RT. HON. DR. DENZIL DOUGLAS REGARDING CORRUPTION IN THE GOVERNMENT OF DISLOYAL PRIME MINISTER HARRIS\nIt has come to my attention that Prime Minister Dr Timothy Harris, in his usual deceptive fashion, has recently attempted to perpetuate a flagrant and most outrageous lie about me in the public sphere. I [\u2026.]\nOPPOSITION MAKES OFFICIAL CALL FOR NATIONAL DAY OF PRAYER. HANLEY INSISTS ON PRAYER\nDear Members of the Clergy, On behalf of Her Majesty's Loyal Opposition and on my own behalf, I wish to express deep concern for the escalating crime that is taking place in our beloved country [\u2026.]\nDR. TIMOTHY HARRIS FORCED TO ACTIVATE INTEGRITY IN PUBLIC LIFE\nThe St. Kitts-Nevis Labour Party prior to leaving office in February 2015, implemented a suite of legislation to promote good governance and transparency. One of such pieces of legislation was the Integrity in Public Life [\u2026.]\nOPPOSITION LEADER DENZIL DOUGLAS CALLS FOR A NEW PLAN AND STRATEGY TO COMBAT ESCALATING CRIME\nBasseterre, St. Kitts, August 23, 2018 \u2013 Political Leader of the opposition St. Kitts-Nevis Labour Party (SKNLP), the Rt. Hon. Dr. Denzil L. Douglas said Wednesday that tackling and curbing crime will be at the [\u2026.]","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
+{"text":"Meet 'The Voice' Star Dana Monique, Team Nick's Showstopper\nJill O'Rourke\nNBC \/ YouTube, @thedanamonique \/ Instagram\nThe Voice Season 20 contestant Dana Monique has been wowing us since her first Blind Audition. The 41-year-old was recently chosen by coach Nick Jonas to remain on his team for the Semifinals.\nDana's recent performance in the Top 17 was so impressive, coach Kelly Clarkson actually started throwing things at her. Now she's hoping to make it to the Finals.\n'The Voice' Star Dana Monique Comes from a Musical Family\nDana, who is from Houston, Texas, grew up singing in church, and comes from a very musical family. As she shared with Houston Life, her grandfather was a quartet singer and pastor, her mother is a singer-songwriter, her father used to play in jazz bands and with gospel artists.\n\"That's how I grew up,\" Dana said of her musical upbringing. \"That's what I know.\"\nSEE ALSO: MEET 'THE VOICE' STAR RACHEL MAC, TEAM NICK'S 'DARK HORSE'\nShe's Been a Background Singer for Many Years\nAccording to her The Voice bio, Dana was touring as a background singer at the age of 15. She's continued singing background vocals for other artists for most of her career. This experience influenced her decision to join Jonas' team on the show.\nViolinist Gabriella Laberge Keeps Simon Cowell From Hitting Red Buzzer on 'AGT'\n'America's Got Talent' Golden Buzzer Darci Lynne Farmer Continues to Thrive\nWhat is 'AGT' Golden Buzzer Courtney Hadwin Up to Now?\n\"Nick said this one thing that kind of resonated with me. He said, 'Dana, I have something to prove,'\" Dana said to Houston Life. \"In that moment, everything in my head and my heart started rushing to when I have sang background for so many people \u2026 How I've done things for other people. And in this moment, it's my turn.\"\nDana said she also had something to prove, so Jonas' comment \"touched my heart.\" She's remained on his team through the Battles, Knockouts, and Live Playoffs. And Clarkson has said she wants to sing backup for her.\nhttps:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/COqOTOhB0E7\/\nDana Has Two Kids Who Are Also Artists\nDana has a son and a daughter, both of whom are artistic like their mother. Her son is a rapper who goes by the name Salvatixn. Her daughter is a makeup artist who does Dana's makeup for her. She's also a visual artist who enjoys painting. Dana joked to Houston Life that her house is \"crazy,\" as it's so full of artists.\nDana is a single mother to her two kids. Before her Blind Audition on The Voice this season, Dana shared that she and her children had previously struggled with homelessness after her divorce.\nSEE ALSO: COMMENTS ON KELLY CLARKSON'S 'THE VOICE' STYLE RAISE DOUBLE STANDARD\nShe Has Performed on a Cruise Ship\nIn addition to singing background vocals, Dana has also worked as a cruise ship singer. She's performed as the lead singer of the B.B. King All Stars band on the Holland America cruise line. Last year, former Voice contestant Shawn Sounds posted a Facebook video of Dana singing \"Think\" by Aretha Franklin on the cruise.\nDana told the Houston Chronicle that passengers on the cruise would suggest that she audition for The Voice. She wasn't sure she would be good enough, but she's proven herself to be a frontrunner in the current competition.\nDana Monique Has Some Amazing Music Idols\nFor her Blind Audition, Dana performed \"Freeway of Love\" by Aretha Franklin. When asked about her musical influences by coach John Legend, she described herself as an \"Aretha Franklin, Chaka Khan, Tina Turner kind of girl.\"\nDana covered \"Ain't Nobody\" by Chaka Khan last year, and she sang \"Nutbush City Limits\" by Tina Turner during the Knockouts, so she's performed songs by all three women.\nWe'll find out soon if Dana's show-stopping talent is enough to get her to the Finals for Season 20. Either way, we're so glad we know her name now.\nThe Jonas Brothers Spark Tour Rumors with Kelsea Ballerini\nDana Moniquenick jonasThe Voice\nJill O'Rourke is a contributor at Talent Recap, writing news stories and recaps for shows like 'AGT,' 'The Voice,' and 'American Idol.' She graduated from the University of Georgia with a degree in English and Film Studies, and has been writing about pop culture since 2012, with previous bylines at Crushable and A Plus. Jill spends her free time binge-watching sitcoms and daydreaming about life as a hobbit\nYour Email (Your email address will not be published)*\nYour email address will not be published. We use this field to verify if the person is not a bot and won't leave spam comments on the website.\nNick Jonas, Priyanka Chopra Welcome First Child Via Surrogate\nPriyanka Chopra Shares Social Media Frustrations, Denies Divorce Rumor","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
+{"text":"Many injured in Tel Aviv bus explosion\nAt least 24 people wounded in what police call a \"terrorist attack\" in Israel's commercial capital.\nAt least 24 people have been injured in an explosion on a bus in Israel's commercial capital, Tel Aviv, in what police described as a \"terrorist attack\".\nThe blast shattered windows on the bus as it drove along a tree-lined street next to Israel's huge defence ministry complex on Wednesday.\nThree of the wounded were in serious condition, according to police.\nPolice also said it was not a suicide attack and suggested that someone might have left the device on the bus.\n\"We do believe it was a terrorist attack,\" Israeli police spokesman Mickey Rosenfeld told Al Jazeera.\nThe bombing happened on the eighth day of an Israeli offensive against the Palestinian Gaza Strip, hours before a ceasefire agreement was announced in Egypt.\nFawzi Barhoum, a spokesman for Hamas, which rules Gaza, told Al Jazeera that \"this is a natural result for the Israeli aggression on our people\".\n\"If the Israel continues its aggression then all options are open.\"\n'Smoke everywhere'\nAl Jazeera's Hoda Abdel-Hamid, reporting from Tel Aviv, said police were looking for one or possibly two people who left the bus shortly before the explosion.\n\"No one has claimed responsibility,\" she said. \"Officials are not pointing their finger at any group in particular.\"\nThe bus driver, who escaped largely unscathed, told reporters he had not seen anyone suspicious get on board.\n\"I felt the explosion \u2026 Smoke was everywhere, you couldn't see a thing,\" he said.\nCelebratory gunfire rang out in Gaza City when local radio stations reported news of the Tel Aviv explosion.\nAt least 139 Palestinians have been killed in Gaza since bombardment began on Wednesday. Five Israelis have been killed by rockets fired from Gaza.\nThe US condemned the bus bombing and said it would help Israel catch those responsible.\n\"The United States will stand with our Israeli allies, and provide whatever assistance is necessary to identify and bring to justice the perpetrators of this attack,\" White House press secretary Jay Carney said in a statement.\nRussia denounced the attack as a \"criminal,\" and France and Germany called for an urgent and lasting truce in Gaza.\nUN chief Ban Ki-moon condemned the attack and said it \"makes it all the more urgent to reach an immediate ceasefire\".\nThe last time a bomb blast hit Tel Aviv was in April 2006, when a Palestinian suicide bomber killed 11 people at a sandwich stand near the old central bus station.\nGaza fighters have fired at least four rockets at the Mediterranean city over the past week, but they scored no direct hits and caused no casualties.\nIsrael launched its military offensive with the stated aim of halting all missile launches out of the Gaza Strip, which lies about 70km south of Tel Aviv.\nIsraeli rocket victims rage for revenge\nAnger and calls for a Gaza ground war abound in the tiny town where three Israelis were killed by a Palestinian rocket.\nIsrael's scorched earth policy in Gaza could prove fatal\nThe US and other western governments have failed to publicly criticise Israel for its iron-fist policy on Palestine.\nMuhammad Abdul Bari\nGaza family killed by Israeli airstrike\nTen members of al-Dallu family, including four children, have been killed after missile hits their home.\nGaza ground war poses risks for Netanyahu\nA topic of debate inside Israel is just how much the military operations are being driven by political motivations.","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
+{"text":"Energized Neocons Say Israel's Fight Is Washington's\nby Jim Lobe Posted on July 18, 2006 August 7, 2009\nSeeing a major opportunity to regain influence lost as a result of setbacks in Iraq, prominent neoconservatives are calling for unconditional U.S. support for Israel's military offensives in Gaza and Lebanon and \"regime change\" in Syria and Iran, as well as possible U.S. attacks on Tehran's nuclear facilities in retaliation for its support of Hezbollah.\nIn a Weekly Standard column entitled \"It's Our War,\" editor William Kristol Sunday called Iran \"the prime mover behind the terrorist groups who have started this war,\" which, he argued, should be considered part of \"the global struggle against radical Islamism.\"\nHe complained that Washington recently has done a \"poor job of standing up and weakening Syria and Iran\" and called on President George W. Bush himself to fly directly from the \"silly [Group of Eight] summit in St. Petersburg \u2026 to Jerusalem, the capital of a nation that stands with us, and is willing to fight with us, against our common enemies.\"\n\"This is our war, too,\" according to Kristol, who is also a founder and co-chairman of the recently lapsed Project for the New American Century (PNAC).\n\"All of us in the free world owe Israel an enormous thank-you for defending freedom, democracy, and security against the Iranian cat's-paw wholly-owned terrorist subsidiaries Hezbollah and Hamas,\" echoed Larry Kudlow, a neoconservative commentator, at the Standard's right-wing competitor, National Review.\n\"They are defending their own homeland and very existence, but they are also defending America's homeland as our front-line democratic ally in the Middle East,\" according to Kudlow who, like Kristol and other like-minded polemicists, also named Syria, \"which is also directed by Iran,\" as a promising target as the conflict expands.\nThe two columns are just the latest examples of a slew of commentaries that have appeared in U.S. print and broadcast media since Israel began bombing targets in Lebanon in retaliation for Hezbollah's fatal cross-border attack last Wednesday. They appear to be part of a deliberate campaign by neoconservatives and some of their right-wing supporters to depict the current conflict as part of global struggle pitting Israel, as the forward base of Western civilization, against Islamist extremism organized and directed by Iran and its junior partner, Syria.\nThis view was perhaps most dramatically expressed by former Republican Speaker of the House, Newt Gingrich, in an appearance on NBC's Meet the Press Sunday when he described the conflict as \"the early stages of \u2026 the Third World War.\"\nThe effort to frame the current round of violence as part of a much larger struggle \u2013 and Israel's role as Washington's most loyal front-line ally \u2013 recalls the neoconservatives early reaction to the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks on New York and the Pentagon.\nJust nine days after 9\/11, Kristol and PNAC \u2013 whose charter members included Vice President Dick Cheney, Pentagon chief Donald Rumsfeld, and half a dozen other senior Bush administration officials \u2013 released an open letter to Bush that called for the U.S. to retaliate not only against al-Qaeda and Afghanistan, but also against Israel's main regional foes, beginning with Iraqi President Saddam Hussein and Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) chairman Yasser Arafat.\nIn addition, the letter advised, \"any war against terrorism must target Hezbollah. We believe that the administration should demand that Iran and Syria immediately cease all military, financial, and political support for Hezbollah and its operations. Should Iran and Syria refuse to comply, the administration should consider appropriate measures of retaliation against these state sponsors of terrorism.\"\n\"Israel has been and remains America's staunchest ally against international terrorism, especially in the Middle East,\" the letter asserted. \"The United States should fully support our fellow democracy in its fight against terrorism.\"\nWhile the Iraqi and Palestinian components of PNAC's agenda were soon adopted as policy and essentially achieved, neoconservative hopes that Bush would move on Hezbollah \u2013 as well as Syria and Iran \u2013 eventually stalled as U.S. military forces became bogged down in an increasingly bloody and costly counter-insurgency war in Iraq.\nAs the situation in Iraq worsened, neoconservative influence in and on the administration also declined to the benefit of \"realists\" based primarily in the State Department who favored a less aggressive policy designed to secure Damascus' and Tehran's cooperation in stabilizing Iraq and strengthen the elected Lebanese government of which Hezbollah was made a part.\nIn that context, the current conflict represents a golden opportunity for the neoconservatives to reassert their influence and reactivate their Israel-centered agenda against Hezbollah and its two state sponsors.\n\"Iran's Proxy War\" blazed the cover of this week's Standard, which also featured no less than three other articles, besides Kristol's editorial, underlining Iran's sponsorship of Hezbollah and Hamas and the necessity of the U.S. standing with Israel, if not taking independent action against Tehran and\/or Damascus as recommended by Kristol himself.\nA major theme of the new campaign is that the more-conciliatory \"realist\" policies toward Syria and Iran pursued by the State Department have actually backfired by making Washington look weak.\n\"They are now testing us more boldly than one would have thought possible a few years ago,\" wrote Kristol. \"Weakness is provocative. We have been too weak, and have allowed ourselves to be perceived as weak,\" he went on, adding that, \"[T]he right response is renewed strength,\" notably \"in pursuing regime change in Syria and Iran [and] consider[ing] countering this act of Iranian aggression with a military strike against Iranian nuclear facilities.\"\nThe notion that U.S. policy in the region has become far too flaccid and accommodating is echoed by a number of other neoconservatives, particularly Michael Rubin, a prolific analyst at the hard-line American Enterprise Institute (AEI) and prot\u00e9g\u00e9 of Cheney confidante and former Defense Policy Board chairman Richard Perle.\nIn a companion Standard article, Rubin qualified recent State Department policy as \"All Talk and No Strategy\" that had emboldened enemies, especially Iran, to challenge Washington and its allies.\nIn another article for National Review Monday, bluntly titled \"Eradication First,\" he elaborated on that theme, arguing diplomacy in the current crisis will only be successful \"if it commences both after the eradication of Hezbollah and Hamas, and after their paymasters pay a terrible cost for their support.\"\n\"If \u2026 peace is the aim, it is imperative to punish the Syrian and Iranian leadership,\" he wrote.\nAbove all, according to the neoconservatives, the U.S. position in the region is now inextricably tied to the success or failure of Israel's military campaign.\nIn yet another Standard article, titled \"The Rogues Strike Back: Iran, Syria, Hamas, and Hezbollah vs. Israel,\" Robert Satloff, executive director of the hawkish, pro-Israel Washington Institute for Near East Policy, argued that \"defeat for Israel \u2013 either on the battlefield or via coerced compromises to achieve flawed cease-fires \u2013 is a defeat for U.S. interests; it will inspire radicals of every stripe, release Iran and Syria to spread more mayhem inside Iraq, and make more likely our own eventual confrontation with this emboldened alliance of extremists.\"\n(Inter Press Service)\nAuthor: Jim Lobe\nJim Lobe writes for Inter Press Service.\tView all posts by Jim Lobe\nPrevious Previous post: We're Being Set Up for Wider War in the Middle East\nNext Next post: Where Are Bush's Critics Now?\nJim Lobe's Latest Posts\nThe Royal Wedding Received Triple the Media Coverage of Yemen in 2018\nDespite Public's War Weariness, US Defense Budget May Rise\nThe Uses of Ukraine\nUS Hawks Take Flight Over Ukraine\nAIPAC's Annus Horribilis?","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
+{"text":"Nimali dazzles to win Gold in India\nPublished : 8:29 am July 10, 2017 | No comments so far | |\n22nd Asian Athletics Meet\nSL claims three Silver Medals on final day\nBy Susil Premalal reporting from India\nSri Lanka's Nimali Liyanarachchi put up a stunning performance to win the Gold Medal in the Women's 800m event on the final day of the 22nd Asian Athletics Championship which concluded at the Kalinga Stadium in Bhubaneswar, India yesterday.\nEven then, it was through a technical fault that Nimali was awarded the gold medal after India's Archana Jadhav who originally won the race was later disqualified from the event.\nThe Sri Lankan Team Management lodged a complaint with the Appeal Board and they found that Archana had obstructed Nimali during the course of the race.\nNimali returned a time of 2:05.23 seconds and her teammate Gayanthika Abeyratne (who initially finished third) had the satisfaction of winning the Silver Medal with a time of 2:05.27 seconds.\nEarlier, Rumeshika Rathnayake also produced a fine performance to take the Silver Medal in the Women's 200m with a time of 23.43 seconds.\nSri Lanka's third silver medal of the day came through their 4X400m relay team as they finished second with a time of 3:04.80 seconds.\nThe relay team comprised of Tharaka Dananjaya, Kalinga Kumarage, Ajith Premakumara and Dilip Ruwan.\nMeanwhile, Sri Lanka's Indunil Herath was placed fifth in the Men's 800m with a time of 1:50.57 seconds.\nIn addition Dhanuka Liyanapathirana was placed eighth in the Men's long jump and Varuna Lakshan also was pushed into eighth place in the Men's javelin throw.\nSri Lanka emerge runners-up at SA Junior Meet\nLakmal ignites Lanka's medal quest\nSilver and Bronze for Sri Lanka at Asian Schools Chess Championship\nFour SL qualify for finals\nSadeepa steals the limelight\nDissanayake brings home 'Silver'","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
+{"text":"Softcover | First Edition | 128 pages\nPublished by Walther Konig, 1997.\nThis is the true first edition of Wolfgang Tillmans' iconic, photobook which has been reproduced over multiple editions since its initial release.\nWith no text other than the inner-front flap's description, Tillmans' iconic book consists of 62 color photographs of the Concorde airplane\u2014taking off, landing or in flight, and sometimes as just a tiny, birdlike silhouette in the sky. The photographs speak of both the beauty and the environmental devastation produced by this fabled French\/British airplane, both sides of which Tillmans captures in his casual yet formally elegant signature style.\n\"Concorde is perhaps the last example of a techno-utopian invention from the sixties still to be operating and fully functioning today. It's futuristic shape, speed and ear-numbing thunder grabs people's imagination today as much as it did when it first took off in 1969. It's an environmental nightmare conceived in 1962 when technology and progress was the answer to everything and the sky was no longer a limit. \" - Wolfgang Tillmans\nCondition: very good (natural wear to first title page + discolouration from age)","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
+{"text":"The Apollo Theater meant music to our ears for generations\nby Gregg Reese | OW Contributor June 9, 2011 October 19, 2021\nFor those of who think Harlem's Apollo Theater is the syndicated television show of the same name, the California African American Museum's (CAAM) ongoing exhibition, \"Ain't Nothing Like the Real Thing,\" should be an eye-opener.\nIn celebration of that venerable venue's 75th anniversary, the Smithsonian Institute has organized a national tour that documents the transition of this world-famous music hall from it's inception in 1914 as a burlesque establishment catering to a White-only clientele through it's evolution into a showplace for the ever-changing musical styles and genres of African American entertainment and culture.\nIn the aftermath of World War I, hundreds of thousands of returning Black veterans, including the heroic \"Harlem Hell fighters\" of the 369th Infantry Regiment disembarked in New York on their way home from the European trenches, and many of them stayed in Harlem.\nThis influx was abetted by a steady stream of recent migrants from the South in the first Great Migration and marked the birth of the urban Black communities in the North.\nThe northern neighborhood of Manhattan, called Harlem, was especially hospitable to Negro tenants. In the book published in tandem with this exhibition, a passage cited the famous photojournalist Jacob Riis reporting that landlords actually preferred Black tenants, because they were cleaner and more steady than \"lower grades of foreign White people.\"\nThe emerging neighborhood fostered a wide range of thriving businesses and played host to a growing number intellectuals, manifested by the sprouting of the Harlem Renaissance. The Apollo followed suit with its introduction of theatrical genres dating from the previous century.\nSoon it gained a reputation for presenting \"America's smartest Colored shows\" as a welcome respite from the drudgery of the Depression. Among the featured staples was the implementation of Wednesday's \"Amateur Night,\" a precursor of today's American Idol, in which the audience became as much a part of the performance as those on stage. A performer's success could be gauged by the cheer or jeers generated by the spectators, punctuated by the appearance of an \"executioner\" armed with a broom, who literally swept the second-rate and untalented from the stage decades before the advent of Simon Cowell.\nSwing bands and vaudeville, popular in the 1930s and '40s, segued into Rhythm & Blues revues, shared the stage with flourishing talents from the \"Chitlin' Circuit\" during the 1950s, and as the social and political climate shifted in the 1960s, the Apollo periodically did double duty as a platform for dissent in addition to its regular function as an amusement organ. The music reflected the changing times as well, evidenced by the lyrics of Curtis Mayfield (\"Keep on Pushing\"), Nina Simone (\"Mississippi Goddam\"), and especially James Brown (\"Say It Loud, I'm Black and I'm Proud!\").\nAs anyone familiar with the geography of New York knows, the Apollo stands just blocks from the vivacious community known as Spanish Harlem, and musicians reflecting this bastion of Caribbean rhythm and melody have often graced its stage. These included Puerto Rican Tito Puente, and La Guarachera de Cuba (\"the World's Cuban Queen\"), Miss Celia Cruz.\nAs the inhabitants of its stage have echoed the changing trends in Black music, the Apollo Theatre's fortunes have reflected the ebb and flow of the community it serves. It experienced its own decay and was even revamped as a movie house in the mid-1970s.\nThrough the efforts of civil-rights activist and lawyer Percy Sutton, it underwent a long campaign of rehabilitation, and today it is owned by the state of New York and enjoys status as a federal, state, and city landmark.\nMaintenance and operation is assumed by a nonprofit entity, befitting its significance as more than just a mere structure housing the performing arts. An education and community outreach program is in place within the facility as well.\nThe Apollo recognizes the legends that have added to its reputation by doing such things as serving as a location for the body of James Brown to lie in state following his death in 2006. Similarly, a memorial service was held for Michael Jackson on the first anniversary of his demise in 2009.\nThe exhibit itself is handsomely mounted, and prominently displays numerous artifacts from its celebrated history, including the tap shoes worn by a pre-teen Sammy Davis Jr., a wooden appendage worn by legendary \"hoofer\" Clayton \"Peg Leg\" Bates, and the famous black fedora used by Michael Jackson during one of his tours.\nRunning from June 2 through Sept. 4, the presentation is augmented by several lectures, presentations, and workshops, the details of which may be accessed at the museum website at www.caamuseum.org\nHollywood by Choice\n'Funny 4 Real' comedy show\nWatts Village Theater Company to host fundraiser","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}