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+{"text":"Ryen Russillo Podcasts\nRyen Russillo public [search 0]\nSports Football Basketball Entertainment Cinema Society Showbiz NBA NFL American Football ESPN Ncaa Football Russia Pro Basketball Simmons Dungeons and Dragons Sports and Entertainment Barstool Sports Ringer News\nThe Ryen Russillo Podcast\nEach week, Ryen Russillo will break down the biggest topics in sports.\nHBO and The Ringer's Bill Simmons hosts the most downloaded sports podcast of all time, with a rotating crew of celebrities, athletes, and media staples, as well as mainstays like Cousin Sal, Joe House, and a slew of other friends and family members who always happen to be suspiciously available.\nThe Russillo Show\nRyen Russillo gives you his unfiltered take on the biggest stories in the sports world.\n'The Rewatchables,' a film podcast from the Ringer Podcast Network, features The Ringer's Bill Simmons and a roundtable of people from the Ringer universe discussing movies they can't seem to stop watching. Listen to the complete archives of 150-plus movies, including 'The Hangover,' 'Godfather 2,' 'Dunkirk,' 'Creed,' and many more classics, on our special 'Rewatchables' page on The Ringer.\nPardon My Take\nOn \"Pardon My Take,\" Big Cat & PFT Commenter deliver the loudest and most correct sports takes in the history of the spoken word. Daily topics, guests, and an inability to tell what the hosts might be doing will make this your new favorite sports talk show. This is a podcast that will without a doubt change your life for the better- guaranteed, or your money back. *Pretend a reggaeton air horn is going off right now* PMT.\nBad Signal with Courtney Fallon\nBoston on-air personality and sideline reporter Courtney Fallon is back with Bad Signal; a fresh, fun podcast at the intersection of sports, pop culture, & music. Courtney shares her decade's worth of experience in TV and sports radio at NFL Network & CBS Sports as she introduces compelling stories and the people she's met along the way.\nGreen Light with Chris Long\nFollowing the unfiltered voice and vision of Chris Long, Chalk Media is the interactive online community for you, the intelligent and humorous sports fan. Our premier podcast, Green Light, will feature celebrity interviews, commentary from Chris Long, special guests, \"one-of-kind\" segments and more. Nothing is off limits at Chalk - hot and controversial news items and trending discussions from professional and collegiate sports are just a small part of what we will be chatting with you about ...\nBook of Basketball 2.0\nBill Simmons's new podcast breaks down the NBA's most important games, players, and teams, extending and reinventing his New York Times no. 1 bestselling book from 2009. Playing off the NBA's dramatic changes during the past decade, Bill uses new commentary and fresh interviews with players and top media members to determine how the league has evolved and where it's headed. Produced by Bill Simmons and Kyle Crichton Music by Jackson Lowe Lyrics and vocals by Tic Tac and Melatonin\nPhil Simms Tells Playoff Stories and Previews Conference Championships. Plus, Talking Business With 'Shark Tank' Star Daymond John. 1:26:06\nRussillo is joined by two-time Super Bowl champion and broadcasting legend Phil Simms to discuss Chiefs-Bills and Packers-Buccaneers, how wind factors into QB play, losing to the 1985 Chicago Bears in the divisional round, winning the Super Bowl the next year, coach Bill Parcells, and more (1:30). Then Ryen talks to entrepreneur and author Daymond \u2026\nDan 'Big Cat' Katz & Ryen Russillo. Doug Pederson Firing & What's Next For The Eagles. NFL Divisional Round Preview. 1:55:48\n(01:10) - Welcome. (04:48) - Chris on Deshaun Watson and The Texans, Rams News, and Coaching Hires and Retirements. (16:22) - Chris on Doug Pederson. (28:51) - Chris on Bill Belichick News. (39:00) - Big Cat, Ryen Russillo and Chris Select Their Frankenstein Coaches. (1:43:30) - NFL Divisional Round Preview. Sign up for your DraftKings account at h\u2026\nLeBron's MVP Run, LaMelo's Leap, Steph's F.U. Tour, and the NBA's COVID Issues With Ryen Russillo 2:11:01\nThe Ringer's Bill Simmons is joined by Ryen Russillo to talk about the NBA board of governors meeting to discuss COVID-19 protocols (2:00) before evaluating LeBron's case for MVP (20:30), speculating on which teams may come out of the Western Conference (36:30), breaking down NBA rookies (1:16:30), ranking the Top 6 NBA League Pass teams (1:45:00),\u2026\nRinger's Ryen Russillo NBA\/NFL Double-Header 1:25:35\nThe dangerously talented and Manhattan Beach Notorious R-Y-E-N (Russillo) of the Ringer kicks off #BadSignal New Year with a clean slate and the main reason for living in the greatest small town west of Martha's Vineyard (07:10). It's the personal gym he's set up in his garage, obviously\u2026. Does the king of SWOL need a new year's resolution to stop \u2026\nJimmy Kimmel, Plus Red-Hot Million Dollar Picks With Peter Schrager 1:46:28\nThe Ringer's Bill Simmons is joined by Jimmy Kimmel to discuss Cousin Sal's new book, 'You Can't Lose Them All: Tales of a Degenerate Gambler and His Ridiculous Friends,' what the end of the Trump presidency means for 'Jimmy Kimmel Live!,' how 'SNL' might address the Biden administration, the greatest pranks from Jimmy's show, and more (2:20). Then\u2026\nBOOMER! Chris Berman On The Bills, His Best NFL Stories & Championship Weekend Picks. Bourbon-Sipping Mailbag. 1:47:16\n(02:00) - Welcome, North East End Zone Day in Philly and Retro-Shark Tank Binge Watching. (25:30) - Chris Berman on the Bills, His NFL Stories and Championship Weekend Picks. (1:30:00) - Bourbon-Infused Mailbag. Sign up for your DraftKings account at https:\/\/www.draftkings.com\/sportsbook and use promo code : Greenlight Green Light with Chris Long: \u2026\nJulian Edelman, Greg Maddux, Phil Rivers Retires And Championship Weekend 2:10:34\n5h ago 2:10:34\nPhil Rivers has retired and we're very sad about it. We talk about his career and Hall of Fame candidacy.(2:16-12:35) The Lions hire Dan Campbell and he's the greatest Football guy of all time.(12:36-21:40) Championship Weekend Preview and Cant Lose Parlay. (23:01-40:22) Patriots Wide Receiver Julian Edelman joins the show to talk about Championshi\u2026\n'The Terminator' With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Shea Serrano 1:39:22\nThe Ringer's Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Shea Serrano are sent from the future to stop an indestructible cyborg and save humanity so we can revisit James Cameron's 1984 hit 'The Terminator,' starring Arnold Schwarzenegger, Michael Biehn, and Linda Hamilton.By The Ringer & Bill Simmons\nThe Ringer's Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Shea Serrano are sent from the future to stop an indestructible cyborg and save humanity so we can revisit James Cameron's 1984 hit 'The Terminator,' starring Arnold Schwarzenegger, Michael Biehn, and Linda Hamilton.\nA Forgotten Team in the West, and Should We Stop Waiting on Giannis? Plus, the Scrappy Warriors and KD's Biggest Problem, With Logan Murdock 1:03:51\nRussillo shares some NBA thoughts on the Jazz, Bucks, and Wizards in a new edition of the Flagrant 3 (1:30) before talking with The Ringer's Logan Murdock about some of the Warriors' impressive games this season, Logan's time covering the team, the effects of the short turnaround between NBA seasons, the NBA's newest superteam, the Brooklyn Nets, a\u2026\nMEGATRON! Calvin Johnson on the Hall of Fame & Growing Cannabis. Mina Kimes on the NFL Coaching Carousel. 1:26:08\n(01:16) - Welcome. (04:54) - Mina Kimes on NFL Head Coaching Hires. (39:19) - Mina's Conference Championships Preview. (59:34) - Calvin Johnson on Cannabis, Detroit Lions and the Hall of Fame. Sign up for your DraftKings account at https:\/\/www.draftkings.com\/sportsbook and use promo code : Greenlight Green Light with Chris Long: Subscribe and enjoy\u2026\nMiami Heat's Duncan Robinson, Mahomes Injury, 62 Text Messages, And Guys On Chicks 1:34:53\nHappy Marcus Mariota Day, a day we should never forget but totally forgot. (2:09-7:06) Mets fire their GM after story breaks of his 62 unresponded text messages and unsolicited dick pick.(7:07-16:32) Mahomes injury update. (16:33-20:48) Hot Seat Cool Throne including NCAA tourney changes. (22:32-37:03) Miami Heat Guard\/SF Duncan Robinson joins the \u2026\nBrooklyn's Ceiling, Brady vs. Boston Fans, 'The Bachelor,' and Taylor Swift With Jackie MacMullan and Nora Princiotti 2:09:21\nThe Ringer's Bill Simmons is joined by Jackie MacMullan to discuss the Kevin Durant\u2013James Harden combo for the Nets, the Nets' exciting win over the Bucks, \"hopeless\" NBA teams in a shortened season, fake NBA trades, and more (2:00). Then Bill talks with The Ringer's Nora Princiotti about Tom Brady and the Buccaneers heading to Lambeau Field to fac\u2026\n'First Blood' With Bill Simmons and Brian Koppelman 1:24:49\nThe Ringer's Bill Simmons and Brian Koppelman join John Rambo in the mountains of the Pacific Northwest to wage war against their pursuers as they gear up for 'First Blood,' starring Sylvester Stallone, Richard Crenna, and Brian Dennehy.By The Ringer & Bill Simmons\nThe Ringer's Bill Simmons and Brian Koppelman join John Rambo in the mountains of the Pacific Northwest to wage war against their pursuers as they gear up for 'First Blood,' starring Sylvester Stallone, Richard Crenna, and Brian Dennehy.\nBrady vs. Rodgers, Andy Reid, and Playoff Story Time With Former NFL Fullback Jon Ritchie 1:06:21\nRussillo shares his thoughts on James Harden's debut with the Brooklyn Nets (5:00) before talking with sports-radio host and former NFL fullback Jon Ritchie about the Buccaneers' win over the Saints and upcoming NFC championship game vs. the Packers. Jon discusses his time playing for Andy Reid on the Eagles, why Reid is so universally loved, the i\u2026\nNFL Divisional Round Recap With Mark Sanchez. AFC\/NFC Championship Preview. Mexico vs The World, Blind Beer Tasting. 1:59:37\n(01:00) - Welcome. (03:00) - Mark Sanchez Joins. (06:15) - Green Bay Packers vs LA Rams Recap. (25:52) - Buffalo Bills vs Baltimore Ravens Recap. (43:26) - Kansas City Chiefs vs Cleveland Browns Recap. (1:02:39) - Tampa Bay Buccaneers vs New Orleans Saints Recap. (1:29:54) - Blind Beer Taste Test. Sign up for your DraftKings account at https:\/\/www.\u2026\nNFL Divisional Round Recap, Fastest 2 Minutes, Mahomes Concussion, And Brees' Last Ride 1:44:27\nFastest 2 Minutes (2:01 - 5:31). We recap every game from the weekend starting with Brees vs Brady and the last game of Drew Brees HoF career (5:31 - 19:34). Packers vs Rams and Aaron Rodgers possibly cheating because it doesnt make sense how good he is (19:34 - 33:30). Ravens vs Bills in a rock fight and the correct Lamar Jackson take (33:30 - 53:\u2026\nThe Henne Game, Brady Over Brees, Most Fun Super Bowl Possibilities, and Round 3 Lines With Cousin Sal 1:24:38\nThe Ringer's Bill Simmons is joined by Cousin Sal to discuss the nail-biter between the Chiefs and the Browns, the Buccaneers' win over the Saints, Ravens-Bills, and Packers-Rams (2:00), before guessing the lines for the conference championship games (51:00). Then they discuss the \"most fun\" Super Bowl matchup (1:00:30), before closing the show wit\u2026\nNFL Divisional Playoff Round Preview With ESPN's Stanford Steve. 27:28\n(04:30) - Green Bay Packers vs LA Rams. (12:05) - New Orleans Saints vs Tampa Bay Buccaneers. (18:00) - Buffalo Bills vs Baltimore Ravens. (22:50) - Kansas City Chiefs vs Cleveland Browns. Sign up for your DraftKings account at https:\/\/www.draftkings.com\/sportsbook and use promo code : Greenlight Green Light with Chris Long: Subscribe and enjoy wee\u2026\nBest Championship Teams Of All-Time with Dave Dameshek. Who Would A Ring Mean More To, Bills Or Browns? Best 2021 Hockey Uniforms. 2:11:29\n(02:11) - Welcome. (11:17) - Dave Dameshek on Best Championship Teams of All-Time and Who Would A Ring Mean More To, Browns or Bills? (1:26:26) - Mailbag And Best 2021 Hockey Uniforms. Sign up for your DraftKings account at https:\/\/www.draftkings.com\/sportsbook and use promo code : Greenlight Green Light with Chris Long: Subscribe and enjoy weekly \u2026\nNFL Divisional-Round Preview With Chris Long 1:25:01\nRussillo is joined by two-time Super Bowl champion Chris Long to discuss all four divisional-round playoff games, playoff stories, and more (3:30). Then Ryen answers some listener-submitted Life Advice questions (1:00:00).By The Ringer\nHarden Trade 2.0, Brady's Big Chance, and NFL Playoff Picks With Peter Schrager 1:29:58\nThe Ringer's Bill Simmons shares some more thoughts one day removed from the James Harden trade (2:00) before talking with Fox and NFL Network's Peter Schrager about all four upcoming NFL divisional-round playoff games (26:00). Then Bill shares his Million-Dollar Picks for the divisional round (1:17:00).\u2026\nAndrew Hawkins & Warren Sharp Preview NFL Super Divisional Round and James Harden is a Chonk King 2:01:46\nJames Harden \"The Brooklyn Fridge\" has eaten his way out of Houston and deserves all of the accolades in the world for making this season interesting. (2:02-15:50) We break down Super Divisional Playoff Weekend (17:38-31:32) and are joined by Andrew Hawkins (33:50-1:08:14) and Warren Sharp (1:10:01-1:46:11) to help us preview. Fyre Fest of the week\u2026\nJames Harden to Brooklyn With Bill Simmons and Jackie MacMullan 1:04:57\nRussillo is joined by Bill Simmons and Jackie MacMullan to discuss the Houston Rockets trading James Harden to the Brooklyn Nets, the Pacers trading Victor Oladipo to the Rockets for Caris LeVert, how the new Brooklyn team will mesh together, a plethora of pick swaps and more!By The Ringer","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
+{"text":"Opinion: Three ways Virginia can maintain its manufacturing edge\nNavy officer dies during training in Va. Beach\nKathy Griffin criticizes FBI after D.C. riot: 'The DOJ contacted me within hours'\nFollowing the deadly riot in Washington, D.C., comedian Kathy Griffin scolded the FBI on Twitter Thursday after the bureau asked the public's help in identifying individuals who took part in storming the Capitol building.\nThis file photo shows Kathy Griffin posing for a portrait in New York. (Matt Licari\/Matt Licari\/Invision\/AP)\n\"With all due respect, you work for the Department of Justice,\" Griffin tweeted. \"The DOJ contacted me within hours of posting an offensive photo of Donald Trump. Hours. There is ample evidence all over the Internet clearly identifying thousands of these actual terrorists.\"\nIn 2017, Griffin drew the Trump family's ire when she posed with a fake severed head of the president during a photoshoot. Griffin said she was investigated by the Secret Service and FBI regarding the photo, kicked off of CNN's annual New Year's Eve broadcast and received death threats because of the photo.\nGriffin was reportedly one of the people targeted by Trump supporter and mail bomber Cesar Sayoc in 2018, presumably because of the image.\nGriffin reposted the photo on Wednesday along with the message, \"Just resign now. You lost. Its over,\" when she retweeted the president.\nLatest Celebrity\nPharrell not giving up on Hampton Roads but says he's disappointed with surf park delays while at Norfolk forum\nKanye West asks court to legally change his name to Ye","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
+{"text":"About 350 Colorado\nBoard Members, Team Leaders, and Staff\nClimate Change in Colorado\nDefund Climate Disaster\nGo Fossil Free: Divest-Invest\nTake Action at the Capitol\nPromote Renewables\nMoving Beyond Coal\nProtect Public Lands\nVolunteer & Join Our Campaigns\n350 Boulder County\n350 Central Colorado\n350 Colorado Springs\n350 Grand Junction\n350 Metro Denver\n350 Northern Colorado\n350 Roaring Fork Valley\n350 North Metro Denver\n350 JeffCo\nTeam Resources and Ideas\nColorado People's Climate Justice Platform\nBreak Free From Fossil Fuels in Colorado\nLocal Food & Fighting Climate Change with Your Fork\nFossil Free Your Life\nFact Sheets, Videos and More\nWhy PERA Should Divest from Fossil Fuels: Guest Blog Post from PERA Member\nThere is a global movement of divestment from fossil fuels and investment in green energy occurring called the Go Fossil Free\/Divest-Invest movement that has already garnered the commitment of 1,000+ institutions totaling over $8B of investments. PERA should join this movement, not only to be on the \"right side of history\" environmentally speaking, but also to ensure it fulfills its sole purpose: to maintain its assets in the present and in the future to fund the retirement of its members.\nIsaac Furtney, PERA member\nThanks to Isaac Furtney for today's blog post. Isaac is a PERA member and believes that PERA should join the global divest-invest movement, not only to be on the \"right side of history\" environmentally speaking, but also to ensure it fulfills its sole purpose: to maintain its assets in the present and in the future to fund the retirement of its members.\nAs a relatively green school bus driver, I recently became aware of PERA, or the Colorado Public Employees Retirement Association as it is the retirement plan my colleagues and I (as well as one-in-ten Coloradans) are contributing to in place of Social Security. Roughly 8% of my pre-tax paycheck goes straight into it, while my employer pays a little over double that amount. It will be part of the income I rely on when I retire many years from now. Retirement is potentially the most financially vulnerable period of a person's life, and it is important to me that the funds I contribute to while working are there for me when I need them down the road.\nThe recent legislation concerning PERA alarmed me, particularly that members are now forced to contribute more to keep the fund solvent. I began wondering why the Colorado Congress deemed this measure necessary. I began to wonder why, with the market rising consistently over the last few years, our investments weren't growing similarly. The fact that managed funds typically perform no better than indices crossed my mind. Knowing that PERA's investments are managed by people caused me to wonder what exactly the financial advisers are deciding to invest my colleagues' and my money in. And, who are they being advised by on the issue of fossil fuel investments? If they are only being counseled by an oil and gas lobbying firm as a November, 2018 article indicated, this is problematic.\nAlthough I'm not retiring for many years, I still don't want PERA taking any unnecessary risks with its investment strategy. I also wish PERA to be invested in ethically sound companies. Also, as a relatively \"green-minded\" school bus driver, I am aware of the urgency of climate change. Toward these ends, I don't want to see PERA investing in fossil fuel companies, including oil and gas extractors and utility companies that burn coal, which are aiding in the destruction of the planet\u2013which is another thing besides an income I want to be around when I retire. While my school bus is currently powered by fossil fuels, my retirement need not\u2013and should not\u2013be.\nAccording to PERA's SEC filings, PERA has over 5% of its total global equity invested in oil and gas and utility companies. PERA is not only invested in Colorado-based oil and gas companies, as might seem justifiable as \"supporting the state,\" but is heavily invested in companies like the Texas-based Anadarko Petroleum Corp. Supporting fossil fuel companies not only endorses their destructive behavior, it also represents a large financial risk. Tom Sanzillo, Director of the Finance Institute for Energy Economics and Financial Analysis points out in a Colorado Politics article entitled, \"Colorado's PERA Shouldn't Bank on the Future of Oil and Gas,\" that \"competition from wind and solar on the power-generation side of the equation and from the rise of electric vehicles on the transport side [will harm the future performance of fossil fuel stocks].\" These companies and their shareholders also need to be concerned about the probability of stranded assets\u2013i.e. fossil fuel reserves that will become legally unattainable once global initiatives to reduce carbon emissions (such as the Paris Climate Accord)\u2013diminishing their profitability.\nThere is an entire global movement of divestment from fossil fuels and investment in green energy occurring called the Go Fossil Free\/Divest-Invest movement that has already garnered the commitment of 1,000+ institutions totaling over $8B of investments. PERA should join this movement, not only to be on the \"right side of history\" environmentally speaking, but also to ensure it fulfills its sole purpose: to maintain its assets in the present and in the future to fund the retirement of its members.\nWant to learn more and get involved in the Fossil Free PERA campaign? To sign the petition calling on PERA to divest from fossil fuels, click here. To learn more about 350 Colorado's work on divestment, click here.\nIsaac Furtney is a Colorado native, a PERA member, an intern for 350 Colorado, a Fort Lewis College graduate, and a bus operator for SVVSD.\nStop Fracking!\nColorado is at a crossroads: The fossil fuel industry is invading our neighborhoods and ruining our air, water, land, health and climate.\nTell the COGCC and Gov. Polis to take action to protect our communities now!\nSend your letter now!\nUse this guide to help protect your community from fracking by passing a local moratorium.\nGive us a like and you'll get info on all of our upcoming events and group meetings in your feed!\nTweets by @350Colorado","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
+{"text":"The Remains Of A Stone Age Couple Found In A Spooning Embrace\nArchaeologists working at the Alepotrypa Cave in Greece have discovered a rare 5,800-year-old double burial in which two well-preserved skeletons were found in what appears to be the spooning position.\nThis excavation site is one of the largest Neolithic burial sites in all of Europe. The cave has a huge interior, with some of its chambers measuring more than half a kilometer in depth. Alepotrypa Cave is located above Diros Bay and burials within it span the entire Neolithic period in Greece, from 6,000 to 3,200 BC. Sometime around 3,000 BC, an earthquake rocked the area, causing the cave entrance to collapse and lock its interior to outside intruders. Though rediscovered in 1958, excavations did not start until the 1970s. To date, archaeologists have uncovered the remains of no less than 170 individuals.\nIn addition to the embracing couple, the archaeologists uncovered the remains of a child and a newborn, along with a second burial containing the bones of a young man and woman facing each another in a curled position.\nWriting in National Geographic, Rick Romeo describes the couple:\n\"They're totally spooning,\" [Bill] Parkinson [associate curator of Eurasian anthropology at Chicago's Field Museum] said of the last pair. \"The boy is the big spoon, and the girl is the little spoon: Their arms are draped over each other, their legs are intertwined. It's unmistakable.\"\nAnastasia Papathanasiou, a Greek archaeologist who has worked at the site since the late 1980s, said the couple probably died in the embracing pose or were placed in this pose shortly after death. \"It's a very natural hug; it doesn't look like they were arranged in this posture at a much later date.\"\nSome media reports have claimed the couple was stoned to death, but Parkinson and Papathanasiou cautioned that there is no evidence for this. The cause of death is a mystery.\nAs noted by Romeo, these folks lived during what appears to be an exceptionally violent period. More than 30% of the skeletons feature evidence of blunt cranial trauma, likely inflicted by rocks, stones, or clubs. That said, these wounds appear to be nonlethal. The archaeologists attribute the violence to competition for land, water, and\/or other resources.\nMuch more at National Geographic.\nImage: Greek Ministry of Culture, Education and Religious Affairs.\nClitortise\nFrom the angle and skull expression... looks like they were doing the Flintstone and making the bedrock.","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
+{"text":"Home | Army | Is there life after the military?\nIs there life after the military?\nHow do I prepare for life after the military?\nWhat do soldiers do after leaving the army?\nWhat to do after 20 years in the military\nWhy leaving the military is so hard\nWhy is military life so hard\nDoes your personality change after the military\nHow do people make 6 figures after the military\nIs it hard to get a job after leaving the military\nWhat do you do after 4 years in Army\nWhat job can I do after the Army\nDo you make money after leaving the military\nIs it worth staying past 20 years in the military\nWhat can I do instead of the military\nCan you serve 4 years in the military\nDoes the military pay forever\nDo you get paid for life after leaving the military?\nDo you live for free in the military\nWhen should you quit the military\nIs leaving the military a crime\nWhy do people not want to join the military?\nWhy are so many people leaving the military\nWhy do most military relationships fail\nWhat the military does to the brain\nWhat personality type is best for military?\nDoes the military age your body\nWhat type of soldier makes the most money?\nWhat is the highest paid military job\nDo US soldiers get paid for life\nWhy companies don t hire veterans\nIs joining the military even worth it?\nAre you guaranteed a job after military\nWhat are the disadvantages of being in the military\nWhile the Military can be a rewarding, lifelong career for many service members, it can also serve as the foundation for a civilian career. Whatever the case may be, service members will have resources and skills to transition into life after serving.\nBuild a \"me\" book or binder.\nKeep a detailed record of your accomplishments and military training.\nMake good choices.\nCivilianize your job and your accomplishments while you're still working in that job.\nSearch for your online profile.\nMany who serve in the armed forces can't imagine a job being stuck behind a desk and the land-based sector has a wide selection of roles to offer ex-military personnel including floristry, game-keeping, farming, tree-surgery, landscaping and conservation.\nAfter 20 years of service, military members can retire under the High-3 retirement plan with 50% of their basic pay, full medical coverage and a range of other benefits. Service members who retire under the newer BRS will earn 40% of their base pay with whatever has been accrued in their TSP.\nThe military provides a sense of purpose, well-defined roles and hierarchy, camaraderie, honor and mission \u2013 things that can be hard to find or define in the civilian world. So when our veterans transition out of the military, it can spark a loss of identity and meaning of life.\nMilitary life results in uncertainty and breaks in routine, which can cause family members to experience high anxiety, depression, PTSD and long-term mental health and wellness injuries. Many spouses feel it will hurt their military partner's chances of promotion if they would seek help for stress or depression.\nPeople lower in agreeableness, neuroticism, and openness to experience during high school were more likely to enter the military after graduation. In addition, military training was associated with changes in personality. Compared with a control group, military recruits had lower levels of agreeableness after training.\nSee also Can you wear makeup in the Army UK?\nHealth Care Provider.\nManufacturing Technician.\nInformation Technology Professional.\nBusiness Administrator or Manager.\nHuman Services Representative.\nSkilled Tradesman.\nFinancial Advisor.\nBy Bryan Wolfe Finding a job after leaving the military is almost never an easy task. Unless you're transferring into a civilian field that directly relates to your military experience, you will need to change fields in order to enter the civilian workforce.\nUsually, you'll sign up for four years of active duty and four years inactive. After you've completed your active duty time, you can either extend your contract or re-enlist if you want to continue serving. Officers make up a much smaller part of the workforce.\nSoftware Development.\nTechnical Operations.\nStakeholder Management.\nRisk Management.\nSoftware Testing.\nProject Support Officer.\nBusiness Analysis.\nMembers receive retirement pay that is based on 50% of the average of the highest 36 months of basic pay after 20 years of service. An additional 2.5% is calculated for each additional year. Disability.\nIn fact, it's a tremendous asset with significant value. For the average retiring officer (let's say an O5 with 20 years), the military pension amount is valued at well over a million dollars.\n#1. Four-Year College.\n#2. Vocational Training and Community College.\n#3. Americorps.\n#4. Peace Corps.\n#5. Other Volunteer Work.\nMost first-term enlistments require a commitment to four years of active duty and two years of inactive (Individual Ready Reserve, or IRR). But the services also offer programs with two-, three- and six-year active-duty or reserve enlistments. It depends upon the service and the job you want.\nUnder BRS, you'll get the traditional monthly retirement pay for life if you serve for 20 years or more and earn a full retirement from the military.\nYou'll need to serve 20 years or more to qualify for the lifetime monthly annuity. Your retirement benefit is determined by your years of service. It's calculated at 2.5% times your highest 36 months of basic pay.\nKey Takeaways. If you choose to live on base and the housing is government owned, the Department of Defense owns and manages the property and the service member doesn't pay rent.\nGetting a Military Discharge\nThere is no way to simply quit the military once you are on active duty. You are contractually, and perhaps morally, obligated to see your commitment through. However, you could be discharged from duty early if you are physically or psychologically unable to perform your duties.\nDesertion carries a maximum punishment of dishonorable discharge, forfeiture of all pay, and confinement of five years. For desertion during a time of war, however, the death penalty may be applied (at the discretion of the court-martial).\nTop reasons cited for not wanting to join are the possibility of injury or death, and fear of developing PTSD or other psychological problems. But the pool of young people who meet the basic standards to enlist in the military is also shrinking.\nSee also What is the shortest war?\nEffects of deployments on family or personal relationships \u2014 51.9% Impacts of Army life on significant other's career plans and goals \u2014 48.3% Impacts of Army life on family plans for children \u2014 47.2% The degree of stability or predictability of Army life \u2014 43.6%\nThe marriages of U.S. Armed Forces service members often fail because of infidelity on the part of one or both spouses. There are always stories of lonely military wives hanging out at clubs and cheating on husbands who are deployed.\nHead injuries caused by bullet penetration, violent impact, or shock waves from explosive weapons are the main causes of military traumatic brain injury (TBI), which had long been under debate for being an organic disease (a neurological disease) or a functional disease (a psychiatric disorder).\nPersonality traits of an ESTP personality type are that of a thrill-seeker \u2014 perceptive and risky. They're smart, energetic, and make great leaders. ESTPs make good military officers because it involves being hands-on and working with others to solve problems.\nMuch like dogs, it is said that servicemen and women age at seven times the rate of civilians while on active duty.\nThe highest-paid military job is a general or admiral.\nGenerals and admirals average approximately $197,000 regardless of the branch of the military. These high-paying salaries are quite plush compared to the roughly $20,000 a year that a private earns.\nSome employers see veterans as too rigid or formal. Other stereotypes include problems with anger management or post-traumatic stress. One way veterans can work to overcome the stereotype of rigidity is to prepare for interviews.\nSome of the most popular benefits of joining the US military is the job training, educational assistance, steady paycheck, health coverage, and housing benefits. See a full list of the benefits here.\nBy law, government agencies must give veterans' preference over other applicants in the hiring process. It does not guarantee you'll get the job, but it's an excellent reason to explore your options in the federal workforce.\nSeparation from loved ones.\nNo quitting military service.\nRank.\nPhysical appearance and grooming.\nPhysical fitness standards.\nFree healthcare.\nEducation requirements.\nCan you come home after basic?\nPrevious: How many years does a Marine serve?\nNext: Does the Army pay for your living?\nHow many pushups should I be able to do before basic?\nIs military basic hard?\nHow long does it take to do 200 push-ups?\nIs it better to do push ups fast or slow?","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
+{"text":"Your Interview With Fox's Mike Joy\nThe readers of The Daly Planet spent several days posting questions for veteran motorsports TV commentator Mike Joy. That is Mike in the middle of the \"NASCAR on Fox\" gang pictured above.\nHe has been kind enough to send along some responses, and here they are. At the bottom of this article there will be a comments area where you can add your reaction to his answers.\nQ - Since it's almost that time of the year, Kevin observed that you really seem to enjoy your time during the Barrett-Jackson Auto Auction. He wondered if you get to test drive any of the cars, and what other car\/racing interests do you have outside of NASCAR?\nA - Kevin, I often get calls to evaluate vintage cars for folks. My first love is sports cars, including an MGB that is getting one of Bill Guzman's V6 conversions.\nMy best drive was when Ken Epsman asked me to drive his 1970 Mark Donahue\/Penske Javelin at the Lime Rock Vintage Festival. That is me, pictured above.\nGeorge Follmer and Sam Posey were both there. My eyes filled-up when I was on the pace lap, looking at the infield hillside. That's where I had sat watching Mark race that very car against Sam in '70, and George had raced it in '71 and '72. It was a very emotional experience, and what a car to drive!\nQ - Vicky in TX asked if NASCAR is getting too expensive for one-car teams to field and race against \"the big guys?\"\nA - Vicky, the level of engineering and development at the biggest teams greatly reduces the chances of a small team being competitive...which makes it much more exciting when one of them has a great finish.\nQ - Several readers including Karen in British Columbia asked about your weekly schedule during the race season. She imagines that it is just as hectic as the earlier interview comments from Steve Byrnes and Wendy Venturini. Can you let us in on it?\nA - Karen, both Wendy and Steve have lots of off-track shows they are involved in during the week, while I broadcast practice and qualifying. That leaves me to prep for the race telecast, including garage time, time with our Fox Production folks, and sponsor appearances at dinners and track hospitality. During the week, my family says I spend too much time on the Internet and the phone chasing down vintage cars and parts. Mostly, it is spent on race research and includes surfing websites like this one so we can improve our TV coverage.\nQ - Franna in TX asks what was the most difficult interview you ever had to do?\nA - Franna, several times I have had to talk to Bobby Allison on-camera about his sons. As a father, its incredibly hard to imagine what life has been like for the Allisons. Bobby has always been gracious with his time, and candid with his comments. He is a good friend, and that makes my task easier...but it always leaves me with a lump in my throat and a great sense of loss.\nQ - Both Makiki and Ann asked what was your most difficult moment on the air to report? They also both can't wait to hear you back on the air in February.\nA - Thanks, Makiki and Ann. The 2001 Daytona 500 finish was a great moment for the Waltrip family, but we knew that Dale Earnhardt Sr. had crashed hard. No one would give us any sense of his condition beyond Ken Schrader's reaction which you saw on TV. We feared the worst, but hoped for the best...that maybe Dale was just knocked unconscious. Absent confirmation, I wasn't comfortable explaining what I thought could be true from what I was seeing and how people were reacting. That day still produces a great conflict of emotion.\nQ - Lots of people asked about \"the three amigos,\" and the fact that folks love to hear you, Larry, and DW call a race. How have you three developed such a good chemistry together?\nA - We've known each other for twenty or more years. We're good friends, but most importantly, we all have a high respect for each other's experience and point of view. Our bosses at Fox, David Hill and Ed Goren, encourage us to have a good time, to inform, and to entertain. We love to go to work every day, and that means a lot.\nQ - Tammy asks if you could please describe what goes on in the Fox booth during a race? She pictures \"organized chaos,\" but says you, DW, and Larry Mac always manage to give us the race information we want and the camera angles to back it up. Like many Daly Planet readers, she wishes you could call all the races.\nA - Tammy, so do we! Everyone filters out the \"noise\" and concentrates on the input needed for their task. I have the announcers in one ear, and the producer and director in the other. We have a statistician and a historian in the booth who hand us brief notes. Larry, DW and I maintain eye contact while watching both the TV monitors and the track. All this multi-tasking is very challenging, so getting it right is a big part of what makes it so much fun.\nQ - Sally, Sophia and others are a bit upset. NASCAR's mantra is always \"it's about the fans.\" Between the bad coverage on TV this season (not from Fox), the COT switch, the homogenizing of the driver's personalities, empty seats at the tracks, lower TV ratings and too many commercials...something must be done. What are your ideas?\nA - Sally and Sophia, we have on-going discussions with NASCAR about your points. Strong rivalries, drivers showing personality without the fear of penalty, and an easily understood point system would help engage more fans in the sport.\nQ - Matt has been a fan of yours since the TNN days with Neil Bonnett. What was broadcasting NASCAR back then on TNN like? How different is it now with Fox compared to those days?\nA - Matt, thanks for mentioning Neil, he is still really missed. It was very different, it takes 200 Fox people on-site to televise a race and TNN did it with just 60. The biggest advantage is the computerized scoring and information flow. Back in 1991, the \"points as of now\" stat had to be figured with a paper and pen, and we only got a scoring rundown...every ten laps!\nQ - A fan asked if you and Fox have considered what would happen in the event Sunoco became the object of serious criticism in the NASCAR garage? (Mike is also the CEO of New England Racing Fuel, a distributor of Sunoco racing fuels in the Northeast.)\nA - I would voluntarily disclaim my potential conflict, but not shy away from the discussion. I'm glad NASCAR and Sunoco enjoyed a seamless transition to unleaded fuel...that was a big step. For the street, I see ethanol creating more problems than solutions. The Europeans have proven there are already more efficient options available...like biodiesel.\nQ - Larry says last season's Daytona 500 ended with a dash to the checkers as a multi-car crash was ensuing behind the leaders. Do you believe that NASCAR should allow racing back to the yellow on the final lap of a race?\nA - Larry, sorry for the pun...but its a no-win situation. NASCAR needs to have flexibility. We all want each race to end under green, if the track is safe in front of the leaders. I feel they made the best call they could that day under the circumstances. Maybe we could get two chances at a finish in Overdrive (a green-white-checker).\nQ - Joe met you on Labor Day weekend about 11 years ago up at Loudon, NH when you were running your SCCA sports racer. Do you still have it, and do you still race it?\nA - Joe, I sold the Valvoline car when we moved to North Carolina. The Fox\/SPEED schedule and two children did not leave much time for racing. I'd like to do more vintage racing, and I've got my eye on a historic Trans-Am that I don't think Ed is ready to sell just yet.\nQ - Sharon says you are one of the best in the business. She thinks its a shame we don't have more people like you in NASCAR. There have been a lot of changes in the sport over the last couple of years, what is one change you would like to see reversed, and why?\nA - Thanks Sharon. I wish that ownership had been capped at three Cup teams. But, that horse is out of the barn, and with \"satellite teams\" and all, I fear we could one day have as few as eight real team owners.\nQ - Alex wants to know if there is anyone that you would have liked to work with in the booth that you never had the chance to?\nA - Alex, David Pearson and Richard Petty together in the booth would be really interesting. Each of them did a little TV, but not together.\nQ - A fan asks what do you consider to be the most memorable moment of your broadcasting career? Also, is there anything left that you haven't gotten a chance to do as a broadcaster that you would still like to accomplish?\nA - The 1998 Daytona 500 was a very special team effort. Our group did so much research so that Ned Jarrett, Buddy Baker and I could properly educate viewers on just how close Dale Earnhardt Sr. had come so many times before to winning. On your second question, I would like to help Darrell Waltrip win an Emmy, and to continue to be part of this great team for many years.\nQ - Since we talked about the Barrett-Jackson event earlier, Patrick wants to know what amount of prep work do you do before the show? Also, what collector cars, past or present, have graced your personal garage and do you have a wish list?\nA - Patrick, most of my prep was done in 40 years of owning, driving and working on these cars but I read and surf the web to improve my specific knowledge once we get the auction catalogue. Someday, I'll get a website up to showcase the cars I've enjoyed and what it cost to own them. From the '60 Chevy Impala I drove in high school to the new car I asked Santa to bring...there is always a wish list!\nQ - Brian appreciates the fact that you make watching races fun, and have for many years. From your days as a pit reporter to the present, who has been your biggest inspiration to help you become who you are today?\nA - Brian, there are three people who I owe more than I can every repay. Ken Squier, Barney Hall, and Ned Jarrett. Not just for the high standards they set as broadcasters and the doors they helped open, but for the life lessons I learned under their guidance.\nNote from Mike: Thanks, John for this forum, and thanks to everybody for the questions. Merry Christmas, and we will see you in Daytona before too long!\nOnce again, The Daly Planet readers have come through with some fantastic questions which have gotten some very interesting answers. We always welcome comments from readers, and encourage you to post your reaction to this interview.\nTo add your post, simply click on the COMMENTS button below, and follow the easy instructions. We do not want your email address, and there is nothing to join. Here at The Daly Planet, we just want your opinion. Thanks for adding it.\nZero Hour For NASCAR Announcers\nAs we approach the Christmas break, the countdown clock over at Jayski.com is now telling us there are less than sixty days to the 2008 Daytona 500.\nSo far, we have seen a lot of press releases from the NASCAR TV partners about the past season, but almost none about the future.\nIn 2007, there were some notable issues in \"TV land\" with respect to on-air announcers. In the TV biz, they are simply called \"talent.\" As we saw during the past eleven months, that word can quickly take on an ironic twist.\nMr. Doug Banks left his co-hosting duties on NASCAR Now after only a short time. It was a tough start for that new ESPN2 show. Banks returned to his highly successful radio career on The Doug Banks Show and does not seem to be any worse for the wear. His run certainly was interesting.\nRyan Burr from ESPN News was brought-in to fill this role, and did a fine job. He was the relief host for Erik Kuselias, easily the most controversial \"talent\" of the 2007 NASCAR season.\nAfter having trouble hosting NASCAR Now in the studio, Kuselias was \"auditioned\" live in the ESPN Infield Studio at the track hosting NASCAR Countdown. That memorable performance was not repeated.\nThere has been no word from ESPN about the line-up of NASCAR Now for next season, or a date when the show will begin. With lots of changes behind the scenes on the ESPN Radio side, there may well be a better opportunity to use Kuselias and his extensive stick-and-ball knowledge...elsewhere.\nBoris Said and Stacy Compton served as the NASCAR Now studio analysts, and Compton's down-home style was a sharp contrast to the biting tongue of Kuselias. Said merely treated Kuselias as a distraction, and laughed a lot. What these two drivers are doing for 2008 on TV has not been disclosed.\nSomething remembered by NASCAR fans was the sudden appearance of driver Bill Lester one weekend, who did all the NASCAR Now shows live in the ESPN studio and then was simply...gone. ESPN said it was \"an experiment.\" Interesting.\nStaying with ESPN, the host chair in the Infield Studio should be open for both the Nationwide and Sprint Cup races. Originally, ESPN said that Suzy Kolber was a fill-in, and her \"appointment\" to that position followed a long line of names like Musburger, Fowler, Bestwick, Massaro, and Kuselias who tried to fill that role.\nThe ESPN season is a long one, as Jerry Punch and company can attest. His team handled the entire Busch Series schedule, and then added the final seventeen NEXTEL Cup events. Maybe, we will see ESPN bring in some additional \"relief talent\" for the core TV crew. We noticed that they auditioned Brad Daugherty in the booth during a Busch Series race, and also used Allen Bestwick and Marty Reid to spell Jerry Punch during his vacation time.\nA while back, I got several emails from TV friends saying Rusty Wallace was not returning to ESPN's NASCAR coverage. Almost immediately, I got several emails from ESPN saying Rusty Wallace was returning...and I was an idiot. That happens a lot.\nWe all had fun with \"Eric Amarillo\" and \"David Gilligan,\" but Rusty did complete his first season without backing down from controversy and without missing an assignment. What the ramifications are of Dale Jarrett doing his \"semi-retirement\" tour this season are still to be seen.\nOne thing is for sure, with the entire Nationwide Series and seventeen Sprint Cup races, there are plenty of analyst slots on races, qualifying, and practice sessions for both Rusty and DJ to share in 2008.\nThe TNT guys are silent. Kyle Petty and Larry McReynolds did solid work, but what will become of Wally Dallenbach, Bill Weber, and Marc Fein remains to be seen. The tension on the pre-show set at TNT was so thick, you could cut it with a knife. Wouldn't someone like a Bob Jenkins or an Eli Gold at the helm shake-up that crew?\nOver at SPEED, we are still awaiting official word on the line-ups of their big weekly NASCAR shows, although no significant changes seem to be on the way. Shows like Trackside, Victory Lane, and NASCAR Live seem to be working just fine.\nThe same is true of the Truck Series, with a solid broadcast team, and no rumored changes on the horizon. Although, Krista Voda is clearly on the verge of bigger things. Last season, she moved up to NASCAR on Fox as a pit reporter. Wouldn't it be interesting to see her directing some traffic from the Hollywood Hotel? Take that Suzy Kolber!\nOne interesting question will be if Kyle Petty returns to Tradin' Paint. One might believe that it would depend as much on his blood pressure as his desire to expand his TV career. Petty had some pretty big blow-ups with some NASCAR media types, and The Daly Planet has suggested that adding a fourth panelist like Randy Pemberton or Jeff Hammond might take the heat off Petty and not make things seem so \"personal.\"\nSPEED's \"King of the Jungle\" in NASCAR land is RaceDay. With most of the staff under contract, the questions really concern Rutledge Wood and Ricki Rachtman. Not only has this show grown in stature to become SPEED's highest profile NASCAR program, it has also spent a good part of the season matched-up head-to-head with both TNT and ESPN\/ABC's pre-race shows. Make no mistake, this is the big time.\nIn looking for a feature reporter to balance the news-oriented Wendy Venturini, SPEED has tried several candidates. This season, it will be interesting to see if they go with a veteran like Pemberton, stay with the current dynamic duo, or bring in a fresh face to handle the non-racing feature reports.\nFinally, here comes the program series that generates the most mail and the most comments each time it is mentioned. Inside NEXTEL Cup must be discussed once again. Changing gears for next season, it will be interesting to see if SPEED makes changes in the program format and the panel.\nMany times on The Daly Planet over the course of the season, we have debated the pros and cons of having a host who was \"encouraged\" by the network to take the job, panelists who do not race in the races, and part-time panelists still wet behind the ears when it comes to solid NASCAR experience. There are lots of good points on both sides.\nLove him or hate him, everybody knows Dave Despain. Michael Waltrip has just re-vamped his company, his teams, and will now be playing the second Toyota fiddle to Joe Gibbs. Schrader is still working on a combo-deal, but is not retiring. Greg Biffle is poised to make a solid run at a Championship. Those are some interesting personal dynamics at work when it comes to making forty weeks of memorable TV programs.\nFor all these shows, look for word to start slowly leaking out about confirmations of who is \"in\" and surprises of who is \"out\" during the days after the Christmas break. Network logistics are such that names and travel schedules and paperwork and production meetings are going to be all confirmed before January 1st.\nOne wild card who just emerged on the scene is John Kernan. As The Daly Planet mentioned in an earlier article, he has relocated to Chicago and ended his radio work for PRN and Sirius. Flying out of Chicago, Kernan could be just what the doctor ordered for several NASCAR TV vacancies that would compliment his current part-time NHRA schedule.\nIf you had an opportunity to suggest some change to the network executives, who would be included? We have now had some time to calm down after a tumultuous season on TV, and our heads are hopefully a little clearer. Tell us who would be \"out\" and why, and then who you would like to see \"in\" for next season.\nAs always, keep your comments focused, and make your point. Please read the rules on the right side of the main page prior to adding your comment. To post, simply click on the COMMENTS button below, and follow the instructions. Thanks again for taking the time to stop by.","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
+{"text":"Terrorism & Counterterrorism\nHome Center for Terrorism & Security Studies Research & Education Terrorism and Counterterrorism\nFaculty, students and research associates in the Center for Terrorism and Security Studies examine a broad range of research questions, from terrorist group decision-making to radicalization to strategies that encourage disengagement from violence.\nSubject Matter Expert BIOS\nNeil Shortland, lll, Ph.D.\nChristopher Linebarger, Ph.D.\nTitle: Bio-Markers and Counter-Messages: Measuring Individual Differences in the Influence of Extremist Propaganda and Counter-Messages\nFunding Agency: Department of Defense\nDescription: The recent surge of trans-regional threats coupled with global interconnectivity have made the current operational environment increasingly dynamic and complex for the Department of Defense (DoD). Many contemporary battles are now fought off the battlefield; a campaign for the hearts and minds of people around the world, both allies and adversaries, hangs in the balance. Ensuring that the United States can adeptly and efficiently counter violent extremism messaging is critical to sustaining the United States' global security interests. However, to meet this challenge, researchers must understand and measure how messaging campaigns can shift the emotions, attitudes, motivations and behaviors of a variety of target audiences.\nSpecifically, using experimental methods we have found useful in the past, we propose 6 innovations surrounding these issues that will be both theoretically, and pragmatically useful to DoD and associated personnel;\n1. Addressing the gaps in the existing research surrounding the psychological interaction of individual, extremist message and counter-message.\n2. Apply a new theoretical framework to the role of extremist propaganda in the radicalization process (namely Behavioral Activation and Behavioral Inhibition; BAS\/BIS).\n3. Integrate psychometric, neurobiological and physiological measures of BAS\/BIS as predictors of responses to exposure to extremist propaganda.\n4. Empirically evaluate individual differences in BIS\/BAS activation and behavior in response to exposure to extremist propaganda.\n5. Measure short-term extremist-related cognitions and medium-term behavioral measures of interaction with extremist messages and counter-messages.\n6. Empirically evaluate CVE messaging strategies on changes in BIS\/BAS activation and behavior (as well as individual differences).\nTitle: Using Narrative Analysis to Detect Level of Threat in Online Expressions of Malicious Intent\nFunding Agency: University of Massachusetts Lowell\nDescription: Researchers at the Center for Terrorism and Security Studies (CTSS) and the Department of Psychology seek to develop an inter-disciplinary collaboration that develops new data and expertise in a currently unstudied aspect of counter-terrorism. Specifically this proposal seeks to apply a novel form of narrative and discourse analysis to explore whether online expression of intent and ideology can be used to diagnose an individuals' intent to engage in extremist behavior. Researchers in the field of security studies have thus far been unable to make informed judgments about the risks posed by an individual based on the nature of their online activity and expressions of ideology. Furthermore, as a field we sorely lack any experimental methods to begin to explore this issue and develop theories and \"markers\" that could, with further research, be operationalized in the security domain. Therefore, this project will study the utility of exploring the syntax and discourse structure of an individual's online narrative in order to determine the risks that an individual might commit an act of terrorism. If meaningful patterns in the data can be found, this research will have implications for the prioritization and investigation of terrorist suspects. This proposal will leverage the CTSS internship (a immersive, student driven applied learning experience) alongside paid RA positions in order to build, and analyze, a large-n dataset of terrorist online narratives. These narratives will then be subjected to discourse analysis by trained undergraduate RAs.\nTitle: Hearts, minds and counter-messages: An experimental test of personality on reactions to extremist propaganda and counter-extremist messages.\nFunding Agency: TSAS: The Canadian Network for Research on Terrorism, Security, and Society\nDescription: Practitioners, academics and society are turning their attention to the problem of \"online radicalization.\" While the availability of terroristic material online is a significant security concern we have little insight into the effects of being exposure to such material. Instead we all too often, and without evidence, hold that exposure to terrorist propaganda online \"causes\" radicalization resulting in terrorist behavior. Linked to this is the view that \"counter-messages\" aimed at challenging extremist voices are central to an effective counter violent extremism (CVE) strategy. However, while counter-messages show significant promise for discouraging support for terrorism, there are few attempts to offer theory-based guidelines to construct them and no measures of their effectiveness (Braddock & Horgan, 2015). Currently counter-messages are not developed based on sound scientific principles, nor tested using empirical metrics of effectiveness. Thus, while some counter-messages have been well received and viewed as \"effective\" (e.g., Extreme Dialogues), others have been met with skepticism and viewed as unsuccessful (e.g., \"Think Now Turn Away\"). Efforts to develop credible and effective counter-messages currently lack data-driven support for their development, or evaluation. The fact that scientific research on deterrent messaging has shown that poorly developed counter-messages can cause a \"boomerang\" effect increasing negative outcomes rather than preventing them emphasizes the need for social science support in the development and evaluation of counter-messages aimed at countering the voices of extremists online. The goal of this research then, and building upon experimental work currently being undertaken by the PI, is to experimentally test the effectiveness of several difference types of counter-messaging campaigns.\nSpecifically this research seeks to investigate:\nR1: Under what circumstances do CVE counter-messages mitigate the effects of extremist propaganda\nR2: Under what circumstances do CVE counter-messages inoculate against the effects of extremist propaganda\nR3: What combination of factors improves the effectiveness of some types of CVE counter-messages over others, and why?\nThis peer-reviewed scholarly journal is published 6 times per year, and is the most widely read publication of its kind worldwide. Browse the archives of the journal. All articles and issues are available to download for free. Recent special issues of the journal have cover topics such as The Islamic State, Terrorist Group Decision Making, Terrorism Finance, and Terrorism in Africa. For more information on the journal, please contact Co-Editor, James Forest [ james_forest@uml.edu ]\nFaculty in the CTSS have published dozens of books and journal articles. Please see their bio pages for more information.\nFaculty members of the Center are also on the Editorial Board for scholarly journals such as the \"Journal of Transportation Security,\" the \"Journal of Strategic Security,\" and \"Terrorism and Political Violence.\"\nIdler, Annette I. and Forest, James J.F. \"Behavioral Patterns among (Violent) Non-State Actors: A Study of Complementary Governance.\" Stability: International Journal of Security and Development 4(1): 2 (January).\nForest, James. J.F. U.S. Military Deployments to Africa: Lessons from the Hunt for Joseph Kony and the Lord's Resistance Army. Tampa, FL: JSOU Press. 86 pages. ISBN: 9781933749891.\nForest, James J.F. \"A Framework for Analyzing the Future Threat of WMD Terrorism,\" Journal of Strategic Security 5(4), pp. 51-68.\nMeservey, Joshua James J.F. Forest and Graham Turbiville. Countering the al-Shabaab Insurgency in Somalia: Lessons for U.S. Special Operations Forces. Tampa, FL: JSOU Press. 145 pages. ISBN: 9781933749853.\nForest, James. J.F. Countering the Terrorism Threat of Boko Haram in Nigeria. Tampa, FL: JSOU Press. 176 pages. ISBN: 9781933749709.\nSelected Books\nEssentials of Counterterrorism. Westport, CT: Praeger, 2015. 476 pages. ISBN: 9781440832833.\nThe Terrorism Lectures (Second Edition). Los Angeles, CA: Nortia Press, 2015. 390 pages. ISBN: 9781940503066.\nIntersections of Crime and Terror. London: Routledge, 2013. ISBN: 9780415639613.\nHomeland Security and Terrorism: Readings and Interpretations (2nd Edition). New York: McGraw-Hill, 2013. ISBN: 9780078026294.","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
+{"text":"CSJ Journals\nChem.Lett.\nBCSJ\nSubscription Journals\nPurchase Articles\nSearch in: Anywhere Citation\nSearching Articles\nNow Searching ...\nBulletin of the Chemical Society of Japan Chemistry Letters\nList of Issue\nAbout Chem.Lett.\nChemistry Letters >\nList of Issues >\nVolume 49, Issue 10 >\nAcid Assisted Synthesis of HB Sheets through Exfoliation of MgB2 Bulk in Organic Media\n2020, Vol.49, No.10\nReiya Kawamura ,1Akira Yamaguchi ,1Chika Shimada ,1Ryota Ishibiki ,2Takeshi Fujita ,3Takahiro Kondo ,*4,5 and Masahiro Miyauchi *1\n1Department of Materials Science and Engineering, School of Materials and Chemical Technology, Tokyo Institute of Technology, 2-12-1 Ookayama, Meguro-ku, Tokyo 152-8552, Japan\n2Graduate School of Pure and Applied Sciences, University of Tsukuba, 1-1-1 Tennodai, Tsukuba, Ibaraki 305-8573, Japan\n3School of Environmental Science and Engineering, Kochi University of Technology, 185 Miyanokuchi, Tosayamada, Kami, Kochi 782-8502, Japan\n4Department of Materials Science and Tsukuba Research Center for Energy Materials Science, Faculty of Pure and Applied Sciences, University of Tsukuba, 1-1-1 Tennodai, Tsukuba, Ibaraki 305-8573, Japan\n5Materials Research Center for Element Strategy, Tokyo Institute of Technology, 4259 Nagatsuta-cho, Midori-ku, Yokohama, Kanagawa 226-8503, Japan\nhttps:\/\/doi.org\/10.1246\/cl.200203\nReceived: March 16, 2020\nWeb Released: July 11, 2020\nKeywords:Two dimensional nanomaterial | Borophane | HB sheets\nTrack Citations\nPDF (1221K)\nHydrogen boride sheets (HB sheets) were efficiently synthesized through wet chemical exfoliation of bulk MgB2. High production yield of HB sheets over 50% was achieved in 2 h reaction time by the addition of formic acid into the organic media with the presence of proton-exchange resin. Synthesized HB sheets exhibited two-dimensional nanostructure with sp2-like bonds.\nHydrogen boride sheets (HB sheets) were efficiently synthesized through wet chemical exfoliation of bulk MgB2. High production yield of HB sheets over 50% was achieved in 2 h reaction time by the addition of formic acid into the organic media with the presence of proton-exchange resin. Synthesized HB sheets exhibited two dimensional nanostructure with sp2-like bonds.\n<< Previous Partial Modification of Electron-withdrawing Groups in Thermally-activated Delayed Fluorescence Materials Aimed to Improve Efficiency and Stability Next >> Increased Seebeck Coefficient of [Fe(CN)6]4\u2212\/3\u2212 Thermocell Based on the Selective Electrostatic Interactions with Cationic Micelles\nSelect Issues\nSearch in Where we should looking for? Any Title Author Keywords Abstract\nLast: Select month 6 months year\nCustom range: From:\nYear 2023 2022 2021 2020 2019 2018 2017 2016 2015 2014 2013 2012 2011 2010 2009 2008 2007 2006 2005 2004 2003 2002 2001 2000 1999 1998 1997 1996 1995 1994 1993 1992 1991 1990 1989 1988 1987 1986 1985 1984 1983 1982 1981 1980 1979 1978 1977 1976 1975 1974 1973 1972 1971 1970 1969 1968 1967 1966 1965 1964 1963 1962 1961 1960 1959 1958 1957 1956 1955 1954 1953 1952 1951 1950 1949 1948 1947 1946 1945 1944 1943 1942 1941 1940 1939 1938 1937 1936 1935 1934 1933 1932 1931 1930 1929 1928 1927 1926\nPlease login to view your saved searches.\nTop Accessed Articles\nRecent Advances in Guanidinium Salt Based Receptors and Functionalized Materials for the Recognition of Anions\nLow-temperature Conversion of Carbon Dioxide to Methane in an Electric Field\nOlefin Synthesis by Deoxygenative Coupling of Carbonyl Compounds: From Stoichiometric to Catalytic\nThermally-activated Delayed Fluorescence for Light-emitting Devices\nDefect Photoluminescence from Alkylated Boron Nitride Nanotubes\nOverview of the Mechanistic Work on the Concerted Metallation\u2013Deprotonation Pathway\nLayered Lithium Insertion Material of LiCo1\/3Ni1\/3Mn1\/3O2 for Lithium-Ion Batteries\nTask-Specific Ionic Liquids\nLayer-by-layer Nanoarchitectonics: Invention, Innovation, and Evolution\nCrystal Structure of Fast Lithium-ion-conducting Cubic Li7La3Zr2O12\nHydrogen Boride Sheets as Reductants and the Formation of Nanocomposites with Metal Nanoparticles\nReduction of Methemoglobin via Electron Transfer across the Bilayer Membrane of Hb Vesicles\nSolid Exfoliation of Hexagonal Boron Nitride Crystals for the Synthesis of Few-layer Boron Nitride Nanosheets\nNanotubes Formed by Exfoliation of HTaWO6\nExfoliation Chemistry of Soft Layered Materials toward Tailored 2D Materials\nMANAGE YOUR ALERTS\nChemistry Letters\nThe Chemical Record\nChemistry - An Asian Journal\nAsian Journal of Organic Chemistry\nChemNanoMat\nCopyright \u00a9 2023 The Chemical Society of Japan. All Rights Reserved.\nPowered by Atypon\u00ae Literatum\nOur journal website uses cookies to support your experience . Show Policy","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
+{"text":"Thai baht United States (US) dollar Euro Singapore dollar Hong Kong dollar Pound sterling Australian dollar Swiss franc\nOil Paintings For Sale\nAbstract Art For Sale\nGay Art for Sale\nPaintings Of Flowers\nClimbing Man Wall Sculpture\nGBP 88 \u2013 GBP 142\nThawan Duchanee \u2013 Legendary Expressionist Artist\nThawan Duchanee (1939 \u2013 2014) was a Thai contemporary artist renowned worldwide for his striking and powerful displays of modern Buddhist themes through surrealism, modernism and expressionism.\nBorn in Chiang Rai in September 1939, Thawan began his artistic education at the Poh Chang Arts and Crafts College. He then went on to study under the famous Italian sculptor Corrado Feroci (Silpha Bhilasri) at Silpakorn University.\nFollowing further studies at Amsterdam's Royal Academy of Visual Arts, Thawan returned to Thailand and began to gain recognition for his unique style of red\/white and black toned paintings. Though his rather dark and ominous works proved to be initially shocking to conservative Buddhists, his exhibitions went on to receive high regard throughout the kingdom and overseas.\nWith an extensive list of overseas exhibits and commissioned murals, including the Bank of Thailand, Doi Tung Palace and many more, Thawan became one of the most prominent Thai artists in the world.\nHis works have been exhibited in almost every corner of the globe, including the United States, Portugal, Malaysia, the Philippines, Australia, Japan, Switzerland, German, Indonesia, France and the Netherlands.\nMost recently, in 2001, Thawan was deemed a National Thai Artist by the Office of the National Culture Commission of Thailand.\nThawan's Legacy\nFollowing the artist's death in 2014, his work continues to be highly cherished objects of art, as well as serving as a testament of the splendor of Thawan's inspiring homegrown talent.\nFor those wishing to experience Thawan's legacy first hand, the Baandam Museum in Chiang Rai was designed by the artist and offers a look into the master's unique vision. The extensive grounds feature a gallery, gardens and awe-inspiring structures in the artist's signature style.\nBen is general manager and founder of SUPERSOGO, a start-up which oversees various projects in Thailand, including Onarto.com\nprem on March 11, 2021 at 10:24 pm\ni love his work\nArt Shipping Company\nAsian art online\nThailand art galleries\nHong Kong art galleries and museums\nSingapore art galleries and museums\n\u00a9 2013-2021, Onarto.com, a Supersogo CO LTD company - Design by OGO Studio","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
+{"text":"Red Star Over Iraq: Iraqi Communism Before Saddam\nJohan Franz\u00e9n\nPolitical, Social and International Studies\nGlobal & Transnational History\nRecent outbreaks of sectarian and ethnic violence have thrown Iraq's stability into doubt, suggesting the country's politics are a farce and its political parties are nothing more than the protectors of ethnosectarian interests. Because of the artificiality of the Iraqi state and its absence of deep-seated political institutions, skeptics fear the country is destined to revert to primordialism, yet Iraq's present situation is largely the result of Saddam Hussein's infamous rule over the past three decades, exacerbated by the deprivations of international sanctions. Johan Franz\u00e9n underscores the role of these destabilizing factors, arguing that before Hussein's ascent to power, diverse parties representing a variety of ideological platforms characterized Iraqi government. The largest and most important of these groups was the Iraqi Communist Party (ICP), the only true cross-sectarian party in Iraqi history drawing support from all of Iraq's communities. From its inception in 1934 to its demise at the hands of Hussein in 1979, the ICP continuously resisted various regimes and spread communist ideology throughout Iraq. At times the party achieved considerable success, though it ultimately failed to seize absolute power. Red Star Over Iraq analyzes this rich history to project a different picture of a future Iraq.\nFranzen, J., Jul 2011, London: C. Hurst & Co. 288 p.\nFranz\u00e9n, J. (2011). Red Star Over Iraq: Iraqi Communism Before Saddam. Columbia University Press.\nFranz\u00e9n, Johan. \/ Red Star Over Iraq: Iraqi Communism Before Saddam. 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Johan Franz{\\'e}n underscores the role of these destabilizing factors, arguing that before Hussein{\\textquoteright}s ascent to power, diverse parties representing a variety of ideological platforms characterized Iraqi government. The largest and most important of these groups was the Iraqi Communist Party (ICP), the only true cross-sectarian party in Iraqi history drawing support from all of Iraq{\\textquoteright}s communities. From its inception in 1934 to its demise at the hands of Hussein in 1979, the ICP continuously resisted various regimes and spread communist ideology throughout Iraq. At times the party achieved considerable success, though it ultimately failed to seize absolute power. Red Star Over Iraq analyzes this rich history to project a different picture of a future Iraq.\",\nauthor = \"Johan Franz{\\'e}n\",\nisbn = \"978-0-231-70230-0\",\nFranz\u00e9n, J 2011, Red Star Over Iraq: Iraqi Communism Before Saddam. Columbia University Press, London.\nRed Star Over Iraq: Iraqi Communism Before Saddam. \/ Franz\u00e9n, Johan.\nLondon : Columbia University Press, 2011. 288 p.\nT1 - Red Star Over Iraq: Iraqi Communism Before Saddam\nAU - Franz\u00e9n, Johan\nN2 - Recent outbreaks of sectarian and ethnic violence have thrown Iraq's stability into doubt, suggesting the country's politics are a farce and its political parties are nothing more than the protectors of ethnosectarian interests. Because of the artificiality of the Iraqi state and its absence of deep-seated political institutions, skeptics fear the country is destined to revert to primordialism, yet Iraq's present situation is largely the result of Saddam Hussein's infamous rule over the past three decades, exacerbated by the deprivations of international sanctions. Johan Franz\u00e9n underscores the role of these destabilizing factors, arguing that before Hussein's ascent to power, diverse parties representing a variety of ideological platforms characterized Iraqi government. The largest and most important of these groups was the Iraqi Communist Party (ICP), the only true cross-sectarian party in Iraqi history drawing support from all of Iraq's communities. From its inception in 1934 to its demise at the hands of Hussein in 1979, the ICP continuously resisted various regimes and spread communist ideology throughout Iraq. At times the party achieved considerable success, though it ultimately failed to seize absolute power. Red Star Over Iraq analyzes this rich history to project a different picture of a future Iraq.\nAB - Recent outbreaks of sectarian and ethnic violence have thrown Iraq's stability into doubt, suggesting the country's politics are a farce and its political parties are nothing more than the protectors of ethnosectarian interests. 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+{"text":"News \/ 2021 News \/ Welcome New Staff at Galter Library!\nWelcome New Staff at Galter Library!\nEmma Florio, Special Collections Library Assistant, MLIS\nDenise Nunes, Clinical Informationist, MS RN\nGalter Health Sciences Library is pleased to welcome two new members to the team!\nEmma Florio joined Galter Library at the beginning of December as our new Special Collections Library Assistant. Emma will be working closely with the Special Collections Librarian to maintain Galter's rare and unique collections and enhance workflows related to preservation and archival research. She is excited to apply her skill set to the wide range of dynamic tasks that support the Special Collections department and will hit the ground running on Galter's upcoming exhibits.\nEmma received an MLIS in Archives Management from Simmons College in Boston and has worked in a variety of institutions, including the Boston Public Library and the Newberry Library. She comes to Galter from the Chicago History Museum where she was working to make archival collections, including manuscripts and materials from the Chicago Sun Times, more accessible to the public. We are thrilled to have Emma on board and look forward to the way her expertise will further Galter's ability to provide historical reference support to the Northwestern Community. Please help us welcome Emma to the Galter team!\nYou can reach her at emma.florio@northwestern.edu or 312-503-8125.\nDenise Nunes joined us in December as our new Clinical Informationist and will be working alongside our Reference and Information Services team. Denise will offer direct support to clinical teams on rounds and other focused projects to ensure that Feinberg students, residents, and clinicians have the medical research necessary to practice in an array of clinical environments. She is most looking forward to the way that her role supports medical professionals while bridging gaps and combining research, teaching and clinical practice as a structure to provide excellent patient care.\nDenise received her MS in Nursing from DePaul University and is a Registered Nurse with backgrounds in Clinical Research and Risk Management. She has served as a Visiting Professor of Nursing at Chamberlin University and is currently finishing her MLIS from Chicago State University. As a part of her MLIS, Denise has started a podcast highlighting published theses and dissertations of diverse disciplines exploring the ideas and impact of interdisciplinary collaborations. We are delighted to welcome Denise and are excited for the way her experience and expertise will cultivate opportunities for integrated support across the Feinberg community. Please help us welcome Denise to the Galter team!\nYou can reach her at denise.nunes@northwestern.edu or 312-503-4918.","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
+{"text":"In our activity index, you will find all the Johnny Rougeau matches currently in our database. Additionally, the most recent matches of Johnny Rougeau are listed below. To see all the matches Johnny Rougeau fought in a specific month, click the respective number in the index.\nYear Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec ???\n1949 - - - - -\n1966 - - - - - -\n1974 - - - - - - - - -\nThe most recent matches\n1 Show @ Montr\u00e9al\n1975\/09\/15 @ Montr\u00e9al, Quebec (Canada)\nTarzan Tyler and Mr. Fuji defeated Johnny Rougeau and Gino Brito\n1975\/09\/03 @ Forum de Montr\u00e9al in Montr\u00e9al, Quebec (Canada)\nJohnny Rougeau defeated Tarzan Tyler\nTarzan Tyler defeated Johnny Rougeau\n1972\/09\/04 @ Paul Sauv\u00e9 Arena in Montr\u00e9al, Quebec (Canada)\nJohnny Rougeau, Jacques Rougeau and Raymond Rougeau defeated Kurt Von Hess, Karl Von Schotz and Johnny Fargo\n5 Show @ Quebec City\n1972\/08\/28 @ Quebec City, Quebec (Canada)\nJohnny Rougeau, Jacques Rougeau and Raymond Rougeau defeated Kurt Von Hess, Karl Von Shotz and Eddie Creatchman by disqualification\n1972\/08\/28 @ Stade Parc Jarry in Montr\u00e9al, Quebec (Canada)\nAbdullah the Butcher and The Sheik vs. Johnny Rougeau and Jacques Rougeau - winner unknown\n7 Show @ Detroit\n1972\/08\/12 @ Cobo Arena in Detroit, Michigan (United States of America)\nJohnny Rougeau and Jacques Rougeau defeated Killer Brooks and Yoshino Sato\n8 Show @ Gatineau\n1972\/07\/27 @ Hull Arena in Gatineau, Quebec (Canada)\nCarlos Col\u00f3n and Johnny Rougeau vs. Kurt Von Hess and Karl Von Schotz - winner unknown\n1972\/07\/19 @ Colis\u00e9e de Qu\u00e9bec in Quebec City, Quebec (Canada)\nJohnny Rougeau vs. The Sheik - winner unknown\n10 Show @ Montr\u00e9al\nAbdullah the Butcher vs. Johnny Rougeau ended without a winner as a no contest","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
+{"text":"Tag Archives: Andrew Ridgeley\n\u27a4 Thank you, George, says Paul Simper. You left me wanting to dance like you\nPosted on 30 December 2016 | 2 comments\nSimper's 25th birthday at Aldo Zilli's Il Siciliano in Soho: visible faces clockwise from front left: Lilli Anderson, Alex Godson (standing), Sam McKnight, the host (standing), Josie Jones, George Michael. Photo by Simper\nPaul \"Scoop\" Simper arrived in London as a cub\njournalist who soon became a backbone of No1, one\nof the two leading pop magazines covering the\nSwinging 80s. He also became a face about clubland\nand in the years after he first met George Michael,\nwhen Wham! was launched, became friends.\nShapers of the 80s is pleased to publish Scoop's very personal tribute to one of the UK's leading superstars who died this week\n\u25fc OF COURSE HE HAD TO LEAVE US ON CHRISTMAS DAY. As a pop lover, especially one raised in the 80s, George Michael has been a part of mine and so many people's Christmases for years.\nThis one was no exception. Nipping up the high street to the supermarket for one last shop on Christmas Eve, there was something both joyous and comforting about hearing him \u2013 not just as Wham! but on his lonesome giving us December Song and on Band Aid \u2013 whilst trolling up and down the aisles for a bottle of fizz and a few more festive nibbles.\nIf anything, this year he'd felt ever more present. A pre-Christmas gathering of my old 80s pals had stirred up memories of Whambley \u2013 that perfect pop farewell on the sunniest of days in '86 in front of 72,000 adoring but heartbroken fans when George and Andrew signed off at the top of the charts (both albums and singles) with their friendship still intact.\nWham! fans came in all shapes and sizes. Not long ago I'd been listening to a bootleg of The Final concert, lovingly recorded and shared with me by No1 magazine's then editorial assistant Dave Ling, later of Metal Hammer, a heavy metaller through and through, who made an honourable exception when it came to George and Andrew.\nAs I think about it now, not being a Wham! or George fan has always been a bit of a deal-breaker. One early relationship of mine came to a very swift end when she questioned my love of George. My pal June Montana (lead singer with Brilliant and gatekeeper on the Limelight's VIP bar, who was actually a bona fide friend of his) and I were like the George gestapo. We could sniff out a non-believer at 100 paces.\nPart of that devotion came from the fact that in 80s London clubland, Wham! were never really cool. They were outsiders. They were from Bushey, Hertfordshire. As a country lad from Wiltshire I felt a kinship, particularly with George.\nHe was a year younger but for both of us our first introduction to the game-changing London club scene of the early 80s was Le Beat Route \u2013 a Soho club I was gagging to go to the second I saw Spandau Ballet's Chant No1 video, the anthem for this pop moment.\nIn the last interview I did with George, in 2006, when we were talking about Spandau, he remembered the thrill of going down for the first time to what was then the hottest club on the planet and actually sighting both Steve Strange (on the Space Invaders) and Tony Hadley (at the bar).\nGeorge's 35th birthday where Simper was deejaying dressed as a Spice Girl angel: George was obliged to introduce him to Ginger Spice. Photo by Simper\nLe Beat Route was where Andrew Ridgeley came up with the \"Wham! Bam! I am a man!\" rap. It was where George would perfect his pair dancing with Shirlie Holliman to D-Train, Was Not Was and Evelyn \"Champagne\" King. It was the inspiration for Club Tropicana.\nOf equal importance though had been Saturday Night Fever \u2013 the movie that rang the death knell for disco for the cool kids of the underground dance scene but for those in the sticks in our teens the first pulling back of the curtain (even though it was actually set in faraway Brooklyn) on a thrilling new world. On reflection, it's perhaps surprising that George never covered a Bee Gees song, with the exception of side project Boogie Box High's Jive Talkin', but he was always a massive fan, applauding their return to the top of the charts after a lengthy absence with You Win Again and marvelling, after a visit to Barry Gibbs' home in Miami, that he was the only man he'd met who took even longer over his hair than George did.\nFriday nights at Le Beat Route were just about over by the time I first interviewed George and Andrew in October '82, although Wham! did throw one last Christmas party there to celebrate leaving their first record company, Innervision. Instead it was now The Wag on Wardour Street, which, as Wham! took off, increasingly became George's place to hang out, unbothered.\nIf Chant No1 belongs to Le Beat Route, then The Wag at Christmas '84 is where I think of for Wham!'s Everything She Wants. It was where I first heard deejay Fat Tony play the 12-inch mix with its glorious, expanded middle eight, which George had handed him that night to test out on the dance floor. From its rapturous reception and the delighted look on George's face you could see he'd got the confirmation he was after. Like Chant, he'd delivered his club classic.\nFirst at Melody Maker, then at No1, I was lucky enough to get my fair share of interviews with George. In early No1 days that included him going on a Blind Date with Keren Woodward from Bananarama which ended with him popping up to the 26th floor of IPC magazine's HQ in King's Reach Tower to play us a just-finished mix of Bassline (later retitled A Ray of Sunshine) on our tinpot stereo system.\nThey were more innocent, uncomplicated times in terms of pop coverage but even once Fleet Street turned its attentions to him and much of that side of it became more wearisome, he continued to be one of my favourite pop stars to interview, funny and forthright, as I hope the two interview clips attached here illustrate.\nGEORGE\/SIMPER 1987 INTERVIEW ON BEING CAMP:\nhttp:\/\/www.zen19954.zen.co.uk\/Shapers\/GeoM87-Last-Christmas-Simper.mp3\nGEORGE\/SIMPER 1987 INTERVIEW ON UNDERPANTS:\nhttp:\/\/www.zen19954.zen.co.uk\/Shapers\/GeoM87-Underpants-Simper.mp3\nThanks primarily to June \u2013 \"Don't forget Simper!\" she'd holler \u2013 I saw him more socially once Wham! finished and his solo career began. Merry Chianti-filled nights at Aldo Zilli's two Dean Street restaurants, Il Siciliano and Signor Zilli's, and dancing to his records at Brown's and later Abba, the weekly Hanover Square one-nighter run by June and Fat Tony.\nI loved the fact that he danced to his own records. After all if you can't dance to your records why should anyone else? Fellow clubber and George fan Bayo Furlong reminded me that George always danced exactly like George Michael \u2013 the soul boy steps, the arms aloft, the finger and toe points, the hips shake, the swivel, the spin \u2013 which is even more brilliant. He was the singing, dancing embodiment of his own Wham! mantra (Wham!tra?) \"Enjoy what you do\"!\nAnd what a voice. Of his generation, take your pick between him and the other George, for greatest white male soul singer of the 80s. It was there as early as Wham! ballads Nothing Looks the Same in the Light and Club Tropicana B-side Blue and grew on Careless Whisper and A Different Corner. His duets with Aretha Franklin and Mary J Blige \u2013 ringing endorsements in themselves \u2013 raised the bar again only for him to reach even higher with the likes of Older, You Have Been Loved and Jesus to a Child.\nHe said himself that he wasn't the most prolific of writers. Two Wham! and four solo albums of original material and rarely much left over for B-sides (though Fantasy is a little gem) but as a pop star he aced it \u2013 twice over.\nFirst in the perfect pop group, two teenage buddies who remained in spirit, sound and success as Wham!-like from the opening volley of Wham Rap! and Young Guns to the last howl of The Edge of Heaven. Then a second time, making the daunting leap from teen idol to internationally successful solo artist, barely breaking a sweat where so many others have fallen.\nHe told me he'd set himself the goal of joining the then 80s elite of Prince, Michael Jackson, Madonna and Bruce Springsteen. If the Faith album was his Thriller, with its 25 million sales, he went one better than MJ, surpassing it artistically with Older. And, despite the subsequent fall-out with Sony over record sales, Listen Without Prejudice Vol I \u2013 which includes the gorgeous Bacharach-style ballad Cowboys and Angels \u2013 isn't too shabby either.\nAs our careers both went in different directions, I got to interview him less, but deejay for him more. Fat Tony got me on board to help out with George's 30th birthday celebrations and I was there again for his 35th in 1998. Both had fancy-dress themes, the latter one Cowboys and Angels, and good sport that he was he didn't bat an eyelid when I asked him, dressed in a fetching Spice Girl Union Jack bathing suit and wings, to persuade a reluctant Geri Halliwell to do a photo with me.\n\"He's a bit strange,\" George explained to Ginger Spice, \"but he's a very old friend.\"\nI'll settle for that. He did a lot more for me than I'm sure I ever did for him. Dancing to Everything She Wants \u2013 dancing like him to Everything She Wants \u2013 still gives me more pleasure than most things in life.\nAt the time of that last Spandau interview he was in the studio still working on his final studio album, Patience. When he played me Flawless (Go to the City) I knew he'd got me again.\n\"It's no good waiting. You've got to go to the city.\"\nThat small-town thrill. The anticipation for those Beat Route, Saturday Night Fever moments was still somewhere in our DNA.\nI was back in the countryside, tucked up in bed at my mum's, when I heard he had gone. I only ever went to his house in Goring once, one Boxing Day thanks to June and another good pal, his wonderfully considerate PA Shiv Bailey. He sent a car for me and the only way it could have been any more perfect is if Richard and Judy hadn't just departed. Otherwise it was all my Last Christmas joy rolled into one.\nSo thank you, George, for all those happy Christmases, and for everything else you gave.\nSIMPER'S OWN GEORGE PLAYLIST AT SPOTIFY\n\u27a2 Previously at Shapersofthe80s:\nBritain stunned by sudden death of George Michael, our biggest pop superstar of the 80s\n2016, Soho's young guns remember George Michael\nPosted in Clubbing, Culture, History, interviews, London, New Romantics, nightlife, obituaries, Pop music, Social trends, soul music, Swinging 80s, Tributes, videos, Youth culture\nTagged Aldo Zilli, Andrew Ridgeley, Bayo Furlong, Beat Route, Everything She Wants, Fat Tony, George Michael, Geri Halliwell, June Montana, No1 magazine, Paul Simper, Shirlie Holliman, Swinging 80s, Wag club, Wham!, Young Guns\n\u27a4 Farewell George Michael: London's young guns remember their pal from 80s clubland\nPosted on 29 December 2016 | Leave a comment\nA bearded George Michael before Wham! came along: Captured on 20 February 1981 with his eye on the Nationwide TV camera, among many familiar faces at Soho's Friday night Beat Route \u2013 where the Caribbean beach decor was to inspire his song Club Tropicana. (Photo BBC)\n\u25fc THIS ENTIRE WEBSITE CELEBRATES the Swinging 80s when UK subcultures were uniquely re-shaped by the youngest generation since the 60s to create new sounds and new styles in music, fashion and media. George Michael, who died this week, was one among hundreds of inveterate Soho clubbers, except that in his own mind he was a global superstar. Yet before the teenaged George and his schoolmate Andrew Ridgeley signed to Innervision as Wham!, there were several false starts to their career, not least being turned away from the Friday-night Beat Route during its coolest-club-in-town heyday when gatekeeper Ollie O'Donnell decided the boys from Bushey looked just too suburban. The Soho elite of 20-somethings who ran the new club-nights and managed the cool new image bands were very protective of their post-Romantic projects. George was however fly enough to use his contacts behind the bar to ensure he was on the dancefloor during the BBC Nationwide filming for a Spandau Ballet package in February '81, when he clearly had the camera in his sights.\nThe irony was that by the next year Wham! were pushing a glossy brand of unashamedly \"pure pop\" that was so new, the debut single Wham Rap! failed to chart when released that June \u2013 the BBC declined to playlist the number partly because of its \"anti-social\" lyrics. After a touch of retuning, four months later Wham! released Young Guns (Go For It!) and this time their hedonistic attitude \u2013 mixing humour with social conscience \u2013 clicked with the clubland audiences that were growing all over Britain.\nA lucky break got them onto Top of the Pops in November when the group came as a shock to the eyeballs. The vocal foursome were immaculately rehearsed. Chinese-slippered George held himself like a star, bare-chested and sporting a leather waistcoat while Andrew and backing singers Shirlie Holliman and Dee C Lee stepped out with panache, all fully choreographed down to their finger-points and slippered toe-points. Then whoosh. Wham! rocketed to No 3 in the UK singles chart in December, the next three singles all made the Top 10, and the Bushey boys graduated to the international A-Team of British superstars. The next four years turned out 25 million albums and 15 million singles and scored four US number one hit singles.\nIt was evidently an advantage that all four members of Wham! had emerged as faces among London's clubland soul tribes, the dance-crazy cognoscenti who banished rock from the singles charts during 1980-81 and provided an eager audience for new music. Some of them can be seen in the music video for Young Guns shot by Tim Pope at the glitzy Churchill's club in Piccadilly.\nPop journalist about town Paul \"Scoop\" Simper recalls first meeting Wham! in autumn 1982 while working for Melody Maker. In his forthcoming autobiography, Pop Stars in My Pantry, he writes:\n\" George told me: \"I loved dancing at Le Beat Route. Nobody gave a fuck who I was so you could throw yourself around. If Shirlie was with me we'd really do that pair dancing. It was cool. We'd always make a bit of space and really show off.\"\nThere's footage from a BBC Nationwide report on the club which appears in Spandau Ballet's Soul Boys of the Western World movie showing a bearded, curly-haired George in an alarmingly orange suit slap bang in the middle of the dancefloor [pictured at top] from a time when he was still in a ska band called The Executive, before Le Beat Route's playlist helped transform them into Wham!\n\"Andrew and I were at Le Beat Route when Andrew started going 'Wham! Bam! I am a man!'' and doing this terrible rap,\" said George. \"It was supposed to be funny. But that's where he had the idea. \"\n\u27a2 Read Simper's full chapter on George at Unbound, the publisher's website, and pre-order your copy of PSIMP\nIt was the Beat Route itself \u2013 actually, its Caribbean beach decor \u2013 which was to inspire George's song Club Tropicana and for more than two years O'Donnell's Friday-nighter set the benchmark for the coolest sounds anywhere in Soho with 22-year-old deejay Steve Lewis ruling the turntables.\n\u27a2 INSIDE: CONTINUE READING MORE CLUBLAND\nTRIBUTES FOR GEORGE MICHAEL\nOn an inside page, Soho's young guns remember their pals in Wham! \u2013 led by\u2026\nPaul McKee, admin for Soul Boys Soul Girls at Facebook \u2013 \"RIP George Michael \u2013 A regular at our clubs Le Beat Route, Wag, Bogarts and many others. Easy to forget now the impact Wham Rap! Had. It was not out of place at the time in 1983 when the likes of Funkapolitan, Spandau Ballet, Culture Club, who all came from our clubs, began producing great club records, as the Soul Boys and Soul Girls sound and styles began to change. When Wham! performed Young Guns on TOTP with that dance routine, we all noted some of those little moves he used, we'd witness at a club at any given weekend. Without doubt one of the greatest soul voices and songwriters this country has ever produced. He liked to club like the rest of us, George was one of us.\"\nPosted in Clubbing, History, interviews, London, Media, New Romantics, nightlife, obituaries, Pop music, soul music, Swinging 80s, Tributes, videos, Youth culture\nTagged Aldo Zilli, Andrew Ridgeley, Beat Route, Club Tropicana, Dee C Lee, George Michael, New Romantics, Ollie O'Donnell, Paul McKee, Paul Simper, Pop Stars in My Pantry, Shirlie Holliman, Steve Lewis, Top Of The Pops, Wham!, Young Guns\n2016 \u27a4 Britain stunned by sudden death of George Michael, our biggest pop superstar of the 80s\n25 June 1963\u201325 December 2016\nWham! on The Tube, 1983: George Michael with his partner Andrew Ridgeley on guitar (Photo: ITV)\n\" Five albums in 25 years is not exactly prolific\nbut I think pretty good in terms of quality. . .\nThe body of work is safe now. If I get hit\nby a bus tomorrow, people will remember\nwhat I have done and they'll still enjoy it \"\n\u2013 George Michael, 2008\n\u25fc WHAM! SOLD 40 MILLION RECORDS WORLDWIDE in four years after emerging from London's innovative clubbing scene in 1982. As a solo singer-songwriter George Michael then sold another 100 million records, scored seven number one singles in the UK and eight number one hits in the US. He ranks among the best-selling British acts of all time, with Billboard magazine ranking him the 40th most successful artist ever. And he won every major world music award, often more than once. Yet his career was sporadic, interrupted by odd breaks, bouts of melancholy, health problems and in recent years a series of run-ins with the law over reckless driving, drugs and sex.\nOn his music, disc jockey Paul Gambaccini says: \"George is likely to be remembered in two different ways: in Britain he's a pop star and in America he's a soulboy.\" On his hedonism as propaganda, author Mark Simpson in Rolling Stone concludes: \"Whatever the long term effects on his happiness, being 'openly closeted' for so long seems to have been key to not only making Michael a commercially-successful artist but also a surprisingly subversive one. And perhaps it also lay behind his determination, once out, not to go back into the biggest closet of all: respectability.\"\nOBITUARY HIGHLIGHTS\n\u27a2 Singer who became Britain's biggest pop star\n\u2013 Guardian obituary:\n\" George Michael, who has died aged 53, was Britain's biggest pop star of the 1980s, first with the pop duo Wham! and then as a solo artist. After Wham! made their initial chart breakthrough with the single Young Guns (Go for It!) in 1982, Michael's songwriting gift brought them giant hits including Wake Me Up Before You Go-Go and Careless Whisper, and they became leading lights of the 80s boom in British pop music.\n\" From the late 1990s onwards Michael was beset by a string of personal crises and clashes with the law caused by drug use. He had always felt ambivalent about the demands of stardom, and found it difficult to balance his celebrity status with his private life. After years of concealing his homosexuality, he eventually came out in 1998, after being arrested for engaging in a \"lewd act\" in a public lavatory in Beverly Hills, California. . . \" \/ Continued at The Guardian\n\u27a2 One of the more enduring musicians of the 80s generation \u2013 BBC obituary:\n\" His talents as a singer, songwriter and music producer made George Michael one of the world's biggest-selling artists. Blessed with good looks and a fine singing voice, his stage presence made him a favourite on the live concert circuit as he matured from teen idol to long-term stardom.\n\" After early success in the duo Wham! he went on to build a solo career that brought him a string of awards and made him a multi-millionaire. But there were times when his battle with drugs and encounters with the police made lurid headlines that threatened to eclipse his musical talents. He admitted that he often went out at night seeking what he called \"anonymous and no-strings sex\". . . \" \/ Continued at BBC online\n\" Outside of Elton John, I'd say he is\nprobably the greatest philanthopist\nin popular music \" \u2013 Paul Gambaccini\n\u27a2 Dame Esther Rantzen, Childline founder:\n\" For years now George has been the most extraordinarily generous philanthropist, giving money to Childline, but he was determined not to make his generosity public so no-one outside the charity knew how much he gave to the nation's most vulnerable children. Over the years he gave us millions and we were planning next year, as part of our 30th anniversary celebrations to create, we hoped, a big concert in tribute to him \u2013 to his artistry, to his wonderful musicality but also to thank him for the hundreds of thousands of children he helped through supporting Childline. \"\nGeorge with Kenny Goss in happier times\u2026 they met in 1996 and broke up in 2009 (Photo: Rex)\n\" The truth is my love life has been a lot more turbulent than I've let on \" \u2013 George Michael\n\u27a2 Spending time together with love of his life \u2013 The Sun:\n\" George Michael had secretly become close again with the love of his life Kenny Goss, just weeks before his death. George had reached out to Kenny following their difficult split. A close friend revealed: \"George and Kenny are back spending time together again and it's an exciting time for those of us who have been so worried over the last few years. The pop superstar split from Texan art dealer Kenny in 2009 after 13 years and his life quickly spiralled, culminating in a lengthy stint in the world's most expensive rehab clinic in Switzerland last year.\n\" On the opening night of his Symphonica tour in 2011, the singer admitted: \"In truth Kenny and I haven't been together for two and a half years. I love him very much. This man has brought me a lot of joy and pain\". . . \" \/ Continued at The Sun online\n\u27a2 Jim Fouratt, US 80s club host and activist:\n\" No one seems to remember the incident between George Michael and the president of Sony Music America, Tommy Mottola. I do. George Michael set up a meeting with Mottola, having sold 80 million records worldwide, reaping huge profits for the company. Michael was not happy with how his new album was being marketed. Suddenly, from behind closed doors, the Sony staff could hear Mottola shouting: \"Get this faggot out of my office!\"\nGeorge left. Mattola's homophobia shocked him. He went back to England. Sued Columbia and spent six years without a release in the US. Finally David Geffen signed him to his new label Dreamworks after settling the lawsuit which gave Dreamworks all rights in the US for a new George Michael album. A hit. George Michael was back on the charts in the US. Then the arrest in a public bathroom in Beverly Hills made headlines across the world. Michael (finally) came out.\nVery sad to learn of George's passing. But he stood up for himself after he was very publicly outed. Yes, he could have come out earlier \u2013 but Mottola's action gives one insight into why he did not. \"\n\u27a2 Owen Jones, Guardian writer:\n\" The popstar's openness about his sex life, and his campaigning for LGBT rights, offered a liferaft to many \u2013 particularly at a time when anti-gay sentiment was rife. As a closeted teenager back in 1998, it is impossible not to recall the courage and defiance of George Michael. A talented and much adored musician, yes. But also a gay man, and a gay icon, who made the lives of so many LGBT people that little bit easier.\"\n\u27a2 20 essential songs: The best of the pop icon George Michael's hits \u2013 at Rolling Stone:\n\" George Michael swiftly transitioned from teenage pretty boy to outspoken pop force. \"It says something for the power of the music,\" he told Rolling Stone after the release of his smash 1987 solo debut, Faith, \"that I've managed to change the perception of what I do to the degree that I have in this short a time. Because it's something that a lot of people thought wasn't possible. . . \" \/ Continued online\nCELEBRITY TRIBUTES\nAndrew Ridgeley, schoolfriend, partner in Wham! \u2013 \"Heartbroken at the loss of my beloved friend Yog. He had a voice that would transport you, he was the finest singer\/songwriter of his generation & has left the best of himself for us. RIP.\"\nMichael Lippman, Michael's manager, told Billboard that he died of heart failure and was found \"in bed, lying peacefully\". . . \"I'm devastated.\"\nSpandau Ballet \u2013 \"We are incredibly sad at the passing of our dear friend George Michael. A brilliant artist and great songwriter.\"\nSimply Red \u2013 \"It's hard to take in. One of our most talented singer- songwriters has left us. Such sad, tragic news.\"\nMark Ronson \u2013 \"George Michael was one of the true British soul greats. A lot of us owe him an unpayable debt.\"\nPaul McCartney \u2013 \"George Michael's sweet soul music will live on even after his sudden death. Having worked with him on a number of occasions, his great talent always shone through and his self-deprecating sense of humour made the experience even more pleasurable.\"\nTony Visconti, producer \u2013 \"I lived through early grief of my pop idols dying on me. Nothing, however, prepared me for this year. Of course the biggest blow was when David Bowie passed. He was my colleague, but more importantly a friend for 48 years. I'm just barely in the acceptance stage with that; my philosophical attitude, 'this just happens', helped a lot. But today, with the death of George Michael, this is a little too close to home. Wham made their first album in my Good Earth studios with Chris Porter engineering and he eventually producing George Michael. As my office was in the studio I would pop my head in and say hello. This has happened too much this year. As of today it feels like a damn conspiracy.\"\nChaka Khan \u2013 \"Performed a few shows with George Michael when he was with Wham in the 80s. Here's a clip of him covering Ain't Nobody from 1991.\"\nSir Elton John \u2013 \"I am in deep shock. I have lost a beloved friend \u2013 the kindest, most generous soul and a brilliant artist.\"\nTHE TERRY WOGAN SHOW, 1984\nTALKING ABOUT A FILM OF HIS LIFE, 2005\n'MY OWN SELF-DESTRUCTIVE STREAK', 2007\n\u27a2 2016, London's young guns remember George Michael\n2010, Rich List puts George Michael top of the popstars from the un-lucrative 80s\nPosted in Clubbing, Culture, death, gay issues, History, interviews, London, Media, North America, Pop music, soul music, Tributes, videos, Youth culture\nTagged Andrew Ridgeley, Billboard, Desert Island Discs, Esther Rantzen, George Michael, Guardian, Jim Fouratt, Kenny Goss, Martin Kemp, Paul Gambaccini, Rolling Stone, Swinging 80s, This Is Your Life, Wham!\n1980\u20132014 \u27a4 Ten inspirational reminders from the 80s to stir today's young to action\nWaldorf Hotel 1980: seated at centre, Spandau Ballet, house band of Covent Garden's Blitz club, home of the New Romantics movement, plus support team of Blitz Kids who helped put their first single To Cut a Long Story Short into the UK singles chart at No 5, on 6 Dec 1980. Average age 20, everyone had a specific role to play in staging and promoting the band: seven musicians, six designers, three media and management, three club-hosts, two DJs, one crimper and 22 egos. Photographed for the Evening Standard \u00a9 by Herbie Knott\n\u25fc TEN OF THE MOST POPULAR POSTS visited here during 2014 confirm Shapers of the 80s as an \"invaluable website\" in the words of British historian Dominic Sandbrook. Grounded in the 1980s \u2013 the most explosive decade for British youth culture since the Swinging 60s \u2013 our eye witness reports and monthly reviews of British nightlife were originally published in magazines such as The Face, the \"style bible\" of its day. Our recent commentaries monitor fresh interest in the revival of 80s music and attitude during the past five years. Year-ending visit figures at Shapers of the 80s during 2014 have increased year-on-year by 16% to total 210,000.\nMuch unseen vintage video footage was discovered by the producers researching Spandau Ballet's biopic, Soul Boys of the Western World, which proved an eye-opening slice of social history when it was released this year. Every frame reveals the sheer energy and commitment to hedonism and creative self-expression that characterised a generation of school-leavers who in the economic gloom of 1979 faced the threat of no jobs ever in their adult lives. The parallels with Britain's protracted austerity today are obvious and we might hope the lessons of the 80s will again inspire the young to take their fate into their own hands.\nTEN BENCHMARKS FROM THE SWINGING 80S\nClick pic to open a Top of the Pops performance of Wham Rap! in another window \u2026 In the original music video (no longer viewable in the UK !!) \"man or mouse\" Andrew Ridgeley establishes his group's clubbing credentials in the opening shots of the video, pictured, by reading our landmark Face cover story on The Making of UK Club Culture, now reproduced at Shapers of the 80s. (Screengrab \u00a9 Sony BMG)\n\u27a2 Read: 69 Dean Street and the making of UK club culture\nNo Sacrifice was an alternative fashion show in 1980 organised by Iain R Webb and mounted for art-school refus\u00e9s: outside Chelsea's Chenil Gallery, Kim Bowen as ever sports a hat by Stephen Jones (right), Jeremy Healy at centre. Photographed \u00a9 by Mick Hurd\n\u27a2 Who's who among the Blitz Kids: 50 crucial nightclubbers who set the style for a decade\nNew York 1981: Before Spandau Ballet introduced America to electro-diskow at Manhattan's Underground club, the Axiom fashion cooperative staged a runway show of New Romantic outfits. Photographed by \u00a9 Shapersofthe80s\n\u27a2 1981, first Blitz invasion of the US by Spandau\/Axiom\nFirst published in The Face No 39, July 1983\n\u27a2 1983, Who's who in the new London nightlife boom\nSeminal spread in i-D issue one: the straight-up style is established with one then unknown New Romantic and one punkette. Photographed on the King's Road in London by Steve Johnston\n\u27a2 1980, 'Your own i-D counts more than fashion'\nReal Blitz Kids versus the TV version: George's boyfriend Wilf and Stephen Linard in 1979 (picture, Andy Rosen)\u2026 Daniel Wallace as a Linard lookalike and Douglas Booth as Boy George in Worried About the Boy, 2010 (BBC)\n\u27a2 How real did 1980 feel? Ex-Blitz Kids give verdicts on the 2010 TV play about Boy George, Worried About the Boy\n\u27a2 1983, Posing with a purpose at the Camden Palace\n\u27a2 Six rewrites punk history with an outlandish claim about the Not-Really-From-Bromley Contingent\n\u27a2 1982, \"Who?!\" Peter Capaldi's first interview (probably) as a green young stand-up\n\u27a2 2014, Video gems unearthed by the Spandau Ballet biopic premiering at SXSW\n\u27a2 2009 till now \u2013 Index of all posts at Shapers of the 80s\nPosted in Clubbing, Fashion, Film, London, North America, Pop music, Social trends, TV, Youth culture\nTagged Andrew Ridgeley, austerity, Axiom fashion, Blitz Kids, Boy George, Bromley Contingent, i-D magazine, Iain Webb, Kim Bowen, New Romantics, Peter Capaldi, Simon Barker, Spandau Ballet, Stephen Jones, Stephen Linard, Swinging 80s, The Face, Underground club, Wham!\n2011 \u27a4 Wham!'s cunning plan for a Christmas No1 as climax to the 80s revival\nPosted on 15 November 2011 | Leave a comment\n\u275a TWO REASONS TO CELEBRATE. Mother-of-two Shirlie Kemp has just exhumed a load of fab clothes from her heyday with Pepsi Demacque as the all-jiving all-singing girls in Wham! She has piled a load of glam photos of her stage clothes on to her otherwise sedately titled blog, No Place Like Home. We see her Melissa Caplan sheath from the 1982 Top of the Pops debuts of herself as Shirlie Holliman and of the clubland group's single Young Guns in the lucky TV turning point [above] that broke the group after their first single Wham Rap! had initially failed to take off.\nShirlie's bling leather top for Wham! It bears the Kahniverous label. Photo from shirliekemp.com\nShirlie also shows the cowgirl fronded suede top from American Classics in Endell Street, worn in an earlier incarnation of Young Guns.\nMost eye-catching of all are those skimpy, gilded, blingy black leathers by the Brummie design duo Kahn & Bell who had shops in Birmingham and Chelsea. However, after a deep search through Wham's YouTube videos as the first Western pop group into China, we find no footage of Shirlie's claim that she wore them onstage there in 1985 \u2014 see below for Everything She Wants filmed live in China by British director Lindsay Anderson (which is wrongly dated). By then they had achieved three number-one singles in a row in the US with Wake Me Up Before You Go-Go, Careless Whisper and Everything She Wants, while the Billboard year-ending chart listed George Michael's Careless Whisper as the US number-one song of 1985.\n\u27a2 Click pic for the fizzing Wham Rap! video in a new window\nAbove \u2014 \"Man or mouse\" Andrew Ridgeley establishes the group's clubbing credentials in the opening shots of their Wham Rap! video by reading The Face cover story, The Making of Club Culture, written by yours truly in the February 1983 issue\n\u274f The reason why we've been catching glimpses of Pepsi & Shirlie around the media is the second reason to celebrate. An explosive 25th anniversary comeback by Wham! themselves takes the shape of a 27-track 2-CD anniversary edition of The Final, their farewell compilation album from 1986, with its minimalist Peter Saville cover design. Embracing all four years'-worth of output, it contains six UK No 1 hits, plus both George Michael solo singles (Careless Whisper and A Different Corner). A deluxe edition includes a DVD of 13 restored videos.\nThe Final is such a double-whammy of greatest dancefloor hits that its November 28 release is a calculated pitch for the top spot in the Christmas chart. And with Duran's magnificent comeback year all but spent musically, Wham!'s cunning plan will represent the last major chart assault by the 80s revival that has warmed our cockles for a full two years.\nWham! went out on a high 25 years ago with an eight-hour grand finale of a concert at Wembley Stadium which coincided with their farewell single The Edge of Heaven hitting No 1 in June, 1986. Pepsi says: \"A lot of thought went into stopping when we did \u2014 we were at our peak, it was such a high and that's why we can celebrate Wham! The Final now, because we all still have great memories and we're all still great friends.\"\n\u27a2 \"Maybe George was going through a cowboy phase\" \u2014 this week's interview with Pepsi & Shirlie for RealMusic Blog\n\u27a2 Rich List puts George Michael top of the popstars\nfrom the un-lucrative 80s\nPosted in Asia, Clubbing, Fashion, Pop music, Youth culture\nTagged albums, Andrew Ridgeley, anniversary, China, fashion, George Michael, Interview, Kahn & Bell, Memorabilia, Pepsi Demacque, Shirlie Kemp, The Face, Video, Wham!, Young Guns","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
+{"text":"Mazon Overview\nMazon, IL Code of Ordinances\nVILLAGE OF MAZON, ILLINOIS CODE OF ORDINANCES\nADOPTING ORDINANCES\nTITLE I: GENERAL PROVISIONS\nTITLE III: ADMINISTRATION\nTITLE V: PUBLIC WORKS\nTITLE VII: TRAFFIC CODE\nTITLE IX: GENERAL REGULATIONS\nTITLE XI: BUSINESS REGULATIONS\nTITLE XIII: GENERAL OFFENSES\nTITLE XV: LAND USAGE\nTABLE OF SPECIAL ORDINANCES\nPARALLEL REFERENCES\nMazon\n\u00a7 32.02 IMPLEMENTING THE PROVISIONS OF THE STATE OFFICIALS AND EMPLOYEES ETHICS ACT.\n(A) The regulations of \u00a7 5-15 (5 ILCS 430\/5-15) and Article 10 (5 ILCS 430\/10-10 through 10-40) of the State Officials and Employees Ethics Act, being 5 ILCS 430\/1-1 et seq. (hereinafter referred to as the \"Act\" in this section), are hereby adopted by reference and made applicable to the officers and employees of the village to the extent required by 5 ILCS 430\/70-5.\n(B) The solicitation or acceptance of gifts prohibited to be solicited or acted under the Act, by any officer or any employee of the village, is hereby prohibited.\n(C) The offering or making of gifts prohibited to be offered or made to an officer or employee of the village under the Act is hereby prohibited.\n(D) The participation in political activities prohibited under the Act, by any officer or employee of the village, is hereby prohibited.\n(E) For purposes of this section, the terms \"officer\" and \"employee\" shall be defined as set forth in 5 ILCS 430\/70-5(c).\n(F) The penalties for violations of this section shall be the same as those penalties set forth in 5 ILCS 430\/50-5 for similar violations of the Act.\n(G) This section does not repeal or otherwise amend or modify any existing ordinances or policies which regulate the conduct of village officers and employees. To the extend that any such existing ordinances or policies are less restrictive than this section, however, the provisions of this section shall prevail in accordance with the provisions of 5 ILCS 430\/70-5(a).\n(H) Any amendment to the Act that becomes effective after the effective date of this section shall be incorporated into this section by reference and shall be applicable to the solicitation, acceptance, offering and making of gifts and to prohibited political activities. However, any amendment that makes its provisions optional for adoption by municipalities shall not be incorporated into this section by reference without formal action by the corporate authorities of the city.\n(I) If the State Supreme Court declares the Act unconstitutional in its entirety, then this section shall be repealed as of the date that the State Supreme Court's decision becomes final and not subject to any further appeals or rehearings. This section shall be deemed repealed without further action by the corporate authorities of the village if the Act is found unconstitutional by the State Supreme Court.\n(J) If the State Supreme Court declares part of the Act unconstitutional but upholds the constitutionality of the remainder of the Act, or does not address the remainder of the Act, then the remainder of the Act as adopted by this section shall remain in full force and effect; however that part of this section relating to the part of the Act found unconstitutional shall be deemed repealed without further action by the corporate authorities of the village.\n(Ord. 1999-6, passed 6-21-1999; Ord. 2004-6, passed 5-3-2004)","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
+{"text":"Madonna, Tupac breakup letter hits the auction block - 00:52\nDisney goes high-tech to draw fans to a new 'Lion King' - 01:58\nSeth Rogen on 'super weird' royal premiere of \"The Lion King\" - 01:29\nMeghan and Harry meet Beyonce at 'Lion King' premiere - 01:43\nThirty years on, UK rave scene returns in new exhibition - 01:11\nThe age of personal planes has arrived - 02:08\nSotheby's holds first-ever rare sneaker auction - 01:35\nPharrell Williams unveils new exhibition with Japanese artist Mr. in Paris - 00:46\nThe world's top 5 highest paid celebs - 01:08\nHeroes divided in 'Captain America: Civil War'\nDirectors Joe and Anthony Russo and star Chris Evans talk about why the Avengers are in conflict in 'Captain America: Civil War'. Rollo Ross reports.\nAfter having epic fight sequences against aliens, Norse gods and psychotic robots, The Avengers have decided to have those same fights against each other in ''Captain America: Civil War\". SOUNDBITE co-director, Joe Russo, saying (English) \"We like to liken it to a fight at a wedding. It's something that's been brewing in a family for some time and something happens that instigates a fall-out amongst all of the characters.\" But the fall-out doesn't come from a family squabble, it's more political as the United Nations want the superheroes to sign a treaty to keep them under control, which some have an aversion to. SOUNDBITE actor, Chris Evans, saying (English): \"Even in American politics, no one is right or wrong, there's no evil here, we're not fighting Nazis or aliens, this is just a matter of whether we're fighting for our head or our heart.\" SOUNDBITE co-director, Anthony Russo, saying (English): \"Relevancy and topicality are really important to us because it makes the audience feel like it's part of their world. When they're watching it, they feel an immediacy to it which makes them connect more on an emotional level to the storytelling.\" And with its glowing reviews, it seems that the Russo brothers have hit the superhero nail on the head. 'Captain America: Civil War' will be in cinemas worldwide from April 27\nhttp:\/\/reut.rs\/1Tttpxx","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
+{"text":"The Wonder Tribe\nTeaching Mastery Institute\nA Narrative at Block Play\nby Sally | Feb 22, 2012 | Block Play, Reggio Inspired | 1 comment\nI love to watch little narratives unfold during centers. One of the best places to \"catch\" such a narrative is in the block center. Here is the saga I captured today:\nFour boys are building a structure. I ask what it is. S replies, \"It is a house.\" H chimes in and says, \"It is Halloween and they bump their heads.\" \"Who?\" I inquire. \"The beyblades.\" One boy tells me, \"It is a haunted house with a battle place. You can battle on top of the house.\"\n\"Some people do not know how to spin.\" C explains. S warns, \"They can bounce.\"\nH brings over some tigers. S warns him, \"No, don't!\" H spins the tigers like a beyblade. \"Dude, you can't do that.\" S warns and then seeing H is not going to back off says, \"Pretend he got trapped and can't get out.\" S slips the tigers under the block structure.\nAnother boy adds, \"The beyblades are sick and have to go inside.\" The boys make a place for the sick beyblades. Another boy announces, \"The tigers are killed.\"\nH returns with a new creation. \"Here comes the Electric Shock Ball with two ships.\"\nAnother boy enters the play asking if he can join them with his car.\nS tells him, \"Yes, we will make a home for you.\" S opens a section of the structure and J slips his car into its new home. Meanwhile one of the boys declares \"We all have the same powers. When the beyblades spin, they shoot out fire.\"\nPlacing a block over the car, S looks pleased. \"It is a new battle area!\"\nThe narrative lasted the entire centers \u2013 nearly 25 minutes. During that time many children entered the saga and left. S, C and H remained the constant players. It is so revealing to watch their negotiation skills and how they work out differences. It was rich to see how others entered the play and then disengaged.\nCindy\ton February 23, 2012 at 3:26 am\nI love, love, love block play. I take numerous pictures throughout the year and by far the most photoed are the creations and children building in the block center. My brother-in-law and sister-in-law once taught at a school that had an entire room devoted to block play. They said it was so neat because the structures could be built on and would evolve over several days and even weeks.\nI, too, enjoy the ongoing narratives and collabrative work of the children.\nBlog Catagories\nScience & Sensory\nFor the Teacher\nSee the latest from our blog\nChallenging Children\nReggio Inspired Bootcamp\nWonder-Based Learning\nCopyright \u00a9 2019 | Privacy Policy | Terms of Use","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
+{"text":"School Music Performance Programs and the Development of \"Functional Musical Literacy\": A Theoretical Model\nEstelle R. Jorgensen\nfunctional pedagogy\naesthetic curriculum\nelementary cognition\nDalcroze\nI am proposing a theoretical model or an implicit theory where the framework of ideas presented requires subsequent systematic refinement and formulation of model elements. In some respects this model is characterized as a conceptual model in that the various relationships between the entities of a given structure or concept are described.1\nTheoretical models may be built inductively or deductively. They may arise either as the result of accumulated microlevel experimental evidence or derive from macrolevel philosophical thinking. Thus they may be generated by experimentation and\/or may generate experimentation subsequently. This study represents an example of a macrolevel deductive approach.\nIf music education is conceived as aesthetic education in music\u2014a view widely held among music educators\u2014we are committed to important consequences, some of which have not been thought through critically.2 A central issue involves the description of the specific objectives in purview. For example: Is there a minimal \"functional\" level of musical literacy which should constitute an objective of music education? How is such an objective to be achieved? What for example is the appropriate role of performance-based programs in achieving \"functional musical literacy?\"3\nThe National Commission on Instruction has implicitly addressed the question of musical literacy in its report entitled: The School Music Program: Description and Standards.4 It identifies the ability to \"use the vocabulary and notation of music\" as one of the ten characteristics of the \"musically educated person.\"5 Much of the theoretical base underlying the formulation of these objectives is implicit. Furthermore the objectives of the curricula are stated in general terms and the question of appropriate specific levels of competency is not answered.\nThe objective of the present study was the development of a theoretical model which would provide a framework for the subsequent formulation of specific objectives for music education and which would address issues which had heretofore been implicit, as for example the relationship of school music performance programs and the development of musical literacy.\nThe analysis is based on two assumptions6 as follows:\n(a) Music education is appropriately described as aesthetic education7 in music;\n(b) The objective of aesthetic education in music is the development of \"musicianship.\"\nWhile the notion of music education as aesthetic education has been generally accepted by music educators (following the formulation of Susanne Langer among others) there has been considerable disagreement as to the appropriate description of the aesthetic experience and therefore of aesthetic education.8 Bennett Reimer has extended Langer's notion of aesthetic education as the \"education of feeling,\" emphasizing the emotional (and intuitive) elements of the aesthetic experience.9 Some have emphasized the intellectual elements of the aesthetic experience.10 Others have viewed the aesthetic experience as necessarily eclectic, i.e. containing both emotional and intellectual elements.11\nA failure to analyze critically and to designate the elements of the aesthetic experience within a theoretical framework in music education has resulted in ambiguity in specification of the precise objectives of aesthetic education in music and the appropriate descriptors to be employed.12\nIn a recent theoretical analysis of the aesthetic experience and its appropriate description within the context of music education, musicianship was identified as the objective of aesthetic education in music.13 The formulation in which this objective was stated represents a synthesis of elements of Langer's philosophy, together with subsequent adaptations and refinements by the author and a macrosociocultural perspective proposed by Professors Sorokin and Zentner.14 Several propositions respecting the nature of the aesthetic experience of music which were derived in this analysis may be summarized as follows:15\n1. The musical event occupies actual time, virtual or psychologically perceived time (after Langer) and social time (after Sorokin-Zentner). It also occupies actual space, virtual or psychologically perceived space (after Langer) and social space (after Sorokin-Zentner). Here the Langerian analysis has been extended to include the dimensions of social time and space thus giving added prominence to the dimension of space in the musical event and resulting in a necessarily \"relative\" analysis of musical events.\n2. The quality of the musical symbol is maximized at that point where the interplay between actual and virtual time during the musical event is minimized (after Langer). This minimal value approaches zero. Presumably it provides a criterion by which judgments respecting the quality of a given piece of music may be evaluated. It assumes that the composer for example has combined the elements of his piece such that the symbol derives an \"illusion,\" a \"separateness\" from actual clock time for the listener.\n3. Changes over time and space affect the perception of the quality of a given musical symbol. For example a given musical event may be perceived differently over time by virtue of altered \"rules\" of composition and performance practice among others. Here quality judgments are assumed to be essentially both subjective and relative.\n4. Any judgment in quality of a given piece of music at any given time must take into account both the formal structure and the function of that music.\n5. The aesthetic experience is a variable one. Generally there is an interplay between affective and intellectual responses but the degree of this interplay will vary widely as a function of the musical symbol itself.\n6. \"Appreciation\" (defined as the quality of aesthetic responsiveness) at any given time varies as a function of an individual's musical aptitude, intelligence level, acquired taste in musical preference, understanding of the music and psycho-physical state before listening to the music, the environment in which the musical event occurs, and the music itself among other factors.\n7. Aesthetic responsiveness to music varies over time and is a relative and subjective phenomenon.\n8. \"Musicianship\" comprises two elements: \"appreciation\" (defined above); and a factor X (representing the ability to transmit or communicate this inner responsiveness to music).\nA number of implications follow from the foregoing propositions as follows:\n1. The analysis is a relative one; variables are subject to changes in precise detail through time and space.\n2. The aesthetic experience involves an integral, albeit variable intellectual component. It involves a cognitive response (either intuitive, rational or both) which presumably must also be educated.\n3. The music educator may influence change in only some of the several variables which theoretically affect appreciation.\n4. Active performance or communication (factor X) of the inner sensitivity to music (appreciation) is an integral element of music education (the goal being musicianship as defined above).\n5. The analysis presumably translates at a variety of casual nexi or integrative levels of analysis thus enabling its use at the psycho-physical, institutional, societal or historical levels.16\nHaving examined the assumptions on which the analysis is based, we now turn to a model of \"functional musical literacy.\" This model addresses the nature of the cognitive element of the aesthetic response to music.\nA MODEL OF \"FUNCTIONAL MUSICAL\" LITERACY\nA conceptual model of functional musical literacy is shown in Figure 1.\nFig. 1. A Conceptual Model of 'Functional Musical Literacy' Through Performance-Based School Music Programs\n\"Musical literacy\" is defined as that minimal level of musical skills which enables an individual to function with musical materials. Specifically the term refers to the intellectual or cognitive as opposed to the emotional or affective elements of appreciation.\nOne may identify two polarities in respect of the intellectual component: skills in the aural perception of music and rational understanding of musical elements. Aural skills involve the ability to sight-sing or play musical materials, the ability to detect the variety and nuances of musical elements, for example form analysis, pitch, rhythmic, dynamic and timbral perception. A variety of extant pedagogical methods are based upon the assumption that the development of aural skills or \"inner hearing\" constitute fundamental elements in the music education process.17\nCognitive or rational understanding of musical materials may be viewed structurally, i.e. approached through an analysis of the elements of music from the perspective of a given time and place, or historically, i.e. approached through an analysis of aesthetic and ethic as applied within music over changing time and space. The Manhattanville Music Curriculum Project is an example of a structural approach to musical pedagogy.18 Examples of historical approaches can be found in a variety of musical performance materials prepared for music education purposes, such as the Choral Sounds series by Buryl Red.19 Zentner has identified several principal dimensions characterizing all typification schema within the social realm, notably time, space, number, causation, ethic and aesthetic.20 His analysis can be applied in the description of structural and historical approaches to the cognitive understanding of music, represented as logical opposites, polarities, or theoretical types. These constitute paradigms or \"world views,\" ways by which a cognitive or intellectual understanding of music may be achieved.21 Figure 2 summarizes the principal features of structural and historical paradigms.\nFig. 2. A Comparison of Structural and Historical Paradigms\nDimension Structural\nParadigm Historical\nTime Fixed Perspective Relative Perspective\nSpace Fixed Perspective Relative Perspective\nNumber Absolute Values Relative Values\nCausation Psycho-physical integrative level of analysis Historical integrative level of analysis\nEthic Fixed Perspective Relative Perspective\nAesthetic Fixed Perspective Relative Perspective\nThe structural view presumes a given and fixed time and space, absolute number values by which musical elements may be accurately described, an emphasis on microlevel problems of causation principally at the psychophysical integrative level of analysis, viz. psychological perception of music, a fixed ethical perspective, and a given or fixed aesthetic. On the other hand the historical view presumes a variable time and space, relative numerical valuation, an emphasis on macrolevel problems of causation principally at the historical integrative level of analysis, a variable ethical perspective, and a variable or relative aesthetic perspective. In terms of emphasis, structural approaches focus on microlevel questions of time, space and number, whereas historical approaches emphasize macro-level questions of ethic and aesthetic. As such they are useful complements for each other.\nA typology of musical skills to be considered within the purview of musical literacy having been discussed, the central question remaining is the problem of measurement: the estimation of that minimal level of \"skills\" or knowledge necessary for the presumption of musical literacy. Music educators have been in the habit of assembling committees of so-called \"experts\" in a given area and letting them decide what standards will be acceptable. The School Music Program: Description and Standards is one such example.22 Such an approach does not come to grips with central theoretical questions. Rather it simply pools the opinions of those presently in the field. It constitutes a pragmatic rather than a theoretical approach.\nI have approached this problem of standards in a tentative way elsewhere.23 One of the difficulties lies not only in the determination of which standards will be acceptable, agreement on which has been found to be variable over time, but the problem of a metric by which the degree of variation from these standards may be measured.24 Certainly the structure and function of a given piece of music, the aesthetic at a given time or place must be taken into account in the formulation of standards. These are absolute considerations which ought to have concomitant absolute evaluative measures. They must be taken into account along with the variety of relative considerations, for example questions of emphasis on given musical periods, evaluation of performance quality among others, which presumably will have associated relative evaluative measures.\nGiven that a combination of absolute and relative measures can be devised and suitable metrics developed, it should then be theoretically possible to define that point of minimal musical skills at which an individual may be said to function with musical materials and to obtain by a judicious choice of instrument(s) at least an index of performance relative to functional musical literacy.\nA MODEL OF PERFORMANCE-BASED SCHOOL MUSIC PROGRAMS\nFigure 1 summarizes five types of performance-based programs as follows: historically-oriented, structurally-oriented, aurally-oriented, technically-oriented and extramusically-oriented. These will now be discussed in turn.\nHistorically-oriented programs focus on selected programmed literature for performance. Repertoire considerations and the preparation of this repertoire for performance are preeminent. Considerable time is spent discussing the selected literature and performance practice from an historical perspective and in preparing that literature for performance.\nStructurally-oriented programs focus on structural and theoretical aspects of music. An understanding of the theoretical elements of music to be performed is a preeminent concern. Considerable time is spent in theory and in analysis of musical materials.\nAurally-oriented programs focus on the development of aural skills, for example sight-singing or playing, dictation and related activities. The development of \"inner hearing\" is an important consideration. Considerable time is spent in sight-singing exercises, (solf\u00e8ge or sol-fa), dictation in one or more parts, physical movement to music (e.g. Jaques-Dalcroze type exercises), and improvisatory activities of various kinds.\nTechnically-oriented programs focus on the various instrumental techniques. Considerable attention is given to the development of technical skills of the various instrumental groups (woodwind, brass, percussion, strings and vocal). The development of the tone within the ensemble is a preeminent consideration together with the development of technical proficiency and virtuosity.\nExtramusically-oriented programs focus on the variety of auxiliary activities associated with the performance act. Such programs have a heavy emphasis on showmanship, stressing marching techniques, choreographed choral performances, baton twirling, musical shows, cabarets and the like. Considerable attention is given to the development of the variety of disciplines necessitated, for example practice of marching drills, rehearsal of choreographed works and baton twirling among others.\nEach performance focus has a contribution to make and provides a useful complement to the others. Theoretically it should be possible to optimize the combination of foci so as to maximize musicianship (represented in Figure 1 by the elements of appreciation and factor X). It should be noted that factor X is composed of two elements: discursive expression and non-discursive expression (performance-based programs). The discursive expression element has been discussed elsewhere.25\nOf particular interest in the present case is the theoretical relationship between historically-oriented performance programs, which presumably should relate directly to the historical approach to a rational understanding of music; structurally-oriented performance programs, which should relate directly to the structural approach to a rational understanding of music; and structurally-oriented performance programs, which should relate directly to aural perception of music. If we posit that both aural perception and rational understanding of music are components of musical literacy and if we also posit that the various foci of musical performance programs should be combined in some optimal fashion, then at least three performance foci relate directly to the development of musical literacy. These relationships are shown schematically in Figure 1.\nGiven the above model, what are its implications for musical pedagogy? First, there are theoretical and experimental implications. Considerable research needs to be done, for example in defining musical literacy, in formulating precise standards, developing appropriate measurements for its evaluation and determining the required time-space requirements to enable its achievement. Furthermore the measures developed require experimental validation. In particular the optimal combination of model elements which will maximize musicianship (see Figure 1) should be determined.\nSecond, given that the prime time for learning to name sounds and therefore the best time to teach musical literacy may have passed by the age of 12 (as Arnold Bentley suggests), there are important implications in the allocation of resources within school music.26 Take for example the distribution of music specialists within elementary and secondary schools. In a recent survey of music supervisors in Canada, while regional differences were indicated, a greater concentration of music specialists was found at the secondary than at the elementary school level in the country as a whole.27 The present model would imply that we concentrate teaching resources at the elementary rather than at the secondary school level, which would involve reversing the present ratios.\nSimilarly in terms of time allocation in music classes per week across Canada, time in music classes per week at the elementary school level is typically less than that in secondary school music classes. Research into the optimal time allocation for elementary and secondary school music programs is needed.\nAlso in terms of capital equipment allocation, it is to be expected that instrumental and equipment purchases and maintenance will be adequate to facilitate the development of musical literacy at the elementary school level. Research into the optimal breakdown of capital equipment allocation as between elementary and secondary school music programs is warranted.\nThird, there are important implications for the music curriculum in the elementary school. Practically speaking, such a model would translate into a performance-based program with both an instrumental (possibly string) and vocal component. Additional supportive elements would be comprised of those activities relating specifically to the development of an emotional \"feeling\" for music expressed in such methods as Dalcroze, Orff, and Kod\u00e1ly. I have seen an interesting example of such a curriculum at L'Ecole le Plateau in Montr\u00e9al, a program currently in its experimental phase and administered under the auspices of the Commission des Ecoles Catholiques de Montr\u00e9al.\nFourth, the model has important implications for the administration of school music. Jaques-Dalcroze suggested in an essay written in 1905:\nMaking music a compulsory school subject is the only sure means of mobilising the vital musical forces of a country. Were it undertaken in the right spirit, efficiently organised and confided to intelligent and competent teachers, every child would at the end of two or three years be put to the test: those who showed talent being enabled to continue their studies to the point of attaining the maximum development of their facilities, the remainder, those devoid of all musical taste, being relieved from the burden of lessons of no value to them, and thereby conferring an almost equal benefit on the art, in being debarred from meddling with it, and clogging its progress with ridiculous pretensions.28\nWhat is interesting about his theory is that it speaks to the problem of music education as a right or as a privilege. Music educators have not come to grips with the issue of the point at which music education should appropriately cease to be the right of all and should become a privilege available only to those who desire it and who are musically apt or competent enough to derive benefit from further serious musical instruction. Presumably the formulation of an operational definition of \"functional musical literacy\" together with the development of concomitant instruments to evaluate its attainment would be of considerable utility in determining that point at which music education ceases to be a right and becomes a privilege.\nA more problematic question is that of the appropriate institution in which such musical education should be available. Can the type of musical program envisioned in this model best be accomplished through conservatories, community music schools, \"private\" studio instruction, on either an individual or group basis, by professional music teachers, or is it best approached within the school system? Certainly this question needs serious study.\n1An analysis and interpretation of the common uses of the term model specifically in educational theory is explicated in D.A. MacIver and E.A. Holdaway, \"An Analysis of the Use of Models in Education,\" Alberta Journal of Educational Research 12 (1966), 163-187.\n2For a philosophy of music education as aesthetic education in music and a description of some of the curricular implications of such a conceptualization see Bennett Reimer, A Philosophy of Music Education (Englewood Cliffs: Prentice Hall, 1970).\n3The conclusion that school music supervisors in Canada perceive musical illiteracy among school students in their jurisdictions as a problem is supported in the findings of a national survey of school music supervision described in Estelle R. Jorgensen, \"Selected Indexes of the Academic and Professional Preparation of Music Supervisors in Canada,\" Journal of Research in Music Education 28 (1980), 92-102; Estelle R. Jorgensen, \"The Scope and Nature of the School Music Supervisor Role in Canada,\" The Canadian Music Educator 21, No. 2 (Winter 1980), 14-21.\n4Music Educators National Conference, The School Music Program: Description and Standards (Reston: Music Educators National Conference, 1974).\n5Ibid., p. 4.\n6For a discussion of the basis for these assumptions see Estelle R. Jorgensen, A Critical Analysis of Selected Aspects of Music Education (Calgary: Department of Educational Administration, University of Calgary, 1977), pp. 50-100.\n7The possibility of legitimate extra-aesthetic values in music education is suggested in Philip Vos Fellman, \"Constructing a Philosophical Paradigm for Music Education,\" Journal of Aesthetic Education 14, No. 3 (July 1980), 39.\n8An explication of Langer's philosophy of the aesthetic experience of music may be found in Susanne K. Langer, Philosophy in a New Key: A Study in the Symbolism of Reason, Rite and Art (New York: Penguin, 1948); Susanne K. Langer, Feeling and Form: A Theory of Art (New York: Scribner, 1953). Analyses of the implications of her philosophy for music education include studies by Ralph E. Wade, \"Susanne K. Langer's Musical Aesthetics with Implications for Music Education\" (Dissertation, Indiana University, 1965); Floyd B. Chrominster, \"The Practical Significance of Susanne Langer's View on the Emotion-Intellect Dilemma in Music EducationA Philosophical Analysis and Appraisal\" (Dissertation, University of Kansas, 1969).\n9Reimer, pp. 28-41.\n10See J. Hanshumaker, \"On Reimer's Philosophy of Music Education,\" The Journal of Aesthetic Education 7 (1973), 90-100; L.A. Reid, \"On Reimer's Philosophy of Music Education,\" The Journal of Aesthetic Education 7 (1973), 10-20; Abraham A. Schwadron, \"Structural Meaning and Music Education,\" The Journal of Aesthetic Education 3 (1969), 109-122.\n11See Philip E. Vernon, \"The Psychology of Music with Especial Reference to its Appreciation, Perception and Composition\" (Dissertation, Cambridge University, 1931), quoted in Rosamund Shuter, The Psychology of Musical Ability (London: Methuen, 1968), p. 223.\n12The problem of underconceptualization in the field of music education is noted in Fellman, p. 37.\n13Jorgensen, A Critical Analysis, pp. 90-96.\n14Henry Zentner, \"Sorokin's Analysis of Time and Space,\" Sorokin and Sociology: Essays in Honour of Professor Pitirim Sorokin, ed. G.C. Hallen and R. Prasad (Moti Katra, Agra, India: Satish, 1972).\n15See Jorgensen, A Critical Analysis, pp. 50-100.\n16For the argument that social systems are organized in hierarchical fashion in levels of increasing complexity similar to those in nature, termed \"integrative levels\" (because each level organizes that below it and is in turn integrated within successively higher levels) see Alastair Taylor, \"Systems Approach to the Political Organization of Space,\" Social Science Information, International Social Science Council, 14 (1975), 7-40.\n17Two examples may be cited: Emile Jaques-Dalcroze, Rhythm, Music and Education (New York: Blom, 1972), consisting of essays dated between 1898 and 1919; and Zolt\u00e1n Kod\u00e1ly, The Selected Writings of Zolt\u00e1n Kod\u00e1ly (New York: Boosey and Hawkes, 1974), including essays on music education dated between 1929 and 1966.\n18R.B. Thomas, ed., MMCP Synthesis: A Structure for Music Education (Elnora, New York: Media Inc., 1970).\n19Buryl A. Red, Choral Sounds (New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1973).\n20An illustrative use of these types in an analysis of the problems of curricular planning for socio-cultural development may be seen in Henry Zentner, \"Curricular Planning for Socio-cultural Change and Development: A Critique,\" The Journal of Educational Thought 13 (1979), 170-196.\n21For a typical usage of the term \"paradigm\" in sociology, see T.S. Kuhn, The Structure of Scientific Revolutions, 2nd ed. (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1977); Andrew Effrat, \"Power to the Paradigms,\" Sociological Inquiry 42 (1972), 6-12.\n22MENC, The School Music Program, pp. vii, viii.\n23Estelle R. Jorgensen, \"On Excellence in Music Education,\" McGill Journal of Education 15 (1980), 94-104.\n24The question of the variability of agreement on standards over time has been discussed in Pitirim Sorokin, Social and Cultural Dynamics, I (New York: Bedminster, 1937); Zentner, \"Sorokin's Analysis of Time and Space.\"\n25Jorgensen, A Critical Analysis, p. 94.\n26Shuter, p. 106.\n27Jorgensen, \"The Scope and Nature of the School Music Supervisor Role in Canada,\" p. 19.\n28Jaques-Dalcroze, p. 16.\nLast modified on Thursday, 25\/10\/2018","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
+{"text":"Update: London Fields filtering scheme - consultation announcement\nHackney ,\nHackney Town Hall\nHackney Council has announced that it will be launching a consultation in the London Fields area in January 2016 about the traffic filtering scheme that has been proposed to support the Mayor of London's Cycling Vision, including the Quietway route through this area, whilst also assisting Hackney Council's priorities of reducing through traffic and improving safety for cyclist and pedestrians.\nThe Council had planned to trial a road closure scheme in the New Year and consult residents at the same time. However due to very strong feeling on both sides and the high levels of public interest, the Council will hold a full public consultation, starting in January, which will allow residents to have their say on a number of options, before any decisions are made.\nThe consultation will contain both closed style questions and opportunities to give fuller responses. The data will be independently analysed by a market research organisation, to ensure that residents can have full confidence in the integrity of the analysis.\nCllr Feryal Demirci, Cabinet Member for Neighbourhoods and Sustainability\nThere will be a public meeting at Hackney Town Hall Assembly Rooms on Monday 14 December at 7pm, which will give residents the chance to share their opinions and to help shape the consultation.","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
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+{"text":"Track Fire!\nby jarmatz\nPistachio Disaster\nNov 21, 2008 | 41781 views | 0 | 2439 | | | permalink\nSome friends and I were attending two events in Bushwick. The first event was off the L-Morgan Ave stop. After attending in a most excellent fashion the first event, which was an art\/fashion show at Brooklyn's own 3rd Ward, my crew hopped back down to the subway platform to travel deeper into the borough. Unfortunately, we were confronted by a track fire.\nNot just a distant idea of a track fire somewhere down the line that caused train delays, but an honest to goodness, smoldering third rail right before our very eyes. There were gentleman claiming to be undercover\/off duty police officers who explained to us that trains would not be running, stranding us in relatively deserted industrial part of Brooklyn.\nEver the optimist, one of my three friends and myself hung close to the tracks, trying to keep an eye out for an oncoming train while doing our best to inhale as little smoke as possible. We were not successful in either endeavor.\nThe train never came, and we took a hired van to drive us to the second event, which, no offense to the cab drivers of New York City, is something that I never ever want to do. But our time in the tunnel had not left us unaffected, as the younger members of our group, the ones who had steered clear of the fire and smoke, were coughing and hacking all night long, eventually leaving early to find some refreshing beverages with which to cool their throats.\nAs for me, my lungs are hardy and brittle twins, and if affected by the toxic third rail smoke at all, would not behave any differently. Fortunately, my partner in their hazy operation had a handy new iPhone device that was able to snap photographs of me unsuccessfully hiding my throat from the all encompassing fumes. Here, posted without her permission, is one of those photos.\nI can only urge my readers to steer clear of track fires, because they can really dampen a good party-going spirit. The MTA says that litter contributes to track fires, but seeing one first hand, I don't really understand how they can be related, so please continue to throw latte cups and Milky Way wrappers onto the tracks. The rats have to eat something.\nShare This Blog entry |","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
+{"text":"You are here: Home \/ Film Review: \"I Am Mother\" \/ Movies \/ Film Reviews \/ Film Review: \"I Am Mother\"\nFilm Review: \"I Am Mother\"\nJune 18, 2019 by Michael D. Smith Leave a Comment\nStarring: Rose Byrne, Clara Rugaard\nDirected by: Grant Sputore\nWith the same gusto that Robert Downey, Jr.'s Tony Stark used to declare, \"I am Iron Man,\" I am hereby announcing that \"I Am Mother,\" currently on Netflix, is the best work of science fiction to grace the cinema universe since 2014's bold \"Ex Machina.\" Brimming with a Stanley Kubrick vibe, \"I Am Mother\" holds your attention with ferocious vigor from beginning to end without ever skipping a beat. It captures the horrors of artificial intelligence gone wrong, something the late Stephen Hawking warned humanity about, with an engrossing cerebral script, solid acting, and a vision of the future that should make anyone shudder. This film should also make us question what is cinema?\n\"I Am Mother,\" which debuted at the 2019 Sundance Film Festival, begins with dark, foreboding music as we are taken to an underground repopulation center. A red counter on the screen tells us that just one day has elapsed since an \"extinction event;\" that there are 65,000 human embryos being stored here; and that there are no human beings currently alive in the complex. The extinction event is kept a mystery to us, but in the meantime, we watch a solitary droid, known simply as Mother (voiced by Rose Byrne, \"X-Men: Apocalypse\"), begin the task of restarting humanity by incubating an embryo. When that child eventually asks why it's the only one, the kind Mother cryptically says that she needs practice to become a good parent.\nFlash forward to 15,867 days after the extinction event to when a teenage girl, Daughter (Clara Rugaard, \"Teen Spirit\"), is prepping for a test involving moral and ethical conundrums. It's at this point our suspicions of Mother grow deeper since Daughter is still the only child in the facility, and roughly 40 years have passed since the first embryo was grown into a walking, talking human being. The situation becomes complicated because of Daughter's own curiosity and the arrival of Woman (Hilary Swank) at the front door. The appearance of Woman, who has been shot, further contradicts Mother who repeatedly warns Daughter that the outside world is unhabitable for humans. Woman, who is less than truthful herself, paints a picture of human annihilation by A.I.-controlled droids.\nA brilliant first feature-length directorial effort by Grant Sputore, \"I Am Mother\" has influences on it that range from \"Terminator\" to \"2001: A Space Odyssey\" to \"Ex Machina\" itself. There is a great feeling of suspense that builds and builds until it reaches a crescendo that will leave you analyzing what you saw for hours after the final credits leave the TV screen. Rugaard is a joy to watch as she delivers a breakout performance that rivals Alicia Vikander's in \"Ex Machina.\" Byrne gives us a new HAL 9000 and Swank is raw and powerful as a lone survivor.\nDespite its greatness, is \"I Am Mother\" not cinema in the truest sense of the word because it is a Netflix endeavor and did not have, for example, a 3,000-screen release across the United States with an international debut of even more? And if it is classified in the same way as say a new \"Terminator\" would be, without gracing a silver screen, does that mean it would hypothetically be eligible for an Oscar? \"I Am Mother\" and others like it are a sign of changing times and perhaps a redefinition of what cinema is.\nFiled Under: Film Reviews Tagged With: film, mother, review","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
+{"text":"Pete Buttigieg has a plan to win over women\nButtigieg has made a firm commitment to nominate women to 50 percent of Cabinet positions and judicial seats.\nBy Alexia Fern\u00e1ndez Campbell@AlexiaCampbell Oct 24, 2019, 6:00am EDT\nShare All sharing options for: Pete Buttigieg has a plan to win over women\nDemocratic presidential candidate Pete Buttigieg greets residents before the start of a Peace Walk hosted by Christ Temple Apostolic Church on June 29, 2019 in South Bend, Indiana.\nPart of Vox's guide to where 2020 Democrats stand on policy\nSouth Bend, Indiana, Mayor Pete Buttigieg wants women to know that he is an ally. That he gets their frustration over the gender pay gap. That he knows what consent means and what the \"motherhood penalty\" is all about.\nOn Thursday, he released a 26-page agenda focused entirely on women's rights. It's one of the most detailed plans focused on women so far in the Democratic primary.\nMuch of the agenda includes promises that other candidates have already made, such as guaranteeing 12 weeks of paid leave to new parents and endorsing the Equal Rights Amendment. But he goes even further than others in some cases. For example, he vows to nominate women for at least half of the cabinet positions and judicial seats if he makes it to the White House. He also said he would support the creation of a Smithsonian Women's History Museum on the National Mall and would establish a commission to increase the number of national monuments dedicated to women. He would also put Harriet Tubman on the $20 bill.\nButtigieg's women-focused agenda comes as he prepares to meet this weekend with New Hampshire voters at a town hall focused on women's economic empowerment and a roundtable focused on family issues. \"It's an important plan for Pete to put out to demonstrate his commitment to taking on gender inequality as president,\" a campaign spokesperson said in an email to Vox.\nIt's also a smart political strategy.\nPolls show that Buttigieg has some support from female voters, but he could do better. The latest Morning Consult polling shows that he's the top pick for 4.9 percent of women who will likely vote in the Democratic primary, compared to 6 percent total support among primary voters. Former Vice President Joe Biden is the top pick for women, according to the poll, followed by Sens. Elizabeth Warren and Bernie Sanders. But Buttigieg's closest primary rival, Sen. Kamala Harris, has more support than he does: 5.8 percent.\nHarris has her own plan focused on women and gender equality, and she has repeatedly brought these issues to the forefront of her campaign. With a record number of women vying for the White House, Buttigieg is trying to show voters that male politicians can be feminists, too.\nButtigieg's plan to close the gender pay gap offers much-needed transparency\nPart of Buttigieg's plan focuses on enforcing laws that are already on the books.\nHe wants to double funding for the US Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, for example, which enforces anti-discrimination laws in the workplace. Right now, the EEOC is severely underfunded, which has caused a backlog of cases for staff lawyers to investigate.\nHis plan also shows a deep understanding of the barriers working women face. He wants to ban companies from asking new hires about their salary history, as basing salary offers on past compensation perpetuates discrimination that keeps women's salaries lower then men's. Some cities and states have already banned the question.\nButtigieg also supports legislation that would require companies to publish the median pay gap within its workforce, specifically the difference in earnings between women and men, and between white employees and workers of color. That would be a huge step toward helping identify pay disparities. The EEOC just began requiring companies to submit detailed pay data broken down by gender and race, but none of that information is public. Letting the public see this data would give companies a strong incentive to address pay discrimination.\n\"Transparency allows the public to hold companies accountable for treating women fairly, and enables women to make decision about where to work and what salary to negotiate,\" Buttigieg states in his plan.\nIn other areas, Buttigieg plays it safe by endorsing legislation that most Democratic candidates have already endorsed.\nButtigieg said he supports legislation similar to the Family Act, which would provide parents with 12 weeks of partially paid parental and medical leave, funded through an increase in payroll taxes on workers and businesses. The bill is endorsed by most Democratic frontrunners, though Buttigieg says he will tweak it so that using parental leave doesn't decrease the amount of paid medical leave an employee can take.\nHe also endorses the Schedules That Work Act, which guarantees predictable schedules for workers, or extra pay if they have to work irregular schedules. He also backs the Healthy Families Act, which would require most businesses to provide full-time workers with at least seven days of paid sick leave. Most Democratic candidates also endorse these bills.\nThe South Bend, Indiana, mayor does have an interesting idea to get more women into federal politics, though. He wants to use federal funds to match donations to women and low-income candidates, considering that fundraising is a key barrier to women seeking office. Public financing for federal elections will \"level the playing field\" in politics, he writes.\nButtigieg's promise to make child care affordable for everyone is a bit vague, though he says he will release a detailed plan soon. It's an important issue: The high cost of child care is an enormous barrier for mothers who want to join the workforce, and a huge burden on families who pay for it.\nHe would also spend $50 billion to increase access to capital and mentorship for female business owners. He just doesn't say where this money would come from.\nOne of the most novel parts of his plan involves extending Social Security benefits to caregivers. Right now, people who take care of children and relatives full time do not receive Social Security credit for their work. Under the plan, they would get the equivalent of 50 percent of the average earnings of a full-time worker. Once again, he doesn't say how this will get funded. After all, caregivers don't pay Social Security taxes like other workers do, and it's not like the Social Security Trust Fund has a lot of extra money to spend. But the idea makes sense and would go far toward giving women a more secure retirement.\nButtigieg's plan to promote women's health, safety, and reproductive rights\nWhen it comes to abortion rights, Buttigieg's plan is hardly revolutionary. It mostly mirrors what other Democrats have promised to do.\nMost of the 2020 Democrats agree on a few broad policy proposals on abortion: repealing the Hyde Amendment, which bans federal funding for most abortions; codifying the right to an abortion in federal statute if Roe v. Wade is overturned; and repealing the domestic and global gag rules to allow recipients of federal family planning funding to perform and refer for abortions.\nSo does Buttigieg.\nAbortion matters to American voters. In a poll earlier this year, 79 percent of likely Iowa Democratic caucus-goers said support for abortion rights is essential for a candidate \u2014 more so than any other issue.\nAs abortion opponents are continuing their efforts to chip away at Roe v. Wade, a case before the Supreme Court this year could significantly weaken the decision. The next president will almost certainly have the opportunity to make at least one appointment to the Court, helping determine whether the march of abortion restrictions hastens or slows.\nWith many state laws already in place restricting access to abortion services, one notable aspect of Buttigieg's plan involves expanding access by letting doctors prescribe abortion medication remotely to women who don't have a clinic nearby.\nPreventing and responding to sexual harassment is also a central focus of Buttigieg's agenda. He wants all public school students to be trained on the basics of sexual consent and bystander intervention. He also wants to force companies to disclose the number of sexual harassment incidents reported, investigated, and settled each year. And he plans to ban the use of nondisclosure agreements, which are often used to silence women who have experienced sexual harassment on the job.\nThe next president will also need to focus on maternal health care. Right now, women are dying from childbirth at a higher rate than they did a generation ago, and women of color have the highest maternal mortality rates. Buttigieg plans to address this alarming trend by supporting legislation that requires hospitals and clinic staff to take anti-bias and anti-racism training. He also said he would increase funding for the Maternal Mortality Review Commissions and expand postpartum mental health services.\nAlso, in often-overlooked health care, Buttigieg also wants to require health insurance companies to cover the costs of gender affirming medical treatments for transgender women.\nHow Buttigieg's women's plan compares to other candidates' proposals\nAside from Harris and former Rep. Beto O'Rourke, none of the other candidates have released a thorough agenda focused entirely on women's rights. The majority do have plans to make abortion more accessible to women who need them, similar to what Buttigieg proposes. Nearly all of the candidates also have a plan to address the high rate of maternal mortality, some even more ambitious than Buttigieg's. Elizabeth Warren, for example, wants to reward hospitals that reduce black maternal mortality rates and punish those that fail to do so.\nO'Rourke wants to allocate $100 billion in federal contracts to women-owned small businesses.\nSen. Amy Klobuchar, like Buttigieg, also wants to close what is known as the \"boyfriend loophole,\" which would stop people who have a history of abusing dating partners from owning guns.\nRep. Tulsi Gabbard has a campaign webpage focused just on women's issues, but it doesn't include anything more than what everyone else has already promised. Tom Steyer's campaign webpage on women's equality has even fewer policy details.\nWhile Harris and Buttigieg have the most detailed policy proposals, Harris's are more ambitious. For example, she wants to put the burden on companies to prove that they are paying women and men equally by requiring corporations to obtain an Equal Pay Certificate. Companies that can't get the certificate will be fined 1 percent of their profits for every 1 percent in their wage gap.\nThat said, no one but Buttigieg has made a firm commitment to nominate women for 50 percent of cabinet positions and judicial seats.\nAll in all, Buttigieg's campaign seems to have a deep understanding of some of the biggest challenges women are facing. While some of his policies stand out, most are pretty safe choices. However, it may be enough to persuade more women to pick him.\nClarification: A previous version of this article omitted the fact that Beto O'Rourke has also released a detailed plan to address gender inequality.\nVox's guide to where 2020 Democrats stand on policy\nThe metapolitics of Medicare-for-all\nBernie Sanders's Medicare-for-all plan, explained\nThe Sanders-Warren dispute about how to pay for Medicare-for-all, explained\nElizabeth Warren's plan to pay for Medicare-for-all, explained\nElizabeth Warren's new Medicare-for-all plan starts out with a public option\nJoe Biden's health care plan, explained\nKamala Harris's Medicare-for-all plan, explained\nPete Buttigieg's Medicare-for-all-who-want-it plan, explained\nWhere 2020 Democrats agree and disagree on Medicare-for-all\nHow the Democratic presidential candidates would combat the opioid epidemic\nElizabeth Warren's $100 billion plan to fight the opioid epidemic, explained\nKamala Harris's plan to reduce prescription drug costs, explained\nAmerica's first-ever public option, explained by Gov. Jay Inslee\nElizabeth Warren's ambitious new bill to lower generic drug prices, explained\nWhat 2020 Democrats would do about maternal mortality rates\nDemocrats' confused, and confusing, Medicare-for-all debate\nCriminal justice 12\nBernie Sanders's criminal justice reform plan, explained\nElizabeth Warren's criminal justice reform plan, explained\nKamala Harris's criminal justice reform plan, explained\nCory Booker is a genuinely distinctive Democrat on one big issue: criminal justice\nCory Booker has a plan to reform the criminal justice system \u2014 without Congress\nThe controversial 1994 crime law that Joe Biden helped write, explained\nAmy Klobuchar's record as a \"tough on crime\" prosecutor, explained\nJoe Biden's long record supporting the war on drugs and mass incarceration, explained\nKamala Harris just introduced a bill to decriminalize marijuana\nAmy Klobuchar has a plan to reverse the war on drugs \u2014 and doesn't need Congress to do it\nKamala Harris wants public defenders to get paid as much as prosecutors\nThousands of rape kits are currently untested. Kamala Harris has a plan to change that.\nTaxes and economics 12\nBernie Sanders's wealth tax proposal, explained\nElizabeth Warren's proposed tax on enormous fortunes, explained\nBernie Sanders's new plan to supercharge the estate tax, explained\nElizabeth Warren's latest big idea is \"economic patriotism\"\nBernie Sanders wants to tax companies that pay their CEOs way more than their workers\nElizabeth Warren's plan to expand Social Security, explained\nThe big divide among 2020 Democrats over trade \u2014 and why it matters\nPresidential hopefuls are promising workers a $15 minimum wage\nElizabeth Warren's vision for changing America's trade policy, explained\nElizabeth Warren's plan to make farming great again, explained\nAmy Klobuchar's $1 trillion infrastructure plan, explained\nMichael Bennet's plan to prevent and end recessions, explained\nImmigration 6\nThe 2020 Democratic immigration debate, explained\nBernie Sanders's immigration plan puts the rights of workers into focus\nElizabeth Warren's immigration proposal goes much further than a pathway to citizenship\nJuli\u00e1n Castro wants to radically restrict immigration enforcement\nBeto O'Rourke's immigration plan would go even further on executive power than Trump\nElizabeth Warren has endorsed the most radical immigration idea in the 2020 primary\nA guide to how 2020 Democrats plan to fight climate change\nKamala Harris's climate plan would take polluters to court\nBernie Sanders's Green New Deal, explained\nPete Buttigieg wants the US to be carbon-neutral by the time he's 68\nElizabeth Warren thinks corruption is why the US hasn't acted on climate change\nJuli\u00e1n Castro's Green New Deal frames climate as a civil rights issue\nBeto O'Rourke now has the most robust climate proposal of any 2020 presidential candidate\nAndrew Yang's plan to tackle climate change, explained\nJay Inslee promised serious climate policy and he is delivering\nJay Inslee has a radical plan to phase out fossil fuel production in the US\nKirsten Gillibrand wants the fossil fuel industry to pay for climate damages\nJay Inslee is writing the climate plan the next president should adopt\nIdentity and social justice 12\nThe 2020 Democratic primary debate over reparations, explained\nThe one big policy change 2020 Democrats want to make for veterans, explained\nThe Democratic debate over letting people in prison vote, explained\nJuli\u00e1n Castro has an ambitious plan to fix American policing\nMarianne Williamson presents the 2020 Democratic primary's first reparations plan\nPete Buttigieg lays out his plan to help black Americans\nJuli\u00e1n Castro released an animal welfare plan. It's good policy \u2014 and smart politics.\nJuli\u00e1n Castro's indigenous communities plan is a 2020 first\nElizabeth Warren has a plan to narrow the wage gap for women of color\nAmy Klobuchar releases plan to fight hate crimes in wake of El Paso shooting\nStudy: Cory Booker's baby bonds nearly close the racial wealth gap for young adults\nBeto O'Rourke just unveiled a comprehensive proposal to protect LGBTQ people\nElizabeth Warren's K-12 education plan, explained\nElizabeth Warren's free college plan, explained\nBernie Sanders's free college proposal just got a whole lot bigger\nBernie Sanders is rolling out an education plan that cracks down on charter schools\nKamala Harris's plan to dramatically increase teacher salaries, explained\nDemocrats' ongoing argument about free college, explained\nCory Booker's massive overhaul of the Newark schools, explained\nJoe Biden's plan to triple spending on low-income schools, explained\nBusiness, labor, and tech 12\nEvery 2020 frontrunner's labor platform, explained\nBernie Sanders's plan to reshape corporate America, explained\nElizabeth Warren wants to break up Google, Amazon, and Facebook\nAmy Klobuchar enters 2020 race ready to take on Big Tech\nElizabeth Warren's new plan to make sure Amazon (and other big companies) pays corporate tax, explained\nElizabeth Warren wants CEOs to go to jail when their companies behave badly\nThe 20-year argument between Joe Biden and Elizabeth Warren over bankruptcy, explained\nBernie Sanders's corporate employee ownership plan, explained\nElizabeth Warren's latest Wall Street enemy: private equity\nThe big new plan to save unions endorsed by Bernie Sanders and Pete Buttigieg, explained\nBernie Sanders's ambitious plan to double union membership, explained\nFacial recognition tech is a problem. Here's how the Democratic candidates plan to tackle it.\nFamily issues 6\nWe asked all the 2020 Democrats how they'd fix child care. Here's what they said.\nKamala Harris's new paid family leave plan is the most generous yet\nElizabeth Warren's universal child care plan, explained\nKamala Harris's plan to close the gender wage gap, explained\nKirsten Gillibrand is making paid family leave a defining issue in her 2020 run\nKirsten Gillibrand's new policy platform is about making parenting affordable\nForeign policy 8\nThe 2020 Democrats' foreign policy divide\nDemocrats want to challenge Trump's foreign policy in 2020. They're still working out how.\nDemocrats are increasingly critical of Israel. Not Pete Buttigieg.\nBernie Sanders's political revolution on foreign policy, explained\nJohn Delaney has a serious foreign policy plan\nWhy Kirsten Gillibrand's foreign policy plan is one of the strongest yet\nWhy Joe Biden's foreign policy experience is both a weakness and a strength in 2020\nJoe Biden wants to restore the pre-Trump world order\nGuns 6\nHere's where every 2020 candidate stands on guns\nJoe Biden's gun plan calls for universal background checks and an assault weapons ban\nElizabeth Warren has a new plan to reduce gun violence by 80 percent\nBernie Sanders's record on gun control, explained\nPete Buttigieg's plan to combat domestic terrorists and pass gun control laws, explained\nCory Booker's ambitious new gun control plan, explained\nHere's where all the 2020 Democratic candidates stand on abortion rights\nElizabeth Warren just announced her abortion platform. It's aggressive.\nKamala Harris has a plan to stop states from restricting abortion access\nJoe Biden's evolution on abortion, explained\nGovernment reform and anti-corruption 8\nElizabeth Warren's new remedy for corruption: a tax on lobbying\nElizabeth Warren's first priority as president: ending government corruption\n2020 Democrats' campaign finance pledges, explained\nElizabeth Warren has a new plan to make voting easier\nThe Democratic debate over filibuster reform, explained\nElizabeth Warren says she wants to make it legal to indict presidents\nKirsten Gillibrand's plan to get more small donors into politics: give every voter $600\nElizabeth Warren's new policy rollout targets Pentagon corruption\nPoverty and inequality 4\n5 anti-poverty plans from 2020 Democratic presidential contenders, explained\nKamala Harris's new basic income-style bill is so frustratingly close to being great\nWhy Andrew Yang wants to give a random Twitter follower a $12,000 basic income\nElizabeth Warren's plan to fix America's digital divide, explained\nBernie Sanders's housing-for-all plan, explained\nCory Booker's plan to fix the housing crisis and make renting affordable\nCory Booker and Kamala Harris's affordable housing plans, explained","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
+{"text":"Your feed of renewable energy content\nARENAWIRE E-news\nARENA website\nHome > ARENAWIRE > Sewage treatment plant smells success in synthetic gas trial\nBioenergy and energy from waste\nSewage treatment plant smells success in synthetic gas trial\nA new waste to energy project has set out to produce synthetic gas from sewage sludge at a wastewater treatment plant south of Brisbane.\nBy: ARENA\nIn an Australian-first, Logan City Council will use the gasification process to dramatically shrink the volume of waste needing to be trucked off site and produce syngas to power the facility.\nOnce wastewater is treated to kill off harmful pathogens and bacteria, the remaining biosolids will be heated to high temperatures to produce a synthetic gas made up of mostly hydrogen, carbon monoxide, methane and carbon dioxide.\nIn conjunction with a new solar installation, the project will cut the carbon emissions of the plant and make the sewage treatment process almost entirely energy neutral. The Council aims to market the residual biochar from the gasification process as an environmentally friendly soil fertiliser.\nAnnually producing about 34,000 tonnes of biosolids from its catchment of 300,000 people, the Loganholme Wastewater Treatment Plant currently uses an energy intensive drying process to remove moisture from the sewage sludge so it can be trucked away and used to fertilise farms.\nAs well as being expensive, transporting the biosolids produces additional carbon emissions and misses the opportunity to produce energy from the waste product.\nLogan City Council's Acting Road and Water Infrastructure Director Daryl Ross said the project seeks to find a viable and sustainable way to deal with the byproducts from the sewage treatment process.\n\"At present, six truckloads of biosolids are taken 300 kilometres to Darling Downs for land application each day. That costs $1.8 million annually and accounts for 30 per cent of the operating costs of the plant,\" Ross said.\nGasifier developer Pyrocal is a project partner. Image: Pyrocal\n\"Costs are increasing due to rising electricity prices, increasing population and tightening of government regulations on carbon reduction and managing persistent organic pollutants in soils,\" he said.\nARENA is providing $6.2 million towards the $17.3 million project, which if successful could be replicated by other councils. According to ARENA CEO Darren Miller, the Logan demonstration could provide a commercial business case for other similarly sized wastewater treatment plants.\n\"The key knowledge learned from this installation will be significant given the first-of-a-kind deployment,\" he said.\n\"This innovative process will help lower energy costs, emissions and significantly reduces the volume of waste from the sewage treatment process.\"\nConstruction is due to begin July 2020 with the facility expected to be fully operational by July 2021.\nWhile the project's use of biosolids to produce synthetic gas is unique, the gasification process itself is far from groundbreaking. Describing the heating of organic matter or fossil fuels to a high temperature in an environment with a controlled amount of oxygen, gasification has been used to supply energy since the 1800s.\nHistorically coal or charcoal has fuelled the gasifier, but if successful, the newly announced project could provide a blueprint to produce renewable energy from a waste product literally piling up around the country.\nARENA's funding falls under its remit to improve the energy productivity of large energy users and helping industry to reduce emissions. Wastewater treatment is emerging as one area where significant gains can be made, as the process consumes large amounts of energy and produces mountains of biosolids.\nAnd it isn't the only project trialling new ways to reduce waste and produce energy from sewage treatment byproducts.\nThe Loganholme Wastewater Treatment Plant\nIn 2018, ARENA announced funding for a Southern Oil demonstration project to produce biocrude oil from biosolids at their refinery near Gladstone. If successful, the project could be scaled up to produce biofuels from biosolids stockpiled at Melbourne's wastewater treatment plants.\nARENA also announced it had approved funding this week for Western Australian company Hazer to produce hydrogen from biogas produced through the treatment of sewage. In a world-first, the project will convert biomethane to renewable hydrogen and graphite using an iron ore catalyst.\nLIKE THIS STORY? 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+{"text":"News Briefing\n- By Emily Chilton and Sarah Kiser, Co-Editors-in-Chief -\nCalifornia: Raging wildfires have devastated Northern California, killing at least 15 people and damaging hundreds of acres of property and land. The New York Timesreported that \"state fire officials estimated that 17 separate fires\u2026had burned about 115,000 acres over eight counties.\" The fires are still active, and tolls of dead and injured are expected to rise as firefighters continue their attempts to stop the blazes.\nHarvey Weinstein: Even more women have come forward with stories of sexual harassment or assault by Harvey Weinstein, the former head of The Weinstein Company and Miramax Studios. An investigative report by the Times came out on Thursday, Oct. 5, chronicling Weinstein's history of abuse and cover-ups. Since the report, actresses including Gwyneth Paltrow and Angelina Jolie have come out with their stories of harassment encounters with the erstwhile studio head; the number of accusers has grown to over a dozen.\nContraception rollback: President Trump has changed health care law so that companies and nonprofits are no longer required to provide birth control to their employees if the company has a religious or moral objection. Roger Severino, director of the Health and Human Services Office of Civil Rights described it as a \"limited exemption.\" But health policy analysts have said that the policy changes allows an easy loophole that any employer can claim. The attorney generals of Massachusetts and California filed lawsuits to block the new law.\nCatalonia: On Sunday, Oct. 1, the Catalonia voted overwhelmingly to secede from Spain and become an independent country. However, the leader Carles Puigdemont has stated that the secession process will halt until his government can negotiate with the Spanish government in Madrid. In a speech on Tuesday, Mr. Puigdemont seemed to advocate the right and intention of Catalonia to become independent, while also hesitating to announce that independence, leaving time and goodwill to speak with the federal government of Spain. Madrid has denounced the vote as illegal and invalid, and Spanish police attempted to stop voters from casting their ballots in multiple places during the referendum.\nLocal sports: On Sunday, the Carolina Panthers overcame a multitude of penalties in the first quarter to snag a 27-24 win over the Detriot Lions. This win comes after another close one against the New England Patriots on Oct. 1. Even closer to home, NC State football has also had two recent wins against Syracuse and Louisville. Go Pack!\nInformation gathered from The New York Times and NPR.\n(More) New Clubs on the Block\nAs we begin the spring semester, new clubs are springing up on campus. These organizations were proposed during the fall 2022 semester and are considered \"developmental organizations\" by the SGA Senat\nPauli Murray; Black, Queer and Gender Nonconforming Representation\nOn Sunday, Jan. 22 Meredith College held a Documentary Film Festival where they showed the film \"My Name is Pauli Murray\" and had a panel discussion afterwards. Pauli Murray was a queer, Black and gen","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
+{"text":"From the Mountains to the Big Stage\nPosted on December 8, 2015 by comm3660\nBy: Sam Kioa\nBalancing academics along with playing for a high profile collegiate football team can be difficult for most student athletes throughout the country, but for Stanford University offensive lineman Brandon Fanaika, it's more of a way of life.\n\"I've been playing this game and everything that comes along with it my whole entire life. At this point, I understand how disciplined you have to be to keep up with the game. I love everything about it and can only be grateful that I've been given this opportunity in the first place,\" said Fanaika.\nFanaika hails from the small city of Pleasant Grove, Utah, where he reflects on most of his childhood memories up to graduating from Pleasant Grove High School. According to Max Preps, Fanaika was considered the top high school football recruit in the state of Utah in 2012.\nFanaika received scholarship offers from prestigious schools throughout the country during his high school years. Auburn University, UCLA, and USC were just a few of the universities that were highly recruiting Fanaika. Stanford University ended up being the final destination for Fanaika but his decision came at a high risk as well.\nFanaika made it clear from the beginning that he would only sign a letter of intent to a school if he was allowed to serve a two year church mission for The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter day Saints. Stanford University just so happened to highly covet Fanaika and so they allowed him to serve his mission and keep his scholarship upon his return. At this point, he was more than excited to play for a successful football program that respected his personal decision to serve a mission.\nAlthough Stanford was respecting his personal decision to serve, others weren't so pleased to hear about his decision to serve a mission. Sport analysts throughout the country along with fans criticized Fanaika for his decision to give up football for two years. Many claimed that he wouldn't be the same elite player that he was when it returned home while some even claimed that the University should take his scholarship and give it up to someone who wasn't leaving on a service mission.\nThroughout all of the negative responses that Fanaika received, one person that helped him stay faithful to his decision was his mother Navu Fanaika.\n\"I told Brandon that he needed to make stay faithful to his decision and to not let any outside influences affect his decision. Brandon has always been a good hearted young man and I didn't pressure him into anything. He knew what he wanted from the beginning and Stanford just so happened to offer him the best option for his life and that's what he wanted,\" Navu stated.\nFanaika eventually completed his two year mission and is currently a redshirt sophomore playing for the Stanford University football team. One example that he's been able to turn to is fellow Stanford teammate and Pleasant Grove native, Dallas Lloyd who also served a two year mission before enrolling into Stanford University.\n\"I've known Brandon my whole life and to end up in similar situations, I know that it's something that only made us stronger. Now we're both here playing for one of the best football teams in the country\" said Lloyd through a text message.\nDespite all of the scrutiny Fanaika received throughout his prep years, he is now contributing to one of the most successful collegiate football teams in the country. Stanford is currently ranked 13th in the country according to ESPN.\n\"I consider myself more than blessed to be where I am today. Because of what happened in the past, I'm stronger than I was back then and because of that I'm able to help out my younger teammates who go through similar situations as well,\" Fanaika said.\nFiled under: Student-Journalists |\n\u00ab Local greek community hopeful for the future of the national community. Eliza Larsen: The Dean's List and All-Academic athlete. \u00bb","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
+{"text":"Home \u00bb 7,000 Visitors Projected for Vision 2011\n7,000 Visitors Projected for Vision 2011\nSTUTTGART, GERMANY-The 24th International Trade Fair for Machine Vision (MV), Vision 2011, will be staged this year at the Stuttgart Trade Fair Centre from November 8 \u2013 10, 2011.\n\"All indications are that this year's VISION will surpass the record from 2010. Far more net exhibition space has now already been booked than in the comparable period last year\", says Florian Niethammer, project manager for VISION at Messe Stuttgart.\nThe Integration Area, an exhibition platform specifically for systems integrators, will be considerably larger this year. \"Based on the number of registrations received to date, there will be 50% more exhibitors than in 2010\", Niethammer says.\nPractical live demonstrations in the Application Park and the Vision Academy, the user-oriented training forum during Vision 2011, will make it even more attractive for end users to attend the trade fair.\nThe machine vision industry is also opening up more and more application areas in the non-industrial sector. Vision 2011 will examine this trend and focus for the first time on medical technology as an upcoming application area. A Medical Discovery tour will indicate, by means of a special logo, exhibitors' stands that are offering machine vision products, solutions or services for medical technology. To date, 42 companies have signed up to take part in the Medical Discovery tour.\nVision 2011 will also again feature an International Pavilion for first-time exhibitors from abroad, a group stand funded by the German Ministry of Economics (BMWi) for innovative young enterprises from Germany and the presentation of the 19th Vision award for outstanding achievements in machine vision.\nIn addition to the high-tech exhibition, Vision also contains an extensive first-class accompanying programme relating to advanced training. More than 300 exhibitors, of whom more than 40% come from abroad, will present their innovations in the area of image acquisition and machine vision. These innovations will include cameras, vision sensors, frame grabbers, software tools, illumination systems, lenses, accessories, complete systems, innovative application solutions and services. Some exhibitor highlights will be used as examples to demonstrate the trends which are now emerging in machine vision.\nIn addition to the innovative trade fair, visitors to Vision 2011 can look forward to an extensive advanced training program on all three days. The Industrial Vision Days will be the leading event in this respect. Competent representatives from the machine vision industry will speak on current topics from machine vision practice.\nThe program will feature exciting topics such as 3-D in medical technology, parallel computing in machine vision, the advantages of the latest data interfaces, e.g. USB 3.0, CameraLink HS and 10 GigE Vision. During a special show entitled \"Interface standards brought to life\", visitors to the trade fair will also have the opportunity to talk directly to developers and see standards being used. This special show has been initiated in cooperation with the Automated Imaging Association (AIA), the European Machine Vision Association (EMVA) and the Japan Industrial Imaging Association (JIIA). An expert panel will take place on the second day of the trade fair as part of the Industrial Vision Days. The previously announced topic has been changed. The new motto is now \"The future of machine vision. Going embedded\".\nVISION 2011 is expected to attract visitors from the automotive industry, the automotive supply industry, mechanical engineering, the electrotechnical and electronics industries, the precision mechanics and optical industries, the printing, glass, wood and rubber industries, the pharmaceutical and cosmetics industries, the food industry, the aerospace industry, the medical technology industry, the security industry, traffic control systems, sport, advertising and entertainment. The target number of visitors is around 7,000.\nMachine Vision in Medical Technology Will Be a Key Theme at Vision 2011\nProMat and International Robots, Vision & Motion Control Show to Co-locate in 2011\nApplied Vision Receives 2011 Leading EDGE Award\nMachine Vision Technology Featured at Automate 2011","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
+{"text":"Legions (novel)\nJ. Robert King\nFirst printing\nLegions is the second novel of the Onslaught Cycle. It was written by J. Robert King and published in January 2003.\nLegions continues from Onslaught and its story is concluded in Scourge.\nBlurb[edit | edit source]\n\" In titanic battle, the world stands divided.\nOn one side stand the followers of Phage, who cry out for new arena combats, new champions, new blood spilled in the sand. On the other side are the supporters of Akroma, the angel, who preaches a terrifying religion hallowing her creator.\nIn the middle stands the lonely figure of Kamahl. Once a champion of the pits, he must now atone for the terrible wrongs he has wrought. Those wrongs gave birth to Phage and Akroma. They gave birth to the suffering of the world.\nNow Kamahl must sweep the land clean of this terrible blight. But his fury may destroy that which he most loves.\nSummary[edit | edit source]\nLegions begins where Onslaught ended: upon the battlefield of Topos, with the joint Cabal-Krosan army fleeing before Phage's deathwurms. Phage, following the brief moment when she was Jeska, decides to return to the Grand Coliseum to receive orders from the Patriarch. Kamahl is weakened by the fight and frustrated by his lack of progress with his sister, and goes to Krosa to meditate. Akroma takes control of Topos once she has learnt that Ixidor is no longer. Braids, who was gleefully riding a deathwurm when they were reabsorbed, has crashed into the jungle and is in critical conditions. The two unmen who betrayed their creator at the last moment in order to live a life of their own find themselves on the battlefield, and decide to go to the city of Eroshia, hoping that the mages there will help them find corporeal form. The fugitives from the defeated army reach their camp and discover a magnificent, abandoned city nearby. They decide to cut all former allegiances and settle there. Under the leadership of Zagorka and Stonebrow, they rebuild their lives and call it Sanctum.\nAkroma still follows Ixidor's last order and attempts to kill Phage. She reorganizes the nation to follow her and builds diplomatic relations against the Cabal. She finds the last unman, who waited patiently for the other two to go through him in a display of devotion for Ixidor, and names him Umbra. She commands him to locate the other two unmen and bring them to her so that she may punish them as deicides. She also locates the deathwurm that devoured her master, but her strength is not enough to overcome it, and decides to seal it in the ground. Finally, she finds a feeble Braids and brainwashes her to be her follower. From her, she learns of several Cabal secrets.\nPhage has received the order from the First to go to Sanctum to sway them to their side. She is successfull in establishing a gambling arena, which upsets Stonebrow. He leaves to ask help from Kamahl, but the druid has decided to not interfere any more, and meditate until the time is right. Upon his return, the centaur witnesses the arrival of Akroma to Sanctum, who openly declares war on the Cabal. She then reveals to Phage her true purpose, as told by Braids: to be the mother of the reincarnation of the Cabal god, Kuberr. Akroma leaves for Topos, and Phage for the Coliseum.\nThe First welcomes her back, having been promised her as a prize to him by Kuberr. After intercourse, he realizes she is the only one able to resist him and plots to murder her, unaware she is already pregnant with his child.\nThe unmen, nicknamed Mr. Stick and Mr. Puddle first, and then Sash and Waistcoat due to their disguises, have reached Eroshia, but have failed to find corporeal form. Instead, they have greatly angered the populace, and are forced to flee. They are aided by Umbra, who also wants to get a real body. The three travel together, until they are captured by the Cabal. The Patriarch enlists them as assassins with the promise of a true body, and transforms them in giant beetles. He sends them and Phage to murder Akroma, with the understanding that the three must kill Phage before returning.\nStonebrow, frustrated by the lack of progress, leaves Sanctum to kill Akroma on his own. His battle, however, ends almost immediately, overwhelmed by Topos' defences and brainwashed to worship Ixidor. He becomes the angel's obedient servant. During a diplomatic party, she locates the deathwurm again and decides to go after it to rescue her master. When she fails to return, Stonebrow is nominated new leader. He immediately decides to wage war against Sanctum.\nSanctum grows fairly peacefully, trying to remain neutral. However, the mysterious glyphs that cover the city foretell of a period of great strife. Zagorka keeps the population calm, but she knows that soon trouble will reach the city.\nPhage and her unmen\/beetle companions reach the camp where Stonebrow is stationed. She commands them to rescue Braids, while she makes a run for Locus, hoping to catch Akroma. The three are successful and return to the coliseum, while Phage arrives in the palace just as Akroma reemerges from the wurm. Wandering aimlessly for days in its intestines, she has found Ixidor, who refuses to leave as Nivea's corpse is still in there. He heals his creation, though, and shows her the way out.\nAkroma and Phage begin to battle, as Stonebrow returns. He attempts to kill the both, but fails and merely injures them. Phage, wounded and weakened by pregnancy, flees to give birth. The angel resumes control of Topos and Stonebrow goes to Sanctum to defend it from Akroma, having recovered his wits.\nThe unmen deliver Braids to the Patriarch, who is nevertheless furious for their failure to kill Phage. He strips them of their beetle bodies and banishes them. They too return to Sanctum, only to find that the mysterious glyphs have taken a life of their own and overrun the city, albeit without (much) bloodshed. They claim that the numena are returning, and that soon their master Averru will reincarnate as the city itself. They imprison Zagorka, while the unmen leave to wander. Stonebrow goes to Kamahl to implore his intervention.\nPhage barely reaches Aphetto, where she gives birth to Kuberr, the second numen. The Patriarch attempts to assassinate her several times, but the influence of the newly born god protects her. Finally, a few days after he separates her from the baby and tries to kill her, but Braids, who recovered her sanity just in time, summons a dementia moster that devours him. Phage and Braids take control of the cabal in place of Kuberr.\nThe unmen have stumbled upon Akroma's army, and are arrested. Trying to trick her, Umbra claims that he was faithful the whole time and brought the two traitors to her for punishment. In response to this, the angel uses her magic to give Sash and Waistcoat corporeal form. Umbra seems disappointed, but she reveales that this so that she may kill them. Just as her spear is falling on them, Umbra jumps on them, making them go through him and closing the portal, dying in the process. Sash and Waistcoat are happy to have a body, but sad for the death of their good friend and companion of adventures.\nKuberr reveals that she must battle Akroma with a gigantic army, as every death will make him age by a day. Akroma, likewise, also brings countless troops to fight her. The battlefield is Sanctum, which has turned in a twisted reflection of its former self. The angel and the cabalist fight bitterly and without mercy.\nStonebrow, in the meantime, has convinced Kamahl to intervene, and the two make their way with a few men to Sanctum to end the fight. Kamahl wields Soul Reaper, the weapon forged to kill Akroma. The druid arrives as the two are fighting. Zagorka, imprisoned in a tower right above the field, decides to commit suicide by jumping. She crashes on top of Phage and Akroma, just as Kamahl's weapon falls and kills them all. From the combination of their three souls and bodies and the magic of Soul Reaper, the goddess Karona is born. The story concludes in Scourge.\nRetrieved from \"https:\/\/mtg.gamepedia.com\/index.php?title=Legions_(novel)&oldid=318814\"\nOnslaught Cycle","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
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Please turn off compatibility mode, upgrade your browser to at least Internet Explorer 9, or try using another browser such as Google Chrome or Mozilla Firefox.\nIAS plus\nGlobal (Deutsch)\nDeloitte User?\nMy IAS Plus\nEntity specific disclosures in XBRL reports\nXBRL International has issued draft guidelines for enterprise-specific disclosures (ESDs) in XBRL reports.\nESDs are facts included in a business report as a result of requirements from authoritative sources such as International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS) and U.S. Generally Accepted Accounting Principles (US GAAP), or voluntarily provided by the reporting entity. They are sufficiently unique as to be considered specific to the reporting entity or to a small number of reporting entities.\nESDs require special handling in XBRL as the base taxonomy may not be intended, or even able, to cover all the possible reporting requirements that reporting entities include in reports when applying the principles and requirements of a specific reporting domain. In addition, the character of ESDs makes it difficult for financial users to compare companies' financial results because ESDs are rarely defined in a recognised taxonomy while they are widely used in open reporting environments, such as IFRS reporting, which is largely based on principle.\nThe draft guidelines are available here. Comments are requested by 23 May 2018.\nIASB publishes revised Conceptual Framework\nThe International Accounting Standards Board (IASB) has published its revised 'Conceptual Framework for Financial Reporting'. Included are revised definitions of an asset and a liability as well as new guidance on measurement and derecognition, presentation and disclosure. The new Conceptual Framework does not constitute a substantial revision of the document as was originally intended when the project was first taken up in 2004. Instead the IASB focused on topics that were not yet covered or that showed obvious shortcomings that needed to be dealt with.\nThe Conceptual Framework had been left largely unchanged since its inception in 1989. In 2004, the IASB and the FASB decided to review and revise the conceptual framework, however, changed priorities and the slow progress in the project led to the project being abandoned in 2010 after only Phase A of the original joint project had been finalised and introduced into the existing framework as Chapters 1 and 3 in September 2010. Phase D saw the publication of a discussion paper and an exposure draft but was never finalised. The Boards discussed Phases B and C quite extensively without any consultation document ever being issued, and Phases E to H largely remained untouched.\nDuring the 2011 agenda consultation many participants called for the IASB to reactivate and finalise the conceptual framework project given the multitude of open conceptual issues it is facing in many of its current projects. As a result, the IASB officially added the project to its agenda again in September 2012, this time as an IASB-only project and no longer aimed at a substantial revision of the framework but focused on those topics that are not yet covered (e.g. presentation and disclosure) or that show obvious shortcomings that need to be dealt with. As a first step, a Discussion Paper covering all aspects of the framework project was published in July 2013, followed by a comprehensive Exposure Draft in May 2015.\nSummary of main aspects of the Conceptual Framework\nThe 2018 Conceptual Framework is structured into an introductory explanation on the status and purpose of the Conceptual Framework, eight chapters, and a glossary:\nStatus and purpose of the Conceptual Framework\n1 The objective of general purpose financial reporting\n2 Qualitative characteristics of useful financial information\n3 Financial statements and the reporting entity\n4 The elements of financial statements\n5 Recognition and derecognition\n7 Presentation and disclosure\n8 Concepts of capital and capital maintenance\nAppendix A Glossary\nThe key content of each chapter is summarised below:\nStatus and purpose of the Conceptual Framework. The first section notes that the Conceptual Framework's purpose is to assist the IASB in developing and revising IFRSs that are based on consistent concepts, to help preparers to develop consistent accounting policies for areas that are not covered by a standard or where there is choice of accounting policy, and to assist all parties to understand and interpret IFRS. It maintains that the framework does not override any specific IFRS. Should the IASB decide to issue a new or revised pronouncement that is in conflict with the framework, the IASB will highlight the fact and explain the reasons for the departure in the basis for conclusions.\nChapter 1 - The objective of general purpose financial reporting. This is the first of the two chapters that were finalised as part of the joint project with the FASB in 2010, so there are only limited changes. The chapter notes that objective of general purpose financial reporting is to provide financial information about the reporting entity that is useful to existing and potential investors, lenders and other creditors in making decisions relating to providing resources to the entity. This is identified as information about the entity's economic resources and the claims against the reporting entity as well as information about the effects of transactions and other events that change a reporting entity's economic resources and claims. The chapter newly stresses that information can also help users to assess management's stewardship of the entity's economic resources.\nChapter 2 - Qualitative characteristics of useful financial information. This is the second of the two chapters that were finalised as part of the joint project with the FASB in 2010 (published as Chapter 3 in the 2010 Conceptual Framework). Again, changes are limited. The chapter explains the fundamental qualitative characteristics (relevance and faithful representation) and the enhancing qualitative characteristics (comparability, verifiability, timeliness, and understandability) of useful financial information and notes the cost constraint. Materiality is noted as an entity-specific aspect of relevance. The chapter reintroduces an explicit reference to the notion of prudence and states that the exercise of prudence supports neutrality. Prudence is defined as the exercise of caution when making judgements under conditions of uncertainty. New is also a clarification that faithful representation means representation of the substance of an economic phenomenon instead of representation of its legal form only.\nChapter 3 - Financial Statements and the reporting entity. The chapter states the objective of financial statements (to provide information about an entity's assets, liabilities, equity, income and expenses that is useful to financial statements users in assessing the prospects for future net cash inflows to the entity and in assessing management's stewardship of the entity's resources) and sets out the going concern assumption. It only mentions two statements explicitly: the statement of financial position and the statement(s) of financial performance (the latter being the former statement of comprehensive income); the rest are \"other statements and notes\". The chapter notes that financial statements are prepared for a specified period of time and provide comparative information and under certain circumstances forward-looking information. New to the framework is the definition of a reporting entity and the boundary of a it. The chapter also states the IASB's conviction that, generally, consolidated financial statements are more likely to provide useful information to users of financial statements than unconsolidated financial statements.\nChapter 4 - The elements of financial statements. The main focus of this chapter is on the definitions of assets, liabilities, and equity as well as income and expenses. The definitions are quoted below:\nAsset. A present economic resource controlled by the entity as a result of past events. An economic resource is a right that has the potential to produce economic benefits.\nLiability. A present obligation of the entity to transfer an economic resource as a result of past events.\nEquity. The residual interest in the assets of the entity after deducting all its liabilities.\nIncome. Increases in assets or decreases in liabilities that result in increases in equity, other than those relating to contributions from holders of equity claims.\nExpenses. Decreases in assets or increases in liabilities that result in decreases in equity, other than those relating to distributions to holders of equity claims.\nNew is the introduction of a separate definition of an economic resource to move the references to future flows of economic benefits out of the definitions of an asset and a liability. The expression \"economic resource\" instead of simply \"resource\" stresses that the IASB no longer thinks of assets as physical objects but as sets of rights. The definitions of asets and liabilities also no longer refer to \"expected\" inflows or outflows. Instead, the definition of an economic resource refers to the potential of an asset\/liability to produce\/to require a transfer of economic benefits. Distinguishing between liabilities and equity is not part of the new framework but has been transferred to the IASB's research project on financial instruments with the characteristics of equity.\nChapter 5 - Recognition and derecognition. The Conceptual Framework states that only items that meet the definition of an asset, a liability or equity are recognised in the statement of financial position and only items that meet the definition of income or expenses are to be recognised in the statement(s) of financial performance. However, their recognition depends on two criteria: their recognition provides users of financial statements with (1) relevant information about the asset or the liability and about any income, expenses or changes in equity and (2) a faithful representation of the asset or the liability and of any income, expenses or changes in equity. The framework also notes a cost constraint. New to the framework is the discussion of derecognition. The requirements as presented in the framework are driven by two aims: the assets and liabilities retained after the transaction or other event that led to derecognition must be presented faithfully and the change in the entity's assets and liabilities as a result of that transaction or other event must also be presented faithfully. The framework also describes alternatives when it is not possible to achieve both aims.\nChapter 6 - Measurement. This chapter is dedicated to the description of different measurement bases (historical cost and current value (fair value, value in use\/fulfilment value, and current cost)), the information that they provide and their advantages and disadvantages. Current cost is newly introduced into the Conceptual Framework as it is widely advocated in academic literature. A table offers an overview of the information provided by various measurement bases. The framework also sets out factors to consider when selecting a measurement basis (relevance, faithful representation, enhancing qualitative characteristics and the cost constraint, factors specific to initial measurement, as well as more than one measurement basis) and points out that consideration of the objective of financial reporting, the qualitative characteristics of useful financial information and the cost constraint are likely to result in the selection of different measurement bases for different assets, liabilities and items of income and expense. The framework does not provide detailed guidance on when a particular measurement basis would be suitable because the suitability of particular measurement bases will vary depending on facts and circumstances. On equity, the framework offers some limited discussion, although total equity is not measured directly. Still, the framework maintains, it may be appropriate to measure directly individual classes of equity or components of equity to provide useful information.\nChapter 7 - Presentation and disclosure. In this chapter, the framework discusses concepts that determine what information is included in the financial statements and how that information should be presented and disclosed. The statement of statement of comprehensive income is newly described as \"statement of financial performance\", however, the framework does not specify whether this statement should consist of a single statement or two statements, it only requires that a total or subtotal for profit or loss must be provided. It also notes that the statement of profit or loss is the primary source of information about an entity's financial performance for the reporting period and that only in \"exceptional circumstances\" the Board may decide that income or expenses are to be included in other comprehensive income. Notably, the framework does not define profit or loss, thus the question of what goes into profit or loss or into other comprehensive income is still unanswered.\nChapter 8 - Concepts of capital and capital maintenance. The content in this chapter was taken over from the existing Conceptual Frameworkand and discusses concepts of capital (financial and physical), concepts of capital maintenance (again financial and physical) and the determination of profit as well as capital maintenance adjustments. The IASB decided that updating the discussion of capital and capital maintenance could have delayed the completion of the framework significantly. The Board might consider revising the description and discussion of capital maintenance in the future if it considers such a revision necessary.\nThe Conceptual Framework does not have a stated effective date and the Board will start using it immediately.\nReferences to the Conceptual Framework\nTogether with the revised Conceptual Framework, the IASB has also issued Amendments to References to the Conceptual Framework in IFRS Standards. The document contains amendments to IFRS 2, IFRS 3, IFRS 6, IFRS 14, IAS 1, IAS 8, IAS 34, IAS 37, IAS 38, IFRIC 12, IFRIC 19, IFRIC 20, IFRIC 22, and SIC-32. Not all amendments, however update those pronouncements with regard to references to and quotes from the framework so that they refer to the revised Conceptual Framework. Some pronouncements are only updated to indicate which version of the framework they are referencing to (the IASC framework adopted by the IASB in 2001, the IASB framework of 2010, or the new revised framework of 2018) or to indicate that definitions in the standard have not been updated with the new definitions developed in the revised Conceptual Framework.\nThe amendments, where they actually are updates, are effective for annual periods beginning on or after 1 January 2020.\nPress release on the IASB's website (inclues a three minute introductory video)\nFeedback statement (link to IASB website)\nOne page factsheet on the new framework (link to IASB website)\nIFRS in Focus newsletter explaining the changes\nIAS Plus project page on the IASB's conceptual framework project\nUpdated EFRAG status report\nThe IASB also announces that on 18 April 2018, there will be two live web presentations to introduce the revised Conceptual Framework. Please click for more information and registration on the IASB website.\nIASB issues podcast on latest Board developments\nThe IASB has released a podcast featuring Vice-Chair Sue Lloyd, Board member Darrel Scott, and education director Matt Tilling to discuss the deliberations at the March 2018 IASB meeting.\nThe 14-minute podcast features discussions of the following topics:\nDisclosure initiative\nDynamic risk management\nRate-regulated activities accounting model\nManagement commentary practice statement\nRecent CMAC, GPF, and IFRS Interpretations Committee meetings\nPIRs of IFRS 13 and IFRS 8\nThe podcast can be accessed through the press release on the IASB website. More information on the topics discussed is available through our comprehensive notes taken by Deloitte observers of the March 2018 meeting.\nEFRAG publishes results of literature review on IFRS 9 and long-term investment\n\u200bIn the context of its investigation on the potential effect of IFRS 9 on long-term investments, the European Financial Reporting Advisory Group (EFRAG) commissioned a literature review on the topic. The literature review complements EFRAG's discussion paper on the impairment and recycling of equity instruments published in early March 2018.\nThe European Commission asked EFRAG for technical advice on the topic. EFRAG already submitted quantitative data on the current holdings of equity instruments and their accounting treatment and whether entities expect that the new accounting requirements will affect their decisions in relation to investment in equity instruments. EFRAG reported its findings from this first phase in January 2018.\nIn the second phase of the project, EFRAG is investigating whether and how the requirements in IFRS 9 on accounting for holdings of equity instruments could be improved. EFRAG published the discussion paper to gather constituents' views on recycling and impairment of equity instruments designated at fair value through other comprehensive income on 1 March 2018 and has now made available the results of the literature view. The literature review concludes:\nThe limited academic evidence on the effects of IFRS 9 and related recycling issues make it difficult to draw conclusions about the possible effects of accounting requirements on long-term investors' investment strategies. Nevertheless, we suggest that standard setters may consider that recycling may be seen as a complex issue and that investors and other users of financial information might not clearly understand the issue.\nPlease click to access the results of the literature review on the EFRAG website.\nIASB and IFRS Foundation react to EU fitness check on public reporting by companies\nOn 21 March 2018, the European Commission (EC) published a consultation document 'Fitness Check on the EU Framework for Public Reporting by Companies' that seems to come with the desired result of introducing 'carve-ins' when endorsing IFRSs for use in the European Union.\nAs reported earlier, the document seems oddly tilted against the use of IFRSs as issued by the IASB. The Chairmen of the IASB and the IFRS Foundation have now released a press release conceding that each jurisdiction is free to do as it chooses but wondering why a jurisdiction would choose a way forward that goes against the objectives of the G20, was only recently warned against in the very same jurisdiction, and leads to a state that has been identified as less than ideal in other jurisdictions.\nThe press release notes that the EU, a G20 member, has always been a strong supporter of the G20 objective of achieving a single set of high-quality global accounting standards and wonders why the EU would now consider undermining this objective.\nThe press release also repeats that both, the EU's own Maystadt review in 2013 and evaluation of the IAS Regulation in 2015, concluded that introducing carve-ins to create EU-adapted IFRSs risked encouraging the creation of regional, rather than global standards, which would lead to increased costs of capital and reporting for European issuers and would open the door to lobbying for private interests during the endorsement process.\nFinally, the press release offers evidence from other jurisdictions to refute some claims in the consultation:\nIt provides numbers proving that the EU is not an outlier in adopting IFRSs without modification.\nMajor jurisdictions that have not adopted IFRSs at all (United States) still allow the use of unmodified IFRSs for foreign issuers, while introducing carve-ins would mean a loss of that privilege.\nIn major jurisdictions that offer a choice between unmodified IFRSs and locally amended standards (Japan), no company has adopted the locally amended standards in order not to lose the enhanced comparability with international competitors and to be able to better communicate with international investors.\nMajor jurisdictions with local accounting standards that are substantially converged with IFRSs (China, India) are committed to full convergence over time as the current state is not perceived as ideal mainly due to the limited international recognition of local standards.\nThe press release concludes:\nAgain, we completely accept that it is up to the EU to adopt accounting standards as it sees fit. But we believe that the introduction of EU carve-ins to IFRS Standards is in many ways a solution looking for a problem. There is no compelling evidence to show why it is needed, while the costs to EU companies\u2015adding accounting friction to European capital markets\u2015would undoubtedly exceed the benefits, the opposite of what the European Capital Markets Union project has set out to achieve.\nPlease click to access the full press release on the IASB website.\nOf the big European standard-setters, only the German ASCG has so far reacted to the launch of the consultation. It fears a \"politically desired result\" and notes that it is of great importance that the \"business community raises its voice in this important survey and sends a clearly audible signal to Brussels\". Please see the full press release on the ASCG website.\nIASB publishes proposed amendments to IAS 8 regarding agenda decisions\nThe International Accounting Standards Board (IASB) has published an exposure draft 'Accounting Policy Changes (Proposed amendments to IAS 8)', considering changes in accounting policies that result from agenda decisions published by the IFRS Interpretations Committee. Comments are requested by 27 July 2018.\nApplying IAS 8 Accounting Policies, Changes in Accounting Estimates and Errors, an entity changes an accounting policy only if the change is required by an IFRS or results in improving the usefulness of information provided to users of its financial statements. However, a common reason why an entity voluntarily changes an accounting policy is to reflect non-authoritative explanatory material included in agenda decisions published by the IFRS Interpretations Committee.\nTo facilitate voluntary changes in accounting policy that result from an agenda decision, the Board intends to amend IAS 8 to lower the impracticability threshold for retrospective application of such changes.\nSuggested changes\nThe changes proposed in ED\/2018\/1 Accounting Policy Changes (Proposed amendments to IAS 8) are focused on a cost benefit analysis:\nIf an entity changes an accounting method as a result of an agenda decision by the IFRS Interpretations Committee, it does a cost-benefit assessment: If the entity's cost of determining the period-specific effects or the cumulative effect of the change exceeds the expected benefits to users of the financial statements, the new accounting policy need not be applied retrospectively.\nIn addition, the IASB proposes to include corresponding application guidance for the cost-benefit assessment in the standard.\nThe exposure draft does not contain a proposed effective date, which the IASB intends to decide on after the exposure.\nPlease click for:\nIASB press release (link to IASB website)\nAccess to the exposure draft on the IASB website\nIFRS in Focus newsletter explaining the proposed amendments\nOur IAS Plus project page on IAS 8 \u2014 Accounting policy changes\nStandard-setters from Australia and Japan take up bilateral meetings\nRepresentatives of the Australian Accounting Standards Board (AASB) and of the Accounting Standards Board of Japan (ASBJ) met on 22 and 23 March 2018 in Melbourne.\nThe standard-setters provided updates on their respective financial reporting frameworks, activities and exchanged views on the opportunities for cooperation.\nThey also discussed specific technical topics in which both Boards have interest:\nIFRS implementation issues (particularly impairment testing),\nvirtual currencies,\nintangibles (particularly good will),\nbusiness combinations under common control,\nequity method of accounting, and\nother comprehensive income.\nAASB and ASBJ plan to continue these meetings.\nPlease click for the press release on the ASBJ website.\nEuropean Union formally adopts amendments to IFRS 9\nThe European Union has published a Commission Regulation endorsing 'Prepayment Features with Negative Compensation (Amendments to IFRS 9)'.\nThe amendments issued by the IASB in October 2017 address the concerns about how IFRS 9 Financial Instruments classifies particular prepayable financial assets.\nThe European Union effective date is the same as the IASB's (1 January 2019), i. e. one year after the first application of IFRS 9 in its current version. Early application is permitted so entities can apply the amendments together with IFRS 9 if they wish so.\nThe Commission Regulation amending Regulation (EC) No 1126\/2008 adopting certain international accounting standards in accordance with Regulation (EC) No 1606\/2002 of the European Parliament and of the Council was published in the Official Journal of the European Union on 26 March 2018.\nAs a result of the EU's adoption, the EFRAG has updated its endorsement status report.\nUpdated IASB work plan \u2014 Analysis\nFollowing the IASB's March 2018 meeting, we have analysed the IASB work plan to see what changes have resulted from the meeting and other developments in March. Changes are numerous, but most important this time is an unchanged entry: \"March 2018\" for the Conceptual Framework indicates, that the revised framework will indeed come out next week.\nBelow is an analysis of all changes made to the work plan since our last analysis on 23 February 2018.\nStandard-setting project\nConceptual Framework \u2014 The revised framework is to be expected next week as the unchanged entry \"March 2018\" indicates\nMaintenance projects\nAccounting policies and accounting estimates (amendments to IAS 8) \u2014 After discussion at the March IASB meeting, the next milestone has changed from \"exposure draft feedback\" to \"decide project direction\". No date has been given.\nAccounting policy changes (amendments to IAS 8) \u2014 the work plan states \"March 2018\" (unchanged entry) and a separate communication confirms that an exposure draft will be published on 27 March 2018.\nDefinition of a business (amendments to IFRS 3) \u2014 An IFRS amendment is expected in June 2018 (previously set to Q2 2018).\nDisclosure initiative \u2014 Definition of material (amendments to IAS 1 and IAS 8) \u2014 this project has been changed from \"standrd-setting\" to \"maintenance\". Exposure draft feedback is still expected in April 2018.\nDisclosure initiative \u2014 Targeted standards-level review of disclosures \u2014 newly added to the work plan. The Board will decide project direction in June 2018.\nImprovements to IFRS 8 Operating Segments (amendments to IFRS 8 and IAS 34) \u2014 The Board discussed this topic at its March meeting. A feedback statement is now expected in H2 2018.\nBusiness combinations under common control \u2014 A discussion paper is expected in H1 2019 (pushed back from H2 2018).\nDisclosure initiative \u2014 Principles of disclosure \u2014 After this topic was discussed at the March IASB meeting, the next milestone on the work plan was changed from \"decide project direction\" to \"discuss remaining issues\" in June 2018.\nDiscount rates \u2014 Research summary is expected in June 2018 (updated from Q2 2018).\nFinancial instruments with characteristics of equity \u2014 A discussion paper is expected in June 2018 (updated from Q2 2018).\nPost-implementation review of IFRS 13 Fair Value Measurement \u2014 After a discussion at its March meeting, the IASB added an expected date of H2 2018 for its feedback statement.\nShare-based payment \u2014 Research summary is expected in June 2018 (updated from Q2 2018).\nIFRS Taxonomy Update\u20142017 Annual Improvements \u2014 The final update was removed from the IASB's work plan, as the 2018 IFRS Taxonomy was issued on 16 March 2018.\nIFRS Taxonomy Update \u2014 Common Practice (IFRS 13) \u2014 A proposed updated is expected in June 2018 (updated from Q2 2018).\nIFRS Taxonomy Update \u2014 Prepayment features with negative compensation (amendments to IFRS 9) \u2014 This was removed from the IASB's work plan, as the Update was published on 16 March 2018.\nThe above is a faithful comparison of the IASB work plan at 23 February 2018 and at 23 March 2018. For access to the current IASB work plan at any time, please click here.\nMarch 2018 IASB meeting notes posted\nThe IASB met at its offices in London on 21 and 22 March 2018. We have posted our comprehensive Deloitte observer notes for all projects discussed during the meeting.\nThe board discussed the following topics:\nThe Board continued its discussion of the feedback on the Principles of Disclosure Discussion Paper. The Board unanimously approved all the staff recommendations on the next steps in the project. The Board have therefore categorised topics into those that they think are directly related to improving disclosures in financial statements, topics that they think are more relevant to the Primary Financial Statements project, topics that are unlikely to be contributing to the disclosure problems, those that can be dealt with separately from the main disclosure problem and topics that the DP did not address that the Board will now consider further.\nThursday 22 March\nDynamic Risk Management [Macro-hedging]\nThe Board decided that target profile represents the objective that management is working towards for a given asset profile unanimously and that the notionals of the asset profile and the target profile are required to be the same, but not the tenors.\nRate-regulated Activities\nThe Board supported the direction the staff are taking towards the definition of defined rate regulation (which sets the scope for the eventual new Standard) and also supported the criteria for recognising regulatory assets and regulatory liabilities.\nAccounting Policies and Accounting Estimates\nThe Board discussed a summary of the comments received on the exposure draft to clarify the definitions of an accounting policy and an accounting estimate. No decisions were made.\nIFRS 8 Operating Segments\nThe Board considered a revised package of amendments but decided that they would not bring sufficient improvements to justify proceeding with them (or any amendments) at this time.\nBoard members were concerned about how this decision would be communicated. It will need to be emphasised that many of the concerns that were identified when the PIR was undertaken in 2012 have been worked through by preparers. By deciding not to proceed with these minor amendments the Board is responding to these changed circumstances. The Board also noted that the work from the PIR and exposure draft would not be lost. If the FASB's work leads the IASB to consider making changes to IFRS 8 in relation to aggregation, these amendments could be considered at that time. It is just that the Board could not justify making the amendments on their own.\nPost-implementation review of IFRS 13 Fair Value Measurement\nThe Board decided that the PIR provided evidence that IFRS 13 is working as intended. The Board also decided that feedback on disclosure issues should be considered in the Principles of Disclosure project, and aggregation in the Primary Financial Statements project. The Board and staff will liaise with the valuation profession on guidance the valuation profession could provide on areas identified in the PIR. The Board decided to conclude the PIR and not to propose any changes to IFRS 13.\nManagement Commentary\nThe IASB is updating its Management Commentary Practice Statement. Board members said that the Practice Statement should address long-term value creation, linkage and providing context to the current performance. The Board plans to be cautious about the language it uses in communicating about the project and how it fits into broader corporate reporting. Applications for the IASB's consultative group on this project close on 20 April 2018.\nPlease click to access the detailed notes taken by Deloitte observers for the entire meeting.\nNext 10 items \u00bb [1] 2 3 4 5\nAbout news\nIFRS in your pocket\nModel financial statements\nGlobal publication library\nDeloitte observer notes from meetings\n\u00a9 2021. See Legal for more information. Deloitte refers to one or more of Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu Limited (\"DTTL\"), its global network of member firms and their related entities. DTTL (also referred to as \"Deloitte Global\") and each of its member firms are legally separate and independent entities. DTTL does not provide services to clients. Please see www.deloitte.com\/about to learn more.","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
+{"text":"FAST PLAY Payday Ticket Worth $99,978 Sold in Reisterstown\nPlayer lands second progressive top prize in $5 game\nThe Maryland Lottery is looking for a lucky FAST PLAY fan who won a progressive top prize of $99,978 on July 13 in the $5 Payday game.\nThe winning ticket was purchased at Dash In #15533 located at 30 Main Street in Reisterstown. This is the biggest winning ticket ever sold by the Baltimore County store and the second progressive-top-prize-winning ticket sold in the Payday game, which launched on June 15. There are 18 progressive top prizes remaining in the game.\nThe Dash In store is a winner, too. The retailer will earn a $999.78 bonus from the Lottery for selling the lucky ticket. The bonus is equal to 1 percent of the prize.\nLottery officials recommend the winner sign the back of the ticket and keep it in a safe place until claiming the prize. Winners typically get 182 days to claim prizes. However, the Lottery has temporarily extended claiming deadlines due to Maryland's COVID-19 state of emergency. The Lottery Claims Center is accepting appointments for those wishing to claim prizes in person or winners can claim prizes by mail. Click here to schedule an appointment. Details on how to claim by mail are available here.\nPayday is one of four FAST PLAY games that went on sale statewide on June 15 and one of nine total FAST PLAY games. FAST PLAY features instant-win games printed by Lottery terminals and self-service vending machines that play like scratch-offs.\nThe Payday progressive top prize increases with the purchase of each ticket until a top-prize winning ticket is sold. The top prize amount is updated every 15 minutes on in-store video displays and on mdlottery.com, and an up-to-the-minute figure is displayed on each Payday ticket.\nCategories: FAST PLAY, Winners Tags: reisterstown, FAST PLAY, payday\n\u2190 Batter Up: FAST PLAY Contestant of the Game Drawing Dates Set\nMaryland Lottery Introduces New Ravens-themed Scratch-offs \u2192","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
+{"text":"Tinubu clear of drug link allegation \u2013 Fani-Kayode\nBosstimothy\nNov 19, 2022 - 15:43\nA spokesperson for the All Progressives Congress Presidential Campaign Council, Femi Fani-Kayode, on Saturday, said the Federal Bureau of Investigation conducted an investigation on the party's presidential candidate, Bola Tinubu, for claims linking him to drugs and drug money laundering.\nAccording to Fani-Kayode, a former Minister of Aviation, \"the authorities in the FBI 'found nothing' after their investigation.\"\nThe PUNCH had earlier reported the controversy surrounding a document released by the US District Court for the Northern District of Illinois said to have investigated Tinubu's alleged involvement in narcotics and money laundering about 30 years ago, a matter that led to the forfeiture of $460,000 to the US government.\nIn reaction to the report, the chief spokesperson for the Tinubu-Shettima Presidential Campaign Council, Festus Keyamo, on Channels Television's Politics Today programme on Wednesday, November 9, 2022, said that the money was tax deducted from one of the 10 accounts linked to Tinubu in the US, adding \"he took responsibility for all the 10 accounts because they were also traced to his mother and 'relatives'.\nCommenting on the FBI's report, on Saturday, Fani-Kayode wrote in an essay titled, \"the obsessions of David Hundeyin\" on his official website, \"The $460,000 was seized only as a consequence of the IRS claiming and asserting that he (Tinubu) had not paid tax on his numerous American investments.\n\"Tinubu chose not to challenge or dispute that claim and assertion by the IRS even though he was perfectly within his rights to do so and hence he willingly forfeited that money.\n\"The seizure of the $460,000 USD had NOTHING [sic] to do with drugs or links to drug traficking.\n\"Rather it had EVERYTHING to do with tax and it was the IRS that claimed it.\n\"The FBI investigated Tinubu for links to drugs and laundering drug money and they found NOTHING.\n\"He came out clean. Most of the money they originally seized was returned.\n\"The money that was not returned had NOTHING to do with drugs.\n\"Tinubu is a clean, wholesome, hard-working and innocent man and those making these allegations are simply trying to derail his presidential ambition.\n\"They are also filled with hate and they resent his great successes in life.\"\nThe former minister further queried if $1 million was later returned to Tinubu, clearing that Tinubu was not indicted for any crime whatsoever.\nAsiwaju Ahmed Bola Tinubu\nFemi Fani Kayode\nFuture samples Tems song on Billboard hit\nEbonyi APGA candidate faults campaign ban in schools\nWar: UN releases number of civilians killed in Ukraine...\nAdmin Mar 24, 2022 0 1\nWar: Japan vows to take action as Belarus backs Russia\nMob stones Lagos task force, lynches officer for impounding...\nFuel shortage, pilot error caused Opebi-Ikeja fatal helicopter...\nBandits kill teacher, four others, abduct 16 in Kaduna...\nNiger state workers begin seven-day warning strike","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
+{"text":"HomeBiographyWho Was The Wife Of Phillip Lazaro: Dies At 51\nBiographyEntrepreneur Bio\nWho Was The Wife Of Phillip Lazaro: Dies At 51\nPhillip Lazaro was a Filipino comedian and director who died on Monday, July 11. The news of his death was initially reported by local publication GMA News Online, which stated that it had received confirmation from Lazaro's nephew Chico Lazaro Alinell. According to reports, Lazaro's nephew visited his home on the day before his death and discovered that he had trouble breathing. It has also been claimed that Lazaro suffered from several organ failures, which led to his death. However, at the moment, the underlying cause of organ failure is unknown. GMA News Online added that Lazaro's family will release further information about his passing and plan a wake in memory of him once they have decided what to say. Who Was The Wife Of Phillip Lazaro: Dies At 51.\nPhillip Lazaro Wife\nPhillip Lazaro Age\nPhillip Lazaro Known For\nPhillip Lazaro Family\nPhillip Lazaro FAQs\nPhillip Lazaro's marital status is unknown. Phillip Lazaro, the comedian from the Philippines, was apparently unmarried. The Filipino artist was a very private person who made no headlines for anything personal. He managed his own affairs, which demonstrated his solitary nature.\nPhillip Lazaro was died at the age of 52. The Filipino actor and director's illustrious television career will endure in the memories of fans. It's incredible that a star can accomplish so much at the age of 52.\nPhillip Lazaro was a well-known comedian in the Philippines who went on to direct and act. He is recognized for his work with shows like Bawal na game show, as well as Prima Donnas. The Manila Times reports that Lazaro performed as a stand-up comic at a Manila comedy club known as The Library Comedy Bar & Restaurant for roughly five years.\nIn 1995, he made his debut as an actor in a minor role on a regional TV program, Villa Quintana. From 1994 to 2000, Lazaro played similar parts in Philippine television series. After a decade-long absence from acting, he reemerged in 2009 with the same roles.\nRead Also: Chris Pfeiffer, Commit Suicide\nRest in peace Direk Phillip Lazaro \ud83d\ude4f\ud83d\ude14 it was great to have worked with you, both as a director and an actor\n\u2014 Gil Cuerva (@gilcuerva) July 11, 2022\nLazaro's career began in 1993, with his first role being a TV show. He has acted in over 50 episodes of That's My Amboy in 2016. His final appearance was on 2021's Nagbabagang luha, where he played Phillip for five episodes. Lazaro had worked on around 30 films throughout his 25-year career. In addition to 63 episodes of TV5's Filipino contest program, Bawal na game show, he previously served as the director of Dear Uge for four installments.\nFollowing his passing, several members of his family, friends, and other acquaintances took to social media to pay their respects. Meanwhile, Chico Lazaro Alinell, Lazaro's nephew, posted a remembrance on Facebook in memory of the late comedian and director. A few tweets recalled Lazaro's years as a stand-up comic at The Library. His career as a filmmaker was also mentioned by others.\nHow did Phillip Lazaro die?\nPhillip Lazaro's nephew, Chico Lazaro Alinell, found him unresponsive with difficulty breathing on Sunday, July 10.\nWhat was Phillip Lazaro's cause of death?\nThe underlying cause of Phillip Lazaro's organ failure is unknown at this time.\nHow old was Phillip Lazaro when he died?\nPhillip Lazaro was 52 years old when he passed away on Monday, July 11.\nWhat was Phillip Lazaro's ethnicity?\nPhillip Lazaro was Filipino.\nRead Also: Nate Bargatze Wiki, Bio, Age, Height, Weight\nPrevious articleWho Is Shelley Thompson Lemoine: Arrested In 2005 Cold Case\nNext articleWho Is The Husband Of Krista Horton: All About Her","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
+{"text":"Between COVID lockdowns, the vaccine 'strollout', the NSW Premier resigning and the not-so-clear Net-Zero by 2050 plan - there is no doubt that 2021 has been a downright messy year of politics in Australia. And with just a few weeks to go before parliament shuts up shop for the year, the political landslide shows no sign of slowing down. One man who has gotten out just in time to beat the Christmas rush is former Speaker of the House Tony Smith. Smith formally stepped down today with Prime Minister Scott Morrison and opposition leader Anthony Albanese in rare agreement that he would be missed as speaker. Morrison said Smith was \"the finest Speaker that this Parliament has had the great opportunity to witness in action.\" That may well be true, and the man also has exceptional timing given the last sitting fortnight of parliament is bound to be a busy one. Queensland Coalition MP Andrew Wallace will step into the Speaker role after he was elected today. Good luck Mr Wallace - I think you'll need it. Especially with the PM's trip to Hawaii during the Black Summer fires of 2019\/20 back in headlines. But it's not just Scott Morrison coping flack from the opposition. Labor's foreign affairs spokeswoman Penny Wong said Defence Minister Peter Dutton was deliberately stoking conflict with China in \"the most dangerous election tactic in Australian history\". Wong has accused Dutton of exploiting national security for electoral gains. \"Amping up the prospect of war against a superpower is the most dangerous election tactic in Australian history,\" she will say. \"A tactic employed by irresponsible politicians who are desperate to hang on to power at any cost.\" And the Coalition is experiencing some division among its own ranks as well. Yesterday Pauline Hanson's One Nation party submitted it's draft vaccination discrimination Bill to the Senate - which was rejected (and if you missed Jacquie Lambie's speech about the proposed Bill, check it out here). However, five Coalition MPs crossed the Senate floor to vote in favour of the bill. Queensland MP George Christensen has also threatened to withhold his vote in the federal government's lower house over vaccine mandates. \"Until federal action is taken against vaccine discrimination, I will be voting according to my conscience, or abstaining from votes... rather than just voting with the government as MPs usually do,\" he said in a statement. He's the first MP in the lower house to make this threat. As my esteemed colleague at the Canberra Times stated, \"a notable split in the government is there for all to see\". Did you know you can receive this daily digest by email? Sign up here THE NEWS YOU NEED TO KNOW:\n\/images\/transform\/v1\/crop\/frm\/XyDK2mdecfTpQsAbSqFiUd\/2141160f-5cd4-4e21-9436-79b1fb87872a.jpg\/r1_0_1199_677_w1200_h678_fmax.jpg\nInformer: Different day, same old political divides\nSpeaker of the House of Representatives Tony Smith received a standing ovation during question time on Monday. Picture: Sitthixay Ditthavong\nBetween COVID lockdowns, the vaccine 'strollout', the NSW Premier resigning and the not-so-clear Net-Zero by 2050 plan - there is no doubt that 2021 has been a downright messy year of politics in Australia.\nAnd with just a few weeks to go before parliament shuts up shop for the year, the political landslide shows no sign of slowing down.\nOne man who has gotten out just in time to beat the Christmas rush is former Speaker of the House Tony Smith.\nSmith formally stepped down today with Prime Minister Scott Morrison and opposition leader Anthony Albanese in rare agreement that he would be missed as speaker.\nMorrison said Smith was \"the finest Speaker that this Parliament has had the great opportunity to witness in action.\"\nThat may well be true, and the man also has exceptional timing given the last sitting fortnight of parliament is bound to be a busy one.\nQueensland Coalition MP Andrew Wallace will step into the Speaker role after he was elected today.\nGood luck Mr Wallace - I think you'll need it.\nEspecially with the PM's trip to Hawaii during the Black Summer fires of 2019\/20 back in headlines.\nBut it's not just Scott Morrison coping flack from the opposition.\nWong has accused Dutton of exploiting national security for electoral gains.\n\"Amping up the prospect of war against a superpower is the most dangerous election tactic in Australian history,\" she will say.\n\"A tactic employed by irresponsible politicians who are desperate to hang on to power at any cost.\"\nAnd the Coalition is experiencing some division among its own ranks as well.\nYesterday Pauline Hanson's One Nation party submitted it's draft vaccination discrimination Bill to the Senate - which was rejected (and if you missed Jacquie Lambie's speech about the proposed Bill, check it out here).\nHowever, five Coalition MPs crossed the Senate floor to vote in favour of the bill.\nQueensland MP George Christensen has also threatened to withhold his vote in the federal government's lower house over vaccine mandates.\n\"Until federal action is taken against vaccine discrimination, I will be voting according to my conscience, or abstaining from votes... rather than just voting with the government as MPs usually do,\" he said in a statement.\nHe's the first MP in the lower house to make this threat.\nAs my esteemed colleague at the Canberra Times stated, \"a notable split in the government is there for all to see\".\nDid you know you can receive this daily digest by email? Sign up here\nIt's official: La Nina has been declared\nFears over looming expiration of National Rental Affordability Scheme\nSee the moment a man is arrested after extraordinary 800km pursuit from Victoria to NSW\nJab or no job at Maccas\nAdvocates' anger over elder abuse report delay\nSports rorts cash splash had no impact on voters: study\nPossible change to 2022 Tasmanian school start date due to vaccine rollout\nHousing Trust boss recalls living on $2 a week as a single mum","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
+{"text":"Paolo Nutini is crowned King of Glasgow venue and says Scottish gigs blew his mind\nBy Lynn Jolly\nTHE Scots singer has been unveiled as winner of the SSE Live Award, which saw music fans vote for their favourite live gig at the iconic concert venue in the first half of this year.\nPAOLO NUTINI has seen off competition from big names such as Taylor Swift and Take That to be crowned King of Glasgow's Hydro.\nPaolo - who is headlining the Glasgow Summer Sessions on Saturday, August 29, at Bellahouston Park - came out on top with a clear majority, winning well over one-third of the total votes cast.\nThe Paisley-born chart-topper said: \"The Hydro shows blew my mind. All of that infectious energy in the crowd, all my friends... and on my birthday!\n\" I cannot thank everyone there enough for giving me those nights to remember. Big love and thanks. Now for Bellahouston. Happy Daze.\"\nColin Banks, of the SSE Scottish Hydro, added: \"We have been blown away by the number of votes cast in the inaugural SSE Live Awards.\n\"The fans have really spoken, with a staggering 150,000 votes cast, and I would like to say a huge well done to Scotland's very own Paolo Nutini for becoming the overall winner following his incredible shows in January this year.\"\nOther big names who couldn't come close to Paolo included Lionel Richie, Noel Gallagher, Paloma Faith, Paul Simon, Sting, Nicki Minaj, Fleetwood Mac and Elton John.\nVoting opens again in September for the second half of the year, with the overall winner to be handed the SSE Live Award for 2015, which will be put on display inside the venue.\nCheck out which other acts have rocked the Hydro in the gallery below.\nVisit our entertainment section here.","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
+{"text":"Maradona had a party inspired, Messi taught: Pacho Maturana\nEditorial Mediotiempo\nColombia \/ 05.07.2021 23:25:15\nAfter hours Argentina s Colombia It is played without a ticket to the Grand Final of America's Cup, one of the historical Choose a coffee maker Talk about two Pampean idols.\nI wear Pacho Maturana compared to Lionel Messi whom he admires today and Diego Armando Maradona, with whom he lived and has a close relationship.\nin chat with Radio Villa Trinidad, The former coach said that Diego It was a joy when Messi It's exactly a talent, like a science.\n\"Diego was something else, Diego He's the partner, he's everyone's friend, not only guiding us or giving us his soccer fragrance, but as a friend who was there to defend you at any time, that's unforgettable. They are different, they are different sensitivities. Messi It is the product of his humility and ability with Messi One is always ready to applaud Diego One was always ready to celebrate. Diego it's a holiday, Messi It's tenderness, it's science, it's wonderful fragrance and Diego It's live.\"\nIn addition, he said that Leo He's already someone else from a few years ago, and now he sees him more connected to the team rather than the center of attention.\n\"I see one Messi Very generous, before there is a structure for Messi, right Now Messi It makes the structure that is already improved.\"\nColombia and Argentina It will play next Tuesday in the semi-finals of America's Cup Determine the competitor BrazilWhich was defeated on Monday fiercely Peru.\nSee also Officials say NASA's Orion spacecraft is entering lunar orbit\nPrevious: Registration is open for applicants to the Master's Degree in Data Science and Optimization at UA de C\nNext: TET space | From Citizen's Privileges to Citizen's Rights \u2013 El Sol de Tlaxcala","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
+{"text":"Man Utd Chat\nBerbatov - The Master feels at Home\nLets continue on the Berbatov debate\nas we are in a new year and have reached the half way stage of the season.\nI believe he is one of our most important players and tonight's game at Derby\nhighlighted that fact. In his last 3 games he has scored a winner, set up a winner,\nand then ran the show at Saints. He is finally starting to settle and get used to the\nplayers around him. I think he is vital to our future successes.\nId give him a 7\/10 so far in his United career but I know there is a lot more to come.\nFunnily enough he has 7 goals and 7 assists to his name so far.\nWhat are your thoughts on Berba after half a season?\nand do you think he is one of our most important players?\nSmithyTheRed\nU N I T E D United Are The Team For Me\nI've rated Berba since the day he joined Spurs. Known player from Bayer Leverkusen and I do believe he is a great signing for United. He offers everything that a striker has. Brilliant in the air, Agility and ability to make things out of nothing is top class. Looking forward to seeing him upfront on Sunday, if Fergie plays him which I think he will\nTheManc\nLeast popular Moderator\nHis passing vs Southampton was incredible. They showed some of his moments on MUTV the other day and it was a joy to watch.\nI think he'll get better and better as the season goes on. His touch is easily the best in the Premiership. There was a moment the other day where he just stood there, held off the defender and brought down the ball as easy as anything.\nThere's an element of class when he plays which is a joy to watch.\nMy one criticism is that he could shoot more.\nRooneys_Temper\nTROLOLOLOL\nThe man is class,drop him\/slate him at your peril\nDazza\nSecond half of the season, he will prove his class\nzoran_zlatanov\nAnother chance to give some credit to one of my favourite players\nand do you think he is one of our most important players? - Yes Today we lacked his creativity.\nI will also give him 7\/10 rating about his performance so far.\nBut I will give him about 5\/10 if compare his performance with his standards.\nI think he is vital to our future successes. - Couldn't agree more. He looks so good playing as a midfielder. Imagine what will happen when he goes to his favourite position at the top of our attack. We just need a good left winger who knows how and when to give him the ball.\nMy criticism is that he could shoot and dribble more. And to be more selfish sometimes.\nUnited_OG\nI thought he was soo lazy against the saints and should have shot a few times when he had another touch instead but id rather him in the team than tevez if he is trying because he has more creativity but also have the option of tevez too!\nI am sure there is more to come from berbatov though!! There has to be!\nhe may not be a workhorse like tevez and rooney but his skill and control is amazing made up we got him in august still am think he will cause terry and carvahlo a problem sunday. CLASS!\nmartinutd\nhates City\nchris99 said:\nYes. And with rio and evra back we will be a different team on sunday\ntrikam patel\nput goals on any players plate\nNeeds to shoot more, other than that, I can't complain about him, he's a magician.\nRedForceRising\nHis touch andpassing are phenomenal, but I'm still waiting on the goals.\nHe got an assist versus Liverpool and one against Chelsea for us, so i'm hoping he can improve on the by scoring a goal this Sunday.\nHaving witnessed his sublime skill I'm slowly being won over by him and we look a classier side with him on the pitch.\nBest touch in the Premier League. He is a genius. The goals will come. His link-up play is phenomenal\nred dave\nI have to say he hasnt blown me away yet but I could see we missed him last night so he is starting to have a impact on the team .\n16-Keano-16 said:\nA United director and elder statesman of the English game who has written two majestic volumes of an autobiography with James Lawton (the latest is My England Years), Charlton is most loquacious when his gaze falls on the Old Trafford pitch below our vantage point facing the Stretford End. His discourse on the complicatedly gifted Berbatov is a revealing masterclass in analysis by a former deep-roving forward who himself struck 249 times in 758 appearances for United and still holds the England goalscoring record of 49.\nStudying the many nuances of individual talent is almost an academic discipline at Old Trafford and soon Charlton is off and running: \"I'm still learning about Berbatov. I watched him at Tottenham and I thought he was in charge of his own destiny, that he made the right decisions. But playing for Man United is a bit more demanding. You're expected not just to do all the great things you're good at but also your share of the dirty work - which is chasing back to regain possession, helping your defenders if you're close enough to help.\n\"Berbatov is a one-off. First of all I was very critical of him, to myself, thinking, 'Look at that. As soon as he loses the ball he stops running and starts walking, as if to say \"somebody else'll do it\".' And I thought, 'He must be a good player if he can afford to do that'.\n\"It's been gradual. In these last few games I've understood his really great skill, his awareness, and his physical strength at holding people off. Not only that, when he passes he always makes it easy for you. He always gives it perfectly. Everything is so, so precise. Add to that, he's got his control and when he gets round the goal he wants to score.\n\"I've changed my mind since I first saw him. He's a massive talent. Really. And he's in the right place. If he can perform on a regular basis he's in the right place here because it's just what the fans here like and the people at Man United expect.\n\"He's frustrating sometimes. Instinctively I think if I've lost the ball I want to chase after it. I want to make up for the mistake I've made. Maybe like George Best you've got to accept him for what he is. Cantona had that arrogance. But he did his fair share of the work. I'd never complain about Cantona in that respect. He was sensational, and he had an influence. Given that bit of time and space that Berbatov seems to be finding now, he'll get better and better.\"\nThe conversation is really about what constitutes a Manchester United player: that special compound of physical courage, resilience, insatiable zeal. Berbatov, like Eric Cantona before, exists on the borderline where maverick instincts meet the collective will.\n\"He realises where he is now and it's big,\" he says. \"You can eat, sleep and breathe this place when you're on that pitch. He potentially can be one of the great, great players. He has a touch and an awareness that are fantastic. He keeps people away from him so they don't interfere with his plan. He'll try impossible balls. The general run-of-the-mill pass isn't difficult. But he's a step further on. He works for you. You don't have to think. I'd have enjoyed playing with him, but I'd have been arguing with him. A lot. If you've got people running backward and forward and you're responsible [for them having to do it] it's not right. But he's learned. You're not allowed many mistakes, and you can't be casual. You can't be casual.\n\"I've criticised him, inside myself, and thought that for the money we paid for him we ought to be getting a little bit more. But you can see now where he's going.\"\nhttp:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/football\/2...bobby-charlton\nTheManc said:\nBut you can see now where he's going.\"\ngreat article TM. and when Sir Bobby speaks everyone listens.\nI think the bit above sums it up so far.\nExciting times ahead for sure.\nWazza1989\nwell...he's a great player, he lacks speed but he's got great tehnique and great passing. the goal he scored today is his type of goals so i hope the team will play him some more balls like this because he's more efficient than when he goes down to receive the ball and create, he's a slow player, not for creation, but for finishing\nScholesHeScoresGoals\nHopefully he starts notching them! I wish we had Tevez on, lol\nInteresting that Sir Bobby also thought he wasn't putting in enough legwork, especially when his mistake led to a situation where people had to track back. Also interesting that he thinks for the price, Berba should be giving more output.\nI think so too, but he is becoming increasingly important for the team. He had a great chance in the first half and if he had struck the ball sweeter it would have been in theback of the net. I think if he keeps playing the way he has, but starts putting away those chances like that one tonight AND starts doing some dirsty work, he'll be a very classy player.\nStill has some work to do though.\nRN10 Jan 30, 2009","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
+{"text":"Get Tested for COVID-19 . . . For Yourself, For Your Family, Co-workers, Customers, Neighbors and Friends\nJun 12, 2020 | In The News\nS. E. Williams | Contributor\nThese are times of triple crises \u2014 COVID-19, civil unrest and the growing movement to uproot structural and institutional, racism at their core\u2014staying healthy during these turbulent times is a must.\nOne of the most important ways to protect your health and the health of others is to take time to be tested for COVID-19.\nThe test is less invasive than you think, takes less time than imagined and is one of the most important contributions you can make in helping to control the spread of this dangerous and too often deadly virus.\nFor members of the African American and Latinx communities testing is even more warranted as these communities are being impacted by the worst effects of COVID-19 far beyond their percentages of the population at both the state and national level.\nAccording to Dr. Eduardo Sanchez Chief Medical Officer with the American Heart Association, \"when a communicable disease outbreak begins, the ideal response is for public health officials to begin testing for it early.\"\nCertainly, the nation is behind the proverbial \"eight ball\" when it comes to its testing in response to the COVID-19 Pandemic; however an assertive testing effort is now underway in the inland region and across the state to better assess how widely the coronavirus has spread.\nNew reports show as California and other states continue re-opening, the virus has continued to spread more broadly in at least 21 states including California.\nTesting is important not only because it identifies who has been infected, it is also important because people with immunity from COVID-19 can more safely work in essential jobs without concerns about passing the illness on to others.\nBoth Riverside and San Bernardino Counties are making progress in testing. As of Tuesday, June 9, 2020 Riverside County has outpaced San Bernardino County by far.\nRiverside had tested more than 104,700 residents\u20149,590 of those were confirmed positive for the virus, while testing in San Bernardino County is progressing much slower, through June 9, the county had only tested 6,953 individuals with 3,931 testing positive.\nThe populations of the two counties are relatively similar. Riverside County has 2.4 million residents versus San Bernardino County's nearly 2.2 million residents. The disparity in the number of residents being tested makes it clear much still needs to be done as it relates to encouraging inland area residents to take the COVID-19 test, particularly in San Bernardino County.\nDavid Wert, spokesperson for San Bernardino County was asked about the county's poor performance regarding testing as compared to Riverside County.\n\"I can't speak for how Riverside County was able to do so much [testing] early on; but early on we were like everybody else\u2014we just did not have access to testing supplies. That was a nationwide problem.\" Wert continued adding, \"Up until now, we have not been encouraging people to go and get tested because we haven't had the facilities, but now that we have ten walk-up clinics up and running and we have adequate testing supplies, we are going to start a campaign to encourage people to get tested.\"\nWert assured San Bernardino County's testing outreach effort will begin in the next week or sooner.\nBlack Voice News Publisher and community leader Paulette Brown-Hinds recently tested for COVID-19 to help raise awareness regarding the importance of testing as well as to demonstrate how quick and easy the process can be.\nSpeaking about what motivated her to pursue the COVID-19 test she explained, \"The coronavirus has had a disproportionate impact on the Black community, both in transmission of the virus and in the mortality rates if we contract it.\"\nShe continued, \"We are hospitalized more than other races. We die from it at a higher rate. We're more likely to work in frontline jobs that have been classified as essential, jobs that have us exposed to more people and potentially more people with the virus.\"\nData certainly supports Brown-Hinds' assessment. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), results to date show a disproportionate burden of illness and death among Blacks and other ethnic groups.\nAccording to the American Public Media Lab (APM) as of June 9, 2020, COVID-19 had claimed approximately 112,000 nationally. Race and ethnicity data is available for about 93 percent of those deaths and show continued deep disparities by race, most dramatically for Blacks and Native Americans. These results are based on aggregated death rates from COVID-19 across all fifty states and the District of Columbia by ethnicity are as follows:\n1 in 1,625 Black Americans has died (or 61.6 deaths per 100,000)\n1 in 2,775 Indigenous Americans has died (or 36.0 deaths per 100,000)\n1 in 3,550 Latino Americans has died (or 28.2 deaths per 100,000)\n1 in 3,800 Asian Americans has died (or 26.3 deaths per 100,000)\n1 in 3,800 White Americans has died (or 26.2 deaths per 100,000)\nAs the figures dramatize, the African-American community remains at high risk. Based on analysis of the data APM further highlighted, if Blacks had died at the same rate as Whites through June 9, about 14,400 Black Americans would still be alive today.\nAnother reason it is important to be tested is because so much uncertainty remains regarding the disease and how it may or may not be transmitted by those who are asymptomatic.\n\"I haven't experienced any Coronavirus symptoms,\" Brown-Hinds explained, \"but wanted to make sure I haven't been exposed to it and unknowingly spread it to those I love and care about, including my mother-in-law who lives with us and who has a number of health conditions that cause her to be at higher risk.\nFor those concerned about the discomfort of testing Brown-Hinds assured, \"The process was simple and only took a few minutes for health personnel to swab my throat. I didn't even have to get out of the car.\"\nShe received her results in less than a week, and the good news is\u2014it was negative.\nTesting locations are now available across the inland region and more will be available soon in San Bernardino County. For a list of test sites in Riverside County visit www.rivcoph.org\/; for test sites in San Bernardino County visit sbcovid19.com\/community-drive-through-events\/\nHeader Photo: Black Voice News Publisher Paulette Brown-Hinds being tested at drive-through test center in Riverside County.\nPreviousThis is A Different Moment!\" Governor Newsom Addresses Questions Related to Police Reform and Systemic Racism\nNextJoin the Conversation","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
+{"text":"'OnBoard' was developed by the RYA to encourage more young people onto the water through local sailing clubs and centres throughout the UK. The original aim was half a million new sailors and it is hoped to achieve that figure this year. By lending its support and expertise through County Development Officers the RYA has brought Sailing and Windsurfing within the scope of all young people. Portchester Sailing Club became actively involved in OnBoard in 2011. There are now over 200 clubs and centres flying the OnBoard flag.\n'Sailing and Windsurfing have everything \u2013 from a cool and sociable relaxing leisure pastime to \u2013 a high adrenaline high-performance sport!'\nThe OnBoard scheme is aimed at helping clubs and centres to work with any local groups of young people such as schools, clubs, and other youth groups such as Scouts and Guides.\nA PSC OnBoard course consists of 10 hours of instruction both on and off the water. The school or youth group takes up one years temporary membership with PSC covering two staff and up to 12 children. The course follows the RYA Youth Sailing Scheme Stage One which gives a basic introduction and understanding of how a boat is rigged and sails.\nDownload our PSC OnBoard Brochure","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
+{"text":"Ronald McNair\nRonald Ervin McNair\nNASA Astronaut\nKilled during an important mission\nOctober 21, 1950(1950-10-21)\nJanuary 28, 1986(1986-01-28) (aged 35)\nOther occupation\nTime in space\n1978 NASA Group\nSTS-41-B, STS-51-L\nMission insignia\nRonald Ervin McNair, Ph.D. (October 21, 1950 \u2013 January 28, 1986) was a physicist and NASA astronaut. McNair died during the launch of the Space Shuttle Challenger on mission STS-51-L.\n2 Astronaut\n3 Music in Space project\n4 Public honors\nBorn in Lake City, South Carolina. McNair graduated as valedictorian of Carver High School in 1967.[1][1] He was a member of the United Methodist faith committe.\nIn 1971 he received a bachelor's degree in engineering physics, magna cum laude, from North Carolina A&T State University in Greensboro, North Carolina. McNair was a member of Omega Psi Phi Fraternity. In 1976, he received his Ph.D. in physics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology under guidance of Prof. Michael Feld becoming nationally recognized for his work in the field of laser physics. He received three honorary doctorates, a score of fellowships and commendations and achieved a black belt in karate. After graduation from MIT, he became a staff physicist at the Hughes Research Lab in Malibu, California.\nAstronaut candidates Ronald McNair, Guion Bluford, and Frederick Gregory\nIn 1978, McNair was selected as one of thirty-five applicants from a pool of ten thousand for the NASA astronaut program. He flew on STS-41-B aboard Challenger in February 1984, as a mission specialist becoming the second African American to fly in space. Following this mission, McNair was selected for STS-51-L, which launched on January 28, 1986, and was subsequently killed when Challenger disintegrated nine miles above the Atlantic Ocean just 73 seconds after liftoff.[2]\nMusic in Space project\nMcNair was an accomplished saxophonist. Before his fateful last space shuttle mission he had worked with composer Jean Michel Jarre on a piece of music for Jarre's then-upcoming album Rendez-Vous. It was intended that he would record his saxophone solo on board the Challenger, which would have made McNair's solo the first original piece of music to have been recorded in space[3] (although the song \"Jingle Bells\" had been played on a harmonica during an earlier Gemini 6 spaceflight.) However, the recording was never made as the flight ended in disaster leading to the deaths of its entire crew. The last of the Rendez-Vous pieces, (Last Rendez-Vous) had the additional name \"Ron's Piece\". Ron McNair was supposed to take part in the concert through a live feed.\nPublic honors\nDr. Ronald E. McNair memorial in his hometown, Lake City, South Carolina\nDr. Ronald E. McNair tomb in his hometown, Lake City, South Carolina\nRonald McNair Park in Brooklyn, New York City\nRonald E. McNair South Central Police Station of the Houston Police Department in Houston, Texas\nA variety of public places and people have been renamed in honor of McNair.\nThe crater McNair on the Moon is named in his honor.\nWatson Chapel Jr. High was renamed the R. McNair Jr. High School in his honor.\nRonald McNair Boulevard in Lake City, South Carolina is named in his honor and lies near other streets named for astronauts who perished in the Challenger crash.\nThe U.S. Department of Education offers the Ronald E. McNair Post-Baccalaureate Achievement Program for students with low income, first generation students, and\/or underrepresented students in graduate education for doctorate education.\nIn Florence, South Carolina, there is a Ronald McNair Math and Science Center at the Francis Marion University.\nOn January 29, 2011, the Lake City library was dedicated as the Ronald McNair Life History Center.[1]\nSeveral K-12 schools have also been named after McNair.\nRonald E. McNair Middle School in Lake City, South Carolina was renamed from Carver High School in his honor (he was a high school graduate of the facility).\nDr. Ronald Ervin McNair Academic High School in Jersey City, New Jersey[4]\nRonald McNair Elementary School currently under construction in Greensboro, North Carolina\nRonald McNair Elementary School in Germantown, Maryland\nRonald Ervin McNair High School in Atlanta, Georgia\nRonald McNair Middle School in Decatur, Georgia\nRonald McNair Middle School in College Park, Georgia\nRonald McNair Elementary School in University City, Missouri\nRonald Ervin McNair Elementary School in Denton, Texas (Denton ISD)\nRonald McNair Middle School in Rockledge, Florida\nRonald E. McNair Elementary School in Dallas, Texas (Dallas ISD)\nRonald E McNair Academic Center in [[Chicago, Illinos\nRonald McNair Middle School[5] in East Palo Alto, California\nRonald Ervin McNair High School in Stockton, California\nThe Ronald McNair School in Cambria Heights, New York\nMcNair Elementary School in Compton, California.\nA building on the Willowridge High School campus in Houston, Texas is named in honor of Dr. McNair.\nThere is a memorial in the Ronald McNair Park in Brooklyn, New York in his honor.[6][7]\nThe Ronald E. McNair Space Theater inside the Davis Planetarium in downtown Jackson, Mississippi is named in his honor.\nThe Naval ROTC building on the campus of Southern University and A&M College in Baton Rouge, Louisiana is named in his honor.\nThe Engineering building at North Carolina A&T State University in Greensboro, NC is named in his honor.\nThe McNair Building at MIT houses the Kavli Institute for Astrophysics and Space Research.\nThe McNair Post-baccalaureate Achievement Program, which operates at 179 campuses in the U.S. (April 7), awards research money and internships to first-generation and otherwise underrepresented students in preparation for graduate work.[8]\nMcNair was portrayed by Joe Morton in the 1990 TV movie Challenger.\nThe song, \"A Drop Of Water,\" recorded by Japanese jazz artist Keiko Matsui, with vocals by the late Carl Anderson, was written in tribute to Dr. McNair.\nThe Jean Michel Jarre track Last Rendez-Vous was retitled Ron's Piece in his honor. McNair was originally due to record the track in space aboard Challenger, and then perform it via a live link up in Jarre's Rendez-vous Houston concert.\nAfrican American portal\nSpace portal\nBiography portal\nList of African-American astronauts\nSpace Shuttle Challenger disaster\nRendez-vous Houston\n^ a b c Smith, Bruce (2011-01-28). \"Small SC town pauses to remember astronaut son\". TheState.com. http:\/\/www.thestate.com\/2011\/01\/28\/1667741\/small-sc-town-pauses-to-remember.html. Retrieved 2011-01-29.\n^ NASA Biography\n^ Synth History\n^ Hague, Jim. \"In a Class By Itself\". Jersey City Magazine, Spring & Summer 2011. page 55\n^ Ronald McNair Academy, accessed January 28, 2011.\nMcNair Foundation to encourage and mentor science, mathematics and technology students\nSpacefacts biography of Ronald McNair\nRonald E. McNair Post \u2013 Baccalaureate Achievement Program\nOfficial NASA Bio\nChallenger Center bio\nRonald E. McNair Postbaccalaureate Achievement Program\nStoryCorps: Astronaut's Brother Recalls A Man Who Dreamed Big\nRonald McNair at Find a Grave\nv \u00b7 d \u00b7 eCongressional Space Medal of Honor\nMichael P. Anderson\u2020 \u00b7 Neil Armstrong \u00b7 Frank Borman \u00b7 David M. Brown\u2020 \u00b7 Roger Chaffee\u2020 \u00b7 Kalpana Chawla\u2020 \u00b7 Laurel B. Clark\u2020 \u00b7 Charles \"Pete\" Conrad, Jr. \u00b7 Robert Crippen \u00b7 John Glenn \u00b7 Virgil \"Gus\" Grissom\u2020 \u00b7 Rick Husband\u2020 \u00b7 Greg Jarvis\u2020 \u00b7 James Lovell \u00b7 Shannon Lucid \u00b7 Christa McAuliffe\u2020 \u00b7 Willie McCool\u2020 \u00b7 Ronald McNair\u2020 \u00b7 Ellison Onizuka\u2020 \u00b7 Ilan Ramon\u2020 \u00b7 Judith Resnik\u2020 \u00b7 Dick Scobee\u2020 \u00b7 Alan Shepard \u00b7 William Shepherd \u00b7 Michael Smith\u2020 \u00b7 Thomas P. Stafford \u00b7 Edward White\u2020 \u00b7 John W. Young\nNote: \u2020 indicates a posthumous award\nv \u00b7 d \u00b7 eSTS-51-L\nSpace Shuttle Challenger \u00b7 STS-51-L \u00b7 Space Shuttle Challenger disaster \u00b7 STS-51-L Mission timeline \u00b7 Space Shuttle Challenger launch decision\nScobee (Cmdr) \u00b7 Smith \u00b7 Resnik \u00b7 Onizuka \u00b7 McNair \u00b7 Jarvis \u00b7 McAuliffe\nRogers Commission Report \u00b7 Space Shuttle Solid Rocket Booster \u00b7 TDRS-B\nv \u00b7 d \u00b7 eNASA Astronaut Group 8, \"TFNG (Thirty-Five New Guys)\", 1978\nDaniel Brandenstein \u00b7 Michael Coats \u00b7 Richard Covey \u00b7 John Creighton \u00b7 Robert Gibson \u00b7 Frederick D. Gregory \u00b7 Frederick Hauck \u00b7 Jon McBride \u00b7 Steven Nagel \u00b7 Francis \"Dick\" Scobee \u00b7 Brewster Shaw \u00b7 Loren Shriver \u00b7 David Walker \u00b7 Donald Williams\nMission specialists\nGuion Bluford \u00b7 James Buchli \u00b7 John Fabian \u00b7 Anna Fisher \u00b7 Dale Gardner \u00b7 S. David Griggs \u00b7 Terry Hart \u00b7 Steven Hawley \u00b7 Jeffrey Hoffman \u00b7 Shannon Lucid \u00b7 Ronald McNair \u00b7 Mike Mullane \u00b7 George Nelson \u00b7 Ellison Onizuka \u00b7 Judith Resnik \u00b7 Sally Ride \u00b7 Rhea Seddon \u00b7 Robert Stewart \u00b7 Kathryn Sullivan \u00b7 Norman Thagard \u00b7 James van Hoften\nv \u00b7 d \u00b7 eNASA Astronaut Groups \u00b7 NASA Astronaut Corps\nNASA Astronaut Group 1 \u00b7 2 \u00b7 3 \u00b7 4 \u00b7 5 \u00b7 6 \u00b7 7 \u00b7 8 \u00b7 9 \u00b7 10 \u00b7 11 \u00b7 12 \u00b7 13 \u00b7 14 \u00b7 15 \u00b7 16 \u00b7 17 \u00b7 18 \u00b7 19 \u00b7 20 \u00b7 21 \u00b7 List of astronauts by selection\nName McNair, Ronald\nAlternative names McNair, Ronald Ervin\nShort description Physicist, astronaut\nDate of birth October 21, 1950\nPlace of birth Lake City, South Carolina\nDate of death January 28, 1986\nPlace of death Cape Canaveral, Florida\nCongressional Space Medal of Honor recipients\nAmerican astronauts\nAmerican physicists\nAmerican Bah\u00e1'\u00eds\nSpace program fatalities\nPeople from Florence, South Carolina\nMassachusetts Institute of Technology alumni\nNorth Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University alumni\nAccidental deaths in Florida\nAfrican Americans in science\nCoast Mountains\nRonald McNair \u2014 Saltar a navegaci\u00f3n, b\u00fasqueda Ronald Ervin McNair Nacimiento: 21 de octubre de 1950, Lake City, Carolina del Sur Fallecimiento: 28 de enero de \u2026 Wikipedia Espa\u00f1ol\nRonald McNair \u2014 Land (Organisation): USA (NASA) Datum der Auswahl: 16. Januar 1978 (8. NASA Gruppe) Anzahl der Raumfl\u00fcge: 1, dazu STS 51 L Start \u2026 Deutsch Wikipedia\nRonald McNair \u2014 Nationalit\u00e9 am\u00e9ricain Naissance 21 octobre 1950 Lake City, Caroline du Sud, \u00c9tats Uni \u2026 Wikip\u00e9dia en Fran\u00e7ais\nRonald McNair \u2014 Ronald Erwin McNair (fecha y lugar de nacimiento: 21 de octubre de 1950 en Lake City, Carolina del Sur; fallecido el 28 de enero de 1986 en la tragedia del Challenger) fue saxofonista y astronauta de la NASA. En 1967 se gradu\u00f3 de la Preparatoria\u2026 \u2026 Enciclopedia Universal\nRonald Erwin McNair \u2014 Ronald McNair Land (Beh\u00f6rde): USA (NASA) Datum der Auswahl: 16. Januar 1978 (8. NASA Gruppe) Anzahl der Raumfl\u00fcge: 1, dazu STS 51 L Start erster Raumflug \u2026 Deutsch Wikipedia\nMcNair \u2014 can refer to: Contents 1 Ships 2 Places 3 People 4 Other 5 See also \u2026 Wikipedia\nRonald E. McNair \u2014 Ronald McNair Astronaute Nationalit\u00e9 am\u00e9ricain Naissance 21 octobre 1950 (Lake City, Caroline du Sud, \u00c9tats Unis) D\u00e9c\u00e8s \u2026 Wikip\u00e9dia en Fran\u00e7ais\nRonald Erwin McNair \u2014 Ronald E. McNair Ronald McNair Astronaute Nationalit\u00e9 am\u00e9ricain Naissance 21 octobre 1950 (Lake City, Caroline du Sud, \u00c9tats Unis) D\u00e9c\u00e8s \u2026 Wikip\u00e9dia en Fran\u00e7ais\nRonald Mc Nair \u2014 Ronald E. McNair Ronald McNair Astronaute Nationalit\u00e9 am\u00e9ricain Naissance 21 octobre 1950 (Lake City, Caroline du Sud, \u00c9tats Unis) D\u00e9c\u00e8s \u2026 Wikip\u00e9dia en Fran\u00e7ais\nMcNair (crater) \u2014 Coordinates 35\u00b042\u2032S 147\u00b018\u2032W \/ 35.7\u00b0S 147.3\u00b0W \/ \u2026 Wikipedia","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
+{"text":"More Treats\nPurrks\nFind a Fear Free Pro\nHow Dogs Learn to Detect COVID-19\nSandra Murphy December 21, 2020\nA dog's nose is a wondrous thing. He has the ability to separate breathing from smelling, to exhale without blocking incoming air and scents, and to use each side of his nose separately to determine the source of an odor. Paired with a remarkable scent memory, dogs can learn to sniff out cancer, diabetes, tuberculosis, malaria, and now COVID-19, from smell alone.\nThe Army's Combat Capabilities Development Command Chemical Biological Center in Aberdeen Proving Ground, Maryland, is working with the University of Pennsylvania School of Veterinary Medicine Working Dog Center, to prove dogs can provide COVID test results faster and with more accuracy than current methods. Training takes six to nine weeks for an already scent-trained dog and three to six months for a dog who needs to learn the basics before moving on to more advanced sniffing. To begin, dogs learn to choose between containers with samples of saliva, urine, sweat, or sebum, the oily substance on skin, from a symptomatic COVID-19 patient, an asymptomatic patient, or someone who doesn't have the virus. Some containers are empty, and some contain a tennis ball or food as a distraction test. Dogs who respond successfully are rewarded with a favorite toy or treat.\nThe University of Pennsylvania's School of Veterinary Medicine uses virus samples from the University of Pennsylvania and the Children's Hospital of Philadelphia. Dogs learn to alert to biomarkers associated with a human body's reaction to COVID rather than the virus itself. In samples, the live virus is deactivated for the safety of dogs, handlers, and research staff.\nIn March, Dominique Grandjean, a professor at the Veterinary School of Alfort, France, working with the international research team he leads, began to COVID-train 16 experienced detection dogs using positive reinforcement techniques (the dogs received a toy every time they correctly alerted). Each dog, sniffing between four and ten samples, required less than a day to memorize the specific COVID-positive sample odor. In a study published December 10 on PLOS ONE, researchers note that in a context where there is a lack of diagnostic tests available to perform mass detection of COVID, dog olfactory detection could be a rapid, reliable and inexpensive way to pre-screen people or perform rapid checking if necessary.\nThe London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, partnering with the nonprofit Medical Detection Dogs, created a government-funded study to train half a dozen bio-detection dogs to provide a fast, effective, and non-invasive diagnostic. On a grand scale, they can be deployed to large gatherings and ports of entry to detect infected people.\nCurrent rapid response tests provide results in five minutes; a dog knows the answer in seconds, with higher than 90 percent accuracy, and can screen up to 250 people per hour.\nWorking Around the World\nThe Helsinki airport in Finland has four sniffer dogs who can detect the virus in less than 10 seconds and are nearly 100 percent accurate.\nAt the University of Adelaide in Australia, human sweat is used to train dogs to alert even before symptoms appear\nIn Dubai, United Arab Emirates, dogs are used as backup testing for airline passengers who have proof of a negative result. A swab is used to take a sample of armpit sweat. The dog sniffs the swab, not the person. About 10 percent of arriving passengers are randomly tested.\nIn partnership with 27 Health, BioScent K9, a Manatee County nonprofit in Myakka, Florida, started training Beagles and Beagle-Basset mixes. Known for their super-sniffers, they'll be used in schools, stadium lines, and public areas. Once the dog alerts, a saliva test using 27 Health's device will be given, providing immediate results, doubly confirmed. The adult dogs in the program will be ready to work early next year.\nWhy Aren't There More Sniffer Dogs?\nThere aren't enough trained dogs and handlers to sample-sniff everyone. Training a dog for two or three months is an expensive endeavor. Specialized equipment is needed. And not all dogs are suited for the intense work.\nSamples from COVID patients, both symptomatic and asymptomatic require special handling. It's still unknown if COVID exposure could affect dogs or if the dog could carry the virus person-to-person in crowds such as concerts or conventions. Erring on the side of caution, dogs are generally in a separate area to test samples.\nSome people are afraid of dogs, allergic, or have a religious reason to avoid them.\nTechnicians in diagnostic laboratories don't need to worry about dogs replacing them, but canine COVID sniffers are an important aid to disease detection.\nThis article was reviewed\/edited by board-certified veterinary behaviorist Dr. Kenneth Martin and\/or veterinary technician specialist in behavior Debbie Martin, LVT.\nSandra Murphy lives in St. Louis, Missouri, with Ozzie, a Westie-ish dog and Louie, a tuxedo cat. Both are ridiculously spoiled. She is a freelance writer about all animals, eco-friendly topics, and oddball notions. She's edited two fiction anthologies, A Murder of Crows, crime stories involving animals, and Peace, Love, and Crime: Crime Stories Inspired by the Music of the '60s. 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+{"text":"The ''Addams Family'' theme\nThe ''Addams Family'' theme -- The famous song almost didn't make it into the new movie\nBy Andy Marx\nUpdated October 18, 1991 at 04:00 AM EDT\nWhat's the most famous four-note musical phrase of all time? If you said the opening to Beethoven's Fifth, try again. The honor could arguably go to the catchy, literally finger-snapping theme song from the eccentrically eerie '60s sitcom, The Addams Family. Even so, according to its composer, the well-known melody almost didn't make it into Paramount's eagerly awaited upcoming Christmas film version of The Addams Family, starring Anjelica Huston as Morticia, Raul Julia as Gomez, and Christopher Lloyd as Uncle Fester.\nVeteran film and television composer Vic Mizzy, who wrote the anthem back in 1964, contacted the filmmakers last November about using his music but claims they had no interest. \"The music is the thing that's most associated with The Addams Family,\" says Mizzy, \"so I was a little surprised they weren't planning on using it.\"\nThe filmmakers felt Mizzy's cool riff didn't fit their ultracreepy comedy. \"The movie is much darker than the TV show,\" says composer Marc Shaiman (Misery, City Slickers), who's scoring the film, \"and it needs a different style of music.\" But after the enthusiastic reception given this summer to the Addams Family trailer \u2014 which used the theme from the TV show to create immediate audience identification \u2014 producer Scott Rudin changed his tune. Mizzy's original will now be heard at the beginning of the movie. \"If you have something that's so recognizable,\" Rudin says, \"why fly in the face of what the audience is expecting?\"\nIn what might be the ultimate tribute, Hammer (until recently M.C.) has written \"The Addams Family Groove\" for the soundtrack, a cut that samples the Mizzy original and will play during the end titles.\nPerhaps sensing an Addams Family revival in the making, RCA Records is rereleasing the television Addams Family soundtrack on Oct. 22, featuring an additional track: the vocal version of the theme, sung by Mizzy himself.","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
+{"text":"It was in summer 2003 that tINI started playing frequently in clubs and events in and around Munich. First DJ appearances throughout Europe and her first own nights and residencies followed soon.\nIn 2008 tINI joined Desolat and the Artist Alife family, after she caught attention of Loco Dice during few performances at the same spots. No doubt this was an initial spark. Becoming a constant part of the worldwide Desolat nights by that time, her profile assumed shape, while more and more clubs became aware of the curly haired talent with that powerful, vivid temper, who intuitionally knows how to enchant her crowd whether during smart-building warm-up or igniting main-time sessions.\n\"That's right\", her production debut on the Desolat X Sampler in 2009, became a timeless groove monster with high profile DJs worldwide and a perfect proof that future is looking bright for this grand dame of deep twisted tech funk.\nResidencies for Ibiza's original Ushuaia, London's in-demand \"Fuse\" events and Cocorico in Italy plus being the official tour support for Marco Carola on his worldwide album presentation were just a few highlights of recent months.\nThe most significant highlight of this unique career has been saved for autumn 2011, when her debut artist album gets released on her label homebase Desolat.\nAs tINI's life is ruled by magic moments and deep acquaintanceships, her first longplayer has been named after her best friend \"Tessa\", who was the first person to introduce her to the colourful, sometimes dreamlike world of Ibiza, where tINI spent the summer of 2010 and produced a majority of her album. It's a musical documentation of an influencing stage of life, inspired by a chaotic but at the same time peaceful island and special people she met there and who can even be heard in many of the tracks.","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
+{"text":"You are at:Home\u00bbETF Strategist Channel\u00bbShould One Just Buy the Index?\nETF Strategist Channel\nShould One Just Buy the Index?\nRod Smyth, RiverFront Investment Group March 14, 2017\nBy Rod Smyth, RiverFront Investment Group\nIn our view, this is one of the most asked and most relevant questions in investing and has been for decades. It sounds like a simple \"active versus passive\" debate (on which we present some data), but through follow-up questions to those who have asked us, right now many are really asking, \"Should one just buy the S&P 500 instead of this diversified global portfolio, which has had lower returns for the last six years\"?\nThis week we will try to answer both questions. Before doing so, we want to stress that, in our view, an index is only a piece of the investment puzzle, so we think the bigger question is: which index (there are many indexes and construction methodologies), and what portion of assets should be invested in it? As we have said before, an index does not solve the puzzle of how to divide one's savings between cash, stocks, and bonds, to name just three.\nWe are users of index funds as a part of an active management strategy because we recognize that in strong up-trending markets they are hard to beat (see chart below). However, because they offer no downside protection and no advice, in strong down-trending markets, they offer no peace of mind and no risk mitigation, in our view. We want to shout, \"Where were the advocates of index funds in 2010, following the \"lost decade\" for stocks, when the S&P 500 fell from 1400 to 1100 over the prior 10 years\"? In our experience, enthusiasm for passive investment increases after strong bull markets such as the late 1990's and the last couple of years. We are cautious about excessive enthusiasm for the S&P 500 following a 9 year period (Feb 2009-Feb 2017) that has seen the index compound at nearly 18% per annum. Our chart below shows that long-tenured active large-cap managers have tended to achieve performance above the S&P 500 when the S&P 500 experienced lower returns. We interpret this data to suggest that if returns moderate, as we expect, then the pendulum will swing back in favor of active management. Past performance is no guarantee of future results.\nSource: AMG Funds, Morningstar. For more information on the chart above, please see AMG Funds, \"When Active Management Matters Most\", dated June 2016. From report, \"The above chart plots median actively managed large-cap funds, with manager tenure of greater than 10 years (longest-tenured portfolio manager), annualized three-year rolling returns (with a quarterly frequency) over the 20-year period ending March 31, 2016 against the S&P 500 Index returns. Dark gray plot points indicate periods of outperformance and orange plot points represent underperformance. The distance of the points from the diagonal line indicates the degree of over- or underperformance. The fund category used is the Morningstar large-cap universe, including growth, value, and blend categories. Performance is net of fees. Past performance is no guarantee of future results.\" The above is provided for illustrative purposes only and not intended as an investment recommendation.\nThe chart on page 1 needs further explanation. The horizontal grey line represents the index return for annualized 3-year rolling returns over a 20-year period ending in March 2016. The dots represent the average return of a group of large-cap active managers (with manager tenure of more than 10 years) compiled by Morningstar. When the dots are above the horizontal grey line, the active group, net of fees, has outperformed versus the grey line. We see two main messages in this data. First, out of 15 rolling 3-year periods that were negative, active outperformed in 14 of them; but, in all 10 periods when returns were above 18%, the index did better. In the middle, active also has done slightly better. This reinforces the idea that an index is a momentum vehicle, in which a stock's weighting is simply a function of the success of its share price and a value judgment plays no part in an index. As a result, a manager who is making value judgments often struggles in strong-trending markets when 'overvalued' stocks get more overvalued. Our second observation is how tightly bunched the dots are, which stresses our point about asset allocation. It certainly seems from this data that the decision between active and passive has been less important than a judgment about future returns, as the range of 3-year outcomes over this 20-year period has been very wide, from -15% to +30%.\nStudying the history of market cycles shows us that, in every major cycle that we have studied around the world, investors' emotions frequently cause them to react to performance: selling after market declines (especially big ones) and buying following market advances, especially long persistent gains \u2013 the opposite of buying low and selling high. Our chart below shows the relative performance of the US versus the rest of the world. Over time, they have performed similarly but in cycles. You can clearly see the most recent cycle of US underperformance from 2002-2007 and outperformance since 2011. Following 6 years of outperformance by the US, we think now is the wrong time to abandon a global strategy, as US stocks are close to their highest relative level in the last 20 years.\nThe weekly chart: last 6 years has driven the Us close to relative high\nSource: Thomson Reuters Datastream, RiverFront Investment Group. Past performance is no guarantee of future results. Please see below for important disclosure information. The above is provided for illustrative purposes only and not intended as an investment recommendation.\nRod Smyth is the Chief Investment Strategist at RiverFront Investment Group, a participant in the ETF Strategist Channel.\nImportant Disclosure Information\nPast results are no guarantee of future results and no representation is made that a client will or is likely to achieve positive returns, avoid losses, or experience returns similar to those shown or experienced in the past.","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
+{"text":"Financial And Forex Info | Kitco New York Close Report\nNew York Market Close Feb 24\/11 05:20 PM EST\nat February 24, 2011 No comments: Links to this post\nLabels: Financial And Forex Info | Kitco New York Close Report\nNYT: Afternoon Business News: Foreign Investment Ebbs in India\nForeign Investment Ebbs in India\nBy VIKAS BAJAJ\nDirect investment in India fell more than 31 percent last year, and corruption and bureaucracy are being blamed.\nOil Prices Ease as Wall Street Wanders\nBy CHRISTINE HAUSER\nOil prices continued to rally, pushing stocks lower in Europe and Asia amid fears that unrest could spread to other major Middle East producers.\nG.M. Reports an Annual Profit, Its First Since 2004\nBy NICK BUNKLEY\nGeneral Motors said it earned $4.7 billion in 2010, and that union workers would receive profit-sharing checks of $4,300, the most in the automaker's history.\nToyota Recalls 2.2 Million Vehicles 11:05 AM ET\nInquiry Threatens Volkswagen-Porsche Merger 9:02 AM ET\nInvestigation Puts Porsche-Volkswagen Merger at Risk\nBy CHRIS V. NICHOLSON\nPorsche says that its merger with Volkswagen may be at risk after German prosecutors expanded the scope of their inquiry into the company.\nToyota Recalls 2 Million Vehicles Over Gas Pedal Issues\nThe latest recalls are intended to address accelerator pedals that could become entrapped in floor mats or jammed in driver's side carpeting.\n\u2022 More Business News \u00bb\nLabels: NYT: Afetrnoon Business News\nFinancial And Forex Info | Reuters - Daily Investor Update: Late rebound on oil drop shows bulls still kicking\nLate rebound on oil drop shows bulls still kicking\nNEW YORK (Reuters) - Bruised but not bowed, bulls staged a rebound on Thursday and helped stocks stabilize in a volatile session suggesting investors aren't ready to give up on the market's rally. | Full Article\nOil falls from near $120 on Saudi, Gaddafi rumor\nFebruary 24, 2011 03:31 PM ET\nNEW YORK (Reuters) - Oil dropped sharply from 2-1\/2 year highs near $120 a barrel on Thursday following Saudi Arabia's assures it could fill any Libyan supply shortfalls and unsubstantiated trade rumors Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi had been shot. | Full Article\nGM shares at post-IPO low, oil risk trumps profit\nDETROIT (Reuters) - General Motors Co posted fourth-quarter results that topped Wall Street expectations, but its shares fell below their IPO price as investor concerns shifted to the pressure from rising oil prices and higher costs of launching and selling new cars. | Full Article\nToyota recalls 2.2 million more autos; U.S. ends probe\nDETROIT\/WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Toyota Motor Corp said on Thursday it was recalling nearly 2.2 million vehicles over the risk that the accelerator pedal could be trapped by loose or misplaced carpet on the driver's side. | Full Article\nFed's Bullard says it's time to debate completing QE2\nBOWLING GREEN, Kentucky (Reuters) - A senior U.S. Federal Reserve official said on Thursday he thinks it is time to consider tapering off or scaling back a $600 billion bond-buying program because of an improved economic outlook. | Full Article\nLabels: Financial And Forex Info | Reuters Daily Investor Update\nFinancial And forex Info | The Australian Business Briefing: Wall St pares losses as oil retreats\nUpdate for Fri Feb 25 08:42:32 EST 2011\nWall St pares losses as oil retreats\nUPDATED Donna Kardos Yesalavich US stocks suffered their third-straight decline today but they managed to pare steep losses late in the session as the oil price retreated.\nOil price slips as supply fears ease\nJerry A. DiColo OIL prices retreated sharply from a fresh two-and-a-half year high today, as US and other officials eased concerns about supplies.\nIndustry slams Gillard's carbon call\nMatt Chambers and Annabel Hepworth THE nation's biggest manufacturers have accused Julia Gillard of failing to consult business on plans to introduce a carbon price next year.\nNewmont profit polished by gold price\nMatt Whittaker NEWMONT Mining's fourth-quarter profit jumped 46 per cent, capping a year of record-setting revenue as gold prices climbed to historic highs.\nIron ore junior breaks stranglehold\nAndrew Burrell ANDREW Forrest has issued a fresh challenge to BHP and Rio by allowing a junior miner to export iron ore using his company's railway and port.\nEnd of the road for RiverCity Motorway\nTracy Lee and Nabila Ahmed QUEENSLAND'S second largest toll road project has failed as RiverCity Motorway collapsed yesterday owing $1.3 billion.\nVoelte expects a quick exit\nMatt Chambers DEPARTING Woodside chief Don Voelte expects to step down before his $14 billion Pluto LNG project is in production.\nUBS probes trading floor scrap\nScott Murdoch UBS will today decide on the future of its two star traders involved in a fight on the investment bank's busy trading room floor this week.\nGold price edges up as rally slows\nFinancial Markets Coverage\nMore Mining & Energy Coverage\nLabels: Financial And Forex Info | the Australian Business Briefing\nFinancial And Forex Info: The Australian Capital Circle: Battlelines drawn on carbon price\nBattlelines drawn on carbon price\nJulia Gillard has bought the fight by announcing she will price carbon - and Tony Abbott is ready for that fight.\nThe PM's day, per the press office: Julia Gillard has begun her day with a pair of radio interviews on the ABC and then 2GB with a fired up Alan Jones. The Jones interview got off to a bad start, with the radio host upbraiding Ms Gillard for running late before telling the PM people now called her \"Jul-liar, not Julia\" for announcing a plan to put a price on carbon.\nIn a 20 minute grilling Ms Gillard gave as good as she got, telling Mr Jones that she had not misled Australians about a carbon price, that Tony Abbott's claim of a $300 impost on families were simply wrong and that pricing carbon was the right thing to do.\nLater today she will be appear at the Australian National University in Canberra to continue the sell on her plan to price carbon.\nTony Abbott flew to Brisbane last night. He will visit flood-hit small businesses today and has also hit the airwaves to begin his campaign against Ms Gillard's proposed carbon tax, which he says will cost the average family $300.\n***Sign up to Capital Circle -- news from the beltway to your inbox***\nTo the battlements: The Australian leads with a three column splash, reporting that Julia Gillard is determined to tax carbon from July 1 next year but faces months of tense negotiations with the Greens over industry compensation and a fierce scare campaign from Tony Abbott on rising electricity and petrol prices. (more from Sid Maher)\nThe Sydney Morning Herald headlines \"Green light for tax on carbon\" with a report from Lenore Taylor, the Daily Telegraph leads with \"$300 carbon tax bill'' and a report from Simon Benson and Alison Rehn, while the Financial Review leads with \"PM gambles on 2012 carbon price\" and a report from Marcus Priest and Laura Tingle\nLabels: Financial And Forex Info: The Australian Capital Circle\nPolitics this week Feb 24th 2011 From The Economist print edition\nMuammar Qaddafi, the ruler of Libya, deployed tanks and fighter jets in an attempt to put down a popular uprising, ignited by street protests, that started in the east of the country and spread to Tripoli, the capital. Rebels held large swathes of territory after taking heavy losses estimated to be at least 1,000 killed and many more injured. The UN Security Council demanded an end to the violence. See article\nThe open defiance of protesters against authoritarian government in the Middle East spread to Morocco and Iraqi Kurdistan. See article In Bahrain the royal family ordered harsh force to be used against the demonstrators, killing several. But after heavy criticism it relented and vowed to work towards political reform. See article\nIn Egypt the chief prosecutor called for the freezing of assets belonging to Hosni Mubarak, the deposed president. See article\nTwo Iranian warships passed through Egypt's Suez Canal for the first time in more than three decades, en route to Syria. Israel described the ships' presence off the Israeli coast as a \"provocation\".\nPresident Yoweri Museveni of Uganda won re-election with an increased majority. The election was said to be fairer than the one five years ago. See article\nIn the Democratic Republic of Congo a court sentenced Kibibi Mutware, a militia leader, to 20 years in prison for mass rape. Forty-nine women testified against him in the first case of its kind.\nThe presidential stamp\nProsecutors in Brazil started an investigation into Luiz In\u00e1cio Lula da Silva, whose presidential term ended last year, for spending $3.5m of public funds in 2004 to send letters promoting low-interest loans. The prosecutors say the letters had no legitimate purpose and only served to benefit a bank that was subsequently linked to a corruption scandal.\nCuba released seven more political prisoners, bringing the total to 70 freed since last year. One of the released prisoners is refusing, unlike all the others, to go into exile.\nState of the unions\nTens of thousands of union sympathisers from across America converged in Madison, Wisconsin's capital, to protest against a plan by Scott Walker, the new Republican governor, to end collective-bargaining in the public sector. They were met by thousands of tea-party activists. The legislature was unable to form a quorum to debate the issue after Democratic state senators absconded to Illinois. Other states with big deficits are also thinking about curbing worker benefits. Union protests spread to Ohio and Indiana. See article\nIn a surprise turnaround, the Justice Department said it would no longer argue in favour of the Defence of Marriage Act, a law signed by Bill Clinton in 1996 that bars the federal government from recognising same-sex marriage, and that it now considers the act to be unconstitutional. The decision could open the courts to thousands of challenges from gay couples from the handful of states where gay marriage is legal.\nRahm Emanuel cruised to victory in the Chicago mayor's race, picking up 55% of the vote and thereby avoiding a run-off. The second-placed candidate came in some 30 percentage points behind. An immediate problem facing Mr Emanuel when he enters office in May will be the city's budget deficit. See article\nMurky Merkel\nGermany's ruling Christian Democratic Union suffered a heavy defeat in a state election in Hamburg. In a bad week for Angela Merkel her defence minister, Karl-Theodor zu Guttenberg, was embroiled in a plagiarism scandal that forced him to relinquish his doctorate. And after eight weeks of tortuous negotiations, her government agreed on a costly compromise with the opposition over reforms to unemployment benefits and the minimum wage. See article\nThousands of Basques marched in Bilbao in support of allowing the registration of Sortu, a new separatist party. Its predecessor, Batasuna, was outlawed in 2003 for having links to ETA, an armed terror group. Prosecutors want Sortu to be banned, too. See article\nA new government was formed in Kosovo. Parliament elected Hashim Thaci to serve a second term as prime minister, despite allegations linking him to a murder and organ-harvesting scandal after the Kosovo war in 1999.\nA fatal shake\nChristchurch, New Zealand's second-largest city, was devastated by an earthquake and several aftershocks. Scores of people died and hundreds were missing in New Zealand's worst natural disaster for 80 years. Damages were estimated at $6 billion. John Key, the prime minister, said it could turn out to be the country's \"darkest day\". See article\nAn online campaign urged people in Beijing and a dozen other cities in China to heed the example of the \"jasmine revolution\" sweeping the Arab world and to converge in public places to call for political and economic rights. Very few civilians turned up, but police were out in droves and censors banned the word \"jasmine\" from China's microblogs. Activists reported that a number of their leaders were arrested ahead of the protests.\nAfghanistan suffered several suicide-bombings. The most lethal attack killed at least 38 people queuing at a bank in the eastern city of Jalalabad. Others killed dozens in four other cities. Meanwhile, it was alleged that a NATO-led operation had resulted in the deaths of 64 civilians in Kunar province. An outgoing UN official said that security is \"at its lowest point\" in Afghanistan since 2001. See article\nThe governments of Thailand and Cambodia agreed to let the Association of South-East Asian Nations send military observers to a disputed area along their border. A recent exchange of fire around the Preah Vihear temple killed at least eight people. The observers will all be Indonesians.\nNearly 2.7m civil servants set out around India to conduct the world's second-largest census. For the first time the census-takers will ask which of three sexes\u2014male, female or \"other\"\u2014the subject belongs to, and record how many Indians have electricity, toilets and permanent dwellings. Caste will also be tallied, in a separate survey. See article\nShanghai announced a one-dog policy, based along the lines of China's one-child law. Owners of the city's many unlicensed pooches insisted the local authorities were hounding them.\nLabels: Politics this week Feb 24th 2011 From The Economist print edition\nBusiness this week Feb 24th 2011 From The Economist print edition\nThe political strife in Libya caused oil prices to soar. Brent crude traded at well above $115 a barrel in London and West Texas Intermediate at around $100 in New York. Investors turned to precious metals as a haven, helping to push up the price of silver to a 31-year high. See article\nIn C\u00f4te d'Ivoire the internationally recognised winner of November's disputed presidential election extended a ban he has imposed on cocoa exports from his country, in an effort to make the incumbent president stand aside. Cocoa stocks are piling up in ports, increasing the chance of the beans decaying. There was more violence in the west African country this week.\nApple's board of directors was challenged by investors at the annual general meeting to reveal the succession plan it has drawn up to replace Steve Jobs should the chief executive not return from medical leave. In a vote shareholders backed the board, which argues that disclosing the plan now would only help competitors. Mr Jobs did not attend the meeting.\nThe bottom dollar\nWal-Mart reported another poor quarter in America, with revenue dipping again from stores that have been open for at least a year. Sales from the retailer's international business, which accounts for around a quarter of its profit, boosted its overall results. Wal-Mart is facing stout competition at home from the spread of discount chains that offer even-cheaper goods to consumers who feel particularly cash-strapped.\nMaking good on its recent undertaking to conduct more of its business in emerging markets, BP bought a stake in the maritime natural-gas assets owned by India's Reliance Industries. Potentially worth around $9 billion, the deal is one of the biggest-ever foreign investments in India.\nBHP Billiton boosted its energy portfolio by agreeing to pay $4.8 billion for shale-gas assets in Arkansas. The mining company earns a fifth of its profit from oil and gas resources.\nHuawei, China's biggest maker of telecoms equipment, reversed course and accepted the recommendation of the Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States that it revoke its acquisition of assets owned by 3Leaf, an American technology company. Huawei had already bought the assets, but officials at the Pentagon asked the CFIUS, which considers the national-security implications of takeovers, for its opinion. If Huawei had persisted, the White House would have had to rule on the deal.\nAlibaba's chief executive and chief operating officer both resigned after taking responsibility for a scandal at the Chinese e-commerce website, in which some 2,300 online dealers conned their customers. The sellers had used fake documents to set up their businesses on the site, allegedly with the help of a small number of Alibaba staff. See article\nHP's share price fell sharply after it delivered a weaker-than-expected set of quarterly earnings that showed sales declining in the company's IT services and personal-computing businesses. HP shaved $1.5 billion from its revenue target for the year.\nA judge in Manhattan ruled that the sale of Lehman Brothers' American business to Barclays in 2008, shortly after the investment bank's spectacular collapse, was in order, throwing out a claim from Lehman creditors that they were entitled to an $11 billion \"windfall\" from the deal. It was widely expected that the creditors would lose their case.\nMeanwhile, there was another political fuss in Britain over the activities of big banks when Barclays was forced to reveal that it had paid just \u00a3113m ($176m) in British corporation tax in 2009, equivalent to 2.5% of its global pre-tax profit that year. Barclays coughed up more than \u00a32 billion in other British taxes in 2009, mostly in payroll-tax contributions, but, as with other banks, was able to reduce its corporate-tax liability in Britain by offsetting bad-debt charges it took during the financial crisis.\nCarrots and sticks\nAn experiment conducted by the Nottingham School of Economics suggested that the payment of bonuses to workers did not encourage greater effort, and actually led to more shirking. But when penalties are introduced for slacking, worker efficiency is enhanced, reducing shirking by half.\nJoseph Flom, a legendary lawyer who participated in many of the big hostile takeovers of the 1970s and 1980s, died at the age of 87. Mr Flom's clients included T. Boone Pickens, James Goldsmith and Ron Perelman. His services were sometimes retained by companies as a defence against those corporate raiders. A poor boy from Brooklyn, Mr Flom entered Harvard Law School without having earned an undergraduate degree.\nLabels: The Economist print edition\nMarketWatch: personal finance Daily: Are the markets overbought and overvalued?\nPersonal Finance Daily\nThursday's Personal Finance Stories\nBy MarketWatch\nDon't miss these top stories:\nAre the markets overbought and overvalued?\nDrug plans stick some patients with steep costs\nHigh-wage industries trailing on new jobs\nFive ETFs that need to die\nDo the volatility in the equity markets and global political turmoil represent a buying opportunity or are they a signal to lighten up on your stock exposure? In his Your Portfolio column today, Robert Powell examines the pros and cons with Christopher Pavese, a chartered financial analyst and chief investment officer of Broyhill Asset Management. Pavese's take? He said the current market is reminiscent of two other times in history when we've had \"Monster Rallies,\" where the markets doubled in short period of time and then fell.\nAlso in today's Personal Finance coverage, Kristen Gerencher looks at insurance tiers that stick some patients with staggering out-of-pocket costs for specialty drugs \u2014 and the efforts by some states to limit those costs.\n\u2014 Anne Stanley , Managing Editor \/ Personal Finance\nBuying opportunity? To some, that's what the recent turmoil in the world and in the equity markets, including this week's declines in the Dow industrials, means. To others, it's further evidence of the need to go light on stocks.\nRead more: Are the markets overbought and overvalued?\nInsurance companies' tiered drug plans force some patients to pay steep out-of-pocket costs for their medications, but a proposed law in California aims to change that practice.\nRead more: Drug plans stick some patients with steep costs.\nRate on 30-year fixed mortgage dips below 5%\nThe average rate on 30-year fixed-rate mortgages dips below 5% this week, according to Freddie Mac's weekly survey of conforming mortgage rates, released on Thursday.\nRead more: Rate on 30-year fixed mortgage dips.\nNew-home sales fall 12.6% in January\nSevere winter weather and an expiring tax break in California have led to volatility in the data.\nRead more: New home sales fall in January.\nGM posts fourth-quarter, full-year profits\nThe auto maker ends its seven-year losing streak, posting an annual profit after earning $510 million in the fourth quarter.\nRead more: GM posts profits.\nWhen will gold hit a new high?\nGold's lackluster trading early Thursday indicates to some that bullion will now fail in its attempt to surpass its early-December high.\nRead more: When will gold hit a new high?\nOil, Mideast still stump U.S. 30 years later\nThe latest events in the Middle East mirror what we went through three decades ago, and politicians should be worried, writes Kathleen Madigan.\nRead more: Oil, Mideast still stump U.S.\nDecade's top performer is a hard-assets bull\nThe decade's top performer is a hard-assets bull \u2014 and he says the Middle East mess, and much else, means there's more to come, writes Peter Brimelow.\nRead more: Decade's top performer is a hard-assets bull.\nApple and investors in an awkward dance\nApple and its shareholders disagree on how to handle its CEO succession strategy, an uncomfortable but vital topic that is making everyone uneasy.\nRead more: Apple and investors in an awkward dance.\nExchange-traded funds are both a blessing and the curse for individual investors these days, writes Jeff Reeves.\nRead more: Five ETFs that need to die.\nECONOMY AND POLITICS\nState woes won't put brakes on recovery\nAggressive spending cuts by states such as Wisconsin and California are likely to trim U.S. growth in 2011, but the potential drag would be far too small to sidetrack the recovery, economists say.\nRead more: State woes won't put brakes on recovery.\nThe 'big dog' is in a big fight\nPowerful public-worker union AFSCME is in one of the biggest fights in the union's history, and union officials are claiming it's in the crosshairs of Republicans for its aggressive support of Democrats.\nRead more: The 'big dog' is in a big fight.\nFilings for U.S. jobless benefits drop to 391,000\nNew applications for jobless benefits fall by 22,000 last week, below what's regarded as a key level for determining whether the U.S. labor market is improving or not.\nRead more: Filings for U.S. jobless benefits drop.\nat February 24, 2011 4 comments: Links to this post\nLabels: . MarketWatch Personal Finance Daily\nThe Washington Post Afternoon Edition: Today's Most Read Opinion Columns: Jay Carney: Mouthpiece for an inscrutable White House\n1) Jay Carney: Mouthpiece for an inscrutable White House\nObama's new press secretary can't say much.\n2) Rush Limbaugh binges on anti-Michelle Obama vitriol\nRush Limbaugh has no right to chew away at Michelle Obama on nutrition.\n3) In the Middle East protests, a seismic shift\nUltimately, Obama needs a new strategy to respond to Arab unrest.\n4) Can Chris Christie handle the truth?\nThe N.J. governor could learn a thing about fiscal truth-telling from Mitch Daniels.\n5) Why was President Obama last to speak up on Libya?\nONCE AGAIN, an Arab dictator is employing criminal violence in a desperate effort to remain in power - and once again, the Obama administration has been slow to find its voice. This time, the tyrant is one of the Middle East's most evil men - Moammar Gaddafi, whose regime has staged spectacular...\n6) The big reveal: Who Rahm Emanuel really is\nAs Chicago mayor, he'll have to show his true politics.\n7) For the Mideast, a code for rising democracies\nThe Mideast needs a standard to separate democracy devotees from abusers.\n8) Are the Mideast revolutions bad for women's rights?\nOn Friday, Egyptians again gathered in Cairo's Tahrir Square, this time in a victory celebration, one week after their revolution unseated President Hosni Mubarak. Tunisians have also been sampling new freedoms of speech and press along a boulevard that is no longer a war zone. But even as the ex...\n9) President Obama's risky rejection of the Defense of Marriage Act\nPRESIDENT OBAMA and Attorney General Eric H. Holder Jr. declared on Wednesday that the Justice Department would no longer be an advocate for the indefensible - a law that relegates the nation's gay and lesbian citizens to second-class status.\n10) Out of Wisconsin, a lesson in leadership for Obama\nThe Wisconsin governor's comportment in the budget crisis makes three things clear.\nLabels: The Washington Post Afternoon Edition - Most Read Opinion Columns\nFinancial And forex Info | SRS: W. P. Carey Announces Fourth Quarter and Year-End 2010 Financial Results\nW. P. Carey Announces Fourth Quarter and Year-End 2010 Financial Results\nNew York, NY \u2013 February 24, 2011 \u2013 Investment firm W. P. Carey & Co. LLC (NYSE: WPC) today reported financial results for the fourth quarter and year-ended December 31, 2010.\nDownload the accompanying tables for W. P. Carey's fourth quarter and year-end 2010 financial results here.\nQUARTERLY AND YEAR-END RESULTS\nFunds from operations\u2014as adjusted (AFFO) for the fourth quarter of 2010 was $36.3 million or $0.90 per diluted share, compared to $33.7 million or $0.83 per diluted share for the fourth quarter of 2009. AFFO for the year ended December 31, 2010 was $130.9 million or $3.27 per diluted share, compared to $122.9 million or $3.09 per diluted share for 2009.\nCash flow from operating activities for the year ended December 31, 2010 was $86.4 million, compared to $74.5 million for 2009, while adjusted cash flow from operating activities was $88.6 million for 2010, compared to $93.9 million for 2009.\nTotal revenues net of reimbursed expenses for the fourth quarter of 2010 were $68.3 million, compared to $48.5 million for the fourth quarter of 2009. Total revenues net of reimbursed expenses for the year ended December 31, 2010 were $213.9 million, compared to $184.8 million in 2009. Reimbursed expenses are excluded from total revenues because they have no impact on net income.\nNet Income for the fourth quarter of 2010 was $19.8 million, compared to $23 million for the same period in 2009. For the year ended December 31, 2010, net income was $74 million, compared to $69 million for 2009. Results from operations in our investment management segment were significantly higher in 2010, primarily due to a higher volume of investments structured on behalf of the CPA\u00ae REITs and lower impairment charges recognized by the CPA\u00ae REITs.\nFor the year ended December 31, 2010, we received approximately $16.6 million in cash distributions from our equity ownership in the CPA\u00ae REITs.\nFurther information concerning AFFO and adjusted cash flow from operating activities\u2014non-GAAP supplemental performance metrics\u2014is presented in the accompanying tables and related notes.\nINVESTMENT ACTIVITY\nInvestment volume for the year ended December 31, 2010 on behalf of the CPA\u00ae REITs and for our own portfolio totaled approximately $1.1 billion, or double last year's volume of approximately $548 million. International investments comprised 43% of total investments during 2010, compared to 36% in 2009, and we expect that international transactions will continue to form a significant portion of the investments we structure.\nWe closed approximately $593 million in investments on behalf of the CPA\u00ae REITs in the fourth quarter of 2010. These investments involved forty-seven facilities containing approximately five million square feet in the U.S., Canada, Croatia, China and Spain.\nWe continue to raise investor capital through our latest CPA\u00ae REIT offering, CPA\u00ae:17\u2013 Global, so that we may take advantage of attractive investment opportunities that we believe are afforded by the current market environment. To date, CPA\u00ae:17 \u2013 Global has raised more than $1.4 billion in its initial offering. CPA\u00ae:17 \u2013 Global has filed a registration statement with the SEC for a follow-on offering of up to an additional $1 billion of common stock.\nCarey Watermark Investors commenced its initial public offering of up to $1 billion of common stock, the proceeds of which will be used to acquire interests in lodging and lodging-related properties.\nW. P. Carey is the advisor to the CPA\u00ae REITs, which had real estate assets of $8.5 billion and total assets of $8.8 billion as of December 31, 2010.\nAs of December 31, 2010, the occupancy rate of W. P. Carey's 14 million square foot owned portfolio was approximately 89%. In addition, for the 99 million square feet owned by the CPA\u00ae REITs, the average occupancy rate was approximately 97%.\nPROPOSED MERGER OF CPA\u00ae:14 AND CPA\u00ae:16 \u2013 GLOBAL\nAs previously disclosed, on December 13, 2010 two of the CPA\u00ae REITs we manage, CPA\u00ae:14 and CPA\u00ae:16 \u2013 Global, entered into a definitive agreement pursuant to which CPA\u00ae:14 will merge with and into a subsidiary of CPA\u00ae:16 \u2013 Global, subject to shareholder approval and other closing conditions. If the merger is approved and the other closing conditions are satisfied, we currently expect that the closing will occur in the second quarter of 2011, although there can be no assurance of such timing.\nThe Board of Directors raised the quarterly cash distribution to $0.510 per share for the fourth quarter of 2010. The distribution\u2014our 39th consecutive quarterly increase\u2014was paid on January 14, 2011 to shareholders of record as of December 31, 2010.\nCommenting on the 2010 results, W. P. Carey President and CEO Trevor Bond noted, \"With more than $1 billion in transactions completed and record fundraising of nearly $600 million, 2010 was one of our most successful years. These acquisitions have added to the geographic and industry diversity of our portfolios, and we believe we can build on this momentum in 2011. Although we're seeing new competitors entering the net lease market, we believe that our leading position in the sector combined with our seasoned acquisitions, asset management and capital-raising teams will allow us to source and execute on opportunities and maintain the risk-return profile that has been the hallmark of our CPA\u00ae programs. As global economics improve, we believe the demand for long-term capital to fund corporate growth and expansion will continue and that we are well positioned to grow and expand our own business in this environment.\"\nCONFERENCE CALL & WEBCAST\nPlease call at least 10 minutes prior to call to register.\nTime: Thursday, February 24, 2011 at 11:00 AM (ET)\nCall-in Number: 800-860-2442\n(International) +1-412-858-4600\nWebcast: www.wpcarey.com\/earnings\nPodcast: www.wpcarey.com\/podcast\nAvailable after 2:00 PM (ET)\nReplay Number: 877-344-7529\nReplay Passcode:448255#\nReplay Available until March 11, 2011 at 9:00 AM (ET).\nW. P. Carey & Co. LLC\nW. P. Carey & Co. LLC (NYSE: WPC) is an investment management company that provides long-term financing to companies worldwide via sale leaseback and build to suit transactions and manages a global investment portfolio of approximately $10.5 billion. Through its CPA\u00ae series of income-generating, non-traded REITs, W. P. Carey helps companies and private equity firms unlock capital tied up in real estate assets. The W. P. Carey Group's investments are highly diversified, comprising contractual agreements with approximately 275 long-term corporate obligors spanning 28 industries and 17 countries. http:\/\/www.wpcarey.com\nThis press release contains forward-looking statements within the meaning of the Federal securities laws. A number of factors could cause the Company's actual results, performance or achievement to differ materially from those anticipated. Among those risks, trends and uncertainties are the general economic climate; the supply of and demand for office and industrial properties; interest rate levels; the availability of financing; and other risks associated with the acquisition and ownership of properties, including risks that the tenants will not pay rent, or that costs may be greater than anticipated. For further information on factors that could impact the Company, reference is made to the Company's filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission.\nLabels: Financial And Forex Info: SRS\nEconomist Intelligent Unit: Can big spending save Saudi Arabia?: From our Chief Economist\nFrom our Chief Economist\nThursday February 24th, 2011\nSaudi Arabia's rulers can hardly have failed to notice with alarm the turmoil on their doorstep, and this week the royal family unveiled US$36bn worth of spending packages in an attempt to ensure the population's docility. As our ViewsWire service explains, the rise in global oil prices makes such massive subsidies more affordable, but even so the royal family will struggle to deny its citizens a political voice indefinitely. The dilemma is that offering even modest reforms could undermine the very basis of royal rule.\nIn China, we consider the prospect of revolution of a very different kind. The government wants to boost R&D spending in an effort to make the economy more competitive. This will create opportunities for high\u2013tech foreign companies, but it will also mean a more challenging environment for them in some respects. Also from ViewsWire, we feature a timely article on the progress of the G20's quixotic attempts to rebalance the global economy.\nFrom Risk Briefing, we offer a webcast on the problem of rising global inflation. John Bowler, from our global forecasting team, talks about what's driving this trend and how authorities should respond. Industry Briefing takes a look at India, where a new National Broadband Plan aims to connect around 160m households to broadband services by the end of 2014. Lastly, Executive Briefing looks at how companies can find new customers and connect with young people in fast\u2013growing emerging markets through branding, collaborative innovation and social media.\nHow do these issues affect your business? Please let me know at: robinlbew@eiu.com\nRobin Bew\nSAUDI ARABIA: BEARING GIFTS\nThe king will spend an extra US$36bn, mainly on jobs and housing, to forestall protests at socio\u2013economic ills. This will not quench the thirst for political change.\nCHINA: FROM \"R&C\" TO R&D\nChina is trying to boost research and development in order to move the economy up the value chain. This will attract foreign investors, but will also make life harder for them.\nWORLD: G20 DISAPPOINTMENT\nG20 members have agreed on indicative guidelines for monitoring global economic imbalances, but the deal is unlikely to have much practical impact on policies.\nWORLD: INFLATION ALERT\nOur outlook for the global economy tells a story of continuing recovery, but our inflation forecast has risen from 2.7% to 3.3%. What are the implications?\nINDIA: BROADBAND AMBITION\nIndia's government is planning to invest more than US$13bn to bring fixed\u2013line broadband services to most of the population, even in villages.\nCO\u2013CREATING YOUR BRAND WITH THE UNDER\u201330S\nThe powerful combination of youth, technology and rising consumerism is creating opportunities and challenges for companies looking for their \"next billion\" customers.\nLabels: Economist Intelliget Unit\n\u25bc February 2011 (490)\nFinancial And Forex Info | The Australian Business...\nWSJ: India News - India Real Time: Asia Inflation...\nWSJ: China News - China Real Time Report\nMineweb: Top Stories: Wardrop PA says Alaska's Peb...\nNYT: Morning Business News Why the Disruption of L...\nFinancial And Forex Info: Reuters - Morning Diges...\nThe Washington Post: Today's Highlights: Gaddafi ...\nFinancial And Forex Info: Kitco Hourly Report\nThe Wsahington Post: Wonkbook: One step closer t...\nMining Interactive: Tumi Options 100% of Exciting ...\nFinancial And Forex Info | Reuters Before The Bel...\nManufactured Durable Goods Inncreased in January...\nFinancial And Forex Info | ESA: Revised New Home S...\nFinancial Abd Forex Info News: FDIC Offers Consume...\nEconomist Intelligent Unit: Can big spending save ...\nFinancial And forex Info | SRS: W. 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+{"text":"Kornel Mundruczo on making his English-language debut with 'Pieces Of A Woman'\nBy Geoffrey Macnab2020-09-12T20:00:00+01:00\nHungarian director Korn\u00e9l Mundrucz\u00f3 is in Competition in Venice with his first English-language feature, Pieces Of A Woman, starring Vanessa Kirby and Shia LaBeouf.\nSource: Benjamin Loeb!\nThe $6m feature, made through Bron Studios, is a study of grief. \"Is it possible to survive if you have lost the one you loved the most?\" the director recently wrote, going on to describe Pieces Of A Woman as \"an authentic film about tragedy.\"\nThe drama, which is being sold by Bron Releasing, includes one of the most harrowing, fraught and realistic birth sequences in recent cinema. Martha (Kirby) goes into labour at home, where she has planned a home birth with her partner Sean (LaBeouf). A midwife (Molly Parker) arrives to assist but dangerous complications ensue.\nMundrucz\u00f3 shot the gruelling 25-minute sequence in a single shot. \"There is not even a fake cut. The actors played it in one. My idea is how you create reality for the audience so they exactly feel what the main character feels during the labour,\" the director says.\n\"At the end, we decided just to do one big sequence. Because it is film reality, that amount of time feels like eight hours.\" The director intended the camera to be like a character in the story, \"like the spirit of the lost one,\" as he puts it.\nOne admirer who saw a long rough cut of the movie during the Covid-19 lockdown was Martin Scorsese. Mundrucz\u00f3 reached out to him through Howard Shore, his composer on Pieces Of A Woman who has also scored films for Scorsese including The Departed and Hugo.\n\"I said to Howard, 'Do you think we can ask Marty's view on the movie?' He said, 'Why not try?' So he connected me,\" Mundrucz\u00f3 says. \"[Scorsese] saw the first rough cut and he was so enthusiastic about the movie that he said, 'How can I help?'\"\nScorsese came on board as an executive producer. \"He just encouraged me to follow my vision,\" Mundrucz\u00f3 recalls of the support Scorsese gave him.\nUK actress Kirby, perhaps best known for playing Princess Margaret in the first two seasons of The Crown, was suggested to Mundrucz\u00f3 by his producers, who had already met with her. \"In 24 hours, Vanessa was in Budapest. She read the script, she loved it, she felt so attached to the character.\"\nThe director wanted a \"heavyweight\" to play Martha's partner, with LaBeouf accepting the role. \"When I gave the script to him, I thought, 'Hey Shia, it's not the lead but it's an amazingly important role.' I can't say I was surprised but I was very grateful that he said yes.\"\nAsk Mundrucz\u00f3 why he wanted to leave Europe to shoot an English-language film set in the US and he points partly to disturbing changes in Hungary, where he has made his previous features, including White God and Jupiter's Moon.\n\"My country started to be a little strange; the pressure is growing on free art and how you can keep your independence,\" he says. \"The [political] weather in Hungary is pretty stormy. I am living in Berlin since one and a half years now.\"\nA treatment for Pieces Of A Woman was given first to the Hungarian Film Fund which, Mundrucz\u00f3 says, passed. The writer Kata W\u00e9ber, with whom he collaborates regularly, subsequently wrote a stage version which was performed in Poland. When Mundrucz\u00f3 saw it, he decided he wanted to turn it into a film and attracted the interest of US producer Aaron Ryder.\nIn spite of his foray to the US, Mundrucz\u00f3 maintains close relations with his contacts in the European industry.\n\"I did four movies with Philippe Bober [of Coproduction Office] and I did two movies with The Match Factory and Michael Weber. I love them both. I am still working very closely with Michael. I showed this movie to him and we are going to work together [again].\"\nMundrucz\u00f3 combines his filmmaking career with directing theatre and opera, and much of this work is in Germany. Although the Covid-19 crisis has led to the cancellation and postponement of several of his projects, he has \"two Wagners and a Britten\" lined up for the coming months in Munich, Hamburg and Berlin.\nHe also hopes to work again with Kirby, who he likens to stars from European cinema of the 1960s and 1970s, figures like Hanna Schygulla and Claudia Cardinale. \"She is an amazing, amazing actress. To work with her again would be a pleasure. I had expectations after meeting her but she surprised me every day.\"\nVenice Competition\nIn conversation: 'Apples', 'Beginning' and 'Arracht' directors talk Oscars, dark themes and future projects\nChristos Nikou, Dea Kulumbegashvili and Tom Sullivan - whose films have been submitted for the Oscar - spoke via Zoom.\nBong Joon Ho to lead 2021 Venice international jury\nOscar-winning director of 'Parasite' to serve as international jury president at 78th Venice International Film Festival.\nMy Screen Life: director Amanda Kernell shares her admiration for single parents\n\"That's maybe after making a film about a difficult divorce.\"\nThe unprecedented nature of the year created another significant metric: the March 20-December 31 post lockdown chart.\nA year after Honeyland snagged two Oscar nominations, a number of high-profile documentaries have set their sights on the international film category.\nFrench sales agents talk hot films, EFM plans and Cannes hopes\nUnifrance's Rendez-Vous With French Cinema has been taking place online this week.","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
+{"text":"Page:United States Statutes at Large Volume 61 Part 1.djvu\/102\nThis page needs to be proofread.\nPUBLIC LAWS-CH. 49-MAY 1, 1947 24Stat. 506;36 stat. section 297 of the Act of March 3, 1911 (28 U. S . C . 761), and which 1. were certified to the Eightieth Congress in Senate Document Num- bered 35, and House Document Numbered 132, under the following agencies: United States Maritime Commission, $2,250; Department of Agriculture, $219.75; Department of the Interior, $948.77; Navy Department, $3,627.78; War Department, $8,397.59; In all, $15,443.89; together with an indefinite appropriation to pay interest as specified in such judgments or as provided by law. Right of appea. (f) None of the judgments contained under this caption shall be paid until the right of appeal shall have expired except such as have become final and conclusive against the United States by failure of the parties to appeal or otherwise. (g) Payment of interest wherever provided for judgments con- tained in this Act shall not. in any case continue for more than thirty days after the date of approval of this Act. JUDGMxNTS, UNITED STATES COURT OF CLAIMS SEc. 203. (a) For payment of judgments rendered by the Court of Claims and reported to the Eightieth Congress in Senate Docu- ment Numbered 32, and House Document Numbered 131, under the following agencies, namely: Federal Communications Commission, $161.61; United States Maritime Commission, $50,000; Federal Security Agency, $12,915.66; Federal Works Agency: \"Public Buildings Administration\", $34,029.23; Department of Agriculture, $284.17; Department of Commerce, $1,127.20; Department of the Interior, $166,496.85 (to pay the judgments num- bered 44659, 44867, 45093, 45910, and 46026 as set forth in said House Document 131); Department of Justice, $1,563,522.87; Navy Department, $201 841.58; Treasury Departmenlt, $8,641.49; War Department, $114,263.39; In all, $2,153,284.05; together with such amount as may be necessary to pay interest as and when specified in the judgments. Rightof appea. (b) None of the judgments contained under this caption shall be paid until the right of appeal has expired, except such as has become final and conclive against the United States by failure of the parties to appeal or otherwise. AnDITED CLAIMS SEc. 204. For the payment of claims certified to be due by the Gen- eral Accounting Office under appropriations the balances of which have been carried to the surplus fund under the provisions of section 18 Stat. 110. 5 of the Act of June 20, 1874 (31 U. S. C. 713), and under appropria- tions heretofore treated as permanent, being for the service of the fiscal year 1944 and prior years, unless otherwise stated, and which have been certified to Congress under section 2 of the Act of July 7, 23 Stat. 254. 1884 (5 U. S . C. 266), as fully set forth in Senate Document Num- bered 31, and House Document Numbered 120, Eightieth Congress, Paymentsin foreign there is appropriated the sum of $20,169,985.39, together with such additional sum due to increases in rates of exchange as may be neces- sary to pay claims in the foreign currency and interest as specified in 78 [61 STAT.\nRetrieved from \"https:\/\/en.wikisource.org\/w\/index.php?title=Page:United_States_Statutes_at_Large_Volume_61_Part_1.djvu\/102&oldid=6331016\"\nNot proofread","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
+{"text":"Baha Mar Announces Slate of Culinary Offerings\nOct 29, 2014 7:13am\nBaha Mar, the $3.5 billion integrated gaming resort opening in the Spring of 2015, is introducing the first four signature restaurants of its highly anticipated culinary experiences.\nThe resort's food and beverage selections complement an elite collection of hotel brands - The Baha Mar Casino & Hotel, Rosewood Hotels & Resorts, Grand Hyatt and SLS LUX - as well as a Jack Nicklaus Signature golf course, and ESPA spa.\nDeuce, Katsuya, Brasserie des Arts, and Shuang Ba are part of the best in global cuisine curated through the 40 restaurants, bars and clubs at Baha Mar. They are the signature, bespoke experiences located at the heart of the resort.\nFeaturing 30-foot floor-to-ceiling windows overlooking the clearest waters in the world, The Baha Mar Casino provides clients of these signature restaurants the choice of being steps away from the fast-paced energy of the casino floor, or retreating to quiet tables overlooking the breathtaking turquoise waters of The Bahamas.\nDeuce takes its name for being only the second location of Bone's, the award-winning Atlanta steakhouse that has been providing the finest steaks and seafood since 1979. Long recognized as the best steakhouse in Atlanta, Bone's is also ranked by Zagat Survey as highest in food and service of any steakhouse in America. Deuce consists of more than 350 seats and will be the largest restaurant at Baha Mar. In addition to private dining rooms, Deuce offers a dining experience in its beautifully crafted interior dining area, mezzanine and patio. The restaurant will feature interior designs by the celebrated Johnson Studio, an Atlanta-based architecture and design firm.\nKatsuya is an internationally renowned contemporary Asian restaurant that has been hailed for its innovative interpretations of classic Japanese cuisine and inventive cocktails. Katsuya has garnered a loyal following for its culinary offerings as well as its distinct, sleek, architectural designs by French design icon Philippe Stark.\nBaha Mar will be home to the fourth location of Brasserie des Arts, the chic restaurant and lounge which is also found in Sao Paulo, Brazil and two locations in France - Megeve and Saint Tropez, where it was voted one of the best places to eat by Elle magazine. The 200-seat establishment will offer an authentic taste of fine French cuisine created by classically trained French chefs. Brasserie des Arts will include indoor and outdoor seating extending to an elegant terrace overlooking the white-sand beach and a DJ for late night entertainment.\nShuang Ba takes guests on a journey of classic and modern Chinese cuisine in an elegant setting. Representing the figure 88, which signifies \"double fortune\" in Chinese culture, Shuang Ba is designed to ensure good luck extends from this 88-seat restaurant to the casino floor. With sophisticated private dining salons draped in shades of rich woods, gold and jade, clients will be provided with exclusive experiences that will cater to every need prepared by our culinary team directly from China.\nFor more information visit www.bahamar.com.","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
+{"text":"By Shane Weaver April 21, 2016 April 21, 2016 All\nClick to read the article!\nAt the beginning of April, I had the opportunity to attend a performance from Video Games Live for the very first time. With a lifetime spent in Yellowknife, access to events like this were seldom ascertainable, making this a first experience for me in many ways. However, despite that, I felt right at home in that theatre, surrounded by other fans just like me that came to hear their favorite tunes realized through a full on orchestra.\nTagged Video Games Live\nBy Shane Weaver April 1, 2016 April 1, 2016 All, Extremely Recommended\nShovel Knight is like a time machine \u2013 noooo, not to medieval times like the game's fictitious setting, but to the late 1980s and early 1990s. Beginning as a Kickstarter campaign, the game takes inspiration from classic games of yore (1980s) to lay the foundation for Shovel Knight's game design, such as DuckTales' \"cane\" bouncing, stage selection like Super Mario Bros. 3, stage design like Mega Man, thematic bosses like Megaman, subweapons like\u2026 well\u2026 Megaman\u2026 Megaman was a very influential game. Yet, despite this, Shovel Knight blends all these elements together so well that it still manages to come across with its own original identity. It's not ripoff, clone, or even homage to classic platformers of the 80's, Shovel Knight IS a classic platformer of the 80's, it was just made in 2014, that's all. Continue reading\nTagged Shovel Knight, 8-bit, review\nBy Shane Weaver March 3, 2016 March 29, 2016 All\nHuge self plug here, but it's my blog so I don't see why I can't! After burdening the guilt of not having written for my friends over at The Zero Review over the last six months, I finally found the time to write, and the perfect game to rave on. Since release date, I've been hooked on the Witness. I can't stop thinking about it's puzzles in my head, and when I stop playing, I crave to go back for more. I'm finally at a point where I've completed so much of the game's content that I can let it sit for a while, but I know I'll be back.\nCheck it out right here!\nWhile a difficult game to write on due to its differences from other modern games and how easy it can be to spoil the fun of the game by explaining it in too much detail, I knew I couldn't walk away from it without formulating some organized opinion on it. Anyway, that is all, that Shovel Knight review I promised 2 months ago IS NEARLY HERE, so hopefully that goes up this week.\nBy Shane Weaver January 11, 2016 March 29, 2016 All\nMany games started, none finished to actually write up on. I'm part way through SOMA, Valkyria Chronicles II, Strider, God of War: Ascension, and even on the last damn boss of Shovel Knight, but my save data is locked away on my brother's Wii U back in Yellowknife. Fuuuck you Wii U and your lack of ability to transfer save data. The god damn N64 could do that, why not you????\nI DID finish Silent Hill 2, but it took roughly six years to do so as a group played game, so I don't feel I can properly represent it in a review. I guess I can do my impressions right here though. Continue reading\nTagged Progress Update, Impressions, SOMA, Valkyria Chronicles, Silent Hill, God of War, Strider, Shovel Knight","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
+{"text":"California Healthline Daily Edition\nTuesday, Nov 21 2017\nCalifornia Healthline Original Stories\t5\nTaken For A Ride? Ambulances Stick Patients With Surprise Bills\nSurprise Ambulance Bills: A Consumer's Guide\nYears Before Heading Offshore, Herpes Researcher Experimented On People In U.S.\nDisplaced Puerto Ricans Face Obstacles Getting Health Care\nDoctor's Rx For A Stiff Knee: A Prescription For 90 Percocet Pills\nCovered California & The Health Law 1\nStates That 'Went All-In' On Health Law Have Half As Many Uninsured As Those That Didn't\nHospital Roundup 1\nSaline Shortage Following Hurricane Is So Bad Even Patients Are Starting To Notice\nPublic Health and Education 3\nPurity, Potency Of Illegal Drugs Have Reached New Levels, Worrying Health Officials\nDespite Being Eligible For It, Many Nursing Home Patients Aren't Receiving Palliative Care\nSan Joaquin Picked To Participate In Nationwide Health Survey\nAround California 1\nSacramento, UC Davis Reach Settlement In Suit On Payments For County's Patients\nNational Roundup 2\nNominee For HHS Post Raked In Millions As Top Pharma Executive\nWhen Wait Times Become A Death Sentence: A Look Inside Backlog For Disability Benefits\nLatest From California Healthline:\nCalifornia Healthline Original Stories\nPublic outrage over surprise medical bills prompted California and 20 other states to pass consumer protection laws. But these laws largely ignore ambulance rides, which can leave patients stuck with hundreds or even thousands of dollars in bills.\t(Melissa Bailey, 11\/21)\nWhat to do if you get hit by an exorbitant ambulance bill \u2014 and how to avoid them in the first place.\t(Melissa Bailey, 11\/21)\nSouthern Illinois University's William Halford conducted unregulated human herpes experiments in hotels near university campus, emails show.\t(Marisa Taylor, 11\/21)\nMany have complicated questions about whether their Medicaid or Medicare coverage can shift to their new homes. And for those seeking private insurance, using the ACA's insurance marketplaces will likely be a new experience.\t(Paula Andalo, 11\/21)\nFollowing minor surgery, KHN's consumer columnist sees how easily doctors offer pain pills, fueling epidemic of opioid addiction.\t(Michelle Andrews, 11\/21)\nSign up to get the daily edition in your inbox\nMore News From Across The State\nCovered California & The Health Law\nThe disparity can largely be explained by the expansion of Medicaid.\nModern Healthcare: Uninsured Rates Lower In States That Run Their Own ACA Exchanges\nThe average uninsured rate in states that use the federal HealthCare.gov exchange is nearly double that of states that set up their own public health insurance exchanges, data released by the CDC shows.In the first six months of 2017, HealthCare.gov states had an average uninsured rate of 16.1%, while states with their own exchanges\u2014like California and Colorado\u2014had an average uninsured rate of 8.3%. The disparity in coverage in states that use HealthCare.gov and those with state-based exchanges can be explained, at least in part, by Medicaid expansion. (Livingston, 11\/20)\nSan Francisco Chronicle: A Record Low 6.8% Of Californians Lack Health Insurance, Figures Show\nThe percentage of Californians without health insurance reached a record low 6.8 percent during the first six months of 2017, according to new estimates from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The figure, released Thursday, is down slightly from the 7.2 percent uninsured rate from a year ago, which was at the time a record low \u2014 and significantly lower than the 17 percent uninsured rate in 2013, before the Affordable Care Act took effect. (Ho, 11\/20)\nHospital Roundup\nLocal health systems have begun taking various steps to ensure that patient care is not affected by the shortage.\nSacramento Bee: Hospitals Are Rationing Saline Solution. Patients Are Starting To Worry\nEarlier this month, leaders of both the American Hospital Association and the California Hospital Association sent letters about the scarcity of supplies to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, asking Commissioner Scott Gottlieb to take any and all steps to resolve the worsening shortages. The treatments, they said, are essential to patient care in hospitals. (Anderson and Sullivan, 11\/21)\nPublic Health and Education\nThe problem is that users aren't expecting the higher strength drugs and are overdosing because of the increased potency of them. Meanwhile, a study finds that medication-assisted treatment works better than detoxing for those addicted to opioids.\nLos Angeles Times: Drugs Made In Mexican 'Superlabs' Are More Potent Than Ever, Fueling The Addiction Epidemic\nTen years ago, the average gram of meth available in the U.S. was 39% pure. Today, it is being sold in a nearly pure state, manufactured in Mexican \"superlabs\" and smuggled across the border to feed an epidemic of addiction. The drug is being peddled alongside fentanyl, a synthetic opioid 50 times stronger than heroin, and carfentanil, an elephant tranquilizer that can kill a human with just a speck or two. (Davis, 11\/20)\nLos Angeles Times: For Opiate Addiction, Study Finds Drug-Assisted Treatment Is More Effective Than Detox\nSay you're a publicly-insured Californian with an addiction to heroin, fentanyl or prescription narcotics, and you want to quit. New research suggests you can do it the way most treatment-seeking addicts in the state do \u2014 by undergoing a medically-supervised \"detoxification\" that's difficult, expensive and highly prone to failure. (Healy, 11\/20)\nPalliative care is specialized medical care for people with serious illness.\nThe Mercury News: Nursing Home Residents Have Little Access To Palliative Care, Study Says\nIn a survey of 228 residents in three northern California nursing homes between January and May 2015, UCSF researchers found that 157 patients (68.8 percent) were eligible for specialized medical care that focuses on improving quality of life for patients with serious illness, known as palliative care. (Seipel, 11\/20)\nIn the past, the surveys have helped in finding the link between high cholesterol and heart disease, and in fortifying cereals with vitamins for children's health.\nCapital Public Radio: National Health Survey Gathers Data In San Joaquin County\nThe National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey is underway in Stockton, operating out of mobile trailers at the Sherwood Mall. ... Researchers are compiling data from more than 500 people as they look at hearing, bone density, cholesterol, diabetes, oral hygiene and more. (Ibarra, 11\/20)\nIn other public health news \u2014\nKPCC: ACLU Report Slams Anaheim For High Rate Of Officer-Involved Deaths\nUsing data collected by the ACLU and from the Mapping Police Violence project, the organization determined that the rate of arrest-related deaths at the hands of Anaheim police officers is higher than the state average and higher than deaths at police agencies in Los Angeles, New York and San Diego. (Replogle, 11\/20)\nThe parties said the settlement stipulates that the county make a payment of $98 million plus interest over a 15-year period.\nSacramento Bee: Sacramento County To Pay UC Davis More Than $98 Million Under Health Care Settlement\nUC Davis Health and Sacramento County said Monday that they have reached a settlement agreement of a pending university lawsuit over county payments for health care administered to county indigent residents and jail inmates. (Glover, 11\/20)\nIn other news from across the state \u2014\nModesto Bee: Easier Access To Cancer Treatment: Stanford-Emanuel Center Expands In A Big Way\nA treatment center at Turlock's Emanuel Medical Center now has double the capacity for treating patients with cancer. The Stanford-Emanuel Radiation Oncology Center has added a second linear accelerator for delivering doses of radiation to treat malignant tumors. (Carlson, 11\/20)\nThe San Diego Union-Tribune: Fire Erupts At Navy Dental Clinic, Four Burned\nA fire erupted at Naval Medical Center San Diego on Monday morning, seriously injuring a patient and three staffers. Federal firefighters responded to the alarm at around 10:30 a.m. and confined the blaze to a single second floor room at the Dental Clinic in Building 1 of the sprawling Navy medical complex. It was extinguished by 11 a.m., according to Navy spokesman Miguel A. Alvarez. (Prine, 11\/20)\nThe Press Democrat: Nurse Turned Petaluma Fairgrounds Into Medical Clinic During Sonoma County Fires\nRegistered nurse Michelle Patino had no idea that she'd be supervising a mini-hospital when she answered a call for pillows and blankets at the Petaluma Fairgrounds on Oct. 9. Patino, a 43-year-old Petaluma resident, had suited up for her job that morning, but the emergency department at Kaiser Permanente Santa Rosa Medical Center where she works had closed because of the Tubbs fire. She hurried the three blocks to the Beverly C. Wilson Hall at the fairgrounds to donate bedding. She ended up staying for the better part of 12 days. (Lawton, 11\/20)\nCapital Public Radio: California Counties Prepare For Legal Cannabis\nWondering exactly how cannabis legalization is going to happen? We talk with the California State Association of Counties about what their plans are to handle the changes in the law this January. (Remington, 11\/20)\nNational Roundup\nThe newly released numbers are likely to ratchet up the scrutiny of Alex Azar, who is already facing criticism that he is too closely tied to the industry to be effective as the person regulating it.\nThe Associated Press: Health Nominee Reaped Big Earnings From Drug Industry Tenure\nNewly disclosed financial records show that President Donald Trump's nominee to become Health and Human Services secretary reaped big earnings during his tenure as a top pharmaceutical executive. As a top drug industry veteran from 2007 to 2017, former Eli Lilly and Co. executive Alex Azar built a substantial financial portfolio now worth $9.5 million to $20.6 million, and he was paid nearly $2 million in his final year at the company. (11\/20)\nThe Hill: HHS Nominee Azar Made Millions Working For Drugmaker Lilly\nAlex Azar, who was previously president of the U.S. division of pharmaceutical giant Eli Lilly and Co., has a net worth of at least $8.7 million, according to documents filed with the Office of Government Ethics and analyzed by The Hill. Azar was paid nearly $2 million in his final year at Eli Lilly, according to the documents, which only date back to the previous 12 months. The company also paid him a $1.6 million severance package. (Weixel, 11\/20)\nPolitico: Azar Received Millions From Eli Lilly In Last Year, Disclosures Show\nMultiple Senate Democrats, and independent Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders, have already declared their opposition to Azar's nomination because of his ties to the drug industry. The Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee is set to hold the first confirmation hearing on his nomination Nov. 29. After leaving Indianapolis-based Lilly, Azar leaned heavily on his industry experience to find new work. He collected $46,500 in speaking fees for four events, including ones hosted by the National Association of Specialty Pharmacy and pharma-focused tech company Veeva Systems. Azar also valued his consulting firm's worth at between $15,001 and $50,000. The firm's clientele included the National Pharmaceutical Council and drug company UCB Inc. (Cancryn, 11\/20)\nThe Washington Post investigates the ever-growing backlog for people seeking disability benefits.\nThe Washington Post: 597 Days. And Still Waiting.\nWebster County, Miss. \u2014 On the 597th day, the day he hoped everything would change, Joe Stewart woke early. He took 15 pills in a single swallow. He shaved his head. And then he got down to the business of the day, which was the business of every day, and that was waiting. He looked outside, and saw his mother there in a green sedan, engine running. So many months he had waited for this moment, and now it was here. Time for his Social Security disability hearing. Time to go. (McCoy, 11\/20)\nIn other national health care news \u2014\nThe Hill: Facing 'Hard Decisions,' Health Centers Plead For Restored Funding\nCommunity health centers are scrambling to make contingency plans as they anxiously wait to see if Congress will renew billions of dollars in federal funding that expired on Sept. 30. Often situated in medically underserved areas, the health centers provide care to some 26 million of the nation's most vulnerable people. They're required to take any patient who seeks care, regardless of whether they can pay. (Roubein, 11\/21)\nCQ: Funding Cuts To Hospitals Imminent Unless Congress Acts\nBillions of dollars in cuts to a federal program that helps hospitals cover the cost of caring for the uninsured will begin to take effect in a matter of weeks if Congress does not delay them. The House recently included a postponement in cuts to what's known as disproportionate share hospital, or DSH, payments in its bill to reauthorize funding for the Children's Health Insurance Program (HR 3922). But the Senate hasn't followed suit thus far, leaving hospitals in the dark about whether they will start to see funding slashed in the first quarter of 2018. (Williams, 11\/20)\nThe New York Times: New Gene Treatment Effective For Some Leukemia Patients\nA new way of genetically altering a patient's cells to fight cancer has helped desperately ill people with leukemia when every other treatment had failed, researchers reported on Monday in the journal Nature Medicine. The new approach, still experimental, could eventually be given by itself or, more likely, be used in combination treatments \u2014 analogous to antiviral \"cocktails\" for H.I.V. or multidrug regimens of chemotherapy for cancer \u2014 to increase the odds of shutting down the disease. (Grady, 11\/20)\nThe New York Times: Skin Cancers Rise, Along With Questionable Treatments\nJohn Dalman had been in the waiting room at a Loxahatchee, Fla., dermatology clinic for less than 15 minutes when he turned to his wife and told her they needed to leave. Now. \"It was like a fight or flight impulse,\" he said. His face numbed for skin-cancer surgery, Mr. Dalman, 69, sat surrounded by a half-dozen other patients with bandages on their faces, scalps, necks, arms and legs. (Hafner and Palmer, 11\/20)\nStat: Our Bodies Are Full Of Bugs. This MIT Engineer Wants To Manipulate Them To Treat Disease\nOur bodies are full of bugs. They're everywhere, hanging out on our skin, reproducing in our gut, growing on the glistening surface of our eyes. These bacteria, it turns out, don't just beget other bacteria. They also beget scientific paper after scientific paper, which, in turn, beget headline after headline. But for all our talk of microbiomes, we aren't all that great at shaping them, says Dr. Timothy Lu, an associate professor of biological engineering and electrical engineering at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. (Boodman, 11\/21)\nRecent Daily Editions","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
+{"text":"Microsoft Rolls Out Windows Live Services, Silk Road Project\nMicrosoft went \"Live\"-crazy on Thursday, announcing plans to roll out updates to its Windows Live services and Windows Live Essentials offerings, which are aimed at consumer users. On the developer side, Microsoft exec Satya Nadella told PubCon attendees in Las Vegas today about the latest in Live Search developer tools for Web site search optimization.\nMicrosoft Live Services are the online solutions part of the company's overall \"software plus services\" strategy. Under this strategy, Microsoft plans to offer both installed solutions and hosted services, and sync the data between both.\nMicrosoft's CEO, Steve Ballmer, painted a picture for this software plus services vision at the User Conference for Microsoft Services in Tokyo, Japan last week. He suggested that Web 2.0-type collaboration technologies would eventually find a role in Microsoft's enterprise applications.\n\"Live services, as I said, is sort of the new element, the element that brings in Web 2.0 capabilities\u2026, Ballmer said, according to a transcript. \"These are concepts that in the corporate environment we will add back into Active Directory and other technologies so that you have the potential to also bring new Web 2.0 capabilities to applications that run inside your own corporate environment. So Live Services will pioneer in Windows Azure, in the cloud, but will also bring back to Windows Server over time through Active Directory and SharePoint and the like.\"\nWindows Azure is Microsoft's \"operating system in the cloud\" that was unveiled late last month at Microsoft's Professional Developers Conference in Los Angeles. Windows Azure supports Live Services plus a few more, such as .NET Services, SQL Services, SharePoint Services and Microsoft Dynamics CRM Services.\nConsumer users will see an updated Windows Live \"over the coming weeks\" in the U.S. market, according to Microsoft's announcement today. The updated Windows Live services suite also will be available in 54 countries by early 2009.\nMicrosoft has partnered with more than 50 Web companies for the Windows Live launch. It has integrated Windows Live services with those from Flickr, LinkedIn, Pandora and others. It also teamed with HP to integrate Windows Live Photo Gallery with HP printers. China Telecom will cobrand Windows Live Messenger as part of its Internet service.\nNadella, Microsoft's senior vice president of the Search, Portal and Advertising Platform Group, announced the latest release of the Live Search APIs for developers. The APIs, at beta version 2.0, are part of Microsoft's code-named \"Silk Road\" project, which is designed to help Web publishers build traffic on their sites.\nDevelopers, using Silk Road, can select content to enhance the user's search experience on the publisher's Web site. Search results can be delivered using JSON, RSS, SOAP or XML Web service protocols.\nDevelopers need to use application ID (AppID) to enable Silk Road customization. For Web sites not affiliated with Microsoft, developers can create Windows Live ID authentication using a software development kit. The kit, called Windows Live ID Web Authentication SDK 1.2, contains sample applications using \"ASP.NET (C# and VB), Java, Perl, PHP, Python, and Ruby\" programming languages, according to a Microsoft blog.\nProject Silk Road is \"in broad beta now,\" according to Microsoft's Live Search blog, and the company is looking for Web publishers that meet Microsoft's criteria for participation. Web publishers can apply to participate in the Silk Road beta here.\nNot to be outdone, Google, a competitor to Microsoft in search advertising, today announced a new search optimization application for Web sites called \"On-Demand Indexing for Google Site Search.\" This new application provides a way to quickly index and customize a Web site's search indices.\nKurt Mackie is online news editor, Enterprise Group, at 1105 Media Inc.","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
+{"text":"Trump is counting on Americans not watching and being too stupid to understand impeachment: Ex-White house aide\nFiled under: Criminal, Fascism, News, Political, Questions, Reason \u2014 Scottie @ 07:07\nDuring a panel discussion about the recent decision by Senate Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) to hide much of the impeachment from the American people. It flies in the face of Republicans saying they wanted to follow the \"Clinton model\" of impeachment.\n\"They are counting on people not paying attention,\" he said. \"Today, they simultaneously argued two separate constitutional theories that are opposite. The president saying, 'The Second Amendment is a strict constructionist argument that the framers knew what they were doing when they put the Second Amendment in.' And then the lawyers go up to The Hill and say, 'The framers didn't really know what America would be like 200 years later.' So, it's the exact opposite argument.\"\nHe went on to say that they also say that Trump can't be indicted for a crime, but then claimed Trump also couldn't be investigated for a crime. Now, Trump's team is arguing that given everything, \"the president can't be removed unless he's committed a crime.\" All of the comments conflict with each other.\n\"How would we know if he's committed a crime if we've never gone to court or he can't be investigated?\" asked Lockhart. \"It's this circular logic that you'd think, if people were paying attention, that would collapse onto itself. They're counting on us not watching and not understanding.\"\nYear over year, inflation-adjusted wages rose 0% in 2019. 51% of workers got no raises\nFiled under: Economics, News, Political, Questions, Reason \u2014 Scottie @ 06:10\nThis is not a great economy. This is horrible and creating a serf class, a permanent working class who have nothing but hardship and labor then die early while the wealthy enjoy long lives of privilege. Hugs\nhttps:\/\/saywhat-politics.tumblr.com\/post\/190375271058\/year-over-year-inflation-adjusted-wages-rose-0\nAll too rarely do we hear these days about two of most troublesome chronic problems\u2014the number of rotten jobs and the percentage of low-wage jobs, with the Brookings Institution putting the latter at 44%.\nOne example was released by the Bureau of Labor Statistics last Tuesday, a report on real average earnings. \"Real\" as in adjusted for inflation. Most of the time we only hear in the media about changes in nominal wages, their face value. That fails to tell a key part of the story. As every minimum-wage earner knows, $7.25 in 2020 is not worth what it was in 2009, the last time the federal government reset the minimum. Inflation has since knocked down its buying power to $6.09.\nFor all employees, real average hourly earnings fell 0.1% from November to December 2019, seasonally adjusted, according to the bureau.That result came from a rise of 0.1% in average hourly earnings plus a rise of 0.2% in the Consumer Price Index for All Urban Consumers (CPI-U). In addition, real average weekly earnings fell by 0.1% over the month because the average workweek didn't change.\nThe year-over-year tally shows a bigger hurt. Real average hourly earnings rose 0.6%, seasonally adjusted, from December 2018 to December 2019. But those earnings have to be placed against the 0.6% fall in the average workweek. In other words, as the BLS puts it, this \"resulted in essentially no change in real average weekly earnings over this period.\"\nOr more succinctly: wages were flat in 2019. And the situation is actually worse because including the gains of the top 10%-20% of earners skews the average upward.\nBankrate's Financial Security Poll for December puts some flesh on that skew: 51% of American workers received no raise in 2019. That's about 82 million people. In 2018, 62% got no raise\u201499 million workers.\nIn Historic Shift, Second Largest Physicians Group in US Has New Prescription: It's Medicare for All\nFiled under: Economics, Health, News, Political, Questions, Reason \u2014 Scottie @ 05:23\nhttps:\/\/saywhat-politics.tumblr.com\/post\/190378855278\/in-historic-shift-second-largest-physicians-group\nAlthough the United States leads the world in health care spending, it fares far worse than its peers on coverage and most dimensions of value. Cost and coverage are intertwined. Many Americans cannot afford health insurance, and even those with insurance face substantial cost-related barriers to care. Employer-sponsored insurance is less prevalent and more expensive than in the past, and in response, deductibles have grown and benefits have been cut. The long-term solvency of U.S. public insurance programs is a perennial concern. The United States spends far more on healthcare administration than peer countries. Administrative barriers divert time from patient care and frustrate patients, clinicians, and policymakers. Major changes are needed to a system that costs too much, leaves too many behind, and delivers too little.\nThe ACP's detailed review of the current for-profit system\u2014even with some of the improvements resulting from the Affordable Care Act (ACA)\u2014found that \"too many Americans are uninsured or underinsured\" and that current spending is \"high and unsustainable\"\u2014especially as other developed nations show their ability to achieve better or similar outcomes for less while offering universal, government-guaranteed coverage to all.\nWhile acknowledging that a transition to Medicare for All could be \"highly disruptive\" to the healthcare system, the ACP said \"single-payer financing approach could achieve [its] vision of a system where everyone will have coverage for and access to the care they need, at a cost they and the country can afford. It also could achieve our vision of a system where spending will have been redirected from health care administration to funding coverage, research, public health, and interventions to address social determinants of health.\"\nMedicare for All, the paper continued, could also \"achieve other key policy objectives, including portability, lower administrative costs and complexity, lower premiums and cost sharing, lower overall health care system costs, better access to care, and better health outcomes, depending on how it is designed and implemented.\"\nAccording to an op-ed by Woolhandler and Himmelstein, also published in the Annals alongside the ACP's new position paper, \"Achieving universal coverage would be costlier under the \"public choice\" model the ACP co-endorses along with single payer.\"\nUnlike a public-private mix of coverage that the public option would represent, the pair write, a single-payer Medicare for All would allow hospitals and doctors to \"save billions on billing-related costs\" each year, and those savings could be re-purposed \"to expand care\" to millions for less cost than the status quo.\nMore information at the link above. The times they are a changin. Hugs\n\u2026 you live in a police state\nFiled under: Bigotry, Cartoons, Criminal, Fascism, Memes, News, Political, Questions, Race, Reason \u2014 Scottie @ 05:09\nhttps:\/\/cthulhulovesewe.tumblr.com\/post\/190379255701\/tactical-necromancy-closet-keys\nThey will vote, shouldn't you?\nFiled under: Bigotry, Cartoons, Criminal, Fascism, Hate, Memes, News, Political, Questions, Race, Reason \u2014 Scottie @ 05:08\nhttps:\/\/cthulhulovesewe.tumblr.com\/post\/190379364411\/wilwheaton-marrengo-murica-are-you-ready-to\nFiled under: Cartoons, Education, Memes, News, Political, Questions, Reason \u2014 Scottie @ 05:03\nhttps:\/\/truth-has-a-liberal-bias.tumblr.com\/post\/190379607802\nWhat part of well-regulated do they not understand\nFiled under: Cartoons, Criminal, Fascism, Gun Control, Memes, News, Political, Questions, Reason \u2014 Scottie @ 04:55\nWhat part of well-regulated do they not understand?\nYou would think these elite gun rights activists would be fairly well versed in laws of the state they are in. At a minimum the laws that are considered Class 6 felonies. Code of Virginia 18.2-422\nIt shall be unlawful for any person over 16 years of age to, with the intent to conceal his identity, wear any mask, hood or other device whereby a substantial portion of the face is hidden or covered so as to conceal the identity of the wearer, to be or appear in any public place, or upon any private property in this \u2026\n\u2026 White House cannot produce a single witness or document to disprove the central allegations\nFiled under: Cartoons, Criminal, Fascism, Memes, News, Political, Questions, Reason \u2014 Scottie @ 04:51\nIn sum, after arguing for months that all these people were lying, the White House cannot produce a single witness or document to disprove the central allegations.\nTaxpayers subsidize police settlements. We pay for their cruelty and murder\nFiled under: Bigotry, Cartoons, Criminal, Economics, Fascism, Hate, Memes, News, Political, Questions, Race, Reason \u2014 Scottie @ 04:49\nWhen taxpayer funds are used to pay fines and damage awards there is no penalty for the one who did the wrong action or crime. There is no incentive to change their ways if it doesn't cost them anything and they can push the cost off on others. Hugs\ngetinvolvedyoulivehere:\nMake this law and watch how fast things change!\n#PoliceThePolice #PTP\nTaxpayers subsidize police settlements. We pay for their cruelty and murder.\nSource: getinvolvedyoulivehere\nAlso MLK was assassinated by a racist with a gun\nFiled under: Bigotry, Cartoons, Criminal, Gun Control, Hate, Memes, News, Political, Questions, Race, Reason \u2014 Scottie @ 04:41\nThe fragility of conservative whiteness.\nIt would be great if this happened\n\"I was paid to have that opinion. Now I'm paid to have this one.\"\nClass warfare is nothing new\nFiled under: Cartoons, Criminal, Economics, Fascism, Memes, News, Political, Questions, Reason \u2014 Scottie @ 04:37\nClass warfare is nothing new. #MLKDay2020\n2,348 notes\nSource: liberalsarecool\nDaily morning cartoon \/ meme roundup: Different worlds apart\nFiled under: Bigotry, Cartoons, Children, Criminal, Fascism, Homosexual, LGBTQ, Memes, News, Political, Questions, Race \u2014 Scottie @ 04:14\nSteve Benson for January 20, 2020 | https:\/\/t.co\/BDMO3zY5zL https:\/\/t.co\/uxwioQir3F via @GoComics\n\u2014 Scottiestoybox (@Scottiestoybox) January 21, 2020\nClay Bennett for January 20, 2020 | https:\/\/t.co\/BDMO3zY5zL https:\/\/t.co\/PWNXcbpANl via @GoComics\nJohn Deering for January 21, 2020 | https:\/\/t.co\/BDMO3zY5zL https:\/\/t.co\/biEnz9nVip via @GoComics\nTom Toles for January 21, 2020 | https:\/\/t.co\/BDMO3zY5zL https:\/\/t.co\/grjOW9chQg via @GoComics\nMaking China great\nFiled under: Cartoons, Economics, Memes, News, Political, Questions, Reason \u2014 Scottie @ 06:47\nIf tRump had not been born wealthy\nFiled under: Cartoons, Economics, Funny Stuff, Memes, News, Political, Questions, Reason \u2014 Scottie @ 06:46\nLatest approval ratings for vulnerable GOP senators are some serious bad news for them\nFiled under: News, Political, Questions, Reason \u2014 Scottie @ 06:36\nhttps:\/\/www.dailykos.com\/stories\/2020\/1\/18\/1912175\/-Latest-approval-ratings-for-vulnerable-GOP-senators-are-some-serious-bad-news\nNo, this was not a trick question. It's nakedly obvious that the five Republicans are all in negative territory, while the two Democrats are positive, according the Morning Consult polling in the final three months of 2019. Note that Sens. Martha McSally of Arizona and Susan Collins of Maine have dropped the most since the previous quarter, while Sen. Thom Tillis of North Carolina is the only Republican who improved his standing.\nSchiff accuses NSA, CIA of withholding documents on Ukraine\nFiled under: Criminal, Education, Fascism, News, Political, Questions, Reason \u2014 Scottie @ 06:26\ntRump has created a government of one for the benefit of himself. He has short circuited all attempts to have a functioning government, to have the system set up by the history of our country. He has minimized the Congress with the idea of getting rid of it. He has replaced civil servants with his own henchmen. He uses his own private people to do the government functions because the actions are illegal. He has done his best to create an authoritarian one person one party government such as china has. Be worried people. Hugs\n\"They appear to be succumbing to pressure from the administration,\" Rep. Adam Schiff said Sunday on ABC's \"This Week.\u2033 Schiff was selected by House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., as the lead impeachment manager for Trump's Senate trial.\nSchiff, D-Calif., contended that the National Security Agency \"in particular is withholding what are potentially relevant documents to our oversight responsibilities on Ukraine, but also withholding documents potentially relevant that the senators might want to see during the trial. That is deeply concerning.\" He also said \"there are signs that the CIA may be on the same tragic course.\"\nDemocrats have previously criticized the State Department for withholding relevant documents to the impeachment inquiry. In the weeks since Trump was impeached, Democrats have sought to focus on new evidence about Trump's effort to pressure Ukraine to investigate his political rivals and are pushing the Senate to consider new documents and testimony, such as from former national security adviser John Bolton.\nDuring the ABC interview, Schiff was asked about a Politico report that said intelligence officials were pushing the House and Senate Intelligence committees to drop the public portion of an annual briefing on world security threats following last year's session in which Trump lashed out over the assessments on North Korea, Iran and the Islamic State.\nThe request was reportedly being made in a bid to avoid a repeat in which intelligence officials might publicly disagree with Trump on the security risks.\n\"The intelligence community is reluctant to have an open hearing, something that we had done every year prior to the Trump administration, because they're worried about angering the president,\" he said.\n\u00ab Newer Posts \u2014 Older Posts \u00bb","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
+{"text":"Spiders X 2018\nBy Lauren Megaw\nRead time - 3 mins\nThe Spider Awards are established as Ireland's premier digital technology awards, 2018 marked their 23rd year recognising and celebrating excellence and innovation across Ireland's digital industry.\nThis year the Spiders joined the renowned 'Dublin Tech Summit' family and rebranded as 'Spiders X'.\nSponsors \u2013 'Best in Education & eLearning'\nWe were delighted to be sponsoring the 'Best in Education & eLearning' category, which is awarded to a platform or project which innovatively uses existing or new information technologies to enhance online learning, further an education mission online, communicate the need of education or provide informational material to current or prospective students.\nThis year's winner was Setanta College for their 'World Rugby e-learning' project, which delivers a range of online rugby conditioning programmes for coaches worldwide. To date 35,000 participants around the world have enrolled in their World Rugby e-learning programmes.\nZesty's Head of Business Development, Tara Leathem presenting the 'Best in Education & eLearning' Award to Setanta College.\nMaking the Shortlist\nWe travelled to the RDS Concert Hall for the Awards night. Delighted be shortlisted in two highly competitive categories \u2013 'Large Agency of the Year' and 'Best in Travel, Tourism & Sport' for our work with F\u00e1ilte Ireland on our 'www.meetinireland.com' project.\nMeet in Ireland \u2013 F\u00e1ilte Ireland\nWe were nothing short of ecstatic to win the 'Best in Travel, Tourism & Sport' Award for our 'Meet in Ireland' website project with F\u00e1ilte Ireland.\nZesty have been a trusted website design and delivery partner for F\u00e1ilte Ireland since 2010, throughout our long-standing relationship we have delivered award winning projects including 'VisitDublin.com' and 'WildAtlanticWay.com'.\nWe have extensive experience within the Tourism industry and we pride ourselves on producing best in class Tourism and Destination websites for our clients.\nThe 'Meet in Ireland' project involved the delivery a new website which would act as Ireland's shop window for international meeting planners. It would be the primary tool in promoting Ireland's MICE (Meeting, Incentive, Conference and Corporate Events) reputation as a knowledge economy and used to developed business tourism destination awareness for overseas users.\nMeet in Ireland's Success\nSince launch the website has delivered exceptional results for the F\u00e1ilte Ireland team. Delivering opportunities and conversions far superseding expectations.\nThe site itself has experienced 75% increase in visits \u2013 an impressive uplift which demonstrates the improvement of Meet in Ireland's website offering. There has been a 64% increase in users, all of which are new users to the site, this is significant as attracting new visitors was a key objective of the project.\nA big thank you to the Meet in Ireland team for their collaboration on the project, their team's commitment and knowledge has been central to the project's success, the website has delivered 80 opportunities worth in excess of \u20ac35m to date, less than a year since launch.\n\"Zesty has successfully delivered on our objective to build a best-in-class website for Ireland's business tourism offering.\"\nDaragh Anglim, Head of Marketing & Digital, F\u00e1ilte Ireland\nRead our 'Meet in Ireland' case study here.\nPublished by Lauren Megaw 11\/12\/2018\nMy first month at Zesty: Niamh\nWelcome to Zesty: Stephen","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
+{"text":"Fairmount Park Master Signage\nWith an astonishing 9,200 acres, 63 neighborhood parks, and a crowded events calendar, the Fairmount Park system is a wonderful resource for Philadelphians and visitors. Cloud Gehshan Associates developed a wayfinding and sign system that extends throughout the park, from the quietest trails through the heart of the city and on to the Delaware waterfront.\nCloud Gehshan Associates\nRead more about Fairmount Park Master Signage\nHome Depot Design Center\nThe Home Depot Design Center is the next-generation store concept by the venerable big-box retailer. In this innovative concept, the second-largest retailer in the world aimed to shed its unrefined warehouse image, suitable for contractors and hard-core do-it-yourselfers, in favor of a more polished look to attract a younger, urban demographic with a \"do-it-for-me\" mentality and a need for complete design solutions.\nRead more about Home Depot Design Center\nManchester Civil Justice Centre Signage\nThe Manchester Civil Justice Centre is the largest civil court built in England in the last 100 years. The landmark 14-story building, part of a large city-center redevelopment project, was designed by Australian architects Denton Corker Marshall following an international design competition. It opened in October 2007 and achieved an \"excellent\" rating from the Building Research Establishment Assessment Method (BREEAM) system, similar to LEED.\nEmerystudio\nRead more about Manchester Civil Justice Centre Signage\n2013 Airports and Transportation Follow up Webinar\nJoin us for a follow up discussion based on the conversations and content shared at the recent Airports Workshop in Phoenix, AZ.\nSEGD offers a special rate for Students, but in order to take advantage of it, you will need to call SEGD at: 202-638-5555.\nFor more information or to purchase the proceedings from this workshop contact SEGD\nRead more about 2013 Airports and Transportation Follow up Webinar\nDeborah Sussman\n1991 SEGD Fellow\nDeborah Sussman 1931 - 2014\nDeborah Sussman is recognized as a pioneer in environmental graphic design. She is internationally renowned for creating arresting visual imagery and designing its highly imaginative applications for architectural and public spaces. Her passion for the marriage of graphics and the built environment, fueled by her early career at the Eames Office, has led to collaborations with planners, architects, and clients.\nGold Arrow Award, SEGD Fellow, Deborah Sussman, SP&Co., Exhibition\nRead more about Deborah Sussman\nWayfinding | The Americas | Campuses\nJoin us for the next eg conversations webinar focusing on two new campus wayfinding projects situated on the east and west coasts of North America respectfully. Joining us for the conversation will be the design teams who are planning, designing, and making these new information experiences possible.\nPlease be ready with:\n- College or University\n- Mailing address\n- Phone number\n- Email address\nRead more about Wayfinding | The Americas | Campuses\nWestside Children's Center\nMerit Award, Lot with a Little\nThe designers sough to create a child-focused, friendly, easy-to-understand environmental graphic design program that remained consistent with the identity that they previously established \u2013 the identity consists of five children's hands of different shades arranged to form a star-like shape. They used handprints from children involved in Westside Children's Center programs as the centerpiece of the system. The primary focus was to design everything with the child in mind as well as adhere to necessary code requirements.\nLane + Lane Inc. Design Office\nRead more about Westside Children's Center\nCrate & Barrel World Headquarters Signage\nThe headquarters building of Crate & Barrel is a sleek, modernist structure designed by Perkins and Will and located within a landscaped campus-like setting. The comprehensive exterior and interior graphics and wayfinding system ranged from monumental site identification signs to room identification signs and workstation nameplates. The interior sign program constituted a large part of the overall wayfinding system.\nCalori & Vanden-Eynden\/Design Consultants\nRead more about Crate & Barrel World Headquarters Signage\nJohns Hopkins i-Site Information Kiosk\nThis network of twelve computerized kiosks creates one-stop wayfinding centers for visitors. The i-Sites integrate existing leading-edge technology with customized components and software. A psychologist worked with the design team on the user interface; redundancy (where users are offered more than one way to get information) was key to the design, which was extensively field-tested. Although high-tech, the low-profile units are designed to fit into a campus where the traditional architecture and park-like grounds are paramount.\nRead more about Johns Hopkins i-Site Information Kiosk\nSalt Lake City Public Library\nThe building's architecture was designed to make the most of the stunning natural environment with walls of glass providing views of the nearby Wasatch Mountains and a rooftop garden providing 360-degree views of the Salt Lake Valley.\nRead more about Salt Lake City Public Library\nJunior Environmental Graphic Designer\nJenny Taing\nJulian Osorio\nRoxanna Meyers\nYunni Yang\nBob Loza","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
+{"text":"km5h\nKF9KV\n50 MHz (6m) WSPR\nLast seen: 56 sec ago\nStations in Australia are trying very hard to do the best they can on the 50 MHz band on WSPR. But, it becomes very difficult and disheartening, when they are transmitting to no one.\nMany more stations are required in parts of the northern hemisphere, such as North America, Canada, etc and also from all over Europe.\nIt would appear that the VK stations are very die hard 6m supporters and many give it a go every day. But the response from other countries is very poor. We really need operators with larger 6m stations in these countries to be looking our way during the appropriate time frames, especially now that we are approaching the Equinox. Its the larger stations that will obviously show the band openings first and others will then follow.\nIm not sure why it is that 6m doesn't have the following that it does in Australia, but hopefully some more will have a look our way soon.\nLeigh VK2KRR","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
+{"text":"Deep sea mining: discovery of 6 new species in unexplored hydro-thermal vents\nWednesday, January 04, 2017 by: David Gutierrez\nTags: deep sea mining, mining\n(Natural News) (NaturalNews) Six new animal species have been identified living near hot springs nearly two miles beneath the surface of the ocean, according to a paper published by researchers from the University of Southampton and the Natural History Museum in London and Newcastle, and published in the journal Scientific Reports.\nUnfortunately, the poorly studied home of these newly discovered species is already slated for deep ocean mining.\nThe case highlights the great threat to ocean life posed by the up-and-coming industry of sea floor mining, the scientists warn.\nGreenpeace has previously warned that though there are between 500,000 and 5 million unidentified marine species, the coming boom in deep sea mining places these creatures at risk of extinction before they can even be named.\nMagnet for ocean life\nThe previously unknown animals were identified by a deep-diving remotely operated vehicle (ROV) that researchers were using to explore a region of the Indian Ocean known as Longqi (meaning \"dragon's breath\") about 1,200 miles southeast of Madagascar. The area explored is about the size of a football field and lies 9,200 feet (2,800 m) below the surface. It contains more than a dozen vent chimneys, mineral spires that rise as much as two stories from the ocean floor and eject hot fluid.\nDeep sea hydrothermal vents are incredibly nutrient rich compared with the surrounding ocean. Thus, vent chimneys attract ocean animals from all around, to feed off the chimneys and off the animals that feed off the chimneys.\nIn addition to the six new species, the researchers also discovered a species of scaleworm known to live near Antarctic vents, and a species of ragworm known to live near Pacific vents 6,200 miles away. These discoveries show that vent animals are spread much more widely across the planet that scientists had previously realized.\nUnfortunately, the Longqi area is also known to be rich in deposits of copper and gold, and has already been earmarked for mining.\n\"We can be certain that the new species we've found also live elsewhere in the southwest Indian Ocean, as they will have migrated here from other sites, but at the moment no-one really knows where, or how well-connected their populations are with those at Longqi,\" lead researcher Jon Copley said.\n\"Our results highlight the need to explore other hydrothermal vents in the southwest Indian Ocean and investigate the connectivity of their populations, before any impacts from mineral exploration activities and future deep-sea mining can be assessed.\"\nProtection urgently needed\nScientists and environmentalists have been warning for some time that the deep sea is in need of protection from rampant mining and other industrial exploitation. The deep ocean plays important roles in many key functions for life on our planet, such as temperature regulation and gas cycling, and also provides habitat for millions of species that form the base of the planet's food web. Yet only 3 percent of the oceans have any form of legal protection, and only 1 percent of the high seas. This makes the oceans that support all life some of the least protected parts of the planet.\nMore than 400,000 square miles of ocean floor have already been earmarked for mining by more than 16 countries. In a 2014 article in the journal Science, a group of ocean scientists warned that this industry could cause irreversible devastation if strong regulations are not put in place now.\nThey point to the fact that deep-sea trawling has already caused major damage to about one-fifth of the planet's continental slope, perhaps irreversibly.\nAnd a patchwork of international regulations means that even areas protected against trawling may not be protected against mining, and vice-versa.\nThe researchers highlighted other threats to deep sea life, including oil and gas development, land-based pollution and waste disposal. They note that vast segments of the ocean have already become a de facto dumping ground for toxic chemicals, sewage and radioactive waste.\nGizmodo.com\nGreenpeace.org\nPrevious :A handful of nuts a day could slash the risk of heart disease, cancer, obesity and more by up to 30%\nNext : CRISPR gene editing may wipe out human geniuses and dumb down human civilization to \"conforming\" average\nMore news on deep sea mining\nNew deep-sea mining operation of rare earth minerals will be catastrophic for our oceans\nProposals to mine the ocean floor could do irreversible damage to deep-sea ecosystems\nhttps:\/\/www.naturalnews.com\/2017-01-04-deep-sea-mining-discovery-of-6-new-species-in-unexplored-hydro-thermal-vents.html\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.naturalnews.com\/2017-01-04-deep-sea-mining-discovery-of-6-new-species-in-unexplored-hydro-thermal-vents.html\">Deep sea mining: discovery of 6 new species in unexplored hydro-thermal vents<\/a>","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
+{"text":"Remarks by Dr. Bernard Bailyn\nRemarks by Dr. Bernard Bailyn Mrs. Clinton, Mr. President, Ladies and Gentlemen:\nIt is a great honor and privilege to inaugurate this series of Millennium Lectures, part of the broad and extraordinarily imaginative program of millennium events that has been planned. But I have to say, inaugurating a lecture series can be a risky business. I recall the miserable fate of one of your predecessors, Mr. President, John Quincy Adams, who while Senator from Massachusetts inaugurated Harvard's Boylston Lectures on Rhetoric and Oratory a series, I should say, that despite Adams has survived and continues to this day. The future President feared that when published, his effort would be \"handled without mercy by critics on both sides of the [Atlantic].\" He need not have worried about the British critics: they ignored his performance completely. But he was right about critics on this side, one of whom said that what Adams wrote was no doubt admirable, but that unfortunately it lacked a few particulars namely \"truth and precision of expression,\" and it also lacked \"grace and propriety in the use of words.\" Nor did Adams' production improve with age. Seventy five years later, the literary critic Thomas Wentworth Higginson wrote that anyone who managed to read the thing through would find \"a record of repetition, of verbiage, surprising you by the number of words that it takes him to say a simple thing.\"\nNow, one must learn from history, and so, avoiding your predecessor's blunders, Mr. President, I will be brief and go straight to the point. Which is: that in our public life we Americans, though we are often described as a young nation, with a shallow history, in fact live remarkably close to our past, and I mean the deeper past, reaching back 400 years to the first settlements of Europeans on mainland North America and 200 years to the founding of the nation.\nTwo hundred years ago John Adams was President. He was the first to live in this house, and the events of his lifetime have, I believe, an extraordinary relevance to our lives as we approach the 21st century.\nBut it is remarkable that this should be so. When Adams was President, transportation and communication were essentially the same as they had been at the time of the first millennium. Washington D.C. was a rustic wasteland: a muddy, disease ridden collection of rubbish heaps, tree stumps, bogs, marshes, and rows of bleak wooden houses hastily thrown together. Hogs rooted in the refuse and wandered around the one unfinished hotel. The carriages of diplomats in full regalia got stuck axle-deep in mud; and the secretary of state recorded success in trapping a 2-foot snake at the foot of his staircase.\nOf course there were plans for splendid urban vistas and monumental buildings, but of the latter the only two in evidence when Adams was President were the half built Capitol and the White House. All there was of the Capitol were the flimsily built Senate and House buildings, with nothing in between except a boardwalk. The House chamber had a glass-domed ceiling that leaked, but this was better than the Senate chamber's ceiling which collapsed in a heap, just missing the vice-president's chair.\nAs for the White House when the Adamses moved in (Abigail Adams got lost in the Maryland woods trying to find the place) only 5 of the 30 rooms had plastered walls, there were no stairs to the second floor, and the only place she could find to hang out the family washing was what she called \"the great unfinished audience room\" - which is, I believe, the room we are now in. What has this sad clutter of workmen's shanties, tree stumps, privies, stagnant pools, and muddy cow paths to do with us? More important, how can we possibly relate to a pre-industrial world whose social and economic problems were utterly different from ours and whose social policies, insofar as they had any, if implemented now would create chaos. They knew about special interests and about social and political fanaticisms - their politics was as fiercely partisan as ours, at times even more vicious and remorseless - but they had no idea how powerfully public opinion in a modern democracy can be manipulated, especially by instruments of communication they could not have conceived of. Much of their thinking about politics in large republics was based on assumptions about geographical distance and its calming and dissipating effect on political passions, but we live at a time when distance is obliterated and scattered forces can coalesce by instantaneous communication with intensifying effect. The instruments of coercive force that they knew, that is the machinery of physical and legal intimidation, were far weaker than ours, and the ways of escaping from the agencies of public power more numerous.\nYet, despite all these differences, and more, that separate us from our past, we remain remarkably close to it. We constantly invoke the views of historical figures Jefferson, Madison, Lincoln and not just ritualistically. They seem to be part of our present political discourse, as, say, the views of Pitt or Burke are not for the British, or Robespierre or Condorcet are not for the French. Our entire public life centers on an 18th-century constitution, and while it has been amended repeatedly, and expanded and revised by judicial interpretation, it remains structurally what it was when it was written over 200 years ago: an artful complex of bounded powers. Even the commentaries on the Constitution that were written in the far distant days of its controversial adoption, seem to lie at the heart of our own current thought.\nThere is no more remarkable telescoping of past and present than the continuing relevance of the Federalist papers. These 85 essays were thrown together in great haste in the fierce struggle over ratification of the Constitution in New York. At the feverish height of the debate, when it seemed certain that New York would refuse to ratify the Constitution, the Federalist authors were frantically writing and publishing 1,000 words a day, copying helterskelter from what they had written before, chopping up longer essays into smaller bits to meet newspaper publication deadlines, which came up, at first twice a week, then four times a week.\nThat desperate struggle took place 210 years ago. Yet we study every phrase of these essays for meanings relevant to our present public life. The Supreme Court refers to their authority repeatedly 34 times between 1981 and 1985 in decisions that affect the lives of every American in the late 20th century. There is now a concordance of the Federalist papers - something one associates with the Bible and the works of Shakespeare - in which every use of every word in the papers is listed out to enable readers to grasp every verbal nuance in what these 18th-century politicians wrote in haste and desperation.\nBut it is not only the political and constitutional past that is close to us. We struggle with the residue of slavery and racism that appeared at the dawn of our history as a people. And the force of Puritanism and evangelical Protestantism, which appeared here 350 years ago, is still with us, despite the religious complexity of our world.\nWe are not merely products of our history - every nation is that - we are steeped in it, consciously or unconsciously, remarkably close to it in everyday life, and draw from our history some understanding of the essentials - the essences - of our public life as a nation, and of what we carry forward into the future.\nWe have had, from the beginning, and have now - it is a profound legacy of our deeper past - a strange combination of a belief, a faith, in government, and a fear of power. Both, in the earliest years, were woven together - entwined - in the fabric of our public life, and they have remained there ever since, a source of strength, protection, and political controversy.\nThe combination seems almost immemorial. Jefferson despite his deep involvements in farming, technology, science, scholarship, architecture, and trade served in state and national governments for 33 years; he wrote a constitution for his own state of Virginia and a manual of parliamentary practice; he worried over every word of the federal Constitution when it appeared; and he advised the French revolutionaries on the exact terms of governmental reform that would serve that nation best. In his tour of Europe he wrote vividly of what a difference government makes in people's lives. What lay at the heart of Europe's miseries, he wrote, are \"vices in the form of government.\"\nIt is difficult to conceive [he wrote of the French] how so good a people, with so good a king, so well disposed rulers in general, so genial a climate, so fertile a soil, should be rendered so ineffectual for producing human happiness by one single curse, that of a bad form of government. But it is a fact.\nHe and his leading contemporaries struggled to find the right form of government and devoted their lives to serving in government, convinced that government is a powerful force for good, a creative force that would provide for justice, secure peace and good order, stimulate the society's enterprise in agriculture, commerce, and industry, and encourage learning, technology, and the arts. People in every city, town, and hamlet pitched into the great controversy over ratifying the federal Constitution - 1500 served in the 12 conventions. The constitution that John Adams wrote for Massachusetts was submitted to all of the state's small towns and villages for ratification. Two thirds of them 181 communities, some mere hamlets responded with comments. Small groups of farmers, meeting in churches, parlors, barns, and backwoods crossroads, argued about technical clauses of the constitution and sent on their conclusions to Boston, convinced that their welfare depended on the precise terms of the government they were adopting, and that it was their duty to participate.\nAnd yet at the same time they were convinced that power - which is the essence of government - could destroy them.\nFor while they thought of government - self-government in proper form - as a necessary, benevolent, and creative force, and knew perfectly well that government means power, they feared the uses and misuses of power. They wrote of their fear of power continuously, eloquently, elaborately. They believed that the dangers of embedded power in anyone's hands heroes' or villains' were the same, and they struggled to express their fears. The writings of Adams' generation are crowded with metaphors, similes, and tropes of every kind to express their fear of the corruptions of established power.\nThe love of power, they wrote again and again, its gleaming but corrosive satisfactions, are rooted elementally in the human heart and will eventually corrupt every public institution, unless people of good will and integrity resist and unless the forces within government are so pitched against each other, so poised to confront each other, that excesses in the use of power are challenged and contained before they become insuperable.\nIt was in response to their fear of power that they demanded the explicit protection of human rights, and they struggled, for the first time in recorded history, not merely to state this in general terms but to specify what these rights - all these rights - are.\nThere is no more important passage in American history, and in the history of the modern liberal state, than the groping, fumbling efforts of Adams' generation to make the protection of rights effective in ordinary people's lives. The issue was felt to be necessary but was found to be extremely difficult even to understand. At first, in many of the state constitutions, written immediately after Independence, they simply stated the general, abstract proposition that all inalienable rights should be preserved and protected; but when it came to particulars, to defining what these rights were, they found themselves at sea. What precisely are the human rights that must be protected? Some seemed obvious, but many were not, and turned out to be whatever happened to occur to the authors of the constitutions when they were writing. The newly written states' constitutions contain, in all, 75 inalienable rights, and some of them seem rather strange. In Pennsylvania one apparently God-given human right was the right to hunt on unclaimed land. A consensus did develop on a certain core of substantive and procedural rights, but there were no clear boundaries, and definitions differed.\nWhen the federal Constitution was written the wisest minds in America decided that there should be no national Bill of Rights, not merely because most of the state constitutions already contained some such protections, but, as Madison (who would later write the federal Bill of Rights) said, \"There is a great reason to fear that a positive declaration of some of the most essential rights could not be obtained in the requisite latitude.\" In other words, the enumeration of rights by the federal government, the mere listing of them and defining them, would necessarily limit their scope. \"The rights of conscience in particular [he said], if submitted to public definition, would be narrowed more than they are likely ever to be by an assumed power.\" The right solution, he and others then felt, was what is implied in the present 9th Amendment: that, in addition to the rights specified by the states, there is a universe of rights, possessed by the people latent rights, still to be evoked and enacted into law.\nBut was this workable? In any given situation, someone would have to decide whether the rights that were claimed were valid, and that would leave the existence of rights to the mercy of personal and political opinion, and no one would be safe. Some rights a core body of rights protected against the powers of the federal government would have to be specified, and the residue somehow protected in general terms. This is the compromise that we have inherited from them and that we live with, and struggle with, and benefit from, every day of our lives: in the first eight amendments of the Constitution, a carefully worded list of specific rights protected from encroachment by the federal government, together with the belief that there are not only rights protected by the states but a reservoir of other, unenumerated rights that the people retain, which in time may be enacted into law.\nThey were not anticipating our struggles over judicial activism. They were saying that the world changes - that rights, like law itself, should never be fixed, frozen, that new dangers and new needs will emerge, and that to respond to these dangers and needs, rights must be newly specified to protect the individual's integrity and inherent dignity.\nSo, despite all the differences that separate our world from the 18th century, we are contemporaries of Adams in venerating government but fearing power, and in protecting rights that can never be finally defined or limited in number.\nBut we are contemporaries of our deeper past in an even more complex and profound way.\nJohn Adams, after his tumultuous presidency, retired to Quincy, Massachusetts, where, amidst his books, family, and friends, he spent his last 25 years contemplating the accomplishments and failures of his own public life and the life of his remarkable generation. The town of Quincy was a tranquil, civilized, provincial community, but it was part of a larger world that was violent and half-developed, a world that had known brutality and savage inequalities from its earliest years.\nThe barbarousness of relations between the settling Europeans and the native peoples at the start of Euro-American life is agonizing to recall - it is hard, even for us who are familiar with genocide, to believe.\nIn the earliest years the English and Dutch sent over to America what contemporaries called \"hammerours\"- well-equipped, battle-tested shock troops from the Low Countries' wars - to deal with the Indians, who, deprived of their lands and fearful that their entire way of life would be destroyed, had attacked the European communities again and again, at times with merciless fury, hoping to obliterate the encroaching force. In fierce encounters that involved butchery of men, women, and children, incineration of entire inhabited villages, and indiscriminate destruction of crops and animals the coastal natives were defeated: killed or displaced, their culture shattered, their remnants fleeing to other, more remote groups, to form strange motley communities deeper inland.\nAnd at the same time the labor force was supplemented, in some places entirely supplied, by Africans, whose condition of servitude, within a single generation, reached a point of absolute debasement. When Adams assumed the Presidency the native population, which had been further brutalized in the Revolutionary war, had been driven back across the Appalachians, in places confined to reservations. And twenty percent of the entire American population was enslaved.\nAnd Adams' world was otherwise a mixed population of differing statuses, privileges, and powers. A third of Pennsylvania's population were Germans, some naturalized with full political and legal privileges, some not; and they were of several religious confessions, some legally recognized, some not. New York's population was derived from a mixture of English, Dutch, Walloons, Germans, Scandinavians, and French - 18 languages, and religions as different as Catholicism and Anabaptism, were reported there in the early years. And there were Scots and Irish - Protestant and Catholic - of different legal statuses, scattered throughout the land.\nIt was this tri-racial, multi-ethnic, multi-linguistic, half-civil, half-barbarous society, whose social and political relations were dominated by severe inequalities, that encountered, in the founding years of the republic, the benign and universalist principles of the Enlightenment and of Anglo-American radical reform. The United States has lived - and we live now - with the results of that encounter.\nThe great goals of enlightened reform in America were set out most vividly by Jefferson. He was, let it be said, a fallible man, and he was a pragmatic, opportunistic politician, who feared power in others but used it deftly himself. But he was also the Revolution's true poet, its deepest conscience, and its most brilliant expositor. His was the most eloquent voice of America's Revolutionary ideology, as he proclaimed - in the face of these brutal realities - the principles of equality before the law, of absolute freedom of conscience, of responsible self-government, of the need for universal diffusion of knowledge and access to education, and for freedom from poverty and the fear of poverty.\nIt was a strange encounter. The distance between these glittering ideals and the sordid realities of Jefferson's world was vast. Slavery brutalized new thousands every year and poisoning the moral foundation of the nation as the Enlightenment ideals took root. On the frontiers the barbarous, almost genocidal race wars continued. In the new republic, religious fanaticism led to deadly riots against peaceful dissidents. Poverty increased in the cities as the first post-Revolutionary waves of immigrants appeared, creating new kinds of ethnic discrimination and a new population of illiterates. Exploited immigrant workmen became riotous - troops were assembled to subdue them. And emancipation, when it came, was followed by savage race violence, while less lethal inhumanity dominated the lives of the laboring poor.\nHow were these miseries to be reconciled with the Revolution's soaring aspirations? Most of the new nation's leaders were social conservatives, and realists; they had not designed a social revolution. But the nation was committed to the ideals of enlightened reform and could not escape their pressure. Gradually, ambiguously, the force of these beliefs began to impinge on the sordid reality.\nIn Adams' last years, slavery still existed, but the slave trade was gone, slavery was abolished in the Old Northwest and was gradually being eliminated in the northeast. Beyond that, the institution of slavery, which had rarely been seen as a problem before the Revolution, had become the overwhelming problem of American life. Illiteracy had increased, but while only 9 colleges had been chartered before the Revolution, 500 were created between then and the Civil War, and along with them innumerable academies and community schools. Religious intolerance had lost the force of law; church establishments had been abolished, and Jefferson's great Statute of Religious Freedom, which had been enacted only after a decade of bitter controversy, had become the standard by which success in establishing freedom of conscience could be measured.\nWhen Jefferson and Adams died, both on the 4th of July fifty years after Independence, none of the goals of the American Enlightenment, of the Revolution's transforming radicalism, had been reached. But a basic force had been created in American life: the propulsion within a pluralistic, tumultuous, abrasive, and ruthlessly ambitious society to approach the fulfillment of historic ideals.\nThe gap between the real and the ideal remains, far narrower than in Adams' and Jefferson's time, but still achingly wide. We are still a multi-ethnic, materialistic, ambitious, impatient, and volatile people, but in our finest moments we are also, I believe, the most idealistic nation on earth. We are riven by differences, discrimination, and animosities, but, instinctively responding to ideals set out in our deeper past, we reach for reconciliation.\nA spark was struck two centuries ago which lights the way for us still.\nBack to the Millennium Council\nEvents and Remarks\nDr. Bernard Bailyn\nCommittee on the Arts and Humanities\nPresident At Millennium Lecture\nRemarks at Millennium Evening with Poets Laureate\nQ&As at Hawking Lecture\nExcerpts from 1997 State of the Union\nMillenium Trails Announcement\nThe President and The First Lady","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
+{"text":"The End Of A Bad Day Quotes\nReading and share top 16 famous quotes and sayings about The End Of A Bad Day by famous authors and people.\nTop Famous Quotes \/ The End Of A Bad Day Quotes\nTop The End Of A Bad Day Quotes\nBrowse top 16 famous quotes and sayings about The End Of A Bad Day by most favorite authors.\nFavorite The End Of A Bad Day Quotes\n1. \"But behind each player sttod a line of ghosts unable to win. Eve. Ashputtel. Marilyn Monroe. rapunzel slashing wildly at her hair. Bessie Smith unloved and down and out. Bluebeard's wives, Henry VIII's, Snow White cursing the day she left the seven dwarves, Diana, Princess of Wales. The Sheepish Beast came in with a tray of schnapps at the end of the game and we stood for the toast -\"fay wray\"- then tossed our fiery drinks to the back of our crimson throats. Bad girls. Serious ladies. Mourning our dead.\"\nAuthor: Carol Ann Duffy\n2. \"Since the day that our forefather and mother were exiled out of the garden of Eden, we've been lost, trying to get back in, trying to find oneness with each other and the Lord, trying to find communion, our way home. We've been trying to be found. The truth is that without Christ, we are utterly alone, and our attempts to fill our hours with goodies or texting or work or even ministry are simply futile attempts to assure ourselves that things aren't so bad after all. But at the end of the day, in the middle of the night, and at the end of our lives, without the love and work of Jesus Christ, the God-man, we are alone and we know it\u2014and it terrifies us. Every one of us is standing on that darkened stage, condemned, lost and wandering, needing to be found.\"\nAuthor: Elyse M. Fitzpatrick\n3. \"Some say their world's will end with fire, some say with ice. From what I've tasted with desire I hold with those who favor fire. My world may not be ending, even though it feels like it. I do know this however, what doesn't kill you only mke you stronger.\"\nAuthor: Genesis\n4. \"If you look at my career, towards the end you will see I was fighting like once a year. I was not part of the Don King top heavyweights, so I was kind of kept out. His guys were getting three to four fights a year and I could only get one.\"\nAuthor: Gerry Cooney\n5. \"When one does something, one must do it wholly and well. Those bastard existences where you sell suet all day and write poetry at night are made for mediocre minds \u2013 like those horses that are equally good for saddle and carriage, the worst kind, that can neither jump a ditch nor pull a plow.\"\nAuthor: Gustave Flaubert\n6. \"Know. It's all wrong. By rights we shouldn't even be here. But we are. (stands, leans against a wall, looking out into the distance) It's like in the great stories, Mr. Frodo. The ones that really mattered. Full of darkness and danger they were. And sometimes you didn't want to know the end. Because how could the end be happy? How could the world go back to the way it was when so much bad had happened? But in the end, it's only a passing thing, this shadow. Even darkness must pass. A new day will come. And when the sun shines it will shine out the clearer. Those were the stories that stayed with you. That meant something, even if you were too small to understand why. But I think, Mr. Frodo, I do understand. I know now. Folk in those stories had lots of chances of turning back, only they didn't. They kept going, because they were holding on to something.\"\nAuthor: J.R.R. Tolkien\n7. \"Despair, or folly?' said Gandalf. 'It is not despair, for despair is only for those who see the end beyond all doubt. We do not. It is wisdom to recognize necessity, when all other courses have been weighed, though as folly it may appear to those who cling to false hope. Well, let folly be our cloak, a veil before the eyes of the Enemy!\"\n8. \"I know. It's all wrong. By rights we shouldn't even be here. But we are.It's like in the great stories, Mister Frodo. The ones that really mattered. Full of darkness and danger they were. And sometimes you didn't want to know the end. Because how could the end be happy. How could the world go back to the way it was when so much bad had happened. But in the end, it's only a passing thing, this shadow. Even darkness must pass. A new day will come. And when the sun shines it will shine out the clearer.\"\n9. \"If the veil could be parted and we could see the world of spirit, we would likely discover many among them our ancestors anxiously praying and hoping their day of deliverance would come\u2026. Their hearts are turned toward their children on who their hopes rely for deliverance from theprison house.\"\nAuthor: Joseph Fielding Smith\n10. \"It just wasn't supposed to end like this.\" She looks at me with red-rimmed eyes and yellow skin. Colors should be a good thing, but now, they're marks, omens of bad tidings. \"I was supposed to grow up, go to college, get a job,\" she continues in that gut-clenching croak. \"Meet my dream guy, marry, have k-kids. You were going to live next door and we would grow old in the same nursing home. Chuck oatmeal at each other and watch soap operas all day in our rocking chairs. That was my daydream. My perfect life. I don't want to keep asking myself why until the end, but \u2026 \" A lone tear trails down her sunken cheek. This time I don't reach out to wipe the water away; I let it go. Down, down, until it drips off the side of her jaw. This is humanity. This is life and death in one room.\"\nAuthor: Kelsey Sutton\n11. \"We all have bad things inside us, and we all choose either to give in to those bad things or to fight them.\"\nAuthor: Kristin Cast\n12. \"...after rare beef and wine, when the lobes turn red, was the time to ask favours or tell bad news.\"\nAuthor: M.F.K. Fisher\n13. \"I love women whose hidden desires make horses put an end to their lives at the threshold\"\nAuthor: Mahmoud Darwish\n14. \"I hate to mention it, but bad things happen to people occasionally-awful things that cause people to end up lonely or hurt or sad-or sometimes even dead. Maybe something awful has happened to you. I'm sorry about that, and if we were having an actual conversation I might even convince you of my empathy. I'd like to imagine a world where there is nothing but happiness and purring, but I'm not sure there'd be much to cheer about if every day were nothing but sunshine and success. I suppose you can never know the good if you've never been visited by the bad.\"\nAuthor: Obert Skye\n15. \"Borderline means you're one of those girls\u2026\u2026who walk around wearing long sleeves in the summer because you've carved up your forearms over your boyfriend. You make pathetic suicidal gestures and write bad poetry about them, listen to Ani DiFranco albums on endless repeat, end up in the emergency room for overdoses, scare off boyfriends by insisting they tell you that they love you five hundred times a day and hacking into their email to make sure they're not lying, have a police record for shoplifting, and your tooth enamel is eroded from purging. You've had five addresses and eight jobs in three years, your friends are avoiding your phone calls, you're questioning your sexuality, and the credit card companies are after you. It took a lot of years to admit that I was exactly that girl, and that the diagnostic criteria for the disorder were essentially an outline of my life.\"\nAuthor: Stacy Pershall\n16. \"The trick about the theater is at the end of the day you cannot take any of it personally.\"\nAuthor: William Ivey Long\nThe End Of A Bad Day Quotes Pictures\nPrevious Quotes: Quotes About Beethoven Being Deaf\nNext Quotes: Quotes About Florida Heat\nOn the day of the Boston Marathon bombings, for example, I actually knew more about what had happened than the CAPCOM I'd called.\"\nAuthor: Chris Hadfield\nErnesto Guevara Quotes (49 sayings)\nPatrick J Buchanan Quotes (1 sayings)\nScarlet Blackwell Quotes (2 sayings)\nKathryn Harrison Quotes (6 sayings)\nWilliam E Gladstone Quotes (17 sayings)\nJenny Lyn Quotes (7 sayings)\nTim LaHaye Quotes (62 sayings)\nDebra Cox Quotes (2 sayings)\nKim Wright Quotes (14 sayings)\nAbbas Al Akkad Quotes (1 sayings)\nQuotes About Karma Ants\nQuotes About Natural Disasters And God\nQuotes About Pierrot\nQuotes About Magical\nQuotes About Shearing\nQuotes About Shakespeare Family Feuds\nQuotes About Being Judged And Misunderstood\nQuotes About Evening Love\nQuotes About Change By Td Jakes\nQuotes About Bureaucracy In Catch 22\nQuotes About Creencias\nQuotes About Lesbians\nQuotes About Centre Pompidou\nQuotes About Guilty\nQuotes About Bird Cages\nQuotes About Life Torrent\nQuotes About Pinching\nQuotes About All Walks Of Life\nQuotes About Thank God I Found You\nQuotes About Hoes Funny\nQuotes About Maerad\nQuotes About Dashain\nQuotes About Stamps\nQuotes About Matriarchy\nQuotes About Immutability\nQuotes About Unify\nQuotes About Forest Animals\nQuotes About Rebellion Against Society\nQuotes About Countryside\nQuotes About Humility And Modesty","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
+{"text":"Salford Quays\nMan who was recovered from water at Salford Quays has died\nEmergency services were scrambled to Ontario Basin, near to Capital Quays, at 5.50pm on Friday following a number of 999 calls\nPaul BrittonReporter\nWitnesses reported a man entering the water and failing to resurface\nA man recovered from a stretch of water at Salford Quays has died, police have confirmed.\nEmergency services were scrambled to Ontario Basin, near to Capital Quays, at 5.50pm on Friday following a number of 999 calls.\nWitnesses reported a man entering the water and failing to resurface.\nParamedics attended the scene alongside specialist fire service units and trained divers. Images from the scene also revealed rescue boats in the water as a search operation was launched.\nPolice confirmed a short while later that the man was taken from the water and rushed to hospital.\nEmergency services at Ontario Basin in Salford Quays\nA spokesman for Greater Manchester Police confirmed he was pronounced dead in hospital.\nThe man was aged in his 40s but hasn't been named.\nThe tragedy is not being treated as suspicious and the man's next of kin were being informed, a GMP spokesman said.\nThe incident also forced the cancellation of a number of Metrolink services, with no services operating between Eccles via MediaCity to Deansgate until the incident ended.","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
+{"text":"Home \/ Blog \/ Black, Greek, and Lesbian: One Black Woman's Story on Being Out as a Sorority Girl\nBlack, Greek, and Lesbian: One Black Woman's Story on Being Out as a Sorority Girl\nby Aleta in Activist Interviews, Coming Out, Interviews, Race, Culture, and Ethnicity, Sex & Sexuality with 3 Comments\nHistorically Black Colleges were founded in the early 20th Century to educate, support and empower the Black community during a time when education was legally, socially, and financially exclusive and unequal.\nWithin these institutions, as a way of further empowering students, creating tight knit support networks, and providing valuable professional mentorship opportunities, a number of Black Greek organizations also emerged.\nWhere images in the media rarely, if ever, include those of LGBT women (or people) of color, within sororities and fraternities, I hoped to further explore this world by speaking directly with a sorority sister about her experience being a Black lesbian.\nMercedes, an openly queer, comfortable, and confident member of Sigma Gamma Rho \u2014 who also made it known she identified as a lesbian prior to pledging \u2014 graciously allowed us to interview her on her experiences within Black Greek life.\nHow have members of your chapter responded to learning about your sexual orientation?\nMy chapter was very accepting. I knew a few members before I became Greek and they knew I was a lesbian so from what I could tell that wasn't a problem.\nHow have other Greeks on your campus responded?\nTo my surprise it wasn't a big deal. Especially with my sands (people who became Greek the same semester as I) I wasn't any different. To me I didn't make it a big deal because in all honestly it isn't. I'm a lesbian, yes. And? How does that make me any less qualified to be a part of an organization? I didn't hide it and I think that is what was respected. I also never cared what the campus thought. I heard some rumors that some people were wondering why they let me in and if I was going to adjust to be a \"woman\" in an organization. Those people were ignored by me and it never bothered me.\nHave other chapters of your sorority responded?\nNot really, but every Chapter I have been to in the midwest has had at least one gay member.\nHow do other LGBTQ people respond to your membership in a Divine Nine organization?\nThey want to know if it's hard because of who I am. Again, for me it's not a big deal because this is who I am. I've been this way my whole life so I'm pretty comfortable with it. It's not an accessory or a trait I have. It's not my lifestyle or a choice I made. It's my life. It's me. And once people understand that then they can stop making such a big deal about it.\nWhat is important to you about these two aspects of your identity? Do you see them as separate or interlinked?\nThe most important thing about being a lesbian to me is that I never want to forget how hard it is. I make it seem easy because I don't value the negative opinions of others but it wasn't easy when I was younger. Especially coming out to my friends so its important to me that I remember that and that I try and help others who aren't as free flowing in nature as I. As far as Sigma, it's important that I always remain about the community. So with that I interlink all of who I am. Sigma, Homosexuality and Acting. I actually have done a program with my chapter for the past two semesters called 15 under 25 about all of the LGBT youth that have been beaten\/murdered under the age of 25. We won program of the year for that, which was really awesome!\nWhat would you tell a person who's queer and considering pledging, or in a Greek org and considering coming out?\nWhew, that's a tough one. I wish I could say always be yourself and do it no matter what, but I can't. Every chapter is not like Delta Rho and every Campus is not like U of I. Most importantly, not every org is like Sigma Gamma Rho. Most orgs are only accepting of people up until a certain point. Especially with the gay issue. A lot of people are scared to confront it because of popularity. They don't want to lose potential members because one of their sorors or frat brothers is gay.\nMy advice to Greeks is, anyone who doesn't want to be a part of your org because you have a gay member is a coward and shouldn't be Greek in the first place. Secondly, what kind of person are you if popularity is your concern? So I guess I would just say to anyone interested in becoming Greek and they are LGBT, is to look into it. See who the people are. Get to know them and if you feel good about it, go for it! If you're Greek and in the closet, come out. It's rather simple. You made a bond right? To always have your bros\/sis' back no matter what? Trust them enough be who you are. If some of them change then you know who your real friends\/bros\/sis' are. It's simple.\nWhat is your perception of Black Greek Sororities? Where did you get these perceptions from? Do you know of any other gay black Greek organizations that are effectively addressing homophobia within Greek culture?\nCategories: Activist Interviews, Coming Out, Interviews, Race, Culture, and Ethnicity, Sex & Sexuality\nGo Girl! A Biracial Lesbian Contestant in Miss South Carolina Pageant\nAESGray\nThank you for writing about this subject. While I'm not a woman of color, I am a lesbian, and I pledged a sorority (Alpha Chi Omega) \u2013 but I wasn't out at the time. Now as an alumna, I would like to be involved, but there seems to be no support or community in my sorority (though odds would suggest that we're out there somewhere). For years now, I've wondered what our hidden sisters' experiences were being Greek and being out \u2013 but I've never seen anything written nor have I seen anyone interviewed about it. (and forget about searching Google for sororities and lesbians \u2013 it's painfully obvious the type of results one gets.) So thanks again for providing a sliver of insight!\nSo proud of this!!!! greek life and queer representation are hardly ever talked about. having known qpoc and also black sororities, this makes me so happy! Go Delta Rho!\nGreat topic! As a graduate of an HBCU, I never met any out Greeks on campus, and I often wondered if some felt pressure from their organizations to remain silent (until graduation). In my opinion, if a org. is not accepting of your whole self, is that really a group you'd like join? S\/o to Delta Rho for being accepting and inclusive!","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
+{"text":"Your Weekend Burst with Sweetness, Thanks to This Performance of Delicious Proportions\nThe Kimmel Center brings world-renowned musicians, Broadway shows, and arts events to the greater Philadelphia region, and on Saturday, November 17th, Roald Dahl's amazing tale of Charlie and the Chocolate Factory will become Philadelphia's golden ticket! It's the perfect recipe for a delectable treat: songs from the original film, including \"Pure Imagination,\" \"The Candy Man,\" and \"I've Got a Golden Ticket,\" alongside a toe-tapping and ear-tickling new score from the songwriters of Hairspray.\nWilly Wonka is opening his marvelous and mysterious chocolate factory to a lucky few. That includes Charlie Bucket, whose bland life is about to burst with color and confection beyond his wildest dreams.\nHe and four other golden ticket winners will embark on a mesmerizing joyride through a world of pure imagination.\nKimmel Center Inc.'s mission is to operate a world-class performing arts center that engages and serves a broad audience from throughout the Greater Philadelphia region. Now is your chance to experience the wonders of Wonka like never before\u2014get ready for Oompa-Loompas, incredible inventions, the great glass elevator, and more, more, more at this everlasting showstopper!\nThe Apartments @ Brewerytown, the premier apartments in the Brewerytown neighborhood of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, is inviting friends and neighbors to attend this unforgettable event!\nSaturday, November 17, 2018\u20148:00 PM\nAcademy of Music\nkeyword Brewerytown keyword Philadelphia keyword Theatre","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
+{"text":"Best Hybrid Cars: Top 10 List 2012-2013\nHybrid vehicles are popular, especially when gas prices are high. Using a combination of an electric motor (one or more) and an internal combustion engine is what makes a vehicle a Hybrid.\nDo not confuse hybrid from electric vehicles. Electric cars are run 100% by an electricity power source. Those who purchase a hybrid may be eligible for tax credits which help bring the price down. We rank the cars base on MPG, price, and reliability.\nBest Hybrid Cars in the United States:\n1. Toyota Prius c: 53 City\/46 Hwy (50 Avg.), Base Price: $18,950.\nThe Prius c has a 9.5 gallon fuel tank and a 1.5L 4-cylinder hybrid engine with a price tag below most competitions. Available in four trims, not only does the Prius provide exceptional technology, it also gives you confidence and comfort when driving. The hybrid engine of the Prius c is able to seamlessly transition from the electric motor to the engine. This allows for maximized used of your fuel. At a higher price, you can also get the best selling Prius or the Prius V.\n2. Honda Civic Hybrid: 44 City\/44 Hwy (44 Avg.), Base Price: $24,050.\nThe Civic Hybrid has a 13.2 gallon fuel tank and a 1.5L 4-cylinder hybrid engine that produces 110 HP. The Civic Hybrid continues to be competitive in the compact category. Not only does this Honda Civic give you good fuel economy, it gives you a comfortable ride as well. The 4-door has been given a coupe body style in addition to the spacious interior.\n3. Lexus CT 200h: 43 City\/40 Hwy (40 Avg.), Base Price: $29,120.\nThe CT 200h has a 11.9 gallon fuel tank and a 1.8L 4-cylinder hybrid engine that produces 134 HP. This offering from Lexus for the hybrid market is a 4-door luxury hatchback that comes at an attractive price. It has sporty handling and a very impressive fuel economy. The cabin is driver friendly and comes with excellent ergonomic styling.\n4. Honda Insight: 41 City\/44 Hwy (42 Avg.), Base Price: $18,500.\nThe Insight has a 10.6 gallon fuel tank and a 1.3L 4-cylinder hybrid engine produces 98 HP. The Insight is available in 4 trims that include the base model, the LX, EX, and the EX w\/ navigation. This 4-door hatchback is low-priced for a hybrid. Some have complained about certain features on the Insight.\n5. Toyota Camry Hybrid: 43 City\/39 Hwy (41 Avg.), Base Price: $25,900.\nThe Camry Hybrid has a 17.0 gallon fuel tank and a 2.5L 4-cylinder hybrid engine produces 200 HP. This family sedan is now available with a hybrid engine. It not only gives you great fuel economy, but add to that quick acceleration, attractive easy to use high tech features, and great safety scores. The XLE trim comes with backup a camera and HomeLink universal transceiver; the acceleration moves this hybrid from 0 to 60 mph in 7.4 seconds, which isn't bad for a hybrid.\n6. Ford Fusion Hybrid: 41 City\/36 Hwy (39 Avg.), Base Price: $28,775.\nThe Fusion Hybrid has a 17.5 gallon fuel tank with a range of 717 mpg city\/ 630 hwy; it comes with a 2.5L Atkinson 4-cylinder hybrid engine. Labeled as mid-sized family sedan, the Fusion Hybrid gives you a comfortable ride and spacious interior. This hybrid from Ford gives you good fuel economy and a gauge cluster specific to this model. An E-CVT transmission works together with the hybrid Atkinson engine.\n7. Lincoln MKZ Hybrid: 41 City\/36 Hwy (39 Avg.), Base Price: $34,755.\nThe MKZ Hybrid has a 17.5 gallon fuel tank and a 2.5L 4-cylinder hybrid DOHC engine that produces 156 HP. The starting price of the MKZ Hybrid is the same as the MKZ's gas model. The difference begins there. Standard features on the hybrid edition of the MKZ comes Bridge of Weir TM leather trimmed seating to go with the wood trim. The instrument panel comes with the SmartGauge TM that helps you drive the vehicle with greater efficiency. You get all that along with the interior luxury that Lincolns have been known for.\n8. Chevrolet Volt: Hybrid motor: 35 City\/40 Hwy (37 Avg.);\nElectric motor: 95 City\/93 Hwy (94 Avg.), Base Price: $39,145.\nThe Volt is a electric\/hybrid car with a 9.3 gallon fuel tank and a 1.4L 4-cylinder hybrid engine that produces 83 HP; and an electric motor that creates 149 HP and 273 lb-ft of torque. The EPA range on the Volt electric motor is 35 miles. Seen as the most fuel efficient hybrid in the market these days, the Chevy Volt is the most expensive car in its class. Your monthly fuel expenses will definitely go down. You can avail of tax credits which you may be eligible for, doing so will bring your cost on the Volt down.\n9. Hyundai Sonata Hybrid: 35 City\/40 Hwy (37 Avg.), Price: $25,850.\nThe Sonata Hybrid has a 17.2 gallon fuel tank and a 2.4L 4-cylinder hybrid engine that produces a combined 206 HP. The cabin provides a comfortable ride to go with its good looking features. Hyundai provides you with a safe ride to go with a lengthy warranty. Improvements are on the way to help enhance the powertrain.\n10. Kia Optima Hybrid: 35 City\/40 Hwy (36 Avg.), Base Price: $25,700. The Optima Hybrid has a 17.2 gallon fuel tank and a 2.4L 4-cylinder full parallel hybrid engine that produces 206 HP. This hybrid from Kia can go from 0 to 60 in 8.4 seconds which is fairly quick for a hybrid. The Optima Hybrid comes standard with a SiriusXM audio system to go with BlueTooth wireless technology and USB input jacks. Other options include a Microsoft powered Infotainment System, Infinity\/Sirius XM audio system, and a rear camera display to name a few.","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
+{"text":"Jody Brimacombe\nWhat people are searching for about Conservative leader Erin O'Toole\nErin O'Toole has been officially selected as the new Conservative party leader, and plenty of people are now understandably digging for information about him. What does O'Toole's slogan, \"Take Back Canada,\" actually mean? What qualifications does he have for the job?\nHere's what you need to know based on what people are currently turning to Google to search for.\nWhere was Erin O'Toole born?\nErin O'Toole was born in Montreal in 1973, but he was raised in Bowmanville and Port Perry, Ontario as the oldest of five children, per his official website.\nWhat is Erin O'Toole's history?\nIn 1991, O'Toole became an officer in the Royal Canadian Air Force (RCAF), eventually becoming an air navigator and captain who served for 12 years.\nAfter serving, O'Toole switched his focus to law, graduating from Dalhousie University in Halifax. He spent five years as in-house counsel to a large consumer products company in Ontario.\nIt wasn't until 2012 that O'Toole entered politics, becoming an MP for Durham, Ontario. In the Conservative government, he served as the Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister of International Trade before his appointment to cabinet as Canada's Minister of Veterans Affairs.\nA post shared by Erin O'Toole (@erinotoolemp) on Oct 20, 2016 at 9:13am PDT\nWhat are Erin O'Toole's policies?\nO'Toole is vowing to ease tensions in Western Canada, immediately speaking with Prime Minister Justin Trudeau about western alienation (or, as it's colloquially known, #wexit).\nHe's also pledging to build a more inclusive country under his \"Take Back Canada\" platform.\n\"I believe that whether you are Black, white, brown or from any race or creed, whether you are LGBT or straight, whether you are an Indigenous Canadian or have joined the Canadian family three weeks ago or three generations ago...you are an important part of Canada and you have a home in the Conservative Party of Canada,\" he said in a Tuesday press conference.\nO'Toole has been one of the strongest critics against the Liberal government's WE Charity debacle, calling it Trudeau's \"worst corruption scandal\" in a Tweet.\nWhen it comes to the Canada Emergency Response Benefit (CERB), O'Toole isn't a supporter; he's vowed to \"wind down\" most emergency benefit programs, citing the $343-billion federal deficit, per CTV News.\nHe says that he would consider extending Employment Insurance, and he plans to expand the Canada Child Benefit.\nHistorically, O'Toole has been against assisted suicide, supported defunding the CBC and supported ownership of legal firearms.\nIt's time to grow our team. Are you with me? \ud83d\udc4d pic.twitter.com\/CAv5gPqLLb\n\u2014 Erin O'Toole (@ErinOTooleMP) August 24, 2020\nWhat was Erin O'Toole's acceptance speech like?\nO'Toole called it an \"honour\" to become the next Conservative party leader during his acceptance speech on Monday.\nHe thanked Leslyn Lewis, Derek Sloan, Peter MacKay, Andrew Scheer and his wife Jill, and his own family for supporting him.\n\"Most of all, thank you to the tens of thousands of Canadians from coast to coast to coast who voted for me,\" he said.\n\"You put your faith in me to lead this historic party and I am honoured and humbled. I promise you, I will not let you down.\"\nIs Erin O'Toole a social conservative?\nO'Toole says that he's a \"true blue Tory,\" and he identifies with many social conservative policies.\nHe's pro-choice, for example. In the past, he's said that he will march in Pride parades and voted in favour of a 2013 transgender rights bill, per Maclean's.\nSimilarly, O'Toole supports women's rights and religious rights.\nHowever, several of O'Toole's policies would be considered more right-wing in nature, including gun ownership, tax reform and making it illegal to block transportation infrastructure (which would have had a major impact on the Wet'suwet'en blockades that took place in February).\nDoes Erin O'Toole have a family and\/or wife?\nO'Toole has a wife, Rebecca, a Nova Scotia resident who he met while studying law at Dalhousie University.\nThe pair have two children: a daughter, Mollie, and their son Jack. The family also owns a \"spunky yellow Labrador Retriever,\" according to O'Toole's website.\nWe did it!!!! #teamotooleforthewin #cpcldr pic.twitter.com\/2EMoSc2bZT\n\u2014 Rebecca O'Toole (@RebeccaOToole1) August 24, 2020\nHow old is Erin O'Toole?\nThe Conservative Party Leader was born in 1973, and he turned 47 in January 2020.\nHow tall is Erin O'Toole?\nYup, this is really a frequently searched question. Nobody really knows the answer, but he looks to be about six inches shorter than former Conservative Party Leader Andrew Scheer, who is reportedly six feet four inches.\nJoined my friend @PLawrence2019 to welcome our leader @AndrewScheer to Cobourg for a quick stop to rally the troops pic.twitter.com\/K8Lugsy0o8\nWhat religion does Erin O'Toole practice?\nO'Toole identifies as a Christian, although he has said in the past that he will champion religious freedom in Canada.","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
+{"text":"Full-time freelance writer based in Glasgow, Scotland\u2026 author of 17 books, three of which are in the Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame Permanent Collection\u2026 former news editor at TeamRock.com\u2026 former band manager, drummer and keyboardist\u2026 TV and radio presenter\u2026 real ale fan.\nNext Annual Prince Celebration to Mark His Birth, Not His Death\n2020 event moved from April to June under new Paisley Park management.\nAretha Franklin in Good Spirits, Says Nephew\nFamily member says iconic singer is \"alert, laughing, teasing,\" despite reports of serious illness.","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
+{"text":"Home \u203a Cancers\nAdvanced Cancer Protocols\nOptimizing the Cancer Control, Repair & Reversal Code: a precondition to Optimal Longevity\n\u00ab \u2026si j'avais un cancer, je n'irai jamais dans un centre anticanc\u00e9reux classique. Seules les victimes du cancer qui vivent loin de ces centres ont une chance. \u00bb \"If i had a cancer, i would never to to a conventional anti cancer center. Only cancer victims who live far from these centers have a chance\". (Source) Pr Georges Math\u00e9 (famous contemporary French oncologist\nFor the ACR Institute, there is no question that integrative oncology's modalities and clinics are much better than conventional oncology clinics. The well known Professor Georges Math\u00e9 (oncologist) used to say: \"Si j'avais une tumeur, je n'irais pas dans un centre anticanc\u00e9reux \u00bb (Le Monde, 4 mai 1998) (\"If i had a tumor, i would not go to an anticancer center\") (Source). Among a few other French oncologists who have questioned the very legitimacy of conventional oncology's thinking and modalities, I'm invoking Georges Math\u00e9 because he was recognized in the US as a cancer, stem cell and bone transplant pioneer in that he proved as early as 1963 that cancer was curable via the immune system. He also demonstrated that stem cells could both heal radiation damage and fight cancer. Dr. Joseph H. Antin, chief of stem cell transplantation at the famous Dana-Farber Cancer Institute in Boston, summed up Math\u00e9's work: \"It was quite a leap of scientific genius. He's one of the original innovators. Much of what we have accomplished can be linked back in a fairly direct way to the work that he did in the 1950s and '60s.\" (\"Dr. Georges Math\u00e9, Transplant Pioneer, Dies at 88\". New York Times, Source).\nNotwithstanding their nuisance, cancer cells have mastered the art of longevity since their \"innate evolutionarily-based intelligence\" has tweaked its genome to produce a continuous fresh supply of telomerase enzymes thanks to which they can divide endlessly and remain forever \"strong\" and \"young\". In this Presentation, we will unmask cancer's intrinsic weaknesses and explain a few of its underlying mechanisms. But between cancer as a biological reality and conventional oncology as a system of deleterious dogmas, the central problem lies with Conventional Oncology.We will thus discuss the limits of conventional oncology in relation to the strengths of holistic cancer protocols.\nFrom 1991 to the 2018, published studies, including in the Lancet Journal, have proven beyond any reasonable doubt that systemic cytotoxic chemo-blasting more often than not doesn't durably save lives of those who have \"solid\" cancers. The five year survival rates for liquid canccers (e.g. lymphomas and, inter alia, leukemias) are much better, but these malignancies often come back with a vengeance after the five-year period and-or have toxic effects that seriously affect the patient's ability to reach a healthy 120 years of lifespan. Worse, the evidence shows that with conventional chemotherapy, cancer patients' demise tends to be accelerated. While radiation and cytotoxic chemo do shrink tumors, there are no published studies the H.M. Institute is aware of that show a positive correlation between tumor shrinkage and significant long-term survivability. Thus, the emerging reality (for the last 40 to 50 years) is that most of these conventional medical interventions will weaken what can restore the patient's \"\u00e9lan vital\" (i.e., a notion from Prof. Henri Bergson which include the immune, digestive, microbiota, endocannabinoid and neurological systems) while fueling what metastasizes cancer, in particular, the microscopic circulating tumor and stem cells that most conventional oncologists still refuse to inform the patient about, in violation of medmal law and ethics. Even most of conventional oncology's more recent targeted monoclonal antibodies, signaling inhibitors, genetic interventions and immunotherapeutics have toxic side effects that can be avoided with alternative and holistic oncology. Many of these targeted therapies including immunotherapeutics have been hyped misleadingly as new cancer \"cure-alls\". While it is true that a small percentage of cancers go away with immunotherapeutics, these effects are usually not long lasting, autoimmunity can be triggered, the modalities are very expensive and the outcome of holistic oncology's cases tend to be much better, provided the patient is compliant with a holistic lifestyle and restorative protocols.","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
+{"text":"Gemma Cairney: This is what 30 looks like\nKatie O'Malley\nTo celebrate International Women's Day on 8 March, Stylist speaks to BBC Radio 1 and TV presenter Gemma Cairney about what life is like for a 30-year-old woman in Britain\nTell us about yourself in 100 words\nI live in a mind melt of different situations, through my work and social life \u2014 I wouldn't have it any other way. I love different sorts of people, their stories, all the different facets, that make them, them. This is entwined with how I am compelled to tell many of these stories and have ended up being a broadcaster after originally going to drama school and working in fashion for a bit. I love most things in my life. I feel it's important to try and live life through adventure, colour and love.\nWhat are the greatest challenges you face?\nFeeling overwhelmed and a bit manic. I'm sensitive and think loads \u2014 it's probably what I love and hate the most about myself. It means I have lots of ideas and put pressure on myself to action them all. This can make life very busy so organisation can sometimes be crazy. I also worry and always want everyone around me to be okay.\nHow would you define happiness?\nA pink sunset - one of the reasons I moved to the seaside in Margate.\nWhat is your biggest ambition?\nTo always look after myself and create a joyous environment in my home. To remain brave when it comes to the work I undertake and continue working on projects with people that spark imagination, challenge or incite a damn good time \u2014 be that a radio show filled with music or produceing a specialist documentary. And to write a book I am happy with!\nIs this where you saw yourself at 30?\nI kind of never thought that far ahead. Whenever I did, I imagined a life of struggle \u2014 I'm not sure why \u2014 but when I look back, I feel like I was subliminally bracing myself for it. So I'm pleasantly surprised that things are going alright.\nWhat do you wish you could tell every woman?\nThat they can do anything beyond their wildest dreams.\nIt all ending. I guess this is death, right?\nWhat is your most prized possession?\nMy Terry de Havilland shoes, that he made me for my birthday last year. They are called the 'Drippy Candle' shoes and are a collaboration with another extraordinarily minded designer I know called Mary Benson. They are so beautiful and mean so much because I love that man \u2014 a cobbler in his 70's still creating after 50 years of making. They are more than shoes \u2014 they encapsulate a spirit of disco. And my house by the sea \u2014 I'm in love with that too!\nDo you think women are equal to men, and why?\nNo, because we are still focussing too much on gender. If we all just gave ourselves a break, knowing that we could all be everything, we'd feel relieved and more equal.\nWhat are you most proud of in your life?\nMy friends and some of the places I've visited on the planet.\nWhat do you hope for in 10 years?\nGenerally, for the world to be more of a hopeful place to grow up in. Personally, to just be having a nice time, in a house filled with lots of yummy food, conversation and dancing from time to time.\nWhat woman has inspired you - and why?\nThere are so many. My best friend [Beth] springs to mind right now. I see her nearly every day because we often work together too. We laugh too much.\nWhat do you eat as a treat?\nA lamb madras and mushroom rice.\nKatie O'Malley is the editorial assistant at Stylist magazine. When she's not writing features about everything, from Suffragettes to fashion designers' desks, she writes the Elsewhere page and contributes to Scoop and 5 Minute Philosopher. She also has a weakness for cheese, monochrome everything and films\u2026all films.","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
+{"text":"Islam in France: A Contest Between the Wind and the Sun\nJonathan Laurence Monday, November 1, 2004\nAn employee at a municipal swimming pool in the Parisian suburb of Seine-Saint-Denis was fired in late March 2004 after the local mayor objected to the man's facial hair. \"The external expression of religious beliefs cannot be tolerated where students are taking swimming courses,\" the mayor said. He continued with a rhetorical question that reflects contemporary concerns about Islam's place in French society: \"Is proselytism a real problem in our country or not? Wasn't a law just passed that reminded us all of our duty to respect neutrality in civic life?\" The city pool employee, Mourad Lamsanes, insisted he was just trying to be a good Muslim and did not intend to convert any swimmers. Shortly after introducing the bill last winter, former education minister Luc Ferry had in fact stated that perhaps \"certain beards\" should also be included under the law's prohibitions. They were not, ultimately, but authorities made it clear that they don't like what they see underneath certain head and face coverings: an organized movement of religious prescription and proselytism. French shorthand for Islamic extremists is \"les barbus\" (the bearded), a companion term to \"les femmes voil\u00e9es\" (veiled women). Officials reason that radical Islamic movements are \"testing\" the Republic, and that the state should not shrink from its responsibility to preserve a religiously neutral public sphere.\nThe sense of crisis surrounding public expressions of Muslim identity should not be underestimated: it had reached its pitch amidst saturated media coverage within weeks of the March 11 train bombings in next-door Spain, a series of high-profile expulsions of French Imams, and, of course, the French Senate's definitive approval of the law banning \"conspicuous\" religious signs from primary and secondary schools. French authorities have been extremely eager to impose a set of ground rules for the model comportment and integration of Muslim citizens. This standoffish position came in the immediate aftermath of French opposition to the Iraq war. With its ban on headscarves for young girls in primary and secondary schools, no one could accuse the French government of trying to curry favor with the Arab world. Indeed, France may have squandered the international solidarity of some part of the Muslim world with the ban. It was designated a terrorist target from the time of the law's passage in March 2004, when Ayman al Zawahiri called the headscarf law \"proof of the crusaders' hatred toward Muslims\" and a threat was mailed to Le Parisien calling the law \"a declaration of war directed at the Muslim world.\"\nIs this confrontation between individual religious liberties and newfound vigor of French secularism inevitable? The fact that Sikh turbans, Jewish yarmulkes, and Christian crosses are included in the French school ban has been of little comfort to many observers concerned that Muslims are unfairly stigmatized and victimized in today's political climate. One French Muslim leader compared the government ban on the headscarf to other \"unjust laws\" of the past, such as yellow stars for French Jews under German occupation. In fact, there had not been strong opposition to the law among the domestic French Muslim population, whom opinion polls showed to be only slightly against it. Last February there were only a couple of anti-ban rallies that in any case never gathered more than a few thousand. After the law's passage and the follow-up memorandum on how to apply it, Muslim leaders remained split over how strictly to interpret the law and whether to recommend civic disobedience on the first day of school.\nBut this past September, American news crews who had planned to stake out schools in immigrant-heavy neighborhoods in the hopes of witnessing an \"uprising\" were disappointed by the lack of drama. What might have been a very divisive start of the school year turned out \"in the spirit of fraternity,\" in the words of the education minister. Predictions of mass expulsions of Muslim girls turned out to be misplaced. Last month, only 635 girls appeared at school wearing a head covering. Of these 635, all but 100 or so agreed to remove their headscarf within the first couple of days; this was roughly the same number of so-called \"conflict cases\" as in previous years. By October 15th, the education ministry announced that its teachers had managed to convince all but 72 holdouts.\nTwo major factors helped maintain a calm situation. First of all, headscarf wearing had never been widespread. In the last year before the ban, in the fall of 2003, the interior ministry reported that out of 250,000 Muslim girls in primary and secondary schools, fewer than 1500 wore headscarves \u2013 a fraction of one percent; this was down from a high of 2000 girls in 1994. The official \"headscarf mediator\" at the education ministry counted only 150 \"headscarf cases\" in 2003, those girls who were asked to remove the scarf and refused \u2013 including twenty \"difficult cases\" where no compromise could be found, resulting in around a dozen expulsions. Of the 72 who have refused to budge this year, when the teachers' wishes are backed by the force of law, the estimated number of likely expulsions is only two dozen girls nationwide (most of them in the environs of Strasbourg and Paris).\nAfter the divisive national debate over the law on religious symbols, the law's failure to incite widespread disobedience has reassured the French public that their Muslim compatriots are not, in fact, seeking confrontation. And some school officials have shown a willingness to compromise. Parents summoned to a school in Mantes La Jolie negotiated for their daughters' right to wear bandannas in between courses and to remove them upon entry in the classroom.\nJonathan Laurence\nThe second major factor behind the relatively peaceful outcome in French schools was the August 19 hostage-taking of two French journalists in Iraq, whose kidnappers demanded withdrawal of the French headscarf ban in return for their freedom. At that point, even opponents of the ban who had organized demonstrations now led unanimous calls for all schoolgirls to respect the new law. Muslim leaders denounced this foreign interference in their internal affairs and proved their republican mettle by calling the kidnappers' demands an \"odious [form of] blackmail\" and by proclaiming loudly the phrase \"there will be no blood on my headscarf.\"\nGiven the ire this ban has aroused around the world\u2014from Cairo to Falluja to Washington\u2014and given the relatively small number of girls who ever wore a headscarf to school, why did the government choose this issue? The ban is part of a larger effort to reduce the salience of certain religious traits and potentially dual loyalties of its Muslim population that the French government fears are being stoked by transnational pressures. In particular, authorities claim they receive increasing reports of \"re-Islamization\" among young people in high-risk neighborhoods. The susceptibility of these second- and third-generation immigrants has its roots, no doubt, in earlier government failures in political and civic integration. Recent research conducted for the Interior Ministry suggests that religion has begun to fill this vacuum in French suburbs, to the point that even banal associational activities like camping and soccer are being given religious overtones.\nThe heavy media coverage of any instances where some Muslims have demanded male-female segregation\u2014in sex education or gym classes, at public pools or in hospitals, for example\u2014has enhanced the sense of a brewing challenge. As the former leader of the parliamentary majority asked rhetorically, \"what's next \u2013 separate compartments for men and women on public transportation? This could lead to a form of apartheid, contrary to our republican ideals.\" The French value of individual religious liberty has thus been superceded by the perceived threat to national sovereignty and the French way of life.\nA simplified narrative has become dominant: that foreign radicals are using France as a testing ground for their broader strategy. Any instance of headscarf wearers in schools, French officials have reasoned, must therefore be explainable by external factors. Some have suggested girls wear the headscarf in response to neighborhood pressures whipped up by a freshly arrived foreign preacher who does not understand the French way of life; or perhaps because of wealthy Saudis who pay French Muslim families to send their girls to school wearing the headscarf.\nThe headscarf ban\u2014and the expulsion of individual Imams\u2014thus became useful symbols of a robust state response, aimed to relieve transnational pressures exerted on their citizens. The French state considers itself to be doing battle with transnational forces, not with individual consciences, and is using the instruments at its disposal: it demands a highly visible \"sacrifice\" on the part of Muslims to republican integration.\nThis controversy deserves to placed in historical perspective, though not just in terms of previous battles over the separation of church and state. Rather, we should think of religion's place in the public sphere during transitions from emancipation to citizenship. In the eyes of the state, articles of clothing take on metaphorical qualities of loyalty and belonging. To religious observers and civil liberties activists, this boils down to a simple question of freedom of expression and religious rights. But to governments concerned with integrating communities, these superficial markings of difference undermine a larger effort: not just that of selling republican values to new citizens, but also, in a sense, to sell the \"integrate-ability\" of these new citizens to the majority population. It is interesting to note that the 1812 edict in Prussia that granted civil rights to Jews also briefly included an article requiring Jews to standardize the way they dressed as well as shave their beards. The edict also prohibited foreign Jews from being employed as rabbis in Prussia.\nThe headscarf law might also be seen as the French counterpart to the German citizenship law reform in 1999-2000. The reform in Germany affirmed the state's sovereignty over the Turkish population there\u2014effectively re-territorializing the state's jurisdiction. There, the initial government proposal allowed for double citizenship but a petition drive led to its reversal, forcing German-Turkish youth to decide their own nationality at age 23. In the same way that many French Muslims were reluctant to part with the right to wear headscarf as a matter of principle, many Turks in Germany resented having to choose between their Turkish passport and the German one. For some German Turks, wanting to keep the passport was not a nationalist claim, just as wanting the right to wear the headscarf is not always a religiously-motivated claim. In each case, however, the state has sought to bind Muslims to the state by way of a public, cultural sacrifice.\nBut that which threatened to be a grave confrontation of wills has led to a major rapprochement between Muslim leaders and French politicians. Having stayed silent after several terrorist threats in response to the Headscarf ban last spring, the hostage situation and the first day of school forced Muslim leaders out of any shade of ambiguity. French Muslims refused to be used as pawns in an international terrorist battle. As one Le Monde article put it, young Muslim women have made the leap in the eyes of others from \"victims\" to \"heroes of the republic.\"\nThe headscarf ban has passed its first test. The course of events has turned this public debate into a speedier version of the process by which Jews of the early 19th century French empire were posed questions regarding their loyalty to the state. Muslims today, like Jews, have explicitly given priority to the laws of the Republic above their religious obligations. This has had a stronger effect on integration than any emancipatory measure. It is important to remember that although policies like the headscarf ban and expulsions of Imams stand out, the French government's response has not been one of repression alone. This gives the government greater room for maneuver with other Muslim community demands. In the short term, the law has strengthened the French Council of the Muslim Religion and in the medium-term, the law is likely to lead to the creation of more semi-public Muslim confessional schools, governed by association contracts with the state.\nArguing on behalf of civil rights for Russian Jews in National Geographic eighty years ago, former President William Taft evoked Aesop's fable of \"the contest between the wind and the sun in removing a man's coat from his back.\" \"The harder the wind blew, the closer the man held the coat to his body\u2026 Persecution and injustice merely strengthen [man's] peculiarity in his adherence to his ancient customs, religion and its ceremonials,\" Taft wrote. \"It was only when the sun with its warm rays increased the temperature and created discomfort that the man removed his coat.\"\nIn an age of legislation that sanctions conspicuous religious signs, we are still haunted by President Taft's prediction: \"If education and opportunity and freedom and equality are extended to them in the next generation, the traits in which objection is made will become less and less conspicuous.\" Having avoided an obvious backfire of the ban, we may well see a further normalization of the Muslim presence in France\u2014as individual cases are negotiated and the French government is able to adopt a less repressive way of Muslim integration, such as training native imams and paying attention to equality of education and opportunity.","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
+{"text":"The Altman Companies unloads Alt\u00eds Boca Raton, Evan Whelan heads to ONE Commercial\nby Kerrie Kennedy\nEvan Whelan joins ONE Commercial\nTop commercial producer Evan Whelan is joining ONE Commercial as a national retail investment advisor, where he will specialize in the sale of shopping centers, single tenant net lease assets and 1031 exchanges.\nWhelan brings 13 years of experience with more than $100 million in sales over the past five years.\nMost recently, he was a broker at Marcus & Millichap with a successful track record in retail properties. Prior to that, he was a luxury residential top producer with Nestler Poletto Sotheby's International Realty, which was acquired by ONE Sotheby's International Realty in 2018.\nOriginally from Philadelphia, Whelan enjoys playing ice hockey, golfing and spending time with his friends and family.\n\"I am thrilled to embark on this next chapter in my career,\" Whelan said in a press release. \"ONE Commercial has made a name for itself in the commercial industry with unparalleled expertise and I look forward to leveraging the company's impressive technology and forward-thinking strategy to take my business to the next level.\"\nThe Altman Companies sell Alt\u00eds Boca Raton\nFlorida-based developer, builder and rental apartment manager The Altman Companies have announced the sale of Alt\u00eds Boca Raton to a Miami-based real estate private equity fund.\nThe 398-unit luxury midrise located at 5500 N. Military Trail, was developed in a joint venture with GID Real Estate Investments, a Massachusetts-based vertically integrated real estate developer, investor and operator.\n\"Over the past 50 plus years, we've developed and assembled a portfolio of apartment communities that have redefined the exceptional living experience in Florida and across the country,\" said The Altman Companies CEO Joel Altman in a press release. \"We are so proud of the new high standard that we established with the development of Alt\u00eds Boca Raton.\"\nPosted In: Making Moves\nMiami Master Brokers Forum names Iliana Abella Chair\nDuff Rubin named president of Coldwell Banker Realty in Florida\nColdwell Banker welcomes two new Florida brokerages through Inclusive Ownership Program\nCommenting is not available unless JavaScript is enabled.\nAdriana Vargas Hernandez","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
+{"text":"A tentative agreement to resolve the nomination of the new prime minister, and this is the favorite\nby rocky on Sun 19 Jan 2020, 2:01 am\n[size=35][size=35]A tentative agreement to resolve the nomination of the new prime minister, and this is the favorite[\/size]\n[size=18]A number of deputies revealed, on Sunday, a preliminary agreement to resolve the nomination of the new prime minister, expected to announce the personality that will take over as prime minister during the current week.\nAl-Sabah newspaper quoted the deputy of the Alliance of Riyad al-Masoudi as saying that \"the political forces have reached a complete conviction that it is necessary to choose a personality that suits the nature of the stage and not the wishes of the political parties, and thus it has moved from the stage of political stagnation, from the figure of the Shakhly, not to the fact that Shakhi is not from the peculiar to the fact that Shaykhiyi is not from me.\"\nAl-Masoudi said, \"The coming few days will witness a solution to the crisis of choosing the next prime minister, according to specifications that are acceptable to the people and the authority.\"\nHe added that \"the transitional stage that will be determined will be a political agreement, because the constitution has not been referred to, and that early elections cannot be determined unless the law is published in the official gazette,\" indicating that \"its publication is dependent on the completion of the annexes assigned to it for the purpose of holding the As well, there must be security and political stability. [\/size]\nIn a similar situation, the Fatah al-Fatah MP Muhammad al-Baldawi revealed a \"tentative agreement between the forces of the Shi'ite blocs to offer specific figures that will be announced during the current week.\nAl-Baldawi said that \"the political forces reached understandings to agree on an acceptable personality proposal for the next government,\" noting that \"the Shiite forces will present that character during the current week.\"\nHe added, \"The political forces from the other components informed the Shiite forces that they would not stand in the way of our choice of a new and acceptable character if it was agreed upon by us.\"\nAs for the representative of the Sadiqon Ahmad Al-Kanani bloc, he confirmed that \"a new mechanism has been put in place to choose an independent government, and the name of the candidate for prime minister will be announced soon,\" without revealing the nature of that mechanism.\nAl-Kanani added that \"the coming days will witness the dissolution of many things, especially the formation of the new government and the file of foreign presence,\" stressing that \"the convergence of the large poles within the political process will contribute to choosing a government away from political quotas.\"\nIn turn, Mukhtar al-Musawi, a deputy of the construction alliance, revealed that three names were nominated as candidates for the post of prime minister.\nAl-Musawi said that \"three names were submitted as candidates for the position of Prime Minister, Ali Ali Shukri, Advisor to the President of the Republic, and Muhammad Tawfiq Allawi, as well as a third military figure,\" confirming that \"Ali Shukri possesses the great loyalty of Tully.\"\nHe continued, \"There is a more important issue at the present time than the issue of choosing a prime minister, which is the repercussions of the American presence and the anticipated demonstrations opposing that presence,\" suggesting, \"decisively choosing one of them after the end of the repercussions of the American patronage American. \"\nNews about political discussions resulting from a preliminary agreement for the selection and nomina\n[size=32]News about political discussions resulting from a preliminary agreement for the selection and nomination of the Prime Minister !![\/size]\nSunday, January 19, 2020 at 10:57 AM (24 views)\n[You must be registered and logged in to see this image.]\tFacebookTwitterGoogle plusLinkedinEmail\nBaghdad \/ Sky Press\nIraqi parliamentary sources said that the understandings between the political blocs led to an agreement, described in principle, to resolve the position of the next prime minister and choose a consensual figure acceptable from the street and the authority, suggesting that the name be announced within the next few days.\nOn Sunday, \"local media outlets\" quoted the representative of the \"Saeron\" coalition, Riyad Al-Masoudi, as saying that \"the Shiite political forces have reached a full conviction of the necessity of choosing a personality that suits the nature of the stage and is not in accordance with the wishes of the political parties, and thus it has moved from the stage of political stalemate to actual mobility.\" My grandfather is to choose a figure who will lead the transition without problems. \"\nAl-Masoudi expected that \"the coming few days will witness a solution to the crisis of choosing the next prime minister, according to specifications that the people accept and reference.\"\nAnd adding that \"the transitional phase that will be determined will be by political agreement, since the constitution has not been mentioned.\"\nopening FakeNews 8 parliamentary Deputy companies 1 3 7 electronic discusses 4 employees Iraqi Prime 5 airways reveals 6 Parliament boeing customs government 12 dinar 2","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
+{"text":"Qatar Airways eyes direct flight from Doha to Langkawi\nGEORGE TOWN, Oct 25 (Bernama) \u2013 Qatar Airways is studying the possibility of adding Langkawi to its list of direct flights from Doha, Qatar, said Group Country Manager for Malaysia and Brunei Datuk Muzamil Mohamad.\nHowever, he said the airlines was yet to set a target date to introduce the inaugural flight from Doha to Langkawi.\n\"There are a lot of beautiful places in Malaysia and being a network carrier of Qatar Airways with good connectivity via Doha, we hope to bring a lot more tourists to Malaysia with spending power to help the country's tourism industry,\" he said at an exclusive culinary workshop organised by Qatar Airways and conducted by Chef Wan here today.\nMuzamil also said that Qatar Airways' network hub, the Hamad International Airport in Doha, added 20 new destinations in 2018, including three new destinations to be included by December namely Mombasa, Kenya; Danang, Vietnam; and Gothenburg, Sweden.\n\"Currently, Qatar Airways have connected more than 150 destinations from six continents,\" he said.","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
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+{"text":"Crowd DNA New York's Eden Lauffer explores our changing buying habits and how 2020's events influenced this season's holiday shopping\u2026\nIn more 'normal' times, holiday shopping and gift giving can feel a little monotonous \u2013 a set of pots and pans as requested on a wishlist, the regifting of a yet another scented candle. But in 2020, as with most other aspects of life, things looked a little different.\nWe saw gifting trends this season reflect a yearning for simple joys with reciprocal benefits for both gifters and receivers. Using the three trends below as a springboard, we've deployed our Culture At Scale unstructured data method to explore social conversation around gifting, and provide direction on what to expect from 2021 shopping behaviors.\nWhile sex tech remains stigmatized, brands are starting to position it as self-care. And with major celebrities involved, it's sure to turn heads in 2021.\nIntimacy meets technology\nIn 2020, we spent months without in-person gatherings and meetings. For many, this meant an end to dating and casual hookups. And with more time spent in isolation and shopping online, consumers warmed to new forms of intimacy. FaceTime dating aside, sex tech sales skyrocketed. This includes toys that link to apps (think Fitbit for sex) and VR sexual experimentation. Discussion about gifting last year had an emphasis on treating oneself, making sex tech a popular purchase.\nIn 2021, as economies begin to revive themselves and the hardship of last year fades away, treating oneself doesn't feel as frivolous. And wellbeing doesn't just mean meditation and mindfulness \u2013 expect consumers to be investing in themselves and others via the sex tech space, too. We're also noticing intimacy sites sparking conversation around this unique junction between technology and self-care.\nAs consumers lean into DIY gifts, TikTok serves as an incredible source of inspiration and learning\nMutually beneficial DIY gifts\nConsumers have acquired new hobbies after a year of having to find different forms of entertainment. Through activities like baking and crafting, we feel mental health benefits like a sense of pride, an antidote for depression, an outlet for anxiety. With gifting, sharing homemade items delivers a sense of empowerment to givers. Recipients feel a stronger emotional connection to these gifts, too, because they place sentiment over the need for generic material items.\nMoving into 2021, social conversations continue to highlight the sustained value creative expression brings to mental health. And in a shift toward more conscious buying, making things for others or yourself feels more enriching.\nAt the start of lockdown, conversations around gift cards and supporting local surged. This interest was reinvigorated around the holidays\nThe revamped gift card\nBusinesses continue to suffer as Covid prohibits many stores and restaurants from operating as usual. But we're still finding ways to support local businesses. Gift cards \u2013 once associated with dull, last-minute presents courtesy of generic stores \u2013 have become popular and thoughtful gifts. They allow us to support the businesses we have a relationship with from afar, or invest in future IRL shopping or dining. Gift cards make shoppers feel good and also help local businesses stay afloat in the interim.\nAs we enter 2021, we can expect consumers to continue going out of their way to support local businesses in this fashion. With the 2020 wave of the Black Lives Matter movement fresh, many will shop conscious of supporting BIPOC owned outlets. And having experienced financial struggles themselves, consumers post about how they empathize with the plight of small stores. We will see more interest in mutually beneficial shopping that helps communities and makes consumers feel good \u2013 and gift cards allow anyone to show support, even at a distance.\n2020 took a lot away, but it also gave consumers a deeper appreciation for the simpler things in life. A collective understanding that we all face hardships left us with a desire to give to others, and also invest in our own happiness. Amid financial strife and isolation, with both our mental and physical health in flux, we became more creative in the ways we care for ourselves and those around us. Moving into 2021, consumers feel more gratitude for life's simple pleasures and are willing to spend the time and money to bring a little joy after a rough year.\nGift card economy: ((giftcard* OR \"gift card*\" OR \"gift certificate*\" OR giftcertificate OR giftvoucher OR \"gift voucher\") AND (localbusiness* OR \"local business*\" OR smallbusiness OR \"small business*\" OR supportlocal OR \"support local\" OR \"shop local\" OR shoplocal)), Nov 1, 2019-December 31, 2020\nIntimacy meets technology: Brandwatch: 'sex tech' OR sextech, Nov 1, 2020-Jan 4, 2021\nMutually beneficial DIY gifts: TikTok: #giftideas, #diy\nFiled in: Media, Digital & Technology, Trends\nAn exciting chance to join our fast-growing APAC team in 2021...\n18 months into Crowd DNA's Sydney adventure and things are getting ever more exciting. Our client base is growing at speed, we're joining the APAC dots with our Singapore office, and we're truly living up to our ambition of providing brands with culturally charged commercial advantage.\nWe'll be recruiting for a number of roles in Sydney and Singapore in the coming months (speculative CVs welcome). First up: we're looking for a consultant\/senior consultant level hire for Sydney.\nYou'll get to work on exciting projects at the intersection of culture, insight and strategy for some of the most forward-facing brands in the world, covering themes such as audience understanding, brand development, new market entries, product and experience innovation, and thought leadership. You'll get to collaborate alongside the wider Crowd DNA team in our other global offices and play a key role in helping our Sydney start-up to get to the next level.\nHere's what we're looking for:\nTwo to five years of experience. Probably in an insight agency; possibly elsewhere in the marketing comms field\nWhile you won't necessarily have ticked off every research method under the sun, you'll come with a good basis of qualitative techniques (if you can bring some quant and\/or trends and\/or social listening to the party, too, better still!)\nYou'll have a strong sense of why culture is important to brands \u2013 and you'll be ready and confident to share that point of view with our clients; in presentations, reports etc\nThough much of our work is about exploring culture, we're doing it to create commercial advantage for our clients. Thus, we're looking for a recruit who can demonstrate strong client management skills\nWhile Crowd DNA as a group is 12 years old, it's relatively early days in Sydney. We want someone with a real appetite for working in a start-up business (think diverse challenges, fast learning)\nThe role comes with a competitive salary, great benefits, the chance to work on some of the most stimulating and culturally-driven projects out there; and the opportunity to progress and make a real difference in an exciting and progressive business. To apply (attaching a CV and covering letter), please get in touch with Elyse Pigram.\nFiled in: Happenings At Crowd\nWe're seeking a quant-focused associate director to join our Crowd Numbers team in New York...\nCrowd DNA has solid ambitions to increase its Crowd Numbers capabilities (that's the name we give to our super skilled, highly dedicated quant team) in the US, meeting client needs across categories such as media, tech, finance and apparel, often delivering solutions in partnership with our Strategic Insights, Crowd Signs and Socialise teams.\nThis role offers the opportunity to take a front seat role in our NYC plans, working on diverse and exciting projects for some of the most exciting brands in the world. The briefs we get are amazing \u2013 truly at the intersection of data, culture and brands. We want someone who can bring provocative thinking and new ideas to quantitative work; who can develop enduring client-agency partnerships; designing new approaches and meeting future facing business challenges.\nIn more detail, here's what we're looking for:\n\u2013 Five plus years of relevant experience; this could be in a research role, or as a strategist\/planner who can point to solid quantitative skills\n\u2013 Someone who's played an important role in developing and winning business and managing client accounts\n\u2013 Experience and confidence to lead complex, multimarket projects from start to finish and to be a trusted advisor to clients\n\u2013 Ideally experienced in some of these areas: media, tech, fashion, e-commerce and digital journeys; a background in international as well as domestic research would be a plus\n\u2013 Confidence in presenting to clients, expressing ideas, developing clear and energizing data visualizations, debrief decks and reports\n\u2013 Track record of producing high-quality, winning proposals and project designs\n\u2013 Experience of applying and leading work involving techniques such as segmentation approaches, drivers analysis, max diffs and conjoint\n\u2013 Comfortable with, and enthused by, blending quantitative research with other methods, such as qual, trends, social listening and alternative data sources, including client's own data\n\u2013 Enthusiastic about working alongside strategists, writers, film-makers and designers, as much as researchers; also for collaborating with equal enthusiasm with our teams in other cities\nThe role comes with great benefits (betterment scheme, training, sabbatical, company lunches and days out, flexi hours etc); the chance to work on some of the most stimulating and culturally-driven projects out there; and the opportunity to progress in an exciting and progressive business. To apply (attaching a resume and covering letter), please get in touch with Dr Matilda Andersson.\nRecruiting For A Signs & Socialise Director (London\/NYC)\nWe're recruiting for a brand new role at Crowd DNA, taking the lead across our foresight and content specialisms...\nWe're seeking a skilled and entrepreneurially minded person to manage our Crowd Signs and Socialise teams and offers.\nCrowd Signs: trends, semiotics, culture at scale (social and unstructured data), KIN (global network of experts, connectors and creators)\nSocialise: in-house creative team, including film, editorial, digital, design\nThese two disciplines form an important commercial opportunity, but also play a crucial role in maintaining Crowd DNA's positioning as a leading force in cultural insights and strategy, leveraging our POV in the form of content marketing and thought leadership material.\n\u2013 Leading the growth of our Crowd Signs offer; including business development, directing pitches, working closely with the team to deliver commercial advantage to our clients, ensuring repeat business and a growing pipeline of opportunities.\n\u2013 Leading the growth of our Socialise offer \u2013 creating Crowd DNA's own content, as well as managing outputs where we're socialising insights for our clients; and innovating\/monetising new opportunities for Socialise.\n\u2013 Managing the Crowd Signs team \u2013 currently consisting of five multi-disciplined trends researchers, semioticians and big data analysts; making certain we deliver high quality project work at all times. We expect you to be experienced in trends work and, at a minimum, comfortable overseeing the other fields and keen to learn more.\n\u2013 Managing the Socialise team \u2013 currently consisting of two videographers, one editorial lead and a designer. Next to managing the team, we expect you to be high standard at creating written editorial and, at a minimum, comfortable in overseeing the other fields and keen to learn more.\n\u2013 Collaborating with Crowd DNA's senior team to make sure Signs and Socialise contribute to existing client relationships and category specialisms, maximising the opportunity for revenue growth across all business functions and global offices.\n\u2013 Enthusiastic at the prospect of managing a cross-office team, as we look to build out our Signs and Socialise skillsets in different locations.\nThis role will form an important part of the senior team across the Crowd DNA group. It's a fantastic opportunity to join, in a senior capacity, a consultancy business that gets to work on a huge number of incredibly thought-provoking and culturally-oriented projects for amazing brands; and to be a key contributor to how we push the boundaries of what we're about as a business.\nWe are open to candidates based in London or New York City for this role. It comes with great benefits (betterment scheme, training, sabbatical, company lunches and days out, flexi hours etc); and the opportunity to progress in an exciting and progressive business. To apply (attaching a CV and covering letter), please get in touch with Dr Matilda Andersson.\nCity Limits: The Retail Therapy Issue\nWe're anticipating less sofa-bound times ahead in our latest edition of City Limits, all about the future of offline retail...\nCity Limits Volume Six \u2013 download it here.\nSo far in our City Limits series \u2013 Crowd DNA's ongoing exploration of the urban experience \u2013 we've looked at city living, youth culture, mobility, city-centric solutions and the night economy. We're now back with our sixth edition, exploring the future of offline shopping. In what has been a savage time for the retail industry, we hope to provide some much needed respite, inspiration and kudos to a sector so integral to urban culture.\nShopping has always played a huge part in the fabric of our cities. And while much does look bleak for the high street, we firmly believe all is not lost. Our Retail Therapy edition of City Limits goes in search of innovations and experiences that celebrate IRL shopping in all shapes and sizes. There are tough times ahead, but we steadfastly believe there will always be a place for browsing in real stores; for seeing, touching, feeling products, and gaining a deeper sense of connection with the brands and we love.\nThe full magazine includes:\n\u2013 A semiotic analysis of shopping in the context of the experience economy\n\u2013 Interviews with local retailers in APAC, with learnings for global brands\n\u2013 Four emerging trends to keep an eye on in the new era of retail\n\u2013 Spotlights on the lasting appeal of pop-ups and the resilience of shopping malls\n\u2013 A round up of concept stores that will get us heading back into cities in no time.\nK11 Musea, Hong Kong: presenting a future for shopping malls via high-concept architectural design.\nDecoding the semiotics of retail to enhance the shopping experience in a meaningful way.\nFiled in: Better Thinking, City Limits, Trends\nClick State: Where We Landed\nCrowd DNA New York reflect on their Culture At Scale election predictions and what we can learn about trends in American culture...\nThis post is the final part of our Click State series covering the US election, analyzing digital activations and online conversation (using our Culture At Scale method) and turning emergent trends into valuable learnings.\nPost election day (week), Americans across the country have felt a whole slew of emotions; loss, relief, joy, confusion \u2013 to name just a few. Looking back over the emergent trends we spotted during our analysis of online conversations, we can see how our hypotheses have since performed in the wake of Biden's win.\nConnecting with young Latinx voters in Arizona flipped the historically red state blue.\nLocalizing The American Identity\nIn our first post, we explored the idea that the collective American identity doesn't feel relevant to the localized needs of specific states across the US.\nWe saw both Wisconsin and Arizona flip blue after leaning red. There was a huge turnout of Black voters in Wisconsin, a state where this community has long fought voter suppression. With messaging from the Democratic party around Black Lives Matter and programs urging Black citizens to vote early, it's clear that directly speaking to a population with their specific needs in mind can drive change. Similarly in Arizona, Biden's campaigning to young Latinx voters drove them to the polls for him.\nHowever, in Florida, where Democratic candidates focused on hyper-local issues, they missed a huge voter bloc: Cuban and Venezuelan-Americans. Because of their countries of origin, this population was immediately deterred by notions of the party's ties to socialism (despite other unfavored ideals of Trump). In juxtaposition with Wisconsin and Arizona, we see that while candidates catered to Floridians' needs, the party's overarching story failed to address the concerns of important voting blocs. This proves the importance of focusing on local identities while ensuring they're cohesive with the larger story.\nDemocrat or Republican, Americans on TikTok find unity in the faults of our political system.\nMobilizing On TikTok\nIn our analysis of TikTok and the election, we investigated how the platform makes the world feel smaller, builds camaraderie and empowers its users.\nImmediately following the result, conversation about the election gave way to a sense of coming together as Americans. TikTok users on both political sides hashtagged states like Texas and Florida to discuss the nail-biting races in those locales. Jokes were made about Wisconsin and Pennsylvania flipping at the last minute, and Texas defaulting red despite speculation. This shows that no matter how divided America may feel politically, we can still find common ground in a shared ability to laugh at elements unique to American politics. It's through this ability to poke fun at ourselves that Americans find unity on platforms like TikTok.\nFrom serious to humorous, brands expressed opinions on the election's outcome in a range of ways.\nBrand Allies\nIn our third installment, we discussed how brands are presenting themselves as institutions we can look to for guidance \u2013 and, in turn, how Americans are expecting more from the companies they choose to spend with.\nWe explored how brands are being expected to pick a side. We saw Patagonia, for example, clearly standing against Trump. But what does this look like post-election? So far we can see brands either blatantly or more subtly celebrating Biden's win. Brands like Oreo have promoted the result (and themselves) with messages like \"It's a Double Stuf Oreo type of day.\"\nBut the brands we should keep a closer eye on are the ones who stay true to their claims now that the election is over. For example, MTV put its resources into urging young voters to get out to the polls. Now, they've taken a clear stand with the president-elect, reminding young Americans that the fight isn't wrapped up. This both shows solidarity with their audience and a long-term commitment to social justice and political influence.\nThrough this exploration of conversations during the election, it's clear we can no longer lump Americans together as one nation. Brands need to consider the individual, and very specific, identities that define our citizens and make up our states. Similarly, taking a stand and picking a side shouldn't be shied away from. But, even with these points in mind, brands can still play an important role in unifying the country via humor, creativity and helping us laugh at ourselves.\nFiled in: Better Thinking, Trends, Youth\nNew Roles @ Crowd DNA London\n2021 here we come: we're seeking a consultant or senior consultant to join our strategic insights team. Exciting work for amazing brands guaranteed...\nWe've flexibility on this one \u2013 meaning we're open to talking to an established consultant level qual expert (think senior exec) looking for the next step up; or a recently promoted senior consultant (think research manager) looking for a new challenge.\nSenior Consultant, strategic insights team (\u00a337,000-47,000pa)\nThis position is for someone who's ready to play a key role (generally as project lead or co-lead) on consistently exciting, often global, briefs for clients across categories such as media, alcohol, fashion and finance; and where the emphasis is on immersive methods and getting to powerful strategic outputs. The work leans heavily on bringing a truly cultural perspective into play \u2013 naturally, we expect this to be very much your thing.\nIn more detail, here's what we're after:\n\u2013 We imagine you'll have around three to five years experience in an insight environment\n\u2013 Demonstrable track record across areas such as project design and management, conducting mixed methods, guide writing, online and offline moderation and drop dead awesome analysis\/debriefing\n\u2013 A tangible enthusiasm for presenting work, running workshops and for reaching bold conclusions that combine creativity and good commercial sense for our clients\n\u2013 First-rate writing skills (we expect you to be contributing to our blog and producing reports)\n\u2013 Proof of experience at integrating trends into your work (potentially quant, semiotics and other disciplines also)\n\u2013 Our work generally involves multiple markets \u2013 we looking for someone who relishes the opportunity to travel (one day\u2026) and develop narratives and strategies that have global relevance\nConsultant, strategic insights team (\u00a326,000-36,000pa)\n\u2026Or we're seeking a strategic insights consultant. Much of the senior consultant description remains relevant (if with less experience required in each area), though we anticipate putting you on a clear path to leading major global projects, rather than expecting it from day one. We envisage 18 months to four years experience, probably in an insight environment but this could be elsewhere in marketing and media.\nThe role come with great benefits (betterment scheme, training, sabbatical, company lunches and days out, flexi hours etc) and the opportunity to progress in an exciting and progressive business. To apply (attaching a CV and covering letter), please get in touch with Dr Matilda Andersson.\nCrowd DNA x STRAT7\nHere's some more info on Crowd DNA joining the STRAT7 group. And some slightly gushy stuff on the journey that got us there...\nWe're delighted that the news is out there: we have joined the STRAT7 group of businesses and we're all set for the next stage of our journey. Pausing on the whooping for just a second, time to tell you a bit more about what's ahead\u2026\nStill in its embryonic stages, STRAT7 hosts a number of best-in-class companies working at the intersection of consultancy, insights and data, with more acquisitions coming soon. We've been impressed at all stages of the pre-deal conversation with their understanding of what makes Crowd DNA unique (our brand, our work, our team, our point of view) and the role we can take within STRAT7.\nWe're looking forward to playing our part in growing the group, to exploring synergies, amplifying our own offer and flying the flag \u2013 as enthusiastically as ever \u2013 for culturally charged commercial advantage.\nWe're also looking forward to roadmapping new opportunities \u2013 from growing our global presence further to specialisms and innovations \u2013 and will be sure to share news on these as they reach fruition.\nWe generally prefer looking to what's next than what's been, but it seems an opportune time to think back over Crowd DNA's 12 years, too. We launched in June 2008, slap bang in the middle of the worst financial crisis prior to, well, this financial crisis. But we weren't going to let that dent our positivity. We started with four clients \u2013 Sony PlayStation, Channel 4, Kiss FM, Topshop \u2013 and a loose yet fast-evolving ambition to do things just a bit differently in insight. In terms of method innovation, for sure, but as importantly in how we talk about insight; how we communicate; the people we look to bring into our team and, of course, our efforts to set everything in a broader cultural context.\nWe first set up as a team of four in a small space rented from the lovely folk at Poke, a couple of floors above Mother creative agency, in Shoreditch's Biscuit Building. Next stop: just across the road to the Tea Building. Then up the high street to our current London home in Hoxton Square.\nAnd along the way, we've achieved the hugely satisfying aim of launching in other markets. That's launching as in headfirst, having to learn extremely quickly as we go (we wouldn't have it any other way). You can now find us in Amsterdam, New York, Singapore, Sydney and, you never know, maybe a few more places to come\u2026\nAnd in those 12 action-packed years, our work has got progressively more global, too \u2013 we gave up counting at circa 60 markets worked in. Our long-held belief in the power of content and editorial to socialise insight has flourished. And our strategic insights core has been augmented by the increasingly impactful additions of quantitative research, trends and semiotics, our KIN network and our growing interest in working with unstructured data. All of it powered by the creativity and first-rate thinking of the smartest, nicest team in the business.\nWe're dead proud, and hugely grateful, for everything we've achieved as Crowd DNA so far. But enough reminiscing, because we've got plenty more to do in the years ahead. STRAT7 offers us an excellent platform for growth and we cannot wait to get stuck in.\n1 2 3 \u2026 44 Older \u00bb","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
+{"text":"Embedded Systems & Software\nProduct and IoT Testing Services\nSecurity, Survelliance\n& Access Control\nTowards a Better Tommorrow\nCognitive QA: How it Aids Quality Assurance\nby Smishad Thomas\nMost product companies know that to build high-quality products, Quality Engineering has to become an integral part of the product development process. This is where we require new approaches to quality engineering. Cognitive QA brings automation and collaboration on the same page. It gathers actionable insight from various channels and uses them to faster business decisions.\n\ud83d\udd0a Hear the article\nIn the last few years, we have seen the rise of Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning in various industries. For building such intelligent and complex systems, quality becomes a vital deciding factor behind its success. Most product companies know that to build high-quality products, Quality Engineering has to become an integral part of the product development process.\nThe onus is always on delivering high-quality products and achieving faster time to market. The adoption of automation across various facets of testing has enabled rigorous testing at a faster pace. However, with the passage of time testing methods do need to evolve in order to aid superior product development and improved speed. With the advent of AI-driven applications, apart from self-driving cars, virtual assistants, drones, etc. we can leverage AI and ML itself to test products and application software. The application of AI and ML as part of the QA process is Cognitive QA.\nWhat is Cognitive QA?\nIf we are looking for a definition to understand Cognitive QA, then we can define it by saying that, it is a process or an approach of applying artificial cognitive methods to achieve automation at a rapid pace. Cognitive QA leverages AI and ML in testing by extracting patterns in existing datasets. AI has the ability to process large amounts of data, thus providing useful insights in a short span of time.\nCognitive QA brings automation and collaboration on the same page. It gathers actionable insights from various channels and uses them to enable faster business decisions. The greatest advantage of Cognitive QA is that it can give a lot of assistance in deciding how to go about the process. It helps in identifying the most effective test-sets in a regression suite. It can help in evaluating which test cases are optimal for automation. Apart from this, it can assist in creating test cases, and eventually testing the system.\nThe Essential Guide to Quality Assurance in Digital Transformation Planning\nHow Does Cognitive QA Help?\nData along with analytics is key to making decisions in a business. A QA dashboard that gives you real-time reliable data can help in improving the quality process. The improvements can be made to the current or future releases, which will ensure better quality and user experience. You can also source customer feedback and address customer challenges through future releases.\nSometimes testers may have confusion on what to test, and how many test cases are required to get maximum coverage. Unless your testing process is focused, you may not get maximum output out of it. The process becomes objective when algorithms are used to analyze and understand data to identify test cases that may be repeated in other testing sets. You can also eliminate test cases that cover recurring issues. This will help in making the testing efforts more streamlined and focused.\nCognitive QA can help the tester by selecting the scenarios automatically that provide the best RoI on test automation and this is why automated generated test data is required. It can also help in automatic generation and selection of test cases based on the aspects that are being tested.\nIf the target is continuous improvement, then we require insights and analytics in order to identify issues and risks. Businesses can use tools that aid continuous monitoring, predictive analysis based on usual patterns, and the use of ML to define strategy and test coverage.\nAdvantages of Cognitive QA\nCognitive QA helps you in achieving maximum code coverage. Due to the presence of ML, testing becomes more accurate and it results in improved customer experience.\nThe cost of fixing bugs after release can be expensive. Cognitive QA can help in identifying bugs early on and solve them, thus saving expensive post-release bug fixes.\nIt facilitates qualitative testing, not just quantity, and aligns itself with business inputs to enable better decision making.\nAutomation is an integral part of Cognitive QA and effective automation always results in reduced test cycles. This in-turn aids faster time to market.\nThe progress also needs to be tracked while the project is on. In the Cognitive QA approach, you can have effective tracking to measure the progress of your process.\nThe Cognitive QA approach can enable you to test your products and applications with more efficiency and intelligence than most quality processes. eInfochips offers Cognitive QA services that use advanced machine learning algorithms and have been delivering top-notch quality services for various market leaders in different industry segments. To know more, contact us today.\nSmishad Thomas\nSmishad Thomas is the Customer Experience Manager at eInfochips. He has over 10 years of experience into customer service and marketing. Smishad has completed his Masters in English Literature along with a degree in Corporate Communication.\nTop 5 Considerations for Consumer Electronics Testing Strategy in 2019\nBy Urvashi Babaria\nUnderstanding Cloud Testing and the Need for It\nAddressing the Common Challenges in Voice-First Testing through Automation\nFor all career related inquiries, kindly visit our careers page or write to careers@einfochips.com\nHow to Obtain Google's GMS Certification for Latest Android Devices?\nMedical Device Design and Development: A Guide for Medtech Professionals\nEverything You Need to Know About In-Vehicle Infotainment Systems\nEverything you Need to Know About Hardware Requirements for Machine Learning\nCategories Select Category General Industry Categories Aerospace Automotive Consumer Electronics CSR Food and Beverages Healthcare Home Automation Industrial Automation Retail Security & Surveillance Access Control Telecom Technology Categories AI & Machine Learning Cloud DevOps Embedded Software Hardware Internet of Things QA & Testing Remote Device Management Semiconductor Software and Mobile Apps\n\u00a92020 eInfochips (an Arrow company), all rights reserved. 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+{"text":"[Flashback] Transmile \u2013 the fall of a national cargo carrier\nhttp:\/\/www.thesundaily.my\/news\/1157215\nPosted by Valerie NG, Year 3 undergrad at the School of Accountancy, Singapore Management University\nPosted on 2 September 2014 \u2013 05:38am\nWritten by Eva Yeong\nPETALING JAYA: It is ironic that on the same day that Khazanah Nasional Bhd announced its latest recovery plan for troubled national carrier Malaysian Airline System Bhd (MAS) that, once a designated national cargo carrier, Transmile Group Bhd held its third AGM as a private company.Once the darling of the local aviation industry, Transmile's fall from grace was well documented, all the more so by an accounting scandal which until today sees key personnel from its former management darken the courts steps.\nThe air cargo operator which once flew high today has shrunk into a company with no business activity and a few subsidiaries and associates that have long ceased operations and are dormant.\nThe air cargo service provider was established in 1993 and listed on the second board of Bursa Malaysia back in 1997 before it was transferred to the main board in 2002.\nAt that time, the company was also involved in charter services, aircraft handling and warehouse services, and its subsidiary Transmile Air Services Sdn Bhd (TAS) was named a designated national cargo carrier by the Transport Ministry in 1996.\nThe group which once counted personalities such as former Transport Minister and Malaysian Chinese Association (MCA) president Tan Sri Ling Liong Sik as its chairman started its downward spiral in 2007 when it was revealed that its stellar results was the due to massive accounting irregularities.\nIn July 2007, the group's former CEO Gan Boon Aun, former CFO Lo Chok Ping and former executive director Khiudin Mohamed were charged with abetting the company in making a misleading statement in its quarterly report.\nThe charge was related to a statement on the group's revenue of RM338.4 million for the last quarter of 2006 and RM989 million for the financial year ended Dec 31, 2006 but a special audit revealed the company actually suffered losses up to RM496 million for 2005 and 2006.\nIn 2006, its losses were RM126.3 million instead of a profit of RM157.5 million and in 2005, its losses were RM369.6 million instead of a profit of RM84.4 milllion as reported.\nIn 2010, it became a Practice Note 17 company and its securities were suspended and delisted in 2011.\nToday Transmile, still counts billionaire Tan Sri Robert Kuok and Pos Malaysia Bhd as its shareholders.\nAccording to a check with the Companies Commission of Malaysia (SSM), Kuok Brothers Sdn Bhd owns a 0.2% stake in the group, while Pos Malaysia owns a 2.4%. Remaining shareholders from the Berhad company own about 14% in the group.\nAt its AGM held last Friday, with no more than 20 minority shareholders in attendance, the meeting concluded within an hour; a stark difference from its high-flying past when shareholders attended meetings in droves. Directors of the company declined to meet with the media after the AGM.\nThe group completed the disposal of its wholly-owned subsidiary TAS on July 16, 2013.\nThe entire sales proceeds of RM40 million were paid to the scheme creditors following which the group and TAS were waived, released and discharged from all claims, guarantees and other obligations as part of its debt restructuring scheme.\nIt also completed the disposal its 45% equity interest in K-Mile Air Co. Ltd to Farnair Switzerland AG on March 3, 2014.\nThe sales proceeds of US$2.74 million (about RM8.81 million) was used to meet outstanding and overdue expenses including legal and other professional fees.\nSubsidiaries Transmile Aviation Sdn Bhd (aircraft ground handling services) and Viunique Corp Sdn Bhd (leasing of aircraft) were disposed last year in accordance with the debt restructuring scheme.\nWith the disposal of TAS and K-Mile, the group is now left with subsidiaries and associates namely, Kelana Konsortium Sdn Bhd, Transmile Management Sdn Bhd, Transmile Spares Sdn Bhd, Grouptech Sdn Bhd, CEN Sdn Bhd and CEN Worldwide Sdn Bhd.\nKelana Konsortium is a special purpose vehicle set up for the schemes of arrangements of the group and the company while Grouptech is a dormant company.\nTransmile Management and Transmile Spares, which deal in management services and aircraft parts and equipment respectively, have both ceased operations temporarily.\nAs for CEN and its subsidiary CEN Worldwide in which the group has a 57.5% interest, the group said it is trying to reach an understanding with its other CEN shareholder on the best course of action to be taken.\nCEN is an investment holding company while CEN Worldwide is involved in express distribution and logistics management services.\nIn its annual report, its chairman Liu Tai Shin said the company proposed to amend Article 79 of the Company's Articles of Association to reduce the requirement of minimum number of directors from four to two as it has no business activity.\nThe proposed amendment was due to the retirement of two of its directors Mohd Lutfi Mat Lazim and Chiang Teng Guan. he four directors named in the annual report are Liu, Mohd Lutfi, Chiang and Tan Teong Boon.\nAccording to a source however the proposed amendment was rejected by shareholders. It is understood that it was one of three resolutions at the AGM, however the company refused to disclose the other items on its agenda when contacted.\n\u2190 SEC Probes Companies' Treatment of Whistleblowers; Agency Officials Concerned About Corporate Backlash Against Whistleblowers\n[Flashback] Qingdao Port says unit sued by Pacorini for $58.4 million amid fraud probe \u2192","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
+{"text":"29 Jun 2022 11:15 AM +00:00 UTC\nOverwatch 2 Beta Begins to Roll Out\nAn early go at Blizzard's hero shooter is becoming available to players\nBy Mark Warren\nFollowing its appearance at the Xbox and Bethesda games showcase and the reveal of its initial roadmap, another Overwatch 2 beta has just gone live ahead of the game's release later this year.\nThat means that assuming they can gain access, players have a chance to delve into some of the features discussed during a recent reveal event broadcast on YouTube, which saw members of the development team talk about what players can expect from Overwatch 2.\nSo, if you want to play some games as Junker Queen or get a look at the new Para\u00edso map, now's your chance.\nIf You're One of the Lucky Few, Overwatch 2 Could be Available to You\nIn addition to these features, the beta will also give you a chance to sample the game's fresh 5v5 PvP experience, which is part of a few changes designed to offer \"a reimagined competitive experience\" to players, according to a blog post from Blizzard.\nThis beta is part of an ongoing series designed to help provide feedback on the game before it goes live on 4 October this year.\nAccording to a previous blog post from Blizzard, the game's first beta back in May gave the team lots of valuable data on the new heroes included in the game, such as Sojourn, who saw a higher than expected usage rate among players.\nLots of changes were also made to help balance the game's heroes a little better, so hopefully that's something you should see if you do give this beta a go.\nDon't worry if you missed the boat on getting access either, as the final product will be free-to-play when it hits shelves later this year, something which the developers have described as \"a natural step forward for our game and our players\".\nOr, maybe you fancy beginning your final tour of duty in the original Overwatch, which is set to be overwritten by the new game upon release, giving you only a few months to appreciate it and have some nostalgic fun before the game rides off into the virtual sunset.\nWhichever you're planning to do, make sure to follow us for more Overwatch 2 coverage as the game gets closer to release.","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
+{"text":"OCB Sidecar Podcast\nOCB DARTS \u2013 Dining Arts and Entertainment\nSubscribe: Orange County Breeze by email (DONS)\nNews of Northwest Orange County, CA\nOC Coroner reports on deaths of pedestrian and bicyclists\nBy: Shelley Henderson\nIn: Transportation\nTagged: Anaheim CA, Buena Park CA, California, fatal bicycle accident, fatal pedestrian accident, Huntington Beach CA, Orange County CA, Orange County Coroner, road safety, Southern California\nMirza Ullah\nSixty-four-year-old Mirza Ullah of Anaheim was struck by a truck in Anaheim on Friday, December 13 just before 9:25 p.m. He was transported to UC Irvine Medical Center in Orange, where he succumbed to his injuries about an hour and a half later.\nThe Westminster office of the California Highway Patrol is investigating the incident.\nCarlos Bravo\nForty-five-year-old Carlos Bravo of La Mirada was riding a bicycle when struck by a car in Buena Park shortly after 11 p.m. on Monday, December 9. He was transported to UC Irvine Medical Center in Orange, where he succumbed to his injuries about half an hour later.\nThe Buena Park Police Department is investigating the incident.\nMario Gomez\nFifty-seven year old Mario Gomez was riding a bicycle when struck by a car in Huntington Beach around 6:30 a.m. on Friday, December 6. He was transported to UC Irvine Medical Center in Orange, where he succumbed to his injuries two days later.\nThe Huntington Beach Police Department is investigating the incident.\nPrevious Post: Live-in boyfriend arrested in death of Long Beach woman\nNext Post: More action during Winter Thoroughbred Meet at Los Alamitos Race Course\n(Click above for more information.)\nSearch oc-breeze.com\nENTER TEXT TO SEARCH FOR AT OC-BREEZE.COM\nIN THE FORM ABOVE,\nTHEN CLICK THE MAGNIFYING GLASS BUTTON\n(Click above to visit our AWESOME community calendar.)\n(Click above to for more information.)\nCalifornia Emergency Declaration\nOC Breeze by email\nWe want to get the word out to you!\nKindly provide us with your name and email address in order to receive our Daily Overnight News Summary (DONS), a quick description of the last day's news and events with thumbnail photos.\nSubscribing you accept the privacy informative.\nWe will never give your email address to anyone else.\nLook for us all over the Web\nComing Soon to Prime Video Hotel Transylvania 4\nSave on select digital Battlefield titles for PC\nBest Sellers From Amazon Fashion Private Brands\n\u00a9 Orange County Breeze 2011-2022 All rights reserved. Produced by Orange County Breeze Newspaper LLC. Please note that Orange County Breeze is an affiliate of both Amazon and Google AdSense.","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
+{"text":"CCA Programs\nPowered by Community Choice\nThe PCIA Story\nSB 612: A Ratepayer Equity Bill\nCCAs and COVID-19\nCalCCA Webinars\nCCA Board Meetings\nJobs\/RFOS\nSonoma & Mendocino Counties To Get $6.75 Million For EV Chargers\n\/in Community Choice in the News \/by leora\nClean Technica\nThe Sonoma Coast Incentive Project will provide $6.75 million in incentives for the installation of electric vehicle chargers in Sonoma and Mendocino counties over the next three years.\nThe Sonoma Coast Incentive Project's partners are the California Electric Vehicle Incentive Project (CALeVIP), Sonoma Clean Power, and the Northern Sonoma County Air Pollution Control District. CALeVIP supports the adoption of electric vehicles in California by offering incentives for the installation of public EV charging stations.\nIt is funded by the California Energy Commission. California has a goal of getting five million electric vehicles on its roads by 2030 and 250,000 EV charging stations by 2025.\nAndy Hoskinson, Senior Manager of Electric Vehicle Initiatives at the Center for Sustainable Energy, answered some questions about the funding for CleanTechnica.\nHow many public EV chargers will be purchased and where will they be installed?\nAround 500 Level 2 in Sonoma County and 85 Level 2 in Mendocino. As well there could be around 50 DC fast chargers installed in Sonoma and a handful in Mendocino.\nLevel 2 chargers will generally be located at destination locations, retail stores, wineries, government facilities, hotels, but apartment building or other multifamily communities and workplaces too.\nDC fast chargers will be located at grocery stores\/markets, hospitals, hotels, restaurants, colleges and other similar type sites.\nDo you know currently where the public EV chargers will be located for disadvantaged and low-income communities in Mendocino County and unincorporated communities in Sonoma County?\nWe will only know where the EV chargers will be located in disadvantaged communities and low-income communities once they apply and are approved. However, they will of course need to be located within the disadvantaged community and low-income communities as defined by the state:\nFor the purposes of the project, DACs are identified by the California Environmental Protection Agency (CalEPA) as the top 25% most impacted census tracts in CalEnviroScreen 3.0 \u2013 a screening tool used to help identify communities disproportionally burdened by multiple sources of pollution and with population characteristics that make them more sensitive to pollution.\nFor purposes of the project, low-income communities are defined as the census tracts, respectively, that are either at or below 80 percent of the statewide median income, or at or below the threshold designated as low-income by the California Department of Housing and Community Development's (HCD) 2016 State Income Limits.\nRead more here: https:\/\/cleantechnica.com\/2020\/07\/14\/sonoma-mendocino-counties-to-get-6-75-million-for-ev-chargers\/\nhttps:\/\/cal-cca.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/logo.png 0 0 leora https:\/\/cal-cca.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/logo.png leora2020-07-18 16:24:542020-07-21 17:18:34Sonoma & Mendocino Counties To Get $6.75 Million For EV Chargers\nAbout CalCCA\nThe California Community Choice Association's mission is to create a legislative and regulatory environment that supports the development and long-term sustainability of locally-run Community Choice Aggregation (CCA) electricity providers in California. We serve our members and strengthen our collective voice through education, technical guidance and regulatory and legislative advocacy.\nSign up for our mailing list to stay current on CCA in California.\n\u00a9 2022 - CalCCA | Website by Inbound Design | Webmaster Login\nProposed City of Long Beach Power Authority could accelerate port wind power... 8minute Solar Nabs Its First Supply Deal With California Community-Choice A...","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
+{"text":"Former Pope Benedict XVI Partially Blames \"Homosexual Cliques\" for Sexual Abuse Crisis\nApril 25, 2019 \/6 Comments\/in Gay Priests, Hierarchy, Theology & Church Teaching, Uncategorized \/by Robert Shine, Managing Editor\nThe former pope, Benedict XVI, has become the latest Church leader to blame gay priests for the clergy sexual abuse crisis, a myth which continues to be discussed despite clear evidence that homosexuality is not a cause of the crisis.\nIn a rambling letter published April 11, Benedict blamed clergy's abuse of children and subsequent cover ups on \"the Revolution of 1968\" that led to \"all-out sexual freedom, one which no longer conceded any norms\" and to society's dismissal of God. Refusing to comment on his own alleged complicity in the crisis as one of the Church's highest officeholders for nearly three decades, Benedict instead attacked gay priests as a cause of abuse. Reuters reported:\n\"Benedict wrote that after the Second Vatican Council there was a 'far reaching breakdown' of the traditional methods of priestly formation that coincided with a dissolution of the Christian concept of morality.\n\"'In various seminaries homosexual cliques were established, which acted more or less openly and significantly changed the climate in the seminaries,' he writes, adding that the situation has now improved.\"\nTheologians and observers roundly denounced Benedict's letter. Brian Flanagan of Marymount University described it as \"embarrassing,\" while Santa Clara University's Julie Rubio said the letter was \"deeply flawed\" and \"stunning\" in its claims. Michael Sean Winters of the National Catholic Reporter concluded his criticism with, \"Was there no one who loves [Benedict] enough to save him from the embarrassment that this will cause?\"\nJamie Manson, books editor and a columnist for the National Catholic Reporter, criticized Benedict for \"papal-splaining,\" but said that, in reality, the letter helped clarify \"precisely how the institutional church got into its current psychosexual mess.\" Manson wrote:\n\"While some commentators, such as NCR's Michael Sean Winters, have speculated that Benedict's age and declining health may have contributed to his gloomy disposition in this letter, Benedict's suspicions of the world have always been a hallmark of his theology. . .\n\"Benedict, you may recall, coined the shudder-worthy phrase 'intrinsically disordered' to describe essentially any kind of sex act that isn't missionary-style intercourse between one man and one woman who are bound in matrimony. And, so, for his 32 years in power, first as the prefect of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith (1981-2005) and later as pope (2005-2013), he constantly reinforced a moral theology that treated nearly all sexual acts and sexual desire as shameful and unnatural in the sight of God.\"\nManson detailed the history of Benedict, then acting as Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger who oversaw the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith and censured theologians and pastoral workers rethinking sexuality. But now, she explained, Benedict inadvertently is right:\n\"When I was in Rome for the sex abuse summit in February listening to bishops for four straight days, one aspect that stunned me was this general sense that if the hierarchy could come up with the best practices and policies and procedures, they could somehow administer the problem away. There was absolutely no sense that the sex abuse crisis had anything to do with the church's limited, taboo-based teaching on sexual morality. There was no sense of a need to re-think the teachings on sex; no need to reckon with the hierarchy's authoritarianism and understanding of its own power as beyond questioning or reproach.\n\"In a strange way, Benedict is right to bring sexuality into the conversation on what caused the sex abuse crisis. What he doesn't see is that the rigid, shame-based sexual morality that he enforced for decades only exacerbated the problem. . .[W]hat he really shows us in this piece is how very small and sheltered his world is, and how profoundly that has limited his theological understanding of the ways in which God is alive is the loves, longings and sufferings of all of the people of God. Too bad he never gave us the chance to explain that to him.\"\nOther LGBTQ advocates weighed in on Benedict's letter. Francis DeBernardo, executive director of New Ways Ministry, told Gay City News that Benedict's letter \"does not deal with reality at all,\" adding:\n\"'Those are accusations that can be made with no proof behind them. . .They're just red herrings that he throws out to scapegoat gay men in the priesthood \u2014 but with no evidence. Benedict is responsible for this greatly.'\"\nMichael Meenan, a survivor of clergy sexual abuse, defended gay priests and linked the causes of LGBTQ equality and survivor justice as complementary. Meenan continued saying the presence of healthy gay priests could actually benefit the Church:\n\"\"A young boy or girl should be so lucky to have an out gay man or an out gay woman teaching them because they have the benefit of having such a positive role model, whether or not the child is gay or straight or regardless of sexuality. The fact that we have gay priests in our schools is the worst kept secret that the Catholic Church has ever tried to hold.\"\nAaron Bianco, who resigned from his role as a pastoral associate after right wing groups harassed and threatened him, said he was \"shocked\" by the former pope's letter. Claims about a \"homosexual clique\" only aid these right wing groups rather than, \"blaming the Church for ordaining and keeping men they know are pedophiles.\"\nThe issue of gay priests and clergy sexual abuse is still discussed in right wing circles, and the attempted scapegoating and disparagement of good priests continues. Having previously written on the topic (here, here, and here), Andrew Sullivan against struck against such scapegoating, recently calling it \"wicked, evil and wrong\" at a Boston event.\nIt is perhaps expected that Benedict would perpetuate further these \"wicked, evil and wrong\" attitudes underpinning the attacks on gay priests. But it is nonetheless tragic because the former pontiff's irresponsible words cause real harm. An apology letter would be a good idea, but given this most recent epistle, it is probably best he just remain silent.\nNew Ways Ministry has re-launched our campaign, \"The Gift of Gay Priests' Vocations\" to show our support for gay men and religious who faithfully, dutifully, and effectively served the People of God and to call on church leaders to end the falsehoods about and lift the ban on gay priests.\nTo add your name to this show of gratitude and solidarity, click here.\n\u2014Robert Shine, New Ways Ministry, April 25, 2019\nTags: Catholic, Catholic Church, clergy sexual abuse, Gay, gay priest, gay priests, Homosexuality, LGBT, LGBTQ, Pope Benedict XVI, Theology, Vatican\nhttps:\/\/i1.wp.com\/www.newwaysministry.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/Pope-Benedict-XVI.jpg?fit=620%2C387&ssl=1 387 620 Robert Shine, Managing Editor https:\/\/www.newwaysministry.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/logo_nwm-1.png Robert Shine, Managing Editor2019-04-25 01:00:272019-04-17 14:11:18Former Pope Benedict XVI Partially Blames \"Homosexual Cliques\" for Sexual Abuse Crisis\n\"Wicked, evil and wrong\" I keep trying to get my head around why good people, especially good LGBTQ folks, would continue to financially and psychologically support an institution\/hierarchy that says such things about them. (And please don't try to tell me the present Pope doesn't agree with Benedict as he hasn't openly refuted the letter) I do understand the need for church and community but giving money and treasure to such a place? If one does the same thing week after week, like show up and give time and money without change, it seems then one can't expect real change to happen. What is the strategy if one plans to stay and not simply leave as many have already done? Without a plan, one tacitly agrees. What concrete actions do people do to effect change?\nYour very post suggests the concrete action you seek to help effect change in the Church.\nWhat you must understand is that the institutional Catholic Church has, historically, rarely budged on contentious issues, without first being pressured to move in certain directions. Which is a terrible shame, since it claims moral authority beyond that of any other faith.\nMoral authority, however, does not necessarily equate with moral conscience. Jesus acknowledged the doctrinal authority of the Pharisees, and yet he publicly excoriated these, as a group, for their lack of moral conscience.\nThe institutional Catholic Church has had to be publicly pressured to move on protecting minors from abusing clerics.\nAs I said, 'moral authority does not necessarily equate with moral conscience'.\nYes, it really is probably best, both for Pope Emeritus Benedict himself and for the rest of the world, if he vowed perpetual silence of the tongue, the keyboard, and any other means of social communication at his, or his secretary's, disposal.\nJanelle Lazzo says:\nI am sorry that Pope Benedict XVI chose to sully his heritage as a retired leader of the Catholic Church in this way I agree that advisors close to him should have saved him from himself As it is, his letter becomes one more item in a condemning series which illustrates how far afield from lived experience are many teachings of the Church regarding human sexuality, even those which are construed correctly. When Christ's message, upon which Church teachings should be based, does not come through clerical pronouncements at all, even those that are unofficial, to a practicing Catholic like myself, it is a tragedy.\nGabriela Assagioli says:\nOnce again homosexuality is blame for the abuses.\nWhy not say it as it may very well be that there are cliques of pedophiles around the globe and in the places of worship that may be heterosexual, bisexual, etc. It is not their sexual orientation that creates the problem but instead the insatiable appetite for violating children.\nKatie Riney says:\nBless his heart. It causes me to have sympathy on persons with such types of thinking. Let's pray for open hearts and minds\nBishop Refuses to Speak with Priest Who Recently Came Out as Gay Seton Hall LGBTQI+ Students Tell University What They Need","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
+{"text":"Feb 3, 2021, 5:30 PM\nAli Ansarian\nPersepolis FC\nEx-Persepolis defender Ali Ansarian succumbs to COVID-19\nTehran, Feb 3, IRNA \u2013 Former Iran and Persepolis football team defender Ali Ansarian passed away because of COVID-19 Wednesday evening.\nAnsarian died Wednesday evening after a battle with COVID-19.\nHe passed away at the age of 43 at the Farhikhtegan Hospital in Tehran, capital of Iran.\nHe was admitted to the intensive care unit (ICU) of the Farhikhtegan Hospital in Tehran on January 21, 2021.\nAnsarian started his footballing career in Fajr Sepasi in 1996 and joined Persepolis two years later.\nAnsarian also represented Iran's national football team from 1998 to 2007.\nLast week, Mehrdad Minavand, who represented Iran in the 1998 FIFA World Cup, died of COVID-19 in Tehran.\nMinavand was also a member of the Persepolis football club.\nSome 79 deaths were caused by COVID-19 in Iran over the past 24 hours, spokeswoman for Iran's Ministry of Health and Medical Education Sima Sadat Lari said on Wednesday.\nAccording to her report, the number of the total death toll reached 58,189.\nConference on women's role in development of societies held in Pakistan","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
+{"text":"Mother, Children Aged 8 and 3 Hanged Over New Christian Faith By Muslim Husband in Uganda\nPhoto by Ninno JackJr on Unsplash\nA young mother and her two children, aged 3 and 8, were hanged over the mother and oldest child's recent conversion to Christianity over the Christmas holiday.\nShamira Nakato, 27, and her children were found hanged on Dec. 28 after concerned community members witnessed her husband assault her as he dragged her out of a church service.\nA neighbor had invited Nakato to church for Christmas while her husband was out of town on a two-day trip, where the pastor met with and prayed over her and the children.\nThe following day, they returned for Sunday services where the pastor says she accepted Christ.\n\"At the end of the service, Nakato remained behind and told me that he she had a deep conviction to embrace Christ after the prayer of Christmas Day,\" he said, according to Morning Star News. \"I then prayed for her and invited her for a special prayer day on Monday, Dec. 27.\"\nHowever, when she returned on Monday, her husband arrived at home, where a Muslim neighbor told him that he'd seen Nakato at church.\n\"When he entered the church, his wife and the children were seated at the back,\" the pastor explained. \"He pulled her out of the church, and about 100 meters away, a member saw him beat his wife.\"\nLater that day, a neighbor heard screaming from the home and then saw two men in Islamic garb assembling a wooden structure outside the house. This structure, it would later appear, had been used to elevate the victims to be hanged.\nThe neighbor said that some other residents heard brief screaming from the house late at night.\nWhen he went to the house early on the morning of Dec. 28, the neighbor found no one. Since the front door was opened, he entered and found the woman and her children hanged.\n\"I made an alarm that brought area residents, including the chairperson of Local Council 1, Fred Sekatonya, rushing to the scene,\" he explained. \"Later the police arrived from Bukaloto police post, and the three bodies were carried to Kayunga Hospital for postmortem.\"\nNakato's husband, Hamidu Kasimbi, is currently at large, although a homicide case has been registered.","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
+{"text":"Apple and Qualcomm surprisingly settled their legal dispute over chip patent payments Tuesday.\nMeanwhile, Intel, which has been providing modems for iPhones instead of Qualcomm, announced it would abandon its plans to make 5G modems.\nThe moves on Tuesday show Apple had limited options to get to a 5G iPhone, and none of them were ideal.\nHere's the good news for Apple.\nIts surprise settlement with Qualcomm on Tuesday over a yearslong patent spat means it's now in a position to keep pace with its competitors to bring a 5G-ready iPhone to market as soon as this year.\nBut even though Apple may win by getting a 5G iPhone to customers sooner than most people anticipated, it lost by settling with a company it loathes. Getting the iPhone to 5G means Apple was put in a sticky situation where it had to weigh four less-than-ideal options to make it all a reality.\nIn the end, Apple had to choose the lesser of all evils:\nOption one: Settle with Qualcomm, the leader in 5G chips. Qualcomm's 5G chips are already shipping in some devices today, with more expected as the year rolls on.\nBut Apple has seen Qualcomm's business model as detrimental to the entire industry since it uses its dominant position to squeeze large fees out of each company that uses its chips and patents. Hence that nasty lawsuit. Apple CEO Tim Cook made his disdain for Qualcomm's practices known in a January interview with CNBC's Jim Cramer, and even blasted Qualcomm's decision to hire a PR firm to write fake news stories about Apple, which Business Insider reported.\nOption two: Wait for Intel to catch up in 5G. Even before Intel announced Tuesday night that it would abandon its plans to make 5G modems, there was speculation that the company was running behind to deliver the chips on time. Apple has been exclusively using Intel's 4G modems in its latest iPhones as its dispute with Qualcomm raged on. If that dispute continued, a 5G iPhone might not have been possible until 2020 or even 2021.\nOption three: Choose Huawei. In an interview that ran on CNBC this week, Huawei's CEO said the company was \"open\" to talks with Apple about bringing its 5G chips to the iPhone. But a partnership with Huawei would've looked bad for Apple, given the stink of political and security concerns around the company. (Huawei's CEO has denied spying allegations.)\nOption four: Apple could make its own 5G chips. Apple is thought to be working on its own modems after opening an office in San Diego, Qualcomm's hometown, and posting job listings for modem chip designers. But it would likely take Apple several years to develop its own 5G chip, putting it several years behind its rivals.\nNone of those options were ideal for Apple. It could've waited an extra year or two for Intel to get its 5G chips up to snuff. It could've waited several more years to develop a 5G chip of its own as competitors like Google and Samsung push out their 5G devices and market themselves as more innovative than Apple. It could've worked with Huawei, a company that still can't sell products in the U.S. over security concerns.\nOr it could've ended its dispute with Qualcomm, even if Cook is allergic to its business practices. Unfortunately for Apple, Qualcomm was the best bet.\nTuesday's settlement could result in a 5G iPhone as soon as this fall, when Apple is expected to release its next iPhone. (For what it's worth, timing on a 5G iPhone is still unclear. Qualcomm CEO Steve Mollenkopf said in an interview Wednesday on CNBC's \"Squawk Box \" that he couldn't comment on Apple's product plans that include Qualcomm chips.)\nQualcomm gets to take a victory lap this week. Its lead in 5G forced a settlement with Apple and added a massive boost to its stock. Qualcomm shares was up 12% Wednesday, adding to its 23% gain Tuesday. Intel was up about 4%. Apple was up just 1%.\nThe market agrees. Apple was the loser in this fight.\nhttps:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/2019\/04\/17\/5g-why-apple-had-to-settle-its-dispute-with-qualcomm.html\nDieser Eintrag wurde ver\u00f6ffentlicht in Wirtschaft und getaggt mit Apple, Qualcomm am 18. April 2019 von innovation.\n\u2190 Two-factor authentication explained: How to choose the right level of security for every account What gaming will look like in 10 years \u2192","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
+{"text":"Sorry, javascript is required to run this website, please enable it.\nBTC TIMES\nPress Releases Advertise About\nNews arrow_drop_down\nBitcoinBusinessEconomyMarketsPoliticsTechnologyAltcoins\nInsight arrow_drop_down\nOpinionInterviewFeature\n\u00a9 2021 BTC Times Limited. All Rights Reserved.\n7 Celebrities Who Love Bitcoin\nNick Chong | Aug 23, 2020 at 0:00 UTC\nLong gone are the days that Bitcoin was an asset almost solely used by niche tech-savvy communities. Now, after more than a decade of parabolic growth, Bitcoin has gone mainstream, regularly gracing the front pages of mainstream media outlets like Bloomberg and CNBC.\nWith Bitcoin reaching mainstream recognition, it's no surprise celebrities are getting involved. Here are seven celebrities \u2014 in sports, technology, and Hollywood \u2014that you may not have known are strongly interested in Bitcoin.\nBelieve it or not, skateboarding legend Tony Hawk is a Bitcoin investor. He made this fact known in May 2019, when a follower asked him \"how much fun would it be to ride this beauty\" in reference to a chart of Bitcoin's price that looked much like a skateboard ramp.\nTo the surprise of Bitcoin Twitter, Hawk responded. \"[I've] been riding [bitcoin] for 6 years,\" he explained, adding that he \"hasn't bailed yet.\"\nHe made this comment when Bitcoin was trading at approximately $8,000 USD, data from MarketWatch shows. Assuming Hawk bought bitcoin exactly six years before the time of his tweet, he was up approximately 6,000% from his initial investment when he wrote the aforementioned tweet.\nAfter Bitcoiners reached out to Hawk, he announced in October 2019 that he would be speaking at the Bitcoin 2020 conference in San Francisco. Those plans have since changed due to the postponement of the March 2020 event as the pandemic has restricted the ability to host in-person conferences. He remains a supporter of Bitcoin and is expected to speak at Bitcoin 2021.\nMichelle Phan\nLast year, Michelle Phan, a YouTuber with over 8.8 million subscribers and the founder of EM Cosmetics, revealed through interviews, tweets, and YouTube videos that she's invested in Bitcoin.\nPhan explained in an interview with The Cut that she's more excited about Bitcoin than she was about YouTube when she first found the platform. Phan added that Bitcoin is \"probably the most important investment you can make in your life.\"\nSounding like a true bitcoiner, Phan remarked at the time that Bitcoin is the first technology that allows one to become their own bank. There is \"no higher authority\" controlling the flow of capital, she explained.\nIn \"Why Bitcoin? & Building a $1B Business (Ft. Michelle Phan) - Off The Pill Podcast #22,\" a podcast interview with fellow YouTuber , she added that Bitcoin is much like gold as it has a scarce supply.\nPhan has also dabbled in investing directly in Bitcoin companies, complementing her spot holdings. Joining Ashton Kutcher and other investors, the beauty personality invested an undisclosed sum in Lolli's $3 million second seed round. Lolli is a Bitcoin-only service allowing its users to earn satoshis \u2014 or \"sats\" \u2014 by shopping online.\nSince first announcing her support for Bitcoin, she has regularly promoted Bitcoin through her social media feeds, followed by millions. Phan has remarked in the past that her propensity to promote Bitcoin is a byproduct of her intent to teach her followers to be fiscally prudent on a personal level.\nMultiple Silicon Valley executives have announced their interest in Bitcoin over the years. One of these individuals is Eric Schmidt, the former chairman of Google.\nIn 2014, Schmidt said that Bitcoin is a \"remarkable cryptographic achievement.\" noting how Bitcoin's ability to not be duplicated makes it an asset with \"enormous value.\"\nWhile his comments about the cryptocurrency have been few and far between, he shared a viral video depicting a fictional rap battle between Alexander Hamilton and Satoshi Nakamoto. The rap battle, produced by LinkedIn co-founder Reid Hoffman, has garnered over one million views.\nSchmidt joins a flurry of other Silicon Valley bigwigs to have expressed their support for Bitcoin, which is a list that includes Jack Dorsey and Peter Thiel.\nDonald Glover (Childish Gambino)\nMany musicians seem infatuated with dollars. \"Billionaire\" by Travie McCoy and \"Here Comes the Money\" by Naughty by Nature are just two songs that show the music industry's focus on greenbacks.\nBut not Donald Glover. The actor and singer also known by his stage name \"Childish Gambino\" told TIME in 2013 that he sees value in a currency backed by Bitcoin, adding that such a system may be more attractive than if it was backed by gold:\n\"I know a lot of people are skeptical, but I feel like if everything's going to live online, why not Bitcoins? Being backed by gold seems very old and nostalgic to me. Being backed to a Bitcoin, which takes time to actually make and there's this equation that has to be done, that feels realer to me and makes more sense.\"\nGlover hasn't mentioned Bitcoin in public since this interview. But in a world where society is becoming increasingly digital as the stability of fiat currencies has been increasingly questioned, his comments are more poignant than ever.\nRichard Sherman is best known for his football career, having played for the Seattle Seahawks and the San Francisco 49ers. He is also an avid Bitcoin advocate.\nIn 2014, Sherman accepted satoshis as payment for merchandise on his personal website. Back then, you could buy shirts with quotes like \"Don't you ever talk about me\" for $29.99 USD, paid via credit card, PayPal, or bitcoin.\nAlthough other celebrities have pulled the stunt of accepting bitcoin for merchandise, Sherman continued to express his interest in Bitcoin after his initial foray. In an interview with CNBC in 2018, the NHL superstar commented that he liked Bitcoin's premise of being a universal currency:\n\"I had heard about the idea and the premise behind it being kind of like a universal currency \u2014 [it could] mitigate concerns about exchanges and stuff like that \u2014 and I really thought that was innovative.\"\nUnlike many Bitcoin investors, Sherman has the ability to control his fear of missing out, also known as FOMO. According to CNBC, he told his grandmother not to buy bitcoin when the asset was trading at $19,000 USD at the end of 2017. The cryptocurrency proceeded to crash in the 12 months after that conversation.\n\"You couldn't go anywhere when bitcoin was at $19,000 and not hear somebody. I mean, when I heard my grandma talking about it, I was like, 'Oh yeah this is way too big if my grandma is talking about bitcoin,\" Sherman commented about his odd interaction with his grandmother.\nSherman is far from the only NFL player to have involved himself in Bitcoin. Russell Okung made mainstream media headlines in 2019 when he asked for his NFL contract to be paid in bitcoin.\nEarlier in this article, the BTC Times mentioned Ashton Kutcher as an investor in Bitcoin startup Lolli. That's right, the Ashton Kutcher from \"That '70s Show,\" \"A Lot Like Love,\" and other shows is a fan of Bitcoin. While his acting career is still active, he now splits his time between being a Hollywood star and investing in startups.\nHis involvement in Silicon Valley startups has naturally led him to Bitcoin.\nOne of the earliest instances of him expressing public support for BItcoin was in 2013. At TechCrunch Disrupt in 2013, Kutcher was reported as saying that Bitcoin is a valid form of currency because it's an attractive asset for criminals. His comments were a fresh take on the topic of criminality in Bitcoin, which cynics argued were delegitimizing the asset.\n\"The fact that people are hacking bitcoins really hard, it almost hearkens back to when banks first started and they didn't have safe safes and people were going into the banks and just robbing money out of the safe. It actually validates the value of the money itself. I think the fact that you can buy drugs and ammo with it is actually (a) validator of the currency itself.\"\nLast but not least, Kris Humphries, ex-husband of Kim Kardashian and a former player for a number of NBA teams, including the Toronto Raptors, Dallas Mavericks, and Boston Celtics, is a Bitcoin advocate.\nSpeaking with the BTC Times in an interview, Humphries commented that he sees Bitcoin as a competition to the world of fiat, specifically citing its ability to be used as a hedge against a financial crisis:\nBitcoin is the first real competition to the fiat world in a long time. Even if you disagree that Bitcoin will rise to prominence, its introduction of competition should be a good thing. These benefits, while they might not be enough to cause the average person in the US to buy BTC, are heightened for those living in more challenging economic environments. Andreas Antonopoulos talks about this with his mother's experience in Greece during the financial crisis. It has been surprising to me though that we haven't seen Bitcoin take a larger role in countries like Venezuela, Cyprus, Zimbabwe, and others.\nAs societal and economic trends continue to favor the adoption of alternative assets and financial systems, Bitcoin is likely to continue gaining the support of celebrities and retail investors alike. This is best evidenced by the recent entrance of prominent finance personalities such as Paul Tudor Jones, along with \"mainstream\" celebrities like Michelle Phan and Kris Humphries.\nNick Chong\nNick is a writer and analyst who has been following Bitcoin since 2013. When he is not writing, he works on HTC's Bitcoin phone, EXODUS.\nCole Petersen Aug 20, 2020\nBitcoin Cash to \"Split\" Due to Controversial Miner \"Tax\" Proposal\nConflict amongst the Bitcoin Cash development community caused by a miner tax proposal will soon result in a coin split.\nObi Nwosu Aug 17, 2020\nThe Road to Bitcoin Hegemony\nWhy the news of MicroStrategy purchasing 21,454 bitcoin is one of the most bullish events in recent Bitcoin history, and how \"Supply Gate\" confirms Coinfloor's decision to delist Ethereum.\nJoseph Young Aug 18, 2020\nGoldman Sachs Predicts a 20% Stocks Upsurge\u2014How Will This Affect Bitcoin?\nA team of Goldman Sachs strategists anticipates a 20% stock market upsurge. A favorable macro backdrop for stocks could positively affect Bitcoin throughout 2020.\nValue Investor Howard Marks Has Changed His Tune on Bitcoin\nNo, Bitcoin Is Not in a Bear Market\nBitcoin Scaling Comes to CoinCorner as Exchange Launches Lightning Network Support\nLightning Game Startup THNDR GAMES Surpasses 100,000 Downloads\nAvoiding the Bitcoin Nuclear Option\nCanadian Bitcoin ETF Surpasses $100M\nMoreShow More\nStay up to date with our latest news.","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
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Corona Regional Medical Center is a General Acute Care Hospital with Basic Emergency Services as of 2005.\nCorona History\nCorona was founded at the height of the Southern California citrus boom in 1886, advantageously situated at the upper end of the Santa Ana River Canyon, the only significant pass through the Santa Ana Mountains. The town of Corona, once laid claim to the title \"Lemon Capital of the World.\" A museum there presents the lemon's former role in the local economy. It derived its name (and its nickname, The Circle City) from the curious layout of its streets, with a standard grid enclosed by the circular Grand Boulevard. Also, the renowned circular Grand Boulevard is where three international road racing events took place in 1913, 1914 and 1916. In more recent years it has been known as the Gateway to the Inland Empire.\nPrior to the 1980s, Corona was a largely agricultural community, dominated by citrus orchards, ranches, and dairy farms. Sky-high real estate prices in Los Angeles and Orange counties made the area's cheap land desirable to developers and industrialists, and by the late 1990s it was considered a major suburb of Los Angeles.\nIn recent years, Corona has changed from a working-class bedroom community for Orange County and the larger cities of the Inland Empire to a full-fledged edge city in its own right, with industrial parks opening near Norco and luxury housing developments rising in the foothills of the Santa Anas. The development of commerce and industry in the city has been accelerated by congestion on the Riverside Freeway, with many firms leaving northern Orange County to be closer to their employees' homes in Corona and Riverside.\nThe construction of the Chino Valley Freeway nearby has also linked Corona to the Pomona and San Gabriel valleys, with the result that the once largely white and Latino city has experienced an influx of Asian American residents who commute to Asian-oriented businesses in cities such as Alhambra and Diamond Bar. 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+{"text":"Amir Amirani\nIranian-born film director and producer\nAmir Amirani (Persian: \u0627\u0645\u06cc\u0631 \u0627\u0645\u06cc\u0631\u0627\u0646\u06cc\u200e, born July 28, 1967) is an Iranian-born film director and producer.\n2.1 BBC\n2.2 We Are Many\n2.3 Recent work\n2.4 Other professional activities\n3 Politics\n4 Honors and awards\nBorn in Iran, Amirani grew up in London.[1]\nHe earned a degree in biology from the University of Nottingham and an M.Phil. in International Relations from the University of Cambridge.[2] He originally planned to pursue a Ph.D. in that subject as well.[3]\nBBC[edit]\nAmirani joined the BBC in 1992 as a Graduate Production Trainee.[2]\nHe was a writer and researcher for a four-part TV series about the Nobel Prizes.[4]\nIn 1994, he and his brother Taghi founded Amirani Films, which has produced documentaries for the BBC, Channel 4, and other British broadcasters, as well as for PBS and other broadcasters abroad. He has also produced episodes of such BBC Radio 4 series as In Business, From Our Own Correspondent, and The World Tonight, as well as the radio program From Tehran With Laughter.[2]\nBetween 1995 and 2005, he produced and directed episodes of the TV series Holy Places, Water Week, Picture This, Hollyoaks, This Time Next Year, and Nova. [5]\nWe Are Many[edit]\nMain article: We Are Many (film)\nHe served as writer, director, and cinematographer of the documentary We Are Many, which was released in 2014. [5]\nWe Are Many is an account of the worldwide protests against the Iraq War on February 15, 2003. \"I hope those who come to watch my film We Are Many will see that day in a new light, a day that many, both then and now, regarded as a heroic failure,\" Amirani has said. He researched the film between 2006 and 2010. It was the first British film to acquire seed funding through Kickstarter, and includes interviews with Tony Benn, Brian Eno, Danny Glover, Richard Branson, Jesse Jackson, Ken Loach, Hans Blix, Noam Chomsky, Mark Rylance, Ron Kovic, and Tariq Ali, among many others. It premiered at the Sheffield International Documentary Festival on June 8, 2014, and went into general release in 2015.[1] It was also screened at the Dubai International Film Festival[6] and the Hay Festival.[7]\n\"The scales fell from people's eyes,\" Amirani told The Independent about the 2003 protest. \"Up until then, they still had a faith in politics: that there would come a point at which the politicians would have to listen. The realisation that this was not the case was a huge moment.\" Although the 2003 anti-Iraq War rallies were widely considered a failure, Amirani argues that they helped spark the Egyptian revolution.[8]\nRecent work[edit]\nIn 2014, Amirani recorded a series of video \"masterclasses\" for the Scottish Documentary Institute, in which he shares advice about filmmaking, including choice of topic, the role of the musical score, funding, and the use of films to promote political causes.[9]\nHe is co-producer of the 2019 documentary Coup 53,[5] which is about \"the 1953 Anglo-American coup d'etat in Iran that changed the course of history.\"[10] The film, which won the audience award at the 2019 Vancouver International Film Festival for Most Popular International Documentary,[11] is written and directed by his brother Taghi.[12]\nOther professional activities[edit]\nHe has written articles of reportage for the New Statesman, New Scientist, Business Traveller Asia and the Economist Intelligence Unit.[2]\nIn 2015 he was interviewed on the TV series Democracy Now![5]\nPolitics[edit]\nAmirani is a strong supporter of the Palestinian cause.[10] He has described British controls on immigration as \"fascist\" and has said that the Labour Party, beginning with Tony Blair, has betrayed the working class.[13] He considers the Iraq War the \"crime of the century.\"[14]\nIn November 2019, along with other public figures, Amirani signed a letter supporting Labour Party leader Jeremy Corbyn describing him as \"a beacon of hope in the struggle against emergent far-right nationalism, xenophobia and racism in much of the democratic world\" and endorsed him for in the 2019 UK general election.[15]\nHonors and awards[edit]\nAmirani was nominated for an Amnesty International Award for his BBC work, and was also nominated for the One World Broadcasting Trust Awards.[2]\nAmirani lives in London.[2]\n^ a b \"We Are Many: how Amir Amirani got global anti-war protests to the big screen\". The Guardian. May 13, 2015.\n^ a b c d e f \"Amir Amirani\". We Are Many.\n^ Mayne, Stephen (Jun 16, 2014). \"INTERVIEW WITH AMIR AMIRANI, DIRECTOR OF WE ARE MANY\". CultureFly.\n^ \"Forum: How to win yourself a Nobel prize - Amir Amirani has some tips for aspiring laureates\". New Scientist. Jan 25, 1992.\n^ a b c d \"Amir Amirani\". IMDB.\n^ \"Amir Amirani\". Dubai Film Festival.\n^ Asfour, Lana (Jun 7, 2015). \"The story of Bush and Blair's great lie\". Al Jazeera=.\n^ Moreton, Cole (May 16, 2015). \"We are Many: The new movie teaching us lessons to learn from the 2003 Iraq war protests\". The Independent.\n^ \"Amir Amirani: Organising Emotions\". Scottish Documentary Institute.\n^ a b \"Amir Amirani\". Twitter.\n^ \"VIFF announces 2019 People's Choice, Impact and Eco Warrior Award Winners\" (Press release). Vancouver International Film Festival. 2019-10-11. Retrieved 2019-10-18.\n^ Eng, Karen Francis (Aug 21, 2017). \"A new documentary explores the West's uneasy relationship with Iran\". Ted Fellows.\n^ Molina, Virginia (Jun 6, 2015). \"Amir Amirani: The media are acting like war cheerleaders\". The Prisma.\n^ \"INTERVIEW: Amir Amirani and Omid Djalili on the making of 'We Are Many'\". Asian Image. May 21, 2015.\n^ Neale, Matthew (16 November 2019). \"Exclusive: New letter supporting Jeremy Corbyn signed by Roger Waters, Robert Del Naja and more\". NME. Retrieved 27 November 2019.\nRetrieved from \"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/w\/index.php?title=Amir_Amirani&oldid=934058085\"\nIranian film people\nBritish people of Iranian descent\nBritish filmmakers\nArticles with short description added by PearBOT 5","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
+{"text":"An ASHA calls me and tells me stories of change\nRekha, an ASHA from our pilot site in Rajasthan, called me tonight. \"I missed you and wanted to talk. When are you coming back to Kishangarh, sister?\" she asked. I felt a warm and fuzzy feeling inside. It's quite endearing to get calls from the ASHAs.\nWill the novelty wear off with time?\nWe spoke about progress in her village, both with and without CommCare. She had only good news to share. She said women love the information they can see and hear in the program and aren't bored by it. They pay attention and ask questions.\nFor the past few months, Rekha's had the highest number of form submissions of the pregnancy checklist. This is a multimedia-enabled mobile form, which asks questions about antenatal care check-ups, tetanus immunizations, contains reminders for the women to take their iron pills daily. The form also disseminates information (both through audio and visuals) about dangers signs a woman can experience at different stages of pregnancy, encourages the woman and her family to prepare for cost and transportation in advance, in case of an emergency. New information is displayed based on the stage of pregnancy. It changes about every 3 months or so.\nIn addition to highest form submissions and she also is one of the ASHAs with high case activity percentages, which means she's covering 100% of client base very often. When I spoke to her three months ago, she said that she circulates the pregnancy checklist and shows the information in her mobile phone to the pregnant woman in her village every two weeks!\nSo I asked, \"Are the women getting bored? They see the same information over and over. Is it not a novel tool anymore?\"\nHer answer was simple, \"No, they still come and listen and watch. But they do ask, 'Does she [woman in the mobile] always say the same stuff?' 'Yes', was her answer. And that was it.\nMore immunizations for both women and children\nAll of the ASHAs say there's benefit in using CommCare and that they've experienced some kind of kind. I tried to get her to quantify the change. She said, all of the children in her village are coming out for immunization now. Before she used CommCare, at least 50% would be missing.\nShe also said more women are getting their tetanus immunizations completed than before. On Immunization day, one or two women would be missing.\nPlease let me step back for a bit. What I've learned is woman will happily (if they feel pressured enough) get immunized themselves for tetanus while they're pregnant, but they resist bringing their children for immunizations. Typical reasons are my baby will cry, it will hurt my baby, it results in swelling and pain for the baby.\nThe application that Rekha is using only has an antenatal application, and not a newborn module, which would contain information on children's immunizations. Perhaps the cycling of the information to the women of her small community has resulted in greater uptake of immunizations for children? As I mentioned earlier, the pregnancy checklist contains information about the importance of getting tetanus immunizations for the woman. I'm not sure, but I'd like to believe it. Naturally an informed and aware woman will understand what's necessary for the health of her baby, isn't it?\nASHA adapts CommCare in an unexpected way!\nRekha's also doing something very innovative with the multimedia stored in her phone. It blew me away when she first told me. After two months of using CommCare, one day during Immunization Day in her village, Rekha decided to play the audio files through the media player for small groups of women who were waiting to get immunizations for themselves or their children.\nThe audio played without pause actually sounds like a conversation between two women about antenatal care topics. The way we named the files results in the following playlist: 1) a woman says, she does not know about topic xyz; 2) a health worker gives information about this topic; 3) a woman says, yes, she knows about topic xyz. And this flow repeats for 45 antenatal topics!\nA couple women came up later to ask the ASHA more questions about topics raised in the \"radio show\". According to another ASHA in our pilot, the audio-visual information available on CommCare is similar to the way information about health is shown on television or heard on the radio. Not only is it an interesting and engaging medium, but a convincing medium for villagers, who believe and trust information from media sources like TV or radio (more-so sometimes that what their ASHAs tell them).\n[Only recently, after my work in Bihar, did I realize why this is. Some people in villages are skeptical of the information the ASHA gives about having an institutional delivery, going to the hospital to get antenatal care checkups completed, or opting for sterilization as a method of permanent family planning because they know ASHAs get incentives for all of that work. They believe the ASHA works for the money and not for the people. (I will write another post about on this issue at a later date)]\nOne woman's story\nThree months ago, I felt especially connected of a story Rekha told me of one woman in her village. This woman's husband is an alcoholic and forbids her from going to the Anganwadi center, or speaking to the ASHA. This woman heard about 'the program Rekha was given in her mobile phone for pregnant woman' through word of mouth. This could happen when women go to fetch water, or walking to the fields. This woman snuck away from the home without her husband knowing to the Anganwadi center on several occasions to learn the information and benefit from the program. She had heard there's information about pregnant woman that Rekha has to share, and she also felt like she should hear it!\nMy first takeaway: A novel tool can attract people and want to access information through it.\nI asked about this woman today. Rekha said, she came to learn the information from CommCare (which was a big step on its own), but never took up the practices as they was forbidden by her husband. This woman was the only woman in her village, who experienced complications during pregnancy, was transferred to Ajmer for emergency care and lost lots of blood there. Her newborn died within 4 days. She's recovered now.\nRekha said, the main problem was the husband hadn't arranged for transport in advance, didn't allow her to take the pills, let her get looked at by an ANM (auxiliary nurse midwife) or get immunized. I wonder what he'll decide to allow\/disallow for their next pregnancy after being the only family that did not follow the practices encouraged in the application.\nMy second takeaway: People learn from real stories and do what other people do right.\nI wonder if Rekha will cite this example as a behaviour change weapon along with CommCare. Rekha was among the top performers for form completions and case activity rates. Every single pregnant woman who saw CommCare in the past 6 months had a healthy pregnancy and are now breastfeeding, except one (she's only had an about 7-8 pregnant woman in the past 6 months). By way of example of that one woman's story, I wonder how people's opinions have formed for the information in CommCare and the credibility of the ASHA. Through CommCare, ASHAs are able to share information, comprehensively, correctly and with credibility. Now, let's hope it can motivate service uptake and break down barriers.\nOn that note, I think there's so much value in filling out the counseling type forms within the home, where there is a higher probability of a (resistant) family member being present and at the very least half-listening.\nMy third takeaway: Encourage ASHAs to complete all counseling forms at the home, instead of at the Anganwadi Center, where household decision makers may also tune in and learn.\nCheck out Rekha in action on YouTube. Courtesy Daniel Pepper.\nYouTube: Rekha\nMohini Bhavsar\nSenior Business Development Director","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
+{"text":"customer reviews on viagra prilosec cost female viagra side effects generic claritin d costco proscar mg price of depakote\nHomeFellows to Auction 14k Gold Pocket Watch by Gebr. Eppner\nFellows to Auction 14k Gold Pocket Watch by Gebr. Eppner\nFebruary 8, 2012 Gareth Uncategorized 0\nOn Monday 13th February Fellows shall be holding their first Pocket Watches & Accessories auction of the new year.\nAmongst the many highlights to feature in this sale is Lot 175 \u2013 fascinating as much for its history as for the watch itself. This piece was given as a gift to the Head Gamekeeper of Lowther Castle in Cumbria, Charles Robinson by the German Emperor Wilhelm II in 1902.\nLowther Castle was the seat of the Earl of Lonsdale, and it was the 5th Earl of Lonsdale, Hugh Cecil Lowther, who was hosting the German Emperor.\nWilhelm II was the grandson of Queen Victoria and had an English mother. He had a love-hate relationship with Britain and 1902 would have been one of the last years before relations took a dramatic turn for the worse.\nThe watch that Charles Robinson received has Willhelm's monogram on the back. It is 14k gold with an open face and was made by Gebr. Eppner. This Berlin based company produced very fine watches, almost as good as those produced by Lange in Glashutte and this watch shows the features of fine watchmaking with a split compensation balance and a Breguet overcoil hairspring.\nThis Lot comes with a fitted presentation case and is estimated at \u00a31,800 \u2013 \u00a32,200. You can view this as a video highlight on our YouTube channel by clicking here.\nBirmingham Jewellery Quarter: Jewellery Quarter apartments re \u2026\nThe Rectory Relaunch Party","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
+{"text":"Illinois Fighting Illini Football\nReport: Bill Cubit Will Be Our New Offensive Coordinator\nIt appears that Tim Beckman already had Chris Beatty's replacement in mind.\nBy Apollo Forza Jan 6, 2013, 1:14am CST\nShare All sharing options for: Report: Bill Cubit Will Be Our New Offensive Coordinator\nBradley Leeb-US PRESSWIRE\nIt's not official yet, but it sounds like that \"national\" search that was to begin immediately upon the dismissal of Chris Beatty likely began before the dismissal. That's because, according to a tweet from Football Scoop on Saturday night, former Western Michigan head coach Bill Cubit is our new offensive coordinator.\nJust getting off road. Looking forward to seeing a bunch of coaches tomorrow. Here's 1 and I'm out...hear Bill Cubit will be OC at Illinois\n\u2014 FootballScoop Staff (@footballscoop) January 6, 2013\nAgain, Illinois hasn't announced or confirmed anything about it.\nAs for Cubit, he was recently fired from Western Michigan after going 51-47 (36-27 in the MAC) in eight seasons at the school. Before becoming the head coach at Western Michigan he was an offensive coordinator at Stanford, Rutgers and Missouri.\nOf course, most Illini fans are probably familiar with Cubit because Western Michigan was one of the two teams we were able to beat this season -- no wonder he got fired -- and they did not look good in that defeat. However, I assure you, his history is a lot better than that one game.\nCubit runs an offense that's similar to the spread like ours, though with a few minor tweaks. First of all, Cubit likes to pass more than he does run. Since 2007 at Western Michigan his offenses have finished with an average over 400 yards per game. Generally with a two-to-one ratio of passing yards to rushing yards.\nAlso, during that same time span, none of his offenses averaged less than 26 points per game. In 2011 Western Michigan averaged 35.3 points per game while racking up 458.5 yards per game and running an average of 73 plays per game.\nIn other words, he likes high tempo and he likes to pass the ball. You may remember Western Michigan receiver Jordan White finished the 2011 season with 140 receptions for 1,911 yards and 17 touchdowns.\nNow, it's 1am as I'm writing this post, and I'm a bit tired. However, I'm liking this hire at the moment. I'll take a deeper look on Sunday.\nIllini Coaching Carousel\nRicker Hire Officially Announced\nReport: Bill Cubit Is Our New OC\nChris Beatty Is No Longer Co-Offensive Coordinator","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
+{"text":"Customized 2021 Draft Kit\nWho Do I Draft?\nAuction Values\nTier Sheets\nRisk Profiles\nDefensive Matchups\n2020 Game-by-Game Analysis\n2020 Player Fantasy Rankings\nPrintable PDF Draft Kit\nDFS Helper\nDFS Who Do I Start? Tool\nImport\/Create Teams\nDaily Fantasy Football Quarterback Primer: Week 11\nFanDuel Daily Fantasy Basketball Helper: Thursday 1\/20\/22\nAustin Swaim\t\u2014\nNBA Betting Guide for Thursday 1\/20\/22: Are the Knicks a Lock to Win and Cover?\nBrandon Gdula\t\u2014\nCovering the Spread: NFL Divisional Round Betting Preview With George Chahrouri\nJim Sannes\t\u2014\n\u200b3 NBA Player Prop Bets to Target on Thursday 1\/20\/22\u200b\nAustan Kas\t\u2014\nBetting Guide for UFC 270\nNBA FanDuel Value Plays to Target on Thursday 1\/20\/22\nFanDuel Single-Game Daily Fantasy Football Helper: Divisional Round (49ers at Packers)\nAdjusted NFL Pace and Pass Rate Report: Ranking the Divisional Round's Fastest Games\nNBA FanDuel Studs to Target on Thursday 1\/20\/22\nSam Factor \u2014 @@sfactor25 Nov 15th, 2019\nWelcome to another edition of my weekly NFL DFS quarterback primer article. Each week I will be looking to find an edge at the quarterback position for daily fantasy football contests.\nIn this weekly column, you will find the best value quarterbacks for tournaments and head-to-head cash games. Additionally, I will highlight one or two quarterbacks to avoid in the upcoming week.\nLast week was one of the best weeks of the season for this column. Three of the four players recommended finished inside the top-4 at the position in Week 10. If you stacked Tyreek Hill and Patrick Mahomes last week, you likely won some money. Ryan Tannehill proved us wrong with another decent performance last week, but he once again showed he does not have the upside necessary to trust him in tournaments.\nWithout further ado, let's dig in for Week 11.\nBest Overall Play of the Week\nDak Prescott ($8,100) -- Dak gets a road matchup with the Detroit Lions, who rank as the 17th-worst passing defense according to our power rankings. The Lions have allowed the sixth-most points to opposing quarterbacks this season. They have allowed at least 18 points to all but one quarterback this season. We can expect an 18-point floor for Prescott in Week 11. In a game with the second-highest over\/under on the main slate, Prescott also has mouth-watering upside. Prescott has thrown three touchdowns in each of his last two games, while the Lions have allowed three or more touchdown passes in three of their last four contests. The high upside combined with a safe floor makes Dak a great option in both cash and tournaments. Prescott is the top value quarterback of the week, according to our projections.\nTournament Plays\nDeshaun Watson ($8,200) -- There are a lot of reasons to love Watson in Week 11. He is playing on the road against the Baltimore Ravens in a game with the highest over\/under of the week. Watson has had one of the highest ceilings at the position so far this season, topping 20 FanDuel points in over half of his games. The Houston Texans are also expecting their number two receiver, Will Fuller, to return from injury this week. Watson has averaged nearly 40 more passing yards per game this season with Fuller in the lineup. Despite going up against the 11th-best passing defense in the league according to our power rankings, Watson is still projected for the second-most fantasy points at the position in Week 11. Our models have him as the third-best value play of the week among quarterbacks.\nCash-Game Play\nLamar Jackson ($8,800) -- Jackson is currently on pace to break the single-season fantasy points scored record, which was set by Patrick Mahomes last season. Let that sink in. We have been riding Jackson in cash all season and, even with the slight $200 increase in price, we need to stick with him in Week 11. Jackson has the safest floor in fantasy football due to his rushing ability. He is on pace to break Michael Vick's single-season rushing record for a quarterback in Week 14. Our models have Jackson projected for a conservative 48 rushing yards, while his season average is 78 rushing yards per game. Jackson is once again the top value play at the position, despite being the most expensive quarterback on the slate. Fire him up with confidence in a game with the highest over\/under of the week.\nJosh Allen ($7,800) -- Allen gets a matchup with the Miami Dolphins this week, who have the third-worst passing defense according to our power rankings. Allen has not had any game with over 26 fantasy points so far this season, which makes him hard to trust in tournaments. He has, however, had one of the safest floors at the position, scoring above 15 fantasy points in all but one of his contests this year. Allen scored 21 FanDuel points when these two teams played in Week 7. Our models have Allen projected for the second-most rushing yards this week at the position. He is the fourth-best value play, and one of the safest options of the week according to our projections.\nQuarterback to Avoid\nKyler Murray ($7,600) -- Murray has been a frequent name suggested in this column so far this season. However, there is reason for concern for the rookie signal-caller in Week 11. Murray will be playing on the road against the San Francisco 49ers, who have the second-best pass defense in the league according to our power rankings. Only one quarterback this season has scored over 20 FanDuel points against the 49ers stout defense, and that was actually Murray himself only two weeks ago when these two teams played in Arizona. We can expect Murray's ceiling to be his performance in that game, which was enough to get by in cash, but would not have helped you win any tournaments. Murray's floor, however, is the reason to fade him in Week 11. Over 50% of quarterbacks have scored below 10 points in their matchup with the 49ers. Our models seem a bit too optimistic, projecting the first-overall pick of this year's draft for 18.2 fantasy points this week. We should be looking elsewhere in Week 11.\nSamuel Factor is not a FanDuel employee. In addition to providing DFS gameplay advice, Samuel Factor also participates in DFS contests on FanDuel using his personal account, username Samfact2. While the strategies and player selections recommended in his articles are his\/her personal views, he\/she may deploy different strategies and player selections when entering contests with his\/her personal account. The views expressed in his\/her articles are the author's alone and do not necessarily reflect the views of FanDuel.\nDaily Fantasy Football Wide Receiver Primer: Week 11\nRyan McCrystal\t\u2014\nDaily Fantasy Football Tight End Primer: Week 11\nDaily Fantasy Football Podcast: The Heat Check, Week 11 Preview","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
+{"text":"December 3, 2012 in Daily Poop | Tags: Andrew Bovell, Australian Made Entertainment, Bryn Boice, James Fenton, Kathleen Foster, Laura Iris Hill, Matthew Foster, Michael Poignard, Speaking In Tongues\nMatthew Foster and Michael Poignard in Australian Made Entertainment's production of \"Speaking In Tongues\"\nThe first scene of Andrew Bovell's 1996 play Speaking In Tongues features four characters \u2014 two men and two women \u2014 who share one dialogue about marital infidelity. All four, dissatisfied with their partners, pick up a stranger in a bar to consummate an adultery. It turns out that the four have randomly cheated on each other with each other, though the two couples are strangers to each other. The quartet share the same conversation, speaking the same speeches simultaneously. Chance \u2014 randomness, serendipity, long odds \u2014 only seemingly operates on these four; in fact, the rigid structure of the first act merely suggests coincidences that are relentlessly denied by the tight framework of dramatic irony.\nIf the first act were a geometric proof, the form under analysis would be a perfect square. On one side is the shy couple, and on the other is the passionate couple. To keep the action interesting the playwright works the opposite angles against the sides: the shy woman commits her crime with the passionate man, and the passionate woman finds self-restraint at the last moment; the shy man shows more moral courage than the passionate one. But these quirks are illusory, like the reflection in a true mirror. The second act, by contrast, is a study in asymmetry. Four new characters are connected by tangent to the characters of the first act, as fictions in a dream are connected to quotidian reality.\nThe second act is all vectors. The good characters send out communiqu\u00e9s without any chance of receiving a reply, and the bad characters use information as a javelin to pierce the good ones. The clearest asymmetry is drawn on the gender line: men have the power and women are its subject. This oblique relationship terrifies both the male and female characters, and it shows the dark side of the sun-kissed, broad-shouldered Australian psyche.\nThe deep structures of the play are masterfully interpreted by director Bryn Boice and scene designer James Fenton. The black box theater has been arranged with seats on two sides and mirrors lining the other two walls. During the first act the furniture is arranged symmetrically so that each couple is performing simultaneously to opposite audiences. The symmetry works against character development, which makes the first fifteen minutes a little disorienting, but the actors (Kathleen Foster, Matthew Foster, Laura Iris Hill, and Michael Poignard) do an outstanding job of pivoting one hundred and eighty degrees between mental states, making the initial confusion pleasant in its resolution.\nBut this is the opposite of glossolalia, known in English as \"speaking in tongues.\" As any good Pentecostal Christian will tell you, one speaks the universal human language \u2014 the one spoken by Adam and Eve \u2014 when one is touched by the spirit. Such communication defies three-dimensional geometry. This production of Andrew Bovell's play, though very entertaining, is not an epiphany, a revelation, an apocalypse; instead it is a discourse leading inevitably and irrevocably to its necessary end.\nThrough December 16th\nat Theater 54\n\u00ab The ABC's Guide to Getting Famous\nLove Song \u00bb","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
+{"text":"DER SPIEGEL Der Spiegel Spiegel International\nInternational Pfeil nach rechts\nBusiness Pfeil nach rechts\nOpel Pfeil nach rechts\nGovernment Aid Debate: Berlin Has Doubts About Opel's Rescue Plan\nGovernment Aid Debate Berlin Has Doubts About Opel's Rescue Plan\nGerman carmaker Opel, the troubled subsidiary of ailing US giant General Motors, submitted a restructuring plan this week in an effort to secure a government bailout package. So far, Berlin isn't buying, but with national elections this autumn, credit guarantees or loans to the company may be inevitable.\nThe Opel brand remains at risk.\nThe German government remains skeptical about providing aid for car manufacturer Opel. Finance Minister Peer Steinbr\u00fcck said late on Monday that the government couldn't reach a decision on aid based on the restructuring plan Opel had presented.\nSteinbr\u00fcck, speaking on the late-night talk show \"Beckmann\" on German public television, said Opel needs to come up with a sustainable plan of its own before the government could provide aid, and that the program presented on Monday didn't suffice.\nThe finance minister said it remained unclear how Opel would be able to disentangle itself from its ailing US parent General Motors. He didn't rule out state aid, however, arguing that a collapse of Opel could lead to the loss of around 50,000 jobs if suppliers are included, which would end up costing the state \u20ac3 billion to \u20ac4 billion in benefits.\nEconomy Minister Karl-Theodor zu Guttenberg has also said that the government hasn't yet decided whether to bail out Opel. He said in a television interview on Monday that he needed to review Opel's plan very carefully, and that there were many open questions. Any state intervention mustn't distort competition, the minister said, adding that Opel would not get any special treatment.\nOn Monday, the European head of GM, Carl-Peter Forster, Opel CEO Hans Demant and the head of Opel's works council, Klaus Franz, had presented their rescue plan to zu Guttenberg.\nGM Europe said it plans to spin off Opel to try to avert job cuts and plant closures and said it needed \u20ac3.3 billion ($4.16 billion) in aid from European governments.\nThe German government is mainly considering helping Opel through loan guarantees, but direct loans and even a share stake haven't been ruled out. Any aid will also depend on the actions of GM and the US government.\nGraphic: Opel plants in Germany and Europe\nUnder the restructuring plan, Opel would close GM Europe headquarters in Zurich and relocate it to its German plant in R\u00fcsselsheim. But the problems would only start there.\nGM made a loss of \u20ac2.8 billion in Europe last year, not least because the company has too many plants there. The attempt to sell the plant in Eisenach, in eastern Germany, has failed so far. The plant in Antwerp, Belgium, is under threat and the plant in Bochum, in the German state of North Rhine-Westphalia, isn't expected to survive in the long term.\nBut if the governments of Belgium and the German state of North Rhine-Westphalia end up injecting money into Opel, the company will hardly be able to close its plants in those areas. Besides, the group needs to find a partner in the auto industry to be able to finance necessary long-term investments. And no such partner is in sight.\nMounting Pressure on Berlin\nThe prospect that state aid for Opel will ensure its long-term survival hasn't improved. But there's mounting pressure on the government to help the company out.\nThe center-left Social Democrats, who share power with Chancellor Angela Merkel's conservative Christian Democrats, have pledged to do whatever they can to rescue this \"systemic auto company,\" as SPD leader Franz M\u00fcntefering put it.\nThe governors of the German states that have Opel plants -- North Rhine-Westphalia, Hesse, Rhineland-Palatinate and Thuringia, have also raised the possibility of a government stake in Opel if credit guarantees or direct loans don't suffice.\nIn the end, the Berlin government won't be able to say \"no\" to an Opel rescue, even if it's just temporary. With a general election in September, the government can't afford mass layoffs and plant closures at the venerable automaker.\nSteinbr\u00fcck was also skeptical about possible government aid for troubled German automobile components manufacturer Schaeffler, which is privately owned. He said other options needed to be checked first -- such as spinning off tire maker Continental which Schaeffler acquired last year.\nThe Schaeffler family's own assets also needed to be considered, Steinbr\u00fcck added, saying that so far the company hadn't come up with a restructuring plan \"that allows sustainable aid.\"\nSkilful Campaign for State Aid\nSchaeffler, too, has skilfully increased its pressure on the government. Company chief Maria-Elisabeth Schaeffler gained a lot of media attention when she shed tears during a demonstration by workers seeking government help last month.\nThousands of Schaeffler workers and their families attend a protest march calling for state aid for the ailing company on Feb. 18 in Herzogenaurach, Germany.\nThe management has got the IG Metall engineering trade union on its side by agreeing to give workers a greater say in the running of the firm and holding out the prospect of employees gaining a stake.\nIndustrially, Schaeffler is even more important than Opel, because it employs 220,000 workers together with its new subsidiary Continental.\nHowever, neither Mrs. Schaeffler nor her son Georg have so far given the kind of basic information any jobless person applying for benefits would have to provide. How great is their personal fortune? What proportion of the company's profit has landed in their private accounts? Are they ready to invest part of that to save the company?\nThe opponents of wholesale state intervention are alarmed -- if the government rescues companies under such questionable circumstances, what justification does it have to deny help to any other firm?\n\"Agreeing to provide aid would be extremely dangerous,\" says Michael Fuchs, an expert on the small and medium-sized business sector for the Christian Democrats. \"In that case we might as well subsidize the entire auto sector.\"\nTears -- Maria Elisabeth Schaeffler, owner of the Schaeffler group, crying during a demonstration by workers in front of the company's headquarters in Herzogenaurach, Germany last month.\nSeparately, Steinbr\u00fcck said on Monday he assumed the US government would prevent the collapse of a systemically important company like insurance group AIG. The company reported a $62 billion quarterly loss this week -- the greatest in corporate history. The news helped drive the Dow Jones industrial average to its lowest point since 1997.\nSteinbr\u00fcck said a failure of AIG would be disastrous for Germany because the company has insured many leasing deals made by German municipalities.\nSteinbr\u00fcck also said he didn't see an end in sight to the financial crisis yet. \"We're not through the worst.\" Confidence in the banking system still hadn't been restored.\nWith reporting by SPIEGEL staff\nOpel Economic and Financial Crisis Automotive Industry German Politics","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
+{"text":"15 Retailers With the Best Return Policies\nThat $50 pair of gold wedge espadrilles from Zappos that you never wore but also never managed to return drives you crazy. But don't think you're stuck.\nZappos allows returns for up to 12 months after the original purchase date. And it's not the only retailer that will accept returns up to a year or more after the items were purchased.\nKnowing a seller's return policy can help you turn unreturned items into cash or merchandise credit equal to what you paid. Also, whether you're shopping online or buying an item in a store, knowing which retailers offer hassle free returns and free return shipping will help you save money on future purchases.\nWhen you give something as a present, include the gift receipt and a note telling the recipient how long they have to return the item. This is a nice way of saying your feelings won't be hurt if it is returned. (Keep this in mind during the holiday season just a few months away.)\nAnd keep these retailers in mind when you shop all year round.\nStores that Offer a Full Refund for a Year or More\nThe clothing retailer that's especially beloved by teens has a return policy that's beloved by all customers. There's no time limit with proof of purchase to return unwashed or unworn items even without tags.\nWithout a receipt American Eagle will give a store credit for the item's current selling price.\nCostco's return policy is the stuff of urban legends. A 15-year-old pressure cooker. A dead Christmas tree in January. A safe smelling of marijuana.The stories of items returned to Costco are all over the Internet, though it's hard to know if they're all true.\nBut it's easy to know the retail giant's return policy. There's no time limit for returning most items. Even opened food can be returned for a full refund.\nThere are a few exceptions. Premium electronics must be returned within 90 days and there are limitations on tires, cigarettes, alcohol and diamonds.\nUnopened IKEA merchandise can be returned within a year. Opened products can be returned within 180 days. Without a receipt, you will be provided a refund in the form of an in-store credit for the item's lowest selling price.\nAnd check out IKEA's new buy back program for gently used items that's part of it's goal to become fully carbon neutral by 2030. It will offer 30% to 50% of the original price of products in gift cards based on their condition. You can use the retailer's estimator to find out what your item might bring then take it to the nearest store.\nL.L.Bean is another retailer in the 12-month return policy club. Even after a year, if your product is defective due to how it's made, it can also be considered for a return.\nNordstrom has always been known as a retailer that will accept returns long after the purchase date. It doesn't state a set time on its website, but says each return is a case by case basis and it strives to make customers happy.\nSo, basically, ask nicely and they will probably give you a refund or Nordstrom gift card depending on if you have your receipt.\nNordstrom Rack, however, states items must be returned within 45 days.\nThere's no limit, even beyond a year, for how long you can return items purchased at Patagonia for a full refund. Even stuff bought on sale.\nItems returned beyond a year will be refunded with a merchandise credit.\nAnother outdoors clothing and gear retailer, REI allows items to be returned for up to a year with your receipt. Without a valid receipt you will get a store credit for the lowest selling price of the item.\nIn an effort to reduce landfill waste, REI will take back gently used gear in exchange for gift cards or store credit. It then sells that used gear. Those purchases must be returned within 45 days.\nIt's not surprising Trader Joe's, one of the happiest grocery stores on Earth, has a very generous return policy. It offers refunds on everything in the store, with or without a receipt, even if it's been opened. You can get an exchange or merchandise credit or your money back.\nListen up when you're shopping, and you'll often overhear salespeople suggesting customers try an item they are debating because they can always return it.\nZappos has been a favorite among shoppers for its free shipping and free return shipping long before other retailers offered the same.\nIt allows one year for returns for those times you bought the wrong shoes online. Some customers even report returning never-worn shoes beyond a year for a merchandise credit.\nOther Stores with the Best Return Policies\nThese stores require you to return your items within a year, but there are other reasons they make our list.\nAthleta, like other Gap brands, has a return window of 90 days. But the exercise clothing retailer makes the list because of its Give-It-a-Workout-Guarantee. Customers can actually wear clothes for a workout (or even a trip to the mall) and if they don't like how they feel or perform, return them for a full refund.\nThe sweet-scented store also has a 90-day return policy. It makes our list because Bath & Body Works lets customers return even opened products, a.k.a. used products, for a full refund for 90 days with a receipt.\nWithout a sales receipt, you can get a merchandise credit based on the lowest selling price of the product.\nThe home improvement retailer allows 90 days to return unopened products, though customers with a Home Depot credit card or commercial account have a year. There are a few exceptions such as major appliances and area rugs.\nBut here's what we love about the store's return policy: It lets you return opened paint if it ends up on your walls and you decide you don't like the color. Exchange it for something you like more.\nAnd wait, there's more. Customers have one year to return trees and shrubs.\nThe makeup giant lets customers return opened and gently used products within 30 days for a store credit. So go ahead and take a risk on that midnight blue eye shadow or metallic mascara.\nWalgreens has a pretty standard 30-day return policy. But it also allows returns on open makeup. Most stores also have a makeup consultant to help you pick your colors. But again, you can try it a few times and return if you don't love it.\nThe longtime online retailer allows 90 days for returns, except those that are a final sale.\nBut Land's End, which has become a retailer for hundreds of school uniforms across the country, offers an extra perk for busy parents trying to get their kids in the right gear.\nYou can return uniforms that are personalized with your school's logo for a Lands End merchandise credit.\nThat really comes in handy if you're ordering multiple shirts for multiple kids.\nTurn Store Credit or Merchandise Credit into Cash\nIf you end up with gift cards because you returned something without a receipt, you can still ultimately end up with cash. Depending on where you sell it, it's possible to get 85% of the gift card value in cash.\nSo that means, a gift card for those black pumps from Zappo's can become cash to buy premium electronics at Costco.\nHere's where to read the fine print about selling your gift cards.\nKatherine Snow Smith is a senior writer at Codetic.\nRelated Topics:evergreen, save money\nOhmConnect Will Give You $25 Just to Plug Your Fridge Into This Free Device\nHow to watch NFL without cable","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
+{"text":"Ashes 2019: Rain prevents play after lunch following England fightback\nNo further play was possible due to rain after England hit back by taking three wickets in the morning session on day three of the second Ashes Test at Lord's.\nEngland went out under grey London skies on Friday needing to make inroads with Australia, 1-0 up after their victory at Edgbaston last week, 30-1 in reply to 258.\nCameron Bancroft became debutant Jofra Archer's first Test victim before Chris Woakes got rid of Usman Khawaja (36) and Stuart Broad (2-26) saw the back of Travis Head as three wickets tumbled for only 11 runs.\nEngland failed to claim the prized scalp of former captain Steve Smith, but Australia were 80-4 - trailing by 178 - at lunch and poor weather prevented the players from taking to the field again on Friday.\nA draw looks the most likely outcome after day one was washed out, but a more positive forecast for the weekend should ensure two extended days are not interrupted, giving both sides hope of forcing a win.\nLeft-hander Khawaja brought up Australia's 50 with a streaky boundary when Woakes was brought into the attack after Archer and Broad were unable to conjure an early breakthrough.\nEngland skipper Joe Root persisted with World Cup star Archer (1-18) and the quick got a much-needed maiden Test wicket with a delivery which struck Bancroft (13) in front after nipping in sharply off the seam.\nUmpire's call was the verdict after Bancroft signalled for a review and Woakes (1-27) got in on the act with the second ball of the next over, Khawaja nibbling behind to an excellent delivery which moved away.\nAustralia were 60-3 after losing two wickets without scoring a run and they were four down when Broad snared Travis Head (7) lbw, England successfully reviewing when Aleem Dar curiously opted not to raise his finger.\nBen Stokes caused an otherwise untroubled Smith problems and Matthew Wade overturned an lbw decision when on nought, after being given out from a ball from the England all-rounder which pitched outside leg stump.\nWade was still there, although yet to get off the mark from 23 balls faced and Smith - scorer of a century in both innings in the first Test - was 13 not out when lunch was called with rain falling, and that was it for the day.\nChristopher Woakes\njofra archer\n\u00ab Ashes 2019: Wood to miss entire series after knee surgery Ashes 2019: Australia beat battling England in Old Trafford thriller to retain the Ashes \u00bb\nAaron Finch was run out following a mix-up with Steve Smith as Australia lost the third ODI to India on Saturday and the captain said the pair would discuss it over a beer.\nFinch rushed for a single after Smith shot to short third man but the former skipper never fully committed and Ravindra Jadeja and Shreyas Iyer combined to send the ball to Mohammed Shami, who whipped the bails off at the non-striker's end.\nAlthough Smith went on to score a stunning 131, India limited the tourists to 286-9 in Bengaluru.\nRohit Sharma (119) and Virat Kohli (89) formed a pivotal 137-run partnership and India went on to win by seven wickets with 15 balls remaining, sealing a 2-1 series triumph.\n\"We haven't discussed it yet, maybe we will tonight over a beer,\" said Finch of the incident with Smith.\n\"He played an exceptional knock, he rode the momentum when he had to, controlled the innings at various parts when we'd lose a wicket.\n\"He really controlled that middle part which was really important to give us a chance at the back end. It was a top knock, real quality.\"\nAustralia won a five-match series in India last March 3-2 and Kohli was proud to have atoned for that defeat.\n\"We just want to go upwards and onwards. Getting one back given that we lost the series at home last year is really satisfying,\" said Kohli.\n\"Australia were even better than last time. There's Steve, David [Warner] and Marnus [Labuschagne]. A quality bowling attack, and really intense in the field too.\n\"We lost the last three in the last series and coming back and winning the last two games after losing the first one, is very satisfying.\"\nShikhar Dhawan had to leave the field early in Australia's innings and was sent for an X-ray on his left shoulder, which he hurt while diving in the field.\nKohli was proud of how India coped without Dhawan, who could be a doubt for their tour of New Zealand, which begins with the first of five Twenty20 games on Friday.\n\"We're quite experienced, Rohit and I, and we were short of Shikhar's experience,\" said Kohli.\n\"We got a good start. We expect openers of the quality of Rohit and KL [Rahul] to give us starts like that.\n\"When KL got out it was a tricky situation. The ball was gripping and turning a bit, and this is where experience comes in.\n\"We [Rohit and Kohli] spoke of stringing together a partnership and all Australia want are wickets and if we don't give them wickets we can chase seven or eight runs an over later on. We have that belief in our skill.\"\nMark Boucher warned South Africa must \"man up\" after they were \"outskilled\" by England on day four of the third Test at St George's Park.\nEngland captain Joe Root took 4-31 in Port Elizabeth after Mark Wood struck twice to ensure England require just four wickets on the final day to take a 2-1 lead with one match to play.\nThe Proteas were all out for only 209 after losing their last four first-innings wickets for only one run early on the penultimate day and they were in deep trouble on 102-6 - trailing by 188 runs - following on at stumps.\nSouth Africa head coach Boucher offered a frank assessment of his side's shortcomings following a painful rain-affected day, which left them surely relying on the weather to save them on Monday.\n\"I think we were outskilled, to be honest,\" he told Sky Sports. \"You can blame different things for the situation but I've got to look at myself and find a way to get the players up mentally and upskill them in a short space of time.\n\"I do think Joe Root was difficult to play at the end there. It's difficult to get down to the pitch of the ball - one slides on, one turns and it's like quicksand, the harder you try the deeper you sink.\n\"But we've created this situation for ourselves. No excuses - we've got to man up now and take this forward and learn from these lessons.\n\"When you're under the pump for a long time, every side has its breaking point and today we broke quite early, which is disappointing.\"\nFaf du Plessis went 54 balls without scoring at one point before he was sent packing by part-time spinner Root for 36, but Boucher insisted it is not time to discuss his future as captain.\n\"That's not a call to make a this moment in time,\" Boucher said. \"He's trying really hard and working really hard away from the game.\n\"If he's not scoring runs there's that extra pressure. The best way to answer that is putting runs on the board.\n\"There's no hiding place in Test cricket. He's disappointed from a team perspective. He spent a bit of time in the middle, which is good for his confidence.\"\nSweet revenge as Jamaica defeats South Africa 59-54 in Vitality Nations Cup\nSunshine Girl vice-captain Nicole Dixon showered praise on head coach Connie Francis following Sunday's 59-54 win over South Africa in their opening match of the 2020 Vitality Nations Cup.\nPopular Cricket News\n'I love those situations' - Windies star Russell r\u2026\nJan 16, 2020 Windies\nT&T Red Force gains upper hand on the Hurricanes\nWindies must do better between wickets insists skipper Polla\u2026\nHodge and Smith blunt Scorpions' attack as Volcanoes take ch\u2026\nTalented young Windies could dominate world cricket in 10 ye\u2026","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
+{"text":"The Woodrow Wilson House\nPosted: May 27, 2014 in Buildings, Historic Figures, Historic Sites, Presidential\nTags: 28th President, D.C., Edith Bolling Wilson, Embassy Row, National Historic Landmark, National Register of Historic Places, National Trust for Historic Preservation, President Warren G. Harding, President Woodrow Wilson, Prohibition, the other executive mansion, Washington National Cathedral, White House, Woodrow Wilson, Woodrow Wilson House\nWoodrow Wilson House\nWhile most Presidents happily retire back to their home state after leaving office, Woodrow Wilson decided to remain in D.C. In fact, he is the only American President to select D.C. to be his home following his final term in office. So on a recent bike ride I chose to go by the Woodrow Wilson House in northwest D.C. Sometimes referred to as \"the other executive mansion,\" the house is located at 2340 S Street (MAP) on Embassy Row in the city's Kalorama Neighborhood.\nLate in 1920 after leading the nation through the first World War, winning the Nobel Peace Prize, and creating the League of Nations, the 28th President's second and final term was nearing its end. Needing a place to live after leaving The White House, his wife Edith Bolling Wilson began to search for an appropriate residence. His second wife, she had lived in D.C. before they met and received a small fortune when her former husband, a prosperous local jeweler, passed away. However, her husband made his own plans. On December 14, Wilson insisted that his wife attend a concert. When she returned he presented her with the deed to the Georgian style mansion on S Street. He had bought the house despite having never even seen it. The former President and his wife moved into the home on Inauguration Day in 1921.\nThe Wilsons moved into their new retirement haven, but it wasn't an easy move. Prohibition forbid the transportation of alcohol, and that presented a problem for Wilson, who did not want to leave his fine wine collection in the White House for his successor. The recently elected Warren G. Harding was known to be a heavy drinker. He appealed to Congress, and Congress granted an exception to Prohibition by passing a special law just for him, which allowed one person on one specific day \"to transport alcohol from 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue to 2340 S Street.\"\nWilson, partially paralyzed from a stroke he suffered in 1919, spent his few remaining years in partial seclusion at the house, under the continuous care of his wife and servants. It was from the balcony of this house that Wilson addressed a crowd in November of 1923 as his last public appearance. On February 3, 1924, he died in an upstairs bedroom. He was laid to rest in Washington National Cathedral, becoming not just the only President to remain in D.C. after his presidency, but also the only President to be buried in D.C. Mrs. Wilson continued to live in the residence until her death in 1961. She bequeathed the property and all of its original furnishings to the National Trust for Historic Preservation, which designated it a National Historic Landmark in 1964. The National Trust continues to own the house, and currently operates it as a museum.\nI think President Wilson would have approved of my adventures biking around and exploring D.C. He cycled regularly, including several cycling vacations. However, as President he was unable to bike around D.C. for security reasons. Unable to ride, he took to playing golf with equal enthusiasm. In fact, Wilson holds the record among all U.S. Presidents for the most rounds of golf, having played over 1,000 rounds, or almost one every other day.\nMeridian Hill Park","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
+{"text":"Jurisdiction & Appeals, Stern Files\nThe Stern Files (fifth edition)\nCo-authored by Kyle J. Ortiz and Doron P. Kenter.\nIt is a new year, and it is still unclear what long-term consequence the Supreme Court's decision in Stern v. Marshall, 564 U.S. 2 (2011) will have for the jurisdiction and authority of the bankruptcy courts. We are starting, however, to see Stern and the issues it presents make their way into more decisions on the circuit level. Thus, by the end of 2012 we may have a better idea of what, if any, long-term effects Stern will have on the bankruptcy courts. For a review of some of the more significant decisions stemming from Stern previously reported on, please see our earlier editions of the Stern Files.\nWe summarize nine recent decisions that have grappled with the Supreme Court's holding concerning the constitutional limitations of bankruptcy court jurisdiction in this post, our fifth edition of the Stern Files:\nMichaelson v. Golden Gate Private Equity (In re Appleseed's Intermediate Holdings, LLC), No. 11-807 (JEI\/KM), 2011 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 144315 (D. Del. Dec. 15, 2011) Background: Postconfirmation, a litigation trustee brought a complaint against defendants for breach of fiduciary duty and allegedly fraudulent transfers. The parties agreed that that the complaint alleged \"a mixture of core and non-core claims all arising from the same facts.\" The defendants sought to withdraw the bankruptcy reference arguing that they were entitled to a jury trial, which a bankruptcy court cannot hold absent all parties' consent, and citing Sterngrounds because the trustee's claims were a mixture of core and non-core claims.Stern Impact: The district court withdrew the reference for the fraudulent transfer actions that involved both core and non-core claims, holding that such withdrawal promotes uniformity and efficiency because (i) it would prevent the same issues from being litigated twice and prevent judgments from being subject to collateral attack, (ii) decisions on matters core and non-core alike would come from one court, and (iii) withdrawal would promote uniformity by eliminating the risk of the irrational outcome that would result \"if the Bankruptcy Court found a certain fact relevant in both a core and non-core claim, but [upon review the district court] found that fact to be erroneous, though not clearly erroneous, the [the district court] would be required to accept that fact for the core claim and reject that fact for the non-core claim.\"\nBurtch v. Hutson (In re USDigital, Inc.), No. 09-50469 (CSS), 2011 Bankr. LEXIS 4862 (Bankr. D. Del. Dec. 20, 2011) Background: Defendants in an adversary proceeding brought by a chapter 7 trustee sought a determination of whether a claim for equitable subordination was core or non-core.Stern Impact: The court held that the equitable subordination claim was core after a lengthy discussion of Stern, from which the court concluded that, from a statutory perspective, all matters \"arising in\" or \"arising under\" title 11 are core matters upon which bankruptcy courts may issue a final order, and if matters do not \"arise in\" or \"arise under\" title 11, they are \"related to\" matters, which the bankruptcy court may only propose findings of fact and conclusions of law. The court held that Stern did not disturb this essential distinction. Thus, the court, noting that equitable subordination is \"a substantive right provided by title 11,\" held that such a claim is statutorily core.\nFarooqi v. Carroll (In re Carroll), No. 11-03321, 2011 Bankr. LEXIS 4948 (Bankr. N.D. Tex. Dec. 13, 2011) Background: Plaintiff brought a state court action against defendant for fraud, fraudulent inducement, and violations of the Texas Deceptive Trade Practice Act. Defendant subsequently filed for bankruptcy protection, and plaintiff initiated an adversary proceeding in the bankruptcy court alleging similar claims to those which it had asserted in the state court action, in addition to claims of nondischargeability. Defendant asserted that the bankruptcy court lacked subject matter jurisdiction over the proceeding based on Sternbecause plaintiff never filed a proof of claim in defendant's underlying chapter 13 case.Stern Impact: The court stated that Stern did not raise issues of subject matter jurisdiction, but, rather, addressed a bankruptcy court's constitutional authority to enter final judgments. The court went on to hold that plaintiff's failure to file a proof of claim wasn't an impediment to the bankruptcy court having final authority, because the filing of the adversary proceeding constituted an informal proof of claim. The court noted that the questions before it were (i) was a debt owed to plaintiff under state law, and (ii) if a debt was owed, was the debt dischargeable? The court held that under the \"public rights\" exception discussed in Stern, the bankruptcy court had the authority to liquidate state law claims that were \"closely integrated\" with the Bankruptcy Code, and because dischargeability of debt is a question fundamental to the Bankruptcy Code, the court concluded that it had the authority to both liquidate and determine whether plaintiff's claim was excepted from defendant's discharge.\nOrtiz v. Aurora Health Care, Inc. (In re Ortiz), Nos. 10-3465, 10-3466, 2011 WL 6880651 (7th Cir. Dec. 30, 2011) Background: Two groups of debtors filed class action lawsuits against a medical provider that had filed proofs of claims in the debtors' bankruptcy cases which revealed confidential medical information on the debtors. The causes of action arose under a Wisconsin statute allowing individuals to sue when their health care records are disclosed without their permission. The bankruptcy judge granted summary judgment in favor of the medical provider, and the Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals granted direct appeal. Arguments were held prior to the Stern ruling, but following Stern, the Seventh Circuit sua sponteordered supplemental briefing on whether the bankruptcy court had constitutional authority to issue final judgments dismissing the debtors' complaints, and depending on the answer to that question, whether the Seventh Circuit has authority under 28 U.S.C. \u00a7 158(d)(2)(A), or any other provision, to grant direct appeal.Stern impact: The Seventh Circuit stated that, although the grant of appeal appeared to be proper when granted, following Stern, that its basis for appellate jurisdiction was now in question because the bankruptcy court may not have had jurisdiction to enter a final order on the matter. The Seventh Circuit stated that Stern held that the responsibility for deciding suits made \"of the stuff of the traditional actions at common law . . . rest[s] with Article III judges in Article III courts,\" and, unless a claim involves a \"public right,\" Article III \"prohibit[s] Congress from giving bankruptcy courts authority to adjudicate claims that [go] beyond the claims allowance process.\" Although the Seventh Circuit found that the debtors' claims were core because they arose in the bankruptcy case and would have no existence outside of bankruptcy, the Seventh Circuit determined that the bankruptcy court, nonetheless, did not have the constitutional authority to enter a final judgment on the debtors' claims, because they involved a private matter of \"the liability of one individual to another\" that \"owe[d] its existence to Wisconsin state law and [would] not necessarily [be] resolve[d] in the claims allowance process.\" Thus, the Seventh Circuit held that \"[w]ithout a final judgment we lack a statutory basis for appellate jurisdiction\" and that is must therefore dismiss the appeals before it.\nBayonne Med. Ctr. v. Bayonne\/Omni Dev., LLC (In re Bayonne Med Ctr.), No. 09-1689 (MS), 2011 WL 5900960 (Bankr. D.N.J. Nov. 1, 2011) Background: A liquidating trustee brought a complaint against defendants for, among other causes of action, state law causes of action to enforce a pledge and to recover fraudulent transfers and voidable preferences. The trustee alleged that the cause of action seeking enforcement of the pledge was a core matter and sought a final money judgment. Two years into the proceeding and after summary judgment motions had been field and argued, the court asked whether the parties would consent to entry of a final judgment by the bankruptcy court. The defendants consented, but the trustee did not.Stern Impact: The bankruptcy court found that the state law action to enforce a pledge was a non-core \"related to\" cause of action, but nonetheless held that it had authority to enter a final judgment because the trustee had implicitly consented when he (i) filed the complaint in the bankruptcy court, (ii) alleged that all causes of actions were core, and (iii) sought entry of a final judgment in the bankruptcy court. Moreover, the court held that the trustee was estopped from withdrawing consent more than two years into the case. Thus, the court held that, under Stern, the bankruptcy court could enter a final judgment on the \"related to\" state law action seeking enforcement of a pledge.The court went on to note that some might see a \"gap,\" following Stern, where the bankruptcy courts have express statutory authority to enter final judgment with the parties consent on non-core matters under section 157(c)(2), but don't have the same express statutory authority with respect to core matters (such as the fraudulent transfer actions in front of the court). The court held that such a gap is \"logically and appropriately . . . filled by judicial extension of section 157(c)(2).\" Thus, because the parties had consented to the entry of final judgment on the non-core claims, that consent was logically extended to the core matters as well.\nMenotte v. United States (In re Custom Contractors LLC), No. 10-3455-PGH, 2011 WL 6046397 (Bankr. S.D. Fla. Dec. 5, 2011) Background: A chapter 7 trustee brought an action against the IRS to recover fraudulent transfers under section 548 of the Bankruptcy Code and under the strong-arm powers of section 544, alleging that the debtor made payments in satisfaction of its owner's personal tax liability. Following Stern, the IRS objected to the treatment of the matter as \"core\" and asserted that the bankruptcy court lacked constitutional authority to enter a final judgment.Stern Impact: The court noted that Stern raised two questions: (i) whether the action at issue stems from the bankruptcy itself and (ii) whether the claim would necessarily be resolved in the claims allowance process. The court held that \"the answer to the question \u2013whether the action stems from the bankruptcy itself-is decidedly 'yes.'\" Although the court acknowledged the Stern Court's discussion of the Granfinanciera decision, it held that \"[t]his Court's job is not to extend Stern to fraudulent transfer actions based on Supreme Court dicta, and in so doing, upend the division of labor between district and bankruptcy courts that has been in effect for nearly thirty years.\"The court went on to note that, even if it were determined that it lacked authority to enter final judgment, the IRS had explicitly and impliedly consented to the bankruptcy court's resolution because the IRS had litigated the case for over a year and its only previous challenge to the court's jurisdiction had been based on sovereign immunity.\nHeller Ehrman LLP v. Arnold & Porter, LLP (In re Heller Ehrman LLP), No. C-11-04848 CRB, 2011 WL 6179149 (N.D. Cal. Dec. 13, 2011) Background: During its dissolution proceeding (but prior to its bankruptcy filing), Heller Ehrman agreed to waive its rights to recover fees associated with unfinished business the law firm had been handling at the time of its dissolution, which former partners had taken to other law firms. Postpetition, however, Heller Ehrman sought to avoid these waivers as having constituted actual or constructively fraudulent transfers under section 548 and 550 of the Bankruptcy Code and under California state law. A group of defendants moved to withdraw the reference asserting that the bankruptcy court lacked authority to enter final judgment on the claims.Stern Impact: The district court, focusing on Stern's analysis of Marathon and Granfinanciera, held that \"since the state law counterclaims at issue were not 'public rights,' their final adjudication could not be assigned to an Article I bankruptcy judge.\" Nonetheless, the court held that withdrawal of the reference was not required in the present case because the bankruptcy court could still enter a report and recommendation. The court also held that permissive withdrawal, similarly, was improper because the bankruptcy court was familiar with the case, and, thus, allowing the action to proceed before the bankruptcy court would allow for efficient and uniform administration of the bankruptcy case.\nIn re Special Value Continuation Partners, L.P. v. Jones, No. 11-3304, 2011 Bankr. LEXIS 4475 (Bankr. S.D. Tex. Nov. 15, 2011) Background: Plaintiffs provided financing to entities that later commenced chapter 11 cases in the bankruptcy court for the District of Delaware. After the commencement of the chapter 11 cases, plaintiffs filed an action in Texas state court for fraud and negligent misrepresentation against certain officers and directors of the debtor. The officers and directors removed the action to federal court, and the plaintiffs moved for remand for lack of subject matter jurisdiction. The officers and directors responded by filing a motion to transfer to Delaware federal court.Stern Impact: The court held that Stern \"negates the presumption that a 'related to' proceeding can be more easily, expeditiously, and inexpensively tried in front of the home bankruptcy court.\" Additionally, the court held that there was little question that a bankruptcy court would lack constitutional authority to hear the state law causes of action between nondebtors that did not stem from the bankruptcy proceeding and would not be necessarily resolved by the claims allowance process. Thus, the court held that transfer was inappropriate and remanded the case to the Texas state court.\nPolice & Fire Retirement System of the City of Detroit v. AMBAC Fin. Group, Inc. (In re AMBAC Fin. Group, Inc.), No. 11-civ-7529 (NRB), 2011 WL 6844533 (S.D.N.Y. Dec. 29, 2011) Background: A debtor entered into settlements in two shareholder derivative class actions suits brought against the debtor and its officers and directors that were filed prior to the commencement of the debtor's chapter 11 case. The bankruptcy court entered an order approving the settlement pursuant to Bankruptcy Rule 9019 over the objection of a claimant. On appeal of the bankruptcy court's order, the claimant asserted that the bankruptcy court did not have constitutional authority to resolve the shareholder derivative claims following Stern.Stern Impact: The court held that the \"full reach of Stern has yet to be determined, but it is clear that the case does not implicate the approval of settlements, relating to property of the debtor's estate, under Rule 9019.\" The court, citing In re Wash. Mut., No. 08-12229 (MFW), 2011 WL 4090757 (Bankr. D. Del. Sept. 13, 2011) noted that there is a \"fundamental difference between a court's entry of a final, binding judgment on the merits of a claim and its approval of a settlement of that claim.\"","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
+{"text":"Tuesday Morning 3 A.M.\nA companion to the weekly column, at www.tm3am.com.\nFrank Zappa Buyer's Guide #33: Return of the Son of Shut Up 'n Play Yer Guitar\nFrank Zappa is routinely considered one of the finest guitar players to have ever lived. He ranked #22 on Rolling Stone's 2011 list of 100 greatest guitarists. Guitar Player and Guitar World magazines have done dozens of cover features on Zappa, with the former devoting an entire issue to him after his death. Revered players like Steve Vai bow down at Zappa's feet, and Frank's son Dweezil had to, in his words, re-learn how to play guitar before taking his father's music out on the road with Zappa Plays Zappa.\nAnd yet, an argument can be made that Zappa is actually underrated as a guitarist.\nCertainly that was the case in May of 1981, when Zappa's own Barking Pumpkin Records issued three albums designed to showcase his guitar solos. They were blessed with particularly Zappa-esque names: Shut Up 'n Play Yer Guitar, Shut Up 'n Play Yer Guitar Some More and Return of the Son of Shut Up 'n Play Yer Guitar. Each ran to about 35 minutes, and all three were only obtainable through mail order.\nBut what should have remained niche records, interesting only to a select few, became the ultimate expression of Zappa the guitar player. It was on these albums that the uninitiated could finally hear just how good the man was. His playing runs the gamut from fierce and dirty to sublimely beautiful, but the element of his work that is most on display here is his unpredictability. Zappa rarely played anything the way one would expect a guitarist to play it. His spontaneous guitar sculptures are continuously surprising, even for people who don't play the instrument.\nIt's a style that takes some getting used to. Zappa could hear complex polyrhythms in his head, and would often play to those, as opposed to blending in with the work of his backing musicians. This leads to accents falling on the \"wrong\" notes, or some notes holding longer than you would expect, and if you are used to the Eddie Van Halen school of rock guitar playing, this may sound wrong to your ears at first. But after repeated listens, it becomes clear that Zappa is effectively rewriting the rulebook for guitar solos.\nThese three albums are comprised almost entirely of live guitar solos, taken from extended renditions of other songs. The seven tracks on the first album, Shut Up 'n Play Yer Guitar, were mostly recorded on the 1979-1980 tour, which means the phenomenal rhythm section of drummer Vinnie Colaiuta and bassist Arthur Barrow is in full effect here. Half the fun of listening to this album is hearing what these two players are doing behind Zappa's blistering lead work \u2013 they're following, making decisions based on the lead playing, but they're creating their own kind of musical alchemy as well.\nShut Up begins with some of Zappa's fiercest playing, on the complex \"Five-Five-FIVE\" and the downright nasty \"Hog Heaven.\" The title track, taken from a February 1979 performance of \"Inca Roads,\" is Zappa's first chance to stretch out here \u2013 the solo runs for 5:38, and never drags, Zappa making endlessly fascinating choices and the band switching gears behind him, totally in sync. The solo is surprisingly melodic, swooping back and forth over the two-note \"Inca Roads\" vamp.\nZappa unveils a clean guitar tone for \"While You Were Out,\" one of the few studio tracks in the three-album collection. The drums were recorded in early 1979, the two guitars (Zappa and Warren Cucurullo) improvised over them in late 1979. And yet, if you didn't know it, you'd swear you were listening to another live jam session. Zappa's peaceful tone offers an oasis between the louder live tracks, and showcase another, more placid side to his playing.\n\"Treacherous Cretins\" and \"Heavy Duty Judy\" are their own distinct songs. The former finds Zappa soloing over a slow, repeated keyboard line and some unbelievable drumming from Coliauta, the latter is an explosion of guitar notes over a slinky horn figure. (This song will be resurrected for the 1988 tour, with even more trumpets and saxophones.) The album ends with a seven-minute blues jam called \"Soup 'n Old Clothes,\" taken from a December 1980 performance of \"The Illinois Enema Bandit.\" As has been seen previously, Zappa played the blues fluently, and at the same time, like no one else.\nIf guitar solos do not excite you, this should not be your first Zappa purchase. But give this first volume a listen \u2013 it's only 35 minutes \u2013 and it could redefine your idea of rock guitar playing. Zappa was just that good.\nRating: Essential.\nWhich version to buy: The three Shut Up albums have been packaged together on CD since 1986, when they were first issued as a 2-CD set. The 1995 edition restored the three-LPs-in-a-box feel by separating each album onto its own disc, but this made the entire endeavor more expensive. Your best and most economical bet is the 2012 Zappa\/Universal remaster, which sounds better than any other edition, and reverts to the 2-CD format.\nNext week: Shut Up 'n Play Yer Guitar Some More.\nPosted by Andre Salles at 4:52 PM 1 comment:\nLabels: Frank Zappa\nFrank Zappa Buyer's Guide #30: Tinseltown Rebellion","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
+{"text":"Match Reports for Saturday 24th January 2015\n5th XI v Southgate Olympic Lost 5-2 Scorers: Kyriakides, Phillips\nHaving not played together for some weeks due to waterlogged pitches, we were a bit rusty, and not really quite on the same wave length. Nevertheless, this was a game we perhaps should have won, certainly if we'd taken our chances in the first 15 minutes or so, when we really should have been 3-0 up instead of only one goal to the good. We started brightly, with Alex K getting a goal in the first five minutes by nipping in on some cumbersome oppo defending, though appa\nrently taking the chance in slow motion walking the ball into the net. Unfortunately for the oppo, their 'keeper fell awkwardly in attempting to get the ball, and dislocated a shoulder, so we hope recovers as quickly as possible. For most of the half it was us probing, and we had a number of really presentable chances not taken. The one that stands out most in my mind was Ross Blackmore's shot after a good team move just inches wide of the post. Though that chance really was a waste, as another touch to bring the ball under better control probably would have served Ross better. But this was a bit emblematic of our performance for the 90 minutes, with many of our players hurrying passes and shots, where normally we are a lot more controlled. The oppo got an equaliser about mid way through the half with a good goal in all fairness, passing swiftly down our right hand side, skipping past tackles, and converting a cross very efficiently. Their second goal a few minutes later was a flukey cross that went straight in over Ron Hanson's outstretched hand, taking him by surprise as it swerved through the air. Apart from those two chances we hadn't allowed the oppo any meaningful attacks, whilst we had kept ours going, so at half time felt confident we could get back into it and push on to hopefully win. Unfortunately the third goal was scored by them rather than us, and at 3-1 down early in the half we started to push our players forward to get a goal back, though this was always going to be risky. We did score the next one, off a quick Nick P throw in that Darragh and Billy combined well off, with Billy netting from about twenty yards out, the keeper unable to hold the shot. However, from that point the oppo started to click and play some good interchanges amongst themselves, whilst we steadily started to 'unclick' (this is a Zafism, for those of you who are interested in the source of the terminology). We had a five minute spell where it looked like we might reestablish control, with Dave Campbell on in the middle and Craig Jones out on the right wing, but we lost our team balance as more and more of our players pushed forward, and inevitably we started to get caught on the counter attack. Though there was a significant element of controversy over the oppo's 4th goal from the spot, with Darragh penalised though his view and those around who saw it was there was very minimal contact and the oppo player just fell over. It's not often you see a dive in our league, and to be honest I was too far away to judge, but Darragh swore blind it was so. We then conceded another breakaway goal punishing our suicidal over commitment of players forward, to make the score safe for the oppo with 5 goals to them. We rallied at the end, Murphy having three decent chances, but having sprinted 70 yards upfield on each occasion to get into a shooting position, he found their stand in 'keeper in the mood to make good diving saves. The scoreline was a bit harsh on us, but at the end of the day we all know that in football you have to take your chances... Let's get a few more games under our belts and find our form again.","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
+{"text":"Facts About Tabby Cats\nBy Chad Stetson\nChad Stetson\nChad Stetson began his freelance writing career in 2010. He writes for various online publications, specializing in philosophy and theology topics. Stetson completed Canadian Mennonite University's academic writing program and is studying mathematics and physics at the University of Manitoba.\nTabby cats are known for their striped fur.\nMost people believe that a tabby cat is a breed of cat. However, a tabby cat is not a breed of cat, but a description of a cat's coat pattern. The tabby pattern is the most common pattern of coat, especially for wild cats. Tigers and leopards both have a tabby pattern. Most pets that are a mixed breed have a tabby pattern.\nWhy a Tabby Pattern\nTabby patterns are useful for cats that are living in the wild. With the pattern being a camouflage, the cats can hide from predators behind grasses and trees. The tabby pattern also allows cats to be hidden from their prey. Cats with a tabby pattern have an element of surprise against their prey.\nAppearance of a Tabby Pattern\nA tabby pattern consists of two colors of hair. The pattern typically has a lighter color and a darker color hair. Each hair on the tabby cat has many bands of colors on each hair's length. All cats with a tabby pattern have a marking on their face that resembles the letter \"M.\" Whatever the color of the pattern, you will still be able to see the marking.\nVariations on the Pattern\nThe tabby pattern can have several different patterns within the classification. These patterns include the striped tabby, the blotched tabby, the spotted tabby and the ticked tabby. The stripped tabby cat has stripes down its body that are vertical looking. The blotched tabby cat appears to have a marble pattern. On the spotted tabby cat, the cat has dark spots all over its body. The ticked tabby cat does not appear to be a tabby at all. If it did not have the \"M\" marking, you would not even know it was a tabby.\nVariations of Color\nTabby cats have numerous color variations. The tabbies can be colored in red, black, chocolate, blue, cream and many more. The best way to determine the color of a tabby is to look at its stripes and also the tip of its tail. The variations are endless on pattern and color for a tabby cat.\nThe Cat Site; Tabby Cats; Anne Moss\nFanciers; Cat Colors FAQ: Common Colors; Orca Starbuck and David Thomas\nHow to Distinguish Between a Norwegian Forest Cat, a Maine Coon Cat & Other Forest Cats\nHow Long Do Tabby Cats Live?\n10 Unique & Surprising Facts About Calico Cats\nThe Differences Between Ragdoll & Birman Cats\nSigns & Symptoms of End Stage Liver Failure in Felines\nHow to Stop an Inside Cat From Peeing on the Bed","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
+{"text":"Life Sciences 2011: Launch\nTo celebrate 100 years of International Women's Day in 2011, Suffrage Science unites the voices of leading female researchers in life science.\nOver the last century many more women have been able to pursue scientific careers than before. So why is a man still six times more likely to work in a science, engineering, or technology profession than a woman (Women and men in science, engineering and technology: the UKRC statistics guide 2010), despite the fact that women make up just under half of the UK workforce?\nThe MRC Clinical Sciences Centre next month launches Suffrage Science, a commemorative publication highlighting the achievements of pioneer women scientists over the past century, which touches on some of the issues that women face in science today.\nTo mark the publication launch, on Wednesday 9th March 2011 at London's Institute of Contemporary Arts, Vivienne Parry (former Tomorrow's World presenter) will engage Dame Professor Sally Davies (Chief Scientific Officer, Department of Health) and other leading women scientists and artists in a debate entitled: Are women changing science?\nCentral St Martins College of Art & Design mark the occasion with a bespoke jewellery and ribbon collection, which references the suffrage movement that fought for equal voting rights for women at the start of the last century. Designs will be awarded to leading female researchers as heirlooms, which they will pass on to future generations of women scientists (at a private launch to follow the debate).\nThe 2011 Suffrage Science Awardees are:\nProfessor Sarah Jayne-Blakemore (Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience, UCL)\nProfessor Mary Collins (Director of the MRC\/UCL Centre for Medical Molecular Virology)\nProfessor Dame Sally Davies (Chief Medical Officer for England and Chief Scientific Adviser for the Department of Health)\nDr Helen Fisher (Research Professor at the Center for Human Evolution Studies, Rutgers University, New Jersey, USA)\nProfessor Dame Louise Johnson (University of Oxford)\nVivienne Parry (Writer and Broadcaster)\nDr Sohaila Rastan (CSO, RNIB)\nProfessor Liz Robertson (Wellcome Trust Principal Research Fellow and Professor of Developmental Biology, University of Oxford)\nJanet Thornton (Director, European Bioinformatics Institute, Hinxton)\nProfessor Fiona Watt (Deputy Director of the Wellcome Trust Centre for Stem Cell Research, Cambridge)\nWatch coverage of the launch here:","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
+{"text":"Special Subjects \/\nDietary Supplements \/\nDehydroepiandrosterone (DHEA) \/\nDehydroepiandrosterone (DHEA) references\nOverview of Dietary Supplements\nDehydroepiandrosterone (DHEA)\nS -Adenosyl- l -Methionine\nZinc Supplements\nThere is abundant scientific evidence that mind-body techniques such as guided imagery and meditation are useful in helping patients manage which of the following conditions?\nLaura Shane-McWhorter\n, PharmD,\nUniversity of Utah College of Pharmacy\nDehydroepiandrosterone (DHEA) is a steroid produced by the adrenal gland and is a precursor of estrogens and androgens. Effects on the body are similar to those of testosterone. DHEA can also be synthesized from precursors in the wild Mexican yam; this form is the most commonly available. However, consumption of wild yam is not recommended as a supplement as the body is unable to convert the precursors to DHEA.\n(See also Overview of Dietary Supplements.)\nDHEA supplements are said to improve mood, energy, sense of well-being, and the ability to function well under stress. They are also said to improve muscle strength and athletic performance, stimulate the immune system, deepen nightly sleep, lower cholesterol levels, decrease body fat, build muscles, increase bone mineral density, reverse aging, improve brain function in patients with Alzheimer disease, increase libido, and decrease symptoms of systemic lupus erythematosus.\nThe medicinal claims of DHEA have not been fully supported by the evidence. In addition, DHEA is banned by numerous professional sports organizations as it is classified as a \"prohormone.\"\nDHEA levels are known to naturally decrease with age and therefore people in search of the unattainable fountain of youth have turned to DHEA supplementation as a possible solution to ailments associated with age. Studies have been reported showing both positive and negative results. More thorough studies are warranted not only with aging but with all clinical health conditions.\nAn analysis of data from 4 randomized controlled trials in women and men aged \u2265 55 years found that daily supplementation of DHEA compared to placebo resulted in significant increases in lumbar spine and trochanter bone mineral density in women but not men, although men had a significant decrease in fat mass (1). A 2013 meta-analysis of data collected from studying 1353 older men in a number of trials indicated that DHEA supplementation was associated with a reduction of fat mass; however, no effect was observed for numerous other clinical parameters, including lipid and glycemic metabolism, bone health, sexual function, or quality of life (2). A similar analysis was performed in women with adrenal insufficiency and indicated that DHEA supplementation may improve the quality of life and symptoms of depression, while having no effect on anxiety and sexual well-being (3). The Canadian Network for Mood and Anxiety Treatments (CANMAT) guidelines on complementary and alternative medicine treatments for depression treatment have stated that DHEA may be considered as third-line treatment for depression (4).\nAdverse effects are unclear. There are theoretical risks of gynecomastia in men, hirsutism in women, acne, and stimulation of prostate and breast cancer. There is a case report of mania and one of seizure.\nNone are well documented.\nJankowski CM, Wolfe P, Schmiege SJ, et al: Sex-specific effects of dehydroepiandrosterone (DHEA) on bone mineral density and body composition: a pooled analysis of four clinical trials. Clin Endocrinol (Oxf) 90(2): 293-300, 2019. doi: 10.1111\/cen.13901.\nCorona G, Rastrelli G, Giagulli V, et al: Dehydroepiandrosterone supplementation in elderly men: a meta-analysis study of placebo controlled trials. J Clin Endocrinol Metab 98(9):3615-3626, 2013. doi: 10.1210\/jc.2013-1358.\nAlkatib AA, Cosma M, Elamin MB, et al: A systematic review and meta-analysis of randomized placebo-controlled trials of DHEA treatment effects on quality of life in women with adrenal insufficiency. J Clin Endocrinol Metab 94(10):3676-3781, 2009. doi: 10.1210\/jc.2009-0672.\nRavindran AV, Balneaves LG, Faulkner G, et al: Canadian network for mood and anxiety treatments (CANMAT) 2016 clinical guidelines for the management of adults with major depressive disorder: Section 5. Complementary and alternative medicine treatments. Can J Psychiatry 61(9): 576-587, 2016. doi: 10.1177\/0706743716660290.\nThe following is an English-language resource that may be useful. Please note that THE MANUAL is not responsible for the content of this resource.\nNational Institutes of Health (NIH), National Center for Complementary and Integrative Health: General information for patients about complementary health practices for menopausal symptoms\nMerck & Co., Inc., Kenilworth, NJ, USA (known as MSD outside of the US and Canada) is a global healthcare leader working to help the world be well. From developing new therapies that treat and prevent disease to helping people in need, we are committed to improving health and well-being around the world. The Manual was first published as the Merck Manual in 1899 as a service to the community. The legacy of this great resource continues as the MSD Manual outside of North America. Learn more about our commitment to Global Medical Knowledge.\nVeterinary Manual","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
+{"text":"Ten Years In Just 89 Square Feet\nJay Shafer and the Tiny House Movement\nby Antony Taylor\nFor ten years, Jay woke up every morning to his bedroom ceiling, just 3' away from his face. After climbing down from his loft bed into his 6' x 6 \u00bd' living room, he would enter his 4' x 2' bathroom. To most people, Jay would appear to be a prisoner, and the conditions might appear inhumane, yet Jay is not a prisoner, nor has he been forced into these living conditions. In fact, Jay not only chose to live in such a small space, he designed it himself! Jay's house for ten years, the \"Epu\" is the size of a walk-in closet in most of today's homes, yet it contains a living room, desk, fully ...view middle of the document...\nSustainable architecture has gained increasing interest to help reduce the demand on the planet's resources. To see that Jay first moved into his 89 square foot home in 1997, puts him well ahead of the trend. \"I don't want to burn any more fossil fuels or go through any more construction materials than I have to, for space that I'm not going to use anyway. And I don't want to be putting out any more greenhouse gases than I have to.\" Jay says.\nThe idea of living small is not new, one of history's most memorable examples is Henry David Thoreau, who lived in a 10' x 15' cabin on Walden Pond for over two years in 1845. The reason for such a reduction in material lifestyle? In Thoreau's own words:\n\"I wanted to live deep and suck out all the marrow of life, to live so sturdily and Spartan-like as to put to rout all that was not life, to cut a broad swath and shave close, to drive life into a corner, and reduce it to its lowest terms, and, if it proved to be mean, why then to get the whole and genuine meanness of it, and publish its meanness to the world; or if it were sublime, to know it by experience, and be able to give a true account of it in my next excursion.\"\nHenry David Thoreau, Walden, \"Where I Lived, and What I Lived For\"\nSo does Jay share a common theme with Thoreau? While some of his desires may echo the sentiment expressed by Thoreau, there was a simpler inspiration for Shafer's desire for simplicity: he hated the nearly 4,000 square foot home that he grew up in. \"It was my sister and I who cleaned our house every weekend, and we envied the other kids who got to play while we cleaned the house all weekend long.\" Jay says.\nAnother quote by Jay appears to give him more in common with the growing movements of minimalist or simple living: \"The more stuff I have in my life that's not contributing to my happiness, the more work I have to do, which doesn't make me happy,\" he says. \"So, I got rid of all my unnecessary stuff and just live with what really makes me happy. That editing process is really arduous. But once it's done, that's the hard part. It's all over and you're just living very liberated from there on out.\" Proponents of simple living believe that a voluntary reduction of assets is not only better for the environment, but that it is also better for one's own happiness, as well. The old adage of \"Less is more.\" is their motto. The small house movement owes a lot to the ideal of anti-consumerism, an idea that may seem foreign to some. \"It's very un-American in the sense that living small means consuming less,\" says Jay.\nGrowing Into a Small House Advocate\nJay built his first small home for himself in 1997. The houses frame sits on a 7' x 14' wheeled trailer, of the type used to tow cars behind mobile homes. The reason for this is because current residential codes eschew small houses. The current International Residential Code requires that a residence have one room that is at least 120 square...\nOther Papers Like Ten Years In Just 89 Square Feet\nIntro Essay\n792 words - 4 pages centered on the interval 35-40, as its actual center lies at 39.6 feet. The data on the histogram starts at the 30-35 interval and stops at the 40-45 interval. There is no data recorded after 45 feet. The spread of this histogram appears to be more normal than the spread of the '10 second' histogram. Inference: Closing: In conclusion, deflating the ball for ten seconds led to greater distances. In consensus, the test subjects stated that the\nPsy315 Essay\n1170 words - 5 pages Subtract the mean from each data point. square it. Do this for each data point. Add them all together to get the sum of Squares. To get the SD, divide the SOS by n-1, then take the square root of that the variance is just the SD squared, or SD times SD. 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The club occupies about 6,000 square feet of space with a 600 square foot dance floor, seating for 220, a kitchen for appetizers and short orders\n1000 Common Words In English\n2116 words - 9 pages close 246 night 247 real 248 life 249 few 250 north 1000 Most Common Words in English - Numbers 251 - 500 Vocabulary for ESL EFL TEFL TOEFL TESL English Learners Rank Word 251 open 252 seem 253 together 254 next 255 white 256 children 257 begin 258 got 259 walk 260 example 261 ease 262 paper 263 group 264 always 265 music 266 those 267 both 268 mark 269 often 270 letter 271 until 272 mile 273 river 274 car 275 feet 276 care 277 second 278 book\nBusiness Culture And Strategy\n3596 words - 15 pages 2 Part A ORGANISATIONAL CULTURE Share values Definition: Values tell employee what is important to the organisation. The company motto of JDW is \"cleanliness, beer, service and maintenance\" JDW value is; the size of their pubs was 4,100 square feet buy this has fallen over the years. Now, it's 3,300 square feet. Tim Martin's model for a pub were based on a number of distinguishing characteristics: sell a wide range of real ale beers at\n2813 words - 12 pages equation: Q = A *V where Q= discharge (in cubic feet per second, cfs, or m3\/s) A = cross-sectional area of the wetted channel (width of the channel at a given location multiplied by the depth of the water at that location) V= velocity of the flow (in ft\/s or m\/s) Flood frequency (the average occurrence of flooding of a given magnitude, over a period of years) is based on the maximum discharge for the year at a given point. Recurrence intervals\nArea Of Usable Room Essay\n276 words - 2 pages Program that will calculate the number of square feet (living space) in a 4-room house. 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Assume that the house has a maximum of four rooms, and that each room is rectangular. A. Problem Analysis \u2013 Following the directions in the assignment, clearly write up your problem analysis in this section. In order to determine the usable area of the house I must first find out what is the total square feet area of each of the four rooms. I know that to get the area of\nSys Admin Essay\n605 words - 3 pages The Information contained herein is also in your syllabus Please read the instruction carefully and upload your work once completed onto WebTycho via your assignment link. Assignment 1 (13%): In this assignment, you will design a program to perform the following task: Calculate the usable area in square feet of house. Assume that the house has a maximum of four rooms, and that each room is rectangular. 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+{"text":"Styx: Shards Of Darkness\nStyx: Shards of Darkness gets fresh screens\nBy Andy Chalk published 23 February 16\nCyanide Studios has released a trio of new screens from the upcoming fantasy infiltration-assassination game Styx: Shards of Darkness that showcase some lovely, large, and eminently-climbable levels.\n\"From the City of Thieves, built from the wreckage of lost ships, to the great Elven city of K\u00f6rangar hidden in the mountains, the environments of Styx: Shards of Darkness are enormous and semi-open, with an emphasis on verticality,\" Cyanide said in the accompanying bumph. \"They allow for a lot of freedom to complete the various missions' objectives. They are fantastic playgrounds for Styx to test his stealth and assassination skills, and try out his new moves such as rope-swinging and zip-lining!\"\nStyx: Shards of Darkness follows the adventures of a cynical Goblin assassin who, after the events of the entirely decent Styx: Master of Shadows, is forced by circumstance to sneak into the nigh-impregnable Dark Elf city of K\u00f6rangar. It promises a \"nimbler, more refined\" version of Styx than that of the previous game, as well as a more fully-realized world that will include many more locations than just K\u00f6rangar.\nStyx: Shards of Darkness is set to come out later this year. Find out more at styx-thegame.com.","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
+{"text":"Maternity leave Paternity leave\nCaptain Morgan, Baileys manufacturer ups maternity, paternity leave\nBy Caroline Hroncich May 29, 2019, 1:57 a.m. EDT 2 Min Read\nDiageo is boosting family-friendly benefits for its more than 30,000 global employees.\nThe beverage company \u2014 which manufactures liquor brands including Captain Morgan, Ciroc and Baileys \u2014 will give female employees a minimum of 26 weeks of fully paid maternity leave following the birth, adoption, surrogacy or foster placement of a child. The company is also adding a minimum of four weeks of fully paid paternity leave, although some markets, including the U.S., are increasing it to 26 weeks. The changes will go into effect in July.\nThe company currently offers 18 weeks of parental leave in the U.S., split between paid and unpaid time off for both parents.\n\"[Family leave policies] help drive attraction, aid retention and more importantly have a positive impact on employee engagement and well-being, minimizing some of the stressors inherent in significant lifestyle changes,\" says Deirdre Mahlan, president of Diageo North America.\nSee also: Sweetgreen dresses up its paid parental leave benefits\nIn the U.S., Diageo's updated paid leave benefit applies to all full-time workers and is part of the company's broader suite of family-friendly benefits. Diageo also offers flexible working, subsidized backup childcare, matches in flexible spending accounts for dependent care, fertility treatment reimbursement and access to pumping rooms for nursing mothers, among other benefits. The company employs about 2,600 people across North America.\n\"We believe we can deliver great commercial outcomes and define ourselves as an employer of choice through competitive policy differentiation,\" Mahlan says.\nDiageo isn't the only company to recently boost its paid family leave benefits. Employers including Sweetgreen, Hewlett Packard Enterprise and Bloomberg have all made changes to their paid parental leave policies in the last month.\nSee also: 8 benefits for working parents\nData shows employers are increasingly investing in these offerings. Paid maternity leave policies jumped nine percentage points to 35% between 2016 and 2018, according to data from the Society for Human Resource Management. Paternity leave saw a jump of eight percentage points over the same two year period, SHRM reports.\nWhile there is currently no federal mandate in the U.S. for paid family leave, there has been some buzz surrounding the idea. In his State of the Union address in February, President Trump called for federal paid family leave, saying his plan would allow every new parent a \"chance to bond with their newborn child.\" While American parents are guaranteed time off from work to spend with a newborn child under the Family and Medical Leave Act, they often have to make it work without a paycheck. Some states, including Washington and California, do have laws requiring family leave.\nSee also: Hewlett Packard Enterprise adds six months of paid parental leave\nMahlan says she hopes the company's new policy will challenge the status quo on paid family leave and help to differentiate Diageo from competitors. The company hopes to create a more fully inclusive and diverse workforce.\n\"We aim to continually build policies that are purpose-led, performance-enhancing and competitive in relation to our peer companies,\" she says. \"We also hope to challenge the status quo and change the conversation.\"\nCaroline Hroncich\nFormer senior editor, SourceMedia\nMaternity leave Paternity leave Benefit management Benefit strategies Benefit communication Employee engagement Employee relations Employee retention Employee communications Voluntary benefits\nHere are the major parts of $1.9 trillion Biden relief plan\nThe Biden plan would create a requirement for employers, regardless of size, to offer paid sick leave during the pandemic to workers \u2014 a change that the transition team said would extend the benefit to 106 million workers.\nLilly invests $30 million in health-equity focused venture fund\nThe company is working to identify programs run by people in underrepresented communities.\nBy Riley Griffin\nJobless claims jump by most since March\nContinuing claims in state programs \u2014 an approximation of the number of people receiving ongoing benefits \u2014 climbed by 199,000 to 5.27 million in the week ended Jan. 2.\nBy Olivia Rockeman","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
+{"text":"[OptaJoe] 3 - Xherdan Shaqiri is one of three play...\n[OptaJoe] 3 - Xherdan Shaqiri is one of three players to score at each of the last three World Cup tournaments - the others are Cristiano Ronaldo and Lionel Messi. Podium.\n2 December, 2022 Bendtnerthelegend \u2022 News\n3 - Xherdan Shaqiri is one of three players to score at each of the last three World Cup tournaments - the others are Cristiano Ronaldo and Lionel Messi. Podium. pic.twitter.com\/YUA8SCbown\n\u2014 OptaJoe (@OptaJoe) December 2, 2022","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
+{"text":"Police warn accused robber 'at large and believed to be armed' with gun in Port St. Lucie\nMore than two weeks after an armed robbery\/grand theft auto, police warned the public the accused robber is 'at large and believed to be armed with a firearm.'\nPolice warn accused robber 'at large and believed to be armed' with gun in Port St. Lucie More than two weeks after an armed robbery\/grand theft auto, police warned the public the accused robber is 'at large and believed to be armed with a firearm.' Check out this story on tcpalm.com: https:\/\/www.tcpalm.com\/story\/news\/crime\/st-lucie-county\/2019\/11\/08\/police-warn-accused-robber-at-large-and-believed-armed\/2534380001\/\nWill Greenlee, Treasure Coast Newspapers Published 5:46 p.m. ET Nov. 8, 2019 | Updated 6:24 p.m. ET Nov. 8, 2019\nPORT ST. LUCIE \u2014 More than two weeks after an armed robbery and grand theft auto case, police warned the public Friday that the accused robber is \"at large and believed to be armed with a firearm.\"\nJoseph Dahvarin Morgan (Photo: CONTRIBUTED PHOTO BY PORT ST. LUCIE POLICE)\nPolice on Friday first disclosed the Oct. 23 incident and asked for help in finding Joseph Dahvarin Morgan, 18, of the 5500 block of Northwest Moorhen Trail in Port St. Lucie.\nMore:Police arrest 3 in Port St. Lucie in connection with Monday robbery, home invasion\nPolice said the armed robbery and grand theft auto incident happened about 2:20 p.m. on Oct. 23 in the 5400 block of Northwest Rabbit Run. Police said a stolen vehicle was recovered in Fort Pierce.\nRequests for more information Friday were not fulfilled.\nPolice did say there are warrants for Morgan for robbery with deadly weapon, aggravated battery deadly weapon, grand theft auto and third degree grand theft.\nThose with information about Morgan are asked to call Treasure Coast Crime Stoppers at 800-273-TIPS.\nCONSIDER SUBSCRIBING TODAY: Help support our local journalism\nRead or Share this story: https:\/\/www.tcpalm.com\/story\/news\/crime\/st-lucie-county\/2019\/11\/08\/police-warn-accused-robber-at-large-and-believed-armed\/2534380001\/\nWoman killed in crash involving Holy Cross rowing team\n8 remain in hospital following fatal crash\nPort St. Lucie man dead after motorcycle crash in Fort Pierce\nMcKee, Vero Beach grace cover of Southern Living\nSunday vigil a citywide show of support for woman killed in crash\nWalmart erred in NFL player's $80K layaway donation","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
+{"text":"Medina CuadrosSin categorMMA ODDS AND ENDS FOR FRIDAY: UFC LONDON GETS TILL VS. MASVIDAL, EDWARDS VS. NELSON\nMMA ODDS AND ENDS FOR FRIDAY: UFC LONDON GETS TILL VS. MASVIDAL, EDWARDS VS. NELSON\nUFC London is set with its own main and co-main event. The card takes place March 16 at The O2 Arena in London, England, along with my ideas about the two new high-profile bouts added to the card are below.\nDarren Until Armour Jorge Masvidal, UFC Fight Night 147\nAn intriguing welterweight matchup involving Darren Till and Jorge Masvidal is set since the headlining five-round battle at UFC Fight Night 147. ESPN broke the information. Till (17-1-1) is 5-1-1 overall in the UFC and in his final bout endured his first career loss by entry to winner Tyron Woodley in UFC 228. Till remains one of the most popular fighters in the division, and all of Europe, so regardless of the loss he always made a great deal of sense to headline this card in London. He flirted with the idea of going around middleweight but decided to stay at welterweight to get his hands on Masvidal, who stylistically should wear a good fight against Till. Masvidal (32-13) is 9-6 overall from the UFC and has not fought since a 2017 conclusion loss to Stephen\"Wonderboy\" Thompson. He has not really won a fight in almost two decades because a TKO win over Donald Cerrone, but is still clearly a skilled and dangerous fighter. Masvidal was presumed to fight Nick Diaz in UFC 235, but that fight fizzled and he'll now take on forever.\nI'm expecting a really competitive fight between Till and Masvidal, but given that he's from England and considering all of the betting support he generally gets, I fully expect forever to be the preferred here. I do think it is a close fight but would definitely be interested in Masvidal if he is available at a plus number.\nLeon Edwards vs. Gunnar Nelson, UFC Fight Night 147\nAt the same time, a welterweight bout between contenders Leon Edwards and Gunnar Nelson will function as co-main occasion of UFC Fight Night 147. Edwards (16-3) is 8-2 at the UFC and is riding a silent six-fight win series at the moment with a decision win over Donald Cerrone in his final outing. He's quietly evolved into one of the best welterweights in the UFC, but has been waiting to get his hands on a top-10 opponent. He's finally found a taker in the form of Nelson, who's coming from a huge win over Alex Oliveira in UFC 231. Nelson (17-3-1) rode a 1.5 decades layoff into the Oliveira fight but completely dominated him for one of their biggest wins of his UFC career up to now. He's never climbed to the championship degree that lots of observers of the game expected he at a point in time, but he has nonetheless proven himself to be a good fighter in 170lbs, and the triumph over Oliveira revealed just how good he is at his best.\nThis looks like another aggressive fight. Edwards has shown a yearlong game in his last couple of fights but Nelson is clearly an incredibly-dangerous finisher and is coming off of a big win. Based on the recent triumph over Oliviera I would guess Nelson is pegged as the favorite here, but I think Edwards could have a good deal of dangers in what should be a very close fight.\nDisclaimer: This page contains affiliate links and MMA Odds Breaker is going to be paid if you make a purchase after clicking on the hyperlinks.\nRead more: bdbma.com","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
+{"text":"Top of the Stack\nEx Drops In\n1970s, Book Excerpt, Columns, Paul Hemphill, The Arts, The Literary Life\nBy Paul Hemphill\nFrom Too Old to Cry\nIt is probable that Frederick Exley was the best-known unknown novelist working in America during the seventies. Ever since the publication in the late sixties of A Fan's Notes he has symbolized the enigmatic position of the serious writer in this country. That book and the publication of the second volume in an autobiographical trilogy, Pages from a Cold Island, did little more than further Exley's history of living on the economic edge. People in America don't want to read about poverty and alcoholism and suicide and divorce, which is what Exley writes about. They want to read Jackie Susann paperbacks about Hollywood and cocaine and boys doing erotic things with other boys. The best sellers these days are not written by writers. They are written by shrinks and jocks and sex doctors and escape artists and gangsters and former White House people and other actors.\nThis is a hell of a time for writers. Billy Faulkner wouldn't be able to buy the groceries these days unless he found a way for the postmistress in Oxford, Mississippi, to get raped at high noon down at the railroad depot. You have to have sex or white collar crime or an international conspiracy or UFOs or sharks to make it now. John Steinbeck published The Grapes of Wrath forty years ago. It was all about the rich versus the hungry. That, incidentally, is the test of a great novel: Can you sum it up in one sentence, or, better yet, one phrase? They called Steinbeck a communist when the novel came out in 1939 and it was 1962 when he finally won the Nobel Prize in spite of the flak. Good timing, there, John. Today nobody wants to read that crap. Reality, thy name is mud.\nFred Exley is pushing fifty years of age now. His life, once a disaster, is coming back together. He was born and reared in Watertown, New York, where his father was the all-time local football hero. That is what A Fan's Notes is all about: how the son of the small-time biggie manages not to cope. Ex went through divorce and whiskey and impotence and insanity\u2014he doesn't bother to change his own name in the \"novel\"\u2014but now he is making it. He paid his dues. Now he turns out to be something of a pussycat, living four blocks away from his mother in an apartment in Alexandria Bay, New York, where he cooks and cleans and washes for himself and drops into a neighborhood bar to drink with the same guys he once got into trouble with as a kid.\n\"You Southerners like to talk about roots, like you invented it,\" he was saying the other day, \"but I got news for y'all. Everybody wants to go back home.\"\nHis books are classics read mainly by critics and other writers and people eager to honor distinguished writers. The last he heard, A Fan's Notes had sold fewer than eighty-five hundred copies in hardcover (the author sees approximately one dollar per book on a hardcover) and was going into its sixth futile paperback attempt. Pages from a Cold Island, which came out in the late seventies, hasn't done a bit better. The final autobiographical work of the trilogy\u2014this Exley journey through America\u2014is called Last Notes from Home, and there is little hope that it will do anything at the box office. \"What you've got to do,\" I was telling him yesterday, \"is take up with somebody who can handle all of that money from your estate. Writers like you get rich fifty years after they die.\"\nEx just left. He spent two nights sleeping on our sofa\u2014all right, one night, taking out for the evening he spent alley-catting\u2014en route to Hawaii. He planned to spend six months or so at Lanai City\u2014on a plantation, with somebody he went to kindergarten with\u2014and to try to finish the third novel. Then he would go back home to upstate New York to do whatever was necessary for survival. A movie was made of A Fan's Notes\u2014so bad that it never got below Canada\u2014and there are always pieces to be written for the magazines.\nExley, having lived through personal disasters before, has more or less made a separate peace with the world. He is a novelist in the purest sense. He suffers and takes notes and lives to get even with the bastards. He is good and he knows it. He doesn't cotton to the literati hanging out every night at Elaine's in Manhattan and the Lion's Head in Greenwich Village and those pubs on Long Island like Bobby Vann's. He prefers to live near his mother and the guys he grew up with, up there in an isolated part of the country where it gets deep in snow about this time of year (\"Going to Hawaii is a cop-out, like running from a fight, but it's my cop-out\"), and to continue writing about what he has seen and lived through.\nSo. Ex and I had some fun together. My wife and I threw a party on his first night in town\u2014all writers and editors, although the only guest who had read A Fan's Notes was a slump-shouldered socialist who once knew Bob Dylan in Minnesota\u2014and Ex lay about the next night because of what transpired earlier that day. I was then the hot new columnist for the San Francisco Examiner and had finally been invited to one of the semifamous Round Table Luncheon gatherings thrown by an upwardly mobile divorcee named\u2014for the present\u2014Pat Montandon. Pat and her rich husband of the moment invite a dozen or so \"famous\" and \"exciting\" people, known as \"personalities,\" to their elegant penthouse atop Nob Hill. Everybody sits around sipping cocktails and being served lunch by a German husband-and-wife team and then discusses important issues like Transcendental Meditation. The luncheons become Radical Chic pretty quickly. Ex and I, at any rate, warmed up at my place with bloody marys and then took a cab.\n\"You want to frisk me?\" Ex said to the guard at the elevator. \"All I got is a flask.\" We ascended to the penthouse, had some martinis, and then everybody sat around the famous round table. Pat Montandon, as is the custom, went counterclockwise around the table.\nEach person was introduced and asked to talk about what he or she was \"involved with.\" There was Jessica Mitford and the founder of the National Organization of Women and an effeminate liberal clergyman and a token black and I, the displaced Southern of a truck driver, and many others. Ex, this crazed novelist, was ordering more martinis and was wondering how far he would fall if he took a leap through the plate-glass window onto Jones Street.\n\"Frederick,\" Pat Montandon said when it came his turn, \"would you tell us about yourself and what you are working on?\" There was terror in Exley's face as he wobbled to his feet, drink in hand, and addressed the assembly. He whispered to the German Hausfrau to sweeten his drink. There was a wheeze and a long pause. \"My name,\" he told them, \"is Fred Ex. I am an alcoholic.\" Then he sat down, and Pat Montandon issued orders to serve lunch immediately.\n[Photo of Fred Schruers, Frederick Exley, and David Hirshey, courtesy of Hirshey]\nA living archive of the best print journalism, curated by Alex Belth.\n\u00a9 2019 The Stacks Reader","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
+{"text":"Been going slowly\n06.14.2021 \u2022 Riverside County \u2022 Segment\nThis story was told by a person incarcerated at Larry D. Smith Correctional Facility.\nUCI: How has the COVID situation been like at your facility?\nCaller: Well, it's been sputtering along. They just recently stated that they would force those who are going to take the COVID test, and that prompted some of the people who were reluctant to, you know, take the test. But, there's still quite a few persons who refuse.\nUCI: And how has the vaccination situation been like at your facility?\nCaller: How has it been like?\nUCI: Yeah, like, the vaccination process?\nCaller: It's been going slowly. But, you know, as I was saying earlier, they, you know, offered to us. And I just recently completed mine. And so, there is quite a few who refused to take it for some reason or another.\n[Unintelligible], you know, it's due in part because they feel that they don't take the test while being here then, you know, they'll stay in the County that much longer and, you know, that state, you know, more hesitant about infecting them.\nBut, like my celly, my celly hasn't taken his test. And, you know, that really concerns considering that, you know, I've taken mine.\nUCI: Oh, okay. So, you've had both vaccines?\nCaller: Yes, taken \u2013 did you say did I take both tests?\nUCI: No, the vaccination, like the vaccine, the shot?\nCaller: Yes, I've taken both of mine. Both Pfizer.\nUCI: Oh, okay, good. That's good. And how has that situation been like at the facility where you're currently at? How's the process?\nCaller: Say that question again for me, please?\nUCI: So, how's the vaccination process being handled at your facility? Like, the vaccine?\nCaller: The process going?\nUCI: Yes.\nCaller: It's going. More of the individuals who were hesitant about taking the test, one, they had got word from staff from one of the nurses they would be forced to take the test if they went up state and for them to go ahead and start taking it. But, again, you know, there's quite a few individuals who are still reluctant to get it such as my celly. My celly hasn't taken it either.\nAnd, you know, he [unintelligible] himself, you know, like 23 hours a day. And so, you know, that concerns me a little bit.\nCounty Jails\nIncarcerated Person\nMORE STORIES FROM THIS FACILITY\n06.22.2021 \u2022 Riverside County\u2022 Call\nSeen hunger strikes\nDon't check on you\nAffected me big time\nShine a light on this crisis and share these\nstories with your network today!\n@UCIprisonpndmic\nABOUT PRISONPANDEMIC\u2122\nBy providing a digital archive of stories, UCI PrisonPandemic\u2122 is bringing greater transparency to the COVID-19 crisis in prisons and jails. Made up of faculty and students at the University of California, Irvine, it is an ongoing initiative to collect stories from people incarcerated in California carceral facilities, their family members and loved ones, and the staff who work in these facilities. We will continue to add more stories as we receive them. If you use any material from this site, please reference or link to prisonpandemic.uci.edu. In creating PrisonPandemic, our hope is that the archive will outlive the COVID-19 pandemic and serve as a resource for understanding the unequal toll of the criminal justice system in the United States.\nTO SUPPORT THIS PROJECT, donate here.\nSubscribe for occasional email updates.\nSite development by Lattimore + Friends.\nCopyright 2023, University of California Regents","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
+{"text":"\u00bb Narratives\n\u00bb Broken\nLook Inside with\n2020: the year running records were rewritten\nAlly Beaven\nAs featured in The Sunday Times\n'It is probably the running book I have most enjoyed.' \u2013 Steve Birkinshaw\n'The emotional pain of failing just felt like it was going to be a bit worse than the physical pain of carrying on \u2026 '\nAttempting to break long-distance running records used to be an underground endeavour, until the virus-stricken summer of 2020 came along. Only a few, such as the Bob Graham Round in the Lake District, had ever broken into mainstream consciousness. But an absence of running races thanks to the Covid-19 pandemic resulted in an unprecedented rise in the popularity of attempts at breaking these records.\nIn Broken, Ally Beaven takes an entertaining look at just why 2020 was so unusual for long-distance running. With his interest in Fastest Known Times (FKTs) piqued, Beaven immerses himself in the scene. His summer becomes one of spending hours in the hills feeding, cajoling and generally trying to keep safe the runners he is supporting, as well as following the dots of live trackers in the middle of the night and endlessly refreshing his Twitter feed as records tumble around the country.\nThrough the stories of John Kelly's epic Grand Round, Beth Pascall's record-shattering Bob Graham Round, Donnie Campbell's mind-bending new mark for bagging all 282 Munros, Jo Meek's new overall record for the Nigel Jenkins Dartmoor Round and many others, Beaven brings us an inside look at the incredible FKT machine.\nBroken is the story of the summer of 2020, a historic time for running in the UK.\nAlly Beaven is a part-time barman and hill runner who lives in the Scottish Highlands and enjoys the long stuff. He's run races in the Alps, the Pyrenees, the Appalachians and even England. As well as a marathon PB of 2.12 (set at the Berlin Marathon on rollerblades), he holds the bad weather course record at the An Teallach Hill Race and has failed at both the Paddy Buckley and Bob Graham rounds. He lost his much-loved Cairngorm 4,000s record to Finlay Wild and is counting the days until his FKT for the Big 6, set in the summer of 2020, is similarly snatched from his grasp. Broken is his first book.\nTitle: Broken\nSubtitle: 2020: the year running records were rewritten\nAuthor: Ally Beaven\nExtent: 160 pages, with one 8pp colour plate\nCover: Paperback (flaps)\n'Ally brings to life the stories of records set in the Cairngorms, Dartmoor and Land's End to John o'Groats alongside other long-distance feats. He has a great way of telling a story and scratching beneath the surface to see what made 2020 such a record-breaking year.' \u2013 Dave Littler, The Fellrunner\n'Ally has brought together the stories of record-breaking hill, fell and ultra runners into a great book. What he does brilliantly is he manages to pick out the important and amusing details and tell them in light-hearted, down to earth style. There are fascinating accounts of the different motivations for breaking the records and the effort and commitment needed for the runners to fulfil their goals. He has produced a really enjoyable read. It is probably the running book I have most enjoyed.' \u2013 Steve Birkinshaw, record-breaking fell runner and author of There is No Map in Hell\n'Not only does Ally write about these inspiring adventures in a knowledgeable and enjoyable way, he was often in the midst of them, helping his fellow athletes achieve some truly remarkable records in a really special summer of adventure.' \u2013 Robbie Britton, GB 24-hour runner, coach and former FKT holder\n'This is a great book, not just about some extraordinary athletes, but also those who support them, with some really interesting history about the records mixed in. With no races on the horizon these athletes showed their positivity by attempting these incredible challenges, and in doing so brought the whole running community together.' \u2013 Mimi Anderson, endurance athlete, coach, author and Guinness World Record holder\n'You might expect an anthology of ultrarunning struggles to be a bit dry, but Broken is an understated and (seemingly) effortless stroke of genius.' \u2013 Keri Wallace, UKHillwalking.com\n'Beaven writes about what has been an extraordinary running year with no small degree of humour and an eye for detail, which comes from having shared at first hand the feelings experienced by those who set the FKTs.' \u2013 Fraser Clyne, The Press and Journal\nBig Trails: Great Britain & Ireland\nBig Trails: Great Britain & Ireland features 25 long-distance trails in England, Scotland, Wales, Northern ...\nTour du Mont Blanc by Kingsley Jones is the definitive guidebook for one of the most famous long-distance ...\nThere is No Map in Hell\nThere is no Map in Hell is Steve Birkinshaw's account of his epic Wainwrights run in the Lake District ...\nIn January 2018, \u00c9lisabeth Revol and her climbing partner Tomasz Mackiewicz summited Nanga Parbat, the ...\nAdventures in Mind\nWhy do you do it? 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+{"text":"HomeLithuaniaToward the elections with popular figureheads: pointing out an emerging crisis\nToward the elections with popular figureheads: pointing out an emerging crisis\nAugust 17, 2020 Aleksandras Izgorodinas Lithuania, Politics, Top 0\nThe Seimas - DELFI \/ Tomas Vinickas\nThe party leader is not the person to lead it into the elections. Not only the election favourites, the \"Farmers\" and Conservatives are looking to engage in the struggle for seats in Seimas this way but also certain other political powers. This once again serves as confirmation for murmurs about a leadership crisis within the parties, Vytautas Bruveris, in lrytas.lt.\nTwenty-two parties and 282 candidates they have nominated \u2013 this is the line-up preparing at the starting line of the Seimas 2020 elections, following the conclusion of political campaign participant application gathering by the Central Electoral Commission (VRK). Another 28 individuals decided to participate in the elections independently and gather voters' signatures themselves.\nMost current members of parliament are looking to return to Seimas for next term \u2013 even those who previously declared they would be retiring from politics.\nThose intent on pursuing a Seimas seat without party support and gather signatures independently can still present declaratory documents to the VRK up to the beginning of August.\nMeanwhile, parties, having registered as participants of the electoral campaign, have registered as representatives also those who will be their candidates in the single-mandate electoral districts. Furthermore, most parties have also approved their electoral lists for the multi-mandate electoral district.\nNevertheless, what is most eye-catching is that a part of the political parties have chosen not their leaders as the engine of their campaigns, but non-partisan figures.\nRatings \u2013 not for everyone\nThat non-partisan Ingrida \u0160imonyt\u0117 would be the headliner of the Homeland Union \u2013 Lithuanian Christian Democrats' list, having been their presidential candidate, was unveiled already in spring.\nThe flag bearer of the ruling Lithuanian Farmer and Greens Union, Prime Minister Saulius Skvernelis, was reticent far longer about participating in the list, but finally, in summer, the party council officially confirmed he would be the headliner.\nBoth Conservatives leader Gabrielius Landsbergis and \"Farmer\" leader Ram\u016bnas Karbauskis remain second in their respective lists. Furthermore, the chairmen have not permitted their fellow members to rate them alongside the rest.\nSo far, it is not fully clear whether these two politicians will also compete in the single-mandate electoral districts, despite pledging to do so.\nG. Landsbergis has stated he will run in Kaunas, in the Centre-\u017daliakalnis electoral district, the party has also decided to nominate him there. However, so far, his name is not yet among the candidates that the Conservatives have registered with the VRK in the single-mandate districts.\nR. Karbauskis has also promised to run for Seimas in the same place he won his seat in 2016 \u2013 in Kaunas. However, it is still uncertain what district he will do so \u2013 if he will at all.\nI. \u0160imonyt\u0117 plans to run in the capital's Antakalnis single-mandate district, while S. Skvernelis \u2013 the capital's Pilait\u0117-Karolini\u0161k\u0117s district.\nThe reasons why the leaders of the main political powers have not stepped up to the first position of their respective lists and have prevented ratings from influencing their top two positions are clear.\nIn public opinion polls, both R. Karbauskis and G. Landsbergis are among the most disliked politicians, while S. Skvernelis and I. \u0160imonyt\u0117 \u2013 among the most popular.\nFurthermore, both parties contain significant discontent with their leaders. This is also indicated by the party list rating results, which the leaders had the opportunity to adjust.\nTension between two wings\nA confrontation has long festered and continues to grow stronger in the Conservatives' ranks between the so-called Christian democrat camp, notable for its more radical right-wing ideology, and G. Landsbergis' supporters who are accused of betraying traditional values, poisoning the party with extreme liberalism.\nAfter rating, the third and fourth place were handed to namely the leaders of the first camp \u2013 members of Seimas Laurynas Kas\u010di\u016bnas and Paulius Saudargas. The first is even mentioned as a potential chief rival to G. Landsbergis in competing for the party chairmanship.\nThe top ten features a few other Christian democrats after the ratings. The party leadership only made minor adjustments to the listing \u2013 P. Saudargas was pushed to fifth place, while G. Landsbergis' faithful ally Radvil\u0117 Mork\u016bnait\u0117-Mikul\u0117nien\u0117 was lifted to fourth place.\nThat said, some among the Conservatives assert that the rating results do not reflect the real balance of power \u2013 apparently, L. Kas\u010di\u016bnas and his like-minded company do not actually have broad support and only accrued rating points because they actively campaigned for themselves in the party branches.\nPleasing the loyal\nMeanwhile, the \"Farmer\" list's top fairly clearly reflects that R. Karbauskis, despite rebellious moods within the party, maintains a firm grip on the party and can punish the discontented by pushing them downward far more resolutely than G. Landsbergis.\nThe \"Farmer\" list's top ten is completely dominated by R. Karbauskis loyalists within the party, this including even those who have remained unknown at the national level despite being in government for four years.\nFor example, fourth place, after Minister of Healthcare Aurelijus Veryga, who is in fourth, features member of Seimas Au\u0161rin\u0117 Norkien\u0117. This politician was elected in Taurag\u0117 and she is R. Karbauskis' first deputy. According to party members themselves, such recognition was earned through loyalty to the leader.\nAfter Tomas Tomilinas, who previously sought to be one of the party's rebels, we also see members' of R. Karbauskis' personal entourage in Seimas \u2013 Eugenijus Jovai\u0161a, Agn\u0117 \u0160irinskien\u0117, Valius \u0104\u017euolas, Guoda Burokien\u0117, Jonas Jarutis.\nMeanwhile, one of the leader's critics, a party veteran and first Seimas Vice Speaker Rima Ba\u0161kien\u0117 has been pushed to 12th place.\nWhat is curious is that most of the cabinet members \u2013 both ministers and members of the prime minister's personal team \u2013 have landed in the top twenty or thirty. For example, cabinet chancellor Algirdas Ston\u010daitis is 13th and vice chancellor Lukas Savickas \u2013 16th.\nMinisters of environment and social security and labour K\u0119stutis Ma\u017eeika and Linas Kukuraitis are 17th and 18th respectively. Then, up to the very end of the top fifty, you find almost exclusively current members of Seimas.\nMinister surprises\nAmong the political powers, which will be led into the elections not by their chairmen, we also find the ruling Lithuanian Social Democratic Labour Party.\nAs number one of their list, Social Democrat Labour have tapped Minister of Foreign Affairs Linas Linkevi\u010dius. This is natural \u2013 this politician is a more popular figure than most of the party's figures combined.\nThe party leader, Seimas Vice Speaker Gediminas Kirkilas is placed as second and Seimas Foreign Affairs Committee chairman Juozas Bernatonis is in third.\nHowever, most political experts were surprised by how L. Linkevi\u010dius not only agreed to run for election but to also be the flag bearer of a party he essentially only formally represented.\nThis is because, in political couloirs, it has long been discussed how the minister is looking to take the office of Lithuanian ambassador following the elections, perhaps in the United States.\nOn the other hand, this could still be the case because looking at public opinion polls, Social Democrat Labour will have to work very hard to enter Seimas.\nFurthermore, the \"Farmers\" unexpectedly terminated an agreement of offering them support in certain single-mandate districts upon being irked by how their partners refused to back them in certain votes in Seimas.\nNot risking a mandate\nAnother candidate to participate in the government puzzle after the Seimas elections is the Labour Party. It has left its chairman Viktor Uspaskich as a member of the European Parliament but officially declared him a prime minister candidate.\nIt is clear that V. Uspaskich did not want to risk his MEP mandate, which he would have to abandon if he were elected to Seimas. As such, he left headlining to the somewhat forgotten former Minister of Agriculture Virgilijus Jukna.\nThe Labour list is also dominated by old and loyal to V. Uspaskich figures remaining in the party, including former member of Seimas Vytautas Gap\u0161ys.\nFrom among individuals unrelated to politics, perhaps the most notable in the list is former Klaip\u0117da Nept\u016bnas centre Simas Galdikas. The Labour Party intends to nominate him in Klaip\u0117da.\nLeftist leader \u2013 into the fire\nThe opposition Social Democrats do not conceal their major ambitions for the coming Seimas elections, but they have acted unlike the \"Farmers\", Conservatives, Social Democrat Labour and Labour \u2013 party chairman Gintautas Paluckas has been chosen to lead the party electoral roll.\nA risk can be perceived here \u2013 this politician holds no office and furthermore has lost elections in a single-mandate district.\nThat said, it was also not possible to rate him either during the forming of the candidates' list for his party.\nThe top ten is also dominated by party veterans and Paluckas loyalists. The second position on the list has gone to former Minister of Finance Rasa Budbergyt\u0117.\nBut there are also newer faces \u2013 member of Seimas Dovil\u0117 \u0160akalien\u0117, who left the \"Farmers\" for the Social Democrats, also economist Romas Lazutka. The top twenty also includes former Green Party chairman Linas Balsys, who joined the leftists this term, and journalist Giedrius Drukteinis.\nA Seimas veteran, Algimantas Salamakinas has decided to try his luck in the elections despite having publicly promised a number of times to no longer participate in politics.\nThus, the Social Democrats, viewed as among the main pretenders to participate in forming a new ruling coalition, have seemingly fulfilled promises made by G. Paluckas a number of times before to mostly base themselves on tested party cadres.\nWill famous names help?\nThe Conservatives' main companions and supporters if they manage to win the Seimas elections, the Liberals, seem to have gone a step too far in seeking decorations for their list.\nThe Liberal Movement list will be led into the elections by its chairwoman Viktorija \u010cmilyt\u0117-Nielsen, second place goes to Neringa municipal council member Andrius Bagdonas, who rose after ratings, while in third is Seimas Speaker, former \"Farmer\" Viktoras Pranckietis.\nWhen the Liberals officially invited V. Pranckietis to join them and he accepted the invitation, many observed that this step could prove detrimental for the party. While V. Pranckietis remains a fairly popular politician, most of the Liberals' most loyal voters could be angered by the sheltering of this defector. This could harm a party, which has yet to recover from its potential corruption scandal.\nThe Liberals' list features other notable names as well. For example, the top ten features members of Seimas Virgilijus Alekna, Eugenijus Gentvilas, famous political scientist Raimundas Lopata, protocol and etiquette expert Arminas Lydeka.\nThere's also no lack of famous names in the Freedom and Justice party list. It was founded by the so-called three musketeers and they hold the top three slots, namely former Order and Justice party leader and the new party's chairman Remigijus \u017demaitaitis, former Vilnius Mayor Art\u016bras Zuokas, former Seimas Speaker Art\u016bras Paulauskas. By the way, this political power was registered as the Lithuanian Freedom Union (Liberals), but after formalities, it should be renamed as Freedom and Justice.\nSeimas elections 2020\nTomaszewski reticent about elections: speaks of versions of who seeks to unseat Narkiewicz\nJuly 14, 2020 tv3.lt Politics, Top 0\nElectoral Action of Lithuanian Poles \u2013 Christian Families Union (LLRA-K\u0160S) chairman, MEP Waldemar Tomaszewski says that the party is already preparing for the 2020 Seimas elections and is in the planning phase, but remains reticent [\u2026]\nAstravyets on an electoral platter: why are the Conservatives so aggressive and the \"Farmers\" so silent?\nJuly 3, 2020 Ludo Segers Lithuania, Politics, Top 0\nThe approaching Seimas elections and launch date of the Astravyets Nuclear Power Plant have linked these seemingly unrelated events. The opposition Conservatives are ever more fiercely critical of the ruling parties and the president for being unable [\u2026]\nUspaskich's return \u2013 already clear, who would lose the most\nMarch 16, 2020 Lithuania Tribune Politics, Top 0\nThe Labour Party is rising like a phoenix from the ashes. 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+{"text":"Celebrate Prince Harry and Meghan Markle's anniversary with their most loving moments\nThree years and counting!\nBaby Archie and Prince Harry are all smiles in photo by Meghan Markle\nJan. 2, 202000:32\nBy Lindsay Lowe\nHappy anniversary to the Duke and Duchess of Sussex!\nPrince Harry, 36, and the former Meghan Markle, 39, are celebrating their third wedding anniversary on May 19. They tied the knot in St. George's Chapel at Windsor Castle in 2018.\nHappy anniversary to these lovebirds!OWEN COOBAN \/ EPA\nIt's safe to say these past three years have been eventful ones for the royal couple, between the birth of their first child, Archie, the announcement of their second baby on the way and, of course, their new chapter in California after stepping down as senior members of the British royal family.\nWhile life has definitely changed for the couple, one thing has remained constant: their sweet displays of affection for each other. Ever since they went public with their relationship in 2017, it has been clear that they are head over heels in love.\nTheir romance has played out in photos showing them holding hands and exchanging loving glances during events \u2014 as well as in moments when they've stood up for each other and defended their values in the face of harsh public scrutiny.\nMeghan Markle and Prince Harry pose for 1st photos with royal baby\nIn honor of their anniversary, here's a look back at some of the duke and duchess' most loving moments and the sweet things they've said about each other through the years.\nWatch TODAY All Day! Get the best news, information and inspiration from TODAY, all day long.\nSign up for the TODAY Newsletter!\n'The stars were aligned'\nThe chemistry between Harry and Meghan was clear as they shared the details of their engagement in a BBC interview in late 2017. The couple held hands throughout the interview as Harry described how he had fallen in love \"so incredibly quickly.\"\nPrince Harry and Meghan Markle share how he proposed in the first interview together\nNov. 27, 201701:59\n\"(It) was sort of confirmation to me that all the stars were aligned,\" he said at the time. \"Everything was just perfect. It was this beautiful woman just sort of literally tripped and fell into my life.\"\nMeghan also spoke lovingly as she recalled how her then-fianc\u00e9 popped the question during a \"cozy\" night at home when they were roasting a chicken.\n\"It was just an amazing surprise. It was so sweet and natural and very romantic. He got on one knee,\" she said.\n\"As a matter of fact, I could barely let you finish proposing,\" she went on. \"I said, 'Can I say yes now?'\"\nTheir romantic engagement photo shoot\nThe couple celebrated their engagement during an appearance before the media at Kensington Palace in November 2017.\nThey celebrated their engagement during an official photo-call at Kensington Palace.Chris Jackson \/ Getty Images\nAsked when he knew Meghan was \"the one,\" Harry was quick to answer, \"The first time we met.\"\nThey also released a few romantic engagement photos, including this black-and-white snapshot that revealed their affection for each other, without any hint of formality.\nThey are so in love!Kensington Palace\nThey may be a royal couple, but their candid and intimate engagement photos reminded everyone that they are, first and foremost, two people in love.\nHarry's sweet words at the altar\nThey exchanged loving glances throughout the ceremony.TODAY\nThe couple's wedding was closely watched by people around the world, and its star-studded guest list included the likes of Oprah Winfrey, George and Amal Clooney, and David and Victoria Beckham.\nBut despite the epic scale of the ceremony and the media frenzy that accompanied it, the duke and duchess managed to share sweet, private moments of affection throughout the day.\nRoyal Wedding: Prince Harry lifts Meghan Markle's veil\nThey exchanged warm glances during the ceremony in St. George's Chapel at Windsor Castle, and when the former Meghan Markle arrived at the altar, the prince was seen saying to her, \"You look amazing.\"\nJust all their loving glances\nThere are too many examples to name of the duke and duchess being generally adorable together. Whenever they appear in public, their affection for one another is clear to see, thanks to their loving body language and all the sweet glances and smiles they exchange.\nAww!Peter Nicholls \/ Reuters\nThey shared one such cute moment when they attended an MLB game in London in 2019.\nThose smiles!Samir Hussein \/ WireImage\nThey also beamed at each other in this gorgeous photo from the Endeavour Fund Awards in London back in March 2020. It was their first royal event since announcing their plan to step back from the royal family.\nIntroducing baby Archie\nThe couple was all smiles when they introduced their first child, Archie Harrison Mountbatten-Windsor, to the world in May 2019.\nHello, Archie!\nAfter Archie was born, Harry also gushed about the experience of becoming a dad \u2014 and watching his wife become a mom \u2014 in a surprise interview outside the couple's home at Frogmore Cottage.\nPrince Harry on royal baby's arrival: 'I'm just over the moon'\n\"It was amazing. Absolutely incredible. I'm incredibly proud of my wife,\" he said. \"As every father and parent would ever say, your baby is absolutely amazing, but this little thing is absolutely to die for so I'm just over the moon.\"\nHarry stands up for Meghan\nThe duke and duchess have always been each other's fiercest defenders. Back in 2016 when they were still just dating, Harry issued a rare statement via his spokesman condemning racist and sexist press attacks on Meghan.\n\"The past week has seen a line crossed,\" read the Kensington Palace statement. \"His girlfriend, Meghan Markle, has been subject to a wave of abuse and harassment. Some of this has been very public \u2014 the smear on the front page of a national newspaper; the racial undertones of comment pieces; and the outright sexism and racism of social media trolls and web article comments.\"\nIt seems like the couple will always have each other's backs.Samir Hussein \/ WireImage\n\"(The prince) knows commentators will say this is 'the price she has to pay' and that 'this is all part of the game.' He strongly disagrees,\" the statement also said. \"This is not a game \u2014 it is her life and his.\"\nHarry once again stood up for himself and his wife in January 2020, when he spoke during an event about their decision to step back from the royal family.\nHe noted that his wife \"upholds the same values as I do\" and that \"she's the same woman I fell in love with.\"\n\"Once Meghan and I were married, we were excited, we were hopeful, and we were here to serve,\" he continued. \"For those reasons, it brings me great sadness that it has come to this.\"\n\"It was so many months of talks after so many years of challenges,\" he added. \"And I know I haven't always gotten it right, but as this goes, there really was no other option.\"\nAnother sweet pregnancy announcement\nThe royal couple melted hearts with a beautiful photo celebrating the duchess' second pregnancy.\nThe couple looked relaxed and more in love than ever as they announced they are expecting baby no. 2. Misan Harriman\nSimilar to their black-and-white engagement photo, this image captured the couple in a sweet, candid moment, with Harry sitting barefoot in the grass and the duchess resting her head on his lap and cradling her baby bump.\nMeghan Markle and Prince Harry announce they're expecting their 2nd child\n\"With the tree of life behind them and the garden representing fertility, life and moving forward, they didn't need any direction, because they are, and always have been, waltzing through life together as absolute soulmates,\" photographer Misan Harriman said in an interview with British Vogue.\n'Love always wins'\nThe duke and duchess finished 2020 with a message of hope and optimism, joining forces for a holiday podcast honoring health care workers and all those affected by the pandemic.\nBaby Archie talks during Harry and Meghan Markle's podcast\n\"From us, I'll say no matter what life throws at you guys, trust us when we say, love wins,\" Meghan said during the podcast.\n\"Love always wins,\" Harry agreed.\nWhat's next for Meghan Markle and Prince Harry?\nLindsay Lowe\nLindsay Lowe has been a regular contributor to TODAY.com since 2016, covering pop culture, style, home and other lifestyle topics. She is also working on her first novel, a domestic drama set in rural Regency England.","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
+{"text":"WOW! Judicial Watch says FBI deleted Comey, McCabe text messages\nPublished on : November 2, 2018 Published by : Jacob Palmieri\nJudicial Watch announced they are suing the FBI and claimed that they think text messages between Former FBI Director James Comey and Former FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe were deleted.\nJUDICIAL WATCH:\nJudicial Watch announced today that it filed lawsuits regarding the maintenance of text messages as federal records and for records of the audit of communications of former FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe.\nAfter the FBI claimed that text messages are not subject to the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) Judicial Watch filed suit to ensure that text messages are being preserved. The new Administrative Procedure Act lawsuit against the FBI challenges the FBI failure to preserve FBI text messages as required by the Federal Records Act. (Judicial Watch v. FBI (No.1:18-cv-02316)).\nIn its lawsuit Judicial Watch points to a related case in which Michael G. Seidel, the assistant section chief of the Record\/Information Dissemination Section in the FBI's Information Management Division, stated: \"text messages on [FBI]-issued devices are not automatically integrated into an FBI records system.\" (Danik v. U.S. Department of Justice, (No. 1:17-cv-01792)).\nJudicial Watch argued that the FBI \"does not have a recordkeeping program in place that provides effective controls over the maintenance of electronic messages, including text messages.\" Moreover, \"The FBI relies upon its personnel to incorporate their text messages into a recordkeeping system. If FBI personnel do not actively incorporate their text messages into a recordkeeping system, the text messages are not preserved.\"\nJudicial Watch asked the court to declare the FBI's failure to have a recordkeeping program for electronic messages to be \"not in accordance with law\" and that the court order the FBI \"to establish and maintain a recordkeeping program that provides effective controls over the maintenance of electronic messages.\"\nIf text messages are not preserved, then they may be deleted and never produced to Congress, criminal investigators, and to the American people under FOIA.\nJudicial Watch also filed suit against the Justice Department after the DOJ failed to respond to an August 27, 2018, FOIA request seeking the FBI's audit records of McCabe's communications (Judicial Watch v. U.S. Department of Justice (No. 1:18-cv-02283)).\nIn 2015, a political action committee run by Terry McAuliffe, a close friend and political supporter of Bill and Hillary Clinton, donated nearly $500,000 to Andrew McCabe's wife Jill, who was then running for the Virginia State Senate. Also, the Virginia Democratic Party, over which McAuliffe had significant influence, donated an additional $207,788 to the Jill McCabe campaign. In July 2015, Andrew McCabe was in charge of the FBI's Washington, DC, field office, which provided personnel resources to the Clinton email probe.\nIn July 2017, Judicial Watch filed three FOIA lawsuits seeking communications between the FBI and McCabe concerning \"ethical issues\" involving his wife's political campaign; McCabe's communications with McAuliffe; and McCabe's travel vouchers.\nFollowing an Inspector General Report, a grand jury reportedly was impaneled recently to investigate McCabe's possible role in leaks to the media \"to advance his personal interests.\"\nThe FBI has told Judicial Watch that it is under no legal obligation to produce any of Andrew McCabe's text messages under FOIA, which has attracted criticismfrom President Trump.\n\"This lawsuit exposes a massive FBI cover-up of its text messages, which are government records and are, by the thousands, likely to have been deleted and lost by FBI employees,\" said Judicial Watch President Tom Fitton. \"And of course, this cover-up conveniently impacts the production of text messages to Judicial Watch and Congress of disgraced FBI officials Andrew McCabe, Peter Strzok, Lisa Page and James Comey.\"\nCLICK TO SUPPORT US AND BUY OUR SHIRT\nTagged in : Andrew McCabe Deep State FBI James Comey Judicial Watch\nCategorized in : Deep State FBI featured Latest USA\nTrump: \"our cities should be safe havens for American people, not for American criminals.\"\n2 men use AR-15, handgun to stave off 5 home invaders\nHouse GOP leaders think FBI Director Wray is covering up SpyGate\nPOLL! Plurality of Dems agree with Trump that media is dividing country\n(Explicit Content): Feminist photo shoot #GrabThemByTheBallot released showing women with ballots covering their privates","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
+{"text":"Women whose first pregnancy was ectopic have fewer children\nby Editor\t,\tJanuary 7, 2013\nWomen whose first pregnancy is ectopic are likely to have fewer children in the following 20-30 years than women whose first pregnancy ends in a delivery, miscarriage or abortion, according to results from a study of nearly 3,000 women in Denmark. In addition, these women have a five-fold increased risk of a subsequent ectopic pregnancy.\nThe first study to look at long-term reproductive outcomes in women whose first pregnancy was ectopic is published online in Human Reproduction.\nEctopic pregnancies are pregnancies where a fertilised egg implants somewhere other than the lining of the womb; often it's in one of the Fallopian tubes. Approximately one percent of pregnancies are ectopic, and they are never viable; often the eggs die, sometimes a drug called methotrexate is given so that the pregnancy tissue is absorbed into the woman's body, and sometimes surgery is needed.\nAlthough it is already known that a previous ectopic pregnancy can increase the risk of a subsequent one, most studies have been small and with short follow-up. \"We found no controlled study assessing long-term reproductive prognosis in women whose first pregnancy is ectopic,\" write the authors of the current study.\nThe researchers collected data from four Danish registries covering the period 1977-2009. They found 2,917 women whose first pregnancy was ectopic between 1977-1982 and who, except for those who died or emigrated, were followed to the end of 2009 or for an average of 23 years.\nThese women were matched with other women of the same age whose first pregnancy resulted in a delivery, miscarriage or abortion. They were also compared with a fourth group of women who had no recorded pregnancy in the year of matching.\nDr Line Lund K\u00e5rhus (MD), a research student in the Gynaecological Clinic at the Rigshospitalet in Copenhagen, Denmark, said: \"We found that the group of women who had a first ectopic pregnancy had the lowest delivery rate and total number of pregnancies over the following 20-30 years when compared with the other groups, and also lower rates of miscarriages and abortions. They had between a 4.7 times and ten times increased risk of further ectopic pregnancies.\"\nWomen who had had an ectopic pregnancy had the lowest long-term rate of subsequent deliveries of 69 per 100 women, compared with 126 per 100 among women who had a first miscarriage, 77 per 100 among women who had a first abortion, 73 per 100 among women whose first pregnancy ended in a delivery, and 101 per 100 among the women who were not pregnant in the year the women were matched with each other.\nCompared to women who had a first miscarriage, the number of subsequent deliveries among the women who had a first ectopic pregnancy was reduced by nearly a half (45 percent). When compared with women whose first pregnancy resulted in a delivery, there was no statistically significant difference: the women in the ectopic pregnancy group had a slightly reduced (5 percent) number of subsequent pregnancies, ending up with approximately one child less during the follow-up period.\n\"It is not surprising that there was little difference between the women who had an ectopic pregnancy and women who delivered a baby from their first pregnancy,\" said Dr K\u00e5rhus. \"We think women with a first ectopic pregnancy have to try harder to achieve the number of deliveries they wish. However, their attempts are counterbalanced by the fact they are less fertile, and, therefore, ultimately they end up with one less birth.\"\nWhen compared to women whose first pregnancy ended in an induced abortion or who were not pregnant in the year the different groups of women were matched, the number of subsequent deliveries among women in the ectopic pregnancy group was reduced by 11 percent and 31 percent respectively.\n\"These results indicate that fertility is compromised in women whose first pregnancy is ectopic and even after 30 years they have significantly fewer children compared with other women,\" she said. \"We had expected that, over time, women would compensate for their reduced fertility by making more attempts to become pregnant. However, our results demonstrate that these extra attempts at pregnancy do not result in the same number of babies for women whose first pregnancy was ectopic compared with other women.\"\nThe study also showed that women in the ectopic pregnancy group were less likely to have a subsequent miscarriage or an induced abortion (a 54 percent and 28 percent reduced risk respectively), when compared with women whose first pregnancy ended in miscarriage.\nThe researchers say that it is possible that better assisted reproductive techniques that have been developed in recent years could improve the long-term delivery rates for women with ectopic pregnancies, and this is under current investigation.\nStudy shows harm WiFi does to human sperm\nGallbladder removal operation during pregnancy associated with adverse maternal outcomes\nBlood test for pregnant women can predict premature birth\nScottish Medicines Consortium approves uterine fibroid treatment that could reduce surgery needed\nResearch reveals concerning childbirth trends\nPromoting healthy lifestyle for normal pregnancy\nBabies develop fewer respiratory infections when they have well-connected bacterial networks\nVariations in placental microbiota appear related to premature birth","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
+{"text":"Home \/ Financial Advisors \/ Financial Advisor Center \/ My 7 Worst Stock Picks of 2018\nMy 7 Worst Stock Picks of 2018\nAll seven of them were bad, but each for a different reason\nBy Will Ashworth, InvestorPlace Contributor Nov 14, 2018, 1:28 pm EDT November 14, 2018\nInvestment gurus and talking heads who appear in the business media love to talk about their best stock ideas. Not many like to talk about their worst ideas. What do you think is the number one trait of an outstanding portfolio manager or research analyst? In my books, it's humility. The ability to understand that you're human and likely to be wrong 40%-50% of the time.\nVenture capital investor Howard Lindzon is one of those humble people who prefer to talk about the losses more than the wins. A recent blog post of his reminded me of this fact.\n\"I am wrong all the time. It is painful. It is worse when I actually have shared the idea. I come clean here when my ideas shared here go wrong,\" Lindzon wrote. \"It is amazing how forgiving people are and more importantly how much better my investing has gotten.\n\"Long story short \u2026 ask people what their worst idea is\/was. If they answer it, you can trust them a little bit more.\"\nLindzon's post reminded me that it's a good time of the year to start reminiscing about 2018. In particular what went wrong this past year. I made some right calls in 2018, but I also made some terrible ones. Today, I'll to go over my seven worst stock ideas of 2018.\nSource: Daniel Cukier via Flickr\nMy Worst Stock Picks of 2018: JD.com (JD)\nIt's fair to say that no one could have predicted back in January that JD.com (NASDAQ:JD) CEO and founder Richard Liu would be embroiled in U.S. legal troubles as we head into the final weeks of 2018.\nThe reason I've put JD on my list of worst stock ideas of 2018 has nothing to do with the fact it's down 47% year-to-date through Nov. 12 and everything to do with my suggestion that JD stock has more upside than Amazon (NASDAQ:AMZN), arguably the most dominant company in America.\nIn my defense, I did say in my January article that if you can own both, you should. However, now that Liu's revealed a potentially troubling side, I can't emphasize enough that this will affect JD.com's business, especially if charges are laid, and he's subsequently found guilty.\nLiu is the heart and soul of its business.\nMy Worst Stock Picks of 2018: General Electric (GE)\nMy selection of General Electric (NYSE:GE) in early January as one of ten stocks that could surprise in 2018 was more wishful thinking than anything else.\n\"This last one must be considered the 'Hail Mary' of the bunch,\" I wrote January 4. \"I don't like GE as a business or a stock because it's squandered so much shareholder goodwill over the past 20 years by being the worst kind of industrial conglomerate, one that's afraid of taking chances and is stuck in some time warp.\"\nLittle did I know that GE stock would go on to lose more than half its value over the next 11 months, get kicked out of the Dow Jones Industrial Average in the process, and ultimately have CEO John Flannery walk the plank after only 14 months in the top job.\nWhere I erred in naming GE a surprise stock of 2018 was in considering the possibility that GE could rebound from all the negative momentum.\nSometimes a falling knife is just that.\nMy Worst Stock Picks of 2018: J. Jill (JILL)\nOne area of the economy that I believe I have a pretty good handle on is the retail industry. My wife's worked in it her entire career (20+ years) and I tend to understand what it takes to be successful in retail.\nSo, the fact that I picked J. Jill (NYSE:JILL) as one of the 10 Best Stocks Under $10 in March 2018 is especially disappointing.\nNot only was it taken public in March 2017 by a private equity firm \u2014 the kiss of death for any retail company \u2014 it also delayed its Q4 2017 results by two days around the time I wrote the article, often a warning sign that something's run amok.\nThe problem turned out to be some glitches in its e-commerce business that would affect its forecast for Q1 2018. As a result, J. Jill reported that its same-store sales would fall by mid-single digits in the first quarter, a disaster given same-store sales in the fourth quarter increased by 8.9%.\nJILL stock fell by 35% on the day and it's had a tough time recovering ever since. Near $5 today, I have no desire to recommend it a second time.\nMy Worst Stock Picks of 2018: Advanced Micro Devices (AMD)\nThe sign of any good investor is someone willing to admit when they've been wrong about a stock. For me, Advanced Micro Devices (NASDAQ:AMD) is an example where I've been turned from a bear to a bull in less than a year.\nBack in early March, I compared AMD and Retail Properties of America (NYSE:RPAI), two stock with market caps of $2 billion or more and trading around $12.\nAt the time, I recommended investors go with the REIT because of its 5.5% dividend yield and the fact its business was starting to turn the corner after losing some retail tenants in 2017 due to bankruptcies, etc.\nNaturally, RPAI has gone sideways in 2018, while AMD shot up to $34.14 during the summer before falling back into the high teens. In late September, while AMD was still trading in the low $30s, I suggested that it could hit $40 by March 2019. Of course, we know that's not likely to happen with only four months in which to double in price.\nFor me, the error wasn't picking AMD at $30 \u2026 it was not picking it at $12 when its business was apparently doing well.\nSource: Scott Lewis via Flickr (Modified)\nMy Worst Stock Picks of 2018: Wayfair (W)\nIf you've owned Wayfair (NYSE:W) since the beginning of the year, you're up 14% year-to-date through Nov. 12, more than ten percentage points better than the S&P 500. If you've owned it since its October 2014 IPO, you're up 216%, more than four times the index.\nThe basic premise of my March 27 call \u2014 that Wayfair will never make money \u2014 still applies. The latest news about how much it's spending to capture customers, suggests it could have financial problems sooner rather than later.\nWayfair spends $196 in advertising on obtaining a new customer. Wayfair customers spend an average of $443 per year. That's not an impressive return on investment. I doubt Amazon spends that much for so little.\nThe problem that I have with my sell recommendation is that I was confusing a lousy business model with a bad stock. Until investors get off the momentum train that is W stock, my dire predictions will fall upon deaf ears. Don't get me wrong, I wouldn't buy its stock in a million years, but that doesn't mean you shouldn't.\nWorst Stock Ideas of 2018: Columbia Emerging Markets Consumer ETF (ECON)\nI don't spend a tremendous amount of time talking about emerging markets or ETFs so my picking the Columbia Emerging Markets Consumer ETF (NYSEARCA:ECON) doesn't come close to being one of my worst stock ideas of the year.\nNevertheless, I still believe it deserves to be on the list because in recommending an emerging markets ETF, I got away from my strength in North American equities.\nThe other mistake I made on ECON is that it's partly a consumer discretionary fund and partially a consumer staples fund. You can't be all things to all people.\nI really should have recommended a global or North American ETF that invests in either consumer discretionary stocks or consumer staples stocks, but not both.\nMy bad.\nMy Worst Stock Picks of 2018: Nike (NKE)\nI'm a big fan of Phil Knight's, so it was hard for me to recommend in May that investors stay away from Nike (NYSE:NKE) stock.\nIn 7 Consumer Stocks to Sell Now, I failed to remember two key things about investors: One, we have short memories, and two, most investors are still pretty amoral despite the rise in socially responsible investing and aren't concerned about the poor corporate culture at Nike.\nShareholders want to see Nike do it. Profits and losses are all that count in their playbook.\nSince I wrote this article, NKE stock is up 8%, despite October's carnage to vast swaths of stocks, including Nike, which lost 11% in the month.\nNike always prevails when it comes to the sports business. Always. If there's one stock that investors shouldn't bet against, it would be Nike.\nAs of this writing, Will Ashworth did not hold a position in any of the aforementioned securities.\nArticle printed from InvestorPlace Media, https:\/\/investorplace.com\/2018\/11\/seven-worst-stock-ideas-2018\/.","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
+{"text":"What Is A Booster Program?\nHome > Programming > What Is A Booster Program?\n1 What is a college booster?\n2 Do booster club members get paid?\n3 What type of business is a booster club?\n4 What is a booster award?\n5 What do booster clubs pay for?\n6 Do boosters pay coaches salary?\n7 How do I increase my booster club membership?\n8 Do booster clubs have to file a tax return?\n9 What does a booster club secretary do?\n10 Are booster clubs 501c3?\n11 Is a booster club a nonprofit?\n12 Can booster clubs have individual accounts?\n13 What's another word for booster?\n14 What is a booster account?\n15 How does a booster club work?\nWhat is a college booster?\nA booster, according to the NCAA, is a \"representative of athletic interest.\" That covers a lot of people, including people who have made a donation to get season tickets, promoted or participated in groups promoting a school's athletics programs, donated to the athletics department, contributed to student-athlete\nDo booster club members get paid?\nFunds are given to the band based on an annual budget. Depending on the amount of funds raised, an equal amount of the cost for each student to go on the band tour is paid by the boosters. Students must pay the remaining cost of the band tour.\nWhat type of business is a booster club?\nA booster club is an organization that is formed to support an associated club, sports team, or organization. The booster club can support this through raising funds or coordinating events. While each operates differently, many booster clubs are organized and run by parents of the students in a particular organization.\nWhat is a booster award?\nThe Booster Award is presented to a non-MMANC professional or organization that has significantly supported MMANC both as an organization and its activities.\nYou might be interested: What Is Safari Program?\nWhat do booster clubs pay for?\nBooster clubs can financially support the program by providing additional funding for coaches, staff and event workers. They can organize team events, such as pregame or postgame dinners or social events during the season.\nDo boosters pay coaches salary?\nIn fact, the coaches are mostly paid by athletic boosters. Their base salary, paid by the university, is usually in the $200,000 \u2013 $300,000 range for most Power 5 conference coaches. Also, it should be noted that these same boosters who graduated from Tech contribute to the academic needs of the university.\nHow do I increase my booster club membership?\nThe following are a few tips to help your booster club get more parents involved:\nMake the meetings fun:\nMake the meetings useful:\nMake the meetings convenient:\nEstablish a welcoming committee:\nCommunicate, communicate, communicate:\nAvoid parent involvement burnout:\nSay thank you:\nDo booster clubs have to file a tax return?\nbooster club DOES NOT have federal tax-exempt status, filing a Form 990, the tax-exempt return, will raise questions with the IRS. So, to be legal and operate under IRS rules, booster clubs need to pursue federal 501(c)(3) tax-exempt status.\nWhat does a booster club secretary do?\nSecretary. The secretary is responsible for keeping accurate records at club meetings (i.e., minutes) and providing monthly meeting minutes to the club members. The secretary should have a thorough understanding of proper meeting procedures (i.e., Robert's Rules of Order).\nAre booster clubs 501c3?\nNonprofit organizations, including school booster clubs, must have 501(c)(3) tax-exempt status to: Participate in fundraising programs like grocery scrip, Disney and ESPN grant programs.\nYou might be interested: Quick Answer: What Is A Sales Draw Program?\nIs a booster club a nonprofit?\nBooster club organizations are typically nonprofit and therefore qualify for tax-exemption. During the initial paperwork for starting the chapter, 501(c)(3) paperwork is filled out and submitted to the IRS to qualify for the tax-exemption.\nCan booster clubs have individual accounts?\nAn individual fundraising account is any method by which a booster club credits an individual or family for all, or a portion, of the funds raised by the individual, family or organization.\nWhat's another word for booster?\nIn this page you can discover 28 synonyms, antonyms, idiomatic expressions, and related words for booster, like: supporter, promoter, sponsor, patron, booster-dose, recall dose, booster unit, takeoff booster, takeoff rocket, booster amplifier and booster station.\nWhat is a booster account?\nBooster clubs are organizations in schools at the high school and university level. It is not a social club. Its main function is to develop support for the student program and raise funds to supplement shrinking public support as a result of budget cuts.\nHow does a booster club work?\nA booster club is defined as \"an organization that is formed to help support the efforts of a sports team or organization. Support is shown in many ways, including volunteering time, raising money, and contributing funds to better enhance the team or organization's performance.\"","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
+{"text":"Cristiano Ronaldo Agrees To A Yearly Contract Of \u00a3172.9 million With Al Nassr After Getting Kicked Out By Man- United\nCristiano Ronaldo has reportedly agreed on a bumper \u00a3172.9million-a-year contract with Al Nassr in Saudi Arabia.\nThis is coming after the 37-year-old had his Manchester United contract terminated following a tumultuous relationship with the club over controversial statements in a TV interview with Piers Morgan.\nNow, Ronaldo is said to have sensationally agreed a two-and-a-half year deal with Al Nassr \u2013 worth an eye-watering \u00a3172.9million per year that will see him play until the age of 40, according to Spanish newspaper outlet Marca.\nThe former Real Madrid star rejected a switch to Saudi last summer, but without any firm interest from Europe's elite clubs, he looks set to now make the move.\nAl-Nassr are one of the most successful clubs in Saudi Arabia, having being crowned winners of the country's top flight nine times, with their most recent triumph coming in 2019. They are currently managed by Frenchman Rudi Garcia, who has previously coached Roma, Marseille, and Lyon.\nThe Saudi giants also have a few big-name stars including goalkeeper David Ospina, Brazilian midfielder Luiz Gustavo, and Cameroon striker Vincent Aboubakar \u2013 who scored a contender for goal of the tournament at the Qatar World Cup earlier this week.\nThe post Cristiano Ronaldo Agrees To A Yearly Contract Of \u00a3172.9 million With Al Nassr After Getting Kicked Out By Man- United appeared first on GhBase\u2022com\u2122.\nThree Injured As Husband Chases Wife After Seeing Kissing Another Man\nAppoint 40% youths as ministers, coalition tasks candidates Adebayo Folorunsho-Francis\nPSG to appeal Hakim Ziyech loan transfer collapse after Chelsea sent wrong documents three times\nBenjamin Crump Wife: Meet Genae Angelique Crump\nWe need players who are happy to play for Benfica \u2013 Roger Schmidt reacts to sale of Enzo Fernandez","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
+{"text":"Steve Hebel\nHome Steve Hebel\nAfter obtaining his B.S. degree in Chemistry from Illinois College, Steve attended the St. Louis College of Pharmacy (StLCOP) where he graduated with his B.S. Pharm degree and was a member of the Rho Chi Pharmaceutical Honor Society. Following graduation, Steve spent several years as Assistant Director of Medical Affairs at a drug database company where he researched and coordinated material for inclusion in the databases and was the Assistant Editor of Evaluations of Drug Interactions. He also worked part-time as a clinical pharmacist at a St. Louis hospital, reviewing charts in the ICU. At Facts and Comparisons, a premier drug information publisher, Steve started as Assistant Editor and eventually became Publisher and then President and CEO. In 2002 Steve joined Corum Health Services as Director of Pharmacy and in 2017 became Executive Director. Other professional activities of note include 9 years on the Board of Trustees at StLCOP, a current member of the Preceptor Advisory Council at the college, and a current member of the Customer Advisory Board for Smith Drug, Corum's drug wholesaler. Steve has written numerous articles for newsletters and other publications and was a recipient of StLCOP's Alumni Association Outstanding Achievement Award and the Distinguished Alumni Award \u2013 Service to the College.\nPharmacist & Executive Director","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
+{"text":"Elizabeth Holmes at Fortune Global Forum 2015. Courtesy of Stuart Isett\nElizabeth Holmes: from freethinker to felon\nThe ex-entrepreneur has been found guilty on four counts\nRyan McConnell\nIn a historic moment for Silicon Valley, Elizabeth Holmes was found guilty on Monday, Jan. 3, 2022 on one count of conspiracy to commit wire fraud and three counts of wire fraud against specific investors, out of 11 total charges. Each count could lead up to 20 years in prison and five years for the conspiracy count alone.\nHolmes, founder and former CEO of Theranos, has been an interesting figure in the Silicon Valley startup landscape. To be a pioneer and successful entrepreneur as a woman in a male-dominated field is no easy task. In the early stages of Theranos, many cheered her on with vigorous enthusiasm, hoping she would be an inspiration to young women wishing to make life-changing impacts on society\u2014and the tech industry.\nShe was competitive at a young age, and looked to Steve Jobs as her tech industry hero; from his visionary mindset to his attire, Jobs was a very important role model for her. Holmes went on to drop out of Stanford her sophomore year to found a company called Real-Time Cures, after studying abroad at the Genome Institute in Singapore.\nLater, she would change the business name to Theranos.\nHer story up to this point is no different than the many other tech moguls that wished to make it big in the era of the unicorn tech startup. So how exactly did Elizabeth Holmes go from pioneer to fraudster? It's a tale that encompasses ignorance, ambition and the harsh truth that, even for tech billionaires, some things are simply not physically possible. The struggle\u2014and perhaps lesson\u2014is in understanding limitations and transparency.\nHolmes was eager since her dropout to revolutionize the healthcare industry and biotech by providing tests which could detect conditions such as cancer and diabetes with only a few drops of blood. This, of course, was known to be an impossible task by most practitioners of medicine, but in the era where the general public still held trust and belief in tech startups, many were willing to see her prove them wrong.\nIt wasn't until 2015 when a Wall Street Journal investigation reported that the blood testing technology it touted would not work. The Edison\u2014the machine Theranos was building\u2014claimed to conduct more than 240 tests inside its compact size.\nAs mentioned in The Inventor by medical professionals, many of the blood tests Theranos was claiming to be able to conduct were impossible with such a small amount of blood. Even omitting those tests, the Edison, as claimed, was too small for the physics that involve blood sampling to work.\nThat however did not stop Holmes from reassuring investors and the public alike that all was well within the development process. Behind the scenes, Theranos's lab was poorly run, and in some cases, outsourced most of their tests instead of conducting them in-house via the Edison. It became clear that the Edison was a machine destined for failure.\nWas Holmes intentionally defrauding customers? Or was she in too deep, setting out to change the world only to realize her vision as she saw it wasn't possible? These were the questions that the trial sought to answer. White-collar fraud cases are difficult to prosecute, and Holmes' conviction on four out of 11 charges is less than common.\nInstead of admitting defeat to a business failure, Holmes continued to be dishonest with investors and downplayed the struggles, even though many lab directors have testified that the technology was insufficient. Holmes testified in her own trial that it was never her intention to defraud customers or investors over her technology.\nHowever, Theranos's projections in 2014 and 2015 were entirely unrealistic and impossible to make without lack of medical contracts. Theranos then projected $140 million in revenue\u2014losing just $3 million\u2014and raking in $40 million from pharmaceutical companies without any formal contracts. That, the jurors claimed, was what sealed the deal for intentional fraud.\nThe conviction of Holmes may serve as a warning to Silicon Valley idealism; sometimes, a vision just isn't enough to turn it into reality. When reality hits and what was imagined cannot\u2014or should not\u2014be created, there must be a moment to step back and accept this. Otherwise, the costs to deceive the very people who believed in you will be paid in full, no matter how hard you try to escape its grasp.\nstartup industry\nOmicron surge scrambles international travel\nCES 2022 presents another year of buzzwords and shallow promises\nPSU community members welcome, resist Damore visit\nPostedby Anna Williams\nA line of Apple iPhones at the launch of the new iPhone 13 line of phones at Union Square in Manhattan. Star Max\/AP Images\nApple vs. Epic: Trial results and what it means for the gaming industry\nPostedby Ryan McConnell\nA booth for LG Electronics at CES 2022. Courtesy of LG Electronics","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
+{"text":"Boston University Medical Campus\nThe McNamara Lab\nAbout Our Research Staff\nCognition and Religious Coping in Parkinson's Disease Project\nDoctrinal vs. Experiential\nReligious Priming\nImpulsivity\nDreamboard\n\"The New Science of Dreaming\" Volumes\nRecently Published Books on Sleep and Dreams\nPhylogeny of Sleep\nCognition in Parkinson's Disease\nDr. McNamara's New Book \u2013 \"The Cognitive Neuropsychiatry of Parkinson's Disease\"\nPragmatic Communication Skills in Patients with Parkinson's Disease\nResources for Patients With Parkinson's Disease\nThe Neuroscience of Religious Experience\nThe Institute for the Biocultural Study of Religion (IBCSR)\nSelected Publications on Religion\nJournal: Religion, Brain & Behavior\nAbout Dr. McNamara\nPatrick McNamara, Ph.D. Department of Neurology mcnamar@bu.edu\nPatrick McNamara, Ph.D., is an Associate Professor of Neurology Department of Neurology at the BU School of Medicine and the VA New England HealthCare System. Upon graduating from the Behavioral Neuroscience Program at Boston University in 1991, he trained at the Aphasia Research Center at the Boston VA Medical Center in neurolinguistics and brain-cognitive correlation techniques. He then began developing an evolutionary approach to problems of brain and behavior and currently is studying the evolution of the frontal lobes, the evolution of the two mammalian sleep states (REM and NREM) and the evolution of religion in human cultures. He has published numerous articles and chapters on these topics pioneering the investigation of the role of the frontal lobes in the mediation of religious experience.\nContact|Directory|Maps & Directions|BUMC\nPrimary teaching affiliate\nof BU School of Medicine","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
+{"text":"Arranged by....\nAbout Salonmusic.org\nHome > Products > Por una Cabeza\nPor una Cabeza\nEver seen Scent of a Woman with Al Pacino? If so, the part you will undoubtedly remember is when Al Pacino dances a Tango with the girl who's waiting for her date... Well, they are dancing on Carol Gardel's Por una Cabeza.\nPor una Cabeza, composed in 1935, was one of the last masterpieces written by Carlos Gardel. Several months later he died, together with his band, in an airplane crash. In his time, Gardel embodied the soul of the tango style. He was known as The King of the Tango and The Magician.\nHail the King of the Tango with this wonderful arrangement of one of the most loved tangos ever......\nArrangement for piano quartet. Parts and score for piano, violin 1 and 2 and cello. See the first two pages of the score here!\nCanzonetta\nDonna Vatra!\nEstrellita (Little Star)\nBecause it makes us smile.....\nYesterday I had the pleasure of attending a concert of the Borodin Quartet in the Concertgebouw of Amsterdam. What a treat! On the program were quartets of Borodin, Shostakovich and...\nCopyright \u00a9 2021 Salonmusic - Sheet Music | POS and Ecommerce by Shopify","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
+{"text":"Mission accomplished: US bloody imperialists put foot on Syria for good\nAfter more than six years of unimaginable catastrophe that killed thousands, created millions of refugees and internally displaced, the Syrian war is still in process, yet, the most ruthless force seems to be achieving its primary target.\nAs the TeleSur reported:\nU.S.-backed Kurdish forces in Syria \u2014 who are among Washington's most important and powerful regional allies \u2014 told Reuters Thursday that the U.S. military will remain in northern Syria \"for decades to come.\"\nA spokesman from the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF), an alliance of militias headed by the Kurdish YPG, Talal Silo, told Reuters that the the United States has a \"strategic interest\" in the area, and that U.S. forces will be staying there long after the Islamic state group might be defeated.\nThe U.S. military has funded the SDF extensively, also supporting them with air strikes, artillery, and special forces on the ground. It was in March when the then-new U.S. administration of President Donald Trump began distributing arms to the YPG, ahead of their assault in Raqqa. When probed about their long-term strategy, Col. Ryan Dillon, another spokesman for the coalition, deferred Reuters to the U.S. Pentagon, adding that there is \"still a lot of fighting to do, even after ISIS has been defeated in Raqqa\". Eric Pahon, a Pentagon spokesman, in turn, stated, \"The Department of Defense does not discuss timelines for future operations. However we remain committed to the destruction of ISIS and preventing its return.\"\nThe head of the YPG revealed last month that the United States has established seven military bases in areas of northern Syria that are controlled by the YPG or SDF, including a major air base near Kobani, which borders Turkey.\nDespite the chaos by losing control over various extremist groups trained by CIA, it appears that the US achieves its primary target for permanent military presence in northern Syria. The Nobel Peace Prize(!) holder and proxy-wars expert, Barack Obama, has set the scene for Donald Trump. The US imperialists have learned from the disastrous Iraq war and decided to act \"smarter\" this time. They reached goal through a few airstrikes and minimum loses, just by training and arming different militant groups. The only problem is that it took longer. By the way, no one could blame them for direct invasion this time.\nSyrian war shows emphatically how ruthless the US imperialists are. They won't give up their 'investments' in the Middle East, whatever it takes. And they have 'invested' for decades, especially in two sides, which have enormous ideological differences. On the one hand, the Kurdish communities, organized upon the most progressive ideas in the Middle East. On the other, the Saudis, the most brutal theocratic regime in the region. This fact depicts perfectly that the US imperialists will support anyone - no matter how democratic or tyrannic - who will help them to fulfill their goals.\nDespite the geopolitical games through various pipelines, the ultimate plan of the US in the region was to create a continuous surveillance zone that would expand from the Iranian borders through north Iraq and Syria, up to the eastern Mediterranean coast. It appears that mission accomplished.\nThrough this zone, the US will attempt to:\nControl all key roads of the pipelines from Gulf States to the north, and therefore, the main energy paths to Europe.\nPut barriers against the normal functioning of the Syria-Russia-Iran-Hezbollah alliance in various levels.\nBecome a significant and 'annoying' power of tight scrutiny against the Russian presence in the east Mediterranean with the prospect to prevent the expansion of Russian permanent naval and other military bases.\nRestrict further Sino-Russian economic expansion in the region.\nWith the ongoing chaos in Middle East, no one can tell to what extent the US will succeed on these goals, but the first key step is completed. Furthermore, there is another big question mark that seems to trouble the US imperialists: Turkey.\nIt appears that the relationship of the US with this strategic ally and one of the largest NATO armies becomes increasingly problematic. The rapid deterioration of the relations between the US and Turkey coincided with the beginning of the Syrian chaos, probably because Erdogan completely ignored the US interests in the region, by trying to promote his own agenda.\nTurkey exploited the Syrian chaos and tried to crush Kurdish resistance. One of the reasons that supported ISIS was to use it against the Kurds. It is a sub-proxy war by Turkey in the area according to its own agenda. The US is probably not very happy with that because it wanted to use ISIS in full force against Assad and considers Kurds as allies.\nThings got even worse last month. As Bloomberg reported:\nTurkey's state-run news agency published U.S. base locations in northern Syria, a move that threatens to deepen distrust between the two allies by exposing American soldiers on the front lines of the fight against Islamic State.\nIn reports published in both Turkish and English on Tuesday, Turkey's state-run Anadolu Agency provided detailed information about 10 U.S. bases in northern Syria, including troop counts and a map of the U.S. force presence in the Turkish version. The reports said that the military outposts are \"usually hidden for security reasons, making it hard to be detected.\" It said they were located \"in the terrorist PKK\/PYD-held Syrian territories,\" a reference to Kurdish groups that Turkey's government considers terrorist organizations.\nDespite a tight military alliance dating back to the Cold War, Turkey and the U.S. have been at odds for years now over the U.S. backing of Kurdish fighters in Syria who are affiliated with separatist movements inside Turkey. The Turkish government probably leaked U.S. troop locations to Anadolu as retaliation, according to Aaron Stein, a fellow at the Atlantic Council in Washington.\nDespite fulfilling their primary target, everything shows that the US imperialists will not have an easy job in the chaotic Middle East puzzle.\nYep, Bush spilled a huge bag of horseshit in the ME, and it will take generations to clean it up. What a fucking idiot.","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
+{"text":"KaiOS adds Ding to bring instant top-up service to developing markets\nLouis Regnier\nExpected time to read 1 min\nKaiOS Technologies, have announced a new partnership with Ding to provide airtime requests and mobile top-up service to their users\nKaiOS Technologies, have announced a new partnership with Ding to provide airtime requests and mobile top-up service to their users, helping them stay connected with their KaiOS-enabled devices.\nAvailable via the KaiStore, this new service allows KaiOS users to instantly send a request for airtime top-up from their phones to anyone in their address book, using WhatsApp. Friends and family can purchase mobile top-up on their behalf through Ding.com, making it easier than ever to keep their phones in credit and keeping them connected to their loved ones.\nThe partnership gives KaiOS users access to Ding's network of over 550 mobile operators across 140+ countries, covering 95% of the population.\nCommenting on the new partnership, Rupert Shaw, Chief Commercial Officer at Ding, said: \"We are delighted to partner with KaiOS to introduce international mobile recharge to their ecosystem. Customers will now be able to engage with the Ding platform and stay connected by recharging their own devices or buying credit for other KaiOS users all right at their fingertips.\"\nInternational mobile top-up, which is the most efficient micro-value transfer option in the market, has long been seen by expatriates worldwide as a convenient add-on to cash remittance when supporting their families back home. This new offering will undoubtedly be welcomed by those with a KaiOS handset.\nMathieu Boyer, Senior Director, Ecosystem & Partnerships of KaiOS Technologies, said: \"In times of increasing global volatility, it is even more crucial than ever to get everyone connected and stay connected. We are excited to work with Ding to provide this instant and secure online payment service, allowing our users to reach out to their friends and family to ask for a top-up, or enabling them to send mobile recharges back home this is a great gift to be able to give someone.\"\nHe added \"This partnership is a testament to our continued commitment to invest in digital solutions to deliver a safe, fast and convenient experience to our users and help bring mobile connectivity to billions of people.\"\nStartup Details\nTOTAL FUNDING AMOUNT\nCB RANK (COMPANY)\nKaiOS was founded in 2016 and launched in 2017 with a unique focus on feature phones, a category that had not seen any innovation for over a decade. We're a diverse team from internet, telecoms, and hardware backgrounds, working on one mission: to close the digital divide.\nHeadquarters Regions\nFounded Date\nSebastien Codeville\nFrom e-commerce to v-commerce: How the metaverse is transforming online shopping\nIn disruptive industries, what does the new generation of leadership look like?\nDigital Horizon invites venture capital investors to try on the future of fashion with 'digital clothing' NFT\nScientific freelancer and COVID-19 startup founder Ahmed Elewa","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
+{"text":"Think Digital Forensics and Electronic Discovery is Just About Document Production and Review? Think Again\nComputer User Activity Can Help Tell the Story in Many Cases\nA Case Study in Re-Creating a Computer User's Actvity\nThe client was a large multi-national technology company with a billion dollar household brand. They had been recently shaken by the departure of a number of key wireless software engineers, all of whom went to work for a competing start-up. When it became obvious that three departed employees were in violation of their non-compete agreements, the tech giant sued the former employees and the new company they had gone to work for. The company's motion to compel the three former employees to produce their home computers for computer forensics examinations was granted. (internal company server logs showed the employees had sent emails to their home computers with confidential files attached, but that is the subject of another advisory). Computer analysis was performed\nBait and Switch\nThe initial examination revealed a troubling discovery; two of the three computers were not the home computers used by the employees. In fact, they had only recently been put into service by the employees, and the employees had re-named the computers (within the computer's operating system). Providing further evidence of deceptive intent, one of the former employees had \"re-set\" the computer's calendar and clock, in a fairly effective attempt to make the \"decoy\" computer appear to be the computer being requested for examination, based on the time frame it now appeared to have been operational.\nComputer forensics analysis demonstrated that the users had entered the computer's internal systems and altered its settings. The users denied these misdeeds, but the judge found the expert's report far more credible than the statements made by a defendant with a lot to lose. The judge ordered the defendants to produce the real computers and threatened sanctions. The defendants were off to a very rocky start, and the judges opinion of the integrity of the defendants and their potential guilt was now firmly established.\nThe Take-Aways\nRemember, it's not always just about the electronic documents. Careful and thorough analysis of a computer can often \"tell the story\" of what a user was doing around the critical time of an important event. This \"story\" can help you prove the elements of your case, with minimal cost of document production and review.\nDigital fingerprints left behind by a user can be a rich source of electronically stored information (ESI). Critical user activity can include\u2026\nis the current hard drive in the computer the factory original or has it been \"swapped\"?\nwebsites visited and frequency and duration of the visits\nwhen a computer was purchased or put into service\nif file deletion software was installed\ninstant message conversations\nrecently installed software (yes, even if it was \"uninstalled\")\ncontents of documents recently printed\nlist of applications recently ran\nwhen CDs or DVDs were copied\na record of every device ever plugged into the computer\n3. The application of this technology is wide and varied. Getting a clear picture of a computer user's behavior has broad applications to a wide-array of cases.\nFraud \/ Fidelity Claims (did the fraudster use wiping software to delete fraudulent entries in an accounting software application?)\nBusiness Disputes (did the defendant alter key documents in a contract after it was signed?)\nEmployment, (did the user send his co-worker that inappropriate photograph?)\nCollections (has the debtor visited on-line banking websites that could lead you to unknown bank accounts?)\nTrade Secret (did the former employee upload files to a third party \"cloud\" computing site in order to misappropriate confidential data?)\nMedical Malpractice \/ Insurance (did the physician alter electronic medical records to cover his tracks once he became aware of a law suit?)\nProduct Liability (did automotive company executives manipulate databases containing reports of product failures or vehicle \"black box\" data once they discovered a glaring deficiency?)\nSecurities (did the broker send erroneous text message rumors about a stock in order to artificially inflate its value after making a sizable purchase of the stock?)\nSeasoned E-Discovery professionals will always take a look at user activity BEFORE launching into a detailed search for relevant or responsive documents. The user activity can help tell the story\u2026don't ignore this rich source of ESI.\nAnd finally, an examination of user activity that proves your case and requires perhaps 20 or 30 hours of examination time could save you tens of thousands of dollars in unnecessary electronic document production and review \u2013 resulting in a very happy client. Let user activity help you discover the truth.\nBusiness Email Employees Engineer ESI Evidence Forensics Minimal Responsive\n4Discovery Announces 2023 CLE\/Webinar Roadshow\nSaving The Merger\nRichard Brosemer, Esq. Joins 4Discovery\nThe Forged PDF\nDigital Forensics In Pop Culture","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
+{"text":"Health Career Center Blog\nSubscribe to our monthly newsletter for useful tips and resources for healthcare job seekers.\nFind HealthCare Jobs\nAll-in-one search tool for Job Seekers\nNursing Webinars\nJob Seekers, Welcome to Health Career Center\nAcademic \/ Research (498) Admin \/ Clerical (1909) Advanced Practice Registered Nurses \/ Physician Assistants (3051) Allied Health (9716) Biomedical Engineering (1) Clinical Research (7) Computer Software Engineering (1) Dentistry (214) Engineering (64) Executive (514) General Nursing (15388) Health Professions (4) Health and Safety Engineering (3) Hospitality, Facility, Environmental Support (990) Mental Health\/Social Services (2122) Nursing Support (1455) Operations (2213) Optometry (7) Pharmacy (840) Physicians\/Surgeons (9432) Psychology (628) Quality Engineering (17) Quality\/Risk Management (78) Social Work (1) Type\nContract (24) Fellowship (7) Full Time (5013) Full-time (2) Locum Tenens (0) PRN (1) Part Time (784) Partnership (3) Per Diem (51) Residency (1) Temp to Full Time (5) Level\nNeuro Psychologist-Generous Signing Bonuses Offered\nPediatric Urologist\nPharmacy Technician I\nGeneral Diagnostic Radiology Technologist (Full Time) (Evenings) SIGNING INCENTIVE\nInternal Number: PSYCH02341\nWashington Permanente Medical Group (WPMG) is a clinician-led, self-governed and independent multi-specialty group practice, providing care to the more than 700,000 Kaiser Permanente patients in Washington state. We work unencumbered by traditional health care obstacles and without silos; prioritizing people over profits, collaboration over ego, and driven by a singular goal: our patients' health. At WPMG, we take care of the whole person, with a team to address the fundamental, social, and emotional needs that contribute to total health. We are clinicians motivated by the desire to make a purposeful difference in the communities we serve, and in how health care is delivered.\nKaiser Permanente-Washington Permanente Medical Group- is seeking a full-time 1.0 FTE Neuro Psychologist, PhD to join our Tacoma Medical Center team in Tacoma, Washington. The outpatient opportunity will be a mix of neuropsychological assessment, adult clinical psychology practice and consultation. The ideal candidate will have at minimum completed a post-doctoral fellowship and board certification in neuropsychology.\nTacoma Medical Center is a multispecialty medical center. Lab, Radiology and Pharmacy on site. Office hours are 8am - 5pm Monday through Friday with Urgent Care open 24 hours a day, 7 days a week.\nAs a condition of employment, all clinicians and employees are required to verify COVID-19 vaccination status. As part of the pre-boarding process and before starting work, you will be required to verify your vaccination status, and will be provided an opportunity to apply for an accommodation based on a religious or medical reason, if needed.\nThe entire salary range for the clinician position is $111,160 to $130,776 and will be prorated based on FTE. Placement of new hires will be in the range of $111,160 to $124,237 based on factors such as education, training or experience.\nEmployees (and their families) are covered by medical, dental, vision, basic life, and disability insurance. Employees are able to enroll in our company's 401k plan, receive employer contributions to the 401(k) plan, and enroll in our cash balance pension plan. Employees will also receive four weeks of paid vacation leave every year and eight paid holidays throughout the calendar year, and will receive continuing medical education leave and funding.\nTacoma, locally referred to as \"T-Town\", is a mid-sized urban port city and the seat of Pierce County. The city is on Washington's Puget Sound, 32 miles southwest of Seattle, 31 miles northeast of Olympia, and 58 miles northwest of Mt. Rainier National Park. With a population of 198,397, Tacoma is the second-largest city in the Puget Sound area and the third largest in the state. Tacoma is home to a vibrant, creative community of writers, artists and musicians, photographers, filmmakers, passionate entrepreneurs and small business owners. It also serves as a base for large companies like State Farm, BNY Mellon, Columbia Bank and Key Bank. Drawing families to its charming neighborhoods with big city amenities, true urbanites are drawn to downtown Tacoma for its competitively priced living spaces with sweeping mountain, city and water views.\nWe are dedicated to building lifetime relationships with peers and patients in Washington State's richly diverse communities. Many know the Pacific Northwest as an attractive tourist destination with beautiful scenery, friendly people, and a host of cultural and recreational opportunities. These elements, and others, make Washington an excellent place to live.\nEquity, Inclusion and Diversity\nIn our local communities and across the nation, Kaiser Permanente sets the standard for respectful care. With multicultural staff, equity, inclusion and diversity councils, medical interpretation resources, outreach efforts, educational programs and more, Kaiser Permanente puts people first in our medical centers and beyond.\nAs part of Kaiser Permanente, Washington Permanente Medical Group (WPMG) seeks to create equity in our communities, eliminate health disparities, and always put patients--the heart of everything we do--first.\nFollowing the guidelines in our National Diversity Agenda, every member of our team strives to:\nProvide culturally responsive and appropriate medical care to improve the health and satisfaction of all people in our increasingly diverse membership\nRecruit and retain clinicians and staff that enhance our workforce\nGrow our membership by providing exceptional service and clinical care to all communities in our region\nCreating a diverse workforce, an inclusive environment, and equitable opportunity for employment, growth, and advancement are deeply linked to our mission, our business, and our economic future. WPMG continues to add programs that build and maintain a workplace where we engage with our members, communities, and each other--with dignity, respect, and cultural understanding.\nAs part of our commitment to our employees and the members and patients we serve, we integrate diversity into all aspects of our operations. Maintaining a workforce with industry-leading levels of diversity through deliberate planning, development, and outreach is critical to fulfilling our mission, sustaining our business objectives, and providing the best level of care to our members and patients. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, gender identity, protected veteran, or disability status.\nAbout Kaiser Permanente - Washington Permanente Medical Group\nClick the above link to learn more about us or visit us at:\nhttps:\/\/www.wpmgcareers.org\/index.html\nYou can view all our open opportunities here:\nhttps:\/\/www.wpmgcareers.org\/careers.html\nConnections working at Kaiser Permanente - Washington Permanente Medical Group\nhttps:\/\/jobs.healthcareercenter.com\/jobs\/18088878\/neuro-psychologist-generous-signing-bonuses-offered\n703-964-2779 | jack.lafferty@naylor.com\nHealth CareerWire\n1430 Spring Hill Road McLean, VA 22102\nAbout NHCN\nPrivacy Statement | Terms of Use | \u00a9 2018. All rights reserved\nHealth Career Center","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
+{"text":"Air Date: Sunday, April 28, 2019\nTime Slot: 8:00 PM-9:00 PM EST on CBS\nEpisode Title: (#RL101) \"We Must All Care\"\nVIEW ALL LISTINGS FOR RED LINE, THE\n\"THE RED LINE,\" A NEW EIGHT-EPISODE ORIGINAL LIMITED SERIES THAT FOLLOWS THREE VERY DIFFERENT CHICAGO FAMILIES AS THEY JOURNEY TOWARD HOPE AND HEALING AFTER A TRAGEDY, PREMIERES SUNDAY, APRIL 28\nThe Series Will Air in Two-Hour Installments Across Four Consecutive Sundays\nNoah Wyle, Emayatzy Corinealdi, Aliyah Royale, Noel Fisher, Howard Charles, Elizabeth Laidlaw, Vinny Chhibber and Michael Patrick Thornton Star\nGreg Berlanti, Ava DuVernay, Sarah Schechter, Caitlin Parrish, Sunil Nayar And Kevin Hooks Executive Produce; Erica Weiss Co-Produces\nCorey Reynolds Guest Stars as Dr. Harrison Brennan; Glynn Turman Guest Stars as Nathan Gordon, the Incumbent Alderman\n\"We Must All Care\" - Three very different Chicago families journey toward hope and healing after a tragedy causes them all to consider how race and racial biases affect their lives, on the series premiere of THE RED LINE, Sunday, April 28 (8:00-9:00 PM, ET\/PT) on the CBS Television Network. The series will air in two-hour installments across four consecutive Sundays. Noah Wyle, Emayatzy Corinealdi, Aliyah Royale, Noel Fisher, Howard Charles, Elizabeth Laidlaw, Vinny Chhibber and Michael Patrick Thornton star.\nOn the north side of Chicago, Daniel Calder is a high school history teacher mourning the death of his husband, Dr. Harrison Brennan, an African American doctor who was shot while unarmed by a white cop. As Daniel tries to comfort their grieving daughter, Jira Calder-Brennan, the two butt heads when she decides she needs more support than her father can provide. She seeks the understanding of someone who knows what it's like to grow up as a young black woman, and searches for her birth mother to learn more about her personal history, culture and community. Daniel seeks comfort in his colleague - and Jira's teacher - Liam Bhatt. On the south side, Tia Young scours news of the shooting, torn between her political ambition of running for alderman and risking it all to comfort the daughter she gave up for adoption as a teen. Tia's husband, Ethan Young, a red-line train operator and devoted father to their 6-year-old son, champions her running for office, but cautions her about connecting with Jira. On the west side, police officer Paul Evans must face the reality of his actions and intentions in the fatal shooting of an innocent man and worries about his fate amidst the public and legal fallout. His police partner, Victoria \"Vic\" Renna, and his brother, Jim Evans, a volatile former cop confined to a wheelchair after being shot in the line of duty, cause more harm than good in their attempts to help him. As the stories of the Calder, Young and Evans families converge, they each discover that it's impossible to ignore issues of race; it's important for each of us to explore how our backgrounds and internal biases affect how we act; and we must open our eyes and see that we're all human and all deserving of the same dignity.\nREGULAR CAST:\nNoah Wyle (Daniel Calder)\nEmayatzy Corinealdi (Tia Young)\nAliyah Royale (Jira Calder-Brennan)\nNoel Fisher (Paul Evans)\nHoward Charles (Ethan Young)\nElizabeth Laidlaw (Victoria \"Vic\" Renna)\nVinny Chhibber (Liam Bhatt)\nMichael Patrick Thornton (Jim Evans)\nGUEST CAST:\nMaximus Chase Evans (Benny Young)\nKristina Valada-Viars (Elizabeth)\nRammel Chan (Matthew Lee)\nCorey Reynolds (Harrison Brennan)\nGlynn Turman (Nathan Gordon)\nSadieh Rifai (Elena)\nRaven Whitley (Kalen)\nAnna Brockman (Angelica Barrett)\nSean Bradley (Steve)\nAlanah Marie Johnson (Young Jira)\nTony Peera (Cashier)\nMike Geraghty (Patient)\nPam Mack (Teacher)\nWRITTEN BY: Caitlin Parrish and Erica Weiss\nDIRECTED BY: Victoria Mahoney\nRED LINE, THE (CBS)\ncanceled\/ended (2018-2019 season)\nSEASON(S):\n1 (8 episodes, 0 of which have yet to air)\nconfirmed as canceled on 6\/7\/19\n(from CBS's press release, May 2018) From acclaimed producers Ava DuVernay and Greg Berlanti, THE RED LINE is a drama that follows the lives of three vastly different Chicago families whose stories of loss and tragedy intersect in the wake of the mistaken shooting of an African American doctor by a white cop. As the stories of the Calder, Young and Evans families crisscross and converge, a message of hope appears - it's possible to emerge from tragedy stronger, and it's important to come together with others, not just to survive, but to thrive. Academy Award, Golden Globe and Emmy Award nominee Ava DuVernay, Greg Berlanti and Sarah Schechter are executive producers, and Caitlin Parrish and Erica Weiss are co-executive producers for Warner Bros. Television and CBS Television Studios. Victoria Mahoney directed the pilot from a script by Parrish and Weiss.\n\u00b7 Aliyah Royale as Jira Calder-Brennan\n\u00b7 Elizabeth Laidlaw as Vic Renna\n\u00b7 Emayatzy Corinealdi as Tia Young\n\u00b7 Howard Charles as Ethan Young\n\u00b7 Michael Patrick Thornton as Jim Evans\n\u00b7 Noah Wyle as Daniel Calder\n\u00b7 Noel Fisher as Paul Evans\n\u00b7 Vinny Chhibber as Liam Bhatt\n\u00b7 Ava DuVernay as EP\n\u00b7 Caitlin Parrish as CRTR\/CO-EP\n\u00b7 Erica Weiss as CRTR\/CO-EP\n\u00b7 Greg Berlanti as EP\n\u00b7 Sarah Schechter as EP\n\u00b7 Victoria Mahoney as DIR (Pilot)\n\u00b7 drama\n\u00b7 Berlanti Productions\n\u00b7 CBS Television Studios\n\u00b7 Warner Bros. Television","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
+{"text":"Pile Carpets and Flat-weaves from the Silk Road in the First Millennium CE\n11th APRIL 2018 at 7pm\nImage courtesy of Penn Museum\nA talk by Dr Helen Persson\nDr Helen Persson will talk on the \"Pile Carpets and Flat-weaves from the Silk Road in the First Millennium CE\" from Sir Aurel Stein's unique collection of textile fragments in the Victoria and Albert Museum. She will also discuss those held in the British Museum and National Museum in New Delhi. Similar fragments in private collections in Europe and finds from recent excavations in China will also be discussed.\nHelen Persson was a curator at the Victoria and Albert Museum for 14 years, and now at the Nordic Museum in Stockholm, Sweden. Helen has lectured internationally and widely published on the V&A Stein collection, and is involved in a major international project based around the Silk Road.\nIndian Tents \"Matters of Silk and Velvet\"\n'The Batak Bulang: from Cast-off to Art'\n'Chinese Indigo Dyeing'","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
+{"text":"Accident News\nMan Injured in Crash on Ash Street\nHit and Run Accident in Escondido Causes Serious Injuries\nEscondido, CA (July 15, 2019) \u2013 A man suffers serious injuries in a hit and run accident in Escondido. The crash happened on the evening of July 15 on Ash Street.\nA vehicle was traveling north on Ash Street, near Pennsylvania Avenue, when it hit a 28-year-old man. The pedestrian was hospitalized with serious injuries.\nThe driver fled the accident scene. The vehicle is described as a dark gray car. The driver was allegedly a woman.\nThe legal team at Nadrich & Cohen hopes that the accident victim makes a speedy and full recovery. We know how difficult it can be to recover physically, emotionally and financially from an auto accident. Let us deal with the insurance companies so that you can focus on treating your injuries and making a full recovery. The law firm of Nadrich & Cohen has handled thousands of accident and personal injury claims since our firm was founded in 1990.\n#Escondido\nMan Injured in Pedestrian Crash at Walnut Avenue and Court Street\nVictim Suffers Serious Injuries in Visalia Accident\nVisalia, CA (July 14, 2019) \u2013 A man was seriously injured in a pedestrian crash in Visalia. The accident occurred on the evening of July 14 at Walnut Avenue and Court Street.\nA 36-year-old man was walking in the intersection when he was hit by a Honda Accord. The pedestrian was thrown onto the windshield of the vehicle. The man suffered serious injuries and was taken to a local hospital.\nThe driver of the Honda, a 46-year-old man, was not injured. He remained at the accident scene. The cause of the crash is under investigation.\n#Visalia\n1 Injured in Crash on Arrow Highway\nCar Crashes Into Strip Mall in Irwindale Accident\nIrwindale, CA (July 15, 2019) \u2013 A car crashed into an Irwindale strip mall, injuring one person. The accident occurred on the evening of July 15 on Arrow Highway.\nA car crashed into a business in a strip mall located in the 16000 block of Arrow Highway. A clerk was hospitalized with minor injuries. The driver remained at the accident scene. The cause of the crash is unknown.\n#Irwindale\nWoman Killed in Pedestrian Crash on Interstate 5 Near Mathews Road\nVictim May Have Been Attempting Suicide in Fatal Stockton Accident\nStockton, CA (July 13, 2019) \u2013 A woman in a wheelchair was killed in a pedestrian crash in Stockton. The fatal accident occurred on the evening of July 13 on Interstate 5.\nA 52-year-old woman in a wheelchair was crossing southbound Interstate 5 near Mathews Road when she was hit by a van. She died at the accident scene. It is believed that the woman was trying to commit suicide. Interstate 5 was shut down for around 2 1\/2 hours as authorities investigated.\nOur heartfelt condolences go out to the friends and loved ones of the victim.\n#Stockton\n4 Injured When Car Crashes Into Wall at Slauson and Broadway\nPolice Pursuit Ends in Los Angeles Accident\nLos Angeles, CA (July 14, 2019) \u2013 A car crashed into a wall in Los Angeles, injuring four people. The accident occurred on July 14 at Slauson Avenue and Broadway.\nThe driver of a Dodge Charger was allegedly doing doughnuts when police attempted to stop the car. This led to a chase. The Dodge was traveling at high speeds when the driver lost control near Slauson Avenue and Broadway. The vehicle hit a curb and rolled several times before crashing into a wall. The four men inside the Dodge were hospitalized with serious injuries.\n#Los Angeles\n2 Injured in Crash at North 110th Street East and East Avenue O\nDriver Arrested for DUI in Palmdale Accident\nPalmdale CA (July 14, 2019) \u2013 Two people were injured in a crash in Palmdale. The accident occurred on the evening of July 14 at North 110th Street East and East Avenue O.\nTwo cars collided at the intersection for unknown reasons. One person was trapped inside a vehicle. Two people were injured in the accident. Both are hospitalized in critical condition.\nOne driver fled the accident scene but later returned. That person was arrested and charged with DUI.\nThe legal team at Nadrich & Cohen hopes that the accident victims make a speedy and full recovery. We know how difficult it can be to recover physically, emotionally and financially from an auto accident. Let us deal with the insurance companies so that you can focus on treating your injuries and making a full recovery. The law firm of Nadrich & Cohen has handled thousands of accident and personal injury claims since our firm was founded in 1990.\nNadrich & Cohen is an active donor and supporter of several local MADD (Mothers Against Drunk Driving) chapters throughout California.\n#Palmdale\nWoman Injured in Crash on Highway 91 Near Highway 71\n3 Vehicles Involved in Corona Accident\nCorona, CA (July 15, 2019) \u2013 A woman was injured in a multi-vehicle crash in Corona. The accident occurred on the morning of July 15 on Highway 91.\nThree vehicles collided on Highway 91 near Highway 71. The cause of the crash is unknown. A woman inside one of the vehicles was injured and taken to a local hospital.\n#Corona\n1 Killed, 1 Injured in Bicycle Crash at Vistapark Drive and Capitol Expressway\nSUV Hits 2 Bicyclists in Fatal San Jose Accident\nSan Jose, CA (July 15, 2019) \u2013 A bicyclist was killed and another was seriously injured in a crash in San Jose. The fatal accident occurred on the morning of July 15 at Vistapark Drive and Capitol Expressway.\nA woman driving a Chevrolet SUV was exiting a parking lot on Vistapark Drive when she hit two bicyclists. Both were taken to a local hospital. One later died, while the other has life-threatening injuries. The driver of the SUV remained at the accident scene.\n#San Jose\nFree Police Report Request\nRelationship with victim*\nSelfSpouseParentChildSiblingFamily Member\nHit and Run Accident in Escondido Causes Serious Injuries Escondido, CA (July 15, 2019) \u2013 A man suffers serious injuries in a hit and run accident in Escondido. The crash happened on the evening of July 15 on Ash Street. A vehicle was traveling north on Ash Street,...\nVictim Suffers Serious Injuries in Visalia Accident Visalia, CA (July 14, 2019) \u2013 A man was seriously injured in a pedestrian crash in Visalia. The accident occurred on the evening of July 14 at Walnut Avenue and Court Street. A 36-year-old man was walking in the...\nCar Crashes Into Strip Mall in Irwindale Accident Irwindale, CA (July 15, 2019) \u2013 A car crashed into an Irwindale strip mall, injuring one person. The accident occurred on the evening of July 15 on Arrow Highway. A car crashed into a business in a strip mall located...\nVictim May Have Been Attempting Suicide in Fatal Stockton Accident Stockton, CA (July 13, 2019) \u2013 A woman in a wheelchair was killed in a pedestrian crash in Stockton. The fatal accident occurred on the evening of July 13 on Interstate 5. A 52-year-old woman in a...\nPolice Pursuit Ends in Los Angeles Accident Los Angeles, CA (July 14, 2019) \u2013 A car crashed into a wall in Los Angeles, injuring four people. The accident occurred on July 14 at Slauson Avenue and Broadway. The driver of a Dodge Charger was allegedly doing doughnuts...\nDriver Arrested for DUI in Palmdale Accident Palmdale CA (July 14, 2019) \u2013 Two people were injured in a crash in Palmdale. The accident occurred on the evening of July 14 at North 110th Street East and East Avenue O. Two cars collided at the intersection for unknown...\n3 Vehicles Involved in Corona Accident Corona, CA (July 15, 2019) \u2013 A woman was injured in a multi-vehicle crash in Corona. The accident occurred on the morning of July 15 on Highway 91. Three vehicles collided on Highway 91 near Highway 71. The cause of the crash is...\nSUV Hits 2 Bicyclists in Fatal San Jose Accident San Jose, CA (July 15, 2019) \u2013 A bicyclist was killed and another was seriously injured in a crash in San Jose. The fatal accident occurred on the morning of July 15 at Vistapark Drive and Capitol Expressway. A woman...","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
+{"text":"Tim Swift\nPublished: January 18, 2018, 7:49 am\nTags: Miami-Dade, News, Local, Pets\nMiami Gardens man seriously hurt in dog attack\nOwner says dog provoked by victim\nMIAMI GARDENS, Fla. \u2013 A man was seriously hurt after he was bitten by a dog Wednesday in Miami Gardens.\nMiami-Dade Fire Rescue Lt. Felipe Lay said the attack happened about 3:45 p.m. in the 3700 block of Northwest 161st Street.\nThe man, who was not identified, was airlifted to Jackson Memorial Hospital's Ryder Trauma Center in Miami, where he was listed in stable condition.\nNadhir Ebanks, the owner of the 3-year-old Jack Russell Terrier and American bulldog mix, told Local 10 News that the victim is his next-door neighbor who was outside doing yard work with a tree trimmer.\nEbanks said the dog, whose name is Alba, began barking at the neighbor, and he panicked and swung the tree trimmer at Alba several times.\nAlba was hurt and reacted by biting the man, Ebanks said. Neighbors said the man suffered bite wounds to both his legs and both sides of his neck.\nMiami-Dade County Animal Services evaluated Alba and placed the dog under quarantine for 10 days. Animal Services said the dog had no history of attacks.","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
+{"text":"Warrior run comes to heartbreaking end\nStanislaus falls to Chico in 1 point loss\nJunior Rob Walters goes inside the paint for a shot with a Chico defender contesting the shot. Walters finished Monday nights game with eight points and 11 rebounds. - photo by Photo Contributed\nThe Cal State Stanislaus men's basketball team's amazing run came to a shocking end as Chico State edged the Warriors, 81-80, Monday night at the NCAA West Region Championship game.\nAmir Carraway's two free throws with 1.8 seconds left gave Chico State the school's first ever NCAA West Region Championship and sent the Wildcats to the promise land for Division II Basketball \u2014 the Elite 8.\nThe seventh seeded Warriors did so many things right in a game they led by as many as 18 points, but for the first time this postseason they were out-rebounded.\nChico State's final rebound led to the demise of Stanislaus' hot streak, which ended with nine consecutive games. CCAA Champion Cal State Stanislaus ends the season 23-9.\n\"We don't get too many opportunities at these things and when you get the chance you have to take it,\" head coach Larry Reynolds said of winning the West and moving on to the Elite Eight. \"I have to take the responsibility of it not coming to fruition.\"\nThat rebound by Carraway came after a Jordan Semple missed free throw and Carraway nailed both shots to lift the Wildcats.\nThe play before that sequence also didn't help the Warriors. Sam Marcus' outlet pass down the court to Rob Walters was taken away and miscommunications caused Walters to reach-in to foul Semple at half court, allowing Chico State to get to the line with about four seconds left.\n\"Rob was behind him and I was yelling 'guard him', because I didn't want him to run free, but the miscommunications was that he thought I said 'foul him',\" Reynolds said.\n\"It was loud and I couldn't hear so I was watching coach's hands and reading his lips,\" Walters said. \"Like (coach) said, it was a miscommunication.\"\nBut the game didn't have to come down to those two Chico State possessions.\nThe Warriors were hitting on all cylinders and led 58-40 when Clinton Tremelling nailed a three-pointer with 13:33 to play. After a second 18-point lead, at 12:09, on a pair of Shey Mataele free throws, an 8-0 run by Chico State gave the Wildcats some hope. The run was highlighted by Semple's three-pointer that cut the CSUS lead down to 10.\nStill Stanislaus held a 13-point, 74-61, lead with 2:48 left. And the vocal Warrior Nation cheering section were chanting its signature \"I believe that we will win\" cheer.\nThen things went downhill. Another run by Chico, this time a 16-5 surge in the next two minutes made it a two-point game after a Sean Park layup.\nThe Warriors missed three of four free throw chances in the final 30 seconds to open the doors for Chico State. The Wildcats took it, converting on that Park layup and four of five free throws with four from Carraway, who was just 2-of-5 on the line prior.\n\"We just didn't get the job done and you have to give credit to Chico State. They did a good job and held their poise and came back,\" Reynolds added.\nParker finished with 19 points and Carraway had 16.\nTaylor Bell's breakout performance this weekend would have earned him the tournament's most outstanding player award. He ended up with 15 points on Monday to close out the tournament with 55 points.\nChris Read scored 14 and Rob Walters had 8 points and 11 rebounds. Marcus Bell was held to 4 of 13 shooting with eight points and five rebounds.\nChico State advances to the Elite 8, March 26-29, in Evansville, Ind., and will face Southeast regional winner, either Montevallo or South Carolina-Aiken.","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
+{"text":"HomeReviews\nReview: Sunrise City\nBy FarmerLenny on\t March 15, 2013 Reviews\nI was playing WarCraft III with @Futurewolfie and one of our friends a few years ago. We were on a local network, each on our laptops or desktops, our positions and strategies unknown to the others. I was furiously clicking, commanding my workers, building my army, preparing for battle. I had all sorts of buildings, my upgrades were maxed out, and my little city was beautiful.\nI was out of the game almost as soon as my location was discovered.\nThe reason? I was playing WarCraft like it was Sim City.\nI've abandoned computer games for the most part, but I've taken my desire to build into the tabletop realm. Even after several years in the hobby, though, I hadn't found a game that mimicked the experience of building a city from the ground up.\nUntil I saw Sunrise City from Clever Mojo Games. But is it worth breaking ground for? Find out below!\nSunrise City is a role-selection and tile-laying game for two to four players with a city-building theme. It plays in around an hour.\nAt the beginning of the game, players receive a set of playing pieces in their color (six bidding chips and a score track marker) and draft a hand of three role cards to play during the game. The City Hall tile is placed in the center of the table.\nThe role cards. The better role abilities have higher numbers, so the game encourages balance between choosing better roles and choosing roles that may allow you to go first.\nThe game is played over a series of three rounds, and each round follows four phases: preparation, zoning, bidding, and construction. In the preparation phase, each player draws four zoning tiles and four building tiles and chooses one of their drafted role cards to play. The role cards are numbered, and the player who plays the lowest-numbered card will be the start player for the round.\nIn the zoning phase, players take turns playing their zoning tiles orthogonally adjacent to tiles that are already part of the city. If a player plays a zoning tile adjacent to another tile of the same color, that player scores a point for creating a district. Similarly, there are five community zoning tiles, and if a player later plays a building tile of the same color adjacent (also diagonally) to these tiles, the player scores a point. (In the second and third rounds, the first player directs the zoning by choosing a direction\u2013players must play zone tiles to that direction of the City Hall tile.)\nUndeveloped zones.\nNext, using their bidding chips, players bid for which zones they would like to build on. The first floor of a building must occupy at least one zone that a player owns, and it must be played on matching zoning tiles (so, for example, a blue building segment must be built on a blue zoning tile). Players play one bidding chip per turn, even covering other players' chips, and the chip at the top of any stack in a zone claims that zone at the end of the phase. (If a player gets two zoning chips in a row, bidding is closed on that zone.)\nFinally, players lay their building tiles in turn order. Buildings are two squares wide and may be played as the ground floor (first floor) of a building or on top of already laid buildings to move the city skyward. Buildings may be played as the ground floor as long as the building's player controls at least one of the zones it's on. Players score points for building buildings, for having their zones developed with buildings, and for bonuses when a building gets high enough.\nBenchmark tokens! These are star-shaped wood pieces that look and feel great.\nThe goal of Sunrise City, however, is not to earn points; it's to earn benchmark tokens. The scoreboard for Sunrise City shows four tracks (one for each player) tracking only points 1-10. Players earn one benchmark token whenever they pass 10 points. But if players land on 10 by exact count, they score two benchmark tokens.\nPlay ends after three rounds. Whoever has the most benchmark tokens is the winner.\n@FarmerLenny's take:\nSunrise City is a stunning game, first off. Stunning. And I don't just mean if it gets dropped on you from above (all five pounds of which might do more than stun you). Rather, the production for this game is so good. From the clean, optimism-inducing, and evocative cover art to the consistent look and design throughout the game, to the incredible thick building tiles to the oversized zoning tiles, Sunrise City is, as I said, stunning, a production benchmark for future Kickstarter projects (and non-Kickstarter games, really) to aspire to.\nI wasn't exaggerating: this game is five pounds. It could do serious damage if thrown at another player.\nOf course, none of this matters if the game isn't any good. Thankfully, Sunrise City is an excellent game as well. The game is simple enough with a broad enough thematic appeal that it can be played with a wide variety of players, yet the game offers enough interesting decisions to keep new and experienced players returning. And the pieces really do get players interested in the gameplay. Each player I've introduced the game to has loved the thick tiles and the idea of building a city upward.\nOh yes, this is why it's five pounds. Look at what comes in the box!\nSunrise City is a bit of a mechanics mishmash, in a good way: it has a little of card drafting, role selection, and auctions and a lot\u2013a lot, a lot, a lot\u2013of tile laying. Yet despite these disparate parts, the game fits together and flows very well. It's fun to lay tiles, and it's especially fun to construct buildings and build the city upward. The mechanics of the tile laying aren't necessarily novel, but the implementation of them is a pleasing twist that should be a standout for players.\nWhere I think Sunrise City stands out mechanically is its scoring system. The game is not about scoring the most points; it's about scoring the smartest points. The best play is often not the one that's worth the most points; rather, it's the one that will get you to land on the star symbol by exact count. It's fun trying to manipulate your plays to land on the star. It's also fun to thwart your opponents by messing up their finesse plays, either pushing them past the star or ruining the setup they've just attempted. The role cards are particularly useful here. Whereas building tiles in a player's hand are concealed, role cards let every player know when bonus points are scored. Sometimes it is in a player's best interest to hand an opponent bonus points in order to prevent him or her from achieving a double benchmark. Even though Sunrise City is a mechanics mishmash, this is one area where Sunrise City stands on its own, and the scoring is interesting enough to make this game worth checking out.\nThe score track. Land on the star and get two.\nThe optimism evoked by the cover is present in the game. In some games, points are scarce and hard to come by, and every single point matters. I know that, in some respects, every point matters in any game, but Sunrise City does not feel like it runs on scarcity. Rather, you are building up a burgeoning city. Resources, points, benchmarks abound. Players can score points through their role cards, through community tiles, through districts, through their own buildings, and through others building on their zones. There are so many options that the game is really open to clever playing. Players aren't confined, and that makes the game fun for beginners. The game has a wealth of options, and that makes the game fun for more experienced players.\nI mentioned thwarting your opponents, and there's definitely an aspect of that in Sunrise City. Despite this, the punk factor in the game is fairly low. The bidding war for zones can be cutthroat, but usually the zones will be fairly evenly distributed. And even if someone builds on your zone (this is allowed as long as at least one zone bears that player's token), you score bonus points for the building they played, and these are always consistent per color (unless the other player plays a purple building on your plot\u2013worth 0 points\u2013then they're just mean). I think, in this respect, the game is similar to Ticket to Ride: you can play with people cutting each other off or taking a pleasant train journey through the countryside. The game is only as cutthroat as the players.\nThe building tiles are as thick as two Carcassonne tiles and as long as almost three. That's some nice cardboard.\nAfter all that I said in praise of the components at the beginning of this review, there are a few downsides to them. First, the cardstock for the role cards is not very good. I've run into this problem with other Kickstarter games, but it's disappointing that a game that excels in so many other component areas falls short in this one. The cards were also so tightly shrinkwrapped that I scratched one of the cards right out of the pack. Not a huge deal, as I would have sleeved the cards anyway (see: cheap cardstock above), but disappointing.\nThe zoning tiles are as thick as Carcassonne tiles but bigger.\nAlso, while it's easy to tell the purple and blue zoning tiles apart when you see them together, if you are holding only one of them in your hand, the blue looks kind of purple and the purple looks kind of blue. I wish there had been more contrast between the two colors, but this is easily fixed. I make sure to show players at the beginning of the game which is which so they have a point of reference during play.\nThe purple and blue zone tiles. You can tell them apart side by side, but if you have no reference point, they can be hard to pick out.\nThe last component \"issue\" is more like a backhanded compliment. I love the super thick tiles for the buildings in this game, especially when it comes time to lay them on top of each other and build the city, but they are a bear to shuffle. (I love the \"such-and-such in five seconds\" videos on Board Game Geek, but the one for Sunrise City is my favorite, and also very true.) This isn't a huge deal\u2013so it takes a little longer to set up? worth it\u2013but more often than not it means that I don't shuffle the tiles as well as they should be shuffled.\nThe city is moving skyward! Those black pieces are more wood, and they signify bonus points for building higher.\nSunrise City scales decently well from two to four players, though the two-player game is different and not quite as good. Also, the two-player game benefits from the inclusion of two variants: the double bidding option in the rulebook and drawing\/playing six tiles instead of four (a variant mentioned by Clever Mojo on the Board Game Geek forums but not included in the rulebook). My wife and I have enjoyed the two-player game as a leisurely break. We play nicely, we focus on building a cool-looking city, and it works well for us. But where the game shines, I think, is with more players. The \"auction\" for zone tiles fosters fierce competition, and there are more opportunities for clever play. It also makes it harder to finesse your point track to score in exactly ten-point increments, making the game a more enjoyable challenge. It's fun with two; it's best with more.\nMore wood pieces: the scoring marker and bidding chips.\nSunrise City is a little bit meatier than the typical \"gateway\" game, but I think it still fits this category well, though the rulebook may be long for novice gamers: it may be best to be taught rather than learn the game yourself if you're not comfortable with reading rules. Also, it can take a few turns to get the hang of the game, which may bother some players. Still, the game is competitive if players want it to be or leisurely if such is the will of the people. I enjoy the game both ways: the components are so well done, and the thought of building a city is fun and different enough that I don't mind Sunrise City as a wind-down game (though I prefer a competitive atmosphere). Basically, I think Sunrise City is pretty great, a poster child for how Kickstarter games should be done. If the theme for this one interests you at all, I urge you to give it a try. I don't think you'll be disappointed.\niSlaytheDragon would like to thank Game Salute for providing us with a review copy of Sunrise City.\nUser Ratings (1 Votes) 8\nYour Rating: 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 0\nGame looks fantastic\nFlows well\nNovel scoring system makes games exciting\nSimple enough for novice players, but with enough meat for most gamers\nCardstock is a little on the cheap side\nBuilding tiles are hard to shuffle\nBlue and purple zone tiles can be hard to tell apart without a clear reference point\nTags: auction gamesboard gamescard draftingcity-buildingClever Mojo Gamesgatewayhobby gamingIsaias Vallejorole selectionSunrise Citytile-laying\nFarmerLenny\nI'll try anything once, but my favorite games are generally middleweight Euros.\nPrevious ArticleReview: The Manhattan Project\nNext Article News Bits: 3\/18\/2013\nThe Village Square: July 8, 2019\nThe Joy of Curating: Where to Turn?\nAccessible to a wide range of ages and experience levels\n55-65m (box says 60m)\n2 to 4 (best with 3-4)\nIsaias Vallejo\nClever Mojo Games","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
+{"text":"\u2190 Song of the Lark 2017 Advent Calendar!\nBugging the San Antonio Symphony \u2192\nWilhelmine Schr\u00f6der-Devrient: Soprano and Erotic Memoirist (?)\nI have long maintained that the best way to ring in a new year is by profiling a female opera pioneer who rubbed shoulders with the great composers, inspired Wagner, and (allegedly) wrote a sexually explicit memoir.\nLadies and gentlemen, meet Wilhelmine Schr\u00f6der-Devrient.\nWilhelmine Schr\u00f6der was born into a theatrical family in Hamburg, Germany, on December 6th, 1804. Her father Friedrich Schr\u00f6der was a singer, while her mother Sophie was later dubbed \"one of Germany's greatest tragic actresses, so far as declamation and expression are concerned.\" The family moved frequently during the tumultuous Napoleonic era, but eventually they settled in Vienna, where her parents got jobs at the Burgtheater. Wilhelmine followed in their footsteps and appeared onstage for the first time at the age of five.\nHer debut as an actress occurred at fifteen, when she appeared as Aricia in Schiller's translation of Racine's Ph\u00e8dre. But even as a teenager she was creatively restless: she had her eye on mastering another art form altogether. On January 20th, 1821, she played Pamina in a Vienna Court Opera production of The Magic Flute. Her operatic debut marked the ignition of a revolutionary and uniquely Romantic career, which occurred adjacent to the greatest male composers of the mid-nineteenth-century.\nBefore the year was out, she appeared as Agathe in Carl Maria von Weber's Der Freisch\u00fctz. He was lukewarm about her first performance, writing of her: \"pretty, superb voice, apt acting, pure intonation, though in many ways a deficient singer.\" She must have consolidated her strengths over the winter, because after a performance the following year, he claimed she had surpassed everything he thought he'd written into the role.\nShe also appeared as Leonore in an 1822 Vienna revival of Fidelio. Beethoven himself was in the audience. As legend has it, he was so impressed by her performance that he sought the teenage singer out and offered to write another opera for her. The deaf man's praise speaks to the spell she cast using her physicality and dramatic talents.\n(By the way, Schubert was also in the audience for that performance.)\nIn the early 1820s, Wilhelmine put down roots. She signed a contract with the Royal State Theatre in Dresden, which, despite her frequent touring, became a home base for the rest of her professional life. And in 1823, she married actor Karl August Devrient, a member of a family of German stage celebrities. Together Wilhelmine and Karl had two sons and two daughters. She appeared in a production of Weber's Euryanthe in the spring of 1824 in between pregnancies, but there's limited information as to her other professional activities during her early motherhood.\nUnfortunately, the marriage was not a happy one. In 1828, she and Devrient divorced and, as was customary, the father retained custody of their four children.\nWhether by choice or economic necessity or both, after her divorce, Wilhelmine found herself back onstage and in the music rooms of the elites. She made her Parisian debut in 1830; she met a thirteen-year-old Clara Wieck (later Schumann) in 1832 when they performed together, sparking a lifelong friendship; and in the mid-1830s, she took on the trouser role of Romeo in Bellini's I Montecchi e i Capuleti, to acclaim.\nA man named Richard Wagner was in the audience for a performance of the Bellini. (He later claimed it was Fidelio.) \"When I look back across my entire life, I find no event to place beside this in the impression it produced upon me,\" he later wrote of seeing Wilhelmine perform for the first time. It wasn't that she had the greatest voice (according to contemporaries, she absolutely didn't). But she had something even more powerful: an uncanny ability to use her whole body to tell a character's story. This all-consuming approach to the art shaped Wagner's, and helped lead in a very direct way to his conception of operas as music dramas.\nWilhelmine began to sing under Wagner's baton, and the two became friends. They worked together in productions of Rossini's Otello, Der Freisch\u00fctz, Fidelio, and even I Montecchi e i Capuleti. He even began casting her in his own operas. She sang in the 1840s premieres of Rienzi, The Flying Dutchman, and Tannh\u00e4user.\nBut she was no Wagner partisan. She was equally beloved by his rivals. In 1843, a mere ten weeks after the premiere of The Flying Dutchman, she appeared onstage with Felix Mendelssohn, singing the soprano part to Paulus. Felix's sister Fanny was enchanted, supposedly labeling Wilhelmine \"the most amusing, most amazing damme.\"\nShe also burnished her friendship with Robert and Clara Schumann, who moved to Dresden in 1844. Wilhelmine became increasingly fascinated by the golden couple's work, singing pieces by both. In 1839, after seeing her Leonore, Clara had dubbed Wilhelmine \"a powerful woman \u2013 my ideal in [this] art.\" Wilhelmine returned the admiration, writing in 1847, \"How deeply I adore you as a woman and as an artist and you must have to read this in my eyes.\" In 1849, she and Robert and Clara went on a joint tour to Leipzig together, where Wilhelmine suggested that she and Clara use the familial du.\nHer personal life remained as tempestuous as ever. She was irresistible to men, and they were irresistible to her. According to Wagner, when she met her second husband, a lieutenant named David Oskar von D\u00f6ring, she was struggling to choose between two other lieutenants. She married von D\u00f6ring in 1847. Unfortunately (and perhaps unsurprisingly), the marriage fell apart in a matter of months, a collapse no doubt hastened by von D\u00f6ring's drawing up a contract which gave him rights to her assets and half of her pension.\nShe also participated in the unsuccessful Dresden uprising of 1849, although the full extent of her role isn't nearly as well-documented as Wagner's is. Wagner famously penned incendiary articles and even helped procure hand grenades in support of the revolutionaries. Had he not been forced to flee the country, Wilhelmine would have appeared in the premiere of Lohengrin.\nApparently Wilhelmine also left (maybe fled?) Dresden after the uprising, choosing to settle in Paris and more-or-less retire. In 1850, she married a wealthy landowner named Heinrich von Bock, who was thirty-two years old to her forty-six. The following year when she and von Bock were traveling through Dresden, she was actually arrested. Eventually, the lawsuit against her was dropped and she was freed.\nRecords (in English, anyway) of Wilhelmine's final years are scarce. It appears she left von Bock in 1858. In the spring of 1859, she asked Clara Schumann to perform at a comeback recital. Clara, concerned over the deterioration of her friend's voice, urged her not to, but the recital occurred anyway on March 6, 1859. This comeback performance was, in reality, a farewell, as Wilhelmine Schr\u00f6der-Devrient passed away on January 26th, 1860.\nIn the final years of her life, Wilhelmine befriended a writer and translator named Claire von Gl\u00fcmer, as well as Claire's partner and housemate Auguste Scheibe, also an author. The trio shared history; they'd all been involved in the Dresden uprising and its aftermath. When Wilhelmine realized the extent of her own illness, Claire was tasked with shaping her surviving papers into a biography, which was published in 1862. If you read German, the free e-book is here; go for it.\nWilhelmine's name re-emerged in print in 1868 when a sexually explicit book called Memoiren einer S\u00e4ngerin (or Memoirs of a Songstress) appeared, ascribed to her. A sequel dropped in 1875. The two parts taken together are known in English as Pauline, The Prima Donna, and if you want to read the 1898 English translation or buy a $750 illustrated edition, no one is stopping you. (Warning: both of those links are absolutely, positively not safe for work.)\nI thought I'd include an excerpt or two here, but literally every one I chose (by randomly closing my eyes and scrolling up and down the page) was too explicit, even if I redacted liberally. The basic plot summary? Lots and lots and lots of graphic, no-holds-barred, no-details-spared nineteenth-century sex. Annnnnnnnnd that's pretty much it.\nAssigning authorship of pornographic novels from the nineteenth century is just a tad out of my area of expertise, so I won't delve into the argument over whether this truly is or isn't Wilhelmine's work. Some sources believe the first half at least might be hers; others find the very idea she wrote any of it absurd. The questions and their implications are fascinating. Who wrote the books, if not Wilhelmine? Why, and why attribute them to her?\nBut I think we can all agree, no matter who wrote the memoir, Wilhelmine Schr\u00f6der-Devrient's life was bigger than it. She ought to be remembered as one of the great musical icons of the Romantic era: innovative, wildly passionate, and prolific in her love for others and for her art.\nA huge shout-out to the patrons who make this series of articles on forgotten musical women possible! They come out every other Wednesday. If you want to sign up to support the series, click here.\nIf you want to learn more, here's a list of sources:\nWikipedia page on Wilhelmine Schr\u00f6der-Devrient\nEncyclopedia Britannica entry on Wilhelmine Schr\u00f6der-Devrient\nMUGi article on Wilhelmine Schr\u00f6der-Devrient by Juliette Appold\nSchumann Portal article on Wilhelmine Schr\u00f6der-Devrient\nRichard Wagner and His World, edited by Thomas S. Grey\nSketch of Wilhelmine Schr\u00f6der-Devrient by Mrs. E.F. Ellet from the United States Democratic Review, March 1845\nWagner and the Art of the Theatre, by Patrick Carnegy\nRichard Wagner: The Last of the Titans, by Joachim K\u00f6hler\nFiled under Women In Music\nTagged as Wilhelmine Schr\u00f6der-Devrient\n2 responses to \"Wilhelmine Schr\u00f6der-Devrient: Soprano and Erotic Memoirist (?)\"\ncurmudgon3216\nI can see why you would have problems excerpting the Pauline translation! One might wonder if the original German was quite so explicit.\nYet another reason to learn German, hm? ;)","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
+{"text":"Memorializing RBG through intersectional feminism\nSarah Erickson|October 1, 2020\nCoauthored by Kathryn Vomero Santos\nillustration by Kate Nuelle\nThere have been many moments in 2020 that have hit like a punch in the gut. In just the past few weeks, we have heard reports of forced hysterectomies in ICE detention centers, witnessed the failure of a grand jury in Louisville to charge the killers of Breonna Taylor with anything more than recklessly shooting some drywall, and mourned the death of Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg. Meanwhile, President Trump has announced a series of Executive Orders that describe the study of systemic racism, sexism, colonialism, and oppression as anti-patriotic. The contrast between these executive actions and our lived realities and traumas illustrates the essential nature of studying the very topics that the President seeks to discredit in the name of unity and patriotism.\nThe interdisciplinary program in Women's and Gender Studies at Trinity engages in exactly the kind of inquiry about historical and ongoing forms of oppression that President Trump attacks in his executive order. We unequivocally refute the President's claims and embrace knowledge as a site of liberation and equity.\nFeminism has, at times, been a site of exclusion and division. For many years and in many ways, dominant understandings of the women's rights movement focused on the lived experiences and struggles of white women, particularly white women of a certain socio-economic class. While these issues and failures are certainly not yet resolved, the current moment demands that we imagine feminism in the most expansive, inclusive, and radical ways possible.\nThe conversations about Justice Ginsburg's legacy serve as a model for an intersectional, inclusive, and critical approach to feminism that we hope to cultivate in our interdisciplinary program. As several people have noted, Ginsburg was incredibly creative in her approach to demonstrating the harm caused by laws that made distinctions on the basis of gender. Rather than arguing on behalf of women who faced discrimination, she took on cases where she could clearly show that men were being denied equal treatment under the law. In doing so, she not only successfully changed such laws but also highlighted the fundamental animating principle of feminism: the belief in the social, political, and economic equality of all genders.\nAlthough Ginsburg's record was complicated when it came to issues of race and criminal justice in this country, she clearly understood that gender was not the only axis of inequality and made several important decisions that reflect her intersectional approach to feminism. Even in her early cases for the ACLU, she cited Black lawyers, advocated for the reproductive rights of women of color, and pointed out crucial instances where laws that discriminated against women were also used to discriminate on the basis of race. She opposed changes to the Voting Rights Act, which removed oversight from states with a history of voter suppression. She was a consistent supporter of LGBTQ rights, most recently in the Bostock v. Clayton County ruling, which defined anti-LGBTQ discrimination as a form of sex discrimination.\nRecently, in the Introduction to Gender Studies course \u2014taught by Dr. Santos \u2014 students reflected on Justice Ginsberg's impact on feminism and society more broadly. After watching a video about her long career and contributions to the fight for equity in this country, many students found themselves both moved by the magnitude of her legacy and wondering what they could do to carry it forward and to build upon it. After all, one of the first things they learned in this class is that the work of feminism is ongoing, and it requires a commitment to activism and action beyond the classroom.\nAs the November election rapidly approaches, it is increasingly clear that one of the most immediate ways to do the ongoing work of feminism is to vote. But voting is simply not enough in and of itself. It is incumbent upon all of us to commit to educating ourselves about how our government works \u2014 and, in many cases, does not work \u2014 and to sharing that information with others. In order to achieve the world envisioned by feminism as we define it, we must continue the work done by those who came before us and actively fight for an end to systemic oppression and for the liberation of all people.\nA Gift Guide: For the Broke College Student\nThe holidays are Among Us once again\nThe issue with \"Keep the Christ in Christmas\"\nA student's guide to gift-giving this holiday season\nRegardless of budget, there are still ways to give your friends thoughtful holiday gifts. 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+{"text":"Home \/ Browse by Department \/ Costco Gasoline \/ Update: How Much is Costco Gas in California Today?\nCostco Gasoline\nUpdate: How Much is Costco Gas in California Today?\nUpdated October 2022 \u2013 It's no secret that gasoline prices have gotten incredibly high and that is especially true where I live, here in California. If you're in search of the best deal on gas, you're not alone and Costco is one of the best deals across the board for low priced gasoline. So how much is Costco gas in California? I'll give you a snapshot of Costco gasoline prices across the state of California below.\nGas prices are as of the time of posting and they do and will change, so please check and\/or confirm your local Costco gas price. It's easy to check the current cost of gasoline at any Costco now before you wait in line.\nColor Coded Updates as follows:\nUPDATE: Updated Costco Gas Prices were added in ORANGE on November 28, 2022.\nUPDATE: Updated Costco Gas Prices were added in PINK on October 11, 2022.\nUPDATE: Updated Costco Gas Prices were added in PURPLE on September 16, 2022.\nUPDATE: Updated Costco Gas Prices were added in GREEN on August 19, 2022.\nUPDATE: Updated Costco Gas Prices were added in BLUE on July 9, 2022.\nUPDATE: Updated Costco Gas Prices were added in RED on Jun 3, 2022.\nNote: Gas prices in the original text were as of the original posting date of this article which was March 11, 2022. I will continue to color code future updates to this post, leaving the historical prices for comparison and reference purposes.\nHow to Check The Current Costco Gas at Your Local Costco Gasoline Station!\nPrice Snapshot of How Much is Costco Gas in California Today\nCulver City Marina del Rey\nDirections to Costco Gas Station in Culver City\nDirections to Costco Gasoline station in Northridge\nDirections to Burbank Costco Gas Station\nDirections to Santa Clarita Costco Gas Station\nDirections to Bakersfield Costco Gas Station\nDirections to Costco Gas in Fresno\nDirections to Costco Gas Station in Folsom\nDirections to Costco Gas Station in Livermore, CA\nDirections to Chico Costco gasoline station\nLaguna Marketplace\nDirections to Laguna Marketplace Costco gasoline\nDirections to Costco gas Carlsbad\nDirections to Costco gas San Bernardino\nDirections to Costco gas Moreno Valley\nDirections to Temecula Costco gasoline station\nDirections to Fountain Valley Costco gasoline station\nDirections to Costco Gas Palm Desert\nDirections to Costco gas in Chula Vista\nDirections to Costco gas in Visalia\nDirections to Costco gas in South San Francisco\nAdditional Costco California Gas Price Updates\nHawthorne Business Center\nRead Next: New Finds at Costco or Costco Money Saving Tips\nCostco gas in the Marina Del Rey Culver City Costco will cost you $5.45 today for regular gasoline and $5.75 today for premium gasoline the Marina Del Rey Costco gasoline station is open today from 5:30 a.m. until 9:30 pm. Marina Del Rey Costco does not offer diesel gas.\nJune 3, 2022 Update: Regular gas In Culver City today is $5.85 and premium gas is $6.15.\nJuly 9, 2022 Update: Regular gas In Culver City today is $5.59 and premium gas is $5.89.\nAugust 19, 2022 Update: Regular gas in Culver City today is $4.89 and premium gas is $5.19.\nSeptember 16, 2022 Update: Regular gas In Culver City today is $4.89 and premium gas is $5.29.\nOctober 11, 2022 Update: Regular gas In Culver City today is $5.79 and premium gas is $5.99.\nNovember 28, 2022 Update: Regular gas In Culver City today is $4.45 and premium gas is $4.65.\nCostco gas in Northridge California will cost you $5.35 for regular gas and $5.59 for premium gas today. Costco gasoline station in Northridge is open today from 5:30 a.m. until 9:30 pm. This location does not offer diesel gasoline services. The closest Costco gasoline that does offer diesel gasoline will be Woodland Hills.\nJune 3, 2022 Update: Regular gas today in Northridge is $5.67 and premium gas is $5.97.\nJuly 9, 2022 Update: Regular gas in Northridge today is $5.55 and premium gas is $5.85.\nAugust 19, 2022 Update: Regular gas in Northridge today is $4.87 and premium gas is $5.25.\nSeptember 16, 2022 Update: Regular gas today in Northridge is $4.69 and premium gas is $5.09.\nOctober 11, 2022 Update: Regular gas In Northridge today is $5.65 and premium gas is $6.15.\nNovember 28, 2022 Update: Regular gas In Northridge today is $4.45 and premium gas is $4.75.\nCostco gas in Burbank California will cost you $5.39 for regular gas and $5.65 for premium gas today.\nJune 3, 2022 Update: Regular gas in Burbank today is $5.83 and premium gas is $6.13.\nJuly 9, 2022 Update: Regular gas in Burbank today is $5.69 and premium gas is $5.89.\nAugust 19, 2022 Update: Regular gas in Burbank today is $4.99 and premium gas is $5.19.\nSeptember 16, 2022 Update: Regular gas in Burbank today is $5.08 and premium gas is $5.35.\nOctober 11, 2022 Update: Regular gas In Burbank today is $5.79 and premium gas is $5.99.\nNovember 28, 2022 Update: Regular gas In Burbank today is $4.49 and premium gas is $4.75.\nCostco gas in Santa Clarita California today will cost $5.39 for regular gas and $5.64 for premium gas. The Costco gas station in Santa Clarita is open today from 5:30 a.m. until 9:30 pm. Santa Clarita Costco gas does not sell diesel gas.\nJune 3, 2022 Update: Regular gas today at Costco gas station in Santa Clarita will cost $5.89 and premium gas will cost $6.19.\nJuly 9, 2022 Update: Regular gas today at Costco gas station in Santa Clarita will cost $5.69 and premium gas will cost $6.99.\nAugust 19, 2022 Update: Regular gas in Santa Clarita today is $5.09 and premium gas is $5.35.\nSeptember 16, 2022 Update: Regular gas today at Costco gas station in Santa Clarita will cost $5.14 and premium gas will cost $5.44.\nOctober 11, 2022 Update: Regular gas In Santa Clarita today is $5.95 and premium gas is $6.15.\nNovember 28, 2022 Update: Regular gas In Santa Clarita today is $4.45 and premium gas is $4.75.\nCostco gas in Bakersfield California will cost you $5.09 for regular gas and $5.39 for premium gas today this location also offers diesel gas which will cost $5.69 today.\nJune 3, 2022 Update: Regular gas at Costco Bakersfield today costs $5.75, premium gas costs $6.07 and diesel gas costs $6.25.\nJuly 9, 2022 Update: Regular gas at Costco Bakersfield today costs $5.55, premium gas costs $5.77 and diesel gas costs $6.29.\nAugust 19, 2022 Update: Regular gas in Bakersfield today is $4.67 and premium gas is $4.98 and diesel gas is $5.69.\nSeptember 16, 2022 Update: Regular gas at Costco Bakersfield today costs $4.79, premium gas costs $5.19 and diesel gas costs $5.79.\nOctober 11, 2022 Update: Regular gas In Bakersfield today is $5.69 and premium gas is $5.99 and diesel gas costs $5.89.\nNovember 28, 2022 Update: Regular gas In Bakersfield today is $4.25, premium gas is $4.75 and diesel gas costs $5.59.\nCostco gas in Fresno California will cost you $5.09 for regular gas and $5.51 for premium gas today. Costco gasoline station in Fresno is open today from 6 a.m. until 9:30 p.m. Fresno Costco gasoline station does not sell diesel gas. The closest Costco gas station that does cell diesel will be in North Fresno.\nJune 3, 2022 Price Update: Regular gas today at Costco in Fresno is $5.65 and premium gas is $5.95.\nJuly 9, 2022 Price Update: Regular gas today at Costco in Fresno is $5.39 and premium gas is $5.69.\nAugust 19, 2022 Update: Regular gas in Fresno today is $4.69 and premium gas is $5.19.\nSeptember 16, 2022 Price Update: Regular gas today at Costco in Fresno is $4.79 and premium gas is $5.09.\nOctober 11, 2022 Update: Regular gas in Fresno today is $5.39 and premium gas is $5.79.\nNovember 28, 2022 Update: Regular gas In Fresno today is $3.89 and premium gas is $4.49.\nCostco gas in Folsom California will cost $5.19 today for regular gas and $5.49 for premium gas this location offer also offers diesel gasoline and diesel gas at Costco today and Folsom will cost $5.99.\nJune 3, 2022 Price Update: Regular gas today and Folsom is $5.74, premium gas is $6.04 and diesel gas is $6.45.\nJuly 9, 2022 Price Update: Regular gas today and Folsom is $5.55, premium gas is $5.79 and diesel gas is $6.29.\nAugust 19, 2022 Update: Regular gas in Folsom today is $4.67 and premium gas is $5.05 and diesel gas is $5.75.\nSeptember 16, 2022 Price Update: Regular gas today and Folsom is $4.94, premium gas is $5.12 and diesel gas is $5.85.\nOctober 11, 2022 Price Update: Regular gas today and Folsom is $5.65, premium gas is $6.05 and diesel gas is $5.89.\nNovember 28, 2022 Update: Regular gas In Folsom today is $4.19, premium gas is $4.49 and diesel gas costs $5.39.\nCostco gas in Livermore California will cost $5.47 today for regular gas and $5.79 for premium gas.\nJune 3, 2022 Price Update: Regular gas in Livermore today is $5.99 and premium gas is $6.38.\nJuly 9, 2022 Price Update: Regular gas in Livermore today is $5.69 and premium gas is $5.99.\nAugust 19, 2022 Update: Regular gas in Livermore today is $5.05 and premium gas is $5.45.\nSeptember 16, 2022 Price Update: Regular gas in Livermore today is $5.19 and premium gas is $5.55.\nOctober 11, 2022 Price Update: Regular gas in Livermore today is $5.85 and premium gas is $6.15.\nNovember 28, 2022 Update: Regular gas In Livermore today is $4.29 and premium gas is $4.59.\nCostco gas in Chico California will cost $5.19 today for regular gas and $5.57 for premium gas. Chico does not offer diesel gasoline.\nJune 3, 2022 Price Update: Regular gas at the Chico Costco gas station today is $5.65 and premium gas is $5.96.\nJuly 9, 2022 Price Update: Regular gas at the Chico Costco gas station today is $5.69 and premium gas is $5.99.\nAugust 19, 2022 Update: Regular gas in Chico today is $4.89 and premium gas is $5.19.\nSeptember 16, 2022 Price Update: Regular gas at the Chico Costco gas station today is $4.94 and premium gas is $5.35.\nOctober 11, 2022 Price Update: Regular gas at the Chico Costco gas station today is $5.69 and premium gas is $6.09.\nNovember 28, 2022 Update: Regular gas In Chico today is $4.35 and premium gas is $4.75.\nCostco gas in Laguna Marketplace today will cost $5.49 for regular gas and $5.74 for premium gas Costco gasoline at Laguna market place is open from 5:30 a.m. to 9:30 p.m. today.\nJune 3, 2022 Price Update: Regular gas today at Laguna Marketplace Costco is $5.99 and premium gas is $6.39.\nJuly 9, 2022 Price Update: Regular gas today at Laguna Marketplace Costco is $5.69 and premium gas is $5.99.\nAugust 19, 2022 Update: Regular gas in Laguna Marketplace today is $5.09 and premium gas is $5.39.\nSeptember 16, 2022 Price Update: Regular gas today at Laguna Marketplace Costco is $5.09 and premium gas is $5.49.\nOctober 11, 2022 Price Update: Regular gas today at Laguna Marketplace Costco is $5.89 and premium gas is $6.19.\nNovember 28, 2022 Update: Laguna Marketplace Costco gas today costs $4.65 for premium.\nCostco gas in Carlsbad California will cost $5.34 for regular gas and $5.69 for premium gas today Costco gas in Carlsbad California is open today from 5:30 a.m. until 9:30 p.m.\nJune 3, 2022 Price Update: Regular gas in Carlsbad today will cost $5.89 and premium gas will cost $6.09.\nJuly 9, 2022 Price Update: Regular gas in Carlsbad today will cost $5.59 and premium gas will cost $5.89.\nAugust 19, 2022 Update: Regular gas in Carlsbad today is $4.99 and premium gas is $5.29.\nSeptember 16, 2022 Price Update: Regular gas in Carlsbad today will cost $5.19 and premium gas will cost $5.49.\nOctober 11, 2022 Price Update: Regular gas in Carlsbad today will cost $5.64 and premium gas will cost $6.29.\nCostco gas in San Bernardino will cost $5.29 for regular gas and $5.59 for premium gasoline. Costco gas in San Bernardino California is open today from 5:30 a.m. until 9:30 p.m. Costco gas in San Bernardino does not offer diesel gasoline.\nJune 3, 2022 Price Update: Regular gas in San Bernardino today will cost $5.59 and premium gas will cost $5.99.\nJuly 9, 2022 Price Update: Regular gas in San Bernardino today will cost $5.55 and premium gas will cost $5.85.\nAugust 19, 2022 Update: Regular gas in San Bernardino today is $4.89 and premium gas is $5.09.\nSeptember 16, 2022 Price Update: Regular gas in San Bernardino today will cost $4.79 and premium gas will cost $4.99.\nOctober 11, 2022 Price Update: Regular gas in San Bernardino today will cost $5.69 and premium gas will cost $5.99.\nNovember 28, 2022 Update: Regular gas In San Bernardino today is $4.45 and premium gas is $4.75.\nCostco gas in Moreno Valley California will cost $5.25 today for regular gasoline and $5.50. Costco gas station in Moreno Valley California is open today from 5:30 a.m. until 9:30 pm. Moreno Valley Costco gasoline does not offer diesel gasoline.\nJune 3, 2022 Price Update: Regular gas in Moreno Valley today will cost $5.66 and premium gas will cost $5.96.\nJuly 9, 2022 Price Update: Regular gas in Moreno Valley today will cost $5.55 and premium gas will cost $5.85.\nAugust 19, 2022 Update: Regular gas in Moreno Valley today is $4.89 and premium gas is $5.17.\nSeptember 16, 2022 Price Update: Regular gas in Moreno Valley today will cost $4.79 and premium gas will cost $5.05.\nOctober 11, 2022 Price Update: Regular gas in Moreno Valley today will cost $5.75 and premium gas will cost $6.15.\nNovember 28, 2022 Update: Regular gas In Moreno Valley today is $4.45 and premium gas is $4.75.\nCostco gas in Temecula California today will cost you $5.39 for regular gas and $5.59 for premium gasoline. Costco Temecula gasoline also offers diesel gas which cost $5.29 today. Costco gas station in Temecula California is open today from 5:30 a.m. until 9:30 p.m.\nJune 3, 2022 Price Update: Regular gas in Temecula Costco gas station today is $5.83, premium gas is $6.22 and diesel gas is $6.24.\nJuly 9, 2022 Price Update: Regular gas in Temecula Costco gas station today is $5.49, premium gas is $5.69 and diesel gas is $5.99.\nAugust 19, 2022 Update: Regular gas in Temecula today is $4.67 and premium gas is $4.97 and diesel gas is $5..25.\nSeptember 16, 2022 Price Update: Regular gas in Temecula Costco gas station today is $4.79, premium gas is $5.19 and diesel gas is $5.37.\nOctober 11, 2022 Price Update: Regular gas in Temecula Costco gas station today is $5.89, premium gas is $6.19 and diesel gas is $5.68.\nNovember 28, 2022 Update: Regular gas In Temecula today is $4.45, premium gas is $4.75 and diesel gas costs $5.13.\nCostco Fountain Valley gas station is open today from 5:30 a.m. until 9:30 p.m. today at Costco gas station in Fountain Valley California regular gas will cost you $5.25 and premium gas will cost you $5.59. The Fountain Valley Costco gasoline station does not offer diesel gasoline.\nJune 3, 2022 Price Update: Regular gas in Fountain Valley today is $5.74 and premium gas is $6.04.\nJuly 9, 2022 Price Update: Regular gas in Fountain Valley today is $5.55 and premium gas is $5.75.\nAugust 19, 2022 Update: Regular gas in Fountain Valley today is $4.69 and premium gas is $4.89.\nSeptember 16, 2022 Update: Regular gas in Fountain Valley today is $4.85 and premium gas is $5.19.\nOctober 11, 2022 Update: Regular gas in Fountain Valley today is $5.69 and premium gas is $5.99.\nNovember 28, 2022 Update: Regular gas In Fountain Valley today is $4.35 and premium gas is $4.59.\nCostco Palm Desert gas station is open today from 6 a.m. to 9 p.m. Today at the Palm Desert Costco gasoline station regular gas will cost you $5.33 and premium gas will cost you $5.59 Costco gas in Palm Desert does not offer diesel gas.\nJune 3, 2022 Price Update: Regular gas in Palm Desert today is $5.74 and premium gas is $6.04.\nJuly 9, 2022 Price Update: Regular gas in Palm Desert today is $5.39 and premium gas is $5.75.\nAugust 19, 2022 Update: Regular gas in Palm Desert today is $4.79 and premium gas is $5.09.\nSeptember 16 2022 Update: Regular gas in Palm Desert today is $4.85 and premium gas is $5.19.\nOctober 11, 2022 Update: Regular gas in Palm Desert today is $5..79 and premium gas is $6.19.\nNovember 28, 2022 Update: Regular gas In Palm Desert today is $4.39 and premium gas is $4.65.\nCostco gasoline station in Chula Vista California is open today from 5:30 a.m. until 9:30 p.m. Today at Costco gas station in Chula Vista regular gas will cost you $5.24 and premium gas will cost you $5.64. Chula Vista Costco does not offer diesel gas.\nJune 3, 2022 Price Update: Regular gas in Chula Vista today will cost $5.59 and premium gas will cost $5.99.\nJuly 9, 2022 Price Update: Regular gas in Chula Vista today will cost $5.55 and premium gas will cost $5.89.\nAugust 19, 2022 Update: Regular gas in Chula Vista today is $4.93 and premium gas is $5.25.\nSeptember 16, 2022 Update: Regular gas in Chula Vista today is $4.75 and premium gas is $5.17.\nOctober 11, 2022 Update: Regular gas in Chula Vista today is $5.65 and premium gas is $6.19.\nNovember 28, 2022 Update: Regular gas In Chula Vista today is $4.39 and premium gas is $4.59.\nCostco gas in Visalia California is open today from 6 a.m. until 9:30 pm. Today at Visalia Costco gasoline regular gas will cost you $5.29 and premium will cost you $5.59. This area are Costco gas offers diesel gasoline which will cost you $5.89 today.\nJune 3, 2022 Price Update: Today at the Costco Visalia regular gas will cost $5.85, premium gas will cost $6.15 and diesel gas will cost $6.35.\nJuly 9, 2022 Price Update: Today at the Costco Visalia premium gas will cost $5.75. We don't have the current pricing on regular or diesel at this station.\nAugust 19, 2022 Update: Regular gas in Visalia today is $4.65 and premium gas is $5.15 and diesel gas is $5.69.\nSeptember 16, 2022 Update: Regular gas in Visalia today is $4.89 and premium gas is $5.35 and diesel gas is $5.85.\nOctober 11, 2022 Update: Regular gas in Visalia today is $5.65 and premium gas is $6.05 and diesel gas is $5.89.\nNovember 28, 2022 Update: Regular gas In Visalia today is $4.05, premium gas is $4.45 and diesel gas costs $5.65.\nCostco gas in South San Francisco is open today from 6 a.m. until 9:30 p.m. gas from Costco gasoline station in South San Francisco will cost you $5.39 today for regular gas and $5.69 today for premium gas. South San Francisco Costco does not offer diesel gasoline.\nJune 3, 2022 Price Update: Regular gas at Costco gas station in South San Francisco today will cost $6.09 and premium gas will cost $6.39.\nJuly 9, 2022 Price Update: Regular gas at Costco gas station in South San Francisco today will cost $5.39 and premium gas will cost $5.79.\nAugust 19, 2022 Update: Regular gas in South San Francisco today is $4.89 and premium gas is $5.29.\nOctober 11, 2022 Update: Regular gas in South San Francisco today is $5.85 and premium gas is $6.25.\nNovember 28, 2022 Update: Regular gas In South San Francisco today is $4.35 and premium gas is $4.65.\nJune 3, 2022 Price Update: Regular gas in Van Nuys today is $5.78 and premium gas is $6.08.\nJuly 9, 2022 Price Update: Regular gas in Van Nuys today is $5.59 and premium gas is $5.79.\nAugust 19, 2022 Update: Regular gas in Van Nuys today is $4.79 and premium gas is $5.09.\nSeptember 16, 2022 Update: Regular gas in Van Nuys today is $4.83 and premium gas is $5.29.\nOctober 11, 2022 Update: Regular gas in Van Nuys today is $5.65 and premium gas is $6.09.\nNovember 28, 2022 Update: Regular gas in Van Nuys today is $4.45 and premium gas is $4.75.\nJune 3, 2022 Price Update: Regular gas in Woodland Hills today is $5.67 and premium gas is $5.97.\nJuly 9, 2022 Price Update: Regular gas in Woodland Hills today is $5.69 and premium gas is $5.89.\nAugust 19, 2022 Update: Regular gas in Woodland Hills today is $4.89 and premium gas is $5.19.\nSeptember 16, 2022 Update: Regular gas in Woodland Hills today is $4.69 and premium gas is $5.09.\nOctober 11, 2022 Update: Regular gas in Woodland Hills today is $5.79 and premium gas is $6.19.\nNovember 28, 2022 Update: Regular gas in Woodland Hills today is $4.45 and premium gas is $4.75.\nJune 3, 2022 Price Update: Regular gas in Inglewood today is $5.69 and premium gas is $5.95.\nJuly 9, 2022 Price Update: Regular gas in Inglewood today is $5.59 and premium gas is $5.85.\nAugust 19, 2022 Update: Regular gas in Inglewood today is $4.75 and premium gas is $5.09.\nSeptember 16, 2022 Update: Regular gas in Inglewood today is $4.86 and premium gas is $5.25.\nOctober 11, 2022 Update: Regular gas in Inglewood today is $5.79 and premium gas is $5.99.\nNovember 28, 2022 Update: Regular gas in Inglewood today is $4.45 and premium gas is $4.65.\nJune 3, 2022 Price Update: Regular gas at the Hawthorne Business Center is $5.69 and premium gas is $5.95 and diesel gas is $6.09.\nJuly 9, 2022 Price Update: Regular gas at the Hawthorne Business Center is $5.55 and premium gas is $5.85 and diesel gas is $6.09.\nAugust 19, 2022 Update: Regular gas in Hawthorne Business Center today is $4.74 and premium gas is $5.09 and diesel gas is $5.39.\nSeptember 16, 2022 Update: Regular gas in Hawthorne Business Center today is $4.84 and premium gas is $5.19 and diesel gas is $5.54.\nOctober 11, 2022 Update: Regular gas in Hawthorne Business Center today is $5.69 and premium gas is $5.99 and diesel gas is $5.65.\nJune 3, 2022 Price Update: Regular gas at the Hawthorne Costco is $5.69 and premium gas is $5.95.\nJuly 9, 2022 Price Update: Regular gas at the Hawthorne Costco is $5.55 and premium gas is $5.85.\nAugust 19, 2022 Update: Regular gas in Hawthorne today is $4.74 and premium gas is $5.09.\nSeptember 16, 2022 Update: Regular gas in Hawthorne today is $4.84 and premium gas is $5.19.\nOctober 11, 2022 Update: Regular gas in Hawthorne today is $5.69 and premium gas is $5.99.\nJune 3, 2022 Price Update: Regular gas in Torrance today is $5.75 and premium gas is $6.05.\nJuly 9, 2022 Price Update: Regular gas in Torrance today is $5.55 and premium gas is $5.89.\nAugust 19, 2022 Update: Regular gas in Torrance today is $4.75 and premium gas is $5.09.\nSeptember 16, 2022 Update: Regular gas in Torrance today is $4.85 and premium gas is $5.29.\nOctober 11, 2022 Update: Regular gas in Torrance today is $5.69 and premium gas is $5.99.\nJune 3, 2022 Price Update: Regular gas in Signal Hill today is $5.59 and premium gas is $5.79.\nJuly 9, 2022 Price Update: Regular gas in Signal Hill today is $5.39 and premium gas is $5.59.\nAugust 19, 2022 Update: Regular gas in Signal Hill today is $4.69 and premium gas is $4.89.\nSeptember 16, 2022 Update: Regular gas in Signal Hill today is $4.85 and premium gas is $5.19.\nOctober 11, 2022 Update: Regular gas in Signal Hill today is $5.49 and premium gas is $5.89.\nJune 3, 2022 Price Update: Regular gas in Cypress today is $5.71 and premium gas is $5.99.\nJuly 9, 2022 Price Update: Regular gas in Cypress today is $5.55 and premium gas is $5.75.\nAugust 19, 2022 Update: Regular gas in Cypress today is $4.65 and premium gas is $4.95.\nSeptember 16, 2022 Update: Regular gas in Cypress today is $4.85 and premium gas is $5.17.\nOctober 11, 2022 Update: Regular gas in Cypress today is $5.59 and premium gas is $5.89.\nDo you live in California and fill up your gas tank at Costco? How much is Costco gas in California where you live? Please share! We want to know!\nHow Much is Costco Gas in California Today?\nMore recent posts on Costco Gasoline Stations, Pricing, and Money Saving Tips!\nUpdate: How Much is Costco Gas in Hawaii Today?\nHow Do I Find Current Price of Gas at Costco Near Me?\nUpdate: Costco Gas Price Today in Los Angeles, CA\nChristmas Tree Ravioli at Costco is Back\nOnline Costco Coupon Book December 2022","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
+{"text":"Jacob Zuma's corruption scandals are getting South Africans to read again\nSouth Africa's small literary market has been lifted by one of the country's largest political scandals. A new book detailing the \"cancerous cabal\" that has bankrolled Jacob Zuma's presidency was bound to cause a sensation, but attempts to have the book banned have made it a rapid best-seller and possibly the country's most bootlegged book.\nIn The President's Keeper investigative journalist Jacques Pauw exposes the shadowy underworld that has allegedly kept Zuma in power. One of those keepers is a security mogul who allegedly paid the sitting president a monthly salary of 1 million rand (about $70,000 a month). The paper trail emerged because it also seems the first citizen failed to pay his taxes.\nPainting the picture of a man who seems more mobster than statesman, the book tells the story of the close relationship between the president and a notorious gangster who has miraculously avoided prison. It also casts light on an attempt to set up an illegal cigarette trade with Zuma's blessing, and links to a controversial cigarette manufacturer seen buying campaign paraphernalia the presidential campaign of Zuma's former wife and potential successor Nkosazana Dlamini Zuma.\nWhile nothing shocks South Africans anymore, Pauw's claims were boosted by the State Security Agency's attempts to have the book recalled on Nov. 3, serving the publisher with a cease-and-desist letter late on a Friday afternoon. The South African Revenue Service brought more attention to the book with a statement that it would be seeking legal action against the author and the newspaper that published an excerpt of the book over claims that the president was allowed to skip out on his taxes.\nTactics to have the book banned seemed like confirmation that the president had something to hide. The book flew off the shelves, selling out by the weekend. As more copies were ordered from the press, the country's largest bookseller, Exclusive Books, vowed to keep selling. In South Africa, 5,000 books sold is considered a success, at a reported 15,000 new orders this week, Pauw's book is a runaway success.\nWe're sold out again! Sorry for those who tried to order #ThePresidentsKeepers. We should have more stock (along with our stores) soon.\n\u2014 Exclusive Books (@ExclusiveBooks) November 6, 2017\nThen PDF versions began circulating on WhatsApp, prompting Pauw, an award-winning journalist, to ask readers to buy the book instead. It wasn't about the sales stats or profits, he said, but rather in support of journalism and the legal woes he would inevitably face for going up against the president. NB Publishers in turn published their response to the state security agencies lawyers on Nov. 6, further politicizing the book itself.\nZuma's presidency has devolved into a tome of political scandals, each one more shocking than the last. If all the non-fiction written about Zuma is to be believed, South Africa's political landscape reads like a dystopian novel and books trying to make sense of this world routinely do well. For instance, about 600 people showed up for what would normally have been an intimate launch of the biography of the woman who accused Zuma of rape. The record-breaking success of The President's Keepers illustrates that the politics of the day have become stranger than fiction.\nTaggedbanning booksbookscigarette backerscorruptionjacob zumaJacques PauwNkosazan Dlamini Zumanon-fictionQuartzSouth AfricaThe President's Keepertobacco smugglersUncategorized\nPrevious Article A powerful British lord denied Paradise Papers allegations on Twitter, then deleted the tweet\nNext Article A new database catalogues 1,300 children's books about people of color","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
+{"text":"Find Out How Cardamom Can Benefit Men's Well-Being\nBydanverwilliams012\nJan 21, 2023 health, healthcare\nCardamom is a warm and fresh scent and is located in the area of Fragrant healing. Cardamom is safe to take in moderate amounts and has no research-based effects on its features. It is also renowned as having antibacterial properties.\nConstructive Effects Of Erectile Dysfunction\nCardamom is a taste that helps to improve your mood and boosting blood from your penile to floating. It is possible to incorporate this zing in various ways including eating unpracticed cardamom granules, drinking cardamom tea or chewing the seeds. However it is best to keep the seeds from being heated in order to lower the cost of supplements.\nConsuming uncooked cardamom that are either ground or shining is a fantastic method to slash the penile blood stream and improve your sexual life to achieve an erection. You could also use Tadalista 5 mg.\nCardamom is rich in cancer preventative substances and contains diuretic properties. These properties help to regulate the strain on the circulatory system that is the principal reason for erectile dysfunction.\nIn one study 20 adults took cardamom for a long time. The effects were evident the fact that blood pressure decreased substantially. In addition, cardamom is believed to prevent cardiovascular disease.\nHomes That Are Antibacterial\nThe antibacterial properties of cardamom could aid in improving the health of an individual and combat microorganisms. Some studies can help with this.\nIn the Asian Pacific Diary of Disease Counteraction issued an exam cardamom. Analysts from The College of Melbourne, Aga Khan College and The College of Silesia in Katowice also focused on the spice.\nCardamom is found in cooking and serves as an all-natural remedy to the spread of illness. It is antibacterial and has diuretic properties, and can help reduce the risk of developing a cardiovascular disease. Additionally, it can assist men maintain their health from stomach-related issues through the use of the proper toilet floating.\nIt may also help to reduce the dreadful breath. A lot of traditional societies chew these flavours to maintain their breath fresh. It also has a display to neutralize the harmful microorganisms that cause horrible breath.\nCalming Influence\nThere are several health benefits of using cardamom. First it soothes the heart's coronary. In addition, it contains the pivotal cell reinforcement glutathione. The cancer prevention drug protects cells from damage caused by separated revolutionaries as well as peroxides.\nAdditionally, it aids in further enhanced movement and helps to prevent blood clumps. In addition, the flavors help fight off infections and can be used to combat male fatigue issues. it is also possible to use .\nCardamom is widely used extensively in Indian families. Research has demonstrated that it can increase sexual desire in people. The flavor is as a love potion which means that it enhances erections among people.\nThe flavor can also be used to treat erectile discord, which is a common problem in people. The essential oil from cardamom could be applied to the genital area to blow out blood floating.\nCardamom is often used as a tea. Its seeds could be carried away and infused into warm water to improve the flavor. The tea is also great to treat stomach-related problems.\nReduces The Sensation Of Tingling\nCardamom is a plant-based treatment that comes with a variety of health benefits, such as reducing sexual desire to increase. You could also try Tadalafil 5 mg.\nIt additionally is scholarly and physiological through general execution. This is why it's used in a variety of prescriptions to treat digestive problems including diabetes, sensitivities and cardiovascular problems.\nCardamom is a spice with a spicy scent that resembles citrus. The zest adds flavor to food items and is frequently utilized in ayurvedic remedies. It can also help with stomach-related issues and reduces depression. It also is bacteria-free.\nCardamom is a natural antifungal and antibacterial properties, which makes it useful in stopping and treating breathing conditions such as influenza and colds. It can also help ease hacks and bronchitis. Additionally, it could improve the health of men and women suffering from stomach-related issues.\nProcessing Support\nCardamom is a flavor high in nutrients that regulate the stomach-related gadget. It does this by stimulating the taste buds and stimulating the release of stomach-related chemical. It also facilitates the production of bile corrosive which is the key to keeping fats in place.\nThe zest is equally effective in protecting the body fluid layers of the digestive tract which helps in reducing disease caused by the corrosive substances that shape our bodies. Additionally, it helps block the weighty and difficult to process food items.\nCardamom has been used for a long time as a natural remedy and has been used for treating a variety of type of stomach related discomfort. The scent is particularly sweet and can trigger food famines that feed the digestive organs and reduces the chance of expanding and fuel.\nThe spice also relaxes the muscles that are located in your stomach. It assists in digestion. It also provides an antispasmodic effect and helps to ease the stress of an upset stomach caused by stress.\nExploring the Benefits of Working Out at Fitness Studios Near Me\nWhy Are Cannabis-Infused Seltzers So Popular?\nBy danverwilliams012\nHow To Overcome Vaginismus And Relax Your Pelvic Floor\nJan 28, 2023 harborcompounding\nSmoking Problem to Child Health The Solution is Stopping!\nJan 27, 2023 devilleo\n\"Unveiling the Power of PET-CT Scan in Medical Diagn and Treatment\"\nDunia Game Universe (Fiksi, Fantasi, Aksi & Drama) January 29, 2023\nDunia Game Universe (Fiksi, Fantasi, Aksi & Drama)\nJan 29, 2023 auguststreit68","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
+{"text":"Reading September 12: We Knew Everything Would Be Alright\nUse this guide to actively read September 12: We Knew Everything Would Be Alright, a very basic picture book about children's reactions to September 11, 2001. Part of an OurStory module from entitled September 11, 2001, this activity includes discussion prompts and background\nSearching for Symmetry and Scale\nTake a close look at two architectural drawings to learn about symmetry and scale. Part of an OurStory module entitled Building Beautiful Buildings, this activity includes step-by-step instructions, images of museum objects, and background information on architecture. OurStory is designe\nThink about your favorite building in the world.If it's nearby, go out and take a picture of it, if not, pull a photo out of a book or off of the internet. Then use this picture to identify all of the geometric shapes you can see that make up the building, shapes the building's architect used to\nPaper Houses\nLessons & Activities, Worksheets\nLearn how architects use paper to represent plans for buildings. Make two- and three-dimensional representations of your home using close observation and measurements. Part of an OurStory module entitled Building Beautiful Buildings, this activity includes step-by-step instructions\nReading Mama Went to Jail for the Vote\nMama Went to Jail for the Vote is a work of historical fiction about a girl whose mother joins the suffragists in working to win the vote for women during the early 1900s. Part of an OurStory module entitled Winning the Vote for Women, this activity includes strategies that will\nLooking at Memorials\nField trips to memorials are great ways to learn about how communities remember important events. In this activity, students will do a digital field trip to learn more about the Pentagon's memorial for September 11,2001, and then visit a local memorial. Part of an OurStory module en\nExplore Your Theater\nField trips to a theater or dance studio are great ways to learn about performing arts in your neighborhood. In this activity, students will use discussion prompts and extension activity ideas to make the most of their visit. This activity is part of an OurStory module entitled An Ameri\nReading Maria's Comet\nMaria's Comet is a work of children's literature about a young girl who longs to study the stars. Included in an OurStory module entitled Exploring the Sky, this activity includes strategies that will help adults and children actively read Maria's Comet together.\nThe Only Road\nJaime is sitting on his bed drawing when he hears a scream. Instantly, he knows: Miguel, his cousin and best friend, is dead. Everyone in Jaime's small town in Guatemala knows someone who has been killed by the Alphas, a powerful gang that's known for violence and drug trafficking. Anyone who re\nI Lived on Butterfly Hill\nMarjorie Agosin\nCeleste Marconi is a dreamer. She lives peacefully among friends and neighbors and family in the idyllic town of Valparaiso, Chile\u2014until one day when warships are spotted in the harbor and schoolmates start disappearing from class without a word. Celeste doesn't quite know what is happening, but\nI am Malala: How One Girl Stood Up for Education and Changed the World\nHigh School,Middle School\nRaised in a once-peaceful area of Pakistan transformed by terrorism, Malala was taught to stand up for what she believes. So she fought for her right to be educated. And on 9 October, 2012, she nearly lost her life for the cause. She was shot point-blank on her way home from school. No one expected\nWe've Got a Job: The 1963 Birmingham Children's March\nCynthia Levinson\nThe inspiring story of one of the greatest moments in civil rights history seen through the eyes of four young people at the center of the action. The 1963 Birmingham Children's March was a turning point in American history. In the streets of Birmingham, Alabama, the fight for civil rights lay in\nWe March\nShane W. Evans\nOn August 28, 1963, a remarkable event took place--more than 250,000 people gathered in our nation's capital to participate in the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom. The march began at the Washington Monument and ended with a rally at the Lincoln Memorial, where Martin Luther King Jr. deliver\nBrave Girl: Clara and the Shirtwaist Makers' Strike of 1909\nMichelle Markel\nAn illustrated account of immigrant Clara Lemlich's pivotal role in the influential 1909 women laborer's strike describes how she worked grueling hours to acquire an education and support her family before organizing a massive walkout to protest the unfair working conditions in New York's garment di\nFry Bread: A Native American Family Story\nKevin Noble Maillard\nEarly Elementary School,Late Elementary School\nUsing illustrations that show the diversity in Native America and spare poetic text that emphasizes fry bread in terms of provenance, this volume tells the story of a post-colonial food that is a shared tradition for Native American families all across the North American continent. Includes a recipe\nJessica Herthel\nFrom the time she was two years old, Jazz knew that she had a girl's brain in a boy's body. She loved pink and dressing up as a mermaid and didn't feel like herself in boys' clothing. This confused her family, until they took her to a doctor who said that Jazz was transgender and that she was born t\nWe Are Inspiring: The Stories of 32 Inspirational Asian American Women\nAngel Trazo\nDesigned for reading-with your child or for children ages 10+ to read independently, \"We Are Inspiring\" brings to life the inspiring stories of Asian American women. This work encompasses API femmes of various ethnicities, professions, and body sizes, and is inclusive of LGBTQ folks, immigrants, and\nWilliam Kamkwamba\nWhen a terrible drought struck William Kamkwamba's tiny village in Malawi, his family lost all of the season's crops, leaving them with nothing to eat and nothing to sell. William began to explore science books in his village library, looking for a solution. There, he came up with the idea that woul","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
+{"text":"As shutdown lingers, Dems question Trump's State of the Union address\nPresident Donald Trump delivers his State of the Union address to a joint session of Congress on Capitol Hill in Washington, Tuesday, Jan. 30, 2018. (AP...\nJan. 16, 2019, 5:40 PM UTC \/ Updated Jan. 16, 2019, 5:45 PM UTC\nThe political climate in early 1999 was unprecedented. The sitting Democratic president, Bill Clinton, had just been impeached by a Republican-led House, and the Republican-led Senate was weighing whether to remove him from office. Clinton, meanwhile, wanted to deliver a State of the Union address.\nSome on the right suggested at the time that Congress refuse to extend an invitation, noting, among other things, that it's a fairly modern tradition, not a requirement, that a president deliver the remarks on television from the House floor, and the president could instead issue his statement in written form. GOP leaders, realizing that their impeachment gambit was already unpopular, ultimately welcomed the impeached Democrat anyway.\nIn late 2014, several far-right voices launched a similar push, urging Republicans not to allow Barack Obama to deliver a televised State of the Union address in early 2015, ostensibly as punishment for the Democrat's DACA policy for Dreamers. GOP leaders were well aware of the chatter, but they nevertheless invited the Democratic president.\nFour years later, there's no organized progressive effort to scrap Donald Trump's State of the Union address, but as House Speaker Nancy Pelosi noted this morning, there are some logistical concerns.\nPresident Donald Trump should either delay his State of the Union address or submit it in writing, Speaker Nancy Pelosi wrote Wednesday in a letter citing the security burdens that the annual address to a joint session of Congress would place on a partially shuttered federal government.\"Sadly, given the security concerns and unless government re-opens this week, I suggest that we work together to determine another suitable date after government has re-opened for this address or for you to consider delivering your State of the Union address in writing to the Congress on January 29th,\" Pelosi wrote in the letter to Trump.\nSo, has Trump's invitation been pulled? There's apparently some confusion on this point.\nHouse Majority Leader Steny Hoyer (D-Md.) told CNN this morning, \"The State of the Union is off.\" The Maryland Democrat added, \"We're not going to have business as usual as long as this government is shut down.\"\nHoyer's office, however, soon after walked that back, saying the majority leader hadn't seen Pelosi's letter to the White House and \"misunderstood\" the nature of the message.\nAs for the House Speaker, asked if she's disinvited the president, Pelosi said, \"No, no, no. It's on the strength of the statement of the secretary of Homeland Security about all of the resources that are needed to prepare for a State of the Union address, which she calls an 'event of special security.' And so these people are not working and we've never really had a State of Union when government has been in a shutdown since the Budget Act in the [1970s].\"\nMy best guess is that Trump will ignore the concerns -- he'll relish a platform in which he can blame everyone but himself for his mess -- and stick to the original schedule for a Jan. 29 address. For now, however, there's some question as to how and whether officials will proceed.","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
+{"text":"Michigan Landscape: School Transportation\nNovember 1, 2019 | Font size: 75% 100% 125% 150%\nBy Ben DeGrow\nA 2017 Urban Institute analysis estimated the share of families with school-age children who lived within range of different types of schools. Researchers found that 93% of Michigan families reside within five miles of at least one conventional district elementary school. By that same measure, 83% of Michigan families live close to a private elementary school, 72% to an elementary school in a different district and 62% to a public charter elementary school.[7] Yet living within close range of a school may not mean access to a safe environment, an academically enriching program or the best opportunity for a child to succeed.\nMichigan school districts and other public school operators are not mandated by state law to provide transportation to students, except for ensuring that students with disabilities have specialized transportation services.[1] A local school board can decide whether to offer transportation to each grade configuration \u2014 elementary, middle or high school \u2014 or to all students, but must do so on an equal opportunity basis. That means, for example, a district that offers busing to elementary and middle schools must make the service available to all resident students who attend one of those schools or who attend \"the nearest state approved nonpublic school\" within district boundaries.[*]\nVirtually all of the state's conventional K-12 school districts bus students to and from school within the boundaries of their districts. More than a quarter of districts contract out with private providers to bus students back and forth.[9] Schools that operate bus services are required to undergo annual inspections. Records from these inspections indicate that about one-third of Michigan charter schools also provide transportation.[10]\nA little over half of U.S. students are transported to public school by yellow bus or other publicly funded means.[11] To the extent Michigan mirrors national trends, a sizable number of young people walk, bike or are driven to school by parents or other adult caregivers. Nevertheless, public schools in Michigan on average spend about 4% of their operating budgets on transporting students to and from school, more than $620 million in 2018.[12] Including transportation services provided by intermediate school districts, the total rises to $750 million. Michigan's spending on student transportation has consistently hovered around $500 per pupil, adjusted for inflation, for at least the past 15 years.[13]\n[*] MCL \u00a7 380.1321. Article VIII, \u00a7 2 of the Michigan Constitution states, \"The legislature may provide for the transportation of students to and from any school.\"\nMichigan Landscape: School Choice\nIntersection of Choice and Transportation\nDetroit: Urban Context\nBeyond Michigan: Advances in School Transportation\nStudent Mobility Scholarships: Concept and Law","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
+{"text":"Home > News > Testing > Content Piece\nColorado Announces New THC Testing Rules for Hemp Products\nComplete the form below and we will email you a PDF version of \"Colorado Announces New THC Testing Rules for Hemp Products\"\nA new batch of testing regulations for hemp products in Colorado have been unveiled by the state's department of health, and some of the requirements are stricter than the equivalent rules for cannabis products.\nPreviously, foods, dietary supplements, and cosmetics containing hemp could be sold in Colorado without needing to state how much THC they contained.\nBut, effective from July 1, all such hemp products must display how many milligrams of total THC they contain. Testing will also be required for microbials such as Salmonella, Shiga-toxin producing E.coli, yeast and molds, and mycotoxins such as aflatoxin B1.\nEffective from October 1, all edible and cosmetic hemp products must also be tested for over 100 pesticides \u2013 far more than the 13 pesticides that must be tested for in cannabis products.\nAnd, under the new rules, all these tests must be carried by a lab that's been certified to test hemp by the state's department of public health. Currently, only one lab has this kind of certification, Botanacor Laboratories in Denver.\nSpeaking to Hemp Industry Daily, Botanacor's senior marketing director, Lisa Stemmer, said the lab isn't expecting to be overwhelmed with CBD products just yet, as the state health department is allowing existing products to remain on shelves while companies adjust to the new rules.\nSmokable hemp products and those unintended for human consumption, such as textiles or pet products, and are not subject to the new rules.\nPolicy Science & Health Testing","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
+{"text":"Jennifer L. Weinberg\nM.D., University of Pennsylvania\nM.P.H., Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health\nM.B.E., University of Pennsylvania\njweinber@monmouth.edu\nDr. Jennifer Weinberg is a Preventive and Lifestyle Medicine Physician focusing on the intersection of preventive medicine and public health, bioethics, mind-body medicine\/positive psychology and environmental health. She earned her Doctor of Medicine (M.D.) and Master of Bioethics (M.B.E) degrees from the University of Pennsylvania, along with certificates in Global Health and Women's Health Research. After a Preliminary Internal Medicine Internship, she completed a residency in Preventive Medicine at The Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health where she also earned her Master of Public Health (M.P.H.) and a certificate in Occupational and Environmental Health. In addition to her medical training, she augments her understanding and approach to health, education and wellness with professional certifications as an Interdisciplinary Yoga Instructor and Integrative Nutrition Health Coach.\nDr. Weinberg is enthusiastic about sharing her passions for an interdisciplinary approach to addressing public health, lifestyle medicine and environmental health issues through teaching, writing and outreach. She has worked abroad in places like Botswana and Thailand, contributing to furthering telemedicine as a tool for both patient care and provider education.\nDr. Weinberg also strives to educate about global health, bioethics and public health issues through her editorial, writing and health communication work. She is a regular contributor to the Chopra Center's blog, Mind Body Green and other popular media sites and has facilitated an exploration of bioethical issues involved in global health outreach, public health and lifestyle-related illnesses as a theme editor for the American Medical Association's Journal of Ethics.\nAs the Founder of The Simple Pure Whole Wellness Method, she delivers online courses and group coaching programs related to wellness, preventive medicine, lifestyle and environmental health and blogs regularly on these topics. Dr. Weinberg is also the author of the mindfulness and stress management guide, The Whole Cure: 52 Essential Prescriptions to Overcome Overwhelm, Reclaim Balance and Reconnect with a Life You Love, which has been utilized to encourage self-care and healthy coping skills for health professional students, care givers and others.\nWeinberg, JL. (2014). The Whole Cure: 52 Essential Prescriptions to Overcome Overwhelm, Reclaim Balance and Reconnect with a Life You Love! West Chester, PA: Create Space Independent Publishing. Available at Amazon and http:\/\/www.jenniferweinbergmd.com\/wholecure\nWeinberg, JL, Gormley R, Kovarik CL. (2012). The Computer Will See You Now: Ethics of Teledermatology. Chapter in: Bercovitch L & Perlis C. Dermatoethics. New York: Springer.\nWeinberg, JL. (2012). Dermatologists within, beyond and struggling with borders: Ethics and professionalism in global dermatology. Chapter in: Bercovitch L & Perlis C. Dermatoethics. New York: Springer.\nWeinberg JL, Kaddu S, Kovarik C. (2011). Teledermatology in developing countries. In Soyer HP, Binder M, Smith AC (Eds.). Telemedicine in Dermatology. Heidelberg, Germany: Springer. Available at: http:\/\/link.springer.com\/chapter\/10.1007%2F978-3-642-20801-0_6\nWeinberg JL. Medicine's Response to Lifestyle-Related Preventable Illness. Virtual Mentor. 2013; 15:283-285.\nWeinberg JL, Guarino JM, Savoy ML, Horton T, Reed J 3rd. Identifying differences in communication technology preferences across the lifespan. J Am Geriatr Soc. 2012 Nov;60(11):2176-7. Available at: https:\/\/www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov\/pubmed\/23148426.\nAzfar RS, Weinberg JL, Cavric G, Lee-Keltner IA, Bilker W, Gelfand JM, Kovarik CK: HIV positive patients in Botswana state that mobile teledermatology is an acceptable method for receiving dermatology care. J Telemed Telecare. September 2011 17:338-340. Available at: https:\/\/www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov\/pmc\/articles\/PMC3163714\/.\nTran K, Ayad M, Weinberg J, Cherng A, Chowdhury M, Monir S, El Hariri M, Kovarik C. Mobile teledermatology in the developing world: Implications of a feasibility study on 30 Egyptian patients with common skin diseases. J Am Acad of Dermatol. Nov 22, 2010. Available at: https:\/\/www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov\/pubmed\/21094560.\nWeinberg JL, Kovarik C. The WHO clinical staging system for HIV\/AIDS. Virtual Mentor, 2010 Mar 1;12(3):202-6. Available at: http:\/\/journalofethics.ama-assn.org\/\/2010\/03\/cprl1-1003.html.\nWeinberg, JL. (Ed.). Two sides of a coin: Global health ethics at home and abroad. Virtual Mentor. 2010 Mar 1;12(3):146-8. Available at: http:\/\/journalofethics.ama-assn.org\/\/2010\/03\/fred1-1003.html.\nWeinberg, JL; Rosenbach, M; Kim, EJ; Kovarik, CL. Lichen Sclerosus et Atrophicus-like Graft Versus Host Disease in Patients Status Post Hematopoietic Stem Cell Transplant. Dermatology Online Journal 2009:15(9).\nWeinberg J, Kaddu S, Gabler G, Kovarik C. The African Teledermatology Project: Providing access to dermatologic care and education in sub-Saharan Africa. The Pan African Medical Journal 2009;3:16. Available at: http:\/\/www.panafrican-med-journal.com\/content\/article\/3\/16\/full\/.\nWeinberg, JL. (September 6, 2016). 3 Keys to Finding Yourself in Your Busy Life. Chopra.com. Available at: http:\/\/www.chopra.com\/ccl\/3-keys-to-finding-yourself-in-your-busy-life\nWeinberg, JL. (May 23, 2016). Do We Need to Suffer? Mindful Shifts to Cope with Chronic Pain. Chopra.com. Available at: http:\/\/www.chopra.com\/ccl\/do-we-need-to-suffer-mindful-shifts-to-cope-with-chronic-pain\nWeinberg, JL. (April 1, 2016). The Mindfulness Diet: The Link between Mindfulness, Blood Sugar, and Weight. Chopra.com. Available at: http:\/\/www.chopra.com\/ccl\/the-mindfulness-diet-the-link-between-mindfulness-blood-sugar-and-weight\nWeinberg, JL. (February 11, 2016). A Simple Mindfulness Exercise To Promote Kindness & Self-Compassion. Mind Body Green. Available at: http:\/\/www.mindbodygreen.com\/0-23678\/a-simple-mindfulness-exercise-to-promote-kindness-self-compassion","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
+{"text":"Hebrew Bible 1\nAncient Judaism 1\nOpen Section Classical Studies 1\nAncient History 1\nAuthor or Editor: Peter Bedford x\nAncient Judaism x\nTemple Restoration in Early Achaemenid Judah\nSeries: Supplements to the Journal for the Study of Judaism, Volume: 65\nAuthor: Peter Bedford\nIn the early Achaemenid Persian period, the Jews returned to Jerusalem to rebuild the temple of Yahweh. This volume investigates issues surrounding the rebuilding of this temple, focusing on the timing and purpose of the project, and the social and political circumstances in which it was undertaken.\nThe study reflects on certain passages from the Old Testament, such as Ezra 1-6, Haggai, and Zechariah 1-8; early Achaemenid Persian administrative practices; and Judean hopes for restoration in order to question the contention that the Jerusalem temple was established as an economic and administrative centre around which competing groups struggled for socio-economic and political power.\n4 Assyria's Demise as Recompense: A Note on Narratives of Resistance in Babylonia and Judah\nAuthor: Peter R. Bedford\nIn: Revolt and Resistance in the Ancient Classical World and the Near East\nJohn J. Collins and J.G. Manning\nDIASPORA: HOMELAND RELATIONS IN EZRA-NEHEMIAH\nEzra-Nehemiah is widely recognized as stressing the separation of Judeans repatriated from Babylonian exile from those they found living in and around Judah at their return. A related theme has received little attention, namely, the on-going relationship between the repatriates and their parent community in the Babylonian-Elamite diaspora. The present article highlights features of this relationship, noting that as a colony of the Babylonian exiles, the community of repatriates remained dependent on the diaspora for leadership and for instruction in religious culture and practice. It is suggested that in tandem with the emphasis on separatism, this view of diaspora-homeland relations reflects a concern current in the mid- to late-fourth century Judah to articulate a Judean identity that reinforced the connection of the Babylonian diaspora to the homeland. In its view of diaspora-homeland relations, Ezra-Nehemiah displays certain features in common with other late-Persian and Hellenistic biblical texts such as Esther and Daniel i-vi.\nIn: Vetus Testamentum","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
+{"text":"Disgraced CA Congressman Duncan Hunter says he'll officially resign from Congress after holidays\nDisgraced California Congressman Duncan Hunter said he will officially resign from Congress after the holidays.\nHunter pleaded guilty earlier this month to misusing $150,000 in campaign funds for his own personal expenses.\nA federal prosecutor said he plans to ask for at least a year in prison .\nThe six-term Republican fought the allegations for more than a year. Hunter represents parts of Orange, Riverside and San Diego counties.\nHunter didn't give a specific date for his departure, and if he steps down after Jan. 1, he will take home a month's pay since members of congress are paid on the first day of the month.\nThis past week, Hunter pled guilty to a single campaign finance violation.\nHe was facing re-election next November.","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
+{"text":"Runaway star\nPosted by Bob Berman on April 21, 2022 in Nature, Night Sky \u00b7 0 Comments\nCan you get out of here? That's the question pondered for centuries: How to leave Earth permanently. A cannonball fired upward has always returned. With a greater explosive charge and a higher speed, the shell went farther. It wasn't hard to figure out what speed an object would need to fall around Earth's curve and leave our planet permanently: It was 6.9 miles per second. This is Earth's escape velocity.\nSounds like a simple concept, and it is. For every celestial object, its mass determines how strongly it glues to itself any nearby planets or moons or other stars. For the Sun, the escape velocity is a whopping 384 miles per second, if you start out just above its surface. But by the time an object has managed to flee from the Sun to arrive here at Earth's distance, the escape speed has fallen off to just 26 miles per second. That's still faster than our best rockets, which can go only ten miles per second. Thus, it's easier to escape our own world than to fight our way outward and wrench free from the Sun's more insistent grasp.\nOur Milky Way galaxy, composed of 400 billion suns, has its own escape velocity, and it's nothing trivial. For anything to leave, it would have to travel over 180 miles per second. Not surprisingly, no star in our galaxy had ever been found to possess such a speed. Put another way, the immense, beautiful azure spirals and golden nucleus of our Milky Way constitute an integrated unit where all components are attached forever.\nForever, that is, until 2005: That's when astronomers found the first runaway. As early as 1988, astronomer J. G. Hills of Los Alamos had discovered a mathematically possible way for a star to escape the galaxy. If it were a member of a binary system, a double star, and if it passed a precise distance from the supermassive black hole in our galaxy's center, that could set in motion an intriguing high-stakes pinball game. The black hole could, in theory, yank at one member of the binary system in such a way that the other member gets flung off at incredible speed: fast enough to break away permanently from the entire galaxy.\nIt could happen. But has it? In 2003, astronomers starting searching for just such objects \u2013 and found one two years later. It was discovered using the enormous 6.5-meter telescope at the MMT Observatory in Arizona. It's a dazzling blue star with the kind of high metal content expected of stars born in the galaxy's core \u2013 except that this star is nowhere near there. Instead, it's whizzing through the constellation Hydra in the Milky Way's suburbs at 415 miles per second: more than twice the speed necessary to leave the galaxy behind permanently.\nThis faint star, about 100 times fainter than Pluto, is named SDSS J090745.0+024507. It is currently located 160,000 light-years from the galaxy's center, after having made a beeline from there ever since its birth 80 million years ago. This is the fastest-moving star in the galaxy.\nAlready, astronomers are calling such objects \"outcast stars\" or \"slingshot stars\" or \"runaway stars\" \u2013 but the official name is hypervelocity stars or, given the obsessive urge to abbreviate, HVS. In just another 80 million years \u2013 a mere coffee break in star-time \u2013 SDSS J090745.0+024507 will be traveling alone like \"the man without a country\" \u2013 a passportless intergalactic wanderer. Any life on planets forming around it will gaze up into a starless sky, lit only by the fuzzy outline of its long-ago parent galaxy.\nCould there be others? Now that Hills's 1988 prediction is validated, astronomers are looking, but it's not an easy quest. Statistically, up to 1,000 stars could have had a similar close encounter with the 4-million solar mass black hole at our galaxy's center and not have been pulled in, but instead flung violently away. But how to find such faint stars among the 400 billion that populate the Milky Way?\nFor now, the status of SDSS J090745.0+024507 seems safe, as the \"one that got away.\" Hurtling at over 1,500,000 miles per hour \u2013 more than twice as fast as any other.\nAre you feeling blocked?\nNewest discoveries: What's hot & what's not\nAnticipate auroras, meteors and a great comet in 2013\nCelestial beauty: Take a peek at Venus at her peak\nBelow the belt with Orion\nSky high: see it now while the moon and planets perform\nA sooner solstice\nWe're heading thataway\nPrevious Post Serendipity in Schenectady Next Post \"Fields of Vision\" faculty exhibition at Dorsky Museum\nTime to vote\nEditorial: Noble's the city's best option\nShea O'Brien's shuts its doors\nTwo for supervisor\nIain Machell's 'Platte Clove Lens' at Cross Contemporary Art\nNew state guidelines regarding transgender students' rights discussed in Highland\nKingston, New Paltz, Saugerties, Poughkeepsie, Woodstock, Rhinebeck, UPAC, music, event, Bardavon, Bard, SUNY-New Paltz, events, Ulster Performing Arts Center, Rosendale Theatre, nature, Art, movie review, Kelder's Farm, Kerhonkson, Hurricane Irene, Bob Berman, booksignings, bookstores, Golden Notebook, Calvert Vaux, Catskill, Hudson Valley Seed Library, Ken Greene, Doug Muller","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
+{"text":"SecureWatch\nPolitical Analysis + Tech + Movies + News\nApril 19, 2018 by Don Michael Adeniji\nNigerian youths want everything for free \u2013 Buhari\nNigerian youths just want to sit down and do nothing, banking on the notion that Nigerian is an oil-rich nation President Muhammadu Buhari said.\nBuhari speaking at the Commonwealth Business Forum in Westminster on Wednesday, also said a lot of Nigerian youths have not been to school and they want everything free.\n\"About the economy, we have a very young population, our population is estimated conservatively to be 180 million. This is a very conservative one,\" Buhari said.\n\"More than 60 percent of the population is below 30, a lot of them haven't been to school and they are claiming that Nigeria is an oil producing country, therefore, they should sit and do nothing, and get housing, healthcare, education for free.\"\nRecalled that President Muhammadu Buhari on Monday in London held bilateral talks with British Prime Minister, Theresa May, where he demanded for more influx of British companies and investments into Nigeria.\nBuhari commended British companies; Unilever, Cadbury, and many others.\nThe President noted that the affected companies had stood with Nigeria through thick and thin, adding that the companies remained in Nigeria even when the country fought a civil war, they never left.\n\"But like Oliver Twist, we ask for more investments. We are encouraging more British companies to come to Nigeria.\n\"We appreciate the support you have given in training and equipping our military, particularly in the war against insurgency, but we want to also continue to work with you on trade and investment.''\nBuhari also briefed the Prime Minister on the strides in agriculture, which he said had put Nigeria firmly on the road to food self-sufficiency.\n\"I am very pleased with the successes in agriculture. We have cut rice importation by about 90 per cent, made lots of savings of foreign exchange, and generated employment.\n\"People had rushed to the cities to get oil money at the expense of farming. But luckily, they are now going back to the farms. Even professionals are going back to the land.\n\"We are making steady progress on the road to food security,'' he said.\nThe President recalled that the All Progressives Congress-led government had campaigned on three major issues, to secure the country, revive the economy and fight corruption.\nAccording to him, as the 2019 general election approaches, politicians are already pre-occupied with the polls, while he is bothered more about security and the economy.\n\"We have elections next year, politicians are already pre-occupied with the polls, but I am bothered more about security and the economy,'' he stressed.\nWhile recalling that Nigeria and Britain have a long history of cooperation on several fronts, Buhari said \"people ought to know how they arrived where they are, if they would move forward.\n\"It was a mistake for us to have stopped the teaching of history as a subject in schools, but we are returning it to the curriculum now.''\nOn education, Buhari said more investment was being made, because \"people can look after themselves if well educated.\n\"In this age of technology, education is very important. We need well-staffed and well-equipped institutions to move into the next generation.''\nOn Climate change and environmental issues which came up for discussion at the meeting, Adesina said President Buhari brought up the necessity of inter-basin water transfer from Congo Basin to Lake Chad.\n\"The Lake Chad is now about 10 per cent of its original size, and it is perhaps one of the reasons our youths dare both the Sahara Desert and the Mediterranean, to get to Europe.\n\"But if there is inter-basin water transfer, about 40 million people in Nigeria, Niger, Cameroon, Chad, and other countries stand to benefit.\n\"I made the case during the Climate Change Summit in France. If Lake Chad is recharged, it will reduce the number of youths coming to Europe to increase social problems. We brought back about 4,000 people from Libya recently.\n\"Almost all of them were below 30, and Libya was not their final destination. They were headed to Europe,'' the president stated.\nPrime Minister May, in her remarks, said Britain would continue to work with Nigeria in the areas of training and equipping the military.\nShe was particular about abduction of young schoolgirls by Boko Haram, noting that Britain would continue to give Nigeria needed assistance.\nThe Prime Minister said the Buhari administration had \"been making good progress on the economy,'' and urged it to maintain the focus, despite approaching elections, and increase in political activities.\nOn education and climate change, she said \"good grounding in education is good. It is important to equip young people for today's world.\n\"It is also a good bastion and defence against modern slavery. The issue of the environment and climate change is very important, because of its impact on many countries in the Commonwealth.\n\"Stability at home is important to curb illegal migration.''\nThe Prime Minister, who commended Buhari for the much he had been doing on improving trade and business for Nigeria, noted that it was also time to boost intra-Commonwealth trade.\nSource: Vanguard\nPosted in PMB, PoliticsTagged APC, Nigeria, PMB\nPrevious Amazon Laptops! \u2014 Insecure Bre\nNext Another Debt-Bomb Exposes \"Limits\" In The Nordic Junk \"Casino\" \u2014 peoples trust toronto\nFollow SecureWatch on WordPress.com\nMafia, Illicit Economy and the Italian Economy September 11, 2019\nNigeria Shiites Say Police Fired on Processions, Killed Five September 11, 2019\nBuhari Handed Ikorodu Shagamu, Epe-Ijebu Ode and Lagos-Abeokuta Roads To Lagos and Ogun States for PPP Development \u2013 Dapo Abiodun September 11, 2019\nBBN Naija: Week Eleven Nomination September 11, 2019\nMI Apologises Over Xenophobic Comments September 11, 2019\nFighting Police Corruption in Nigeria: An Agenda for Comprehensive Reform \u2014 GAB | The Global Anticorruption Blog September 10, 2019\nTrump called on spy chiefs for help as Mueller probe began April 22, 2019\n'The Big Bang Theory': Jim Parsons, Mayim Bialik Reveal Truth Behind Sheldon and Amy's First Kiss April 22, 2019\nmarijuana-What does 420 friendly really mean? April 22, 2019\nPolice visits R Kelly home over allegation of holding two women hostage in his home January 13, 2019\nDon Michael Adeniji\nMafia, Illicit Economy and the Italian Economy\nNigeria Shiites Say Police Fired on Processions, Killed Five\nBuhari Handed Ikorodu Shagamu, Epe-Ijebu Ode and Lagos-Abeokuta Roads To Lagos and Ogun States for PPP Development \u2013 Dapo Abiodun\nBBN Naija: Week Eleven Nomination\nMI Apologises Over Xenophobic Comments\nFighting Police Corruption in Nigeria: An Agenda for Comprehensive Reform \u2014 GAB | The Global Anticorruption Blog\nTrump called on spy chiefs for help as Mueller probe began\n'The Big Bang Theory': Jim Parsons, Mayim Bialik Reveal Truth Behind Sheldon and Amy's First Kiss\nNews Select Month September 2019 (6) April 2019 (3) January 2019 (1) December 2018 (72) July 2018 (5) June 2018 (4) May 2018 (724) April 2018 (1461) March 2018 (4)","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
+{"text":"A step up: Vital work to upgrade bridge over railway in South Yorkshire begins today\n| Eastern: North & East\nNetwork Rail have begun major work to upgrade a bridge over the railway in Dodworth, Barnsley to make sure it remains fit for purpose for years to come.\nFrom today (Monday 10 January), teams are on site and are working to strengthen the footbridge, which spans the line between Dodworth and Silkstone Common. The project will include repainting, repairs to steelwork and will see new anti-slip decking installed, as well as a new handrail.\nTo allow the \u00a360,000 project to take place safely, the bridge will be closed whilst the work takes place and a diversion route via Station Road will be in place until the project completes on Friday, 11 February.\nMatt Rice, Route Director for Network Rail's North and East Route, said: \"We know this bridge is commonly used by walkers and this project will make sure this route can continue to be enjoyed for years to come.\n\"During the work, a temporary diversion route will be in place and we're sorry for any inconvenience this causes. We're looking forward to the work completing next month and for the community to begin using the new and improved footbridge.\"\nNetwork Rail press office - Amy Brenndorfer\nAmy.Brenndorfer@networkrail.co.uk\nDodworth footbridge\nAerial view of Dodworth footbridge","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
+{"text":"This Model Spent Years Trying To Remove Her Birthmark\u2014Now, She's Embracing It\nCelina Leroy, 24, is done covering up.\nBy Haley Goldberg\nImage Credit: Dez Santana Photography\nWhen Celina Leroy posted a selfie on Facebook in February, it was a major milestone for the 24-year-old aspiring model and actress. Leroy was born with a port-wine stain birthmark on her face, and she was showing it to her friends and followers\u2014uncovered\u2014for the first time.\nPort-wine stains occur in about three of every 1,000 people, according to the U.S. National Library of Medicine. They're caused by swollen blood vessels, which give a reddish-purplish hue to a certain area of skin. Most often, they occur on the face and deepen in color as a child gets older. They exist for life, sometimes growing thicker with time. Treatments like laser therapy, surgery and tattooing can often eliminate or lessen the appearance of the birthmarks, but there's no guarantee.\nLeroy was born with a port-wine stain covering her chin and cheek, as well as part of her bottom lip. She tells SELF that doctors knew it was a port-wine stain immediately, and that she'd have it for life. Worried it would affect her, her parents had her start laser treatments when she was one years old.\n\"My dad and my mom were worried I'd be made fun of as a kid,\" Leroy says. \"They wanted me to have treatments right away. If you start early with treatments the birthmark is more likely to go away.\"\nCelina Leroy at the age of one (left) and age 7. Image Credit: Courtesy of Celina Leroy\nShe says the treatments were traumatic for her as a child, and she still remembers the smell of burning flesh as the zapping device moved across her face. She went for lasering sessions once a month for a year before stopping.\n\"There wasn't any progress, so my mom was like this isn't working,\" she says. \"And she didn't want to keep doing it so I stopped for a long time until I was like 14 or 15.\"\nWhile growing up in East Hampton, New York, Leroy was bullied in school. It prompted her to restart the painful treatments.\n\"When I was like 12 years old, I remember one girl was like, 'Oh my god, Celina you're really pretty, but if you didn't have that birthmark then you'd definitely be popular,'\" Leroy says. \"I think I became really insecure about it, and it was harder for me to make friends because I was like, 'They think I'm ugly.'\"\nAfter two years of treatments, the laser failed yet again to eliminate the mark. The part of the port-wine stain over her lip also had made her lips uneven with time\u2014larger on the side where the birthmark was\u2014and Leroy asked her parents for plastic surgery to fix it. A doctor cut off parts of her lip to even it out.\n\"I was in high school,\" she says of getting surgery at 16. \"I was like super self conscious and just wanted to be like everyone else.\"\nLeroy in recovery from her lip surgery (left) and with makeup post-surgery. Image Credit: Courtesy of Celina Leroy\nLeroy figured out how to cover the mark with makeup, and she started wearing it all the time: to the pool, at sleepovers. Most people didn't know she even had it. She had surgery again this August, when her lips again grew uneven.\nBut this February, as she embarked on her dreams of modeling and acting, Leroy became tired of covering up. When she booked a show for New York Fashion week, she decided to show up backstage sans makeup. The reaction from people both surprised and empowered her.\n\"It was just interesting seeing people's reaction to me not wearing makeup and being bold to it,\" she says. \"[Before, I was] getting all this attention from people being like, 'You're so beautiful in this photoshoot.' Everyone was saying how great I look, and I wondered if people would still think I'm pretty if I show my birthmark. Everyone was really supportive, and it just it made me feel really good.\"\nThat's when she took to Facebook and posted her first true selfie. More than 250 of her friends liked the picture and shared supportive comments like, \"I never even knew you had a birthmark. It looks awesome! You should rock it more often.\" It gave Leroy even more confidence. Now, she says she wants to do some photoshoots and movies without covering it up.\n\"I want to not wear makeup ever, but then I also like the way I look like with makeup, so I'm trying to figure it out,\" she says. \"I'm trying to talk to photographers and see if they're into doing it without makeup. It depends on the jobs.\"\nUltimately, she hopes that sharing her story will help change perceptions about people with birthmarks and empower those who have them.\n\"Birth defects shouldn't be associated with negativity,\" she says. \"I want a culture where you embrace the things that make you different instead of trying to hide them.\"\nThis Mom Wants People To Stop Pitying Her Baby Because Of Her Birthmark\nSerena Williams' Latest Selfie Shows That Strong Is Beautiful\nKesha Shuts Down Body Shamers In Bikini Instagram\nPhoto Credit: Dez Santana\nSELF does not provide medical advice, diagnosis, or treatment. 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+{"text":"Welcome to WeConnect\nThank you for visiting Illinois Action for Children's Partner Plan Act online platform to connect and collaborate as you discover and share!\nThere are no discussions to which you have access\nEither the content you're seeking doesn't exist or it requires proper authentication before viewing.\nHow to Engage Parents in the Role of Family and Community Expert\nJan 31, 10:00 AM - 12:00 PM (CT)\nHow to Engage Parents in the Role of Collaboration Parent Leader\nFeb 28, 10:00 AM - 12:00 PM (CT)\nCROAR's Dominating White Ways Training\nMar 1 - 2, (CT)\n117 Entries\nNational Association for the Education of Young Children (NAEYC)\nby IAFC Marketing in IAFC - Resource Library\n\"The National Association for the Education of Young Children (NAEYC) is a professional membership organization that works to ...\nIllinois Network of Child Care Resource and Referral Agencies (INCCRRA)\n\"The Illinois Network of Child Care Resource and Referral Agencies (INCCRRA) is a statewide organization which \u2013 in partnership ...\nIllinois Department of Children and Family Services (DCFS)\n\"The mission of Illinois DCFS is to protect children who are reported to be abused or neglected and to increase their families' ...\nBri Stormer\nKristina Rogers\nChristina Foster\nVictoria montgomery\nJanet Vargas","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
+{"text":"Teenage sailing stars unite for Round the Island\nHelen Dormer\nRound the world sailing heros Jessica Watson and Michael Perham will race together for 80th JP Morgan Asset Management Round the Island Race\nAustralian teenage sailing hero Jessica Watson, who celebrates her 18th birthday in May, is crewing alongside Britain's Michael Perham (19) on the Bavaria 37 Cold Play, skippered by Phil Baughen, in this year's Round the Island Race on Saturday 25 June.\nIt will be good practice for the two, as Jessica recently announced that she's to skipper the youngest ever crew to enter the Rolex Sydney Hobart Race on Boxing Day \u2013 a crew that includes Mike Perham.\nOther recent entries include the French skipper Marc Lepesqueux, who has entered Les Conquerants de Normandie, a Class 40 Jumbo 40 Evolution that finished 12th out of 45 in the last solo transatlantic Route du Rhum. He has a lot of racing experience under his belt having raced in the La Solitaire du Figaro seven times and finished 2nd in the Mini Transat 650.\nFormer winner of the Route du Rhum in 2006 and 2010, Lionel Lemonchois, will also be on this year's start line. He is racing on the 50ft Trimaran Prince de Bretagne. (Another of Lionel's claims to fame is as part of the Groupama 3 team that won the 2010 Jules Verne Trophy with Franck Cammas at the helm, racing around the globe in 48 days 7 hours 44 minutes 52 seconds.)\nFor more information, visit www.roundtheisland.org.uk. Standard entries close on 28 May.\nSubscribe to Yachting World magazine for all the latest racing news and reviews","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
+{"text":"We're All AV Experts Now with Christina Warren\nWe're All AV Experts Now with Christina Warren https:\/\/dts.podtrac.com\/redirect.mp3\/media.transistor.fm\/85160b28\/056aba0c.mp3\nFor the last three years, Christina Warren has worked as a Senior Cloud Advocate at Microsoft. Before joining Microsoft, Christina published bylines all over the place, working as a senior writer at Gizmodo and a senior tech correspondent at Mashable. She's also appeared as a commentator practically everywhere, including ABC, NBC, CBS, CNN, CNBC, Fox News, and Fox Business. In her spare time, she co-hosts the Overtired and Rocket: Accelerated Geek Conversation podcasts.\nJoin Corey and Christina as they discuss how a senior cloud advocate does more than say \"I'm for the cloud,\" the success of Microsoft's virtual Build event and what it was like to pull it off, how Christina hopes that the current pandemic will improve the perception of virtual conferences moving forward, why Corey thinks the opportunity costs of attending conferences might hurt attendance whenever in-person events start back up, how giving a talk in front of an audience and giving a talk in from of a camera are different skill sets, the different things you need to consider for successful recorded vs. in-person talks, Christina's tips for using a teleprompter, how everyone has been forced to become an AV experts overnight, and more.\nAbout Christina Warren\nChristina Warren is a Senior Cloud Advocate at Microsoft, where she helps shape the overall video and broader content strategy for Channel 9, Docs.Microsoft.com, and the greater CA team. In this role, she hosts shows on Channel 9, Microsoft's video channel for developer content, creates technical content snd demos, speaks at events, and interviews people within the developer community. Prior to joining Microsoft, Christina spent a decade in digital media as an editor, senior reporter, and commentator, with a focus on technology, business, and, entertainment. As a journalist, she appeared as an expert or commentator on ABC, NBC, CBS, CNN, CNBC, Fox News, Fox Business, Bloomberg, the BBC, Marketplace Radio, The Today Show, Good Morning America, and many more outlets. She also co-hosts Rocket, a popular tech news podcast, which has the distinction of being one of the only tech podcasts with an all-female hosting team.\nThis Week on Channel 9\nRocket Podcast\nMicrosoft Developer YouTube\nScreaming in the Cloud Episode 68\nCorey: This episode is sponsored by a personal favorite: Retool. Retool allows you to build fully functional tools for your business in hours, not days or weeks. No front end frameworks to figure out or access controls to manage; just ship the tools that will move your business forward fast. Okay, let's talk about what this really is. It's Visual Basic for interfaces. Say I needed a tool to, I don't know, assemble a whole bunch of links into a weekly sarcastic newsletter that I send to everyone. I can drag various components onto a canvas: buttons, checkboxes, tables, etc. Then I can wire all of those things up to queries with all kinds of different parameters, post, get, put, delete, etc. It all connects to virtually every database natively, or you can do what I did, and build a whole crap ton of lambda functions, shove them behind some API's gateway and use that instead. It speaks MySQL, Postgres, Dynamo\u2014not Route 53 in a notable oversight; but nothing's perfect. Any given component then lets me tell it which query to run when I invoke it. Then it lets me wire up all of those disparate APIs into sensible interfaces. And I don't know frontend; that's the most important part here: Retool is transformational for those of us who aren't front end types. It unlocks a capability I didn't have until I found this product. I honestly haven't been this enthusiastic about a tool for a long time. Sure they're sponsoring this, but I'm also a customer and a super happy one at that. Learn more and try it for free at retool.com\/lastweekinaws. That's retool.com\/lastweekinaws, and tell them Corey sent you because they are about to be hearing way more from me.\nCorey: Normally, I like to snark about the various sponsors that sponsor these episodes, but I'm faced with a bit of a challenge because this episode is sponsored in part by A Cloud Guru. They're the company that's sort of famous for teaching the world to cloud, and it's very, very hard to come up with anything meaningfully insulting about them. So, I'm not really going to try. They've recently improved their platform significantly, and it brings both the benefits of A Cloud Guru that we all know and love as well as the recently acquired Linux Academy together. That means that there's now an effective, hands-on, and comprehensive skills development platform for AWS, Azure, Google Cloud, and beyond. Yes, 'and beyond' is doing a lot of heavy lifting right there in that sentence. They have a bunch of new courses and labs that are available. For my purposes, they have a terrific learn by doing experience that you absolutely want to take a look at and they also have business offerings as well under ACG for Business. Check them out. Visit acloudguru.com to learn more. Tell them Corey sent you and wait for them to instinctively flinch. That's acloudguru.com.\nCorey: Welcome to Screaming in the Cloud. I'm Corey Quinn. I'm joined this week by Christina Warren for a second time. Christina, welcome to the show.\nChristina: Hey Corey, it's great to be back with you again. I guess it's a little over a year later since we talked. Things have changed in the world a tiny bit.\nCorey: Just a smidgen. Some things haven't though. You are still at Microsoft, and you remain a senior cloud advocate.\nChristina: That is also true.\nCorey: Whenever I hear someone say that they're a cloud advocate, senior or other appellation, I just tend to assume that that job basically entails people asking you, \"So, what do you think about Cloud? And your response is, \"Well, frankly, I'm for it.\"\nChristina: [laughs]. Yeah, I mean, you're not wrong. I mean, so I'm a part of Developer Relations, and we talked about this on the show that we did last year, and so I encourage listeners to go back and listen to that one if you want to know more about my career transition and things like that, but I think that, yeah, you're not wrong. Part of it is absolutely saying, \"Why yes, I am for the Cloud.\" But I think the bigger thing, the way I view my job is that I'm advocating for the users, and we kind of act as this bridge between the people in the product teams and people who are using our products, as well as the people who are marketing, kind of creating content for those things. So, we try to sit in that middle space where we're really advocating for the users and doing what we can to improve the products so that people will build more stuff on our platforms.\nCorey: So, there's a lot to admire about this decade's Microsoft, but one of the most admirable things I've seen recently, just in terms of achievement, not in terms of necessarily impact in the world was, with only a couple of months notice, you were able to turn Build not just into a digital event, but rather, sort of, the definition of what a lot of online events could aspire to one day become.\nChristina: Yeah, I know. The team did an amazing, amazing job, and really, it came together in about five weeks because the decision was made in March to move it online, there were still some other things that had to be figured out, but it really was about a five or six week period where it all came together. And I'm with you; I mean, the team and there were so many people involved. They did just a tremendous job, not just from creating the content, and how do you move what the sessions look like, and what's the formatting, and how is that different when it's virtual versus when we do things in person? But then there were also a lot of technical things that had to be done with making sure that Microsoft Teams would work the right way and that we will be able to have an interface for people to be able to select the sessions that they would want to watch at different times, and working with people to make sure that their setups that they're using from home will be robust enough, and that they can deliver their content. What we also did for Microsoft Build this year, in addition to being completely virtual, is that we did a 48 hour live stream so it was across time zones, and that was a massive undertaking because traditionally we do it on the west coast time zone, you go, you start, maybe, at eight o'clock in the morning, you end at five, and then people have their side events, and stuff and certainly content is often streamed online and people can tune into those things, but it's not set up for people who are in different parts of the world to be able to experience in a real-time way. And in this case, it was, and so we had the key segments were available on a replay for the ideal morning time zones for different parts of the world, but what we also did is we had presenters who were often presenting three different times, sometimes other presenters helped out live for a specific time zone. Meaning that when\u2014for instance, I was hosting a lot of the Build live content, and I was holding down the desk from Redmond, but we also had hosts in the UK because that was the time zone that my shift was on. And so it was midnight to 9 a.m. in the United States, but that would be the equivalent of [crosstalk]\u2014\nCorey: Oh, I saw that on twitter at one point. So, one of the nice things about the pandemic is it lets me replace some of my bad habits with better ones. For example, I took my bad habit of sleeping, and replaced it with a good habit of lying awake in the middle of the night and worrying\u2014\nChristina: Right.\nCorey: Which is also known as Tweeting. So, I saw it scroll past where suddenly I see a pic of you in a mask\u2014good for you\u2014in a car going somewhere. Well, that's not something we do these days. What's the story here? And you were going to do your segment at Build.\nChristina: Exactly, exactly. So, we had hosts remotely, but we also wanted to tie things back to our studio, and also just frankly, in case there were technical problems and somebody's internet went down, we didn't want the stream to go down. We didn't want dead air. But people were doing presentations live throughout the 48 hours, regardless of what timezone they were in, meaning that sometimes the presenters, it might have been three o'clock in the morning that they were doing a breakout session with people and we're taking Q&A and it was actually in real-time.\nSo, it wasn't a situation where I think\u2014it would be easy to think, okay, everything is pre-recorded, and you just make it available to people, maybe you hit a play button and people are able to interact with it that way. That's not what the experience was, and so there were a lot of moving parts. I am so proud of the team who did all the work. I had a small role but I was very, very proud to have had even any role in it because I really think that it was a terrific event, not just for virtual events, but I really feel like based on the feedback we heard from the community, people had a really good experience, and that was really gratifying.\nCorey: It really was a, forgive the Amazonian language, but it really was a bar-raising experience for online conferences, in the sense of this is what they need to become. It was not just turning a typical event you'd see in person into now a bunch of videos you can go and watch. The talks have to change, the interaction model has to change. I know I mentioned it when I spoke to Jeff Sandquist on the show in a previous episode, but I'll say it again, one of the most impressive things I saw was Emily Freeman giving a talk that was obviously pre-recorded. And then at the end, she just starts answering live Q&A from the audience and, \"Oh my god, it wasn't recorded at all. She did it live.\" Which is, from my perspective, a little on the silly side because what is the value of that, but on the other, she did it so well, it was flawless. And that was the first time of three that she gave that talk during the conference.\nChristina: No, you're exactly right. And you're dead on. Emily\u2014and so many other people were pros\u2014Emily did such a great job that yeah, you would think that it was pre-recorded. But when it is live, when you can answer those questions, that does add a little bit of a different dynamic. And what I'm hoping comes out of this is that when we are able to return to having in-person events because I'm actually still very pro in-person events.\nI think that there's a place for both. I personally get a lot of value from meeting people and being around people; I really like that. But what I'm hoping comes from this, and I've had this conversation with a number of people at Microsoft and other places too, is that what this will mean is that in the past the online component for various events, whether it's a developer conference, or something else is always been seen as an also-ran. You know, just been ad hoc.\nCorey: It's an afterthought. \"Well, we have all the trouble of getting these people here. May as well slap a crappy camera and some bad audio in the back of the room, and we'll put something up.\"\nChristina: Exactly. \"Okay, we want to be able to have some on-demand stuff for later if you can't attend the sessions.\" But it's an afterthought. It's not considered the same experience. And what I'm hoping comes from this is not that we get rid of in-person events because again, I think there's tremendous value there, but that we don't consider the virtual component a second class citizen, and that we start to see them as equals because they should be, just based on how our world works, and how our world is going to work going forward. I think that's really important. So, to me, I think that's what I'm most hopeful about is that we will not go all-in on one or the other, but we'll say, \"No, these are both things we need to do, and we need to be thinking about both of these experiences, in whatever capacity we're doing them in.\"\nCorey: One of the hard parts for me looking at this is, I don't want to call any individual company out, and fortunately I've been to enough of these things where I don't have to. There are an awful lot of these online events that are frankly terrible, where you'll have some people who are extremely good at giving talks and are used to working a crowd, and now you're going to put them in their home, you're not going to have any custom lighting setup, you're going to have them using their potato-quality webcam, and it looks bad. One thing that I found that I'm doing is instead of speaking engagements for some of the sponsor work that I do, we've switched to doing some of these online, and after the first couple it was, this isn't going to work. So, first, I upgraded all of my equipment\u2014and we can get into an equipment rant in a minute\u2014\nChristina: Yes.\nCorey: \u2014on my end, so now things are effectively flawless from an AV quality perspective. And then the problem there was, \"Okay, I look great and they look like a potato.\" So, now I have a pelican case that I ship out to the other end when I do these webinars, and it's, oh, now we both look good; everything's there, and then we can do a lot of editing of that work in post, because it almost never needs to be done live, and then you can fix any embarrassing bloopers, you can have smooth transitions, you can make the video work. And you can also avoid the trap of, yeah, for a 45-minute talk, no one is going to get up and leave from the front row, at least in large numbers because they feel it's rude. Closing the tab is way easier, too.\nChristina: It's way easier. It's way easier. And if you have bad audio, or if it's hard to see, or if it's not keeping you engaged, you're not going to continue watching. We've all learned that. I mean, I think that was one of the reasons why we made a point where our segments that Build this year were 30 minutes because we were trying to be very intentional about how long can you expect people to focus in on something? And some people really like longer content, and there's definitely a place for that. But you have to be thoughtful about the fact that just because people are viewing this from home doesn't mean that you suddenly have unlimited time to be able to sit someplace, and doesn't mean that your attention is going to be the same.\nCorey: I thought that Build worked for this masterfully. The longer form content, people appreciate that is great. I'm not one, personally, I have attention span issues, which is pretty obvious by anyone who knows me. I sometimes struggle to have the attention span to complete writing a tweet. But there's a lot of people for whom that is very much not true, and that is the way that they absorb things best. I love the fact that there are different sizes of content, different formats, and different ways of meeting people where they are. I agree with you, as far as what you said earlier, where there's tremendous value to me in going to in-person events and meeting people and forging connections. That's where we met a year ago at build.\nChristina: Sure is.\nCorey: The problem there is there has to be a business value that can be articulated to get that critical mass, and if we can say that an online event is 90 percent as good as being at an in-person event, then great. Is that extra 10 percent worth the additional expense to the business? And by expense, I'm not talking to the hotel and airfare. That's usually irrelevant. Now that I run a business and see the economics, I believe that more than ever. It's the opportunity cost of you're not going to get anything else done for one to three days while you're at this event. So, is that cost worth bearing? For an awful lot of conferences I've been to, the answer that has been, not really.\nChristina: Yeah, no, I mean I think it's a really good question. And that's going to, I think, really impact the event business going forward more than just the traditional, can people travel, and do people feel safe being in large groups, and what is the appropriate thing to do there? I think you're right, people have to evaluate the business benefits, and what the cost is. And in some cases, I think you can say there are certain conferences where, yes, it is worth it. It is worth whatever the cost is going to be, whether it's the hard costs, or if it's going to be something like the time and what goes into it, what you can potentially get out of it is going to be worth that. And for some things, that's maybe not. And so I think a lot of events are going to have to really start thinking about what is our value and how do we make sure that we can get that across, whether it's virtual or it's in person.\nCorey: One of the things that people are getting wrong across the board right now, is this idea that whether your talk is good or not is going to depend on what kind of microphone you have, what kind of camera you're using, how well you wind up looking at the camera versus off to the side. And all of those things are definite value-adds, but the thing that's going to make or break it is, is the content good, or is it crap? Because people will suffer through an awful lot for good content. I would talk to you on this podcast over a rusty set of tin cans and a string if I need to. But it doesn't matter how good the production quality is if you're boring.\nChristina: Yes, that's a very, very good point. And you'd mentioned something earlier that said people are used to giving talks in person, and now they have to do things online, and I do think that's actually something that's important to point out and it's something that changes a little bit in my job because historically I've done a lot of in-person talks, that's been a big part of my job. I'm fortunate in the sense that I have actually more experience, and in some ways, I'm more comfortable doing things either pre-recorded like a podcast or even live video to a camera. I have more experience that way than I do in person. And if I'm being honest about my own strengths, I'm probably better in front of a camera than I am in front of a crowd. I think I'm a very good public speaker in front of a crowd, but I think I'm better\u2014\nCorey: You are, in case you wondered.\nChristina: \u2014thank you, but I think I'm better in front of a camera. And the reality is, is that they are different skill sets. Now, that doesn't mean you can't achieve both, but you have to think about it a little bit differently because when you're giving a talk in person, you do have the immediate feedback loop of the audience. You can feel that energy, for better or for worse, you can see what the feedback is, and you can riff. a lot of people are built off of that, and it can really change the dynamic of what the presentation that they give can be when you see really fantastic live speakers, they are, in my opinion, usually people that are completely feeding off the energy of the audience, and then the audience in return is feeding off of their energy, too.\nAnd it's different when you're presenting virtually or to a camera. It's just a different concept because you don't have that feedback loop. And I think that a number of people who are really, really good public speakers aren't necessarily as comfortable on camera or on microphone because they don't have the experience. They watch themselves back, and they're like, \"Do I sound like that? Does my voice really sound this way? Is my movements, are those things correct? What is my eyeline like?\" People can become obsessed about little things, and that\u2014maybe they feel more stilted\u2014and that can affect the experience.\nAnd so I think this is something that a lot of people are going to have to start playing around with and getting more comfortable with on their own about how they can do the right things and make that content, to your point, interesting. So that it, regardless of the quality of your camera or your microphone\u2014obviously those things can help\u2014people want to continue to engage and stay tuned because you're right: we will pull up with a lot, if the content is good enough. But the minute that the content is anything other than just exceptional, those other things, in my opinion, like the audio quality and video quality, that then starts to really just become a bigger and bigger issue, and makes you just that much closer to [crosstalk]\u2014\nCorey: [crosstalk] sound like a jerk, so that's going to be a problem.\nChristina: Yeah.\nCorey: I, fortunately, wound up doing a little bit of video work a couple years ago when I took over some of the release review segments for the A Cloud Guru video training series. And that was, again, doing video right, to some extent. They had a production studio there, or they would have a video crew that would come in and do the recording here, so I had people dealing with things. Remember back we could have people working on video, and\u2014\nCorey: \u2014[crosstalk] ourselves?\nChristina: I miss that.\nCorey: And it's a very different experience because I spent a lot of time on stage, and I flatter myself perhaps, but I believe I give good talks. And the reason I give good talks is because I gave a lot of terrible talks for a while, first. That is sort of the progression that it takes. But it's a completely different skill set. I normally will have a few bullet points on a slide, and the presenter notes at most, and I'll get up on stage and riff off of it. That doesn't work; there's nothing to riff off; there's no energy; it's you and the camera. So, I started using a teleprompter and writing these things out. It helps that I write the way that I speak, so that makes it easier, but using a teleprompter is its own skill.\nChristina: It is. It is. I use a teleprompter for the show that I do, This Week on Channel 9 and I'm really good on a teleprompter. I was fortunate that I had teleprompter experience before I joined Microsoft, but it's interesting because I've worked with a lot of colleagues who they've never used teleprompters before, and then they do for the first time and you think it'll be easier than it is. And it's not. It takes time to get the timing and to get the other things down and even writing how you write your script for the teleprompter and making sure things are spaced out enough and that you've got things moving at the right speeds.\nThat all takes work, and you've got to figure it out. But to your point, I'm the same way: when I give live speeches, I tend to speak more extemporaneously, and I tend to riff more because you can. But if you were doing something in a recorded scenario, you don't have that same luxury because you have to stay consistent and on track, and it's one thing if we're having a conversation like you and I are right now. You can have your outline of your notes, and we can note things we want to say, but it actually works better if we're not scripted.\nCorey: You can use notes? That would make this way easier?\nChristina: Well, you have notes but, you know, you have [crosstalk]\u2014\nCorey: Well, I would hope I do, but you'd be surprised how unprepared I am these days.\nChristina: But what I mean. You have kind of an idea. You don't have anything scripted out, but you maybe have an idea of what you want to talk about. That works for this sort of scenario, and for these sorts of conversations. It doesn't work if I'm presenting how to do something if I'm going to talk about how to create an Azure static web app. I need to actually\u2014this is going to be a recorded thing. I need to have it as scripted as well as possible so that I know that I'm not missing anything because people are going to be consuming it in a different context.\nCorey: Right. I'd be curious to hear your teleprompter story because my experience has been that there are traditional, extremely expensive, professional teleprompters, yada, yada. What I use are these metal and glass things that sit on a tripod, you put the camera inside of it, and then it has a holder at the front where you can put a tablet or a phone there. I [unintelligible] for a dedicated, cheap iPad that has a teleprompter app off the store.\nChristina: Same.\nCorey: And that sounded great. Now, the first version of the app that I looked at, great. It could hear what I was saying and automatically scroll to match where I was in the script. It's sucked. It was terrible. There was no good way to do it. How did you solve that problem?\nChristina: Yeah, so I use an app called Teleprompter Premium, I believe is what it's called from JoeAllenPro. This is for iOS, and they actually have an Apple Watch app, too. I believe it might be able to do that thing where it can hear you, but I don't do that. Instead what I do is I set the way that it scrolls, and then I set that to a cadence that I can keep up with and talk to. And so it took a lot of testing and training to know this is the right speed of scrolling for me.\nReally a big part of it was me learning to write my scripts the right way and knowing that I need to space things out in certain sections and not have really long blocks of text, to be able to have things that I can get through. And that was the big thing, knowing how to write the scripts correctly so that when it's scrolling, I don't have to worry about it adjusting based on me talking. That would be great, and some of the professional teleprompters can do that, but most broadcasters, how most of their work works is that the teleprompter is controlled by an actual technician. So, they are actually manually adjusting the script based on how the anchor is speaking, and they can either speed things up or slow it down, or go to a completely different section if that's what they need to do. So, that's how it works in broadcast.\nSo, to approximate when you're doing it yourself, I do like the app that I use because it has an Apple Watch app, meaning I can stop, or speed up, or pause, or whatever, if something is going too fast because what'll happen occasionally is I'll be recording something, I'll be like, \"Oh, I've gotten ahead of myself here,\" or, \"This is going too fast, I need to go back,\" And rather than having to stop, go to the camera, scroll back, I can just use my Apple Watch to do that, which is useful.\nCorey: In what you might be forgiven for mistaking for a blast from the past, today I want to talk about New Relic. They seem to be a relatively legacy monitoring company, and I would have agreed with that assessment up until relatively recently. But they did something a little out there: they reworked everything. They went open source, they made it so you can monitor your whole stack in one place and, most notably from my perspective, they simplified their pricing into something that is much more affordable for almost everyone. There's even a free tier with one user and 100 gigs per month, totally free. Check it out at newrelic.com.\nCorey: On of the ways that I got around that particular problem myself because I was already learning a bunch of new skills and didn't really want to have to learn script writing and being able to plan the cadence of what I was going to say in that way is, I put a little thought into this, and because I've used apps that have the remote control with something you hold, an iPhone, for example, but then you have to make sure it stays on, make sure you're tapping it in the right way, sometimes it's not as responsive. So, what I did next was I wound up spending 100 bucks on Amazon, which sells pretty much everything, and most of them useless, but this was pretty great. It's a pair of foot pedals that wind up acting as a\u2014you can remap it in their app to a bunch of different keystrokes whatever makes sense, so I can either have it control the speed, go back, go forward, I could have it advanced line by line, or page by page\u2014\nChristina: Oh, that's genius.\nCorey: \u2014because I'm not doing videos where anything in my lower half is exposed, so it's not noticeable when I'm tapping something with my foot.\nChristina: Right, right.\nCorey: I'm sitting here smiling, looking calm and composed, meanwhile, I'm frantically tap dancing underneath the table.\nChristina: Okay, that is a brilliant idea. Okay, I'm going to steal that because that's even better than my Apple Watch solution, honestly.\nCorey: It also lets me to have my hands on camera, and not look like I'm sitting there scrolling.\nChristina: Yeah, I mean, well, usually what I would do is I would have it scroll, and I have my hands, and then if I needed to stop and go back, that's when I would use the Apple Watch to scroll back if I needed to. But I really like the foot pedal idea. That's brilliant.\nCorey: Yeah, these are these little things I've iterated on, again. Normally\u2014please learn from my mistakes so that you don't have to wind up making the same\u2014\nChristina: No, this is great.\nCorey: \u2014sort of path that I do. I spent extortionate amounts of money on equipment that is sitting unplugged in the closet, because, \"Well, that was generation three. I'm now on generation six of my podcast setup,\" and it's ridiculous, but it works, and it iterates forward. The problem is everyone has an opinion on this stuff, and opinions are terrible unless they're your own.\nChristina: [laughs]. Yeah, no, I mean, that's true. I mean, we were joking before we started talking that we can kind of\u2014and I think this is regardless of what field you're in, and I know this isn't as cloud-centric, but I think that whether you're an implementer or a developer or whatever, we're all now in this space where we've had to become AV experts overnight because it's become a crucial part of our job, and of course, Amazon sells everything except they don't have capture cards, and certain equipment in stock. To try to find a webcam these days is still over to kill us challenge because all of a sudden, we have to have these really high tech setups at home if you want things to be as good as possible. And you can fall down a rabbit hole in that way, too, where maybe you go too far.\nLike for what you're doing, I think that it makes sense for you to iterate and to continue to find the best solution possible. I do think that sometimes, you know, regular people, if you're just in Zoom calls, you might not need to be spending $1,000 on the camera and getting the pro microphone and whatnot. You could do much, much better at a fraction of the cost and still improve your quality significantly. But it does change things if you're now going to be connecting with people and creating content online, it's\u2014I've kind of been joking with people, it's like, we're all YouTubers now, and we're all having to set up these home studios, and learn these tricks, like setting up pedals to control a teleprompter, or using a stream deck to have macros that will control the front parts of your screen as you're capturing things and sharing code that you're working on. These are components that are different from what would be the case normally if you could go into a studio and work with professionals who would handle a lot of that for you, or if you're presenting something in a live setting, which is just different.\nCorey: One of the things that surprises me a bit is when I talked to people about what I've done, they said, \"Oh yeah, after this pandemic, you're going to just stay home and do all this in your AV studio, right?: Hell no. I'm going to go back to doing what I should be doing now, and having the sense to hire professionals to do these things. Because it would be great if I didn't have to advance the teleprompter, for example, or someone else could work on the light balance. Or I don't do what happened once already, where I sit there and record a 20-minute video and then send it off for editing, and the response I got back for my video was, \"That's great. But let's try one more take, and this time, maybe don't mute the microphone.\" It's the, going through the iterative, dumb mistakes that everyone does. Having a team of professionals who are good at things is absolutely worth pursuing. It is worth paying for expertise, full stop because there's never enough time in the day to do everything, so being able to delegate to subject matter experts is absolutely worth doing. Sort of the whole premise is, I would argue, very directly aligned with Cloud.\nChristina: I completely agree. Actually, that's a perfect analogy, you're right. It's about figuring out, focus on what you're good at and what you want to do, and letting other people handle the rest of it because doing all of it, as we're learning, is a lot. I mean, my background, I studied film and video production in college. I spent a number of years\u2014my career before Microsoft\u2014doing tons of stuff on camera and actually creating content.\nI have a tremendous amount of video experience. I still would much rather have a professional camera people having their lighting setup, having their infrastructure, do what I'm doing because yes, I can set it up and I can probably do a pretty good job of making things work the way I want, but it takes a lot of effort, and it takes time away from doing things that I would really like to be focusing on. I would like to do some of the other things, you know? And what we've actually been doing as we've been recording things for Channel 9 or Microsoft Developer, our YouTube and online video presence for various things, is we've actually been working with remote producers, which has been really nice, where we'll connect with somebody over Skype, and then they'll use a tool called OBS, or the Open Broadcast System, to capture and composite things, and the producer will do a lot of the compositing, and the graphical work, and then some of the editing so that the content creator doesn't have to do that, which is really nice. But there's still elements you have to do to kind of make sure okay, what does my camera framing look like? How does my audio sound? [crosstalk]\u2014\nCorey: Great video. Your fly was undone the entire time. [crosstalk]\u2014\nChristina: Yeah, which that's a mistake I've made, too. We were doing some of our free content, kind of our teaser content for Microsoft Build, and I recorded these videos and then realized that I wasn't recording audio. I mean, this was a case where I had a remote producer who was listening and was watching\u2014so basically, they were almost in real-time, they were watching me as I was looking into my camera, and they were saying, \"Okay, let's try this again.\" They were giving me prompts, and they were listening. And we did this, we had two hours and thankfully it was in the first hour, it's after the first hour ended, I realized I wasn't recording my audio.\nCorey: One thing I do want to call out is that before this sounds like we are just incredibly overprivileged, which we are\u2014\nCorey: \u2014but that's beside the point, I want to call out that in both of our cases, these are business expenses that are aimed at a goal. I mean, this podcast, for example, is sponsored. I make money by doing these podcasts. If you're trying to build a personal brand, and no one is paying you for, and you're doing it for the love of it, whatever you've got is fine. You can do this on your phone, start out and see if it's viable first.\nWhen I started this podcast, I had a series of checkpoints\u2014same with a newsletter and the rest\u2014that if I hadn't hit certain goals with them, I was going to wind them down. I didn't want to be someone where I'd been running this podcast for seven years and had almost 60 whole subscribers. At that point, why bother? There needs to be at least a critical mass of audience members, and it has to resonate, it has to be something that catches on. The other podcast I do, the AWS Morning Brief for example, back before they got acquired by Cisco, ThousandEyes sponsored a twelve-week miniseries on that called, \"Networking in the Cloud.\" And it was more or less a network primer introduction in the time of Cloud. I thought that would be great. I'll turn to an ongoing running series. Yeah, after episode eight, I was running pretty low on the list of ideas, and at this point, I don't want to talk about it ever again because it turns out it's not interesting enough. It's not a broad enough topic from my perspective, to come up with interesting and creative conversational topics every week. So, that didn't pan out. But always have a plan. Start small, iterate forward. My first newsletter was written in Google Docs. Now I have a whole production system, but I didn't start that way.\nChristina: No, I think you're exactly right. And I think, as engineers, a lot of times are impulse, I know\u2014maybe I'm just speaking for myself, maybe I'm projecting, but I think a lot of times our impulse is to just buy the best. We read all the reviews, and we just want to go immediately to the top to the high end: I'm going to get all these things. And certainly, when I was starting out when I was making movies when I was a kid, that was the thing. Saved all this money for a Mini DV camera, and I got the best one that I could get, and I was more focused on the equipment than I was on the actual skills itself.\nAnd the camera was great, but it doesn't matter if what you're doing with it either isn't done correctly or, to your point, if people aren't seeing it. And so, I mean, yeah, I think that if this is something that is a business expense and something you can iterate over time, you can invest more, but you're right people's phones at this point, the front-facing camera on your iPhone is better than any webcam you can get first of all, but it's also going to be in many cases, the video quality is better than a lot of DSLRs that are a couple of years old if you haven't spent a tremendous amount of money on them. And so for me, the advice I always give to people is that audio is the thing that you should look at upgrading first. Getting something like a $100 Blue Yeti USB mic for your computer can do a tremendous amount of work. If you don't have $100, spending $30 or $50 on a quality headset, or even looking at\u2014there are some other USB condenser mics that you can get that will really improve your sound quality. That's going to help tremendously because, my perspective, video quality matters a lot, but I think audio quality is more important because a lot of us\u2014and look I'm ADHD as well, so maybe\u2014I don't know if you are, but I'm ADHD\u2014\nCorey: Extensively.\nChristina: \u2014I multitask all the time. I listen to things more frequently than I'm watching. You know, if I'm watching, maybe it's in a smaller window, or it's on my iPad, I've got six other things open. So, video quality is important; it's more important if I can see if you're, like, showing a screencast, okay, capture that in as high of a resolution as you can, but what that person looks like, it's good, if there's good lighting, and other stuff that makes it more compelling, but really I need to be able to hear them. So, I always say to people, yeah focus on getting the Blue Yeti mic is great, or there are some options that are even less expensive than that, or even if you're just doing regular conversations with people in meetings, business meetings, just a proper headset will go a long way. And if things become\u2014\nCorey: AirPods are terrific these days for that sort of thing.\nChristina: Yeah, AirPods, I love my AirPods. I use a different microphone, but I often use my AirPods to listen to. So, I have a microphone that I might talk through, but my AirPods are fine. But you know what, when I was able to go into an office, I would often, on conference calls, use my AirPods. They're fantastic. That's a tremendous solution.\nSo, oftentimes you can reuse stuff you might use in other areas. But yeah, your phone is a great start. I mean, the cameras on smartphones these days are really, really good. And including the front-facing cameras. And so you don't have to spend a ton of money and go down that rabbit hole. You can, if it's something that's part of your business, and if you think that there can be value in it, and if you enjoy it, then iterate over time.\nBut it's not something where\u2014I mean, this is something that I have to tell people on my team, I have to caution against them because I see [unintelligible] the company's massive equipment list, and, like, \"What do you think of all this stuff?\" And I'm like, \"Well, it's great, but what are you doing, and do you really need all this, and couldn't we do this for 20 percent of the cost?\" And in most cases, you could. And then it's like, okay, if this becomes something you enjoy, that's when you can look at\u2014as you have, upgrading your setup, where you're on, now, like, version six.\nCorey: One of the things that we'll do periodically is ship out a USB microphone to people.\nChristina: Yeah, we do that, too.\nCorey: They cost 60 bucks a pop, and it's great. It works super well. There are a few different models in that price range, depending on what's in stock right now, it's a bit harder than other times, and that works super well. But the next year is the tier that I'm recording in now, which is about 400 bucks a microphone, and it makes sense. There's another tier as well beyond this, that's around $4,000. And I have no interest in getting that because, at this point, it wouldn't make any meaningful difference until I\u2014\nChristina: No. If you're not recording music, if you're doing voice, and you've got to think that for the sort of content that we're doing\u2014okay, for you, it's a podcast, meaning that it's going to be compressed down to, like, 64 kilobits, maybe 32, more than likely mono. It's going to be an MP3 file that someone listens to. You do not need a $4,000 microphone. You don't because you're not recording instruments, you're not recording vocals, you don't need it. So\u2014\nCorey: And it's worse than that because before you get any of the benefit from that microphone, you have to effectively turn the room you're recording in into a sound studio with sound deadening and very specific acoustic things. I have room noise here that I've done a fair bit of work to muffle, but this is my home office as well as my podcast recording studio, and I've always wanted to have it be comfortable to work in. I will admit now it's getting less comfortable to work in, just because of the video equipment. There are portions of the office that are no longer open for my use in pacing. I have to thread my way through microphone booms, and lighting racks, and the rest.\nChristina: God, I know. Welcome to my life. I got a green screen, and I got one of the Elgatos and we had one that\u2014\nCorey: I had two screens because the first one, it turns out I now know how tall 10 feet is.\nChristina: [laughs]. Oh no. Oh no. Well, see, this was a similar case for me where I had to actually\u2014I mounted mine on the wall because my ceilings are too high, but it's one that I can pull down from rather than raise up, but I wanted to get one of those because it was like, okay, I could get the muslin, and the stands and set it up, but that's the whole thing. And I just don't have the room, frankly, to be able to tear that down and put it back up when it's needed.\nYou know, another point, yeah, you bring out, you have to have the right room connections, the right dampening or whatever the case may be, but you also need the right amps, and configuration and equipment to actually be able to use that. That $4,000 microphone is going to need a really expensive amp, and you're going to need to have somebody who can really understand those levels so that they can get the best out of it. And also, if you were to go into any radio station in the world, like the top tier radio stations, you usually see them on probably a $400 mic maybe\u2014\nCorey: Yeah, Joe Rogan is constantly on, I think SM7B in pictures I've seen.\nChristina: Yeah. But I've been in iHeartRadio, I've been in the place where Ryan Seacrest does his show. He was not there, but I was interviewing Bob Pittman, and we were in Ryan's space. And I felt kind of good about myself because I looked at the microphone he was using. I don't remember the model, but it wasn't that much better than the HEiL that I have that I don't even use. And then the headphones that they use\u2014and this is true. Any recording studio that you will go to, you just see those 7506 Sony's that have been around for 30 years. That's the standard. So, to me, if people who are doing radio and are doing these things professionally, if they're not spending $4,000 on a microphone, then you at home, absolutely have no reason to, unless you are actually doing musical recording, and that's a completely different thing.\nCorey: Yeah, Taylor Swift probably has a $4,000 microphone.\nChristina: Oh, I'm sure she does. [crosstalk] does.\nCorey: And you can always throw money at this. Some of the RED cameras I was looking into, it's like, \"Oh, what if I just buy the best?\" Well, it turns out the best starts at $25,000, and I have a lot of other things I'll buy first.\nChristina: Right. And it turns out that to get the best out of that, you need to have a lot of experience. A guy that we've worked with before at Microsoft is a guy who has a RED, and is really good with it, and does a lot of work, and actually paid it off because he's really good at operating his RED, and so will do work for people using it. But if you don't know how to use that, if you don't know how to get the most out of that, that RED camera that you've spent all that money on, is not going to be of any benefit to you. It's like, look if you're MKBHD, Marques Brownlee, and your brand is to have these beautifully shot and composed kind of tech porn videos of gadget reviews, awesome, right?\nBut most people, that's not the case. And again, you have to think about how are people viewing this? It's going to be in a small window, maybe on a phone, maybe on an iPad, maybe just listening to the audio, and so you think about there are things you can do with your content that is better. I feel like lighting and audio are the two things that are the least expensive to really significantly improve, but are the things that have the biggest impact on keeping people engaged, making you feel comfortable because has a quality experience coming out of it. Get some sort of key light, or some sort of other major light source, and step up your microphone.\nTo your point, when we have guests on Rocket, a podcast that I do, we send people USB mics. We started doing that a couple of years ago because the quality otherwise just wasn't reliable, and it was such a small expense, assuming you can find things in stock, and it was such a small expense, considering how good the output could be otherwise. So, I mean, we would even do some certain Plantronics headsets if we needed to. We were really trying to budget for people and turns out great. It's a great investment to make to really improve the final product.\nCorey: I would agree with everything you've said. It's strange how if someone had told me six months ago that, well I spent a lot of time this next year thinking about audio equipment, \"Oh, am I going to be famous on YouTube?\" No.\nChristina: No. I'm just going to be on calls.\nCorey: \u2014I am not going to famous on YouTube. We're going to be trapped indoors for a year. It's like someone wished on a monkey's paw, and here we are.\nChristina: Yeah, yeah. And it's so weird for me because I'm somebody who I've spent the majority of my career doing podcasts, doing video, and even for me, it's different. Doing it from home and doing it yourself, and in just the times that we're living in, so many people have made this comment that this is not normal times; this isn't normal working from home; this isn't normal production from home. Things aren't available as much, and so we all have to adapt to the different changes. But it is very weird. You know, a year ago, I fully expected that you and I would be hanging out at Microsoft Build in person again. I'm so glad that I'm back on the podcast. I'm so glad that you are able to enjoy the event virtually, but\u2014\nCorey: You're welcome back anytime. And for some reason, apparently, people didn't take a lesson last time and invited me back to Build. I'll be in digital format this year. I imagine they'll fix that for next year. But if they don't, I'm thrilled.\nChristina: Yeah, no, I think we like having you there. You give it to us honest. You give us the good feedback that we need to hear, frankly. And I would say that for anybody who's listening, we didn't get into a lot of technical things in this conversation, but if you have feedback for us, positive or negative, let us know, or at least let me know and I can do what I can to get the feedback to the right people. I have no problem tracking people down and yelling at the right people. And we're listening. I mean, I think that's the biggest thing that all of us can take from this, is just, at least for me, it's reaffirmed how important it is to listen to people. Do a lot of talking, but it's really really important to listen.\nCorey: Yes, funny thing, we talk so much about microphones and never about headphones.\nChristina: Well, headphones are a whole other thing. Like I said, for audio stuff, I stick with my Sony 7506s, but when it comes to music fidelity, I have many many other opinions. But, yeah.\nCorey: Yes. Which is fodder for another time.\nChristina: It is. It is. Well, we could turn this into kind of an offshoot of Accidental Tech Podcast.\nCorey: There we go. Yeah, no, see, I'm not cool enough to hang out with famous people. That's still you. I mean, basically, you sometimes decide to go slumming and hang out on other, lesser podcasts like this one.\nChristina: No, no, no, no. And look, those guys\u2014look, they're way more famous than me, but they're also the biggest nerds, which I say in the best way. So.\nCorey: Of course. Thank you so much for taking the time to speak with me once again.\nChristina: Thank you, Corey, I really, really appreciate it.\nCorey: Christina Warren, senior cloud advocate at Microsoft. I am Cloud Economist Corey Quinn, and this is Screaming in the Cloud. If you've enjoyed this podcast, please leave a five-star review on Apple Podcasts, whereas if you've hated this podcast, please leave a five-star review on Apple Podcasts and a comment telling me why my audio setup is garbage.","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
+{"text":"Gender \/ LGBT \/ Reflections\n12 Things I Wish I'd Been Told As A Baby Trans\n- 06\/10\/2020 06\/10\/2020 - Quenby\nCW: Transphobia\nThis is a post that's been brewing for a while. It's hard thinking about this, remembering the scared baby trans I used to be. Thinking about all I still had to learn and go through. But it's good to reflect on how far I've come. And who knows, perhaps it'll help someone whose in that difficult place.\n1) Take a leap of faith\nYou've been feeling this for a long time. For years you've felt like an imposter, never quite clicking with the gender you've been told is yours. You shied away from that knowledge because false certainty feels familiar. But you'll never feel comfortable in your skin until you take that leap into the unknown.\n2) You don't have to know everything\nIt can feel like every other trans person knows who they are and have all this knowledge about who they are and where they fit into the community. It's ok not to feel like that. First of all EVERYONE is still working shit out. Secondly that knowledge comes after recognising you're trans and spending time thinking and experimenting. There's no need to rush into a new identity, take time to learn about yourself.\n3) This is as important as you want it to be\nFor some people being trans is one small part of who they are. For others it changes every part of their life and becomes a pivotal part of their identity. Neither one is 'the right way' to be trans. YOU get to choose how important this is to you.\n4) It's ok to inconvenience people\nIt can be scary to ask people to use new pronouns, or try a different name. It can be hard to ask people to do this thing for you, and awkward to insist when people make mistakes or push back. But it's ok to ask people to do this for you. YOU CAN ASK PEOPLE TO DO THIS FOR YOU.\n5) Actually clothes can be important\nYou might think that clothes aren't important, that fashion is silly and frivolous. But clothes can help you express yourself and explore your identity. Ask friends to braid flowers in your hair, spend afternoons in clothes stores, play with makeup. Take some time to be a little vain and find your style.\n6) You don't owe people a performance\nYou'll face new pressures as a trans person. People might expect you to adhere to certain models of transness and perform your gender in certain ways. You don't owe anyone that. If you bum around in jeans and a t-shirt that in no way negates your transness. Listen to how you feel day by day rather than trying to match somebody else's standards.\n7) You don't have to tell everyone\nPeople don't have a right to know this. Not everyone needs to know at the same time. Tell different groups of people as and when you feel safe and comfortable doing so.\n8) You will lose friends over this\nYou want to believe your friends will continue to support you. But not all of them will. Some will say outright that they can't accept this, others will show you through their actions. You can try to rationalise this in so many ways, but the simple truth is that it sucks. I wish you didn't have to go through that pain.\n9) You'll make new friends\nThere's a whole community of trans people out there, and you'll connect with some of them. They will support you, love you, and help you see who you can become. Treasure these people, they're among the best friends you'll ever have.\n10) Some trans people are pricks as well\nThe trans community contains a lot of wonderful people. But it's not a utopia. There are people who'll exclude you for being too fat, too loud, too much, or just because they're shitty people. Be careful who you trust, don't assume they'll have your back just because they share this one thing.\n11) You will get stared at in the street\nWhenever you present as femme in public you'll get stared at. Every. Single. Time. It hurts, less and less as time goes on, but it still hurts. Every single time. Wear your pride as armour. Never give them the satisfaction of seeing that pain.\n12) It's worth it\nDespite all the struggles you have to face, you won't regret this. Not for a single day. You can't even see the growth and joy which branches out ahead of you. Life is so much better when you're honest about who you are.\nWriting this was painful and beautiful and cathartic. I hope you got something out of reading this too. If you're trans yourself feel free to share something you wish you knew when you first realised. If you'd like to support my work you can check out my shop or tip me directly.\nQueer Rituals\nFuck Mental Health Awareness\n4 thoughts on \"12 Things I Wish I'd Been Told As A Baby Trans\"\nPingback: Sharing sex-positive shit: October 2020 - On Queer Street\nPingback: Trans Joy - Elliot Page` - Quenby Creatives\nPLJ says:\nThank you for sharing this wonderful post. it is so nice to hear about people grappling with similar issues and on a similar journey.\nPlease add me to your mailing list.\nPingback: Writing Portfolio - Quenby Creatives","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
+{"text":"Notable games\nU Sports Tournament results\nPlayer awards and honours\nUniversity Awards\nOUA Awards\nU Sports Awards\nLady Blues in Olympic hockey\nBlues in pro hockey\nToronto Varsity Blues women's ice hockey\nUniversity of Toronto women's ice hockey program\nOUA\nVicky Sunohara\n11th season, 203\u201396\u201331\nPeter McBride\nSafiya Muharuma\nKelly O'Hanlon\nJessica Turi\nDave Wakabayashi (goalie)\nU Sports Tournament championships\nU Sports Tournament appearances\nConference Tournament championships\n1980, 1981, 1982, 1984, 1985, 1986, 1988, 1989, 1990, 1991, 1992, 1993, 1994, 1996, 2000, 2001, 2003, 2020\nThe Toronto Varsity Blues women's ice hockey program represents the University of Toronto in the Ontario University Athletics conference of U Sports. Three-time Olympic medalist Vicky Sunohara has served as head coach since the 2011\u201312 season.\nBlue goalie 2014.\nOn December 12, 1922, the Lady Blues joined the Ladies Ontario Hockey Association (LOHA) and paid dues of eleven dollars: six dollars association fee, five dollars one time fee.[1] The Lady Blues were the LOHA Provincial Champions in 1924.[2] In 1925, the Lady Blues withdrew from the LOHA, taking issue with certain unsatisfactory aspects of competition and debate as to the acceptable definition of womanhood.[3]\nIn 1993, (although the Lady Blues won 13 of the last 15 provincial championships), a task force recommended that the University of Toronto cut the team for financial reasons.[4] Justine Blainey, a member of the team, organized a \"Save the Team\" night that raised over $8,000. She personally called 100 alumni during a one-week fundraising blitz. Blainey had previously earned national recognition as she endured five different court cases before finally having her case heard by the Supreme Court of Canada in 1986 because the Metro Toronto Hockey League denied her the opportunity to play hockey for them in 1981.[5]\nDuring the 2000-01 regular season, the Lady Blues accumulated an undefeated record with 22 wins and no losses or ties. They outscored all opponents by a 114-14 margin. In the OUA playoffs, the Lady Blues defeated Toronto rival York University by a 4-1 mark and shut out Laurier 5-0 to win the OUA championship.\nHeading into the 2001 National Championships, the Lady Blues were seeded Number 1 overall. The Lady Blues first game was a resounding 12\u20131 victory over the hosting Calgary Dinos. In the semifinal, the Lady Blues would proceed to eliminate the McGill Martlets by a 4\u20131 tally. The championship game was a closer affair, with the Lady Blues besting the Regina Cougars in a 4-3 triumph. It was the Lady Blues first national championship in CIS women's hockey. Of note, the Varsity Blues managed to defeat every other top team in the nation that season. The teams that were defeated included Regina, Concordia, Alberta, McGill and Saskatchewan, as the Lady Blues finished with an overall win loss record of 35-0-0.[6]\nBlues player 2014.\nOn February 25, 1997, a little-known rule denies the Blues' their second consecutive title. The OWIAA gold medal game in Waterloo, Ontario resulted in a controversial finish. Lady Blues player Jayna Hefford scored 23 seconds into overtime in the OWIAA gold medal game against the York Yeowomen at Waterloo Memorial Arena. The Lady Blues believed they had claimed the provincial championship.\nOWIAA league rules indicated that the first five-minute overtime session in a playoff game must be played in its entirety (as a regular period). It was advised that the game would continue after Hefford's goal. York University (known as the Yeowomen at the time) tied the game with 1:47 left in the first overtime. Sari Krooks broke in on the right wing and scored on Keely Brown.\nA second overtime period began and this overtime period was classified as sudden death. York skater Shanley White took advantage of a Lady Blues clearing error. She scored on the error and York prevailed by a 3-2 mark in double overtime to claim the OWIAA gold medal. The Lady Blues loss ended the Blues' undefeated season, and gave York its first championship in 10 years.\nThe two played a scoreless opening period, but the Lady Blues scored ten seconds into the second period when Hefford passed to linemate Laura Schuler, and beat goalie Debra Ferguson. York tied the game 26 seconds into the third period which led into overtime. Despite winning the silver medal, the Lady Blues ended its regular season with a 13-0-2 record. In the semifinal, the Lady Blues defeated the Guelph Gryphons by a 4-1 tally. In that game, Laura Schuler had a hat trick, while Hefford added three assists.[7]\nOn February 11, 2000, the Ontario University Athletics women's ice hockey program saw its longest game take place. The University of Toronto's Rhonda Mitchell scored on a 35-foot slap shot. It was the 5:07 mark of the eighth period and the Varsity Blues defeated the York Lions women's ice hockey program. Although the victory allowed the U of T to advance to the OUA gold medal game, it was the longest in the history of Canadian women's hockey.[8] The game lasted over five hours and ten minutes. York's player of the game was goaltender Debra Ferguson, who made 63 saves over 125 minutes in net.[9]\n2019 #8 First Round\nConsolation Bracket\nFifth place game #1 Alberta\n#4 St. Thomas\n#6 Manitoba L 3\u20132\nAlison Houston, 2001 CIS Goaltending Champion (0.40 GAA)\nKaren Hughes, CIS coach of the Year, 2001[10]\nJen Rawson, 2001 CIS Tournament MVP honors\n2020 Toronto Varsity Blues Female Rookie of the Year: Natasha Athanasakos[11]\n2014 Toronto Varsity Blues Female Athlete of the Year: Nicole Kesteris[12]\nKaren Hughes, 2001 OUA Coach of the Year\nJen Rawson, 2001 OUA all-star\nJen Rawson, 2001 OUA Athlete of the Year\nVicky Sunohara, 2020 OUA Female Coach of the Year\nOUA All-Stars\nTaylor Day \u2013 Forward \u2013 2017 OUA First-Team All-Star\nCristine Chao \u2013 Defence \u2013 2017 OUA First-Team All-Star\nOUA Most Sportsmanlike\nCristine Chao 2018\/19\nErica Fryer, U Sports Athlete of the Month, January 2020[13]\nMarion Hilliard Award\nThe Marion Hilliard Award recognizes excellence in an OUA women's hockey student-athlete in three areas: hockey, academics and community involvement.\nBridget Bates, 1999\nJenny McRae, 2003\nSue McCutcheon, 2005\nAll-Canadian honours\nUrszula May, 1999 CIS First Team All-Canadian\nAli MacMillan, 1998 CIS Second Team All-Canadian\nSue Anne Van Damme, 1998 CIS Second Team All-Canadian\nJen Rawson, 2000 CIS Second Team All-Canadian\nHeather Vance, 2000 CIS Second Team All-Canadian\nAlison Houston, 2001 CIS Second Team All-Canadian\nSusie Laska, 2001 CIS Second Team All-Canadian\nKim Malcher, 2003 CIS Second Team All-Canadian\nSafiya Muharuma, 2004 CIS Second Team All-Canadian\nKim Devereaux, 2006 CIS Second Team All-Canadian\nStephanie Lockert, 2007 CIS Second Team All-Canadian[14]\nU Sports All-Rookie\nCristine Chao, 2015-16 U Sports All-Rookie[15]\nAnnie Del Guidice Canada: 2009 Winter Universiade [16]\nKaren Hughes General Manager Canada: 2009 Winter Universiade\nNicole Kesteris Canada: 2015 Winter Universiade[17]\nLauren Straatman Canada: Ice hockey at the 2019 Winter Universiade[18]\nPlayer Position School Event Result\nLesley Reddon[19] Goaltender University of Toronto 1998 Winter Olympics Silver\nLori Dupuis Forward University of Toronto 1998 Winter Olympics Silver\nLori Dupuis Forward University of Toronto 2002 Winter Olympics Gold\nJayna Hefford Forward University of Toronto 1998 Winter Olympics Silver\nJayna Hefford Forward University of Toronto 2002 Winter Olympics Gold\nLaura Schuler Forward University of Toronto 1998 Winter Olympics Silver\nVicky Sunohara Forward University of Toronto 1998 Winter Olympics Silver\nVicky Sunohara Forward University of Toronto 2002 Winter Olympics Gold\nLeague(s)\nLori Dupuis F Brampton Thunder NWHL\nCWHL 2008 CWHL championship\nJayna Hefford F Brampton Thunder NWHL\nCWHL Gold medal: 2006 Esso Women's Nationals\n2008 CWHL championship\nVicky Sunohara F Brampton Thunder NWHL\nKarolina Urban F Calgary Inferno\nMarkham Thunder CWHL 2018 Clarkson Cup\nThe following players were selected in the 2010 CWHL Draft.[21]\nMary Modeste F Toronto Furies 2010 #39\nHeather Logan-Sprenger F Brampton Thunder 2010 #71\nOntario University Athletics women's ice hockey\n^ Wong, John Chi-Kit (2009). Coast to Coast: Hockey in Canada to the Second World War. Toronto: University of Toronto Press. p. 137. ISBN 9780802095329.\n^ Wong 2009, p. 150.\n^ Kidd, Bruce (1996). The Struggle for Canadian Sport. Toronto: University of Toronto Press. p. 103. doi:10.3138\/j.ctt2ttg6t. ISBN 978-0-8020-7664-9.\n^ http:\/\/webapps.utsc.utoronto.ca\/ose\/story.php?id=349[dead link]\n^ \"The Justine Blaine Story\". Dynamic Chiropractic. 16 (17). August 10, 1998.\n^ \"Blues to Honour 10th Anniversary of Perfect Season\". University of Toronto Athletics. January 31, 2011. Retrieved January 4, 2021.\n^ http:\/\/www.whockey.com\/team\/blues\/article\/The_Varsity_970225.txt[dead link]\n^ \"Women's Hockey Archives\". Ontario University Athletics. Archived from the original on July 6, 2011. Retrieved April 10, 2010.\n^ \"Saving Grace, The Longest Game in Hockey History\". York University. August 2000. Retrieved April 10, 2010. [dead link]\n^ \"2007 CIS Women's Ice Hockey Championship \u2013 Past Winners\". Canadian Interuniversity Sport. 2007. Archived from the original on March 3, 2007. Retrieved March 27, 2011.\n^ \"STAFFORD, THOMSON NAMED VARSITY BLUES ATHLETES OF THE YEAR\". varsityblues.ca\/. April 8, 2020. Retrieved July 12, 2021.\n^ Helen Picard (March 31, 2014). \"Kesteris, Chetrat named Varsity Blues athletes of the year\". thevarsity.ca\/. Retrieved July 12, 2021.\n^ \"January 2019 \u2014 Erica Fryer\". usports.ca\/. February 11, 2019. Retrieved June 25, 2021.\n^ \"2007-08 CIS Women's Hockey Championship Media Kit\" (PDF). Canadian Interuniversity Sport. Archived from the original (PDF) on September 29, 2011. Retrieved June 22, 2011.\n^ \"2015-16 U Sports Women's Hockey Awards and All-Canadians\". presto-en.usports.ca. Retrieved May 6, 2021.\n^ \"CAN Announces Women's Ice Hockey Team for Harbin\". fisu.net. January 9, 2009. Retrieved May 4, 2021.\n^ \"2015 Winter Universiade: CIS announces Canadian women's hockey roster\". universitysport.prestosports.com. October 24, 2014. Retrieved May 6, 2021.\n^ \"Canadian men's and women's hockey teams announced for 2019 FISU Winter Universiade\". usports.ca. February 22, 2019. Retrieved April 30, 2021.\n^ \"Lesley Reddon\". Sports Reference.com. Archived from the original on April 17, 2020. Retrieved April 10, 2010.\n^ \"CWHL 2010-11 Draft\". Canadian Women's Hockey League. Archived from the original on December 28, 2010. 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+{"text":"We buy all over Wales \/ Cymru\nincluding Asgarby\n& from United States including Needles.\nSwingbeat\nWriter \/ Novelist\n60s Beat\nWE BUY VINYL RECORD, CDS & MUSIC MEMORABILIA COLLECTIONS IN SILOH CARMARTHENSHIRE\/SIR GAERFYRDDIN\nWe will travel to Siloh in Carmarthenshire\/Sir Gaerfyrddin to buy your Rare Records, CDs and Pop Memorabilia and we are buying in all of the following local Siloh areas below.\nAll areas covered in Siloh in Carmarthenshire\/Sir Gaerfyrddin.\nTo see a list of all the other towns in Carmarthenshire\/Sir Gaerfyrddin we buy from click here.\nWe are a better than a Siloh high street record shop, independent record shop, record fair or any other place to sell your records in a Market, Town Centre or Siloh Shopping Centre, Center or Mall and we will pay more than a Siloh HMV, Our Price, Zavvi, Fopp, Virgin or Rough Trade shop. We buy unwanted Christmas \/ Xmas \/ Birthday gifts & presents from the 1960s, 1970s, 1980s, 1990s, 2000s and 2010s.\nWe also buy Records and CD collections in house clearances and from dead or deceased relatives in the North, South, East and West of Carmarthenshire\/Sir Gaerfyrddin\nRemember, we will travel to Siloh in Carmarthenshire\/Sir Gaerfyrddin to buy your Rare Records, CDs and Pop Memorabilia and we are buying in all of the following local Siloh areas below.\nBLACK SABBATH Black Sabbath (2009 issue UK limited edition 16-track digitally remastered 2-LP vinyl set - Released on Friday the 13th February 1970 by Vertigo Records, the album was recorded and mixed in just three days and spawned the singles Evil Woman, Black Sabbath, N.I.B. and The Wizard and now comes expanded with a Bonus 9-track LP featuring outtakes from the November 1969 Black Sabbath sessions. Housed in a gatefold picture sleeve with promotional stamp over the barcodeplus illustrated inners featuring extensive sleeve notes by David Wells. This copy remains in near mint condition)\nTracklisting: LP1: Side A: 1. Black Sabbath 2. The Wizard 3. Behind The Wall Of Sleep 4. N.I.B. Side B: 5. Evil Woman, Don't Play Your Games With Me 6. Sleeping Village 7. Warning LP2: Side C: 1. Wicked World 2. Black Sabbath [Minus Rain and with Alternative Lyrics] 3. Black Sabbath [Instrumental] 4. The Wizard [with Jocular Banter] Side D: 5. Behind The Wall Of Sleep [With 'Dry' Vocal] 6. N.I.B. [Alternative Mix] 7. Evil Woman, Don't Play Your Games With Me [with Horns & Flute] 8. Sleeping Village [Alternative Mix] 9. Warning [Part 1]\nKATE BUSH Never For Ever (1980 Japanese 11-track vinyl LP including the singles Babooshka, Breathing and Army Dreamers. The gatefold picture sleeve with lyrics printed across the inside comes complete with the illustrated Japanese\/ lyric insert & matching obi-strip while the vinyl appears barely played EMS-81336)\nTracklisting: A1. Babooshka A2. Delius (Song Of Summer) A3. Blow Away (For Bill) A4. All We Ever Look For A5. Egypt B1. The Wedding List B2. Violin B3. The Infant Kiss B4. Night Scented Stock B5. Army Dreamers B6. Breathing","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
+{"text":"REPRISE from 2017: So, What Do We Do? We Keep on RESISTING!\nOffered by the SheVille Team on August 7, 2020 . Posted in Home & Community, Featured, Women's Lives & Education\nBy Jane Edwards-Spence (SheVille's personal political analyst\u2026aren't we lucky?)\nTreason against the United States is defined in Article III of the Constitution as \"levying war against [the United States], or in adhering to their enemies, giving them aid and comfort.\" Cleaving to, or joining an enemy, as President Donald J. Trump did today, and in the past, is treason. Pure and simple.\nThe Russians are our enemy because they committed overt acts of war against us. Russia's cyber-attack was much more than hacking the data of election systems. What Russian operatives did was to infest social platforms with disinformation, falsehoods, slander, and other acts aimed at manipulating the citizens of the United States into voting against their own interests, and to vote in a manner that favored Russian foreign policies.\nThere is no justifying Russia's attack with \"whataboutism\" (what Jill Daugherty, CNN, refers to as a \"sacred Russian tactic.\") The whole \"but we did it too\" argument is merely a deflection \u2013 and is irrelevant. Russia's covert and undeclared war on the United States and our allies was and continues to be specifically designed to harm us as a Nation, and cleave us from our Allies. President Trump had the opportunity in Helsinki to call out Putin and demand that he ceases and desists these attacks. Instead, President Trump rambled on as if he was campaigning in some town in West Virginia or North Dakota \u2013 criticizing the Democrats and the FBI and diverting the focus to HRC's emails.\nTrump allowed Putin to join in this nonsensical reproach with more deflection and offering a tease to the U.S. Department of Justice: \"Send us an application (for extraditing the Russians hackers), and after review, we decide whether we will hand the indicted people to you.\" To this, Trump said absolutely nothing!\nI am no fan of John Bolton, Trump's latest National Security Adviser, but I would advise Trump heed what Mr. Bolton has said: \"Attempting to undermine America's constitution is far more than just a quotidian covert operation. It is in fact \u2026 a true act of war and one Washington will never tolerate.\"\nAs to the argument for a conviction of treason: The US Constitution says: \"No Person shall be convicted of Treason unless on the Testimony of two Witnesses to the same overt Act\u2026\" Trump's treason was on world-wide TV. EVERY ONE, every United States citizen, Democrat or Republican, progressive, libertarian, EVERY one of us should and must be outraged. There can be no excuse. Our Congress must act. Our Congress must come together. We as citizens must demand it.\n(Click here for interesting information about RESISTANCE to supplement the article \"It may only take 3.5% of the population to topple a dictator \u2013 with civil resistance\" Erica Chenoweth in The Guardian)\nSo, the primary objective of civil actions is to: implement fundamental constitutional changes that:\n1. Introduces a bill to enforce the provision of the 25th Amendment that \"\u2026gives Congress the authority to establish 'a body' with the power to declare a president 'unable to discharge the powers and duties of his office.\"\n2. Eliminates the electoral college.\n3. Establishes term limits for justices of the SCOTUS, and a \"litmus test\" for SC nominees (such as prohibiting the nomination of justices with extreme ideological beliefs)\n4. Bans gerrymandering. We harbor severe delusions if we believe the national political process will resolve any of these issues. This is the year for a constitutional convention.","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
+{"text":"Capra, Frank, 1897-1991\nThe person Capra, Frank, 1897-1991 represents an individual (alive, dead, undead, or fictional) associated with resources found in Hamilton East Public Library.\nThe Resource Capra, Frank, 1897-1991\n11 Items by the Person Capra, Frank, 1897-1991\nLady for a day, Frank Capra Productions, inc. ; screenplay by Robert Riskin ; produced by Frank Capra & Harry Cohn ; directed by Frank Capra, (videorecording)\nLost horizon, Columbia Pictures presents a Frank Capra production ; screenplay by Robert Riskin ; produced & directed by Frank Capra, (videorecording)\nFrank Capra's a Hole in the head, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studios Inc. ; produced and directed by Frank Capra ; screenplay by Arnold Schulman, (videorecording)\nFrank Capra's arsenic and old lace, Warner Bros. Pictures ; screen play by Julius J. and Philip G. Epstein from the stage play by Joseph Kesselring ; produced by Howard Lindsay and Russel Crouse ; directed by Frank Capra, (videorecording)\nFrank Capra's you can't take it with you, Columbia Pictures Corporation ; screenplay, Robert Riskin ; directed by Frank Capra, (videorecording)\nIt happened one night, Columbia Pictures Corp. ; screen play by Robert Riskin ; directed by Frank Capra, (videorecording)\nMr. Deeds goes to town, Columbia Pictures Corporation ; A Frank Capra Production ; screen play, Robert Riskin ; directed by Frank Capra, (videorecording)\nMr. Smith goes to Washington, Columbia Pictures ; directed by Frank Capra ; screenplay by Sidney Buchman, (videorecording)\nState of the union, Liberty Films presents ; as produced on the stage by Leland Hayward ; screen play by Anthony Veiller and Myles Connolly ; produced and directed by Frank Capra, (videorecording)\nThe Dick Cavett show, Hollywood greats, (videorecording)\nFrank Capra's It's a wonderful life, an RKO Radio release ; Liberty Films ; produced and directed by Frank Capra ; screenplay by Frances Goodrich, Albert Hackett, and Frank Capra, (videorecording)\nContext of Capra, Frank, 1897-1991\nThe Dick Cavett show, Hollywood greats\nFrank Capra's It's a wonderful life\nFrank Capra's a Hole in the head\nFrank Capra's arsenic and old lace\nFrank Capra's you can't take it with you\nLady for a day\nMr. Deeds goes to town\nMr. Smith goes to Washington\nDirector of\nFilm director of\nFilm producer of\nProducer of\n<div class=\"citation\" vocab=\"http:\/\/schema.org\/\"><i class=\"fa fa-external-link-square fa-fw\"><\/i> Data from <span resource=\"http:\/\/link.hepl.lib.in.us\/resource\/9Qr1cwTqmts\/\" typeof=\"Person http:\/\/bibfra.me\/vocab\/lite\/Person\"><span property=\"name http:\/\/bibfra.me\/vocab\/lite\/label\"><a href=\"http:\/\/link.hepl.lib.in.us\/resource\/9Qr1cwTqmts\/\">Capra, Frank, 1897-1991<\/a><\/span> - <span property=\"potentialAction\" typeOf=\"OrganizeAction\"><span property=\"agent\" typeof=\"LibrarySystem http:\/\/library.link\/vocab\/LibrarySystem\" resource=\"http:\/\/link.hepl.lib.in.us\/\"><span property=\"name http:\/\/bibfra.me\/vocab\/lite\/label\"><a property=\"url\" href=\"http:\/\/link.hepl.lib.in.us\/\">Hamilton East Public Library<\/a><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/div>\nData Citation of the Person Capra, Frank, 1897-1991","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
+{"text":"NewsSon Tung M-TP Explains the Meaning Behind the Abstract Symbols in \"Co Chac Yeu La Day\" During His Online Stage\nS\u01a1n T\u00f9ng M-TP officially organized the first live performance of \"C\u00f3 Ch\u1eafc Y\u00eau L\u00e0 \u0110\u00e2y\" at 8.00 p.m. on July 20th, 2020 and simultaneously shared the deep connotations in the MV.\nAccording to what he shared, the flowers are symbolic of honey and his beloveds. He touches the flowers at the end of this MV, which implies that S\u01a1n T\u00f9ng M-TP and his beloveds submerge in the flower garden and permeates a fragrant aroma.\nA post shared by S\u01a1n T\u00f9ng M-TP \ud83d\udc8b (@sontungmtp)\n(Son Tung M-TP announces his online stage on Instagram)\nS\u01a1n T\u00f9ng M-TP also explained why he cooperated with the Vietnamese production crew instead of an international one like his previous products. Just two weeks after the release of \"C\u00f3 Ch\u1eafc Y\u00eau L\u00e0 \u0110\u00e2y\", the music video has garnered over 68 million views on YouTube.\n(source: YouTube.com)\nAfter a period of absorbing the experience and discovering the interesting things abroad, he wants to collaborate with the Vietnamese youngsters who truly know what he wants without saying a lot. Besides, he hopes that his fans will participate in his live performance of the song in an event that happens in District 7, Ho Chi Minh City on August 1st, 2020.\nCo Chac Yeu La Day Online Stage: https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=5WxCVEnG5N4\nSon Tung M-TP Looking Hip in Levi's X Peanuts Clothing Collection for the Summer\nC\u00f3 Ch\u1eafc Y\u00eau L\u00e0 \u0110\u00e2y\nSweet Moments of JSOL and Han Sara in \"Hiem Co Kho Tim\" Their New Summer MV\nThe \"Simple Love\" Trio Releases \"When You Look at Me\" With Obito and Lena Playing the Cute Couple Again\nAysha\nThe first time I watched this mv I didn't realize it was an ear shaped rock\nBy Boo_chan, 2 hours ago","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
+{"text":"Marvel's Cinematic Civil War Comes to Lego Marvel's Avengers This Week\nEarlier this year, TT Games announced the PlayStation platforms would be getting exclusive Lego Marvel's Avengers content based on the Marvel Cinematic Universe. While the game is already packed with most of the Phase Two films, Ant-Man and Guardians of the Galaxy were left out of the loop, and it's almost impossible to get any Phase Three content in there before those movies actually arrive. That doesn't mean TT is giving up on including those things entirely though, and it all starts today with a free content pack based on Captain America: Civil War.\nThe free add-on may not include any new missions, but it will add in nine new character skins for many of the Marvel heroes and villains making an appearance in the upcoming movie sequel. Not only will Iron Man get his new Mark XLVI armor, but Captain America will have a new, unmasked suit to tear around the game. Falcon will also get his revamped costume, as will Scarlet Witch and the Winter Soldier. Besides his new shock baton, I can't quite tell any discernible difference from this War Machine versus the last one. It's all about the spankin' new Black Panther and Agent 13 though.\nWhile we're missing out on an updated Black Widow, the inclusion of Black Panther in his first ever movie costume and Agent 13 in a new role besides neighbor nurse, more than make up for it. Black Widow's style hasn't changed all that much over the years, at least in Lego form, so not getting another isn't that much of a disappointment anyway, particularly given that she has a few incarnations already included in Lego Marvel's Avengers. I'm eager to see what, if any, new team-up animations are added in. Getting a sweet combo attack with Cap and Bucky like they unleash on Iron Man in the trailer would be cool. Sadly, no Spider-Man to surprise us, as his video game licensing is even more complicated than his cinematic rules.\nThe Lego Marvel's Avengers Captain America: Civil War DLC will be available exclusively on PlayStation 3 and PlayStation 4 starting today for free. No word on when it will come to other platforms, or how much it will cost elsewhere either.\nLearn More About Civil War's Characters With These Videos\nNext: Lego Marvel's Avengers Review\nFiled Under: black panther, Captain America, captain america civil war, Crossbones, Falcon, iron man, Lego, Lego Marvel's Avengers, Scarlet Witch, sharon carter, TT Games, winter soldier\nCategories: Gaming, Marvel","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
+{"text":"AT&T's net adds soar with 3.2M iPhone activations\nby Sue Marek |\nAT&T Mobility (NYSE:T) once again experienced strong quarterly subscriber growth, largely thanks to Apple (NASDAQ:AAPL) and the launch of the iPhone 4. AT&T reported that in the second quarter of 2010 it gained a net 1.6 million subscribers for a total of 90.1 million subscribers. The company activated 3.2 million iPhones in the quarter, its largest number of quarterly iPhone activations ever. The carrier said around 27 percent of those activations were customers new to AT&T.\nThe company reported consolidated revenues of $30.8 billion, up from $30.6 billion in second quarter of 2009. Operating expenses were $24.7 billion in the quarter, down slightly from the $25.1 billion in the previous year's quarter, and AT&T's operating income margin was 19.8 percent, up from 18 percent in the year-ago quarter. Here's a breakdown of the other key metrics:\nNet adds: AT&T activated 3.2 million iPhones in the second quarter, but the company didn't say how many of those iPhones were the iPhone 4, which AT&T only started offering June 24. AT&T's quarter ended June 30. Nevertheless, the company did say that pre-orders of the device were 10 times higher than the first day of pre-ordering for the iPhone 3GS. In addition, the company said that retail postpaid net adds totaled 496,000, for a total of 67 million. Analyst firm Technology Business Research noted that without the strong iPhone growth, AT&T would have posted a decline in postpaid net adds for the quarter.\nARPU: AT&T's postpaid subscriber average revenue per user increased 3.4 percent from the year-earlier quarter, to $62.63. The carrier said its postpaid data ARPU reached $21.07, up 18.6 percent vs. the year-earlier quarter.\nDevices: AT&T continued to show strong growth in connected or emerging devices such as ereaders. The company had 896,000 net adds in the quarter for a total of 6.7 million connected devices. On the integrated device front, AT&T increased its number of 3G integrated device customers by 2.9 million for a total of 29.7 million. This is an increase of 98.2 percent year over year. The company said 53.2 percent of its 67 million postpaid customers have integrated devices. AT&T CFO Rick Lindner said he believes this percentage could climb to the 70 percent to 80 percent range.\nChurn: Postpaid churn was 1.01 percent, down from 1.07 percent in the year-earlier quarter. Total churn was 1.29 percent vs. 1.48 percent in the second quarter of 2009.\nData revenue: Wireless data revenues increased to $4.4 billion, up $936 million from the year-earlier quarter. The number of AT&T subscribers with wireless data plans was up 24 percent over the previous year. Lindner said that early results from the company's move to tiered data pricing plans have been encouraging. In particular, he said the company had expected a lot of customers to migrate to the lower price point ($15 per month for 200 MB of data) but a large portion migrated to the $25 per month for 2 GB of data plan. In addition, he said AT&T is seeing benefits from lowering the point of entry so customers can move into the integrated device category and try data services. \"We believe over time they will migrate to higher-tiered plans,\" he said.\nNetwork: The company did provide some insight into its HSPA network improvements. In particular, AT&T said that in areas where it has upgraded the backhaul and has HSPA 7.2 in place, customers are seeing a 32 percent to 47 percent increase in download speeds. In New York City, the company said that 3G dropped calls have declined by 23 percent in Manhattan and 13 percent in the New York metro area since the fourth quarter of 2009.\n- see this release\n- see this AT&T slide presentation\n- see this AT&T Investor presentation\n- see these key stats from AT&T's 2Q\n- check out the FierceWireless Q2 earnings page\nAT&T kills unlimited data pricing, supports iPhone tethering\nWith 1.9M total net adds, AT&T pushes growth with connected devices\nAT&T nears record with 2.7M net adds in Q4\nWhich U.S. carriers have bigger Q1 subscriber bases?\nSue Marek\nhttps:\/\/twitter.com\/suemarek\nhttps:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/sue-marek-7821434\/","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
+{"text":"Klacik Scam \u2013 Who is Kimberly Klacik?\nAccording to reports, the Former GPO Congressional candidacy Kimberly Klacik has filed a defamation suit against Candace Owens to cover $20 million damages. After she had responded to the claims of Candace her claims, she chose to file the defamation suit.\nCandace stated she was Kimberly was stripper, she also worked as the Democratic campaign operative to work for the campaign. Following her statement was made, a debate on social media began between conservative commentators.\nKimberly's fans and supporters from her home country of the United States want to know right now whether she is a victim of the Klacik Scam and Kimberly is being attacked by conservative commentator Candace.\nWho is Kimberly Klacik?\nKimberly Klacik is a businesswoman and politician from the United States. Her birth date was 19th January 1982. Her popularity was boosted when she was nominated to represent the 7th Congressional district in Maryland by the Republican Party in both the special elections in November and April of.\nIn the end, she lost both of the election against Democrat Kweisi Mfume, who won by 40 points. Kimberly got elected into her position on the Republican Central Committee of Baltimore County in the year the year 2018. She is referred to by the name of an Republican Strategist.\nWhat is the Klacik Scam All About?\nCandace Owens, the conservative commentator, released an online video in which she calls Republican Congressional campaigner, Kimberly Klacik, the stripper fraud. In addition to the declaration, Kimberly filed a $20 million lawsuit for defamation against her.\nAccording to sources the sources, the case was filed in July of 2021, at Baltimore County Circuit Court. On her YouTube video Owens insists that everyone inquire Kimberly where the entire amount was spent, and how much they used for her campaigns for election. She also mentioned two companies Pearl Events and Fox & Lion LLC which she believes they're not the ones who are responsible for to the Klacik Scam.\nBut, Kimberly filed a defamation suit against her following the news report, and then responded to her accusations.\nWhat was the way Kimberly react to claims?\nCandace did not want to remove this video off her profile. She believes Kimberly is a con artist who swindled thousands of voters who backed her during the campaign through the donation of funds.\nKimberly has responded to her comments and wrote a post on Twitter in which she stated that the claims made by Candace are flimsy and unfounded. Kimberly has filed a complaint against Candace who claimed she was as a fraudster to perpetrate the supposed Clacik Scam.\nOn her own YouTube channel she stated that there's no evidence that she cheated anyone and that there is no investigation being conducted.\nShe also said that she has not access to funds that her supporters have given her to go camping. The business has its own treasurer in place that stops this from happening. The firm she hired was Fox and Lion as a part of her campaign.\nIn conclusion, we have to declare that we have no rights to the subject The information was obtained from various online channels. Kimberly's fans will have to conduct further research online to determine if there is a Clacik Scam is in the works.\nThe case that was filed by Kimberly is pending in court The judge has not yet been handed down at this time. The case is merely an allegation from a conservative commenter Candace. We urge readers to conduct further study the matter and wait for the decision to be made.","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
+{"text":"Posted inMississippi State Flag\nLawmakers plan to begin voting Saturday to change Mississippi state flag\nby Geoff Pender and Bobby Harrison June 26, 2020 July 1, 2021\nAs has always been custom, the Mississippi state flag over the House chamber is removed at the end of the day.\nLawmakers are expected to begin the process of changing the Mississippi state flag, which features the Confederate battle emblem, as early as Saturday as the Legislature moves toward the end of its 2020 session.\nAs of Friday at noon, the plan \u2014 which several sources reiterated was \"extremely fluid\" \u2014 is for the House of Representatives to begin the legislative process to remove or replace the flag on Saturday morning.\nA resolution will be filed that would suspend the rules so that legislators could take up a bill to address the flag. This resolution is expected to be the most difficult part of the process because it requires approval of a two-thirds majority in each chamber (82 of 122 House members, 35 of 52 Senate members). And the resolution must be passed by both chambers before either chamber could actually begin the process of debating the actual bill.\nIf the two-thirds threshold to suspend the rules is met, a simple majority would be required to pass the actual bill (62 of 122 House members, 27 of 52 Senate members).\nSources close to House leadership say they have \u2014 for now \u2014 the two-thirds majority votes to suspend rules, but they stress the margin is very thin.\nOn the Senate side, reports are that the leadership is \"close\" \u2014 within one or two votes \u2014 to having a two-thirds vote to suspend rules. Lt. Gov. Delbert Hosemann said the plan is for the House to move first.\n\"We have nothing to discuss on the Senate side, as you know \u2026 unless the House adopts their resolution,\" Hosemann said on Thursday afternoon as he walked to a meeting with House Speaker Philip Gunn.\nBut as of noon on Friday, there is no consensus between House and Senate leadership over how, exactly, they will press forward with the actual bill itself. Many, including former Gov. Phil Bryant and U.S. Sen. Roger Wicker, have expressed support for a flag displaying the state seal, which includes the phrase \"In God We Trust.\" The influential Mississippi Economic Council, the state's chamber of commerce, appeared to back that design with its release of a poll this week.\nLegislative leaders have also discussed removing the current flag this session and forming a commission to develop multiple replacement designs to be placed on a ballot for a vote.\nGunn and Hosemann, as pressure mounts from religious, business, civic, university, sports and other leaders to remove the Confederate emblem from the flag, have attempted to whip a reluctant GOP majority in the Legislature into changing the flag.\nMany Republican lawmakers have for years opposed changing the flag, particularly without a popular vote on the issue. Some who want the Legislature to change it fear a backlash from constituents.\nAnd Republican Gov. Tate Reeves \u2013 the de facto head of the state GOP \u2013 opposes the Legislature changing the flag.\nBut that sentiment appears to be changing among some lawmakers.\nRep. Karl Oliver, R-Winona, in a 2017 social media post said that those who support the removal of Confederate monuments should be \"lynched.\" In recent weeks, he declined to comment on the flag issue.\nBut on Thursday, Oliver issued a statement that said: \"I am choosing to attempt to unite our state and ask each of you to join me in supporting a flag that creates unity \u2014 now is the time.\" Oliver's statement said the flag issue is growing \"more divisive by the day\" and \"History will record the position I chose.\"\nA growing list of businesses, cities, counties and other groups have either stopped flying the flag or asked leaders to change it. Religious leaders have spoken out, saying changing the flag is a \"moral issue.\" The NCAA, SEC, and Conference USA this month took action to ban post-season play in the state until the flag is changed.\nby Geoff Pender and Bobby Harrison, Mississippi Today\n<h1>Lawmakers plan to begin voting Saturday to change Mississippi state flag<\/h1> <p class=\"byline\">by Geoff Pender and Bobby Harrison, Mississippi Today <br \/>June 26, 2020<\/p> <p>Lawmakers are expected to begin the process of changing the Mississippi state flag, which features the Confederate battle emblem, as early as Saturday as the Legislature moves toward the end of its 2020 session.<\/p> <p>As of Friday at noon, the plan \u2014 which several sources reiterated was \"extremely fluid\" \u2014 is for the House of Representatives to begin the legislative process to remove or replace the flag on Saturday morning.<\/p> <p>A resolution will be filed that would suspend the rules so that legislators could take up a bill to address the flag. This resolution is expected to be the most difficult part of the process because it requires approval of a two-thirds majority in each chamber (82 of 122 House members, 35 of 52 Senate members). And the resolution must be passed by both chambers before either chamber could actually begin the process of debating the actual bill.<\/p> <p>If the two-thirds threshold to suspend the rules is met, a simple majority would be required to pass the actual bill (62 of 122 House members, 27 of 52 Senate members).<\/p> <p>Sources close to House leadership say they have \u2014 for now \u2014 the two-thirds majority votes to suspend rules, but they stress the margin is very thin.<\/p> <p>On the Senate side, reports are that the leadership is \"close\" \u2014 <a href=\"https:\/\/mississippitoday.org\/2020\/06\/25\/lawmakers-again-delay-vote-to-change-state-flag-but-plan-to-stay-in-jackson-through-the-weekend\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">within one or two votes<\/a> \u2014 to having a two-thirds vote to suspend rules. Lt. Gov. Delbert Hosemann said the plan is for the House to move first.<\/p> <p>\"We have nothing to discuss on the Senate side, as you know ... unless the House adopts their resolution,\" Hosemann said on Thursday afternoon as he walked to a meeting with House Speaker Philip Gunn.<\/p> <p>But as of noon on Friday, there is no consensus between House and Senate leadership over how, exactly, they will press forward with the actual bill itself. Many, including former Gov. Phil Bryant and U.S. Sen. Roger Wicker, have <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/PhilBryantMS\/status\/1276167725434494981?s=20\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">expressed support for a flag displaying the state seal<\/a>, which includes the phrase \"In God We Trust.\" The influential Mississippi Economic Council, the state's chamber of commerce, appeared to back that design with its release of a poll this week.<\/p> <p>Legislative leaders have also discussed removing the current flag this session and forming a commission to develop multiple replacement designs to be placed on a ballot for a vote.<\/p> <p>Gunn and Hosemann, as pressure mounts from religious, business, civic, university, sports and other leaders to remove the Confederate emblem from the flag, have attempted to whip a reluctant GOP majority in the Legislature into changing the flag.<\/p> <p>Many Republican lawmakers have for years opposed changing the flag, particularly without a popular vote on the issue. Some who want the Legislature to change it fear a backlash from constituents.<\/p> <p>And&nbsp; Republican Gov. Tate Reeves \u2013 the de facto head of the state GOP \u2013 opposes the Legislature changing the flag.<\/p> <p>But that sentiment appears to be changing among some lawmakers.<\/p> <p>Rep. Karl Oliver, R-Winona, in <a href=\"https:\/\/mississippitoday.org\/2017\/05\/21\/rep-karl-oliver-those-removing-confederate-monuments-should-be-lynched\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">a 2017 social media post<\/a> said that those who support the removal of Confederate monuments should be \"lynched.\" In recent weeks, he declined to comment on the flag issue.<\/p> <p>But on Thursday, Oliver issued a statement that said: \"I am choosing to attempt to unite our state and ask each of you to join me in supporting a flag that creates unity -- now is the time.\" Oliver's statement said the flag issue is growing \"more divisive by the day\" and \"History will record the position I chose.\"<\/p> <p>A<a href=\"https:\/\/mississippitoday.org\/2020\/06\/21\/full-list-mississippi-cities-universities-and-businesses-that-have-removed-or-called-for-a-new-state-flag\/\">&nbsp;growing list<\/a>&nbsp;of businesses, cities, counties and other groups have either stopped flying the flag or asked leaders to change it. Religious leaders have spoken out, saying&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/mississippitoday.org\/2020\/06\/23\/its-a-moral-issue-mississippi-baptist-convention-calls-for-new-state-flag\/\">changing the flag is a \"moral issue.\"<\/a>&nbsp; The NCAA, SEC, and&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/mississippitoday.org\/2020\/06\/22\/no-more-c-usa-post-season-events-in-miss-until-the-state-flag-is-changed\/\">Conference USA<\/a>&nbsp;this month took action to ban post-season play in the state until the flag is changed.<\/p>\nThis <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/mississippitoday.org\/2020\/06\/26\/lawmakers-plan-to-begin-voting-saturday-to-change-mississippi-state-flag\/\">article<\/a> first appeared on <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/mississippitoday.org\">Mississippi Today<\/a> and is republished here under a Creative Commons license.<img src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mississippitoday.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/MT_square-thumb.jpg?fit=150%2C150&amp;ssl=1\" style=\"width:1em;height:1em;margin-left:10px;\"><img id=\"republication-tracker-tool-source\" src=\"https:\/\/mississippitoday.org\/?republication-pixel=true&post=679361&ga=UA-75003810-1\" style=\"width:1px;height:1px;\">\nTagged: flag-64\nGeoff Pender\ngpender@mississippitoday.org\nGeoff Pender serves as senior political reporter, working closely with Mississippi Today leadership on editorial strategy and investigations. Pender brings 30 years of political and government reporting experience to Mississippi Today. He was political and investigative editor at the Clarion Ledger, where he also penned a popular political column. He previously served as an investigative reporter and political editor at the Sun Herald, where he was a member of the Pulitzer Prize-winning team for Hurricane Katrina coverage. Originally from Florence, Mississippi, Pender is a journalism graduate of the University of Southern Mississippi and has received numerous awards throughout his career for reporting, columns and freedom of information efforts.\nMore by Geoff Pender\nPrevious Marshall Ramsey: The Crossroads\nNext 'Now is the time': Mississippi NAACP leader urges lawmakers to change state flag quickly","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
+{"text":"Kim & Aaron: Stronger the second time around\nGCWeddingCrystal July 3, 2018 0\nWhen Kim and Aaron Rhodes met in 1998, she was managing a store, and Aaron, who was in the military, got a part-time job there.\nA work friendship soon developed into a mutual attraction, and sparks began to fly.\n\"We started dating and got married a couple of years later,\" Kim said.\nThen problems arose. Problems that didn't appear to have a solution and grew bigger and bigger.\n\"We were both very young, and the marriage didn't last,\" Kim said. \"Over the first 15 years after our divorce, we did not have the best relationship with each other.\"\nTheir young son, however, provided a bridge to help his parents gradually find mutual ground.\n\"We grew to a point where we started to become friends through co-parenting our son well,\" Kim said.\nThat teamwork began paying off.\nBefore they knew it, Kim and Aaron found that a little ember remained from that spark that they thought had long been extinguished. That renewed interest led to a date. Then another and another. And then Kim and Aaron found that their love was rekindled.\nSoon a more permanent reconciliation appealed to both of them. That led Aaron to think about his second proposal to his love.\n\"We discussed marriage a few times, but she didn't know when it was coming,\" Aaron said. \"I chose a location that she would least expect a proposal. I knew she would want to share the special moment with her sister, so we planned it together. I proposed, and she said yes, but still in disbelief that it was happening. I can remember her saying 'stop playing' until she saw the ring and her sister crying.\"\nKim and Aaron decided to get married on their original wedding date. And even with all the excitement, nerves and busyness of the day, there was one special moment on that second wedding day.\n\"It was seeing both families there together in one place loving on each other,\" Aaron said. \"The families always have had mutual admiration for each other.\"\nThe Coastians went to the Bahamas for their honeymoon. Aaron is now a retired military veteran, and Kim, who is from Pass Christian, is a housewife.\nKim has some words of advice, gleaned from years of experience.\n\"Life isn't always perfect and true happiness doesn't come easy. It's overcoming obstacles, challenges and fighting to be together. It was worth every second, minute and hour because we are here together.\"\nPhotographer: Steve Linhoss Photography\nCeremony venue: Oak Crest Mansion\nReception venue: Beach Blvd. Steamer\nFlorist: Village Florist\nCaterer: Beach Blvd. Steamer\nMakeup: Michelle Fields\nHair: Hair Power\nShoes: David's Bridal\nWedding gown: David's Bridal\nTux: Men's Warehouse\nClergy\/Officiant: Dwayne Watson, Coastlife Church\nCake: Fleur de lis Gourmet Bakery","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
+{"text":"Jorge Nava Bio, Net Worth, Girlfriend\nOne doesn't always need to achieve a lot or do good things to get famous. In today's time, with the TV reality shows thriving, the more controversies one surrounds themselves in, the more popularity they gain, be it a notorious type. Similar is the case of Jorge Nava, the TV reality star of the TLC's 90 Days Fiance: Happily Ever After who is now facing a two and a half years of a sentence at 90 Day Fiance,bio,net worth,age,girlfriend,nationality,family,height\nProfession TV Personality\nWife\/Spouse Anfisa Arkhipchenko\nDivorced\/Engaged Not Yet\nGay\/Lesbain No\nHeight N\/A\nSiblings Lourdes (Sister)\nDate of Birth N\/A\nOne doesn't always need to achieve a lot or do good things to get famous. In today's time, with the TV reality shows thriving, the more controversies one surrounds themselves in, the more popularity they gain, even if it is a notorious type.\nSimilar is the case of Jorge Nava, the TV reality star of TLC's 90 Days Fiance: Happily Ever After.\nJorge now faces a two-and-a-half year sentence at Arizona Department of Corrections after getting arrested with high-grade marijuana weighing 293 lbs in his car on 12 February 2018.\nJorge Nava Bio\nThe 'marijuana incident' is not the first time Jorge has crossed the law. He has previous experience as well when he pleaded guilty to drug trafficking.\nPrison Life: Jorge Nava's most recent mug shot photo from the Arizona Department of Corrections (Photo: starcasm.net)\nThe reality show actor has not been open about his job details, but he earlier revealed that he made a lot of money as a medical marijuana entrepreneur.\nSee Also: Ben Napier Bio, Age, Height, Net Worth, Wife\nJorge has successfully hidden his last name for some legal reasons. He goes by the name, Jorge Nava, which might not be his full name.\nNot much is known in regards to his early life and family background. His sister, Lourdes, however, is known for being overprotective of her younger brother, who is 26 years of age.\nJorge Nava In 90 Day Fiance With Girlfriend\nTLC's 90 Day Fiance is an American documentary series revolving around couples, who have either applied or received a K-1 visa (provided uniquely to foreign fiances of American citizens). The couple has 90 days to sort out their relation and get married before the foreign fiance's visa expires and has to leave America.\nJorge Nava holds American nationality while his \"fiance\" and now-wife, Anfisa Arkhipchenko, is a Russian. The couple claims to have met through Facebook. However, Jorge's late ex-girlfriend Stevie Ryan, a podcaster, revealed that the couple met in a webcam site.\nControversial Couple: Jorge Nava and wife Anfisa Arkhipchenko pose for TLC's show 90 Day Fiance (Photo: people.com)\nJorge and his wife, Anfisa have had issues since the beginning of their relationship. The pair seems to have a love-hate kind of romance in their life, or maybe the producers of the show want to portray them accordingly.\nAs for now, since Jorge is serving for his crime, many doubts arise if they are still together. Jorge confirmed on the relation still being stable, while his wife never hinted a thing.\nWorth Reading: Is Food Network's Jason Smith Married? Chef's Bio, Age & Family\nWhen comments like Anfisa becoming unfazed by her hubby's imprisonment were made, she finally broke her silence and told she was affected by her husband's jail sentence. She said that she was somehow trying to shift her focus to the things which she enjoyed like exercising and workouts, for instance.\nJorge Nava's Net Worth\nJorge's sister, Lourdes accused Anfisa of being a \"gold-digger.\"\nAccording to her, Anfisa married her brother for his money and boosting her modeling career. Anfisa's name has undoubtedly gained some height of popularity.\nNonetheless, Anfisa claims that Jorge lied about his net worth and made her luxurious promises that he couldn't keep. She added that he has debt in thousands of dollars.","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
+{"text":"Robertson for Congress\nDefender of the Constitution\nPost author By Holly Hoffman Spears\nNo Comments on Defender of the Constitution\nThe Constitution doesn't need to be re-written, it needs to be re-read!\nThe Constitution of the United States is an inspired document that has proven to be remarkably effective, resilient, and applicable for more than two centuries. It protects individual rights and guarantees personal freedom. It was established by visionary leaders who analyzed all forms of government and drew upon decades of knowledge and a keen understanding of the world and human nature to craft a document upon which future generations could depend.\nSome people believe the Constitution is outdated and should be ignored. Others believe it is just a guideline that should be interpreted broadly to align with current social norms. They treat the Constitution of 1787 as merely a good \"first draft\" in need of constant revision and updating, subject to the whims of political popularity and power.\nI am a constitutional originalist. I believe the Constitution must be interpreted based on the intent of its original authors, as determined by examining evidence of their understanding of the meaning of its wording in its historical context. I reject the notion that the Constitution is a \"living document\" to be interpreted based on the context of the current times.\nThroughout the history of the United States, there have been legitimate reasons to amend the Constitution. The Founders anticipated this. In fact, the Constitution prescribes the procedures for amendment. These procedures prevent a vocal minority or powerful elites from changing the Constitution, by requiring the overwhelming will of the people to amend it. Instead of issuing executive or judicial fiats, those who wish to change the Constitution should invest the time and energy to educate and persuade the American people.\nThe beauty of the Constitution is that it limits the power of government and provides checks and balances so that no one party or one body of government can make drastic sweeping changes without the consent of the people. When we follow the Constitution, government's powers are limited and the people retain their freedom.\nAn originalist view binds and limits any one generation from ruling according to the passion of the times. The Framers of the Constitution knew what they were talking about and they meant what they said. They clearly stated that they intended to form a government for \"ourselves and our Posterity.\" They did not define \"We The People\" as a small group of people at any one point in time, but \"The People\" as an association of all concerned citizens, over the course of many generations, including our own. This means that the Constitution of 1787 is as much a constitution for us as it was for the founding generation.\nIn 1976, when I enlisted in the Army, I swore allegiance to the United States and took an oath to \"support and defend the Constitution against all enemies foreign and domestic.\" I will always honor that oath. I will always protect the Constitution as it was written and intended by our Founders. I will always fight for the freedoms outlined in that sacred document.\nAs your representative in Congress, I will support the Constitution by fighting against any attempts to pass legislation which are counter to the principles established in the Constitution. I will fight against activist judges who attempt to legislate from the bench. I will weigh each matter placed before me against the Constitution and I will only support the policies that measure up.\nThe Constitution was not written to change with the times. It was written to stand the test of time.\nIt will, if \"We The People\" understand it, honor it, and protect it.\nColonel (R) Mark Robertson\nCongressional Candidate NV-01\n\u2190 Government 101 \u2192 Happy Birthday, GW!\nMark Robertson for CD-1\nhttps:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=dHVudXadC1o&t=9s\nTour CD-1 with Mark Robertson\nhttps:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=olPIrmkT5DM&t=8s\nPaid for by Robertson for Congress","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
+{"text":"'Man With The Iron Fists' Special: Five Iron Fist Comics Fit For The Movies\nMan With Iron Fistsspecial\nby Ryan Rigley\nToday marks the release of ' The Man With the Iron Fists ,' written and directed by RZA of the Wu-Tang Clan. Produced by Eli Roth, the film stars a number of big name actors including the likes of Russell Crowe, Lucy Liu, and even RZA himself. Taking place in nineteenth century China, a group of warriors and assassins must band together in order to protect their community.\nFor Marvel fans, however, the words 'Iron Fist' trigger thoughts of a different man: Daniel Rand, one of the greatest martial artists in the entire Marvel universe. Drawing his power from a dragon named Shou-Lao the undying, Iron Fist has since forged himself into a living weapon. Kind of like RZA in 'The Man With the Iron Fists,' in fact!\nClick past the jump for our list of the five Iron Fist stories fit for the big screen!\nMarvel Premiere\nIf you're going to make a movie about a superhero that no one really knows, then why not start from the beginning? This special origin issue of 'Marvel Premiere' showcases everyone's favorite wealthy American turned immortal warrior. In this story, we see that transformation in its entirety as Daniel gets separated from his parents and taken in by the mystical monks of K'un L'un where he trains his mind and body to the pinnacle of human perfection.\nSoon after Iron Fist and Misty Knight became an item, their budding relationship is interrupted by the super-strong mercenary called Power Man (a.k.a. Luke Cage) who had been blackmailed by Knight's adversary Bushmaster. Instead of fighting each other, Iron Fist and Power Man decide to team up (for the first time ever) and break Bushmaster's hold on him once and for all. Later, they form a partnership called Heroes For Hire, charging people a fee in exchange for their superheroism.\nThe Seven Capital Cities of Heaven\nReturning to the mystical K'un L'un, Iron Fist is chosen as the city's champion and forced to compete in a deadly tournament involving six other 'Immortal Weapons' (each representing a different mystical city). 'The Seven Capital Cities of Heaven' also gives us a glimpse of the previous wielder of the Iron Fist as Daniel discovers a secret doorway from K'un L'un to Earth, tracking down the biographer of the man who created the doorway and learning about the history of the Iron Fist in the process.\nThe Mortal Iron Fist\nTaking place directly after the 'Seven Capital Cities of Heaven' story arc, 'The Mortal Iron Fist' sees Daniel Rand as he deals with an ancient prophecy that predicts his very own death. Written by Duane Swierczynski, this arc changes practically everything that has already been detailed about the Iron Fist tradition. With a prophecy that has already claimed the lives of Iron Fists from centuries passed, Daniel must do everything in his power to overcome immeasurable odds.\nEscape From the Eighth City\nIn this epic kung fu\/horror tale, Iron Fist and the Immortal Weapons of the Seven Capital Cities of Heaven venture to the secret eighth mystical city (the Capital City of Hell) only to discover that it is inhabited by terrifying demons and their diabolical leader, Changming. Discovering the city's ancient secrets, Iron Fist and the Immortal Weapons are forced to team up in order to escape Hell and save the world from the evil that they've unearthed.\nList your favorite Iron Fist stories in the comments below or on Twitter !\nGeorge Michael (1963-2016)\nLady Problems\nAm\u00e9rica Dividida\nTaylor Swift Zayn Malik Eu n\u00e3o quero viver para sempre\nviagra conectar ao balc\u00e3o\ncart\u00f5es de dia dos namorados de harry potter\nelenco duplo\nonde assistir selvagem","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
+{"text":"Please notice,\nwe are launching a new version of DiscourseAnalysis.net. We expect our platform to be fully functional in the next few days again. Registrations for DiscourseNet events such as DNC3-ALED, DN22 and DN23 will work very soon again.\nContact us (Jaspal Singh and Jan Zienkowski) for any questions, problems and suggestions.\nMAPD 2020 Multidisciplinary Approaches to Political Discourse\nEnviado por Franco Zappettini el S\u00e1b, 10\/08\/2019 - 17:20\nJue, 25\/06\/2020 - 12:00 - Vie, 26\/06\/2020 - 12:00\nLlamado a Contribuciones finaliza en\n19 Abercromby Square\nL69 7ZG\nFollowing on from previous \"Political Discourse - Multidisciplinary Approaches\" conferences in London (2016) and Edinburgh (2018), we are pleased to announce MAPD 2020 (Multidisciplinary Approaches to Political Discourse) will take place in the Department of Communication and Media at the University of Liverpool on 25-26 June 2020.\nThe global political arena is changing at an unprecedented pace. We see the resurgence of authoritarianism, nativism\/nationalism, sovereignism, populism and far-right movements driving major changes across societies against the backdrop of increasing global inequalities, left\/right fragmentation, migration. In addition, we witness power plays between well-established and emerging global players resulting in re-militarization and 'trade wars'. Obvious manifestations of these turbulent times include phenomena such as Brexit; the rise of political actors like Trump, Putin, Bolsonaro, Erdogan, Salvini and discursive articulations around hate speech, incivility, Islamophobia and Euroscepticism.\nAt the same time, we see an increase in the mediatisation and (re)articulation of political discourses (both top-down and bottom-up) through the use of technology and digital platforms. Along with traditional broadcasting and reporting of politicians' speeches, party political broadcasts, campaign advertisements and government statements, we increasingly experience the political daily in new popular media forms such as Facebook feeds, promotional videos, tweets and online mash ups. These transformations require us to think critically about issues of saturation, manipulation, relations of power, political correctness, interference, influence, counter-discourses, subversion, information bubbles and fake news, to name a few.\nThe theme for this year's conference reflects our aim to bring together scholars from a variety of discursive and political approaches to critically examine the challenges we face in such a volatile landscape and the theoretical and analytical responses we can provide. We encourage contributions which explore any aspect of the conference theme of \"responding to new challenges\". These may include (but are not limited to):\nThe role of social media and\/or popular culture in the production, distribution and consumption of political discourses\nNew theoretical and analytical challenges to the analysis of legitimation processes in discourse\nThe (dis)advantages of present approaches to political discourse (e.g. cognitive, historical, corpus-driven, interpretive policy analysis, cultural political economy, argumentation-based approaches, etc.)\nMediatization of discourses of authoritarianism, nativism\/nationalism, sovereignism, populism and far-right movements\nThe politics of the environment, the body, etc.\n(Multimodal) counter-discourses; including the use of social media platforms and new formats such as memes as sites and means of protest, resistance and subversion of hegemonic discourse\nMetadiscourse about the state of public\/political discourse and issues surrounding access\/voice\nTheoretical challenges: How to address issues of saturation, manipulation, relations of power, interference, influence, information bubbles, fake news, and incivility of political discourse\nCase studies of new social\/ political phenomena, top-down\/bottom-up political actors and their discursive articulations\nProf Kay O'Halloran (University of Liverpool)\nProf Micha\u0142 Krzy\u017canowski (\u00d6rebro University, Sweden)\nWe encourage single papers and theme specific panels\nPapers will be allocated 20 minutes with 10 minutes for questions and discussion\nAbstracts of 250-300 words (excluding bibliography) of single papers should be sent by email as a Word document attachment to MAPD2020@liverpool.ac.uk\nPlease include name, affiliation, email address and paper title in the body of the email.\nAbstracts of panels (500 word maximum) must be submitted by the panel organiser(s) and should include a maximum of six contributions. Each panel paper must follow the criteria of the single papers outlined above.\nAbstracts will be subject to review by an international scientific committee.\n15th December 2019: Deadline for submission of panel proposals and individual abstracts\n31st January 2020: Notification of panels\/papers acceptance. Please note that if a panel is not accepted panel papers will be considered individually\nQueries about the conference and abstracts should be sent to the conference organisers, Franco Zappettini and Lyndon Way at MAPD2020@liverpool.ac.uk.\nConference Fees (including lunches and refreshments, but excluding conference dinner):\nFull fee: \u00a3 200 - early bird (before 15 April 2020): \u00a3 160\nPost graduates: \u00a3 100 \u2013 early bird (before 15 April 2020): \u00a380\nSingle day fee: \u00a3 150 \u2013 Post graduate Single Day fee: \u00a360\nConference Dinner: \u00a3 40 (to be booked separately)\nThere will be reasonably priced accommodation available on campus\nEkaterina Balabanova, University of Liverpool, UK\nSam Bennett, Adam Mickiewicz University in Pozna\u0144, Poland\nMassimiliano Demata, University of Turin, Italy\nIsabela Fairclough, University of Central Lancashire, UK\nLaura Filardo Llamas, University of Valladolid, Spain\nSimona Guerra, University of Leicester, UK\nChristopher Hart, University of Lancaster, UK\nDarren Kelsey, University of Newcastle, UK\nVeronika Koller, University of Lancaster, UK\nMichael Kranert, University of Southampton, UK\nMarzia Maccaferri, Goldsmiths, University of London, UK\nDouglas Ponton, University of Catania, Italy\nMelani Schroeter, University of Reading, UK\nFranco Zappettini and Lyndon Way\nmapd2020@liverpool.ac.uk\nDirecci\u00f3n de internet\nhttps:\/\/www.liverpool.ac.uk\/communication-and-media\/events\/mapd-2020\/\nhttps:\/\/twitter.com\/mapd2020","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
+{"text":"Dr Christopher Wiley delivers workshop presentation on electronic voting systems at the Universities of Hull and Durham\tDr Christopher Wiley leads recital of the music of Dame Ethel Smyth on the 70th anniversary of her death\nDr Christopher Wiley delivers paper on musical biography at Monash University, Melbourne\nChristopher Wiley\tConference, Research\tAustralia, autobiography, Chris Wiley, Christopher Wiley, conference, ethel smyth, Master Musicians series, Melbourne, Monash University, Monash University Law Chambers, Mozart, Music, music and literature, musical biography, musicology, presentation, research, Surrey, University, University of Surrey, Wiley\tLeave a comment\nDr Christopher Wiley was among the speakers who presented at the 'Words About Music' conference held at Monash University, Melbourne, Australia on 12 April 2014.\nDr Wiley's paper, 'Music and (or?) Musical Biography', examined aspects of the complex relationship between the life and the works in a range of composer biographies. Using case studies drawn from several different areas of his wider research \u2013 including the celebrated story of Mozart's Requiem, the original volumes of the 'Master Musicians' series, and the autobiographical writings of Ethel Smyth \u2013 Dr Wiley illustrated how biographical narrative may shed much direct light on the music, or very little, or may even present a contradictory perspective from that evident from the score itself.\nHeld at Monash University Law Chambers, the international conference brought together scholars from across Australia and the UK, representing a range of disciplines including musicology, literature, history, and sociology.","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
+{"text":"Portal Now on OS X\nI don't do a lot of gaming, but I have enjoyed playing Portal. It is game where you run around with a gun that can shoot a blue or orange doorway. You can walk through one doorway and come out the other. The game revolves around solving puzzles by using these doorways to throw yourself over wall, drop objects on attacking robots and redirect energy balls.\nThe game runs on Steam which until recently was a windows only game distribution system by the makers of the Half-Life series of games. Until yesterday I had to use an application called Cross Over Games to play on my Mac. (Cross Over Games basically emulates Windows so the app will run. However, they just came out with a Mac version of Steam and are working on porting other games as well.\nThey are making Portal freely available for awhile, so if you'd like to try it out now is a great time. They also have a number of other games available that will work on both Mac and Windows. Another puzzle game I'd recommend is World of Goo. My daughter and I are working our way through it and it has been a lot of fun\u2013its nice to have a decent game you can play with a three year old helping.\nPrevious PostPrevious Texas Stars\nNext PostNext Hover Mower","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
+{"text":"Shane's Texas Pit Bar and Grill\nShane's BBQ\nAUTHENTICALLY AUSTIN\nLocated at 61 High Street in Hampton, NH... Texas style BBQ - BIG Texas flavor in a small seacoast town! We feature: Meat by the 1\/4, 1\/2 or full pound: Wagyu Brisket, House Brisket, Smoked BBQ and Dry Rubbed, Bone-In Spare Ribs by the 1\/2 rack or full rack, Boneless Pork Spare Ribs, Smoked Turkey & Smoked Sausages - Also all available served as sandwiches on brioche rolls with homemade pickles on the side.\nAdditionally, we have delicious sides such as Potato Salad, Cole Slaw, Creamed Corn, Baked Beans & Corn Bread. Daily dinner plates, a tasty smoked burger, country style desserts, plus we've got 16 taps on draft, specialty cocktails, a full bar, big screen TV's and live country music!\nHampton, NH 03842\nMonday - Wednesday: 12:00 pm - 9:00 pm\nThursday - Friday: 12:00 pm - 10:00 pm","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
+{"text":"Tag Archives: probably\nNot brushing your teeth increases the risk of oral and stomach cancer | Instant News\nNot brushing your teeth increases the risk of oral and stomach cancer, a 20-year study finds\nPeople suffering from gum disease have an increased risk of stomach and mouth cancer, the study said\nThe oral hygiene study in Boston examined the people for 20 years\nGum disease was associated with a 52% increased risk of cancer of the stomach\nAt Hatch For Mailonline\nPublished: 21:21 Moscow time on July 20, 2020 | Updated: 22:43 Moscow time, July 20, 2020\nOver the 20-year studies do not brush your teeth increases your chances of getting cancer of the mouth or stomach.\nResearch in Boston found that people with a history of gum disease to 52 percent more likely to develop cancer in later life.\nScientists in the US found that there is gum disease linked to increased cancer risk, and this risk was even higher among people who have previously lost teeth.\nAccording to NGSthe website, the main cause of gum disease is poor oral hygiene.\nResearch scientists in Boston found a link between gum disease and cancer of the oral cavity and the stomach in later life\nIt is also known that gum disease can also lead to heart problems, as bacteria spread through the blood.\nA team of researchers from the school the Harvard T. H. Chan of public health in Boston looked at the incidence of cancer of the esophagus and stomach in 98,459 women and men 49,685 for more than 20 years.\nThe results showed that in the period from 22 to 28 years, there were 199 cases of esophageal cancer cases and 238 cancer of the stomach.\nHistory of gum disease was associated with a 43% and 52% increased risk of esophageal cancer and stomach cancer, respectively, the study showed.\nCompared to people without tooth loss, the risk of cancer of the esophagus and stomach for those who lost two or more teeth was also increased \u2013 by 42% and 33%, respectively, said the scientists.\nThose with a history of gum disease, tooth loss and, having lost one or more teeth was equally associated with a 59 percent increased risk of developing cancer of the esophagus compared to those without a history of periodontal disease and tooth loss, researchers say.\nLikewise, this same group was 50% and 68% higher risk of stomach cancer, the study found.\nThe relationship between bacteria are commonly found in the oral cavity, for example, tannerella forsythia and porphyromonas blood and cancer of the esophagus was done by other scientists in previous studies.\nAnother possible reason is that poor oral hygiene and gum disease can contribute to the formation of bacteria known to cause stomach cancer, the researchers said.\nPrevious findings about the connection of gum disease and tooth loss with esophageal and stomach cancer have been inconsistent, the authors said.\nhealthNGSprobably\nAny grower developed a show-stopping Elton John's flower arch at the wedding of Princess Beatrice | Instant News\nAny florist Elton John designed a show-stopping floral arch, spanning the Church at the wedding of Princess Beatrice\nFloral arches, Princess Beatrice, was designed by Dutch Maestro Rob van Helden\nThe incredible display is made of peach, pink and ivory roses, hydrangea and Jasmine\nVan Helden Flowers for wedding Princess Eugenie and Elton John\nAt Alison Boshoff for the daily mail\nPublished: 20:11 GMT, 19 July 2020 | Updated: 20:17 Moscow time on July 19, 2020\nIt might be the most low-key wedding in recent history. But one element was extremely, delightfully over \u2014 and flowers.\nDesigned by the flamboyant Dutch Maestro Rob van Helden \u2014 any florist Elton John \u2014 floral arch, spanning the Royal chapel of All Saints in Windsor was stunning.\nThe display was made of the hundreds of tumbling peach, pink and ivory roses, pale pink hydrangeas, Jasmine finite and even playful, fluffy, pink astilbe, plus leaves collected from Windsor great Park.\nDesigned by the flamboyant Dutch Maestro Rob van Helden floral arch, spanning the Royal chapel of All Saints in Windsor was stunning\nRob van Helden began with the flower stall on the Fulham road, but now the number one choice of the showbiz set\nVan Helden wrote in Instagram: 'thank you so much for giving us the honor and privilege to be part of your special day.\nHe was probably well suited for a top-secret assignments year earlier, he decorated the chapel of St. George in Windsor castle for Beatrice's sister Eugenie October 2018 wedding, the choice in favor of seasonal berries \u2014 plus sandbags and ropes to keep everything in place on a windy day.\nVan Helden, 57, started with the flower stall on the Fulham road, but now the number one choice of the set of showbiz.\nThe secret of its success is the unique style. The mechanisms are simple and have only one kind of flower, but in jaw-dropping profusion.\nVan Helden formerly decorated the chapel of St. George in Windsor castle for his sister Beatrice Eugenie wedding Oct 2018\nHe said, 'If I could sum up my aesthetic ideal in one simple sentence, it would go for Tom'.\nSo who goes to him? All. He made arrangements for a party thrown by the Beckhams and Elton John uses van Helden for his charities and did their civil partnership in 2005 and married in 2014.\nVan Helden knows that Elton, who once famously blew \u00a3293,000 on flowers in less than two years, will not tolerate lilies, chrysanthemums or carnations.\nHe was remarkable for monitors in the \u00a3100,000 Pippa Middleton wedding glass tent \u2014 he and Pippa friends and meet flowers for 70th birthday at the Ritz for the late Princess Margaret.\nHe made arrangements for a party thrown by the Beckhams and Elton John uses van Helden for his charities and did their civil partnership in 2005 and married in 2014. Photo: Lulu and David Beckham at the wedding of Elton John\nHe even graced the No. 10 Christmas party, hosted by Gordon brown, organized table decorations for Nelson Mandela, and dressed in the Church at the wedding of supermodel Claudia Schiffer for.\nSinger Kylie Minogue friend and model Liz Hurley and actress Donna air.\nSister van Helden's, Patrice, is a partner in your business. She is responsible for Beatrice bouquet of trailing Jasmine, pale pink and cream sweet peas, Royal porcelain ivory spray roses, pink O'hara garden roses, pink wax flower and pale pink astible, while her brother focused on the spectacular arch-the display which took 12 hours to assemble.\nAccording to the tradition for Royal brides, bouquet, Beatrice included sprigs of Myrtle taken from a Bush planted by Queen Victoria at Osborne house on the Isle of Wight.\nVan Helden said in an interview: 'as a florist-designer, my job is to bring happiness to people. It is important to me that people say \"Wow\" when they enter the room.\nnewsprobably\nFitness model mother, who suffers from claustrophobia, she says she was thrown off air Canada flight wearing a mask | Instant News\nThe canadian woman said that when she was stopped from boarding air Canada flight along with her year-old daughter for refusing to wear a mask.\nAngelica Bibby, 42, from Kelowna, British Columbia, was visiting her sister in Ottawa and returned to her home on the other end of the country.\nShe carried a doctor's note with a request she can fly without a mask because of the strong her claustrophobia and fear.\nBibby has two flights on its way from the West coast without any problems.\nBut she stopped while trying to Board a flight to Montreal.\nAngelica Bibby, 42, from Vancouver, returning home after a trip to Ottawa when she was denied boarding on her flight from Montreal\nBibby said it flew two flights without a mask, but on the third she was stopped\n\u2013 I thought it would be fine\u2026I already went through it once. They wouldn't let me get on the plane, she said Castanet News.\n'They told me that I can't wear the mask, what I risk on the flight and they will not be allowed on a plane and left me stranded in Montreal cry.\n'They told me that it's not their problem. When I asked them how I was going to come back to kelowna, they told me that it is not their problem. I got yelled at, treated like a complete criminal, and they didn't even look at me.\nBibby was surprised by the reaction of the airline staff, because she has already made two flights on her way.\nBibby was forced to purchase another flight with WestJet at a price of $ 1,300. She is pictured here with her husband Dylan Bibby, left, and right in her workout clothes\nShe also carried with them a doctor's note about her inability to wear the mask because of its tendency to suffer from claustrophobia, which she claims causes her suffering from anxiety and panic attacks.\nLanding on your flight from Vancouver to Ottawa last week, the Manager of the airline contacted the doctor air Canada, who cleared her to fly.\nExpected such a medical examination on her return, Bibby introduced her attention, but she did not seem to matter when she showed it to the airline representatives, who called the company doctor. Only this time she was denied boarding.\nThey literally don't give a s*** about me. Because I was upset, and they wouldn't give me any answers, they threatened to call security to have me kicked out of the airport, she said.\nBibby had to fly back to the airline WestJet, for which she had to shell out another 1300 $\nAggravating the exchange happened in front of Bibby year-old daughter.\nIn the end, Bibby was able to get the place back in Vancouver on the competitor air Canada, the airline at a price of $ 1,300.\nEveryone is aware of what is happening. They were very kind, and quite generous. They gave me food and wine and made me comfortable,' Bibby said.\nBibby said that she tried to contact air Canada, but said she had to do everything online.\nLike many airlines at the present time, the canadian forces say that face coverings are required throughout a passenger's journey. For travelers who don't have masks, the airline is able to provide both of them at the airport and on Board.\nAir Canada said that it cannot comment on individual cases, but said in a statement: 'the mask covering the nose and mouth are a must on Board all flights as part of our multi-level requirements Biosafety and medical evidence is required ahead of time for any exceptions.\n'We analyze the situation to ensure that it is applied consistently to provide comfort, safety and health of all passengers and directly with the customer.'\nCanadanewsprobably\nKourtney Kardashian goes for a swim in her pajamas as she spends a weekend at the beach with friends | Instant News\nKourtney Kardashian goes for a swim in her pajamas as she spends a weekend at the beach with friends and family\nAt Glen Garner For Dailymail.com\nPublished: 00:19 EDT, July 19, 2020 | Updated: 00:19 EDT, July 19, 2020\nKourtney Kardashian recently been enjoying time with friends, after several months of quarantine.\nBig brother Kardashian spent the weekend on the beach with some friends, as they celebrated the birthday.\nShe took her story Instagram, as she went swimming on Saturday with her friend Addison RAE, both of them fully dressed in their pajamas for a dive.\nPajama swim: Kourtney Kardashian took to her Instagram history, as she went swimming on Saturday with her friend Addison ray, both of them fully dressed in their pajamas for immersion\nA 41-year-old was floating on her back in a classic red striped kit, as Addison was wearing a matching pair in blue, both wet.\nShe also enjoyed a Cup of tea and a piece to bomb it** push the cake from the first of her company house of pastry, complete with sea views.\nCourtney later squeezed in some time to read, as she and boyfriend Harry Hudson dove into Self-help books the Four agreements: a practical guide to personal freedom by don Miguel Ruiz.\nThe mother of three children had previously shared a video of the magnificent Vista, as helicopters circled above, write: 'rise N Shine'.'\nWet: the 41-year-old was swimming on her back in a classic red striped kit, as Addison was wearing a matching pair in blue, both wet\nSweet tooth: she also enjoyed a Cup of tea and a piece to bomb it** push the cake from the first of her company house of pastry, complete with sea views\nBook club: Courtney later squeezed in some time to read, as she and boyfriend Harry Hudson dove into Self-help books the Four agreements: a practical guide to personal freedom don Miguel Ruiz\nRise and Shine: the mother of three children, previously published video of the magnificent Vista, as helicopters circled above, write: 'the uprising' N 'Shine'\nThe unexpected guest: another friend shared the picture of her the history of the former Courtney Scott Disick, who, it seemed, was to join them for the weekend, as well as their children. The founder incompetent also posted some photos from the beach as he was wearing a blue floral ensemble with a backward black baseball cap\nShe, Addison and Harry celebrated the birthday of his friend Phil Riportella, along with her fianc\u00e9 Simon Hook.\nThe crew was seen the night before, taking the boy to a birthday dinner at the popular sushi bar Nobu Malibu.\nSimon shared a photo of their history the former Courtney Scott Disick, who, it seemed, was to join them for the weekend, as well as their children.\nThe founder incompetent also posted some photos from the beach as he was wearing a blue floral ensemble with a backward black baseball cap.\nCourtney and Scott, 37, were together from 2006 to 2015, and they share sons Mason dash, 10, reign Aston, five, and Penelope Scotland, eight.\nProud parents: Courtney and Scott, 37, were together from 2006 to 2015, and they share sons Mason dash, 10, reign Aston, five, and Penelope Scotland, eight\nKourtney Kardashianprobablytvshowbiz\nStassi Schroeder shows off her growing baby bump in intimate selfie | Instant News\nStassi Schroeder couldn't help but show off her growing baby bump on Tuesday evening.\n32-year-old fired Vanderpump rules star posted a selfie mirror its history Instagram from inside his bedroom that showed off her growing bump.\nShe joked in the post that she wanted some of her new weight could go into her ass instead of her stomach.\nBrags: Stassi Schroeder, 32, pulled up her shirt to show off her growing pregnant belly on Tuesday evening in Instagram post stories while joking that she wanted to get the same weight of my bum'\nStassi was standing in profile and wearing a black sweater, she rolled up to expose the fine curve of her bulging tummy.\nShe looked like she was comfortably dressed for sleep with a pair of pink shorts with hearts and thick gray socks.\nShe had blonde curls on his head in a high bun and posed in front of her bed with his and hers bedside tables.\nThe expression, although Stassi suggested She was proud of her progress, she joked that she doesn't mind a little burning takes place at a different location.\n'Now, if I could only get it in my trunk,' she joked, adding a pink heart Emoji.\nIntimate: the reality star covered her change the value to another mirror Selfie bedroom approved on July 2,\nThe reality star covered her change the value to another mirror Selfie bedroom adopted on 2 July.\nEarlier on Tuesday, Stassi was a scene in masks in West Hollywood as she picked a few pieces of jewelry at art and frame picture store.\nThe host of the podcast have been glowing ever since she officially announced her pregnancy on June 23 with cute pictures of herself and her fianc\u00e9, Beau Clark, the casting agent.\n'We're having a girl because she caption the snap, which showed her ribbed off the shoulder dress Bo kissed her on the cheek.\nThe representative of the couple confirmed DailyMail.com in June that they were expecting their first child together in early 2021.\n'Stassi and Beau will welcome their first child in the first week in January and grateful and ready to start the next Chapter of their lives as parents, it showed.\nIt's a girl! Along with her fiance Beau Clark, she shared a photo to Instagram on June 23 to officially announce that they were expecting a bunch of Jo\nA native of new Orleans Dating Bo from the end of 2017, and the couple announced their engagement a year ago, in July 2019.\nThe lovers were looking forward to a wedding in Rome, which was scheduled for October, but the pandemic coronavirus forced them to postpone until 2021.\nThe wedding was probably the main part of Stassi on Vanderpump rules series, but she was dismissed on 9 June for her racist actions towards her black former colleague of Faith Stowers.\nFaith accused Stassi and her friend Kristen Doute, who was also dismissed, reporting it to the police in 2018.\nTwo women falsely claimed the woman suspected in series of robberies, knowing that she had no face.\nItem: it and the casting agent began Dating in late 2017, and became engaged in July 2019\nOn hold: Bravo cameras are expected to film their wedding in Rome, which is now postponed to the coronavirus pandemic, but she was fired from Vanderpump rules in June\nStassi also made racist statements in 2017 episode with Stassi podcast, in which she complained about black people asking for special treatment in Hollywood.\nShe apologized for making 'racist comments in the last post to Instagram on June 7, and made a vague statement that it continues to take responsibility for what I said and did, and push yourself to do better.\nShe also claimed to have changed significantly since the racist actions and statements, and said that she was filled with remorse and regret for the pain because she is caused, especially in the faith.\nTo get her back after she was fired, fans have created a petition Change.org to put it back on Vanderpump rules, which has more than 25 200 signatures, and on Tuesday night, shown on June 24\nAfter her dismissal, some of the fans Stassi created a petition Change.org to try to get her back on Vanderpump rules.\nThe Creator of the petition, Nicole, Ryan, wrote, 'an event that happened over two years ago, it was not in order. The actions of Ms. Schroeder and Ms. Doute was because of ignorance.\n\u2013 But if we've learned anything these past few weeks is that these difficult conversations have to. The dismissal of these actors for what occurred many years ago, is more harmful than helpful, ' she continued.\nAs of Tuesday night, the petition had over 200 signatures 25.\nprobablytvshowbiz\nValve's Gabe Newell Hint at Moving Company, Esports Event to NZ \u2013 Esports Observer | Instant News\nGermany is nominating former minister Schmidt for the post of envoy for Bosnian peace | Instant News\nCovid 19 coronavirus: The government is expanding pre-departure tests for more travelers | Instant News\nKarachi remains cool and dry for the next 24 hours | Instant News\nAndroid 12 may bring improved game controller rumble | Instant News","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
+{"text":"Pregame Shootaround 12.3.12: A quiet Monday night\nBy Rob DausterDec 3, 2012, 2:00 PM EST\nEach day, CollegeBasketballTalk brings you the \"Pregame Shootaround,\" which will be posted at 2 p.m. ET and lay out a preview for the slate of games that night. We'll take a look at some key match-ups and important games, as well as make some predictions and point out what you need to watch for. Take a look below at today's edition:\nGame of the Night: USC at Nebraska, 8:00 p.m. (Big Ten Network): This is how you know it's a quiet night: the best game of the night pits a 3-3 USC team against Nebraska, who you can probably pencil in as a double-digit seed in the Big Ten tournament. The intrigue here lies with USC. The Trojans were a team that a lot of people thought could make some noise in the Pac-12 this season, but with a month of the season gone, they have wins over a Long Beach State team that is missing three players, a Texas team without Myck Kabongo, and Coppin State. Throw in a home loss to San Diego State in a game the Aztecs were essentially missing two starters and a 30 point loss to Illinois out in Maui, and the Trojans could really use a win on the road tonight.\nWho's getting upset?: No. 23 San Diego State: I have to pick someone, and I don't think that Syracuse is losing at home to Eastern Michigan, so the Aztecs it is. Chase Tapley and Deshawn Stephens are banged up and Texas Southern is fresh off of taking Colorado to double-overtime last week. Keep an eye on Omar Strong. He had 39 points in that loss to Colorado.\nMid-Major Matchup of the Night: Long Beach State at Fresno State: Eight days ago, Peter Pappageorge scored 23 points to give the 49ers a win over the Bulldogs, and while it will be interesting to see if Fresno State can put together a rebuttal, this matchup is nothing but a tease. Braeden Anderson, the former Kansas-signee, still isn't eligibile for Fresno State, while LBSU is waiting on Keala King and Tony Freeland to get eligible.\nFive things to watch for:\n1. Syracuse hosts Eastern Michigan, who is coached by former Cuse assistant Rob Murphy and counts former Syracuse player Da'Shonte Riley as their leading rebounder.\n2. That Syracuse-EMU game also happens to be the only one of the night that features two teams above .500.\n3. MEAC plays gets started! Defending champ Norfolk State heads to South Carolina State.\n4. There are five teams \u2014 Tennessee Tech, Gardner-Webb, Jacksonville, VMI and McNeese State \u2014 playing non-Division I opponents. Will we see any upsets?\n5. Long Beach State and Fresno State have now played twice in eight days after going 20 years without playing each other.\nRob Dauster is the editor of the college basketball website Ballin' is a Habit. You can find him on twitter @robdauster.","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
+{"text":"Jahihooaeg\nRelease Date: 3.12.2021\nRelease Date 3.12.2021\nBuy or Reserve Tickets\nVee peal\nAndres, the main character of the film, is a sensitive teenager raised by his strict grandparents in a small bland Soviet Estonian town. He is being bullied at school and his only friends are the drunkards, whores, and thieves living next door. Among them are a rough but sensible recidivist Valter and the simpleminded fisherman Kolla. And the only way to escape from his worries is to go fishing on the lake... The film talks about boyhood, friendship, first love, loss of loved ones, self-discovery, and coming of age.\nThe Manslayer\/ The Virgin\/ The Shadow\nMehetapja. S\u00fc\u00fctu. Vari\nThe film consists of three chapters. The Manslayer takes place more than a hundred years ago. The leading character Maara is a young bride who is about to start her life in her new family. The Virgin, set in the spring of 1949, tells the story of a young woman called Elina, who has been deported from Ingria into Estonia during the previous war. The Shadow moves in the present, on the border of real life and fantasy. The main character, Luna Lee, has decided to flee from home. Is there anything besides emptiness somewhere?\nThe Eternal Road\nIgitee\nBased on true events The Eternal Road is an epic story of one man's struggle for survival. Jussi Ketola returns to Finland from the great depression that struck America only to face growing political unrest. One summer night of 1930's, nationalist thugs violently abduct Ketola from his home. Beaten and forced to walk the Eternal Road to Soviet Union, where cruelty seems to know no end, his only dream is to return to his family at any cost. Hope dies last.\nV\u00e4ikelinna detektiivid ja Valge Daami saladus","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
+{"text":"International Concern Over Islamic Militants in Syria Increasing\nMatthew Feeney | 1.28.2013 4:15 PM\nThings are looking increasingly grim for Assad's regime. Russia, one of the Syrian government's closest allies, recently evacuated many of its citizens from the war-torn country, and Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev said that Assad's chances of staying in power are \"slipping away\" at the World Economic Forum's annual meeting in Davos. Although the Syrian government is losing support Assad's potential downfall leaves the international community with some concerns.\nAssad's opponents include Islamic militants, some of whom have links to Al Qaeda. There are worries that a post-Assad Syria could provide an ideal theatre in which these Jihadist groups could operate. French Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius recently voiced these concerns. From Reuters:\nAddressing the opening of a conference in Paris with senior members of the Syrian National Coalition, Laurent Fabius said the meeting must focus on making the opposition politically and militarily cohesive to encourage international assistance.\n\"Facing the collapse of a state and society, it is Islamist groups that risk gaining ground if we do not act as we should,\" he said. \"We cannot let a revolution that started as a peaceful and democratic protest degenerate into a conflict of militias.\"\nOfficials in Israel are also concerned. Iron Dome defense systems have been deployed to northern Israel, and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has sent national security adviser Ya'akov Amidror to Moscow for talks on the situation in Syria. One of the main concerns is that chemical weapons could fall into the hands of Islamic militants. Israeli Vice Prime Minister Silvan Shalom has said that Israeli air strikes could be used to stop chemical weapons being acquired by either Al Qaeda-linked militants or members of Hezbollah fighting for the Assad regime.\nIsraeli strikes on fighters sympathetic to Assad could result in Iran getting involved. A few days ago an aide to Ayatollah Ali Khamenei said that an attack on Syria would be viewed as an attack on Iran. While the conflict in Syria is being portrayed as a civil war the reality is a little more complicated. Last month, The Independent reported that fighters from as many as 29 countries are involved in the Syrian conflict. The involvement of fighters from so many countries only adds to the unpredictable nature of the conflict, as does the increased potential involvement of Iran and Israel. Considering the complex international situation in Syria and the fact that Israel and Iran have already mentioned intervention it would be best not to send additional support to the Syrian opposition, despite what Sen. John McCain (R-AZ.) might think.\nNEXT: NYC Houses Sandy Victims With Vermin, No Heat\nMatthew Feeney is a policy analyst at the Cato Institute.\nRussia Syria Iran France Israel\nHugh Akston\nJanuary.28.2013 at 4:18 pm\nDo you guys hear that ripping sound? It's Lyle and Cytotoxic's warboners tearing free of their pants.\nI heard it.\nDamn squirrels wouldn't let me link to a .wav file.\nOh SF\u2026\nBut which side are we supposed to warfuck? Assad is bombarding his own people and accidentally shelled Turkey. He owns chemical weapons and was prepared to use them. Meanwhile, the Syrian militants are rabid Islamic nutcases who have killed children and set civilians on fire.\nI don't know which of those sides we're supposed to warwingman.\nAs long as furriners die, who cares?\nR C Dean\nI think the theory is we attack anyone that we don't want to have chemical weapons.\nWhich, in Syria, is pretty much everyone.\ntarran\nMy grandmother would have advocated bombing both sides and bringing restoring Turkish rule to the wayward province.\nI'm not saying it should be done, but I've heard worse ideas.\nHeroic Mulatto\nWhomever our Saudi masters deem appropriate.\njohnl\nIt's just as likely that the opposition is shelling Turkey.\nhttp:\/\/news.antiwar.com\/2012\/1\u2026..to-turkey\/\nI know it's Anti-war.com, a site that clearly has an ax to grind, but Assad's government did apologize and take responsibility. It's not just as likely that the opposition did it.\nant1sthenes\nJanuary.28.2013 at 10:11 pm\nI don't know about supposed to, but if the rumors about Benghazi are true, we are intervening on the side of jihad yet again. Which makes no sense to me, unless everyone at the CIA and DoD are secret Muslims, or they just literally believe that you need a World War to improve the world economy.\nkwais\nJanuary.29.2013 at 9:14 am\nI am curious as to why we want to replace a socialist dictatorship with an Islamist dictatorship.\nRumor is that if you want to go to war with Iran you can't do so with Assad in power. You would have to invade both countries.\nNow Assad's government is a minority Shia that rules a majority Sunni.\nIf the Islamists take over, they will be the Sunni majority and they will be more opposed to Iran than they are to Israel or us.\nBut, they will be a headache of no end to the Iraqi government.\nEpisiarch\nClear as day.\nIn the sense that I enjoy watching the enemies of civilization kill each other at no cost to us, ye, my warboner breaks loose. In any sense of America getting involved, nay, my warboner is nowhere to be found. Not that I expect you to even comprehend or process that last point. You are as addicted to a cartoon of your opponents in this subject as liberals are in basically all subjects.\nArchduke Pantsfan\nOH THOSE MUSLINS!!!\nWhat is this, WND?\nWell, it makes sense to wear muslin in Syria during the summer, at least.\nWe should have open borders and allow these people to come to the US so they can become citizens and vote. They are experts on socialist dictatorships and Islamic dictatorships that Americans are too lazy and over priced to do.","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
+{"text":"Have we met?\nby Fiona Baker\nThe Community Champions\nThe Creative Types\nThe Foodies\nThe Storytellers\nacrophobia \/ adulthood \/ artist \/ baby \/ Bangalow \/ Bexhill \/ Booyong \/ byron writers festival \/ career \/ catering \/ ceramics \/ childhood \/ christmas \/ clothes \/ Clunes \/ country music \/ creativity \/ csg \/ discovery \/ drawing \/ eltham \/ Eureka \/ fear of heights \/ gig review \/ graphic designer \/ il carretto \/ interview \/ Italy \/ kitchen \/ knitting nannas \/ money \/ motherhood \/ neighbours \/ nostalgia \/ photography \/ pizza \/ pottery \/ redback graphix \/ table tennis \/ teacher \/ technology \/ vietnam \/ waterfall \/ writing\nNikky Morgan-Smith | Artist\nPublished by Fiona\nNikky Morgan-Smith lives in Eureka in a house tucked away on the side of an overgrown gully. It's the house she grew up in, where her parents still lived, until Nikky and her then six-month old daughter, Morgan, moved back from Melbourne about 9 years ago. \"We moved in and when it was apparent that we weren't going to move back out, they moved out\", Nikky says, smiling. Her parents now live in another house on the family's 50-acre property, while Nikky and Morgan share the old house with their menagerie of dogs, cats and birds. Both Nikky's parents are artists, and as a kid being dragged around to gallery openings, she wasn't keen to follow in their footsteps. By the end of school, though, Nikky enjoyed art enough to enrol in a Visual Arts degree at age 18. \"In a way I didn't really have a choice because it was the one thing that I knew how to do the best.\" Nikky transferred her studies to Melbourne and became involved in art therapy, volunteering \u2026\nGirl Vs Internet Logins\nIn the battle between saving the forests and saving my sanity, there can only be one winner. At last count I have about 25 online accounts of varying kinds. Each has their own web address, client number, username, password, secret question, mother's shoe size, wizard's spell to be chanted at midnight under a full moon. In an effort to save trees and, while they're at it, shift responsibility, companies are constantly pushing us to access everything online. Sounds good in theory, everything at your fingertips. In reality, you're in password hell. As I see it, you have only two options. You could use the one password for all your accounts, or use a different one each time and write them down somewhere useful, but not so useful that a robber or cyber-hacker can find them. Either way, you're screwed. Here's a rundown of the companies I'm in online relationships with: bank other bank insurance company Centrelink Medicare superannuation fund other superannuation fund electricity company digital newspaper subscription motor registry domain name provider email host other email host \u2026\nLauren Campbell | Potter\nIn a weathered, open-sided shed behind an old house in the middle of Clunes, Lauren Campbell is in her favourite place. A mud-strewn pottery wheel sits at one end, at the other are shelves laden with vessels in various states of undress. Finished mugs, bowls and platters glisten in the afternoon light, brightly coloured glazes dripping sea blues, lilacs and speckled creams over their earthy bodies. \"Getting my hands dirty, sitting on the wheel, it's just a place of calm,\" says Lauren. Lauren discovered pottery about 5 years ago after being captivated by some beautiful ceramics while on a work experience placement with furniture designer, Mark Tuckey, in Sydney. \"He had a big shop and had this ceramicist's products in there and I fell in love with them\", she says. Now in her second year of TAFE, studying the Advanced Diploma in Visual Arts, majoring in Ceramics, Lauren divides her time between classes, throwing clay on her wheel, teaching pottery workshops and taking care of the hidden necessities of being a self-employed businesswoman, under the \u2026\nDave Rawlings Machine, East Coast Tour @ Bangalow A & I Hall\nDave Rawlings sings sweet and country. His hat's not as high as some but it's perfectly clean and cream. He plays that 80-year-old guitar like it's gonna take him away to another planet. At once caressing it, then tugging and working it round a solo to within an inch of its life. When Gillian Welch sings, her straight, wide mouth hides the smooth and effortless sound that escapes it. There's no confusing whose voice that is. She smiles frequently, at us, at Dave, enjoying herself and the music they're making. It's Dave's name on the bill, but on stage the two are equals. One wouldn't be without the other. Gillian jokes that it's going to get hot and sweaty, which is just as well because that's how they like it. For sure, the night is still and the old hall is an oven full of bodies. The guitars are pretty high, the jeans straight and not-too-narrow, and the denim double. Americana for the clothes as well as the tunes. Long dresses brush ankles, all checks \u2026\nThe Axis of Awesome \u2013 Melbourne Comedy Festival\nSo, I got to interview my first comedy act last week, The Axis of Awesome. Luckily, they were awesome, so they're not liars. And, even more luckily, they are playing soon at a comedy festival near you! Which would be true if you live near Adelaide or Melbourne. Get along to see them if you can, and if you can't just google them or hit them up on YouTube. You'll thank me later. Read the funny stuff they had to say over at Aphra Magazine here.\nKylie Bridges | Artist and Collaborator\n\"We were all set up in Sydney,\" says Kylie Bridges, shaking her head in slight disbelief at what she's about to say. \"I really didn't think he'd walk away from it all, but he did and we're here and we love it\", she says, referring to her husband, Mark, a self-employed bathroom renovator and musician, and their decision to move to Clunes 13 years ago. \"I still actually go 'wow, we really did it', because we were in a really nice situation, in a little house, great friends, great street\", Kylie explains. A chance encounter between their son Josh, a toddler at the time, and a stranger's playful dog on a Byron Bay beach changed their lives. The dog's owner told them how he'd lived all over the world but had now settled in Clunes. \"'It was God's country', he said, and he told us to 'do yourselves a favour and just go out into the hinterland while you're up here'\", Kylie recounts. She never did learn his name. Now primarily a self-employed graphic designer, \u2026\nSoundtrack To a Road Trip\nSince I've moved towns, my summer road trips have become down right familiar. They take me back to where I grew up, along a road I've travelled a hundred times before. Each year we optimistically pile our kids, Christmas presents, pet, beach gear, party outfits and active wear into the car and set off for our little 3-hour journey down the Pacific Highway. I'm not getting to many festivals these days, or going off on spontaneous camping weekends with my mates, so this annual drive is one of my only chances to feel the carefree vibes of taking to the road, air-con in my hair and porta-cot jammed in behind my seat. This time, we had so much gear we decided to take two cars, and on the return trip I get the kids while Tim has the dog. Luckily, I also get the CD stacker. Since we're constantly trying to educate our 4.5 year old how to appreciate modern rock music, and since kids are such good learners, he now complains whenever we play \u2026\nReviews \/ Travel","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
+{"text":"Quonsets & Nissens\nA Quonset hut \/\u02c8kw\u0252ns\u026at\/ is a lightweight prefabricated structure of corrugated galvanized steel having a semicircular cross-section. The design was developed in the United States, based on the Nissen hut introduced by the British during World War I. Hundreds of thousands were produced during World War II and military surplus was sold to the public. The name comes from the site of their first manufacture at Quonset Point at the Davisville Naval Construction Battalion Center in Davisville, Rhode Island.\nBefore Malcolm Parry left Vancouver Magazine I proposed to him that we do a story about the Quonset huts in Vancouver. Being English he corrected me and told me that the British had developed them in WW I. The story never came to fruition.\nToday I went to pick up some glass on East Hastings. Half a block away is a Quonset hut that I have seen there for years. I could not resist snapping a photograph. I wonder with the hundreds of thousands of them that were built during and after WW II if these buildings could not be adapted as temporary shelter for the Vancouver homeless or even be adapted as quick and affordable homes for the very low income inhabitants of our city\nIncredibly there are at least a couple of companies in Canada that manufacture Quonsets and variations of them.\nLink to: Quonsets & Nissens\nMy First Rose of the Season - Rosa sericea ssp. omeiensis f. pteracantha\nRosa sericea ssp. omeiensis f. pteracantha May 1 2019\nThe beginning of May is always that month when one goes to one's garden there are surprises that seemed to have happened overnight. This is especially true with my hostas as they unfurl quickly with the warmish few weeks of spring sun.\nBut I must report that the biggest surprise today was seeing Rosa sericea ssp. Omeiensis f. pteracantha. It is then officially the first rose to bloom in my garden.\nThis species rose is unusual in two ways. It is the only one with four petals instead of the five found in all other species. The other unusual feature is that as the rose matures it has huge, translucent barbs that dazzle the eyes when seen in backlight.\nI might have missed the blooming as the rose is in my alley\/garage garden. Some five years ago I had a mature one but it died suddenly in the middle of the summer. My Rosemary tried to find it in many mail-order sites but to no avail. I found it last year at Garden Works in North Vancouver.\nMy original plant was used for a program for Early Music Vancouver in 2014.\nIt is nice to have her back.\nShe was first some years back Winged Dinosaur\nLink to: My First Rose of the Season - Rosa sericea ssp. omeiensis f. pteracantha\nBlue Memories at the VanDusen Botanical Garden Plant Sale\nToday, April 28 is the yearly plant sale at VanDusen Botanical Garden. For many years Rosemary and I braved the usual cold of the day and we would line up hours before the opening at 10:30. We would be there with a wheelbarrow, sipping coffee to keep warm. If asked what plants we were looking for we would be noncommittal as we did not want anybody on the line-up to rush and get our treasured plant. For quite a few years, Rosemary chose to help on that day as she is a Master Gardener. This gave her access to look at what was available on the day before.\nToday I dropped and her off and rushed home. Our male cat, Ni\u00f1o, had not returned (he has yet to return as write this).\nThe VanDusen plant sale is full of memories for me. There was the excitement of finding the plant I was looking for or being exposed to a plant I knew nothing about.\nMost of all my memories are full of the people who were there helping gardeners with information.\nAnd then there was Marion McDonnell (pronounced with emphasis on that e). She was the Blue Poppy Lady. Every Meconopsis grandis or betonicifolia (they are just about identical) usually called the Himalayan (snobs put emphasis on that first a) blue poppy came from her greenhouse. The plant, legendary for its blueness, likes dappled shade but it was notorious as an almost impossible plant to keep after a first year. Some said it was a biannual so a new plant had to be raised from seed.\nI told Rosemary to see if she could find a Meconopsis today.\nMcDonnell was in charge of taking people (elderly or folks unable to walk) in carts and giving them tours of VanDusen.\nOn spring and summer weekends I would visit her (unnanouced). She did not live far from our Kerrisdale home. Her garden was something like a bowling alley, narrow and long. In the garden you would always find Gretchen her Daschund at the gate. McDonnell would then loudly say (with her baritone voice),\"How are you my friend?\" She would offer me her excellent coffee and cookies.\nThere were many others like her at those VanDusen plant sales. One person that stood out for me was running into architect Arthur Erickson with a smile of excitement on his face. He was keen on the plant chase.\nTo this day I can look at the plants in our Kerrisdale garden and know where they came from. In many of those instances I can see the face of the person who handed it to me followed by sage advice on how to grow it and keep it.\nNi\u00f1o just sauntered in.\nLink to: Blue Memories at the VanDusen Botanical Garden Plant Sale","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
+{"text":"Like the Memphis Immigration Court, the LaSalle Immigration Court is not an independent arbiter of the law. Instead, it is an administrative law court. It is the sub-agency of another agency tasked with enforcing the laws as that agency sees fit.\nIn this case, it is the local office of the Office of the Chief Immigration Judge, a sub-agency of the Executive Office for Immigration Review, a sub-agency of the U.S. Department of Justice.\nPractically speaking, what this means is the immigration judges are not judges at all. Rather, they are attorney employees of the U.S. Department of Justice and they have to do whatever the Attorney General, currently everyone's least-favorite Southern caricature, Jeff Sessions, tells them to do.\nLooking specifically at the LaSalle court, this agency's sole purpose is to adjudicate the removal proceedings of detained immigrants. Individuals who have been detained from all over the mid-South, particularly Arkansas, Louisiana, Mississippi and Tennessee tend to end up in the LaSalle Detention Facility and subject to the LaSalle Immigration Court's jurisdiction, although some also end up detained in other detention facilities in Louisiana and before the jurisdiction of the Oakdale Immigration Court.\nBecause I work in Arkansas and represent detained clients, that means I get to spend a lot of time working with this secret immigration court attempting to obtain bonds and, when bond is denied, physically going to Louisiana to argue in favor of our clients' applications for relief.\nThe LaSalle Immigration Court\n830 Pine Hill Road\nJena, LA 71342\nFor anyone practicing in the region, it might be helpful to get to know the LaSalle Immigration Court a little better. Here are ten important pieces of information anyone dealing with the court might want to know:\n1. Where is the LaSalle Immigration Court Located?\nIn the middle of the wood. Next question....\nSeriously, the court is located in the middle of the Louisiana forest. With the exception of some logging activity going on a little ways down the road and a crawfish salesman who must have gone down the road at least once to hang signs, there really is not much else around the court and detention center than trees. If you like trees, it's great!\nLiterally right across the road from the court. I haven't called yet, but I think about it every time I'm there.\nEven the name of the road the court is on is Pine Hill Road. And the name is quite fitting because once you turn onto it, you're surrounded by pine trees and you go up a slight hill. Credit to the planner who came up with that name.\nPine Hill Road in Jena just before you get to the LaSalle court.\nOnce you get to the court you will notice it is difficult to enter. It is, after all, housed inside a jail. The facility is surrounded by two layers of barbed wire laced chain link fence that stands around 20 feet tall. Walk up to the gate and press the button. No one will answer, but 5 to 60 seconds later you'll hear a buzzing noise and the gate will pop open.\nClose the gate behind you and you'll find yourself between the two layers of fencing. Approach the second gate and repeat what you just did at the first gate. Now you can enter the facility.\nOnce inside, you will be greeted by a GEO Group employee sitting at a desk in a small lobby. These GEO contractors are probably the most pleasant people in the detention center. You'll have to sign a permission form to be allowed to take your cell phone and electronics into the facility and then empty your pockets and walk through a scanner; but that's fairly common in these situations, so no sweat. Now you can wait in the lobby until they call your case.\nBehind the lobby are offices. The office to the left belongs to ICE, including operations for the Office of Chief Counsel. To the right is the court office: a tiny room with a computer, files and a couple of clerks.\n2. There are no judges in the LaSalle Immigration Court\nWhen you are allowed back to the court rooms, you will notice there are four of them. You will also notice that, with the exception of a single GEO employee manning each room (sometimes), the court rooms are completely empty.\nIn fact, the four immigration judges who handle the caseload for the court do not live or work in the area. Instead, they appear via televideo from the Miami Immigration Court. This obviously can create some issues and those will be addressed below, but for now, the four immigration judges currently handling cases in LaSalle are:\nJudge Marsha K. Nettles - Started as an immigration judge in the Detroit Immigration Court and then transferred relatively recently to the Miami Immigration Court. While in Detroit, she denied 80.3% of asylum applications filed in her courtroom. Licensed in Michigan, Judge Nettles graduated from Michigan State University and the University of Detroit, Mercy School of Law. Prior to being appointed as an immigration judge, she was a trial attorney for the Office of Chief Counsel, serving as the Chief Counsel in Detroit from 2003-2005.\nJudge Denise A. Marks Lane - After attending Howard University and Georgetown University Law Center, Judge Lane worked as a trial attorney for the former Immigration and Naturalization Service (\"INS\") in New York. She switched over to the Board of Immigration Appeals working as a staff attorney for 5 years before being appointed as an immigration judge in 1994. From 2012 to 2017, Judge Lane denied 70.4% of asylum applications brought in her courtroom.\nJudge Madeline Garcia - Attended the University of Puerto Rico for her undergraduate and law degrees and then taught at the same as an adjunct professor running the university's asylum clinic. Prior to becoming an immigration judge, Judge Garcia worked in private practice for 19 years, including as a sole practitioner. For most of her career, Judge Garcia focused her practice on immigration law. She denies 87.8% of asylum applications.\nJudge Lourdes Rodriguez de Jongh - An alum of the University of Miami for both her undergraduate and law degrees, Judge Rodriguez de Jongh is licensed in Florida and spent the entirety of her career before being appointed as an immigration judge working as a private immigration attorney, including stints working for non-profit organizations representing asylum seekers. From 2012 to 2017, Judge Rodriguez de Jongh denied 52.6% of asylum applications.\nFor the first several months the LaSalle court was open, immigration judges would appear in person during short assignments from other immigration courts. It is always possible that setup could return or that permanent immigration judges are assigned to the court, but for now televideo is the way things are.\n**Update** As of Monday, August 27, 2018, the LaSalle Immigration Court will no longer be managed by the Miami Immigration Court, but will have at least one resident, yet-to-be-named immigration judge with the goal of four resident immigration judges starting in October 2018.\n3. There are no prosecutors (trial attorneys) either...\nLike the immigration judges, all trial attorneys handling matters before the LaSalle Immigration Court appear from the Miami Immigration Court and are part of the Miami Office of Chief Counsel. They appear from the same room and via the same televideo feed as the immigration judges. They enjoy internet access (more on that later) and direct contact with the judge and others in the courtroom where the decisions are made.\nEven so, the Office of Chief Counsel maintains staff in the Jena detention center. Their main purpose is to organize and forward filings received in Jena to the Office of Chief Counsel in Miami.\nEarlier in the LaSalle Immigration Court's history, trial attorneys were physically present in Jena, but gone are those days. The only persons physically present in the courtroom during the hearing will be you, your client and an employee of GEO. It may go without saying, but this is a very alienating experience.\n4. What role does the court play?\nA cynic might say it is the role of the court to deport as many detainees as possible. A cynic would be correct.\nThe LaSalle Immigration Court is a machine. It grinds you down. Everything from its location, to the distance between the immigration judges and the individuals whose cases they decide, the lack of access to internet, the time between hearings and fierce opposition to continuances presented by judges and trial attorneys alike, among many other aspects of the court, are designed to make it as difficult as possible for a detainee to obtain a bond or achieve approval of an application for relief.\nThis is not to say the judges, trial attorneys and court staff working at the LaSalle court are bad people. On the contrary, they're professionals doing their best to do a difficult job. Regardless, it is important to understand that those victories are few and far between and things are that way because the system is organized to make it that way.\n5. If the court's in the middle of nowhere, where do I eat?\nThe LaSalle Immigration Court is indisputably in the middle of nowhere. The nearest town is Jena, a tiny town with few options at first glance. It's one of those old one-street Southern towns, but don't let that fool you. Jena is still located in Louisiana, so there is some very good food.\nThe center of Jena\nThere are a couple of gas stations, a barbecue restaurant and a delightful little place that serves po'boys.\nWhen in Louisiana....\nOf course, there are also options outside of Jena. I always drive to the LaSalle Immigration Court from the north. The largest city I drive through in Louisiana is Monroe. About an hour away from Jena, Monroe is one of Louisiana's larger metro areas and has several places to unwind after a depressing day in court. It's also usually where I stay the evening before a hearing.\nMy favorite place in Monroe is Warehouse No. 1, a great local restaurant specializing in Louisiana favorites. It's become somewhat of a tradition where, win or lose, I go to the warehouse and enjoy a bowl of Louisiana-style shrimp & grits on the restaurant's deck over the Ouachita River. At the very least it's something to look forward to. If heading to Jena from further south, there are also great options in Alexandria.\nWherever you go, make sure to take some time to re-center yourself after spending time in the grind that is LaSalle. One cannot overstate the importance of self care.\n6. How does running the LaSalle Immigration Court from Miami work?\nIt runs, but with lots of hiccups.\nThere have been some notable problems. Things move fast in Jena and when respondents and defense counsel are required to file their motions and documents in Louisiana and then hope those things make their way to Miami, we're simply moving on a separate timeline than the immigration judges and trial attorneys. This is never so true as when representing individuals with criminal histories.\nApplications for every form of relief or bond typically require us to obtain certified copies of criminal records from state courts that do not care about LaSalle's deadlines or method of receiving documents in one location and then scanning them to another.\nDocuments have been lost in this process, although Miami staff has always been helpful in tracking things down. Lost documents can result in prolonged detention or the denial of applications for relief and the court losing these documents is a serious issue that needs to be addressed. It is one thing to lose a case on the merits, but quite another to lose because the court loses filings.\nJust know that the court requires you to file documents with the detention center. When filings are received, they are scanned over to the Miami Immigration Court where they are distributed to the immigration judge presiding over the case. This is a multi-step process that renders the simple act of providing paperwork to the immigration court overly complicated and prone to error.\nRegardless, it's the system that has been imposed on us and, for now, we have to deal with it. Things you can do to avoid problems include:\nFile documents well in advance of all hearings and deadlines (although this is not always feasible, reasonable, or fair)\nFile copies of the documents with both the LaSalle Immigration Court and the Miami Immigration Court\nCall the LaSalle Immigration Court and verify both receipt of the filing and the transfer of the filing to the immigration judge\nDocument all filings by sending everything via overnight courier, tracking packages, requesting file-marked copies and explaining on the record how everything was sent when an immigration judge explains the documents are not in her possession.\nWith the Miami Immigration Court finishing up its management of the LaSalle Immigration Court starting in late August 2018, things will likely change.\n7. There is no internet access if you don't work for the government\nAt most immigration courts throughout the country, there is no internet access, but you have signal and can use your phone as a hot spot. Not so in LaSalle. There is no cell service in the detention center and there is no internet access provided to defense attorneys while in the courtrooms of the facility. This is important for two main reasons:\nFirst, if you rely on electronic files, make sure everything is downloaded and opened on your computer before you enter the detention center. If anything goes wrong you will not be able to get access to anything you have stored in the cloud. I may not be the best attorney in the world, but even I know I am at a serious disadvantage if I do not have access to a client's file during a hearing.\nSecond, the trial attorneys in Miami do have access to internet. That may not seem like a big deal. After all, you can always bring physical copies of your legal resource books with you wherever you go (but be warned: the combined weight of Kurzban's, the INA, the 8 CFR & any other resource book is substantial). But this is a huge deal. In trials where even the smallest detail can be the difference between winning and losing and where we generally bear the burdens of proof, every little advantage or disadvantage counts.\nAs defense attorneys, we already have numerous disadvantages. Adding lack of internet access, especially when opposing counsel has full access, is significant. It may not be fatal in every case, but there are times where it might be necessary to pull up previous e-mail correspondence with the trial attorney or perform on-the-spot citation checks. Trial attorneys can do that. Defense attorneys cannot.\n8. Your clients will not want to fight their cases\nThe LaSalle Detention Facility is a depressing place. As already discussed, detainees are arrested and transferred to a place that is about as remote as anywhere in the southern United States. They are separated from family and counsel. It is simply too far out of the way for loved ones to visit with any degree of frequency.\nWe routinely hear of reports of guards and ICE agents telling detainees how hopeless their case is; how they should just give up and accept a removal order. There is no separating minor offenders from hardened criminals. Occasionally, detainees even die.\nSunrise over a bayou near Jena. This is not the Louisiana your clients will experience and it shows.\nThis is not hyperbole. You can see it on your clients faces as you spend time with them in the facility preparing for hearings. You can hear it in their voices as you speak to them on the phone. Most of these individuals just want out. They're tired of being in that environment. When requesting bond and fighting for relief from removal take months to pull off, it just gets harder. When we lose at trial, rarely do our clients want to risk spending several more months in detention fighting out an appeal.\nBe ready for this. Listen to your clients and accept their decisions. You may have to play the role of cheerleader in strong cases or facilitate the winding down of a case in borderline or weak cases that you would be more than happy to fight in the non-detained context.\n9. How do I plan my day at the facility?\nArrive with plenty of time to spare. As referenced above, you will be subject to an administrative inspection when you get to the detention center. That might take some time. You will also have to sign documents in order to be allowed to bring electronics into the courtroom.\nMost importantly, you will not be allowed to just wander around the facility all alone. You will be escorted to and from the courtrooms by GEO employees and allowed to enter only with just enough time to be able to speak with your client before the hearing. You will not be offered a private room to meet with your client and instead will have to conduct a pre-hearing meeting in the corridor connecting the four courtrooms.\nBe ready for anything, inside or out of the detention center. On one of my first trips to Jena, a logging truck overturned, dumping tons of recently chopped trees onto the road and causing a traffic jam in south Arkansas.\nOften times your hearing will not begin at the time it was scheduled and you will be required to wait around until the immigration judge is ready for you. Sometimes the judge will want to start the hearing before the scheduled time. The schedule is difficult to predict and completely outside of your control.\nMake sure you give yourself as much of it as you can.\n10. Wrapping it up:\nThe LaSalle Immigration Court is designed to process detainees for removal as quickly and efficiently as possible while creating some semblance of due process. It is designed for detainees and their defense counsel to lose as often as possible. It is one of the most difficult places I have ever practiced.\nBe aware of that going into it. Encourage your client, but honor their informed decisions. Respect the judge and opposing counsel, but don't let them blame the court's inefficiencies on you. It's a long trip, so schedule some time for yourself at some point in the journey. Most of all, don't stop fighting. The only person standing between you and your client's removal most of the time is you. Best of luck in LaSalle.\nNathan Bogart is an immigration attorney at Bogart Immigration, PLLC. He focuses his practice exclusively on immigration law, with a particular focus on removal defense, family petitions and humanitarian options.\nBogart Immigration, PLLC is a group of legal professionals dedicated exclusively to immigration cases. Based in Fayetteville, Arkansas, we represent clients from all over the state of Arkansas and beyond.\nArkansas Immigration Attorney Deportation defense Deportation in Arkansas detention Immigrant Detention immigration court LaSalle Immigration Court Removal Defense removal proceedings\nLocation: Fayetteville, AR, USA","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
+{"text":"What to see at Stagecoach festival 2022: Compton Cowboys, DJ from 'The Bachelor,' and more\nNiki Kottmann\nGet the boots and beer koozies ready, y'all. It's nearly Stagecoach time.\nWith new music from festival performers Thomas Rhett, Maren Morris and Carrie Underwood released in the past month, the anticipation is growing for the return of California's country music festival.\nWe've compiled a list of must-do activities at Stagecoach 2022, which is slated for Friday, April 29 through Sunday, May 1 at the Empire Polo Club in Indio. From Guy Fieri cooking demonstrations to a set led by \"The Bachelorette\" contestant-turned DJ Blake Horstmann, there's plenty to enjoy beyond the main stages.\nMore:Stagecoach 2022 set times: With Thomas Rhett, Carrie Underwood, Luke Combs headlining. Here's when others are playing\nAs headliner Thomas Rhett would say, \"don't threaten us with a good time\" ...\nGet artsy at the Toyota Music Den\nToyota Music Den organizers are getting in touch with their creative side this year with live paintings of commemorative Stagecoach festival posters. If you need a break from jamming out by the stages, head over to this area to get in on the fun, which also includes several Instagram-ready spots where you can \"walk on walls at the gravity-defying Sideways Photo Op,\" according to a recent Stagecoach tweet.\nExperience the Compton Cowboys\nCalifornia's own Compton Cowboys use horseback riding to inspire inner-city Los Angeles youth to seek a lifestyle outside of their neighborhood gangs. The famed group of Black riders \u2014 Straight Outta Richland Farms, as the website states \u2014 is made up of lifelong friends who aim to both influence young people and highlight \"the rich legacy of African-Americans in equine and western heritage.\" The Compton Cowboys will have their own ranch space on the festival grounds this year, so make sure to say hey and learn about the group's history.\nHead to Flavortown with Guy Fieri\nAttention all fans of \"Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives\" and \"Guy's Grocery Games,\" America's (arguably) most enthusiastic chef is headed back to Stagecoach. Enjoy regional BBQ favorites from across the country at Guy's Stagecoach Smokehouse, which is a spot to grab some grub as well as a place to enjoy cooking demos with performers Midland (on April 29), LoCash (on April 30) and Luke Combs (on May 1).\nTake a ride on the iconic Ferris wheel\nWe're all familiar with the view from this festival staple after seeing enviable social media posts from celebrities and friends alike. If you want to see the sweeping Santa Rosa Mountain vistas yourself (or you're just in it for the Instagram post, we won't judge), take a whirl at a yet-to-be-announced additional cost. Tip: Don't go at sunset unless you have Kindergarten teacher-level patience.\nShop 'till you drop\nNeed a memento to honor your Stagecoach experience? Country singer Nikki Lane's got you covered at Nikki Lane's Stage Stop Marketplace, a music-infused shopping area that brings all the classic country styles of Nashville to Indio. The marketplace features Lane's brick-and-mortar vintage shop, High Class Hillbilly, as well as up-and-coming artists from around the country on the Horseshoe stage.\nHit the dance floor\nWhether you have a strong desire to line dance or you're just hot and need to take an air-conditioned break from the main stages, the Honkytonk Dance Hall is your spot. Dancers of all levels are sure to improve their two-step, round dancing, line dancing and country hoedown skills after an hour at this festival gem. But if you just want to watch from afar, that's perfectly acceptable too. Tip: Dancers who need a break from the Honkytonk but want to continue the party can swing by the Monster Energy Lounge and get a free can of the energy drink to keep them moving on the brand's own dance floor.\nJump in the driver's seat\nGet behind the wheel of a Toyota truck or SUV on the manufacturer's off-road course, then join Motorsports Hall of Fame inductee and 15-time champion racecar driver Ivan \"Ironman\" Stewart, along with his pro-driving team, for an \"Off-Road Thrill Ride\" accessible via the Toyota Music Den tent.\nSavor a musical nightcap with Diplo\nIf you aren't ready for the day to be over, head to the Palomino tent for the festival's inaugural Saturday late-night jam session with rising country star Orville Peck starting at 11:20 p.m. On Sunday, head to the same spot to enjoy the return of Diplo's Late Night in Palomino at 10:50 p.m. The beloved producer\/DJ behind Morgan Wallen collaboration \"Heartless\" promises to have some surprises up his sleeve.\nWatch a reality TV personality DJ\nThis might be a bit niche for the average attendee, but those of us unlucky enough to be addicted to \"The Bachelor\" franchise know Stagecoach has a reputation for causing a great deal of drama for \"The Bachelor\" castmates off-camera. The infamous instigator behind all that drama, Blake Horstmann (best known as the runner-up on Becca Kufrin's \"Bachelorette\" season in 2018), is now \u2014 randomly \u2014 a DJ, and in a comical turn of events, was invited to DJ at this year's festival. Catch him playing at the Honkytonk Dance Hall at a yet-to-be-released date that we'll be keeping an eye out for.","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
+{"text":"Montreal Park\nby David Nunnerley\nClick on any picture in this\ndocument to display a larger version\nin a new browser window\nMontreal Park, as we know it today, is a development of 224 pleasant detached residences occupying 63 acres of land. All but four of these houses were built by Salway Hill Estates, a construction company owned and run by one William Fasey of Woodford, Essex. And 70 years ago this year he made his first sale on No 4 Lyndhurst Drive, which was soon followed up by the erection of a further eleven houses before the War brought an inevitable halt to the development. The Army requisitioned Montreal Park as a training camp and did not move out until 11 years later. This combined with post-War austerity and an acute shortage of essential building materials meant that construction\nMONTREAL HOUSE\n(Engraving by JP Neale, 1819)\ncould not resume until 1952. By this time the building work bore little resemblance to the Development Plan that had been approved and started upon fifteen years earlier. This had provided for the construction of in excess of 500 dwellings occupying 160 acres of land that was known as Montreal Park. How different the development would have been in both scale and character had the War not intervened. Instead in four phases between 1952 and 1963 Fasey constructed a housing estate much as we know it today.\nMontreal Park itself is of course much older than the estate. Indeed it celebrates its 250th Anniversary in just six years time. For it was back in 1764 that Sir Jeffery Amherst, Commander-in-Chief British Forces, returned home triumphant from the North American Campaign against the French usually referred to as the Seven Years War. A native of Riverhead, Amherst quickly set about acquiring for himself a country Estate befitting a\nView from main road in 1920s\nnational hero with influence - if not wealth - at Court. He did not have to look far given that the parkland north of the pleasant town of Sevenoaks and the adjoining woodland and pasture south and south-west of Riverhead was common land. He proceeded to 'Enclose' approximately 200 acres seemingly unconcerned that this involved diversion and even closure of existing paths and highways. New boundaries of Brittains, Dibden, Back Lane and the village of Riverhead itself were made readily identifiable by the erection of a great perimeter wall built of Kentish ragstone, remnants of which survive to this day. History remembers better General Wolff and his capture of Quebec but it was Jeffery Amherst who was to receive the ultimate surrender of the French at Montreal in 1760. Little surprise that Amherst called his new estate Montreal Park after his greatest triumph. Read more about Sir Jeffery Amherst.\nMONTREAL CARRIAGEWAY\nForerunner to Lyndhurst Drive\nPictured in 1910\nAmherst had a large house built in the Palladian style using the natural contours of the land to better the already commanding views of the surrounding countryside. The King and Queen stayed in 1778, by which time Montreal had been enhanced with the construction of a naturally sweeping elegant driveway, the forerunner of Lyndhurst Drive today. Subsequently, the house evolved into a complex of buildings that served the needs of a working country estate. A total of five generations of Amhersts resided at Montreal Park and presided over first the expansion and then the contraction of the Montreal Estate which at its height grew to just under 4000 acres. Inevitably the prosperity of the village of Riverhead became inextricably linked with the changing fortunes of the Amhersts. Literally an army of agricultural labourers, foresters, gardeners and game keepers came to be employed by the Amhersts alongside a not inconsiderable domestic household. But Montreal Park could not escape the pain caused by tumbling land prices towards the end of the 19th Century and continued weaknesses in the years either side of the Great War. The revenues from rents, timber, quarrying royalties and even game shoots was insufficient to keep the Amhersts at Montreal.\nPostcard from the 1920s\nHOUSEHOLD STAFF\nAll of the staff at Montreal House, circa 1900\nMONTREAL STEAM LOGGING TRACTOR\nPhotograph taken in the 1920s.\nThe cottage in the background is where the bus\nstop opposite the fire station is now\nRIVERHEAD SQUARE\nMontreal Wall on left - circa 1910s\nPiecemeal sales of outlying parcels of the Montreal Estate only deferred the inevitable Amherst demise until 1926 when the bulk of the Estate including the Park was sold to one Julius Runge, a wealthy City Businessman who resided at Kippington Court. Long before the encompassment of what we now call Green Belt, Runge was a passionate advocate of the preservation of the rural landscape. He never wanted to live at Montreal House which was allowed to fall into disrepair. He yearned that the beauty of the parkland be protected and in fact brought about covenants that sought to make any development within Montreal Park that much more difficult. His premature death in 1936 meant that Runge's crusade lasted a mere ten years as not inconsiderable death duties compelled his heirs to put Montreal up for sale.\nMontreal Park was the jewel in the crown of the Estate. Its 194 Acres coupled with a further 23 acres that was Brittains Farm sold as a single lot in Auction in 1936 for the grand sum of \u00a339250! The buyer, one Captain Bernard Thorpe of Millbank, was what today we would call a property developer rather than a builder. Instead he quickly set about demolishing Montreal House (which seemingly provoked neither public comment nor lament) and just as quickly produced a development plan that provided for 650 houses. Its ingenuity lay in its ability to combine both high and low density housing that overall did not run foul of the restrictive Covenants that Runge had established. Within 4 weeks of a Deed of Variation of the Covenant being granted in October 1936, Thorpe's Plan (formally I.D.O. No. 29) received Sevenoaks Council approval on the stipulation that 'no expense be borne by the Council'. (Some things never change!)\nMONTREAL PARK in the 1930s\nThorpe did not have to wait long to find a builder interested in making the Development Plan a reality and in August 1937 agreed with Fasey a staggered sale for a total of 160 acres of Montreal Park in four roughly equal tranches over a four year period up to 1941. Aware of growing opposition to high density housing, Fasey submitted an amended Development Plan No. 2 of 1938 which provided for fewer houses (513) which gained approval from both Thorpe and the Council. In later years, and partly due to the unforeseen circumstances of war, the staged conveyancing became the source of a protracted legal dispute between the two men that eventually had to go to the High Court. Also bearing down on them was the sea-change in post-War planning and the desire to preserve open countryside (or Green Belt) as espoused in the Abercrombie Report. As early as 1946, Sevenoaks Council served notice that it intended to seek to revoke the Montreal Plan of 1938. Significantly, the Council did give approval for a development of approximately 60 acres which would permit 190 to 200 houses to be built. In essence this was what Fasey was to make a reality.\nAERIAL VIEW OF MONTREAL AND RIVERHEAD\nThe site of the old house and the carriageway are visible\nFasey had a preference for low density house construction. Already in his projects north of the Thames, he had targeted what he perceived to be the upper end of the housing market, namely detached dwellings. He wanted his houses to appear varied in style and (for their day) prestigious in appearance. They were to sit on roads the names of which were chosen as nice sounding or with pretensions of affluence. This did not stop him flirting with the idea of some chalet bungalows for Montreal, an idea that was shelved mostly because of the intense hostility of prospective buyers!\nOf the original six designs for his detached dwellings, three were subsequently abandoned (not one house on Montreal was built to the design of Types A, C or D). A further three designs were put forward, only two of which were chosen by purchasers. Type F was by far and away the most popular design chosen until later in the development a larger version of Type G (GII or G Amended) was offered with the addition of an extra reception room on the ground floor.\nType F House\nType GII House\nWith extra room at the rear\nThe decade of development can be broadly broken down into four construction phases. To even get started on Phase One Fasey had to raise funds by selling two plots of land in 1952 (No 2 Lyndhurst Drive & No 2 Marlborough Crescent which were thereby constructed by other builders!) Between 1952 and 1956 Fasey concentrated on 'Old' Marlborough Crescent, all of the houses on which sold for between \u00a34000 and \u00a34500. In those days, a detached garage cost \u00a3165 which was \u00a315 more expensive than its attached counter-part and central heating was only installed for an extra consideration. It became standard by the end of the 1950s. The kidney-shaped nature of the Estate with Marlborough circumferential and Lyndhurst diametrical allowed for a cul-de-sac development of just under 20 houses. Thus The Close was Phase Two with all the houses built in 1957 and all selling within a few pounds of \u00a34500. 1958 and 1959 was devoted to Lyndhurst Drive and then 'New' Marlborough completed the development with the last houses in Phase Four conveyed in 1963. The most expensive price paid on the Estate was \u00a38450 and that included the then luxury of an attached double garage!\nMONTREAL ROAD\nTarmac for cul-de-sac being laid in 1931.\nBoth Amherst and Montreal Cottages survive to this day\nLYNDHURST DRIVE\nThe road gets laid in 1938.\nNotice the gatehouse and the complete cedar tree in the background\nAERIAL VIEW OF MARLBOROUGH CRESCENT\nPhotograph of construction\ntaken in 1956\nFasey never lived to see the completion of the development of Montreal Park though he did reserve for his successors including son Tony the right to receive two guineas or an otherwise appropriate sum in return for granting agreement to home alterations or extensions. Such entitlement continues to be enshrined in our deeds even to this day. One wonders how often this is invoked or even acknowledged given the huge amount of extension work that has taken place in recent years.\nThe work on the grass verges and open spaces was undertaken by a local firm called Bartholomew Brothers with a remit to incorporate various blossom producing trees including flowering cherry, plum, crab apple and almond, some\nBRITTAINS LANE BLOCKED\nin September 1953\nof which survive to this day. Of originally three Cedar Trees that were part of the old Estate only the one at the entrance or the junction with Brittains Lane survives and that has suffered its fair share of problems over the years. The distinctive small front curtillage walls that are such a feature of Montreal Park were a convenient solution to the problem of what to do with the ragstone rubble left abandoned after the demolition of the old House. There are two surviving monuments to the Amherst legacy. One is a dilapidated Summerhouse which can only be seen atop land over Montreal Park Farm on the road to Ide Hill. The other of more historical importance is an Obelisk erected to commemorate the safe return of Sir Jeffery and his two brothers from the conflict in North America. This\nTHE MONTREAL SUMMERHOUSE opposite Salter's Heath Farm\nstands on its own piece of land within the garden of No. 81 Marlborough Crescent and is soon to benefit from a much needed restoration project. Read more about the obelisk and Sir Jeffery Amherst.\nThe most frequent question I get asked concerns how prices have moved during the last 50 years. A local Estate Agent recalls hosting a party in 1968 when the first house on Montreal Park achieved \u00a312000. \u00a335000 was what was being commanded by 1975. By the late 1980s, \u00a3300,000 was achieved although the housing recession of the early 1990s saw this figure slump by nearly 50%! \u00a3400,000 seems to have been the going rate at the turn of the millennium and as at the time of concluding this short history today's prices are getting close to double that figure. The story of Montreal Park, which was chronicled in a book by David Nunnerley: 'A History of Montreal Park, Sevenoaks', is how well it reconciles the conflicting pressures between the need for residential development and the equally passionate desire to preserve our rural heritage. This is not an uncommon dilemma. Ultimately only we the community, only we the residents of Montreal Park, can judge how successfully the development harmonises with its unique environment.\nDavid Nunnerley\nMONTREAL ESTATE, in an aerial photograph taken in 1968:","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
+{"text":"Home >> OMT Blog >> Miscellaneous >> 2018 Interview: Best Symposium Award\n2018 Interview: Best Symposium Award\nMonday, 29 October 2018 00:51\tLast Updated on Friday, 09 November 2018 20:34\tWritten by Georg Reischauer\nInterview with Tina Dacin (Queen's University) and Tammar Zilber (Hebrew University of Jerusalem), winners of the 2018 Best Symposium Award\nInterviewed by Georg Reischauer (WU Vienna).\nThe Best Symposium Award recognizes symposia that stimulate, integrate, or extend discussions about organization and management theory. The 2018 winning symposium, \"Situated Institutions: The Role of Place, Space and Embeddedness in Institutional Dynamics,\" was organized Tina Dacin (Queen's University), Tammar Zilber (Hebrew University of Jerusalem) and Michael Lounsbury (University of Alberta).\nCongratulations for being awarded the Best Symposium Award! Can you briefly elaborate on your symposium?\nOur symposium focused on the role of place\/space in institutional dynamics. It included talks by Sunasir Dutta & Michael Park, Brett Crawford & Tina Dacin, Tammar Zilber, April Wright, Alan Meyer & Trish Reay, and Mike Lounsbury as a discussant.\nHow did you come up with the idea for the symposium?\nIn recent years, we've see an expansion in the modalities institutional scholars study, going beyond written and oral texts to include the visual, material, emotional and more. In that context, there is some very interesting recent work that attests to the importance of place and space. We both have work in progress that relates to institutions and place, and we would discuss our interests whenever we met in conferences and workshops. Tina is focused on custodianship of communities and place and Tammar is interested in connecting place and institutions. And then we thought \u2013 why not expand the conversation and arrange a symposium, so we can hear how others are approaching the issue, collecting spatial-related data and conceptualizing space and place.\nWhat promises and future avenues do you see for institutional studies that draw upon the concept of place?\nWe believe the study of space and of place as an institution can help us strike a more nuanced and sophisticated balance between universal laws and their local manifestations.\nWhat empirical settings do you consider as highly promising for institutional studies of place?\nIn effect, any setting will be relevant, as all institutional dynamics \u2013 like all human existence more generally \u2013 unfold within specific spaces and places, and further construct and reconstruct these spaces and places. Still, the studies presented in the symposium relate to some \"mundane\" places like Israeli hi-tech (Zilber), traditional places of shoemaking in the US (Dutta et al.) and hospital emergency rooms (Wright et al.), as well more exotic ones, like hubs of fly fishing (Crawford et al.).\nAgain, congratulations for winning the Best Symposium Award! Is there any advice on the symposium and its development that you would like to share?\nAOM and OMT give us a great platform to further develop the theoretical and methodological conversation we want to be part of. A good symposium always starts from the genuine interest of organizers and participants to engage with each other and the issues at hand. And, it is always good to start organizing really early to better the likelihood that the people you want to include will be available. Thanks to all the presenters in our symposium, the audience that joined us, and to OMT for the generous recognition!","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
+{"text":"HomeMilitary AircraftAir Seeker Mk1 Aircraft \u2013 Allied Military Ai ...\nAir Seeker Mk1 Aircraft \u2013 Allied Military Aircraft\nCategory: Military Aircraft Tag: Fighter; Supermarine\nEnglish Electric Canberra\nde Havilland Vampire\nMcDonnell Douglas F-4 Phantom\nThe McDonnell Douglas F-4 Phantom II is a supersonic fighter-bomber originally developed for the United States Navy.[1] It first entered service in 1960 and was subsequently adopted by both the U.S. Air force and The U.S. Marine Corps as well as the armed forces of 11 other nations. A total of 5,195 Phantoms were built and It set 15 world records for in-flight performance. The RAF retired their combat Phantoms in 1992, and the USA did the same in 1996. However some nations still have the Phantom in active service.\nThe RAF accepted delivery of the first of 165 single-seat Jaguar GR1s in 1974. Designed and built by the Anglo-French joint Venture SEPECAT the aircraft was a child of the cold war with the combining supersonic speeds and the ability to deliver a tactical nuclear strike as part of its armaments. During the Gulf War the Jaguar proved to be more mechanically reliable than the Tornado, but did suffer from poor navigation and targeting issues. The RAF retired the Jaguar in 2007 but the aircraft is still a mainstay of the Indian Air Force.\nDeveloped in the 1950s the Hunter is a subsonic British jet aircraft built by Hawker (BAE). The single-seat Hunter entered service as a fighter aircraft in 1954, and later operated in fighter-bomber and reconnaissance roles. Until the early 1990s the RAF used two-seat variants for secondary roles including training. The Hunter served with 21 other air forces and after fifty years the final Hawker Hunters were retired from active service by the Lebanese Air Force in 2014.","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
+{"text":"The City of Magic - Chapter 19\nDomenic MarbaniangJanuary 27, 2018Book, City of Magic, Novel No comments\nway with him, away with him!\" the crowd cried.\n\"What mockery! Shall we not even have a trial?\" Sin cried.\n\"Away with the enemy, away with him! This is our verdict!\" the crowd cried.\nSin signaled and a loud cymbal clanged. The crowd paused.\n\"The verdict shall follow the trial!\" she declared. \"Our Archenemy shall be rightly denounced, and the judgment sealed by our seven governesses. It's our turn now, and of the power of darkness. May Shadows prevail and may Magic and Sorcery obscure Reality; may the minds of men fail, and may Feelings and Fantasy enhance sweet Vanity! Let's hurry on while the mouse is hooked to the trap! Let darkness prevail forever!\"\nThe crowd chanted: \"Hail Skotos! Hail Hamartia!\"\nA dark eagle flew and perched on a pole overlooking the stage.\nThe cymbal clanged again and a voice cried out, \"The Court of Her Highness Hamartia summons before the jury the first witness, the Lady Luxuria, for hearing!\"\n\"Our Sweet Governess Luxuria!\" a number of people cried out and sighed. A few young men fainted down as Luxuria stepped forward and the lights spot lit on her.\n\"You can now testify!\" said Hamartia.\nLuxuria smiled, bowed, and began:\n\"By the power of Your Highness, your servant rules over the hearts of the young and old. My scepter prevails over their secret places, and nothing is left untouched, nothing unturned. By me are men made fearless to work or to war. By me is their innermost being kindled to worship and adore. My charm of Sensuality is the antidote to Suffering. I could exterminate Suffering forever; except it were for this Stranger. For, he called himself by the name of Light and roved our streets attempting to stir up insurrection against me and my Council. He called upon my people to shun me and spurn my scepter. He called me a deceiver and called on my people watch against me and to turn to his narrow way. Of course, he hasn't prevailed; for, the people, most of them, could see the emptiness of his appeals. And those of them that went after him for a while soon gave up and returned back to me. Yet, he doesn't give up his denunciation of me and my rulership. And by doing that he has spurned your authority, Your Highness, and so deserves extermination forever. For why should one who stands opposed to our Kingdom be allowed to go on in his opposition when we have the opportunity to stop him?\"\n\"Do you have anything to say, Stranger?\" Sin mockingly asked.\nStranger remained silent.\n\"Governess Luxuria finds nothing in Stranger that promises hope of subjection. He is a total opposite. Next!\"\nThe cymbal clanged and the voice cried out, \"The Court of Her Highness Hamartia summons before the jury the second witness, the Lady Ira, for hearing!\"\nThe crowd sat was silent. Doubtlessly, there was much fear of the fury of this Governess. Ira stepped forward as the spotlight shifted to her.\n\"You may testify now!\" Hamartia said.\nIra looked at the blazing sky with her fiery eyes, then turned to Stranger and cried making wide gestures: \"May the flames of Inferno burn with hotter infuriation! May fiery hail descend with utmost indignation! Let every fire that could ever be kindled bundle in now to make the sharpest flame to tear down his body and wipe out his name!\" She paused and panted. \"Why should I even accuse Stranger? Is he worthy of an accusation? Is he any threat to me? Yet for the sake of this trial, that our Majesty's will might be accomplished, I testify against him! Why doesn't someone give him a mask too? We know his other names very well. Hasn't he masqueraded through our territory calling himself Meek and Gentle? But, I say he is Weak and Brittle. See how despicable he looks with his head sunk on his chest. He is the same one. He is our Archenemy, He is Stranger!\"\n\"Yes he is, yes he is!\" the crowd began to shout. Ira smiled and returned to her seat.\n\"Next!\" Sin called.\nThe cymbal clanged and the voice cried out, \"The Court of Her Highness Hamartia summons before the jury the third witness, the Lady Avaritia, for hearing!\"\nLady Avaritia stepped forward in her golden apparel. She looked despisingly at Stranger and commenced at Hamartia's behest,\n\"He came to my district in the garb of a merchant, a businessman. He said he was searching for the Pearl of Great Price.\" She laughed. \"He said he was willing to pay anything for it. Well, of course, this raised a big concern in our markets and the demand curve did suffer as merchants shifted to treasure hunting. Mad they all became. It could have drowned us all if I hadn't intercepted and aroused our citizens to focus on things of immediate interest, on things that can be touched and transformed into gold and silver now. Because even if there was something called the Pearl of Great Price, it certainly wasn't worth selling all one's possession and buying it in. For, that would jam the wheels of our economy and bring the market to a standstill. And, then what would one do with such Pearl? Trade it for anything else? What else could one trade it for? The very idea of such a thing is a threat. Hadn't we commissioned Robbery and Inflation to arrest him? But, he somehow disappeared into nowhere \u2013 into now here [She smirked]. It's wonderful to watch him in chains. Citizens of Avaritia, look now at the misery of this merchant who came to our Province calling himself Generous! What does he have that he could even claim to buy anything of us? We find nothing of any value in him. Generous, won't you like to strike a bargain and save yourself? See, he cannot bargain for his own face, how could he have deceived you about the Pearl of Great Price! Away with him!\"\n\"Away with him! Away with him!\" cried the crowd.\n\"Okay, next!\" roared Hamartia.\nThe cymbal clanged and the voice cried out, \"The Court of Her Highness Hamartia summons before the jury the fourth witness, the Lady Gula, for hearing!\"\nA large and stout lady stepped forward. It seemed that the spotlight was too insufficient for her.\n\"What do you have to say against this man?\" Hamartia asked.\n\"Not very much,\" she replied. \"I only wish this trial will soon be over; for we have a real good banquet after this.\" Her lips seemed to almost drip with saliva. \"This fellow here looks quite tasteless and a worm in the fantasies of daintiness. It is better we soon finish off with him and return to the delicacies of our new Black Berry Beer and Chilled Chilly Cheer. Okay, as for this man here; he had almost disrupted one of our banquets; for he stood in the Square and began calling to people saying, \"Ho, come to me you who are hungry and thirsty and I will give you the Bread of Life and the Water of Life so that you will never hunger or thirst anymore!\" Many of them went to him; and when they asked him where the Bread of Life and the Water of Life was, he said, \"I am the Bread of Life and my Blood is drink indeed!\" [She laughed]. So, they all turned away from him. But he still called saying, \"Do not labor for Gula's table! Turn away from her!\" So, our officers ran after him. But, he disappeared. I don't think he is good for anything. Is he even a strong enemy? Let him starve!\" She turned away and returned.\n\"Next!\" Hamartia called.\nThe cymbal clanged and the voice cried out, \"The Court of Her Highness Hamartia summons before the jury the fifth witness, the Lady Invidia, for hearing!\"\nInvidia stepped forward and began immediately, \"Your Highness, Stranger might not be strong, but he is dangerous. Every option against your sovereignty is a danger \u2013 not to you, Your Majesty, but to the people of this City. He presents an alternative and calls it the only true one. He calls himself the Way, the Truth, and the Life and promises that he'll deliver people from the power of this City of Magic and take them all to his illusory city. Our people aren't gullible; and he isn't convincing enough with his talks; but, he is persistent and resistant. He says that the realities of this City of Magic are no match to the realities of his own city. He even tried to demonstrate it by making a fig tree wither by just saying a word; and some people joined the rebellion and are spreading the persuasion that his talks cannot be empty because his words have power that Magic can't prevent\u2026\"\n\"This is enough!\" Sarx roared \"Let's invoke Thanatos and see if his powers can really cross the one who surrounds this City and is heir to all that is!\"\n\"Our Prince shall be invoked\" interrupted Hamartia, \"but not before we've heard from everyone. You can continue on, Invidia!\"\n\"Our forces were after some intruders whom we caught and imprisoned. But, when they went to get them for the trial; behold, it was Stranger. We weren't sure what had happened; but, we are very much sure that the enemy had walked himself into the hole; and, we must strike the iron while it is hot.\"\n\"What has happened to the others is a matter of secondary concern; perhaps, he got himself in when he got them out. Whatever, Magic has given him into our hands and the destiny of the others will be sealed with him.\" Sin looked straight at me now and it felt as if her eyes burnt into my soul. She continued as if singing to a sarcastic tune, \"Magic has drawn one in, Magic has drawn in another; both had to perish one way or the other.\" She turned her eyes at Stranger and then called, \"Next!\"\nInvidia receded. The cymbal clanged and the voice cried out, \"The Court of Her Highness Hamartia summons before the jury the sixth witness, the Lady Acedia, for hearing!\"\nLady Acedia walked clumsily forward and stared irritatedly at Stranger. \"Not very much that I would like to say here: words are precious, so I'll keep them few. I'm not sure how great a threat he is; because, the rumors have only been that he is quite nonsensical and absurd in his statements. It is said that he calls out to people promising them rest, and then says that they should be yoked together with him and plough the field. That makes no sense either to me or to my people. I suggest that he's crazy and that we just banish him away\u2026. But, in case, he might return again with more thorny absurdities; it would be even better to just blot him out!\"\nShe was quick to retreat. Sin smiled. \"Next!\" she called.\nThe cymbal clanged and the voice cried out, \"The Court of Her Highness Hamartia summons before the jury the final witness, the Lady Superbia, for hearing!\"\nThe crowd cheered with a heavy applause that lingered on for quite a while. Superbia stepped forward. Some people in the crowd began to grow hysterical. Some women and men fainted. The cymbal clanged again, and then there was pin drop silence. Superbia spoke,\n\"We want our citizens to be pillars and building blocks of this City. They can only be that when they know who they are and are confident about themselves. My throne lies in this Central Province and I protect the heart of this City. Our Province has been appointed to host the Royal Palace of Queen Hamartia and King Sarx. [There was a hoot of applause from the crowd.] Those who rise against our City are rightly punished here and thrown into the Dungeon of Sarx or transported to the Land of Thanatos. We know of the great revolt that Religare once initiated. Now, he and his friends are in chains to serve as we desire. There are a few more loitering somewhere around; all of whom continue to derive strength and vision from some mysterious influence that Stranger wields over their hearts. This has been proven by a number of investigations that our scholars have made. Some of the rebels have awaken and returned; now totally astonished that they were at all taken by the deception of what he calls the Way. He teaches that the Wheat must fall to the ground before it can be fruitful and calls the people to follow the Path of Sacrifice, another of his names. Some of our people asked \"What about Superbia?\" He said \"Deny her or she'll destroy you!\" [She put her hand on the hilt of her sword] May Your Majesty only give me permission and I'll prove whether denial and destruction don't go together.\"\nAt the moment, Sarx and Sin and all the officials stood up. The eyes of Sin blazed with fire. \"We've heard it all!\" she cried. \"Yes, we've heard it, we've heard it!\" the crowd resonated. Sin motioned and the great bronze bell clanged. The crowd shushed. \"What shall we do to Stranger?\" Sin roared. \"Away with him, away with him,\" the crowd shouted, \"Tie him to the pole, bring him down!\" they all clamored. I shuddered. The great bronze bell clanged again effecting an immediate silence. \"Listen to our verdict then,\" she said, \"Stranger, you have been weighed and measured in the Balances of Sarx and the counts of our Governesses are heavier against you. We pronounce you guilty of violating the Rules of this City, guilty of conspiracy against this City, and guilty of instigating a rebellion against the Principalities. You have declared war against the state and justly deserve punishment. I, Hamartia, the Empress of the Seven Provinces, will now by myself deliver you into the hands of Thanatos.\" So saying, she moved forward and extended her hands. A bow and arrow were brought and Sarx placed them in Hamartia's hands. A bowl was brought before her. \"That's the Venom of Thanatos!\" someone muttered. Sin dipped the tip of the arrow in it, fit the arrow in her bow, and lifted it up. The seven governesses stood on either side of Sin, four on the right side, and three on the left, beside Sarx. The guards tied Stranger to a pole and quickly abandoned. A great part of the crowd seated behind him evacuated their seats. The crowd stood up. \"What's happening?\" Inno asked as we stood up too. \"Close your eyes, Inno!\" Sophia said almost choking. My heart thumped faster and I felt the tears begin to fog my sight. The crowd waited with baited breath. Stranger looked straight into Hamartia's eyes. A tall dark shadow appeared on the left side of Stranger. The crowd whispered, \"Thanatos!\" and shushed each other.\nJust then a lightning figure erupted at the right hand of Stranger. It was equally as tall as Thanatos. \"Do you really want to do this?\" the voice questioned Hamartia, \"Will Sin strike Love? Aren't he and I one?\" I recognized the voice. It was the voice of Law. I also noticed that he held a book. It was the red book that he had given me, which I had lost. My heart pounded faster. \"What's happening? Who's this?\" the crowd cried out. Law exploded like a cracker and then dissolved into the body of Stranger. \"The Code of the Universe!\" Sophia exclaimed. I saw astonishment in her eyes. I turned at the Court. There was hatred in the eyes of Sin. She pulled the string. \"Into your hands, Thanatos,\" she exclaimed and let go off the arrow. I cried, \"No!\" and jumped out running towards the center. But, I knew it would be too late. The flying arrow struck Stranger in his heart. The world halted, and then there was a quake. Then there was a bright light that exploded from the body of Stranger. And, as his body began to rip apart, beginning from there I saw that the Court began to fall apart into several pieces. The City of Magic began to tear away like an old, withering, scenery poster crumbling down all over giving way to the light that oozed out from the Stranger's body. The light shot to tremendous brilliance and then struck my body like the softest lance piercing through me in an out. This takes time to write but all this happened within a wink of the eye. In an instant I sensed all my garments ripped apart as the bright light enveloped me all over; the rags vanished like fuming powder beaten into thin air. The light was so strong that I couldn't even see myself anymore. Then there was a light boom (such as the one that occurs without any sound) and I covered my eyes.\n\"It is finished!\" a voice thundered all over the place.\n~ the end ~\nSuperbia\ne reached Superbia. The streets were flooded with people wearing masks of different forms. Yet, the masks on the faces of the people were usually not very dissimilar, and it seemed as if we were bumping into the same person again and again. It was not possible to recognize the true person behind the mask, at all, and we marveled that we knew no one. We were all here nobodies to each other, and the only reality, at hand, were the masks; the only relations, self-interest.\nIt appeared that there were two orders of patrollers here. One wore a dark purplish uniform and had the symbol of skull and bones embroidered on their arms. Underneath the skull was the word \"Fear\". The other wore a light purplish uniform and had the symbol of figs and needles embroidered on their arms. Underneath the figs and needles was the word \"Shame\". All of them wore masks.\nA siren howled and the crowd began moving in the direction of the Center. The darkness seemed to get thicker as we drew closer towards the place. But, there were stronger lights, increasingly in number, that attempted to cast light despite being mockingly blocked by a strange perpetual fog, which I heard some people calling Vanity here. We reached the Center, entered the Court, and groped through to find an empty seat. A clownish mask on my right stared as if incredulously at my face. His look made me feel guilty of not wearing the mask. I drew the hood over my head. But, Sophia was unperplexed; so was Inno.\nThe Court was an open stadium lit by scores of strong flood lights. The huge space in the center looked like a place for various events including sports of different kinds. On the view opposite us was an elevated section, obviously reserved for the dignitaries. The place was filled with shouts, whistles, and chattering noises. Just then a loud trumpet call sounded and the stadium dropped to silence. An officer announced the arrival of the Queen, the King, and the Lady Superbia and commanded the crowd to rise. Hamartia entered hand in hand with Sarx. They were followed by Superbia and her entourage. As they took their seats, a trumpet sounded an arpeggio and the officer signaled the crowd to be seated. He then annunciated with a loud voice: \"Your Excellency, the Queen, and Your Highness, the King, under the auspices of our Lady Superbia, we present before you the First Marvel: the Incredible Logician!\"\nA man with flowing white hair appeared in the center of the ground. The crowd was filled with applause. He bowed to the dignitaries and waved his hand at the crowed. The crowd cheered even crazily. He then pulled a wand out of nowhere and waved it in a L shape once; suddenly there was a burst of sparks and the whole stadium turned dark with only a soft spotlight drawing our eyes centerstage to where Logician was.\n\"Ladies and gentlemen,\" he announced, \"It has been erstwhile believed that we are all very different from each other and that there is something that is even wholly other than each of us here. Let me demonstrate to you that this is false, and that the reality is that we are one with each other, one with this City, and one with the King and the Queen; and that there is nothing else apart from the oneness that we are.\"\nThe crowd cheered again. Logician then stuck his wand back into his holster and raised both of his arms, with palms turned outwards, as if to stop something approaching him from both sides. Suddenly, two huge blocks of cuboid boulders appeared on each side and began pressing at him. The crowd watched with bated breath. A few cried, \"He's going to be crushed! Oh no!\" Then, a wonder occurred. As the boulders began smashing him in, Logician began to shrink between them. In a flip of moments the boulders smashed into each other with a loud thud and Logician disappeared. \"Where's he gone?\" someone cried. \"He's obliterated!\" someone else whispered with pain in his voice. Suddenly, the boulders shook, and then steadily moved away from each other as a tiny figure of Logician grew between then and resumed to its original shame. The stadium was filled with applause and shouts of joy.\nLogician dropped his hands and the boulders disappeared. He then pulled out his wand again and summoned the fastest runner in the stadium. A tall youth ran towards him. A thin runners' track was lit on the ground. Logician waved his wand and a tortoise appeared on the track, which immediately started to move forward. The youth laughed at it. A man sitting below laughed, \"So, a race with a tortoise; he should have beckoned me!\" Logician now motioned the youth to run; but, the youth derisively just walked. Then, a wonder occurred. Every time the youth reached to a point which the tortoise had reached earlier, he discovered that the tortoise had inevitably already left that point before he reached it and had moved forward; in that way the tortoise was always at an advantage of a place ahead of the youth. Now, the youth began to feel frustrated at this and began to run; but no matter how hard he tried, every time he reached a point that the tortoise had crossed, the tortoise was always ahead of him. The youth lost the race. The crowd was spellbound. Logician announced: \"Ladies and gentlemen, this looks incredible to you, but this is what reality is all about. All divisions, additions, subtractions, and multiplications will disappear the moment we realize that they are only superficial. Fundamentally, everything is one.\" Saying that he bowed, and the crowd went crazy with applause.\nThe stadium then darkened and lit up again. Logician was now gone. The officer then announced again: \"Your Excellency, the Queen, and Your Highness, the King, under the auspices of our Lady Superbia, we present before you the Second Marvel: Drunken Master!\"\nAt that moment there was an inundation of the sounds of drums and percussions, timbrels, and the sounds of anklets on dancing feet. Then, there was a burst like a deep thunder coupled with a crashing electric bolt and it was, suddenly, all still. A tall youth, with a flowing black beard and a loose robe with sleeves falling all over stood at the center. He had a turban on his head and wore gold and diamonds on his neck and wrists. There was a deep drunkenness in his eyes and he stood rather unsteadily. In his drunken stupor, he cried: \"Nonsense Logician! Away with your nonsense! I'll show you a better way to be one. Just efface your consciousness with the ebriety of the deep and then watch the world fall to your feet!\"\nSuddenly, horsemen appeared with drawn swords and spears in hand. They rushed towards Drunken Master. As the first rider darted towards him, the Master swayed like a piece of falling garment; then, revamped, dexterously slipped his hands around the wrists of the rider and pulled him off the horse. He then swirled around and jumped behind another rider and took command of the horse. Spears were hurled and were deftly caught in his hands and flung back sending the riders back to their stables. Then, an amazing thing occurred. Drunken Master stood upon the horse as it galloped in the heat of its pace. He remained motionless and poised as the horse sniffed, snorted, and swallowed the wind. Then, he spread his arms and the horse came to a halt. He alighted and stepped to the center. \"Ladies and gentlemen,\" he said, \"I have demonstrated before you a very simple principle: Reel to keep your heel!\" He then went forward, bowed to the dignitaries, and left the stadium. The crowd cheered uncontrollably.\nPresently, a dark figure appeared beside Hamartia. It was fully masked with pitch darkness hidden under the black hood drawn over its head. \"Look into the scroll,\" whispered Sophia. I took it out and unrolled it. There were only three words carved with a death-like form: \"Mystery of Iniquity\". Then the words faded like falling leaves and these words emerged: \"To put an end to Sin!\"\nThe officer announced again: \"Your Excellency, the Queen, and Your Highness, the King, under the auspices of our Lady Superbia, we present before you the Third and the Final Marvel: Stranger!\"\nThe sky growled, flashing red tributaries; it seemed as if its eyes were all fire. There was a stir among the crowd, but they all calmed as they saw Superbia moving towards the podium. She elegantly ascended and authoritatively waved her hand; the crowd slumped on their chairs and there was pin drop silence.\n\"Let the sky spit fire and brimstone; let its volcanoes grind, ignite, and turn to ashes; Sin shall reign though the heavens roll away, and we'll invade the stormy sky!\" So saying she clenched her fist against the sky and the crowd rose up in applause, shrieking \"Hail Hamartia! Hail Sarx! Hail Superbia! You have power over the sky and the land!\" Superbia waved her hand again and the crowed fell to silence. Then she made a signal and the drums beat heavily as the lights began to move towards a rostrum in front of the stage. They halted on a man who wore a bloodstained purple coat on his body. He seemed to have been badly beaten as there were bruises on his face and blood stains on his shirt. He stood with his head bowed. Inno closed her eyes and hid her face in Sophia's bosom. It wasn't easy to congeal tears. I turned aside and found a mask on an empty seat. I grabbed it and put it on my face; then sobbed. At that moment the cheers increased; so, I looked and saw that the other six Governesses of the City had also now arrived and were seated on their seats on the stage.\nAn announcer announced \"Behold the Man!\" to which the crowd cried, \"Stranger, Stranger!\"\n\"Citizens, listen!\" Superbia began, \"Our vigilance has finally overcome the enemy and taken him by surprise. We now have our Archenemy, Stranger in our hands. You all now stand both witness and jury to this trial. The Queen herself shall preside over this judgment, in the presence of all the Governesses; the verdict of the people shall be final. May we rise in honor of Her Highness, the Queen Hamartia!\"\nThe crowd rose cheeringly and clapped their hands in mad applause for so long that our ears rang. Then, Hamartia, seated on her seat, raised her finger and the crowd dropped to silence. \"Let the trial begin!\" she ordered.\nalk!\" she commanded, \"and never look back!\"\nI thought this was crazy. But, I followed.\n\"Hey you, where are you running away?\" the drunken voice continued to call.\n\"Faster, faster!\" Sophia called.\nThe dust from the ground swirled up and filled the air as we paced on. We coughed as we walked. The drunken man had begun singing:\n\"Why do you run beating dust in the air?\nWhy do you hurry as if the world needs your care?\nHey, the world's on its own, buddy;\nYou ain't gonna make it any inch better!\nCome, enjoy some rum, be a good bum;\nLet's gulp some spirit and get into the gutter!\"\nWe had already moved around the corner as his voice began to die away, and were moving ever quickly on. This street looked even more disordered with dusty cloths, paper, and dead leaves strewn everywhere. The dust in the air was congesting my nose as I sneezed. \"Stop a little!\" I implored Sophia as I halted behind. She walked a few steps ahead; then, whirled back and coming up to me took Inno from me saying, \"Give her to me! We can't afford to stop here. This is the doorway of Death!\"\n\"Do we need to be moving so fast?\" I argued. \"Where are we going anyway?\"\n\"Don't ask questions, now! Just follow!\" was the only explanation she gave; then, she turned and began walking away again.\n\"Won't a slower pace get us out the same?\" I cried as I sneezed and coughed. She had already disappeared far ahead. \"Haven't you learnt that the slow and steady win the race?\" I shouted.\n\"Yes, it does if there are unsteady hares in the race; at the moment, the quick and steady win the race!\"\nA strong hot gale now drew in from somewhere spinning whirls of dust in the dim street and blurring sight altogether. A gust of dust filled my nostrils and I sneezed profusely. I saw a door and pounded on it hard. The door instantly unlocked and I jumped in locking it behind. For a moment I stood there all silent with my eyes closed and my lungs trying to clear up and inhale some dustless air.\n\"Come over here!\" someone called and I opened my eyes. The room was some kind of a messed up, murky pub; and, it smelt of strong liquor. Drunks were strewn here and there all over the place, some lying on benches, some lying on the floor. \"What kind do you want?\" I heard the voice again and turned to a man behind a desk. He seemed to be the bartender.\n\"Oh nothing, I'm sorry, I'm leaving,\" I replied. He looked curious. A strong hand pushed me from behind towards the desk. A hand yanked off the purse that Piety had given me and handed it over to the bartender. He grinned. I felt powerless. The bartender drew a bottle of liquor and poured it into a glass placed before me. \"Drink,\" he said, \"and forget your malady!\" I rose up to leave.\n\"Give me back my money!\" I demanded.\n\"Your money?\" he asked sarcastically. Then he slapped the purse on the desk and looking threateningly in my eyes grunted, \"Go away!\"\nI grabbed the purse and got up. At that moment, the heavy and tall man pushed me down. I got up again, but he pushed me back down. \"Well done, Torpor!\" the bartender cried, \"Let's see how he can get away!\" I rose up again and was felled. I now felt listless and haziness settled on my eyelids. Yet, I knew that I must get out of here. \"This is the doorway of Death!\" I remembered Sophia had said. \"Where were they now?\" I thought to myself. I tried to rise again and saw the heavy hand descend. At that instant, my hands gripped the pendant and pierced his hands. He shrunk back with a cry of pain. I jumped up and darted out of the room with such a loud cry that would have rocked their stupors down.\nOutside, the dusty winds were more severe, but I didn't linger. I rushed. I ran. I slipped at one place; but, I flung myself up and ran. To my astonishment and horror, Sophia and Inno had disappeared. I cried out in desperation and searched like a mad man. But, I found them nowhere. I began to sweat profusely, and then I realized that the rags inside bit my flesh hard. I decided to run faster and so ran deriding the wind and despising the pain. I coughed and sneezed but I ran. Finally, I reached an intersection. On the other side was the Market. I crossed over and entered in. I sat on a bench, put my head in my hands, and wept bitterly. Then, I remembered the scroll, and instantly pulled it out. \"To Superbia\" were the only words written on it. At that moment, a bus pulled by. \"To Superbia, To Superbia!\" a man announced. I got into it.\nA seat on the front was empty, so I went and sat on it. My eyes were red with tears. I deeply regretted my foolish whimsical action that had led me to this state of desperation. A grizzly old man came and sat by my side.\n\"Coming from Acedia?\" he inquired.\n\"Yes, the dust is great there,\" I mused.\n\"Yes, it is,\" he nodded.\nI turned away and looked out of the window. The bustling Market showed no signs of being unusual or abnormal. Everything seemed to be in place.\n\"Can't understand how these trouble-makers get in,\" the grizzly man continued, \"but, it's interesting to know that the Chief of them has been caught and will be executed soon. Are you also going to the Amphitheatre to see the trial?\"\n\"What trial are you talking about?\"\n\"Come on, you can't be ignoramus! Don't you know that the most wanted Stranger has been captured and, following the trial, will be handed over to Thanatos? He was actually captured in Invidia.\"\nI was shocked. \"When did that happen? How was he captured?\" I asked.\n\"They had been hunting for him for very long now. Invidia captured him when he seemed to have ventured into her Square. A little bash-thrash in her dungeon and the Arch-Enemy was unmasked, humiliated, and uncovered.\"\nI became speechless and a dark gloom settled on my face. He looked at me and laughed. \"You really can make a face,\" he said, \"You won't need a mask at Superbia, I guess.\" He laughed again. I didn't understand what he meant. The bus stopped at the beginning of an intersection. The man stood up. \"I must get down here to finish some work,\" he explained, \"Guess we'll meet at the theatre; but, I don't think we'll recognize each other (he chuckled); my mask is the best camouflage in the City ever.\" He briskly got away.\nI sat there stunned and confused. As passengers were getting into the bus, I put my face in my hands and wished that the world just blacked out. Someone came and sat on the seat beside. I didn't care to look\u2014now, I could bear company no more; but, I had no place to escape and be alone. Then, I felt a little hand on my shoulder. I turned to look and saw that it was Inno. She was smiling at me from the lap of Sophia. Tears filled my eyes.\nophia had managed to rip off a sewer lid and pulled us into it. It all happened in the twinkling of an eye, and the barred lid was closed. We were curved now in a 4 feet deep gutter that had, by now, a foot of rain water gushing through. I held Inno in my lap so that she could sit straight and we kept our heads close to the lid. The light from the headlights grew near and then disappeared completely, leaving a fading trail of humdrum from the vehicles that eventually stopped. It was all dark again. I wondered that my life had all been underground. If hiding was all reality; then, the world did look like a cursed reality now. How long, I asked. What wretchedness, I thought. The sky still flashed and gurgled, spitting rain on the ground: it did look like spit on our faces looking up the barred lid above.\nSophia softly pushed the lid up and made sure that it was all fine. Then, she climbed up and pulled us back onto the road. I marveled at her agility, but was not afraid to follow her lead \u2013 she acted even before I could summon ideas for doing some proper thinking. Her action nailed me into submission; for they always seemed to be well calculated.\nWe moved swiftly and found an intersection. The trucks had come from the right. I looked towards the left. \"Not that way,\" said Sophia, \"We'll go the way that they've cleared.\" We moved on. We slipped into a dark street, walked through few turns of various streets and found ourselves in a market place. The weather had become dry here and the heavens above were as dark as nothingness. The walk we were on opened onto a square where there were a number of people. The number of people did gradually rise through each street that drew close to the shopping area. Intriguingly, I noticed that the lamps here had a certain green shade. It also seemed that the people here were a bit obsessed with snakes; for these creatures, in their numerous varieties, served as the ground pattern for all commodities here: shoes, suits, and snacks alike.\nSophia slowed her pace, and I followed suit. From the distance, I could now notice that a number of policemen were stationed at the square. Two of them were approaching from in front of us. They wore dark green uniforms and had serpent badges on. \"This is Invidia, the territory of Envy,\" Sophia whispered. The two policemen were discussing something that seemed to be too important to them; they just passed by us without even throwing a glance. I felt relief.\nWe reached the square where a statue of the Lady Invidia stood. She was seated on a coiled green viper. A plank on the serpent had these words carved:\nVenom of the Earth\nFour lampposts stood on the four corners of the square, each bearing a serpent's head with green light blazing from its eyes. The first was called Self-seeking; the second, Blindness; the third, Hatred; and the fourth, Rottenness. I had a severe desire to just get away from this appalling and disgustful sight. At that very moment, it seemed like the scene in front of me was torn apart like a canvas of painting, and a fiery dragon pierced through and leapt onto the middle of the square out of nowhere. Seated on it was Invidia. Her dazzling eyes spotted us and within moments we fell on the ground bound with strong twigs. I looked at Inno and saw that she was bound as well. Immediately, officers surrounded us and sprayed a green gas on our eyes. Then, everything was pitch darkness and I fell unconscious.\nI thought it was rain, and then I realized that it was water being thrown on my face, and was puzzled that I hadn't yet awakened from this dream, as it seemed. I looked up and saw that I was in some kind of a stony dungeon; some officers stood there smiling at me sarcastically. One of them looked at me with utter disgust. I looked and saw that Sophia and Inno were still tied; they were unconscious.\nThe disgustful looking officer pricked a baton under my cheek and asked, \"Who else are with you?\"\nI answered nothing. My mind reeled with the nauseating stench around. The officer was disgusted. \"Get that thing out!\" he shouted. \"Spit it out or you'll be impaled on a pole with your friends before all eyes!\" another one cried. They looked extremely violent and vulgar.\n\"Please leave me alone for some time,\" I cried out loud. Inno and Sophia awoke with a startle. They officers looked stunned. \"Let me deliberate a little; then, I'll tell you what I wish to say.\"\nThey looked at each other and nodded. \"Think, then,\" the officer said, \"before your brains are spilled out!\" He then moved out and the others followed suit one by one. I lowered my head in an utter sense of desperation.\n\"Don't fret!\" Sophia said, \"It's impossible for darkness to overcome light!\"\n\"But, where light finds no way to enter, there darkness reigns. That is the kingdom of darkness!\"\n\"If it were all dark, then why would I have a ray of hope?\"\nI found no answer. I felt just confused. I could think of no way out. For the first time I felt that evil had triumphed over man through the venomous sting of envy. At that instant, the only dim lights that lit our dungeon sizzled off and died, and it was all pitch dark. Inno cried with fear. \"Don't be afraid!\" Sophia tried to strengthen her. I moved in every way possible to break off the strands; but they held me tight. I struggled and I felt Sophia struggling too. Suddenly, it seemed that somebody stood close to me.\n\"Who is it?\" I cried.\nThere was pin drop silence. I could hear the panting of Sophia and the cries of Inno.\n\"Tell me, again, who is it?\" I cried out.\nThere was again a deep silence. Then, something touched my strands and they broke off loose. The next instant, I sensed Sophia and Inno stand on their feet too.\n\"Run away!\" a voice calmly said, \"I've come to take your place.\"\n\"Who is it?\" I asked groping around with my hands.\n\"Get away from here and do not worry about my name; for, in a little while you shall see me again!\"\n\"No, tell me your name?\"\n\"They call me Stranger here. That's all you need to know for the moment. Now, run!\"\n\"I have no home here.\"\n\"Ask the ground beneath your feet what it does,\nAsk the firmament above your head what it does,\nAsk the daystar that fills the world with energy what it does,\n(Now hidden from your view; yet, not annulled)\nAsk the heart that beats within your breast what it does,\nAsk the cold rain pouring from the fiery sky what it does;\nWho has appointed it? What office does it hold?\nIs it paid from the treasures of Hamartia?\nOr does Sarx marshal it like he does the forces of wild Desire?\nThen you shall know that my office is not from below;\nNeither am I esteemed by this estranged world of woes.\nSin finds nothing in me, nothing worthwhile but profuse enmity!\nDo not ask any further; for this is not the time to ask and answer;\nRun! Run away from here! Stop not to look back,\nTurn neither to the left nor to the right! Just run, run away from here!\"\n\"Just run away! Away now!\" he cried and his voice struck us like an electricity; in an instant we were jolted out of the dungeon and landed on a street.\nThe street was very dimly lit and littered with all kinds of refuse. There was a far heavier stench here than ever that we had to cover our olfactory senses. The houses were all dilapidated and on the verge of crumbling. People walked clumsily on the road; most just sat idle on the ground. A giant tower loomed at a little distance and upon it were inscribed the words,\nEasy Come Easy Go\nWe three stood there marveling with our mouths parted wide. The walls of this part of the City, including the tower, were made of stones and resembled the back of a tortoise shell.\n\"This is Acedia, the province of Sloth,\" muttered Sophia.\n\"What did Stranger mean when he said that he had come to take our place?\" I asked.\n\"I don't know. But, one thing I know: he had come to save us.\"\n\"I hope Stranger is safe,\" Inno spoke with a deep pity in her voice. I took her in my arms.\n\"Yes, he'll be safe dear,\" I said, \"If he knew how to get in, he sure knows how to get out as well.\"\nBut, who was this Stranger after all, I wondered to myself. Deep inside I had an assurance. Providence had not failed us one more time.\n\"If you promise to share with me some, I'll show you the best liquor shop just a little away,\" someone suggested from behind. I was about to turn back, but Sophia gripped my hand.\nfound myself in a wet, dark, chill, lonely street. The clouds above growled in anger dropping cold perspiration down on us.\n\"That was a narrow one, isn't it?\" a heard a familiar voice. I turned around and saw the little murmuring man that I had seen earlier. He now had a pleasant face and his hair was groomed well backwards.\n\"Who are you?\" I asked.\n\"My name is Seer,\" he replied. \"They also call me Prophet. I've stayed behind to only let you know that it will not be long any hence. Your liberation draws closer. I've only come to prepare the way. When the One is come, then you shall see the light.\"\n\"What shall I do now?\" I asked.\n\"Keep walking. Keep moving until the coming of the One and the Great Battle of the Day!\" he said.\n\"How long\u2026 how long shall I have to wait?\" I asked, but at that moment he zoomed out of sight like a TV tube switching off, without waiting to hear, leaving behind a deep and hollow darkness.\nI looked right and saw a dim light at a distance. I began walking in its direction. Now, as I walked I felt that I was being followed by someone behind. So, I turned back, but I found no one. So, I strolled on. But, the sense of being followed grew greater; so, I stopped again and turned behind staring into the dark, hoping to catch some form. But, I found none.\n\"What's wrong?\" Inno gently asked.\n\"Nothing,\" I replied.\n\"Then why do you stop?\"\n\"I thought there might be something behind us.\"\n\"I can hear some sound\u2026 tap.. tap.\"\n\"Yes, let's go,\" I replied and walked hurriedly towards the dim light ahead. But, the faster I moved, the faster did the sounds of the tapping and the footsteps increase from behind. We reached the end of the alley, crossed the road and stood there waiting for the next.\nA decent looking man wearing dark glasses emerged out of the darkness. He looked harmless, yet aggressive at the same time. He walked with a lifted head, his chest thrust forward, and held a walking stick in his hand, which I surmised to be the source of the tapping sound. He walked groping for the ground; by which I discerned that he must be blind. He held an umbrella open in his other hand, which did slow his motion.\nHe crossed the road and came to where we were.\n\"Who is he?\" Inno asked.\n\"Oh, so there's really someone there?\" he remarked. \"A sweet little one, I presume. And who is your friend there?\"\n\"I'm her uncle, Sir\u2026 just two of us here. It does seem to be a rather very lonely road,\" I answered.\n\"Yes, it is. All the citizens were summoned to the Gula's Banquet, you know. She has arranged a magnificent treat for her subjects; so, they have all herded to stomach as much as they can\u2026 By the way, if you haven't got an umbrella, please do come under mine.\"\n\"Thanks,\" I replied as we slipped under it, \"Are you on way to there?\"\n\"Yes. I just stayed back because I didn't want anybody to feel I was dependent. Once I knew they were all gone, I started on.\"\n\"Do you think you'd find the way?\"\n\"No problem. My brother, Sensus will soon be here to pick me in his car. We have a program there together anyway.\" He smiled. Then, turning half-way towards me, he continued, \"I haven't introduced myself. My name is Imagination or Imagino in short, and I'm a magician by profession here. The people of this district are horribly given to surfeiting; so, I recently came up with a magical invention that would cure their surfeiting by means of magical surfing. A pouch of this powder added to any dainty brings all the power of it to sublime effect; for, what kind of experience is there more magical than that of devouring, for certainly in it is the entirety of experience realized.... Ah! A man would give up any pleasure for the pleasure of the perfect bite...., the smell of sourness that makes your tongue run its water down; the sight of the hot sweet that makes you forgetful of all promises ever; the touch of delicacy with the finger, the lips, the tongue; the insatiable taste of every serve; the sound of the gulp, bite, and the crunch\u2026 Truly, eating makes the perfect man! \" I wondered that a blind man could speak like that. But, then I remembered that in the world where I had come there were some blind men who had been the best poets indeed.\nAs he was speaking, a car arrived and the driver, whom I instantly could recognize as his brother, called out with a large brimming smile, \"Bellies for berries and berries for bellies, Imagino\u2026 Is there anything else worthwhile?\"\n\"Chilies for cherries and cherries for chilies, Sensus\u2026 That will make it quite worthwhile,\" Imagino shouted back and they laughed together. Then, Imagino turned to me, \"My brother Sensus prepares a special drink which he calls Black Berry Beer. When I add my magical powder called Chilled Chilly Cheer to it, it suddenly bursts into colors, which though I can't see, I quite visibly know, for my vision has greater power than those who aren't blind. You should see it when it happens. Drink that and the rest is ecstasy.\"\n\"What kind of ecstasy? Do you know that?\"\n\"Well,\" Sensus interrupted, \"It helps one see things with closed eyes, you know.\"\n\"You mean just like in a dream?\" I asked.\n\"What is that?\" Sensus asked back, a bit puzzled.\n\"I mean they can see, eat, drink and enjoy things that aren't really out there,\" I mumbled.\n\"Well, how do you know they aren't really out there when you really enjoy them,\" Imagino countered.\n\"And, how do you know what you're enjoying now is more real than what you enjoy then,\" Sensus asked.\n\"You spend money for what you eat now; but, you perhaps don't for the other,\" I answered.\n\"That's it! That's it!\" Sensus burst into laughter, growing red and pointing his finger at me. Then, he chuckled and added, \"So, that's what you call a dream, ha! But, well you do have to spend you know, for they get to eat all those things in their \"dream\" because they pay us for having it earlier, you see,\" he raised his brow in a you-see-how-intelligent-I-am way, \"It's like pay before you eat; and we profit thereby!\" He laughed again. He certainly seemed to have a remarkable sense of fun. I wondered what it meant to have a dream within a dream. So, they sell dreams, I thought.\n\"Are you coming with us?\" Sensus asked.\n\"Yes, aren't you coming with us?\" Imagino joined in.\n\"No,\" I replied, \"We are in a hurry to meet someone.\" I certainly wished to stay away from any more dreamy entanglements.\n\"Oh, you shouldn't miss our first shot\u2026\" Imagino sighed; then, handing over the umbrella into my hands, he said, \"Okay, keep this one. You'll need this. May be, I'll get it back from you later on\u2026\" he said, \"if we meet!\" He got into the car and they grunted off leaving a smoky trail behind.\nThe heavens above roared and burned aflame. I had forgotten that I once knew the starry sky. This City had none. There was a sparkling train of flashing lightning and a loud peal of crackling thunder. Inno clutched me hard, as I pinned myself against the wall. A blue-white spark of fire fell right in front of us, but was absorbed immediately by the lamp pole nearby. The lamp burst and fell to the ground. A dim light flickered from a cleaving between the stones in the lower side of the wall. I bent down and touched the part and was amazed to find that the whole block of stones felt as if it could be moved. I tapped the place with the umbrella and heard a hollow resound. I put Inno down and tried to remove the block. It shook a bit and then was off. A dim light lit the room inside. It seemed that this was a room without a door, walled over, with only the camouflage of a stone tiled plank as the way in and out.\nSuddenly, from the other side of the road I heard the sound of someone running. There were some men shouting aloud, \"That way! That way!\" and I heard hasty footsteps rushing towards us. It suddenly hit me that I was probably spotted by them. Quickly, I placed Inno in and entered the room; then, turning over, I drew the tile and shut it hard. I didn't want the light inside to spill of the gaps gathering suspicion in the dark; so, I turned off the lamp. Just then, in a thud, the tile pulled out and something crawled in pulling the tile on again in the swiftest agility. Hurried steps followed and stood out. \"She was just here!\" one man shouted. \"Disappeared in the dark!\" another cried. \"Divide the search!\" one called. They divided and we heard the footsteps fade away.\n\"Stay where you are and move not an inch!\" the voice of a lady commanded us. I held Inno tightly. An orange rod glowed slowly in her hands softly lighting the room. \"Don't move,\" she repeated as she crossed over and switched on the light. The room had one chair, one table, and one bed. The lady we had just now encountered looked young and strong. Her face bore the marks of intense thoughtfulness. She removed her coat and , as she hung it on the back of the chair, I noticed that she wore a blue checkered shirt and a pair of navy blue trousers. She gave a quick glance at us, then sat on the chair. The room evidently belonged to her.\n\"What are you both doing here?\" she asked, with an air of indifference.\n\"We got caught in the rain and, seeing the tile pull off and the light burn, we crept in to save our heads.\"\n\"I see,\" she noted. There was disbelief and apathy in her tone. \"That was quick,\" she said, \"and, you already even seemed to have found some friends here. Isn't friendliness quite incredible when showed by the blind?\"\nI was shocked. How did she know that I had met Imagino? Did she also know anything more? She seemed to have noticed my consternation and answered it, \"The umbrella\u2026 it is not something that is usually stolen; of course, it was lent and lent by the blind Imagino, for it belongs to him. Also, you haven't been quite drenched; so, you've not been long in the rain. Apart from that, I am intrigued that had to turn the lamp off.\" She looked piercingly in my eyes.\n\"It.. it,\" I was trying to reply something yet unknown when Inno interrupted: \"We're looking for my Mommy and Daddy,\" she said. Some people had been trying to hurt us, so we must hide. Do you know where they are? Can you help us?\"\nThe lady's eyes turned to her and now I saw her face grow soft. \"Come here child,\" she said in a gentle voice. Inno ran towards her. \"So, you're the two escapees,\" she remarked at me, though looking at Inno and smoothing her hair.\n\"Yes,\" I mumbled hesitatingly.\n\"I am Sophia, the sister of Imagino and Sensus,\" she said, \"and, I am an outcaste of this City. Hamartia tried to use me at first to develop schemes of words against the One. She even got Imagino and Sensus fully on her side. Imagino is now her Chief Magical Advisor and Sensus is the Palatial Pleasure Advisor of Sarx. However, when I found that what Hamartia required was something against my very self \u2013 I couldn't do it without contradicting myself \u2013 I refused. So, she commissioned Adikia, the Commander of the Armies of Injustice, to imprison me in the Dark Island inside Superbia. Adikia was on way to arrest me, when I managed to get away from Superbia and hide here in Gula. I am one of the enemies of the State.\"\n\"Her mother's name is Piety, and her father's name is Faith,\" I explained about Inno.\nSophia gave a startled look. Then, looking again at Inno, she said, \"I saw them when they were brought to trial. It was a mockery. There is nothing called a trial here; it is just a one-sided game. The aim is annihilation.\" She knew that Inno wouldn't understand the terms.\n\"Where do we find them now?\" I asked.\nBut, she had stood up, and placing Inno down, rushed towards me, snatched the umbrella off my hands and opened it. It was quickly examined, then placed on the table. She pulled her coat on; then, motioning us to be silent made signs for us to move out. \"You must be tired; take some rest!\" she said. She killed the lamp and we were out on the pavement, right across the road, and dashing off. From a distance, we heard the grunts of vehicles. We stopped and looked. They were on the spot of the room we had just left. A little examination by the agents and soon the tile was ripped and officers were inside.\n\"Friendliness is not always the signature of a friend,\" Sophia quipped as we rushed on and off the scene. The umbrella was a trap.\nWe hadn't moved more than a few meters ahead when we realized that the trap was an insidiously well managed one. The headlights of two trucks and six motorbikes suddenly appeared from a turn ahead. They were closing in at a rapid pace. We looked back and saw that the road had been blocked by the officers. I was looking at the angry sky and wondering. Suddenly, there was a clanking sound and I was pulled down along with Inno.\nope you scraped some fun off the Fair!\" Clever smiled and said. He was speaking loud since the sudden siren had also stirred up much commotion that voluminously flooded the range of air.\n\"Yes, we did!\" I answered aloud. \"Going to the Center?\"\n\"Yes,\" he replied, \"Let's be quick!\" We hurried to the Center.\nThere was a great fountain, lit by colorful and playful lights, in the middle of Fair with a good sized open space in the front for people to stand. There was a stage set up by the fountain adorned with balloons, ribbons, and flowers. Armed guards stood all around it. A fine looking gentleman with a red suit on stood at the lectern smiling profusely, as if smiles were all biting at him. Behind him stood an array of five elegantly dressed personages that seemed to be officials. The Lady Avaritia was easy to distinguish by her golden silk vesture and a crown of sparkling diamonds. Also, on the stage were Fate and Chance. We were able to get a little close to the stage. When the people had all assembled, a second siren called, and the man in the red suit smiled even more torrentially to the extent that his face swelled and his words dropped like celebrative fireworks.\n\"Ladies and Gentlemen,\" he began, seemingly quite conscious of the presence of Avaritia in all his conduct, \"It is our pleasure to have you all at this Fair again. Your presence and participation add to the pleasure and romance \u2026\"\n\"Huh, ROMA: Radix Omnium Malorum Avaritia!\" I heard someone murmur and I turned to find that it was a rather unkempt man, having meager appearance, short stature, and a worn-out face, his eyes fixated on the stage. \"Evil\u2026 evil\u2026. Root of All Evil,\" he murmured again.\n\"Fate and Chance,\" the red suited man continued, \"had been appointed by our Honorable Lady to pick the trader who had affected the best business, and so I would call on them to please step forward and announce the winner.\"\nThere were cheers and great applause as Fate and Chance stepped forward together hand in hand towards the podium. It did seem that the red suited man didn't feel very comfortable having had to step behind.\n\"Choosing a winner is not always quite an easy job, when two are appointed to the task,\" Chance began. The audience joined in cheering again. My criterion of choice was simple: the one with the greatest guts to face the highest risk of loss \u2013 the perfect gambler.\"\n\"Mine was a bit different,\" Fate joined in, \"the one with the guts to embrace risk as riches \u2013 the apathetic utilitarian.\"\n\"Fatal intoxication, fatal entrapment, fatal Fate \u2013 the false shadow of false Chance!\" the unkempt man murmured again oblivious to all around, as all others were to him.\nThe crowd cheered again. \"So, who wins?\" someone shouted. \"Yes, who wins, who wins?\" they all clamored.\n\"The winner is the optician, Clever!\" Fate announced as a jubilant crowd cheered uncontrollably.\nClever looked at me and smiled. Then, sprinted towards the stage where he was being welcomed by Fate and Chance and given a little trophy by Avaritia. He, then, turned and stood at a little corner on the stage.\nI heard the unkempt man's murmur: \"So shall Curiosity gain hand over risk and finally swallow wallowing greed in his bottomless mire.\" He seemed to be an intelligent man to me, but I wondered why he looked so unkempt. I turned at him, and at that instant was taken aback. The man had disappeared. I ran my eyes all over trying to catch a glimpse of him; but, he was nowhere to be found.\n\"My dear subjects,\" Avaritia announced and the whole crowd went mad with ecstasy.\n\"Speak, noble Lady, our lifegiver and ruler!\" some shouted.\n\"The dials of Fate and Chance turn in favor towards those who tap into the Magical power of Mammon. Money is Magic; and Magic, Money; everything else, its slave. Money is influence, money is strength; money is freedom, money is true wealth. So, never stop urging forward, amassing greater; for someone must always top the other. Contentment, fear, and sloth are the greatest destroyers of your power. Contentment makes one impotent; impotence creates insecurity; and insecurity breeds rebellion, rebellion against our Queen, rebellion against the Kingdom of Magic, rebellion against self. So, never stop short of any higher scale you can fix for yourself; and, when you've reached that, fix a greater one. Don't be compelled by need alone. Be compelled by the glory of your Mother, by me, your Governess Avaritia; for success is defined by prosperity and prosperity is inherited by those who are faithful to me!\"\nThe crowd now, on hearing this, was thrown into uncontrollable ecstasy, calling out, shouting slogans, gesticulating with hands beating the air, some crying tears, and it all seemed to land everything into a heavy confusion.\n\"Let's go, let's go!\" Inno cried. I looked at her eyes. She was afraid. Then, suddenly the siren howled striking the commotion into a dead silence. Two men in black suits ascended the stage and began whispering something in the ears of Avaritia. While they did that, I saw her eyes turn fierce and hawk-like and I felt a premonition.\n\"There has been an emergency call,\" she spoke again with a grave voice. \"Our city has been intruded by a number of enemies who are bent on our destruction. We received news of a young man who has escaped prison and is now target of the search. He is said to have a child with him.\" I squirmed, but then felt there wasn't any need to be alarmed since there were many men with children in arms there until I turned towards the stage again, and at this moment caught the eyes of Clever; they were unblinkingly riveted on me. I shuddered at the way he looked. The Lady continued, \"There are a few more others who have been spotted but not caught yet; however, we anticipate the Final Victory soon and the elimination of all threat whatsoever altogether very soon. In view of all this, the City requests the cooperation of the citizens to nab the criminals. Anyone who cooperates through providing information or help in capturing the intruders in anyway will receive high rewards and honors. Anyone, however, who cooperates with the enemies against us will be counted as traitors and tried along with them.\" At this moment I noticed a spark in Clever's eyes, and he moved towards Avaritia and began whispering something to her. I began moving away silently through the crowd, and as I moved I removed the glasses that the optician had given and threw it in a corner. But by then, the whole crowd was in voracious commotion and I also saw search agents spreading all over the place. I reached near the gates and saw that it was blocked by the guards and Ira's agents. The crowd went trampling about in mad warlike passion, and I was gripped with fear now because of Inno. I tugged her closely, and turned around to see Clever, at a distance, accompanied by two or three officers running towards me. I began to run, howling, clamoring, and wildly shouting at all, that for a moment I struck lightning and surprise in the nerves of those around. In a split I had broken through the guards, had jumped on to the road, and was fleeing through the streets, while the mad cursing crowd and angry officers chased me from behind. I ran like a torpedo, crying all along when suddenly it seemed that a mist rose in front of me clouding the ground ahead. I heard the crowd behind me halt as fading voices cautioned, \"The poisonous gas\u2026the poisonous gas!\" I stopped as well, turned behind and then towards the mist. There was silence. Then, a strange thing occurred. I saw the figure of Faith on the face of the mist beckoning to us with a smile. I turned behind and saw the agents lift their guns towards me. In that moment, I turned round and hurled myself into the mist, leaving the spray of bullets all behind. I had leapt into the unknown.\nChance, Fate, and Avaritia\nhad taken Inno to a small food corner and bought for her a piece of sweet bread with the money that Piety had given me. We sat there she ate the bread holding it in her little fingers. There were a few stout men sitting on a table thrown a bit far from us. They were eating too much and seemed too disgustfully voracious.\n\"You guys from Gula make our stalls grow fatter!\" a waitress remarked as she dropped a tray of meat on their table. They didn't respond to her, but just jumped on the meat and began tearing chunks of bites off it.\n\"Why are they eating like that?\" Inno asked.\n\"They might be very hungry,\" I said.\n\"But, why do they eat like that even if they're so hungry?\"\n\"Because their hunger is of a different kind.\"\n\"What kind?\"\n\"Like a pig.\"\nShe laughed.\nI pondered at my own misery and wondered the meaning of it all. Or, was the desire for meaning itself a misery of delusion, I wondered. I felt lone, disillusioned, and pointless, except for the fact of Inno. Perhaps, if not for her, I would have lost purpose. Immediately, my mind began engaging in thoughts of how to reach Piety and Faith, perhaps also deliver Religare, and then someway find a way out of this vortex of darkness. \"What should I do next?\" I wondered as everything ahead looked bleak and impossible. I thought about the map. \"If there is a \"where\" to go, there will be a road to it; it would only be meaningless to build a road in the darkness to just nowhere\u2026 I know where I need to go now; I only need to discover the route\u2026. There will be many routes; many of which, of course, not even mentioned in the maps of this City, for these are not explicit. I must discover one of those\u2026\" It seemed to me to be a plausible idea. \"Once I get there, and the mission is done, then\u2026., then\" I wondered. I had reached to the end of myself and at a new cycle of frustration.\n\"You seem to be in grave consternation!\"\nI turned to my right a saw a lean middle-aged man sitting on a chair close by, smiling at me. He wore a simple and neat white shirt tucked into his brown trousers and had a certain curly waves of hair on his head that evidently couldn't be groomed. His face looked casual and carefree. He wore a gold ring on his left finger, and a brown thread on his right.\n\"I saw you arrive with Clever. He has a particular dislike for me, you know\u2026 Well, these businessmen, they look at me as some kind of an omen. But, I do surprise them with my unwits sometimes.\"\n\"Who are you, Sir?\" I asked.\n\"Shouldn't I have asked you the same? But, it doesn't matter what or who you are to me or to anyone, isn't it so? Of course or perhaps or may be not; whatever\u2026\" he drew his chair close to me and spoke in whispers with a crystal spark in his eyes, \"The truth is that truth is a catchword; reality is a myth; existence is a game of accommodative meanings that we create in order to be who we are and find our own identity. That's where frustration strikes hard. Instead, why don't just let go, then you'll see magic in every shade of hue, in every breeze of the wind, in every blade of grass, and every twist of the atom. Let things be what they are and let things be known as they let themselves appear. Suffering results from overstraining of the brain to accommodate the world to an attribute that doesn't belong to it, namely meaning.... Isn't that strange?\"\n\"I don't get what you say,\" I replied feeling even more strained by what he said.\n\"You don't get it because you strain to link things together into a meaningful story. You don't realize that a story is only beautiful because it happens, because it is let to happen so.\"\n\"What has happened to me is not so meaningful after all!\"\n\"But, isn't it beautiful?\"\n\"How can something be beautiful without being meaningful?\"\n\"If you just experience it without any demand whatsoever.\"\n\"That's passive subjection, enslavement.\"\n\"What is not?\"\n\"The butterfly dances to the rhythm of the wind flapping wings with colors from the rainbow, the peacock prances with the air of a king spreading feathers in a fanlike show; the mortals covet their beauty and sigh and moan casting their faces low, not realizing that it's their covetous ambition that turns them into the world below. But, just let it go, let it go. Let be what the rhythm of this dice-play calls for. Be the dance, be the prance, then you'll be beauty without straining to see the beautiful.\"\n\"Yes, perhaps\u2026 but, perhaps, more a dance maker?\"\n\"I am Chance\u2026\"\n\"And, I am his sister Fate,\" a young lady came by him and said, sitting on another chair. She was a tall and elegant looking lady, with chiseled and determined features, except for those dark rings around her eyes. \"You got a lovely kid there!\" She smiled pointing at Inno. Inno didn't smile; she turned just to munching again.\n\"Yes, thanks!\" I said, \"I'm delighted to meet you both.\"\n\"Delight is a word foreordained,\" Fate smiled and replied. I noticed that her smiles were mingled with some sort of rigidity composed of indifference; quite difficult to distinguish one from the other.\n\"It is a matter of coincidence,\" Chance objected.\n\"Aha, brother, there again, how often would you flip the dime; for can you see through the rigors of Time that the flip and the dime are both altogether the play of Fate?\"\n\"Or the dance of Chance?\" he gave a mischievous smile.\n\"Fate plays the dice and the dice dances by Chance,\" she replied, raising an intelligent brow.\n\"What dice?\" I asked.\n\"Let's ask the child,\" Fate proposed. Then turning to Inno, \"What is your name, child?\"\n\"Innocence!\" Inno stopped munching and replied.\n\"Good! Do you like to dance or do you like to play?\"\nShe didn't say anything but, only looked at her as she would at a stranger. Then, I saw her eyes moist and tears roll her cheek. I immediately left my chair, and picked her up in my arms, trying to console, saying \"No worries baby, it's alright, it's alright.\" Then, turning to Fate and Chance, I apologized, \"I'm sorry, she might be a bit afraid of strangers!\"\n\"So, she doesn't happen to be your child, then?\" Chance remarked. Then watching my dismay, \"Well, you used the word might.\"\n\"Oh, yea. She's my niece. I met them after long, and I thought to show her the Fair.\"\n\"Yes, go on, you should. Hope she'll forget all this embarrassment and soon find some laughter in store with dance or play,\" Chance turned to Fate and to us and smilingly said.\n\"Thank you! And, enjoy the Fair,\" I greeted them as I left.\n\"The same with you!\" they conjoined.\nThere was a merry-go-round on one corner and a few benches strewn around it. I asked Inno, \"Would you like to go in it?\"\n\"No!\" she replied, \"Can we sit on the benches there instead!\" she pointed at them and asked. \"Yes,\" I replied. The kids were all jolly on the merry-go-round, the parents and elders standing by with merriment in their eyes and gestures; some screaming, some laughing, and some playfully dancing in the prodigal lightings of this night city's Fair. One round of the merry-go-round had slowed to an end. A few alighted and a few others boarded it. I turned to Inno and saw that she was smiling, looking at the children. \"Would you like to go in it?\" I asked again. \"Na!\" she replied without turning towards me, still looking at the kids and smiling.\n\"The dance of Chance or the play of Fate\u2026\" I thought, as my eyes followed the direction where I had left Fate and Chance. They had disappeared. \"Or both?\" I asked myself. I wondered what all of this meant. \"Where might have they disappeared?\" I thought. \"Wow, doesn't it all look like a big dream and my own thoughts and acts\u2026 are they still my own or the outworking of a dream that I take as real\u2026 Can one change the direction of a dream? If someone could tell me; but that someone would also first have to enter my dream, and be part of the dream? Then, how could I trust him?\" My consternation increased. Inno looked at me and at that moment I relaxed down and smiled.\n\"Can I have a look at your scroll, Sir?\" she asked interrupting all my thoughts. I didn't ask why. Perhaps, she had seen something that got her curious about this. Whatever, I at least felt relieved that she was in a playful disposition. I took out the scroll and rolled it open before her. The image of a cat playing with a ball was in it. Inno laughed. Then, I noticed that the ball once looked like a mouse and once like a ball. When it looked like a mouse, the cat pounced upon it; when it looked like a ball, she played with it. Whenever the cat pounced on the mouse, it turned to a ball. Inno laughed. \"It's neither this nor that!\" I thought to myself. The thought struck me and I asked myself, \"Why do I always only look at everything as either\/or\u2026Do I know all the options, yet? Isn't there something greater than this all?\"\nA siren rolled, and then a voice called: \"Attention, Ladies and Gentlemen, the Lady Avaritia addresses in a while! Citizens are requested to gather at the Center to witness the wrapping up of the Fair.\"\nImmediately, I saw stalls closing down, the gamers finishing with the last rounds, and people hurrying in the direction of the Center. I arose with Inno in my arms and proceeded in the same direction, when I felt a hand on my shoulder and turned back.\nThe City of Magic - Chapter 8\nThe City of Magic - Chapter I","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
+{"text":"Split outcomes for Knights\nThe Queens College men's basketball team trailed by 14 points at halftime on Saturday against Bridgeport, but a 19-7 run to start the second half propelled the Knights to a 71-70 victory at Fitzgerald Gymnasium to improve to 2-0 at home this season.\nBoth teams started out slowly in the opening half of action, with Shomari Redd hitting the first lay-up of the contest after two minutes of play to allow QC (2-10, 2-2 ECC) to strike first.\nElijah Bovell of Queens College (2-10, 2-2 ECC) led all scorers with 18 points and also pulled down ten rebounds in the win to go along with three assists and two steals.\nWayne Li added eleven points and five rebounds with a team-high three blocks while Shomari Redd added ten points.\nBakary Camara led Bridgeport (5-5, 1-3 ECC) with 17 points and 12 rebounds, while Green added 16 points and three assists. Eric Rankin had 11 points for the Purple Knights in the loss.\nQueens travels out of conference to cap off the 2018 calendar year with a game on December 30 at Southern Connecticut State at 3:30 p.m.\nWomen fall\nAn early 9-0 run put the Queens College women's basketball team in a hole that the Knights could not come back from, as QC fell by a 67-51 score to Bridgeport on Saturday at Fitzgerald Gymnasium.\nLucy Tougas led the Knights (2-8, 1-3 ECC) with 15 points, six rebounds and three assists while Analeza Edore scored ten points off the bench with a team-high eight rebounds.\nBeth Bonin added eight points and four rebounds with Emer Moloney contributing seven points for Queens in the loss.\nGianna Gotti's game-high 23 points came off the bench for Bridgeport (6-4, 3-1 ECC) with the freshman guard also posting five rebounds, three assists and two steals.\nSamnell Vonleh added 14 points and nine rebounds and NK Ilang had eleven points and six boards for UB in the win. Sarah Middleton dished out six assists while Briana Stoddart contributed eight points.\nThe Knights were scheduled to host American International College on Wednesday at 7 p.m. in the final home event of the calendar year.","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
+{"text":"trending Market Intelligence \/marketintelligence\/en\/news-insights\/trending\/srwnZMBxwhWZciiVPMi9OQ2 content esgSubNav\nAmerican Real Estate Partners buys DC asset; Pro REIT nabs Montreal complex\nAuthor Dawood Fakhir\nThis feature rounds up recent commercial property news and highlights larger deal coverage already published.\n* American Real Estate Partners purchased Union Center Plaza I at 810 First St. NE in Washington, D.C., for $64.3 million from an affiliate of American Realty Advisors, Washington Business Journal reported, citing the D.C. Recorder of Deeds. The property spans roughly 191,000 square feet and is leased by the district for its Department of Insurance, Securities and Banking and its office of the State Superintendent of Education. The tenants are scheduled to move out in October 2018.\n* Pro Real Estate Investment Trust agreed to acquire Trans-Canada Highway 8150-8120, a two-building commercial mixed-use complex with a gross leasable area of 125,554 square feet on 332,206 square feet of land, in Montreal for C$8.7 million, representing a going-in capitalization rate of 6.3%.\nTrans-Canada Highway 8150, with about 84,731 square feet of gross leasable area, has approximately 78,000 square feet of office space and 7,000 square feet of warehouse space. It is fully leased to two tenants. Trans-Canada Highway 8120 is vacant and has 40,823 square feet of office and warehouse space. The company will finance the acquisition with cash on hand and a 3.6% C$5.6 million five-year first mortgage loan.\n* An affiliate of Principal Real Estate Investors LLC sold the 151,456-square-foot industrial center on an 8.8-acre site at 2800 SW 42nd St. in Hollywood, Fla., to an affiliate of TA Realty LLC for $21 million, the South Florida Business Journal reported.\n* Allen Harrison Co. has begun building a five-story, 293-unit apartment complex on about three acres of land at 2220 Pinegate Dr. in Houston, Houston Business Journal reported. The project is valued at more than $40 million.\n* Weingarten Realty Investors sold a 36,900-square-foot building in the Carrollwood community of Tampa, Fla., for an undisclosed amount. The building sits on 6.33 acres of land and is 100% occupied by Whole Foods Market.\n* Urstadt Biddle Properties Inc. plans to build a self-storage facility with 120,000 square feet of space on a land parcel it agreed to purchase on Sidney St. in Stratford, Conn., ctpost reported.\n* Duke Realty Corp. signed a lease with a joint venture between Siemens Corp and Chromalloy Gas Turbine Corp. for 210,723 square feet of the 337,447-square-foot Tampa Regional Industrial Park 13111 in Tampa. The company signed another lease for 63,362 square feet at the same property with Ralph's Transfer, a cargo and freight transportation company.\n* Liberty Property Trust signed a long-term lease with COKeM International Ltd. for 162,000 square feet of space at Valley Park Business Center, in Shakopee, Minn. The COKeM lease will bring the occupancy rate of the 197,000-square-foot industrial building to 100%.\nEquus Capital divests $467M portfolio of 22 Pa. assets\nReport: NYC boutique hotel to be sold for nearly $200M\nCAPREIT purchases Tenn. apartment complex for $48M\nDawood Fakhir","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
+{"text":"ChoralWiki:February 2007 scores\n<< January 2007 \u2022 All months \u2022 March 2007 >>\nFebruary 2007 scores (most recent listed first)\nTotal pages with new scores added in the month: 43\n(Creation date) Page with new edition(s)\n(01 Jan 2008) Polovetsian Dances (Alexander Borodin)\n(26 Feb 2007) Boy at the window (Huub de Lange)\n(25 Feb 2007) Facta cogitatum (Johann Kaspar Aiblinger)\n(26 Feb 2007) Kimbolton (We are a garden) (Anonymous)\n(26 Feb 2007) Margretes Vuggesang (Edvard Grieg)\n(25 Feb 2007) Begr\u00e4bnisgesang (Johannes Brahms)\n(24 Feb 2007) Communion Service, Op. 18 in E Major (Horatio W. Parker)\n(24 Aug 2005) Cantique de Jean Racine, Op. 11 (Gabriel Faur\u00e9)\n(24 Aug 2005) Come, ye Sons of Art, Z 323 (Henry Purcell)\n(24 Feb 2007) Te Deum laudamus in E (Horatio W. Parker)\n(21 Feb 2007) How calmly the evening (Edward Elgar)\n(21 Feb 2007) The Shower, Op. 71, No. 1 (Edward Elgar)\n(20 Feb 2007) Adieu mes amours (Josquin des Prez)\n(18 Aug 2005) Requiem in D minor, Op. 48 (Gabriel Faur\u00e9)\n(19 Feb 2007) Nun bin ich einmal frey (Jacob Regnart)\n(31 Jul 2007) Dilectus meus descendit (Pierre Bonhomme)\n(18 Feb 2007) In silentio et spe (Caspar Othmayr)\n(18 Feb 2007) Laudate Dominum (Ps. 147) a 15 (Leonhard Lechner)\n(19 Feb 2007) Requiem f\u00fcr Mignon (Robert Schumann)\n(15 Feb 2007) Factus est (Johann Kaspar Aiblinger)\n(16 Feb 2007) O fly not, O take some pity (Thomas Morley)\n(15 Feb 2007) Parce Domine with Psalm 51 (Charles H. Giffen)\n(15 Feb 2007) Requiem (Giuseppe Verdi)\n(13 Feb 2007) Barechu (Salamone Rossi)\n(13 Feb 2007) Der Gondelfahrer (Franz Schubert)\n(14 Feb 2007) Tu en un pesebre (Francisco Valls)\n(12 Feb 2007) Missa Nasce la gioja mia (Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina)\n(13 Feb 2007) Schicksalslied, Op. 54 (Johannes Brahms)\n(11 Feb 2007) Adieu m'amour I (Alexander Agricola)\n(11 Feb 2007) Adieu m'amour II (Alexander Agricola)\n(11 Feb 2007) Et qui la dira (Alexander Agricola)\n(10 Feb 2007) Death and Victory (The Anacreontic Song) (John Stafford Smith)\n(08 Feb 2007) \u00bfQu\u00e9 es lo que me niega Amor? (Francisco Valls)\n(07 Feb 2007) Miserere mei Deus, quoniam (Johann Kaspar Aiblinger)\n(04 Feb 2007) With restless and ungoverned rage (Arlington) (Thomas Arne)\n(05 Feb 2007) Almoster (Constant\u00ed Sotelo i Paradela)\n(03 Feb 2007) To God, our never-failing strength (John Wall Callcott)\n(03 Feb 2007) Morning Light 7 6. 7 6. D (George J. Webb)\n(02 Feb 2007) Ode to Saint Thomas Aquinas (Francisco Valls)\n(03 Feb 2007) Stand up, stand up for Jesus (George J. Webb)\n(01 Feb 2007) Missa in Es (Ond\u0159ej Horn\u00edk)\n(01 Feb 2007) Praeter rerum seriem (Anonymous)\n(02 Feb 2007) Todo es ya mansedumbres (Juan del Vado)\nRetrieved from \"https:\/\/www.cpdl.org\/wiki\/index.php?title=ChoralWiki:February_2007_scores&oldid=160781\"","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
+{"text":"Meet the silence breaker Laura Madden @ Maynooth University Event\nLatest News, Members News\nPosted on 24\/02\/2020 by Jennifer Forster in Latest News, Members News\nRT\u00c9 broadcaster Audrey Carville in conversation with Laura Madden, one of the first women to go on the record against Harvey Weinstein\nLaura Madden, originally from Monaghan, was one of the first women to speak on the record to New York Times reporters Jodi Kantor and Megan Twohey about the sexual predation of Hollywood producer Harvey Weinstein. The bravery of the women who told their stories triggered an avalanche of public testimonies under the hashtag #MeToo, spawning a wider global movement.\nLaura Madden will be presented with the President's Medal by Maynooth University President, Professor Philip Nolan, as part of this event to mark International Women's Day. RT\u00c9 broadcaster Audrey Carville will also host a panel discussion with Ms Madden, Professor Linda Connolly, Director of Maynooth University Social Sciences Institute (MUSSI) and a leading scholar on women's experiences with trauma in Irish history, and Dr Anne O'Brien from the Department of Media Studies at Maynooth University and author of Women, Inequality and Media Work.\nBook your place here!","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
+{"text":"Data and Tools for Health Policy EvaluationSurvey ResearchHealth OutcomesMedicaidState Health CompareHealth Insurance Coverage and the UninsuredState Health PolicySafety NetHealth Care Access and UsePayment and Delivery System Reform\nBlog & NewsInfographicsReports and BriefsResourcesJournal ArticlesPresentationsOther\nThe Evolving Opioid Epidemic: Observing the Changes in the Opioid Crisis through State-level Data (Webinar)\nTime: 11:00 a.m. - 12:00 p.m. Central \/ 12:00 - 1:00 p.m. Eastern\nDuring the past two decades, the national opioid crisis has proved to be persistent and dynamic. After deaths from prescription opioid painkillers grew quietly for years, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention rang the alarm in 2011, declaring the growing problem a national \"epidemic.\" Despite efforts to rein in the crisis, vital statistics show that opioid overdose deaths have continued to grow year-after-year even after this declaration, reaching more than 47,000 deaths in 2017 alone.\nWhile data has shown limited signs of progress in containing deaths from some opioids, statistics also recently illustrated how the opioid crisis has expanded beyond its early dimensions. Although the growth in death rates from prescription opioid painkillers largely plateaued after the CDC announced the epidemic, death rates from heroin soon began a rapid rise, followed closely by an even larger increase in death rates from synthetic opioids such as fentanyl. By 2017, death rates from synthetic opioids were more than double that of prescription opioid painkillers at their peak.\nIn July 2019, U.S. Health and Human Services Secretary Alex Azar announced that provisional overdose data from 2018 showed a five percent decline in deaths compared to the previous year, but Secretary Azar also acknowledged \"other emerging threats, like concerning trends in cocaine and methamphetamine overdoses.\"1 The recent significant increases in death rates from cocaine and methamphetamine, in combination with CDC research finding overdoses from those drugs frequently also involve opioids, raises concerns that the crisis may again be transforming and spreading beyond opioids to other illicit substances.\nIn a recent SHADAC webinar, Senior Research Fellow Colin Planalp examined the U.S. opioid epidemic through national and state-level data on drug overdose deaths, including opioids such as prescription painkillers, heroin and synthetic opioids, and non-opioids (but related drugs) such as cocaine and psychostimulants (e.g., methamphetamine). Using data available through SHADAC's State Health Compare, the webinar detailed changing trends in the opioid crisis and how the specifics vary across states\u2014both in the scale of the epidemic and differences in the top substances of concern.\nMr. Planalp was joined by SHADAC Research Fellow Robert Hest, who explained how to access and use the data on opioid-related overdose deaths through SHADAC's State Health Compare website. Mr. Hest also provided an overview of related measures available on State Health Compare, such as the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) data on sales of common prescription opioid painkillers.\nDownload the slides from the Webinar here.\nThe Opioid Epidemic (SHADAC Resource Page)\nThe Opioid Epidemic: National and State Trends in Opioid-Related Overdose Deaths from 2000 to 2017 (Briefs)\n50-State Analysis of Drug Overdose Trends: The Evolving Opioid Crisis Across the States (Infographics)\nState Health Compare Updated to Include 2017 Opioid-Related Overdose Data and New Data on Overdose Deaths from Other Drugs\n[1] U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS). (2019, July 17). Secretary Azar Statement on 2018 Provisional Drug Overdose Death Data. Retrieved from https:\/\/www.hhs.gov\/about\/news\/2019\/07\/17\/secretary-azar-statement-on-2018-provisional-drug-overdose-death-data.html","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
+{"text":"Invest in Nigeria as Recent Reforms foster Recovery - Deloitte\nTrade Investment\t 5510 VIEWS\nMonday, June 21, 2018\/12:20PM\/Deloitte\nNigeria is West Africa's unrivalled economic powerhouse. With a population of over 190 million people and a gross domestic product of over US$380bn, Nigeria is Africa's most populous country and second largest economy.\nThe country's gross national income (GNI) per capita was US$5 740 in 2016. While its GNI per capita puts Nigeria in the top third among African countries, its GINI score of 48.8 (in 2013) suggests that income is unevenly distributed across the population. Nigeria is endowed with Africa's second largest oil reserves. In addition to its large oil deposits, Nigeria has a number of other notable mineral resources including coal, gold, bitumen, iron ore and uranium.\nPolitical Landscape\nTwo major political parties, the All Progressives Congress (APC) and the People's Democratic Party (PDP), dominate Nigerian politics. President Muhammadu Buhari, of the APC, currently governs the country, while the next elections are due to be held in early 2019. Analysts predict another close race between the two dominant parties, as it is at this point unlikely that a third party will be able to mobilise sufficient resources to mount a serious challenge.\nNigeria is a culturally diverse country. Ethnic groups play a significant role in the country where political and economic power is often tied to cultural allegiances. The major ethnic groups are the Hausa-Fulani (29%), Yoruba (21%) and the Igbo (10%).4 Furthermore, the country is split geographically along religious lines, the 46% Muslim population living predominantly in the north, while the 46% Christian population mostly live in the south of the country.5 Outliers to this trend are the diverse populations of major urban centres such as Lagos, Kano, Ibadan and Kaduna. Africa's second largest economy is home to 190 million people 2 Nigeria Country Report\nIn recent years, violence occurred in a number of regions across the country. In the Niger Delta, located in the southeast of the country, the 50-year-old Biafra independence movement has regained traction, leading to sporadic sabotage of oil production. Concurrently, Fulani herdsmen have carried out violent raids in the country's middle belt. Tensions over land rights with farmers in the region are seen as the root cause for the conflict. For over a decade, government forces have been fighting Boko Haram, an insurgent group in the north of the country set on creating an Islamic caliphate. Since the start of the conflict, tens of thousands have been killed and over 2.3 million have been displaced.6 A regional coalition between Nigeria and its neighbours Benin, Cameroon, Chad and Niger was formed to combat Boko Haram in 2015. The coalition has made headway in recapturing territory controlled by insurgents.\nWhile trying to shake off the negative image that the volatile security situation created internationally, Nigeria has become a global force through its soft power of arts and culture. In terms of sales volume, Nollywood (Nigeria's film industry), is second only to India's Bollywood.7 The country's minister of information and culture has described the arts industry as the \"new oil\", its spread accelerated by the 17 million Nigerian diaspora living across the world.\nNigeria is part of the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS), a group of 15 countries with a combined population of over 360 million people. In 2016, Nigeria played a critical role in ECOWAS' intervention in the Gambia, supporting the democratic process by persuading former President Jammeh to vacate his office after he refused to step down upon being defeated in elections. Nollywood is the second largest\nfilm industry in the world 3 Nigeria.\n1. Improving Nigeria's Business Operating Environment to Enhance Economic Growth\n2. G7 Summit 2018: Commentary On Africa And Full Text Of Communiqu\u00e9\n3. Nigeria-China Trade: Having Banking Representative Offices in Beijing\n4. Strengthening Africa's Gateways to Trade\n5. A Brave Step Towards African Integration\n6. The latest Business Competitiveness Ranking: How close is Nigeria to the Promised Land?\n7. Nigeria gains Momentum on Ease of Doing Business\nForex: CBN Flags off SMIS in Chinese Yuan\nTRANSCORP Declares N10.88bn PAT in Q2 2018 Results,(SP:N1.17k)\nDMO Lists N10.69bn FGN Sovereign Green Bond on NSE\nUAC-PROP Declares N1.83bn Loss in Q2 2018 Results,(SP:N1.91k)\nNigeria Joins Worlds Logistics Passport To Improve Connectivity\nNIPC Acting CEO Receives FOI Award, Dedicates it to Commission Staffers\nIATF 2021 Generates US$42.1bn Trade and Investment Deals","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
+{"text":"Evidently Incompetent Or Worse\nBy Charles P. Pierce\nWhen the Duke lacrosse case was at high tide, I got in a little trouble when I opined somewhere that egregious hack Mike Nifong, the prosecutor who brought the charges, was merely doing what we tacitly admit through our love for get-tough, law-and-order politics that we want prosecutors to do, and that the only difference this time around was that the people who were dragooned onto the railroad were affluent enough, and (yes) white enough, to afford lawyers good enough to break down the prosecutorial misconduct that was the basis of the case brought against the players. Had those guys been five young black men on an AAU basketball team in Chicago, they'd still be in jail. I would almost guarantee that.\nWe want prosecutors to be tough. We want convictions, highly visible convictions, and we don't really care how the sausage gets made. (Every time someone refers to a defendant's rights as a series of \"loopholes\" it's an admission of that simple fact of life.) We don't care how the sausage gets made because, generally, the sausage involves people with whom we have no real contact in our lives. The \"war\" on drugs -- and the transparently racist body count that has come with it -- is proof enough of that. The problem is that this approach, in which we essentially give up on our obligations as self-governing citizens as regards the police powers of our government, almost insures that desperate problems will persist within the criminal justice system for years, grinding up lives for no good goddamn reason.\nU.S. officials began the inquiry after The Washington Post reported two years ago that flawed forensic evidence involving microscopic hair\nmatches might have led to the convictions of hundreds of potentially\ninnocent people. Most of those defendants never were told of the\nproblems in their cases. The inquiry includes 2,600 convictions\nand 45 death-row cases from the 1980s and 1990s in which the FBI's hair\nand fiber unit reported a match to a crime-scene sample before DNA\ntesting of hair became common. The FBI had reviewed about 160 cases\nbefore it stopped, officials said.\nThat, of course, is not the worst part. This is the worst part.\nThe report said the FBI took more than five years to identify more\nthan 60 death-row defendants whose cases had been handled by 13 lab\nexaminers whose work had been criticized in a 1997 inspector-general\ninvestigation. As a result, state authorities could not consider\nwhether to stay sentences, and three men were put to death. One of those\ndefendants, who was executed in Texas in 1997, would not have been\neligible for the death penalty without the FBI's flawed work, the report\nsaid. \"Failures of this nature undermine the integrity of the\nUnited States' system of justice and the public's confidence in our\nsystem,\" the 146-page report stated. The failure to admit errors at the\ntime \"also injured the reputation of the FBI and the Department.\"\nI will make you another guarantee. I guarantee you every single one of those convictions was applauded by the public at large, and every one of the executions, including the one where the person was executed even though he shouldn't even have been eligible for the death penalty -- Fking Texas. Jesus God. -- was applauded by the vast majority of the people who actually knew they were happening. And I will make you another guarantee. The public defenders who dogged this case -- with admirable assistance of The Washington Post and Congressman Frank Wolf of Virginia -- are underpaid and over-vilified. I can make these guarantees because I know that all of this is what the political culture of this country, in ways large and small, have been saying that it wants out of its criminal justice system for nearly 40 years. This particular affront to the rule of law goes back at least as far as 1997, when a Department Of Justice task force warned that the FBI forensic lab was a clown college.\nProblems at the FBI lab first surfaced in the early 1990s, when\nscientist-turned-whistleblower Fred Whitehurst reported that sloppy work\nby examiners was producing unreliable forensic testimony. Justice\nofficials launched a task force that was active from 1996 to 2004 to\nensure that potentially exculpatory evidence involving criticized agents\nwas turned over to defendants. But The Post found that such notification rarely happened and that not all flawed cases were properly reviewed.\n(Here's another guarantee -- the Post can start clearing a space on Marty Baron's mantle for another Pulitzer. Spencer Hsu's reporting on this fiasco is bulletproof.)\nPoor people in this country know that the system is rigged in a hundred different ways, but that it's most rigged in the places that are supposed to be the fairest of them all -- the criminal justice system in general, and in the courthouse in particular. The rest of us sit back and wonder why the sausage is making so many people sick. It's supposed to. That's what we want it to do.\nCharles P. Pierce Charles P Pierce is the author of four books, most recently Idiot America, and has been a working journalist since 1976.\nMore From Politics With Charles P. Pierce\nOh, Holy God, He Gave a Farewell Address\nYellen Made Clear That Deficit Hawkery Is Out\nTrump's History Lesson Is a Blizzard of Bullsh*t\nPolitics With Charles P. Pierce\nOur Most Important Struggle Remains 238 Years Later: 'To Be Self Evident'\nThis One May Be Worse\nA Bad Idea Gets Worse\nThings Can't Always Get Worse\nNow Trump Supporters Are Boycotting 'Star Wars'\nGame of Thrones Fans: It Gets Worse","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
+{"text":"Parashat Vayetze: Yaakov's Love of Rachel and Leah\n\u05e4\u05d5\u05e8\u05e1\u05dd \u05e2\u05dc \u05d9\u05d3\u05d9 Mordechai Tzion \u05d1- 4:33\n[Tal Chermon]\nYaakov deeply loved Rachel as is stated: \"Yaakov worked seven years for Rachel. But he loved her so much, it seemed like no more than a few days\" (Bereshit 29:20). It was not a carnal love but a holy and lofty one based on a profound harmony between their souls. The proof of this is that he was with Leah for an entire night, thinking that she was Rachel and yet only in the morning did he discover the switch. His attraction to Rachel was clearly not bodily since he knew nothing about it and could thus be deceived for an entire night. Their bond was idealistic and spiritual. All the same, he loved her for what she was now.\nLeah, however, was \"disliked.\" This does not mean, G-d forbid, that he really hated her. Yaakov loved everyone, he even called the shepherds \"my brothers\" (ibid. v. 4). Leah was simply less loved than Rachel, as it says: \"But he loved Rachel more than Leah\" (ibid. v. 30). She feels \"disliked\" because she knows that as far as her husband is concerned she is the subordinate wife. Yaakov, however, did slowly develop a deep love towards her, not as his wife but as the mother of his children (On the birth of her first son, she called him \"Reuven - see a son\" and said \"now my husband will love me\" - Bereshit 29:32. On the birth of her third son, she said \"Now my husband will be attached [\"Levi\"] to me because I have already given him three sons\" - ibid. 29:34. And this pattern continues).\nYaakov's love for Rachel, despite all its sublimity, was not the ultimate in love. His love of Leah ended up deeper and more elevated. His love of Rachel, although it was a love in the depth of his soul, was a personal love of her. His love for Leah, however, centered on the creation of future generations and on the desire for continuance. By marrying and having children, one becomes \"eternal\" in this world since he is continued by his offspring. The heart of romantic love is, deep down, the love of and desire for continued existence. The Torah, by determining that the mitzvah is not marriage but procreation, makes abundantly clear that the purpose of marriage is not mutual pleasure and convenience but the bearing of children to ensure future generations. There is even an opinion that this command can be fulfilled with a concubine (The Rosh on Ketubot 1:12). G-d forbid that a person should act in such a shameful way, but the letter of the law indicates what is at the heart of the matter. A husband and wife must naturally love and respect each other on a personal level, but all of this stems from a deeper purpose. Maran (our revered teacher) Ha-Rav Avraham Yitzchak Kook expressed this idea as: \"Sexual impulses have been given to us in order to ensure the future of the world and of mankind (Orot Ha-Kodesh Part 3, p. 299).\nSince Yaakov's love of Rachel was personal and unrelated to the propagation of future generations, their bond was infertile. Yaakov's spiritual romance had to give way to a love which bore with it the responsibility of maintaining the continuity of mankind. Rachel demanded in painful exasperation: \"Give me children or let me die\" (Bereshit 30:1). She implored G-d to be fertile like her sister (See Rashi's second explanation and Onkelos on Bereshit 30:8), and Hashem finally opened her womb (Bereshit 30:22). Her troubles, however, were not yet over. She died in childbirth when Binyamin was born (Bereshit 35:17-18). Rachel's temporary kingdom had to vacate its place for Leah's permanent kingdom to take over. The essential, romantic love was a preparation for the supreme state for them to \"become one flesh\" (Bereshit 2:24). This occurs when children are born, \"for the child is created by both parents and in it their flesh becomes one and united\" (Rashi ibid.). Both Rachel and Leah built the complete House of Israel.\n\u05ea\u05d5\u05d5\u05d9\u05d5\u05ea: Parashat Ha-Shavua - Bereshit\nIt is Lucky that Yehudah the Maccabee Did Not Ask...\nShut SMS #92\nKitzur Tefilat Amecha #20\nService of the Heart\nParashat Vayeshev: The Clash Between Yosef and His...\nGiving a tenth during difficult financial times\nWhose Country Is this, Your Eminence?\nParashat Vayishlach: \"And He Limped on His Hip\" (B...\nDo not get angry\nCoping with Expulsion\nEat Little\nBircat Ha-Mazon while Getting Divorced\nAnd Jonathan remains in the pit...\nParashat Toldot: Wearing Two Hats\n\"Price Tag\"\nPlaying with Matches","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
+{"text":"SEC Rulemaking: Mandatory Corporate Political Expenditure Disclosures Are Invisible\nOn August 3, 2011, the Committee on Disclosure of Corporate Political Spending, composed of academics, submitted a petition to the Securities and Exchange Commission (\"SEC\" or \"Commission\") requesting that the Commission develop rules requiring public companies to disclose corporate political expenditures. The petition suggested that through required political expenditure disclosures, shareholders can \" 'determine whether their corporation's political speech advances the corporation's interest in making profits,' and discipline directors and executives who use corporate resources for speech that is inconsistent with shareholder interests.\"\nThe issue with regulating corporate political spending arose after the Supreme Court issued its opinion in Citizens United v. Federal Elections Commission, 558 U.S. 310 (2010), which lifted restrictions on corporate political expenditure. The Court noted, however, that the \"[g]overnment may regulate corporate political speech through disclaimer and disclosure requirements,\" and that today's advanced technology would allow prompt disclosure to shareholders and the public. Such disclosure would provide transparency for the electorate to make informed decisions as well as accountability to the shareholders with respect to whether the political expenditures are in the corporation's best interests.\nAccording to Bloomberg, the SEC has received over one million comments in support of the political spending disclosure rule. Most commentators to the petition have responded by emphasizing the utmost importance of public disclosure in carrying out the SEC's mission to maintain fair markets and protect investors. Recent anonymous comments highlight the Court's suggested government regulation through disclosure and requested the Commission to enact a political spending disclosure rule.\nThe Commission has yet to consider the political spending disclosure rule. The Commission did at one point indicate that a possible rule was on the Commission's long term rulemaking agenda. The Commission, however, removed the subject from the rulemaking agenda a year later.\nAccording to Reuters, SEC Chair Mary Jo White has not commented on the removal of the initiative from the long term agenda, but has expressed a general opposition to regulating companies in response to societal pressures. The SEC may also have removed the item due to possible uncertainty concerning rulemaking authority. Or the SEC may have removed the item because it felt the legislative branch was better equipped for amending the Exchange Act.\nShannon Moran October 14, 2014\nOpposition to Proposed Rulemaking Regarding Mandated Disclosure of Corporate Political Spending\nGabrielle Palmer October 15, 2014\nProcess Bylaws and the Internal Affairs Doctrine\nJ Robert Brown Jr. October 13, 2014","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
+{"text":"Category Archives: New CDs\nNatacha Atlas' Something Dangerous?\nMay 12, 2003 Angel Romero\nNatacha Atlas \u2013 Something Dangerous?\nNew York, USA \u2013 World music diva Natacha Atlas is returning with a new album, Something Dangerous?, and a new sound.\nDue for release in the US on May 20th and in the UK on May 19th, the recording has been produced by (amongst others) Sugababes producer Brian Higgins and features guest appearances by Sinead O'Connor, Princess Julianna, Abdullah Chhadeh and the late Sami El Babli. There's also a So Solid Crew remix currently doing the rounds in the clubs.\nWith Something Dangerous?, Natacha Atlas zips Middle Eastern music straight to the heart of current UK pop, pulling in as she does so dance music, rap, drum'n'bass, R&B, Hindi pop, film music and French chanson. The success of her earlier work, both in the Middle East and in the West, including a top ten hit in France, has shown just how alluring a musical bridging of the divide can be.\nSomething Dangerous? not only combines more styles than ever, but for the first time on an Atlas album it features guest vocalists, and a great deal more singing in English than she's done before. But it's no abandonment of Arabic; she embraces and combines the two languages, as well as Hindi and French.\nBuy Natacha Atlas' albums:\nIn North America: Mounqaliba, Ana Hina, Best of, Something Dangerous, Gedida, Mish Maoul, Foretold in the Language of Dreams\nIn Europe: Mounqaliba, The Best of Natacha Atlas, Ana Hina, Ayeshteni, Mishmaoul, Halim, Gedida, Foretold in the Language of Dreams, Something Dangerous, Diaspora\nNew from Yuri Buenaventura\nYuri Buenaventura \u2013 Vagabundo\nYuri Buenaventura was the first salsa singer in France to achieve a gold disc with his 1998 album Herencia Africana including the cover of \"Ne Me Quitte Pas\". For his third album, Vagabundo, Yuri worked with San Juan (Puerto Rico)musicians: Roberto Roena, leader of Appolo Sound, members of El Gran Combo, including singer, Jerry Rivas, and Cheo Feliciano, one of the mythical voices of the Fania All Stars, is special guest on two duets. The predominantly salsa style disc is further colored by the various influences of the collaborating artists. The Tango meets Caribbean music and Argentinean percussion. The album was released in France, Belgium and Switzerland last month.\nBuy Vagabundo\nGiramondu, New Corsican Band\nGiramondu \u2013 A Nostra Accolta\nParis, France \u2013 Giramondu's third album \"A Nostra Accolta\" was released in March by Inca Music and has already received good reviews from as far away as Argentina. The six-piece band got together in 1993 and includes members from the well-known Corsican world music groups I Muvrini and A Filetta.\nThe experience and influences of the group members are evident on the album where traditional Corsican lyrics are given a modern edge with vibrant rhythms. You can catch Giramondu on the 23rd of May playing a benefit concert at the Empire in Ajaccio, Corsica. Inca are currently looking for tour dates in Europe and licenses worldwide. Releases in Canada, Spain, Italy, the UK and Germany are being planned.\nMadama, New Galician Folk CD by Leil\u00eda\nLeilia \u2013 Madama\nCoru\u00f1a, Galicia, Spain \u2013 Leil\u00eda, the innovative Galician folk group has released a new recording titled Madama. Leil\u00eda is the old name given to traditional songs.\nLeil\u00eda is a group of Galician women who are forerunners and makers of the mini-revolution of tambourine music which has spread all over Galicia. They got together in the summer of 1989 to recover songs and musical forms that were in danger of extinction. Leil\u00eda reproduced and learned it all from the elders they visited all over Galicia and surrounding regions, recovering traditions they thought lost.\nThe group is formed by Montse Rivera, Mercedes Rodr\u00edguez, Felisa Segade, Ana Mar\u00eda Rodr\u00edguez and Patricia Segade.\nNew Recording by Serj Tankian & Arto Tun\u00e7boyaciyan\nUSA \u2013 Serart is a collaboration between System of a Down's Serj Tankian and world class multi-instrumentalist Arto Tun\u00e7boyaciyan. Serart will be released by Serjical Strike and Columbia Records on May 20.\n\"It's not a rock album, it's not a band, it's not a solo album for me,\" says Serj Tankian. \"It's a collaboration that I was compelled to do with a very creative artist. It's a very special type of album.\" It is important to note that Serart is not at all similar to a SOAD album \u2013 it's a departure away from SOAD's progressive-metal barrage. Serart finds these two, seemingly disparate, creative artists joining for a new vision. Serj describes the album best, \"It's really crazy world, jazz and experimental with some rock and hip-hop beats, dance beats, and electronic beats. Arto plays the Coke bottle, water droplets, an ancient flute, percussion of all sorts, little toys and shakers.\"\nThe music on Serart is both \"cross genre and cross cultural,\" an exotic and eclectic blend of electronica, poetry, Middle Eastern melodies, Pan-African rhythms, classical motifs melded with volleys of percussion. In addition to the 16 musical tracks on the album, Serart comes with a DVD component, the 14 minute experimental film, \"Sun Angle Calculator,\" directed and edited by Matthew Amato. \"The film is a visual collage,\" says Serj. \"The name, 'Sun Angle Calculator,' is a funny way of saying 'let me help you see the light.'\"\n[Buy\nSerart].\nLuzmila Carpio's Latest CD\nMay 8, 2003 75 west\nLuzmila Carpio \u2013 Kuntur Mallku\nNicknamed \"the Voice of the Andes,\" Luzmila Carpio has gained international praise for her traditional Quechua songs, tunes that have brought indigenous Bolivian culture and history to the world.\nThrough her plaintive and penetrating voice, these chilling vocal pieces, accompanied by traditional instruments such as Andean flutes, evoke the natural elements of Bolivia; even the whistling wind is tangible.\nWith an interesting periodic resemblance to the music of North American Indians and a spirit that might occasionally bring to mind the musical styles of the East, these striking pieces are not to be missed by world music enthusiasts. Absolutely arresting and captivating.\nHer latest CD \"Kuntur Mallku \u2013 The Messenger\" awarded by several music magazines in Europe is now available in the US.\nBonga, New CD Kaxexe\nMay 8, 2003 Angel Romero\nBonga \u2013 Kaxexe\nParis, France \u2013 Bonga's new album Kaxexe was released in France at the end of April (distribution BMG). It was released a few days earlier in Holland (Coast to Coast) coinciding with Bonga's forthcoming concert dates and television appearance there.\nThe album will also be distributed in Switzerland (Musikvertrieb), Austria (Hoanzl), Germany (Sunny Moon Music) and Portugal (Mega Musica).\nBonga sings of things such as unrequited love, social evils and the humiliation which is killing Africa with music that varies from melancholic to swinging.\nNakaira's Mediterranean Travels\nSicily, Italy \u2013 Melthemi is the title of Nakaira's new CD and it is also name of a Mediterranean wind. It enabled the first people who discovered it to trace new routes in the Mediterranean Sea and to enhance the spreading of cultures and populations. This is the spirit that drove the band in the recording of its second CD: original and traditional music. A trip from Greece to Sephardic Spain, and to the outskirts of the Middle East, passing through Sicily, Nakaira's native land.\nMelthemi rides on the wings of a song in Sicilian dialect, whose text was been expressedly written for the album by Sicilian singer-songwriter Carlo Muratori based on an original Nakaira theme.\nNew Album by Indian Classical Sarod Master Rajeev Taranath\nUSA \u2013 Biswas Records in the US has released three ragas by Indian classical sarod master Rajeev Taranath. Entitled \"Daybreak and a Candle End\", the CDs presents ragas which range in time from early morning ragas to evening, hence the title (taken from a W.B. Yeats poem). Rajeev Taranath mentor is Ali Akbar Khan.\nBhangra \u2013 The Best Asian Beats from the Streets\nLondon, England \u2013 British label Manteca continues its series of compilations with Bhangra \u2013 The Best Asian Beats from the Streets.\nBhangra has come a long way from its origins as a traditional harvest dance in the Punjabi speaking regions of India and Pakistan. For a generation of British Asians, Bhangra music is their music. It's desi music \u2013 music from the home, the culture \u2013 but mixed, beefed-up with bass and heavy doses of R&B, Ragga or Rap to give it an urban and contemporary relevance that now extends throughout the world.\nThis CD is 10 years (from 1993 to 2003) in the life of Bhangra \u2013 from Roots to Ragga and all points in between. Notes by Bhagwant Sagoo","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
+{"text":"POPPY #1\nBy Thomas Wong \u2022 n.d. \u2022 colour photograph\nWork of the Week: \"Poppy #1\" by Thomas Wong\nThis week's Work of the Week is Poppy #1 by Thomas Wong in honour of Remembrance Day.\nHow did such humble flower become a powerful symbol of remembrance?\nAccording the Canada's War Museum website:\n\"The familiar symbol of the poppy owes much of its fame to Canadian poet and soldier John McCrae (1872-1918). In Flanders Fields, McCrae's best-known poem, was inspired by and made reference to the poppies which grew along the Western Front\u2026\nThe blood-red poppy had long been associated with the fighting armies of Europe, and the flowers often overgrew the mass graves left by battles. During the First World War, enormous artillery bombardments completely disrupted the landscape, infusing the chalk soils with lime. The poppies thrived in the environment, their colours standing out against the blasted terrain.\nIn 1921, the Great War Veterans' Association, the largest of several Canadian veterans groups, adopted the poppy as a symbol of remembrance. The Canadian Legion, formed in 1925, continued this connection. The poppy was worn on the left lapel and close to the heart to recognize the sacrifice of soldiers in times of war\u2026\nThe poppy remains an enduring symbol of remembrance in Canada, Great Britain, the nations of the Commonwealth, and in the United States for those who served or fell in service of their country.\"","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
+{"text":"Playtime Is Better Together!\nIn Tennessee, the Lions-Anthem Foundation Healthy Heroes initiative helped to fund and build the All-Inclusive Playground at the Karns Lions Club Community Park, in the spring of 2017. The playground serves more than 3,500 families each year and is the only one in all of Knox County that meets the accessibility requirements of the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA).\nThe playground features a musical garden, modern accessible play structures and much more. Thoughtful and inclusive design are key. There are no hills, mulch or rocks. This artificial turf provides a soft, even surface on which all children can walk, run, and even fall safely.\nFor 5-year-old Natalie Barham, that means more confidence. Natalie's difficulty with balance used to keep her from exploring other playgrounds freely. Amy, Natalie's mom, explains, \"We never spent much time at parks before because it was just too difficult for us.\" Natalie is an outgoing and friendly child, playing happily with new friends of all abilities she meets at the playground.\nPerhaps as important, the playground is not only accessible, but inclusive. \"Accessible\" playgrounds are built exclusively for children with disabilities, whereas \"inclusive\" playgrounds are built for children of all abilities. For 7-year-old Addie Humphreys, who has cerebral palsy, this distinction is vital. Design elements like extra handrails and low transfer points on slides give Addie the opportunity to connect with other children. Disc-shaped swings provide Natalie the exhilaration of swinging alongside friends.\nFor Addie's mom, Rachel, the Karns Lions playground offers peace of mind. Addie lacks the core control to safely navigate traditional playground equipment, which often means she plays with her mom instead of other children. The innovative equipment lets Addie interact without her mom hovering too close. \"Thank you so much, Lions and Anthem,\" says Rachel. \"You see so far outside of yourselves. This is a gift for the kids, for the parents and for the entire community.\"\nThe project reflects Lions Clubs International Foundation's and Anthem Foundation's shared vision of health and wellness for all. Since 2015, Healthy Heroes projects have directly benefited more than 200,000 lives across eight states, through disability inclusive projects, food banks, shelters, and more.\n\"The Anthem Foundation remains committed to ensuring families across the country have access to programs and resources that improve the health and wellness of our communities,\" said Lance Chrisman, executive director of the Anthem Foundation. \"Our collaboration with the Lions to support the All- Inclusive Playground is another example of how together we are working to ensure all children have access to safe places and opportunities to live active lifestyles.\"\nMonica Dailey, a local former special education teacher, advised the Lions on their new playground. Inclusivity is paramount for her. \"Separating children from each other isn't the answer,\" she says. \"Inclusion teaches compassion and acceptance. And everyone benefits from more of that.\"\nVisit lionsclubs.org to learn how Campaign 100 supports the work of Lions to help people with disabilities lead more independent, productive and fulfilling lives.\nKatya Cengel\nLeaving It All Behind\nJamie Konigsfeld\nSight for Kids, a Powerful Partnership\nWomen Are Changing Lions\nScaring is Caring","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
+{"text":"Good News from Gala Bingo!\nposted by Elizabeth D. Wilbanks | January 7, 2014 | In Latest Articles, Online Bingo News\nGala Bingo proudly presents their fun new mobile app that gives its members the freedom to play and win at Bingo while on the go.\nThis completely upgraded Tablet App has among other features a brand new homepage and information of all of Gala's new games. The Slots and Games page is also well designed, and carries recommendations of all the games and has new search and filter options as well.\nPlayers who like to try something new on a regular basis can rejoice; the Promotions Page now carries regular updates. There is also a new 'Rewards' page where players can join Gala Bingo's loyalty programs to earn points and bingo bonuses.\nAll these great changes are also included in the native version of the app. Depositing and opening an account has never been quicker or easier and once you join up, there's no limit to the kind of fun to be had.\nYou can choose from over 40 slots games and 13 bingo rooms to romp in. You'll find amazing slots like Adventures in Wonderland, Cleopatra, and Kitty Glitter. Another fun feature on this mobile app is the instant win scratch-cards. All you have to do is simply rub the screen.\nApart from these you can try your luck at a wide range of daily jackpots in rooms like Metropolis, Castle and Country as well as the classic Deal or no Deal. There is over \u00a32,000,000 in prize money that's waiting to be won every day.\nTickets for all games can be pre-bought at any time day or night, and they can be used both for playing online and on the mobile app. There is also a chat function that lets you talk to friends as you play, adding a community-like feel to your gaming experience too.\nThis popular online site has now diversified to give you a great experience on your smart-phone or tablet whenever and wherever you are. Read our review of Gala Bingo to know more about its range of games, prizes, and promotions.\nEaster Weekend at Gala Bingo\nHalloween Fright at Bet365 Bingo\nMixed Bag March at Comfy Bingo\n1k Risk-Free at Wink Bingo\nGossip Bingo's \u00a310,000 Jackpot Game","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
+{"text":"Publication - Statistics\nScottish health survey 2017: volume one - main report\nPopulation Health Directorate\nHealth and social care, Research, Statistics\nPresents results for the Scottish Health Survey 2017, providing information on the health and factors relating to health of people living in Scotland.\nScottish Health Survey 2017: Volume 1: Main Report (PDF 7.7 MB )\nTables for Chapter 1: General Health, Long-Term Conditions and Cardiovascular Diseases (XLSX 100.5 kB )\nTables for Chapter 2: Mental Health and Wellbeing are available in Excel format (103KB) (XLSX 105.8 kB )\nTables for Chapter 3: Dental Health are available in Excel format (53KB) (XLSX 54.0 kB )\nTables for Chapter 4: Alcohol are available in Excel format (149KB) (XLSX 153.0 kB )\nTables for Chapter 5: Smoking are available in Excel format (115KB) (XLSX 118.0 kB )\nTables for Chapter 6: Diet are available in Excel format (51KB) (XLSX 52.6 kB )\nTables for Chapter 7: Physical Activity are available in Excel format (110KB) (XLSX 112.4 kB )\nTables for Chapter 8: Obesity are available in Excel format (99KB) (XLSX 101.3 kB )\nTables for Chapter 9: Gambling are available in Excel format (49KB) (XLSX 50.1 kB )\nForeword from the Chief Medical Officer\nEditors' acknowledgements\nNotes to Tables\n1. General Health, Long-Term Conditions and Cardiovascular Conditions\nTable 1.1 Self-assessed general health, adults and children, 2008 to 2017\nTable 1.2 Adult self-assessed general health, 2017, by age and sex\nTable 1.3 Prevalence of long-term conditions in adults and children, 2008 to 2017\nTable 9.3 Gambling activities in the last 12 months, 2012 to 2017\nTable 9.4 DSM-IV and PGSI scores for gambling in the last year, 2016\/2017 combined, by age and sex\nTable 9.5 DSM-IV and PGSI scores for gambling in the last year (age-standardised), 2016\/2017 combined, by area deprivation and sex\nTable 9.6 DSM-IV and PGSI scores for gambling in the last year (age-standardised), 2014 to 2017 combined, by GHQ-12 score\nTable 9.7 DSM-IV and PGSI scores for gambling in the last year (age-standardised), 2014 to 2017 combined, by alcohol consumption\nAppendix: Glossary\nA National Statistics Publication for Scotland\nTable 1.4 Prevalence of long-term conditions in adults and children, 2017, by age and sex\nTable 1.5 Any CVD, doctor-diagnosed diabetes, any CVD or diabetes, IHD, stroke, IHD or stroke, 2017, by age and sex\nTable 1.6 Any CVD, doctor-diagnosed diabetes, IHD or stroke (age-standardised), 2003 to 2017, by area deprivation and sex\nTable 1.7 Blood pressure level, 2003 to 2016\/2017 combined\nTable 1.8 Blood pressure level (age-standardised), 2003 to 2016\/2017 combined, by area deprivation and sex\nTable 1.10 Adult prevalence of CPR training, length of time since original training and whether attended refresher, 2017, by age and sex\nTable 1.11 Adult prevalence of CPR training, length of time since original training and whether attended refresher (age-standardised), 2017, by area deprivation and sex\nTable 1.12 Type of CPR training last attended, 2017, by age and sex\n2. Mental Health and Wellbeing\nTable 2.1 Adult WEMWBS mean scores, 2008 to 2017\nTable 2.2 Adult WEMWBS mean scores, 2017, by age and sex\nTable 2.3 WEMWBS mean scores (age-standardised), 2017, by area deprivation and sex\nTable 2.4 GHQ12 scores, 2017, by age and sex\nTable 2.5 GHQ12 scores (age-standardised), 2017, by area deprivation and sex\nTable 2.6 CIS-R anxiety and depression scores, attempted suicide and self-harm, 2008\/2009 combined to 2016\/2017 combined\nTable 2.7 CIS-R anxiety and depression symptom scores, attempted suicide and self-harm, 2014-2017 combined, by age and sex\nTable 2.8 CIS-R anxiety and depression scores, attempted suicide and self-harm (age-standardised), 2014-2017 combined, by area deprivation\nTable 2.9 Stress at work, 2009 to 2017\nTable 2.10 WEMWBS mean score, 2015\/2017 combined, by stress at work, work-life balance, job\/workplace conditions and sex\nTable 2.11 Social capital, 2015\/2017 combined, by age and sex\nTable 2.12 WEMWBS mean score, 2015\/2017 combined, by social capital and sex\n3. Dental Health\nTable 3.1 Number of natural teeth and percentage with no natural teeth, 2017, by age and sex\nTable 3.2 Number of natural teeth and percentage with no natural teeth (age-standardised), 2008 to 2017, by area deprivation and sex\nTable 3.3 Number of natural teeth and percentage with no natural teeth (age-standardised), 2017, by area deprivation and sex\nTable 3.4 Length of time since last visit to the dentist, 2017, by age and sex\nTable 3.5 Dental anxiety, 2017, by age and sex\nTable 3.6 Difficulties when visiting the dentist, 2017, by age and sex\nTable 3.7 Dental health problems, 2015\/2017 combined, by age and sex\nTable 4.1 Estimated usual weekly alcohol consumption level, 2003 to 2017\nTable 4.2 Estimated usual weekly alcohol consumption level, 2017, by age and sex\nTable 4.3 Estimated usual weekly alcohol consumption level (age-standardised), 2017, by area deprivation and sex\nTable 4.4 Estimated units consumed on heaviest drinking day, 2003 to 2017\nTable 4.5 Number of days on which adult drinkers drank alcohol in the past week, 2003 to 2017\nTable 4.6 Number of days on which adult drinkers drank alcohol in the past week, 2016\/2017 combined, by age and sex\nTable 4.7 AUDIT scores, 2012 to 2017\nTable 4.8 AUDIT scores, 2016\/2017 combined, by age and sex\nTable 4.9 AUDIT scores (age-standardised), 2016\/2017 combined, by area deprivation and sex\nTable 5.1 Cigarette smoking status, 2003 to 2017\nTable 5.2 Cigarette smoking status, 2017, by age and sex\nTable 5.3 Cigarette smoking status (age-standardised), 2003 to 2017, by area deprivation and sex\nTable 5.4 Children's exposure to second-hand smoke, 2012 to 2017\nTable 5.5 Smoking prevalence estimates without and with saliva cotinine adjustment, 2016\/2017 combined, by age and sex\nTable 5.6 Self-reported cotinine validated non-smokers exposure to second-hand smoke, 2003 to 2016\/2017 combined\nTable 5.7 Self-reported cotinine validated non-smokers exposure to second-hand smoke, 2016\/2017 combined, by age and sex\nTable 5.8 Self-reported cotinine validated non-smokers exposure to second-hand smoke, 2014 to 2017 combined, by area deprivation and sex\nTable 5.9 Places self-reported cotinine validated non-smokers with detectable cotinine levels exposed to second-hand smoker, 2014 to 2017 combined, by age and sex\nTable 5.10 Smoking rules in household, 2017, by age and sex\nTable 5.11 Smoking rules in household (age-standardised), 2017, by area deprivation and sex\nTable 5.12 E-cigarette use, 2014 to 2017, by age and sex\nTable 6.1 Adult fruit and vegetable consumption, 2003 to 2017\nTable 6.2 Adult fruit and vegetable consumption, 2017, by age and sex\nTable 6.3 Child fruit and vegetable consumption, 2008 to 2017\nTable 6.4 Consumption of vitamin or mineral supplements, adults and children, 2017, by age and sex\nTable 6.5 Adult consumption of vitamin or mineral supplements (age-standardised), 2017, by area deprivation and sex\nTable 6.6 Adult food insecurity, 2017, by age and sex\nTable 6.7 Adult food insecurity, 2017, by household type\nTable 6.8 Adult food insecurity (age-standardised), 2017, by area deprivation and sex\n7. Physical Activity\nTable 7.1 Adult summary activity levels, 2012 to 2017\nTable 7.2 Adult summary activity levels, 2017, by age and sex\nTable 7.3 Adult summary activity levels (age-standardised), 2012 to 2017, by area deprivation and sex\nTable 7.4 Adult detailed activity levels, 2017, by age and sex\nTable 7.5 Proportion of children meeting physical activity guideline over course of week (including and excluding activity at school), 2017, by age and sex\nTable 7.6 Proportion of children participating in sport, 2017, by age and sex\nTable 7.7 Proportion of children meeting physical activity guidelines (including and excluding activity at school), 2017, by area deprivation and sex\nTable 7.8 Proportion of children participating in sport, 2017, by area deprivation and sex\n8. Obesity\nTable 8.1 Mean adult BMI, prevalence of overweight and obesity, 2003 to 2017\nTable 8.2 Adult BMI, 2017, by age and sex\nTable 8.3 Proportion of children with BMI within the healthy range, at risk of overweight and at risk of obesity, 1998 to 2017\nTable 8.4 Children's BMI, 2017, by age and sex\nTable 8.5 Mean and raised waist circumference (WC), 2003 to 2016\/2017 combined\nTable 8.6 Health risk category associated with overweight and obesity based on BMI and waist circumference, 2016\/2017 combined, by age and sex\n9. Gambling Behaviour\nTable 9.1 Gambling activities in the last 12 months, 2017, by age and sex\nTable 9.2 Number of different gambling activities in the last 12 months, 2017, by age and sex\n1. Gambling Commission (2018) Gambling Particiaption in 2017: behaviour, awareness and attitudes. Available from: http:\/\/live-gamblecom.cloud.contensis.com\/PDF\/survey-data\/Gambling-participation-in-2017-behaviour-awareness-and-attitudes.pdf\n2. Ofcom (2013). Trends in Advertising Activity \u2013 Gambling. (Conducted by Zinc Research & Analytics). Available from: https:\/\/www.ofcom.org.uk\/__data\/assets\/pdf_file\/0026\/53387\/trends_in_ad_activity_gambling.pdf\n3. See: http:\/\/www.gambleaware.co.uk\/recognise-a-problem.\n4. Griffiths, M (2004). Betting your life on it: Problem gambling has clear health related consequences. British Medical Journal 329(7474): 1055\u20131056.\n5. GamCare (2017) Annual Statistics. Available from: www.gamcare.org.uk\/sites\/default\/files\/file_attach\/GamCare%20Annual%20Statistics%202016-17%20FINAL.pdf\n6. American Psychiatric Association (1994). Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders Fourth Edition (DSM-IV); Wynne H.J. (2003). Introducing the Canadian Problem Gambling Screen. Edmonton, Canada: Wynne Resources.\n7. Gambling Act 2005. Available at: www.legislation.gov.uk\/ukpga\/2005\/19\/pdfs\/ukpga_20050019_en.pdf\n8. For further information see: http:\/\/www.opsi.gov.uk\/Acts\/acts2005\/ukpga_20050019_en_2\n9. Griffiths, M.D. (2007). (2007). Gambling Addiction and Its Treatment Within the NHS: A Guide for Healthcare Professionals. London: British Medical Association. http:\/\/www.bma.org.uk\/ap.nsf\/Content\/gamblingaddiction\n10. Consultation on proposals for changes to Gaming Machines and Social Responsibility Measures (2017). London: Department for Digital Culture, Media and Sport. Available from: https:\/\/assets.publishing.service.gov.uk\/government\/uploads\/system\/uploads\/attachment_data\/file\/655969\/Consultation_on_proposals_for_changes_to_Gaming_Machines_and_Social_Responsibility_Measures.pdf\n11. Gambling Protection and Controls. London: Department for Culture, Media and Sport (2014). Available from: https:\/\/assets.publishing.service.gov.uk\/government\/uploads\/system\/uploads\/attachment_data\/file\/307458\/Gambling_Protections_and_Controls_.pdf\n12. Review of Gaming Machines and Social Responsibility Measures. (2016) London: Department for Culture, Media and Sport. Available from: www.gov.uk\/government\/uploads\/system\/uploads\/attachment_data\/file\/562122\/Call_for_evidence_-_Review_of_Gaming_Machines_and_Social_Responsibility_Measures.pdf\n13. CAP (2014). The CAP Code: The UK Code of Non-broadcast Advertising and Direct & Promotional Marketing. Edition 12. London: The Committee of Advertising Practice. Available from: www.asa.org.uk\/asset\/47EB51E7%2D028D%2D4509%2DAB3C0F4822C9A3C4\/\n14. See: www.gov.uk\/government\/news\/government-to-cut-fixed-odds-betting-terminals-maximum-stake-from-100-to-2\n15. Potenza, M. N., Fiellin, D. A., Heninger, G. R., Rounsaville, B. J. and Mazure, C. M. (2002). Gambling. Journal of General Internal Medicine 17: 721\u2013732. doi: 10.1046\/j.1525-1497.2002.10812.x\n16. See: www.gov.scot\/scottishhealthsurvey\n17. The BGPS 1999 and 2007 used a paper self-completion booklet to collect data. In 2010, computer-assisted self-completion was used which allowed the questionnaire to have a more complex structure as more follow-up questions could be asked. As the Scottish Health Survey used a paper self-completion, the questionnaire structure and format of the 1999 and 2007 studies was followed.\n18. Lesieur H.R, Rosenthal M.D. (1991). Pathological gambling: A review of the literature (prepared for the American Psychiatric Association Task Force on DSM-IV Committee on disorders of impulse control not elsewhere classified). Journal of Gambling Studies 7, 1, 5-40.\n19. Abbott, M., Volberg., R (2007) The measurement of adult problem and pathological gambling. International Gambling Studies, 6(2); 175-200.\n20. This is with the exception of chasing losses which is rated on a scale ranging between 'never' and 'everytime I lost'.\n21. Orford J., Wardle H., Griffiths M., Sproston K., Erens B., (2010). PGSI and DSM-IV in the 2007 British Gambling Prevalence Survey: reliability, item response, factor structure and inter-scale agreement. International Gambling Studies 10(1); 31-44.\n22. The categorisation and screening of problem and pathological gambling has been reviewed and revised in the recently published DSM V. Main changes made were that the term pathological gambling was replaced with the term 'gambling disorder', that the crime criterion be removed from classification and that the threshold for identifying 'gambling disorders' be dropped from 5 (formerly the threshold for identifying pathological gamblers) to 4. However, the DSM V was not officially released at the time of Scottish Health Survey 2012 fieldwork. Therefore, this chapter uses the standards set by the DSM IV and replicates the scoring methods used in the BGPS series to allow comparisons to be made.\n23. Some researchers have recommended that different (lower) thresholds should be used when identifying problem gamblers using the PGSI. However, these recommendations have not been universally accepted and are not currently endorsed by the original developers of the PGSI instrument. Therefore, this chapter uses the thresholds and categorisation recommended by the original developers and replicates the methods used in the BGPS, also allowing comparisons to be made.\n24. Goldberg, D and Williams, PA (1988). A User's Guide to the General Health Questionnaire. Windsor: NFER-Nelson.\n25. Wardle, H. (2012). Chapter 9: Gambling. In: Rutherford, L, Hinchcliffe S, Sharp S (eds). The 2011 Scottish Health Survey \u2013 Volume 1. Edinburgh: Scottish Government. Available from: http:\/\/www.gov.scot\/Publications\/2013\/09\/3684\/13\nJulie.Landsberg@gov.scot","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
+{"text":"Former AG Eric Holder Says Snowden Performed A Public Service\nEric Holder said Edward Snowden should still be prosecuted for dumping the classified information, however.\nBy The Christian Science Monitor\nFormer US Attorney General Eric Holder says Edward Snowden performed a \"public service\" by setting off a national debate over global surveillance, but that the fugitive must still face the \"consequences\" for leaking classified information.\n\"We can certainly argue about the way in which Snowden did\nEdward Snowden's Julian Assange is an Unfamiliar Julian Assange\nThrough the Eyes of Jesselyn Radack: A Look at the Vital Role of Whistleblowers and Their Attorneys\nBreaking The Media Blackout on the Imprisonment of Julian Assange\nUS Might Let Snowden Come Home, If He Pleads Guilty To A Felony & Serves Time\nFormer Attorney General Eric Holder suggested the possibility of a deal exists, but there's little substantial evidence of a shift in attitude from the Justice Department.\nBy Kit O'Connell Kit O'Connell @KitOConnell\nWASHINGTON --- Recent interviews with Eric Holder, the former U.S. attorney general, have spurred rumors that the U.S. government might offer Edward Snowden, the exiled NSA whistleblower, a plea bargain. Yet there's little evidence such a deal actually exists and even less indication that Snowden would be interested if it\nA gonzo journalist from Austin, Texas and Staff Writer for MintPress News, Kit O'Connell's writing has also appeared at Truthout, the Texas Observer, and The Establishment.\nHow NeoCon Billionaire Paul Singer Is Driving the Outsourcing of US Tech Jobs to Israel\nObama Calls Delay Of His Attorney General Nominee 'Crazy'\n\"What are we doing here?\" Obama said. \"I have to say there are times when the dysfunction in the Senate just goes too far. This is an example of it. It's gone too far. Enough. Enough.\nPresident Barack Obama pauses as he speaks in the East Room of the White House, in Washington, Tuesday, April 14, 2015. WASHINGTON \u2014 President Barack Obama on Friday said it was \"crazy\" and \"embarrassing\" the way the Republican-led Senate has held up confirmation of his attorney general nominee, Loretta\nThe Lawlessness of William Barr, America's New Top Law Enforcement Official\nAG Nominee Barr Set Up \"HIV Concentration Camp,\" Supported President's Unilateral War Powers\nZuckerberg Pledges To Fix Facebook's Privacy Problems\u2014No One Trusts Him\nPolice Struggle To Fight America's Growing Heroin Epidemic\nLaw enforcement agencies across the country lack the data they need to effectively address the nation's heroin epidemic, but they may actually be the ones behind the data blackout.\nBy Frederick Reese @FrederickReese\nAcademy Award-winning actor Philip Seymour Hoffman's fatal heroin overdose in February has helped to bring to focus the growing heroin epidemic in the United States. According to data from the Centers of Disease Control and Prevention, the rate of drug overdoses\nFrederick Reese\nFrederick Reese is lead staff writer for Mint Press specializing in race, poverty, congressional oversight and technology. An award winning data journalist and creative writer for over 15 years, Frederick has written about and worked for social advocacy projects and personal awareness efforts. Frederick is a jack-of-all-trades, with work experience as a teacher, a pastry chef and a story writer. Frederick has publication credits with Yahoo!, B. Couleur, and more. A native New Yorker, Frederick graduated from Colgate University in 1999 and Johnson & Wales University in 2003. Frederick started his journalistic career writing for his university's newspaper, \"The Colgate Maroon-News,\" before starting and heading his own magazine, \"The Idealist.\" Most recently, Frederick received a data journalism award from the International Center for Journalists for his minimum wage coverage for MintPress. Follow Frederick on Twitter: @frederickreese\nNew Data Reveals Opioid Deaths Are Being Underreported\nRussia's Foreign Minister Calls For End To US, NATO Role In Afghan Drug Trade\nEric Holder Set to Make Millions From Leading Congressional Redistricting Effort\nWhite House Allows CIA To Heavily Edit Torture Report\n\"As much of the report as possible should be made public,\" he said. The release will help ensure \"no administration contemplates such a program in the future.\"\nWASHINGTON \u2014 The head of the Senate Intelligence Committee appealed to President Barack Obama to reconsider his administration's decision to task the CIA with editing a torture report harshly critical of the spy agency's treatment of terror suspects after the Sept. 11 attacks before it can be made public. In a letter to the president, Sen.\nThe CIA's Jack Ryan Series Is 'Regime-Change' Propaganda Aimed At Venezuela\nStrip Searches and Worse: Heba al-Labadi Among Palestinians Tortured in Israeli Prisons\nUS Announces $1.2B Japan Auto. Toyota Criminal Saftey Settlement\nWASHINGTON (AP) \u2014 The U.S. has reached a $1.2 billion settlement with Toyota Motor Corp. and filed a criminal charge alleging the Japanese automaker defrauded consumers by issuing misleading statements about safety issues in Toyota and Lexus vehicles. Under the agreement, announced Wednesday by U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder, the company will admit that it [\u2026]\nWASHINGTON (AP) \u2014 The U.S. has reached a $1.2 billion settlement with Toyota Motor Corp. and filed a criminal charge alleging the Japanese automaker defrauded consumers by issuing misleading statements about safety issues in Toyota and Lexus vehicles. Under the agreement, announced Wednesday by U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder, the company will\nAs Yemen Starves, Billions in Donor Funds Fill the Coffers of International Aid Agencies\nWith No End in Sight, Israel's Election Soap Opera Rages On\nUS Trained Honduran Police Get Medieval as Political Prisoner Edwin Espinal Released","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
+{"text":"Linda Wieland\nHelping Prepare Mexico City for Future Disasters\nSep 06, 2018 Mark 0\nPress Release (ePRNews.com) - MEXICO CITY - Sep 06, 2018 - When the September 2017 Mexico City earthquake struck, Scientology Volunteer Ministers (VMs), who served as a vital part of the recovery effort, asked the question: How do we help the city prepare for the next time disaster strikes?\nThey answered that question with a Volunteer Minister tour providing disaster preparedness training to cities across the region.\nAs soon as the search and rescue phase of the earthquake was over, they began in the Guerrero neighborhood of northern Mexico City, where many schools requested training. There they focused on two factors: drilling people on how to survive a major earthquake and training on the Volunteer Ministers The Solutions for a Dangerous Environment booklet. Those participating not only learned the rudiments of how to protect themselves and their families, they also gained the tools to address the confusion, anxiety, loss and trauma that are the inevitable consequence of a major natural or manmade disaster.\nTo ensure the city was fully prepared to guarantee the safety of the local children, the Volunteer Ministers also trained 530 school police officers in these techniques at the Church of Scientology Mexico City.\nNext, the tour visited Tlatelolco, where the Nuevo Le\u00f3n housing complex collapsed in the 1985 Mexico earthquake, killing all residents inside. The area was electrified by the 2017 earthquake which brought back the feeling of panic and alarm from that experience. VMs set up their distinctive yellow tent in the Plaza de las Tres Cultura, and there too the training brought calm and confidence, helping local residents relax and get on with their lives.\nTraveling south to the state of Oaxaca, the VMs arrived in San Pablo Villa de Mitla. Again delivery focused on schools, but also included the police, municipal officials and parishioners of a church. A local priest welcomed the volunteers by cutting the ribbon to their tent, set up in the main town plaza.\nOnce the disaster was officially over, the Volunteer Ministers continued their program, delivering more than 200 seminars to school students, teachers, police officers and church parishioners over the next year.\nThe Church of Scientology Volunteer Minister program is a religious social service created in the 1970s by Scientology Founder L. Ron Hubbard. Anyone of any culture or creed may train as a Volunteer Minister and use these tools to help their families and communities. The Church provides free online training on the Volunteer Ministers website.\nIn creating the Volunteer Ministers program, L. Ron Hubbard wrote, \"If one does not like the crime, cruelty, injustice and violence of this society, he can do something about it. He can become a Volunteer Minister and help civilize it, bring it conscience and kindness and love and freedom from travail by instilling into it trust, decency, honesty and tolerance.\"\nSource : Scientologynews.org\nBusiness Info :\nCATEGORIES : Philanthropy\nTags : disaster preparedness Earthquake Mexico Scientology Volunteer Ministers\nReport Disclaimer\nPress Contact Scientology\nNew Hampshire State Representative Working to Improve Youth Access to Technology in Rural America\nPot-Heads Unite to Help LA's Homeless Community\nPrime Minister Shri Narendra Modi Serves Akshaya Patra's 3 Billionth Meal\nJohn Feather, PhD, CEO of Grantmakers In Aging, Receives Lifetime Achievement Award From National Hispanic Council on Aging\nScientology Volunteer Minister on Helping Texas After Hurricane Harvey\nYoung Advocates Gain National Attention With Powerful Message for Change\nNew Report Provides Framework for Going From Big Philanthropic Ideas to Real-World Impact","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
+{"text":"Home > Free Essays > Entertainment & Media > Journalism > The Swanston Street Wall Collapse\nThe Swanston Street Wall Collapse Report\nThe collapse of the Swanston Street Wall, which resulted in death of three young civilians, has attracted public's attention as to the possible causes of the tragedy.\nWe will write a custom Report on The Swanston Street Wall Collapse specifically for you\nAccording to the Victorian Bureau of Metrology, westerly winds had a speed of over 100km\/h, at around 3.00pm, minutes before the wall collapsed (Gough & Millar 2013).\nIn-depth analysis and scrutiny of the brickwork and its environs divulge possible contributory factors that might have led to the collapse of the wall.\nEven though the speed of wind was extremely high, across check on the wall four months prior to the incident revealed huge cracks at its foot and parts of its body.\nEngineering experts hold that the cracks on the wall created points of weaknesses; therefore, it was extremely impossible for the wall to resist the strong winds. In essence, the cracks on the wall contributed heavily to the occurrence of the tragedy.\nThe wall had Grocon's advertising board, which was 45 centimetres taller than the brick wall. Since the board was higher than the brick wall, it acted as a sail, and during strong westerly winds, it cannot block their influence.\nThe advertising structure concentrated winds to the wall, forcing it to rotate and collapse. Grocon did not apply structural control joints in mounting the hoarding next to the brick wall. In situations of load like strong winds, each structure acts independently to contain the impeding effects.\nStructural joint separation helps in minimizing fatalities on a system in case of hazardous occurrences (The Wall: Site Analysis Summary 2013). Besides, the overall design and site layout caused the fall of the brick wall, as they placed great pressure on the wall's weakest points.\nAccording to Victoria Police reports, the collapse of the wall at the construction site in Melbourne CBD took away lives of three innocent passers-by and caused injuries to other people who might have left the scene before the arrival of the rescue team.\nThe three pedestrians were French researcher Dr Marie-Faith Fiawoo, Alexander Jones, and his sister Bridget Jones. The incident has prompted the Building Commission, Coroner, WorkSafe, and Victoria Police to conduct investigations into the collapse of the wall along Swanton Street.\nNotably, the City of Melbourne does not only have to participate in the investigations, but also conduct thorough auditing of similar structures within its territory (Gough & Millar 2013).\nAs part of containing or preventing future occurrences, the Planning Minister Matthew Guy instructed the Building Commission to identify other structures that can cause destructions to the public.\nThe investigation involves analysis on effects of the advertisement board, Grocon's reluctance to start the construction since purchasing the site from RMIT University in 2006, and the legality of the wall built in early 1970s.\nIn addition, the investigators are analyzing the design of the structure given the extremely low number of metal ties that constructors used in holding the two bricks.\nWe will write a custom Report on The Swanston Street Wall Collapse specifically for you!\nCurrently, the Coroner Court is receiving testimonies from the concerned and interested parties into the possible causes of the deadly incident and criminal or civil prosecution to those found responsible for the collapse.\nInvestigating authorities have taken relevant information and materials from Grocon through their spokesperson detailing the records of the wall.\nAt the same time, RMIT University has forwarded detailed information about the construction site since they were the owners prior to 2007 (Drill 2013).\nThe accident that led to the deaths of three innocent pedestrians is an occurrence that happened due to negligence from different concerned parties.\nFor instance, institutions and companies had used the structures to mint millions for the past 30 years without caring on its possible effects to health and safety of the public and employees. The wall was adjacent to a footpath on Swanton Street, which pedestrians used frequently.\nTo worsen the situation, a wooden hoarding board blocked the wall from public's view, thereby eliminating public's anxiety on its possible collapse.\nConstructed in late 1960s, the wall not heritage-registered as the law requires, and it violated the required heights for external walls of 1.8 meters high. In allowing the wall to remain standing for 40 years, the serial owners are both ethically and legally liable for the demise of the three pedestrians.\nPhotographs of the wall also showed that constructors used different bricks bringing in possibilities of brick recycling; this might have weakened the structure further (Drill 2013).\nNot sure if you can write a paper on The Swanston Street Wall Collapse by yourself? We can help you\nIn this aspect, the original owners of the wall, the brewery company, and the Melbourne City Council have to be answerable to the courts for engaging foul play in accepting construction of walls using wrong designs.\nMarkedly, constructors could have fixed the design and overall layout at the time of construction.\nGrocon Construction Company is also responsible for the pedestrians' deaths. When they bought the site from RMIT University in 2006, they promised to start constructions and reconstructions in 2007, which never occurred (Sun & Drill 2013).\nSince the construction company had all the reports on the state of the perimeter fence from the university, it is evident that their neglect on the wall led to the actual loss of lives. If the company could have kept its promise of 2007, there could not have been such fatalities.\nFrom another perspective, after comprehending the state of the wall, Grocon went on to mount huge advertisement board that acted as sails (Heaton 2013). This amounts to carelessness and negligence on the company's side.\nThe company did not consider the safety of the passers-by in mounting the board on an already weak wall; instead, it focused on direct gains from the public. WorkSafe and Victoria Police should consider these aspects in prosecuting Grocon at the Coroner court.\nIn 2011, the WorkSafe authority visited the site, and it ought to have raised alarms on the possible consequences that the wall could have on employees and everyone. It is not clear what WorkSafe went to do at the site and the recommendations it gave forth.\nHowever, this body has the authority to stop any dangerous construction or structure within Australia. From this dimension, Grocon as well as WorkSafe should be ethically and legally liable for the effects that arose from the debris.\nIn monitoring workplace practices, it is the duty of WorkSafe to enjoin the public and employees' safety in its investigations.\nCoupled with the photograph evidence of cracks on the wall, WorkSafe should have ordered for the total destruction of the entire wall, and instructed Grocon to hoist notices on the wall to alert the public of possible collapse (Drill 2013).\nIn analyzing the aforementioned lapses of the bodies, it is evident that the occurrence was foreseeable and could be preventable if they could have acted within the given time schedule.\nFor instance, if Carlton & United Breweries (CUB) could have adhered to the allowable height requirements and use one form of bricks by the architectural bodies in 1960s, the wall could have not surged down due to strong winds.\nSystem of laws, compliance codes, and regulations govern the workplace health and safety in Victoria, as they set out employers and workers' responsibilities in order to enhance overall work safety.\nThe Occupational Health and Safety Act 2004 requires an employer to offer a safe and healthy place of work for all employees, contractors, and every other person.\nOther health and safety obligations of the OHS require the services or business conduct of an employer not to endanger the lives of other people including passers-by, visitors, and customers (Occupational Health and Safety Act 2004 n.d).\nIn connection to this, an employer ought to provide protection from debris at the sites, alert the public of possible hazardous factors, reduce the rate at which the public access the construction site, and even limit traffic access to his\/her workplace.\nIn this study, OHS requires employers to meet specific licensing, certification and registration requirements, give early notification of impeding risks to WorkSafe, and comply with WorkSafe Inspectors Directions.\nFollowing the Victorian OHS Act 2004, investigations by WorkSafe can end up to prosecutions of Grocon since it hoisted the wooden hoarding board without the certification or licensing from the Melbourne Council (Heaton 2013).\nFurther, the advertisement board blocked the weak structure of the wall from pedestrians who used the nearest footpath. From the case study, there is no instance where Grocon notified WorkSafe of the wall as a health and safety hazard.\nEven though WorkSafe officials agreed to have visited the site much earlier, there is no proof to their analysis on the status of the wall.\nThis leaves Grocon as the sole bearer of the fatalities. In addition, Grocon failed to notify or control the public's movement along the wall having been notified of the potential risks.\nAgain, Grocon failed to bring down the wall in accordance with the instructions from the reports that RMIT University had presented to them.\nAt the same time, RMIT University could also face prosecution for not bringing down the 40 years old wall, and going ahead to sell a health and safety hazard property.\nClearly, the University of RMIT was interested in gaining from the structure at the expense of the risks that could occur due to the collapse of the wall. Grocon and RMIT University are directly liable for the cause of the accident, and the Coroner should prosecute them for the same.\nTo some extent WorkSafe Victoria's investigations at the site in 2011 can also raise possibilities for prosecution given that Coroner, Building Commission, and Victoria police are directed in the investigation process.\nThe involvement of many teams in the process may minimize chances of compromising the results of the investigation.\nFailure by CUB to register the wall among the heritage structures is a clear violation of the act, thus raising the chances of prosecution (Occupational Health and Safety Act 2004 n.d.). Several organisations face charges for their negligence; instead, they concentrated on minting money from the old structure.\nThe tragic accident has some must-learn lessons that public and employers like construction firms must consider in their future operations. For example, original owners of structures have to ensure that they present the audited reports that show the status of the structure as at the time of sales.\nThis helps in averting implications into the consequences that can arise due to the structure's collapse. When engaging in auditing activities, WorkSafe should ensure that they inspect the conditions of all structures, and inform the employers of the risks at the place.\nAs evident in the 2011 audit report, WorkSafe has not come out clear on the recommendations it gave concerning the status of the wall. This tragedy can disclose WorkSafe officials as corrupt in their service provision.\nFor other companies to respect authority, WorkSafe should state clearly the contents of its 2011 audit of Grocon construction site in Melbourne's CBD.\nMoreover, construction companies must understand that their structures can be of great health and safety hazards to not only the employees, but also the public; therefore, they should alert everyone on this situation (Occupational Health and Safety Act 2004 n.d.).\nFirms should remove all structures that can cause harm to everyone in order to prevent prosecution and engaging in compensations to incidences that they could have evaded. Negligence can cause an immense loss to an organisation in terms of compensations.\nIn the Australian Construction Industry, 12% of fatalities are due to fall from heights. Falling objects have caused 16-compensated deaths over the 5-year period of 2005\/06 to 2009\/10.\nThe value represents reported cases only, keeping in mind that unreported cases are always higher than the reported; such fatalities remain potential risks to everyone.\nOccupational Health and Safety (1993) asserts that falling walls and structures are preventable events that engineers can identify and disseminate the underlying causes in time.\nIt is essential for the engineering community to discuss and share information regarding failures of the structures under evaluation.\nFor engineering professionals to continue commanding public confidence, they should maintain high level of transparency at all costs (Workplace Relations Ministers' Council 2004). Transparency will avert the risk of repeating mistakes.\nFor instance, engineers could have avoided the recent death of a tradesman at southeast Melbourne due to dramatic collapse of a two-storey building. In this Caulfield incident, another man sustained serious injuries. In sum, this industry reported over 17,000 injury claims in the last five years.\nNational OHS strategy 2002-2012 (2002) agrees that the replacement of the Australia's National OHS Strategy 2002-2012 with the Australian Work Health Safety Strategy 2012-2022 will strongly reduce injuries and deaths resulting from falling objects and structural failures.\nFor example, under Healthy and Safe by design, engineers will be able to do away with any possible risks and hazards at the design stage.\nThis is evident in the construction of the collapsed wall; it had poor design and layout, and constructors used different bricks, which increased the chances of collapse (Planning occupational health & safety (5th ed.) 2000).\nBy minimizing failures at the design stage, the construction industry will have reduced injuries and deaths within their sites by a sizeable margin. The possibility of prosecuting individuals increases the primary duty of care for OHS on persons at the sites.\nIn harmonizing the legislation, all companies will be able to apply one standard in all the six states and two territories of Australia, thus providing open platforms for sharing ideas on design criteria. Designers should be accountable to the weaknesses that arise in a structure.\nIn the event of fatalities, Coroner should prosecute such designers even if they are not members of the construction company at the time the incident occurs.\nBesides, the new strategy obliges designers to share information freely with others, failure to do so results in prosecution. The move will reduce injuries and deaths within the construction industry.\nDrill, S. 2013, Photo taken just months before the death wall collapse are 'shocking revelation' and reveal major flaws , Herald Sun. Web.\nGough, D., & Millar, R. 2013, The wall, and why it collapsed , The Age. Web.\nHeaton, A. 2013, No Permit for Advertising Board on Collapsed, Design Build Source. Web.\nNational OHS strategy 2002-2012 2002, The Commission, Canberra.\nOccupational Health and Safety (Commonwealth Employment) Regulations (Amendment) 1993, Commonwealth Government Printer, Canberra.\nOccupational Health and Safety Act , 2004, Victorian Legislation and Documentation. Web.\nPlanning occupational health & safety (5th ed.) 2000, C.C.H. Australia Ltd, North Ryde, N.S.W.\nSun, H., & Drill, S. 2013, Swanston Street wall was 'never good' , The Australian. Web.\nThe Wall: Site Analysis Summary , 2013, Melbourne City Council. Web.\nWorkplace Relations Ministers' Council: comparative performance monitoring: comparison of occupational health and safety arrangements in Australia and New Zealand. (3rd ed.) 2004, National Occupational Health and Safety Commission, Canberra.\nThis report on The Swanston Street Wall Collapse was written and submitted by your fellow student. You are free to use it for research and reference purposes in order to write your own paper; however, you must cite it accordingly.\nMedia Industry Structural Changes Top Secret America - Washington Post\nIvyPanda. (2019, September 6). The Swanston Street Wall Collapse. Retrieved from https:\/\/ivypanda.com\/essays\/the-swanston-street-wall-collapse\/\n\"The Swanston Street Wall Collapse.\" IvyPanda, 6 Sept. 2019, ivypanda.com\/essays\/the-swanston-street-wall-collapse\/.\n1. IvyPanda. \"The Swanston Street Wall Collapse.\" September 6, 2019. https:\/\/ivypanda.com\/essays\/the-swanston-street-wall-collapse\/.\nIvyPanda. \"The Swanston Street Wall Collapse.\" September 6, 2019. https:\/\/ivypanda.com\/essays\/the-swanston-street-wall-collapse\/.\nIvyPanda. 2019. \"The Swanston Street Wall Collapse.\" September 6, 2019. https:\/\/ivypanda.com\/essays\/the-swanston-street-wall-collapse\/.\nIvyPanda. 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+{"text":"Dishoom's Covent Garden revamp under way\nDishoom \u2013 the restaurant group inspired by the Irani caf\u00e9s of Bombay \u2013 has announced that the refurbishment works at its first site in Covent Garden are under way, with plans to open later on this autumn in a move that will create more than 100 new jobs.\nThe Covent Garden site originally opened in July 2010, and closed in January this year to undergo a major redesign to celebrate its 10-year anniversary; it has also undergone a significant expansion as part of the redesign, making it a first-rate flagship restaurant for the Dishoom team.\nWhen the restaurant closed in January, all members of the Covent Garden team were offered roles at alternative caf\u00e9s.\nDishoom has confirmed it kept everyone's jobs through the subsequent disruption brought about by Covid-19, and is looking forward to 'warmly welcoming its first-rate team of Dishoom-wallas back to their old home'.\nThe operator has also launched a new front of house foundational training course, allowing current team members to fast-track their training and development ahead of the relaunch.\nCovent Garden's revamp will aim to bring to life the stories of Bombay's theatres, inspired by the London district's own connections to stage shows, which were reincarnated in the 1940s 'as all-singing, all-dancing talkie houses'.\nDishoom Covent Garden will tell the story of Bombay's 'theatrical journey from Parsi theatre, to silent film, to the thrill and amazement of the talkies era'.\nLast year the Dishoom team, along with design partners Macaulay Sinclair, made the trip to Bombay (now called Mumbai) to discover the history and stories of the city's early cinema.\nThere, the teams were also inspired by visits to The Willingdon Club, Bombay Yacht Club and numerous private residences \u2013 painted shutters, cane and rattan furniture, and verandah spaces sitting alongside elevated detailing, including decorative ceilings and ornate chandeliers.\nThe restaurant will soon be open daily, serving guests from breakfast and mid-morning chai, to lunch and afternoon drinks, right through to evening meals and late-night snacks, served across both floors of the caf\u00e9, and in the restaurant's Permit Room bar.","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
+{"text":"History - TELFORD & WREKIN ARTHRITIS SUPPORT GROUP\nTELFORD & WREKIN ARTHRITIS SUPPORT GROUP\nIn 2004 the Telford branch of Arthritis Care split from the national charity and became an independent group known as The Telford & Wrekin Arthritis Support Group. The group was granted charitable status by the Charity Commission the same year.\nThe object of the group is to work with and for all people with arthritis in the catchment area of Telford & Wrekin Borough, and promote their health, well being and independence through sevices, support, self help ,influence and information. The group holds bi-monthly social evenings with occasional speakers, outings and trips (all on wheelchair friendly coaches), and arranges an annual holiday. Hydrotherapy sessions have been held on a weekly basis at the PRH hospital, where members can do gentle exercise in warm water with the help of a Physiotherapist. A newsletter with information,hints and tips, and details of forthcoming events is published quarterly.\nWe welcome new members and membership at present is \u00a310.00 per year. You do not have to suffer from arthritis to become a member, so if you or someone in the family suffers from arthritis, then why not come and join us.","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
+{"text":"Toler Gibson Band|Manda Mosher\nTHE TOLER GIBSON BAND\nThe Toler Gibson Band is from the mountains of Idyllwild, California. Finding it's roots in classic country, country rock, & folk, the music generated from this group of LA transplants is it's own brand of cosmic american music. Previously in LA bands such as Bell Gardens and Winter Flowers, TGB plays more to the roots side of the american song book then past projects.\nMANDA MOSHER\nFrom her first solo album on, Manda Mosher's songs have always shimmered with pure rock & roll soul as channeled through a singularly grounded American Girl, inspiring one writer to dub her the \"female Tom Petty.\" That's high praise, but she carries it well.\nAn award-winning songwriter, recording artist, multi-instrumentalist, touring musician and entrepreneur, she was baptized in the river of real-time rock & roll, and has never abandoned that spirit. Like Tom Petty, her idol, she's radiated a reverence for the purity and artistry of great songwriting and record-making since the start.\nRock Cats Rock\nThe Mystos|Bad Leaf","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
+{"text":"Bethard.com\nCardiff roar to see Gatland's boys through\n|In Rugby\n|By Jessica Hogdson\nIt is set to be a thrilling encounter at the Principality Stadium, as the 2019 Six Nations championship concludes on a highly-anticipated Super Saturday.\nWales have their destiny in their own hands as they welcome reigning champions Ireland to Cardiff, in what will be Warren Gatland's final Six Nations game in charge.\n'Wales have forgotten how to lose'\nGatland's words will be put to the ultimate test and under the most extreme pressure, as his former side Ireland head to the Welsh capital looking to spoil what would be some party should the hosts win.\nA Grand Slam would be the perfect send off for Gatland, who like Ireland last year have been forced to juggle some tricky situations through the competition.\nBoth Wales and the Irish started with unconvincing yet vital wins in Paris, before gaining that all-important winning momentum through the tournament.\nWales were again below par for wins over Italy and Scotland, but produced their performance of the competition at home to England.\nGatland will need a similar 80-minute display this Saturday, against an Ireland side who for 75 minutes against France last time out produced their own best performance of this season's competition.\nWales came into the tournament with form but still all the talk was of Ireland and England for the big prize. Having been plagued by injuries in the past, the Welsh have discovered real strength in depth in most positions across the field.\nGareth Anscombe has been a revelation at fly-half and has shown he can be a reliable Test number 10 alongside Dan Biggar. And once again the more experienced heads of Alun Wyn Jones and Jonathan Davies have stood up when it mattered in crucial moments.\nThis might not be the prettiest Test match you will ever see, but Wales have the momentum, the crowd and the Gatland element to get them over the line and the hosts are 1.76 to get the win and seal the Grand Slam.\nEngland out for Scotland revenge\nThe Calcutta Cup will wrap up the 2019 Six Nations and if Wales have already won in Cardiff, they will have denied the Red Rose their chance of the title.\nIf Ireland don't do England a favour, it will take a tiny shine off the final game\u2026 but not much.\nNot for a long time have England seemed so geared up for a showdown with the Scots, having \"had their pants pulled down\" at Murrayfield last season. Those were the words of head coach Eddie Jones, who has spoken of the Scots' celebrations in Murrayfield 12 months ago.\nScotland played England off the field that day, but Gregor Townsend's side have been decimated by injuries through the competition.\nThe Scots will be playing for pride on Saturday and Scotland fans might be watching behind the sofa, for a game that could be damage limitation at the unhappy hunting ground of Twickenham.\nEngland should finish their tournament on a high and it's not unreasonable to think, on current form, they can fall on the right side of a -18.5 FT handicap at 1.88.\nBET NOW \u2013 CLICK HERE\nJessica Hogdson\n\u00a9 2021 Bethard Blog All rights reserved","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
+{"text":"The long tail of pop-up stores\nSupermarkets have customer trust, and an opportunity to sell foods and non-foods beyond their core seasons.\nPop-up stores are pure occasion-based retail sites. We're bound to see many later this year for Halloween and Christmas, and more in subsequent years as the concept spreads.\nSupermarkets can do pop-ups too for different year-round seasonal opportunities. Consider two diverse examples: the ShopRite Passover store and the Kroger grilling and tailgating set-up at last month's Richmond International Speedway NASCAR race. Both imprint the chains as solutions providers when a defined range of foods and nonfoods are in short-term demand.\nThere's a key difference between the supermarket efforts and the typical nameless pop-up shops that appear and disappear on the retail landscape: customer trust in the marquee name, and a feeling of comfort about the store's product quality and price fairness, says The Lempert Report. Because this trust exists, supermarkets (and other known retailers) can generate traffic and good-sized baskets that others can't.\nPop-ups are largely seen as ways to capitalize on short-lived seasonal events. Yet we believe products that target specific occasions could have enduring sales lives online all year long. The physical setting of a pop-up store may be temporary, but the branding and merchandise availability can last much longer.\nThe Lempert Report calls this the long tail of pop-ups. Turkey, for instance, is one of the least expensive, versatile, satisfying high-protein foods in the store. Sure, Thanksgiving is the peak sales period. But there's no reason not to sell frozen turkeys online for much of the year, along with canned pumpkin, cranberry juice and other related flavorful foods\u2014along with wine, colorful napkins, plasticware and other accompaniments that make themed picnics in the spring possible. Or how about Christmas in July parties with egg nog, whipped cream desserts, invitations, party supplies and more.\nEven within season, supermarkets could test their shoppers' propensity for fun, in ways that a conventional store couldn't allow. Pop-up stores could have costume and makeup contests around Halloween, nutrition-for-better-academics seminars during back-to-School, and under tents in the parking lot pet-care demonstrations that benefit local animal shelters. Stores could also get edgier with private labels, such as cake and cookie mixes in holiday colors\u2014to give shoppers new ideas and expand their image of how the marquee retailer could serve them in unexpected ways.","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
+{"text":"Racing: Reaching Within and Without\nBy Gordon Bakoulis\nHaile Gebrselassie is a living legend, adored in his native Ethiopia and known throughout the world as one of the greatest distance runners of all time. In August, Gebrselassie won the NYC Half-Marathon Presented by Nike in New York City in 59:24 \u2014 the second-fastest time ever on North American soil (only his own 58:55 in Tempe in 2006 was faster) \u2014 on a course that included over seven miles in hilly Central Park. The runner-up finished more than a minute behind him.\nAt age 34, \"Geb\" has set 22 world and national records, won two Olympic 10,000-meter gold medals, and won 107 major road race titles. His appearance in New York \u2014 his first-ever race there \u2014 received intense media coverage and drew thousands of fans out to city streets that are normally deserted early on a summer Sunday morning. Two bodyguards accompanied him throughout his four-day visit as he was followed everywhere by fans and well-wishers. Crowds cheered, chanted, and sang to him at the start of the race, along the course, at the finish, and throughout the post-race festivities.\nIt's amazing, really, that the man was able to focus on the task at hand, to step to the line like every other runner and, when the horn sounded, simply do what he trains his body and mind every day to do: cover ground quickly. Like any top runner, Gebrselassie's face was a mask of concentration that only deepened as the miles wore on. Though he had the race in hand just past halfway, he hammered hard through the later miles and sprinted hard the final few hundred meters. Geb's concentration broke only in the final steps as he saw the clock and acknowledged the cheers of the crowd.\nA runner such as Gebrselassie, who has been among the best in the world for more than a dozen years, has of course had plenty of time to hone his ability to block out distractions. Certainly, the act of putting on his game face is nothing new. The impressive thing about Gebrselassie in New York, though, was his ability to let in the world around him when it suited his purposes. Sounding every bit the tourist, he said that the sights and sounds of Times Square during the race excited him so much that he increased his tempo. He used the midrace urging of Abdirahman to share the lead as a motivation to make the move that made the race his.\nMostly, he said, he was propelled by the loyalty he felt from his fans and a desire to return that steadfastness. \"The spectators, they do a lot to come out and support,\" he said. \"You need to give them something.\"\nWhat does that mindset say to those of us who will probably never need to hire a bodyguard to keep the autograph seekers at bay? Geb's attitude, in what are probably the final years of his magnificent career, is an inspiration to any runner who has ever been tempted to stop reaching, to settle for what's come before. It's also a reminder that though the will to succeed certainly comes first from within, there's nothing at all wrong with looking for external motivation as well. \"I love the crowds in New York,\" said Gebrselassie, and to prove it, he put on a great show. One can imagine there will be quite a few more to follow.\nRacing: Winning Without Speed\nShould There Be Holidays Without Road Races?\nCan I Race Without Orthotics?\nWithout Stopping","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
+{"text":"Home \u00bb News \u00bb stone lion stele bronze lion\nstone lion stele bronze lion\nFIVE-TIER PAGODA, FIVE-ELEMENT STUPA \u2013 Onmark Productions\nGORINT\u014c \/ GORINTO \/ GORINTOU \/ \u4e94\u8f2a\u7b49 FIVE-TIER PAGODA, FIVE-ELEMENT STUPA FIVE-WHEELED RELIQUARY, FIVE-LAYERED STELE Funerary Monuments, Often Containing Relics of the Buddha\nObelisk of Axum \u2013 Wikipedia\nIn a 1947 UN agreement, Italy agreed to return the stele to Ethiopia, along with the other looted piece, the Lion of Judah. While the latter was returned in 1967 following the 1961 visit of emperor Haile Selassie to Italy, little action was taken to return the stele for more than 50 years, partly as a consequence of the considerable technical \u2026\nHammurabi \u2013 Wikipedia\nHammurabi (standing), depicted as receiving his royal insignia from Shamash (or possibly Marduk).Hammurabi holds his hands over his mouth as a sign of prayer (relief on the upper part of the stele of Hammurabi's code of laws).\nDosojin \u2013 Japanese Protective Stone Statues Safeguarding the \u2026\nDosojin, Sae no Kami, Stone Markers Protecting the Village and Crossroads and Liminal Areas. Also deities of fertility of the land and its communities.\nSPHINX \u2013 Woman-Headed Lion of Greek Mythology\nIn Greek mythology the Sphinx was a female monster with the body of a lion, the head and breast of a woman, eagle's wings and, according to some, a serpent's tail.\nWiccan, Pagan and Voodoo Jewelry \u2013 Abaxion\nA huge selection jewelry including Wiccan, Pagan, Goddess, God, Occult, Egyptian, Voodoo, Pentagrams, Dragons, Fairies and more. Choose from pendants, necklaces, rings, earrings, chains, chokers, crowns, anklets and bracelets.\nIBSS \u2013 Biblical Archaeology \u2013 Evidence of the Exodus from Egypt\nOne of the most important discoveries that relate to the time of the Exodus is the Merneptah stele which dates to about 1210 BC. Merneptah, the king of Egypt, boasts that he has destroyed his enemies in Canaan.\nAncient coinage of Ionia \u2013 Snible\nThe motives of the two last described coins are remarkable; that of the stater resembles the Lion-gate of Mycenae and some early Phrygian monuments of the ninth and eighth centuries B.C. (Ramsay, J. H. S., 1888, 350 sq.).\nWriting \u2013 Jewish Virtual Library\nSCRIPTS AND MATERIALS General Survey. From the end of the third millennium B.C.E., the art of writing was practiced in the ancient Near East (see *Alphabet ).\nTrue Colors | Arts & Culture | Smithsonian\nArchaeologists such as Germany's Vinzenz Brinkmann are reconstructing some of the colorfully painted sculptures and glittering bronze statuary that existed during classical antiquity. A replica of a stele erected c. 510 B.C. on the grave of the Greek warrior, Aristion, commemorates his exploits in \u2026\nModern garden sculpture bronze lion with wings statues\nDecoration carving large white marble stone foo dogs outdoor for sale\nOutdoor Garden Bronze Lion statues For Sale\nHot sell life size bronze lion sculptures for decoration\nOutdoor Marble Lion Stone Statues for decoration\nWestern design antique bronze lion sculptures with high quality\nHot sale outdoor decorative stone animal sleeping marble lion statues\nWinged white natural marble lion statue for decoration","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
+{"text":"https:\/\/blog.remitly.com\/immigration\/family-faith-work-the-people-and-places-welcoming-immigrants\/\nFamily, Faith, Work: the people and places welcoming immigrants\nImage: Ricardo Moraleida (CC BY-SA 2.0)\nMigration is an emotional journey, as much as a physical one.\nLeaving behind family and friends is never easy. Arriving in a new country can be even harder \u2013 a dizzying mix of excitement and optimism, sometimes also loneliness and fear.\nReceiving a warm welcome makes all the difference, whether it is a group of relatives waiting at the airport, or just a friendly greeting from a neighbor.\nRemitly customers have been telling us about the welcomes that made them feel at home when they first arrived.\nWe surveyed 1,000 people, and the results are heartwarming, and occasionally surprising.\nWe asked:\nWho were the people that made you feel most welcome, arriving in a new country\nWhat were the organisations or groups that made you feel most welcome\nFamily first\u2026 but not for everyone\nMost welcoming person: all nationalities\nNearly half (49%) of respondents said that family living in the new country made them feel most welcome.\nFriends who had already moved there came second (17%).\nOne notable exception was Indian immigrants living in the United States who said that their co-workers (34%) gave the best welcome.\nIn the UK, however, Indians rated family first (41%), followed by friends (27%) and then co-workers (19%).\nWhat can explain the difference?\nThe UK has seen several generations of immigration from its former colonies, including India (since the 1948 British Nationality Act), meaning that new arrivals are likely to have a significant extended family or friends waiting in Britain.\nIn the US, Indian immigration prior to the 1990s was relatively low. Today many Indians move to the US for highly skilled jobs (75% of H1-B Visas go to Indians). With so many people moving for work, and a relatively short history if Indian migrations, perhaps it is not surprising that Indians feel most welcomed by their workplace.\nWork narrowly beats worship for a warm welcome\nMost welcoming organization: all nationalities\nWorkplace-based groups, such as unions, office social clubs and associations, were reported as giving the warmest welcome of any organisation (19%), slightly ahead of religious institutions (18%).\nHowever, there was some variation within the different national groups surveyd:\nJust as Indians reported that co-workers were the first individuals to extend the hand of friendship, they also felt that workplace groups (34%) were most welcoming, followed by school or university (18%) then religious organisations (12%) .\nImmigrants from Mexico (22%) and the Philippines (22%) \u2013 both traditionally Catholic countries \u2013 found religious organisations most welcoming.\nHowever, considering responses just from Filipinos in the UK, workplace-based groups (24%) were slightly ahead of religious institutions (18%).\nThis may be due to the high number of Filipinos employed in Britain's National Health Service (18,000). Many staff are recruited directly from the Philippines so it is likely that their first point of contact is with their new colleagues within the NHS, even if they go on to find a church later.\nMyth of the friendly neighbor?\nWe've all seen it on TV \u2013 the friendly neighbor who turns up with a casserole or home-made cookies to welcome the new family to the area.\nIt might still happen, but there's little evidence in the Remitly survey. Just 2% of respondents said that their neighbors provided the first, or warmest welcome.\nThere was also no mention of neighbors in the written comments of 1,000+ people who took the survey.\nCould it be that the days of neighborliness have passed?\nIt is more likely that making friends with our neighbors is a slow-burn, something that happens some time after people are settled and have been made to feel welcome by others.\nThe idea of the people next-door coming to say hello as you unload the moving van may not exist, but that doesn't mean that we don't eventually get to know our neighbors.\n[Note: Remitly surveyed 1,064 customers during June 2019]\nThis publication is provided for general information purposes only and is not intended to cover all aspects of the topics discussed herein. This publication is not a substitute for seeking advice from an applicable specialist or professional. 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+{"text":"Ghosts Said To Haunt Ferry Plantation House\nOne of the most famous ghost stories associated with the Ferry Plantation House is that of a young girl named Lucy.Read More\nHauntings or Paranormal, History\nHouses and Homes, Virginia, Virginia Beach\nFox Hollow Farm Has A Dark History\nFox Hollow Farm in Westfield, Indiana is a place with a dark history. In the late 1970s and early 1980s, the farm was the site of several gruesome murders committed by serial killer Herb Baumeister.Read More\nHouses and Homes, Indiana, Westfield\nWhispers Estate Has Reported Paranormal Activity\nThe estate, which was built in 1875, has a long history of reported hauntings and paranormal activity.Read More\nHouses and Homes, Indiana, Mitchell\nParanormal Phenomena At The Warden's House\nDespite the unknown origins of these paranormal phenomena, the Warden's House has become a popular destination for ghost hunters and those interested in the metaphysical.Read More\nHouses and Homes, Jails or Prisons, Minnesota, Stillwater\nBailey House Has a Long History of Paranormal Activity\nThe Bailey House Museum in Brownville, Nebraska is a historical treasure that is steeped in both history and speculation about paranormal activity.Read More\nBrownville, Houses and Homes, Museums, Nebraska\nThe Former Governor's Mansion Haunted By Spirits\nGhostly Figures at Moss Mansion\nExploring the Haunted History of Bush House Museum\nParanormal Activity At The Whaley House\nStranahan House Has A darker Side","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
+{"text":"Science and Technology \u00bb\nSenator Hawley Plans to Strip Big Tech of Legal Immunity\nAuthor Topic: Senator Hawley Plans to Strip Big Tech of Legal Immunity (Read 921 times)\nU.S. Senator Josh Hawley is taking Silicon Valley to task with new legislation to hold social media platforms like Facebook, Google, and Twitter accountable for their political bias by stripping them of existing Section 230 protections.\n\"With Section 230, tech companies get a sweetheart deal that no other industry enjoys: complete exemption from traditional publisher liability in exchange for providing a forum free of political censorship.\"\nThe introduction of a new bill follows widespread allegations and evidence that social media platforms treat conservatives and Trump supporters with contempt. The Missouri Republican wants tech companies to demonstrate they are politically neutral in their moderation of user content or be subject to lawsuits they are currently immune to.\nThe bill he proposes will strip companies of legal immunity for user-generated content provided under Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act unless they can prove their moderation practices are not politically motivated.\n\"There's a growing list of evidence that shows big tech companies making editorial decisions to censor viewpoints they disagree with,\" he added.\n\"Even worse, the entire process is shrouded in secrecy because these companies refuse to make their protocols public. This legislation simply states that if the tech giants want to keep their government-granted immunity, they must bring transparency and accountability to their editorial processes and prove that they don't discriminate.\"\nThe Communications Decency Act currently protects tech companies from liability for illegal content posted on their platforms. It was created during the nascent stages of the Internet to protect their growth and allow the proliferation of free speech online.\nThe Internet has long passed its infancy. Tech companies that enjoyed this government subsidy now possess the resources to moderate content. It's clear platforms like Facebook and Twitter no longer need these protections and are instead abusing the carve out to protect themselves from liability for their political practices.\n\"Something is happening with those groups of folks that are running Facebook, Google and Twitter,\" said President Donald Trump in March. \"I do think we have to get to the bottom of it \u2026 It's collusive and it's very, very fair to say that we have to do something about it.\"\nhttps:\/\/humanevents.com\/2019\/06\/19\/senator-social-media-twitter-facebook-section-230-immunity\/","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
+{"text":"Delphi CFO Dawes resigns amid accounting investigation\nTerry Kosdrosky\nThe investigation into Delphi Corp.'s accounting practices has cost CFO Alan Dawes his job. Dawes agreed to resign from the auto supplier after the company's audit committee expressed a loss of confidence in him, according to a company statement released Friday morning. The shakeout also went deeper. Delphi's former chief accountant and controller, Paul Free, also left the company; and John Blahnik, vice president of treasury, mergers and acquisitions, and new markets, has been reassigned to a nonofficer position. The moves came a little more than a week after Chairman and CEO J.T. Battenberg III said he would retire from Delphi, although he's staying until a successor is appointed. Troy-based Delphi (NYSE: DPH) said it will file a report with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission on its internal investigation. The SEC and the Delphi's audit committee are looking into how the company recorded rebates from technology vendors, including EDS Corp. The investigation concluded that the errors caused a $200 million overstatement of cash flow from operations in 2000 and a $61 million overstatement of pretax income in 2001. Financial statements from those years will have to be restated, according to Delphi's 8-K report, filed Friday. The board also noted that its independent directors are investigating other transactions and other present and former executives. John Sheehan, Delphi's chief accounting officer, has been named acting CFO. The company said it will interview internal and external candidates to replace Dawes.","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
+{"text":"Download the Official App!\nTop 10 Must-Visit Outlet Malls and Major Shopping Centers in Osaka\no-dat\nOutlet malls and shopping centers in the Osaka area have a different vibe from those you find in Tokyo. You can indulge yourself in shopping, food, and leisure activities while enjoying the atmosphere, and get that item you've had your eye on! Below are 10 recommended outlet malls and large-scale shopping malls in and around Osaka.\n1. Mitsui Outlet Park Osaka Tsurumi\n2. Kishiwada CanCan Bayside Mall\n3. Rinku Premium Outlets\n4. Mitsui Outlet Park Marine Pia Kobe\n5. Kobe-Sanda Premium Outlets\n6. Osaka Nanko ATC Town Outlet Mare\n7. Hankyu Umeda Main Store\n8. Takashimaya Osaka Store\n9. Daimaru Shinsaibashi Branch\n10. LUCUA osaka\nLaunched in 1995, Mitsui Outlet Park Osaka Tsurumi is known for its unique fa\u00e7ade that features a retractable roof. The 3rd, 4th, and 5th floors of the complex comprise of the outlet mall housing the stores of a wide range of domestic and foreign brands. There are around 60 stores here that sell sports and outdoor brands like Nike and Adidas, fashion for men, ladies and kids, and lifestyle goods. You will find an extensive array of products that tend to be on the casual side. While this outlet mall is relatively small in scale compared to the other malls featured in this article, it is still highly recommended because of its great accessibility, as it is just about 30 minutes by train from Osaka Station. There is an event space on the 3rd floor that can accommodate around 300 people, and it transforms into a venue of street performances, live music shows and other events on weekends and holidays. This outlet mall is a place where you can go shopping with your family or go on a date with your loved one.\nBusiness hours: Shops are open on weekdays at 11:00 am - 8:00 pm, and on weekends and holidays at 10:00 am - 8:00 pm\nKirakirameister \/Wikimedia Commons\n2-7-70 Mattaomiya, Tsurumi-ku, Osaka-shi, Osaka\nKishiwada CanCan Bayside Mall is a major commercial complex filled with an exotic atmosphere that was built according to the image of a warehouse district in a British port town. It has two buildings \u2013 the \"EAST\" that houses specialty shops tied to the local community, and the \"WEST\" that is made up of an outlet mall offering reasonably-priced fashion brands, and a cinema complex. About 100 shops of domestic labels and famous foreign brands are gathered in this mall, selling a variety of goods that include fashion, interior and miscellaneous items. Meanwhile, all the restaurants along the coast offer a superb view of the ocean. You will also find United Cinemas Kishiwada, the largest cinema complex in the Kansai region, and an amusement center in this mall. There may not be a lot of outlet shops here, but this spot is still recommended to those who want to enjoy different things. If you get tired from shopping, you can take a break at any of the dining spots facing the sea! This mall is also convenient as it is just about 10 minutes away from Kansai International Airport by car.\nBusiness hours: EAST\/1F 9:00 am - 8:00 pm (except some stores), 2F-3F 10:00 am - 8:00 pm, WEST\/Shops are open at 10:00 am - 8:00 pm (except some stores)\n663highland\/Wikimedia Commons\n3-1 Minato Midori-machi, Kishiwada-shi, Osaka\nOfficial Homepage (Japanese only)\nRinku Premium Outlets is a supersized outlet mall housing more than 200 shops that is located in Rinku Town on the shore opposite Kansai International Airport. It is easily accessible as it is just 20 minutes by shuttle bus from Kansai International Airport, and people love it as a place where they can enjoy shopping in a beautiful resort-like town inspired by the American port town of Charleston. Aside from Banana Republic, Coach and other famous domestic and foreign fashion brands, it also offers a wide range of shops carrying household goods, shoes, bags and accessories, as well as restaurants. You can enjoy a day of shopping here, or just go window-shopping while waiting for your flight after you deposit your luggage in the coin lockers in the mall!\nThis outlet mall is pretty famous, so there is a shuttle bus that runs between the mall and Terminal 1 of Kansai Airport every 30 minutes. Fare is 200 JPY one-way. You will get to the mall in about 20 minutes, so definitely try out this service.\nBusiness hours: 10:00 am - 8:00 pm, and 10:00 am - 7:00 pm on weekends in February (hours may change due to year-end and New Year holidays, and other seasonal events)\n3-28 Rinku-orai Minami, Izumisano-shi, Osaka\nShopping by the Sea: The Best Ways to Enjoy Rinku Town!\nNext page: 4. Mitsui Outlet Park Marine Pia Kobe\nOpened in 1999, Mitsui Outlet Park Marine Pia Kobe is the first full-fledged outlet mall in Hyogo's Kobe City. It was built based on a theme of port towns in 18th-19th century Southern Europe. You can get here in about 45 minutes from Osaka by train. There is also a free shuttle bus from Tarumi Station on the JR Kobe Line, which is the nearest station to the mall. You will find about 130 shops of famous and seasonal brands from Japan and overseas, including Diesel and BEAMS, offering everything from fashion for ladies, men, and kids, to sporting goods, interior, and miscellaneous items. Tourists love the beautiful view of Akashi Kaikyo Bridge and the gorgeous illuminations after sunset. The area along the sea also looks stunning, so try to take a break from shopping and go for a stroll along the coast.\nBusiness hours: Shops are open at 10:00 am \u2013 8:00 pm\n12-2 Kaigan-dori, Tarumi-ku, Kobe-shi, Hyogo\nModeled after Pasadena, an upscale neighborhood in the outskirts of Los Angeles, Kobe-Sanda Premium Outlets is western Japan's largest outlet mall that was built with a town for adults in mind. It is about an hour away from Osaka by train or bus. You can also get here by riding in any of the shuttle buses from the neighboring cities. This outlet mall is home to a collection of luxury fashion brands such as Gucci and Bally, a long list of shops selling interior decorations and household goods such as Delonghi, and a variety of restaurants. You will find around 220 shops here. It is a one-floor mall, so you will enjoy shopping in an open atmosphere. There are also many luxury tableware brands, so if you love tableware, then you shouldn't miss this spot! This outlet mall is also just about 30 minutes from the famous Arima Hot Springs, so how about putting that in your itinerary as well?\nBusiness hours: 10:00 am \u2013 8:00 pm, 10:00 am \u2013 7:00 pm on weekends in February (hours may change due to year-end and New Year holidays, and other seasonal events)\nHashi photo\/\/Wikimedia Commons\n7-3 Kozudai, Kita-ku, Kobe-shi, Hyogo\nWithin Osaka Nanko ATC Town Outlet Mare, an extremely popular spot is ATC Asobimare, an indoor amusement park where kids and their parents can have fun all day. With reasonable prices, you can enjoy loads of physical activities without worrying about the cost. Once the children have played to their heart's content, you can then have them accompany you to go shopping.\nThe recommended shop is the outlet store of ABC-MART, where you can get discounted sneakers from famous sports brands such as Nike, Adidas, and Converse. You should also drop by Honeys, which is not really an outlet store, but you can get the latest ladies' fashion items there at very reasonable prices.\nChildren tend to get bored shopping, but at this outlet mall, they are sure to enjoy it with their parents!\nBusiness hours: 11:00 am \u2013 8:00 pm (varies depending on the shop)\n2-1-10 Nanko-kita, Suminoe-ku, Osaka-shi, Osaka\nHankyu Umeda Main Store is a department store that lies at the heart of Osaka, located near JR Osaka Station and Hankyu Umeda Station. With a fine selection of products and gracious customer service, everybody is sure to enjoy shopping here, regardless of age or gender.\nMore than any product, though, this department store is known for the wide selection of cosmetics that are sold at HANKYU BEAUTY that occupies the 2nd, 3rd and 10th floors. There are leading cosmetic brands from Japan and abroad, so if you find anything you like, just call the salesclerk to try it out!\nBusiness hours: The shopping floors are open at 10:00 am \u2013 8:00 on Sunday-Thursday, and 10:00 am \u2013 9:00 pm on Friday-Saturday\n8-7 Kakuda-cho, Kita-ku, Osaka-shi, Osaka\nTakashimaya Osaka Store can be easily reached via a number of train lines, such as Namba Station on the Osaka Metro's Midosuji Line, Yotsubashi Line and Sennichimae Line, and Namba Station on the Nankai Electric Railway. It is also right next to the shopping malls Namba CITY and Namba Parks, so it'd be fun to go around lots of shops in a day!\nOsaka Takashimaya is a department store, so just like other department stores, the fashion taste differs per floor. The 3rd to the 5th floors are the fashion floors, so search for that fashion item that suits your taste.\n5-1-5 Namba, Chuo-ku, Osaka-shi, Osaka\nNext page: 9. Daimaru Shinsaibashi Branch\nDaimaru Shinsaibashi Branch boasts excellent accessibility as it is just next door to Shinsaibashi Station on the subway. It is divided into the North and South Buildings, with the North Building housing a conventional department store and the South Building consisting of shops targeting tourists. LAOX on the 1st, 2nd, and 5th to 8th floors is a duty-free shop that offers everything tourists love to buy, including cosmetics, drugs, folk crafts and fashion goods, so finding something you'd like would be a cinch! There are also staff who can speak foreign languages, so it's really reassuring!\nBusiness hours: 10:00 am - 8:30 pm for the North Building and 10:30 am - 9:00 pm for the 1st - 8th floors of the South Building (varies depending on the shop)\n1-7-1 Shinsaibashi-suji, Chuo-ku, Osaka-shi, Osaka\nLUCUA osaka's East Building \"LUCUA\" and West Building \"LUCUA 1100\" are two shopping buildings that stand in a row on the north side of JR Osaka Station. They may be two separate buildings, but there are many floors that have bridges linking both buildings, so going back and forth is quite easy. Many of the shops carry products for men and women that are more on the casual side. It has more shops for miscellaneous goods and interior than department stores, so how about checking out some souvenirs, too?\nIf you're looking to buy miscellaneous goods, then you should go to the 7th floor of LUCUA 1100, which offers an array of shops selling natural goods, and to the 9th floor of LUCUA, which has a large stationery store called LOFT. There is also a shop in front of LOFT that sells travel goods, so you can find something that will make your plane ride back home more comfortable.\nBusiness hours: 10:00 am \u2013 9:00 pm for the shopping floors at LUCUA and LUCUA 1100\nWhity\/Wikimedia Commons\n3-1-3 Umeda, Kita-ku, Osaka-shi, Osaka\nOutlet malls are places where you can find great bargains, while department stores appeal to customers for the gracious hospitality that they get while shopping in a store with an air of luxury. Both spots are bursting with their own kind of charm. So, with this article as your guide, search for that store that's right for you!\n*Please note that the information in this article is from the time of writing or publication and may differ from the latest information.\n#Mitsui Outlet Park Osaka Tsurumi\n#Outlet Malls\n#Visit Osaka\nReduce the Cost of Your Japan Trip with d POINT!\n[Special Edition] Top 10 Must-Visit Outlet Malls and Major Shopping Centers in Osaka\n40 Things to Do in Fukuoka Prefecture From the Standards to Hidden Gems\nWe try a rotating sushi restaurant in New Delhi, are surprised to find no rotating sushi\nGreen tea strawberry dessert sandwiches: Today's reason Japanese convenience stores are awesome\nHibiki Whiskey Gets New Cherry Blossom Blend\nHow to Send International Packages From Japan\nTips&Manners\nTake a look at these photos of Hayao Miyazaki's amazing hands\u3010Photos\u3011\nAnime's 10 most ridiculous hairstyles\u3010Survey\u3011\nJapanese media finds out if it's cold enough to \"fry\" an egg on the street in Hokkaido\nFlying in Japan? 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+{"text":"South Korea ferry disaster: Six dead, 290 still missing\nMembers of the South Korean coast guard rescue passengers from the water next to a partially sunken ferry, off South Korea's southwest coast in this still image from a video released by the South Korean coast guard on April 16, 2014. -- PHOTO: REUTERS\nFamily members of missing passengers who were on a South Korean ferry Sewol which sank in the sea off Jindo cries as she waits for a rescue team's arrival at a port where family members of missing passengers gathered in Jindo on April 16, 2014. -- PHOTO: REUTERS\nA body of a passenger who was on the South Korean ferry Sewol which sank in the sea off Jindo is carried into a hospital in Jindo on April 16, 2014. -- PHOTO: REUTERS\nFamily members of missing students who were on the South Korean ferry Sewol which sank in the sea off Jindo attend a candlelight vigil at Danwon High School in Ansan on April 16, 2014. -- PHOTO: REUTERS\nFamily members of missing passengers who were on the South Korean ferry Sewol which sank in the sea off Jindo, board a ferry ship heading to the accident site, at a port where family members of missing passengers have gathered, in Jindo on April 17, 2014. -- PHOTO: REUTERS\nMaritime police search for missing passengers in front of the South Korean ferry Sewol, which sank at the sea off Jindo on April 16, 2014. -- PHOTO: REUTERS\nMore than 300 missing after South Korea ferry sinks\nApr 17, 2014, 5:11 am SGT\nhttp:\/\/str.sg\/Z5Ae\nJINDO (AFP) - South Korean rescuers and dive teams worked frantically under floodlights as fears rose for nearly 300 people missing after a ferry sank on Wednesday with 475 on board, mostly high school students bound for a holiday island.\nYonhap news agency said 179 people had been rescued, citing national coastguard officials, leaving 290 unaccounted for. There were six confirmed deaths, including a female crew member and a student.\nThere are concerns the death toll could rise sharply. The 6,825-tonne Sewol listed violently, capsized and finally sank - all within two hours of sending a distress signal at 9.00am (0000GMT).\n\"I'm afraid there's little chance for those trapped inside still to be alive,\" one senior rescue team official, Cho Yang Bok, told YTN television as divers struggled to access the submerged multi-deck ferry.\nDramatic television footage showed terrified passengers wearing life jackets clambering into inflatable boats with water lapping over the rails of the vessel as it sank 20km off the southern island of Byungpoong.\nSome slid down the steeply inclined side of the ferry and into the water as rescuers, including the crew of what appeared to be a small fishing boat, pulled them to safety.\nAs night fell, the coastguard said the rescue operation was continuing using floodlights and underwater flares.\n\"We won't give up, although the situation is extremely worrying,\" a coastguard spokesman said.\nSeveral rescued passengers said they had initially been told to remain in their cabins and seats, but then the ferry listed hard to one side, triggering panic.\n\"The crew kept telling us not to move,\" one male survivor told the YTN news channel.\n\"Then it suddenly shifted over and people slid to one side and it became very difficult to get out,\" he added.\nThe passengers included 375 students from a high school in Ansan just south of Seoul, who were travelling with 14 of their teachers to the popular island resort of Jeju, Yonhap said.\n\"I feel so pained to see students on a school trip... face such a tragic accident. I want you to pour all your energy into this mission,\" President Park Geun Hye said on a visit to the national disaster agency's situation room in Seoul.\nMany of the survivors were plucked from the water by fishing and other commercial vessels who were first on the scene before a flotilla of coastguard and navy ships arrived, backed by more than a dozen helicopters.\nMr Lee Gyeong Og, the vice-minister of security and public administration, said 178 divers, including a team of South Korean navy Seals, were working at the site, but low water visibility and strong currents were hampering their efforts.\nThe US 7th Fleet sent an amphibious assault ship on patrol in the area to help while White House spokesman Jay Carney said Washington was ready to provide its ally with \"any assistance\" needed.\nOne local official, who had taken a boat to the site an hour after the distress signal was sent, said he was \"very concerned\" about those still missing.\n\"The ship was already almost totally submerged when I got there. A lot of people must have been trapped,\" the official, who declined to be identified, told Agence France-Presse by phone.\nThe cause of the accident in fine weather was not immediately clear, although rescued passengers reported the ferry coming to a sudden, shuddering halt - indicating it may have run aground.\n\"I heard a big thumping sound and the boat suddenly started to tilt,\" one rescued student said.\nAnother spoke of luggage and vending machines crashing down on passengers as the vessel tipped over.\n\"Everyone was screaming and a lot of people were bleeding badly,\" he said.\nDistraught parents gathered at the high school in Ansan, desperate for news, with some yelling at school officials while others repeatedly tried to call their children's mobiles.\n\"I'm so worried about my son,\" said one father, Mr Lee Ki Hong. \"I texted him an hour before the ship sank, but there has been no reply,\" he told YTN.\nSurvivors were taken to a gymnasium on nearby Jindo island, where relatives of the missing, wrapped in blankets against the cold, were holding what looked set to be a night-long vigil on the quay of the main harbour.\nThree giant floating cranes had been despatched to the site and would begin operations to raise the submerged vessel tomorrow, officials said.\nScores of ferries ply the waters between the South Korean mainland and its multiple offshore islands every day, and accidents are relatively rare.\nIn one of the worst incidents, nearly 300 people died when a ferry capsized off the west coast in October 1993.\nACCIDENTS - MARITIME","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
+{"text":"Plump Prospects For Chargrill Charlie's In Melbourne Debut\nPosted on 23rd July 2018\n10 Prospect Hill Road, Camberwell\nSydney's cult chicken and burger eatery Chargrill Charlie's has chosen a prominent Prospect Hill Road building in the popular inner-eastern suburb of Camberwell for its Melbourne debut.\nFitzroys Senior Manager, Chris James negotiated the long-term 10-year lease for 10 Prospect Hill Road at $228,000 per annum net.\nThe building has a 365 sqm ground floor area and sizeable 58 metres of frontage, positioned among Woolworths, Target, Aldi and Burke Road, and the activity of the Market Place car park.\nChargrill Charlie's has operated for nearly 30 years and has 10 locations across Sydney, and its profile went international last year when pop megastar Justin Bieber decided to have a casual lunch at its Mosman location. He was quickly mobbed by a large crowd of Beliebers in scenes that made celebrity news headlines around the globe.\nJames said the long-term lease secured for the prime Camberwell retail space shows the confidence in the area's revitalisation held by experienced and established operators, spurred by a strong residential development pipeline.\n\"This large, flexible space, located close to Woolworths supermarket and with frontage to the Market Place car park, attracted strong enquiry from a range of operators, particularly from the hospitality industry,\" he said.\nThe property also benefits from its proximity to Camberwell railway station and numerous tram and bus routes, and Camberwell Junction.\nJames said there has been growing enquiry in the inner-east as developments such as Camberwell Village, Hawthorn Park and others nearby come online.\n\"This growth in the immediate catchment is providing a further boost to trade in the area, further underpinning the long-term viability and growth prospects of businesses.\"\nJames recently negotiated the lease of 670 Burke Road, just metres away on the corner of Burke Road and Prospect Hill Road, to optometry group EyeQ.\nSimilarly, the lease was a long-term deal at 7+5+5 years for the 87 sqm ground floor space, at $85,000 per annum net.","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
+{"text":"Caesars Entertainment Becomes NFL's First Official Casino Sponsor\nBy Ed Scimia on January 3, 2019 3 min read\nThe NFL is joining the bandwagon of professional sports leagues that are partnering with major gaming firms, announcing Thursday that Caesars Entertainment would become the league's first official casino sponsor.\nCaesars Entertainment properties like The Linq in Las Vegas offer plenty of sports betting options, but the company's new deal with the NFL doesn't include sportsbooks. (Image: Bizuayehu Tesfaye\/Las Vegas Review-Journal)\nAccording to the Associated Press, sources say that the deal is worth $30 million per year over three years.\nSports Betting Not Included\nUnlike similar deals signed by the NBA, NHL, and MLB \u2013 all of which partnered with MGM Resorts International \u2013 this deal does not cover sports betting, keeping in line with the NFL's cooler relationship with legalized wagering.\nIn a press release announcing the deal, the league pointed out that seven NFL teams already have relationships with Caesars, but that all of these deals \u2013 including the new one with the league itself \u2013 feature similar restrictions.\n\"These partnerships along with the new League deal are for the Casino category only and does not include sports betting, daily fantasy or hotels\/resorts,\" the statement read.\nNonetheless, the deal does give Caesars the ability to heavily promote their casino properties at NFL events, including at the NFL draft and the Super Bowl. Caesars also gains the exclusive right to using NFL logos and trademarks in both the United States and the UK.\n\"All of us at Caesars Entertainment are thrilled to be the first-ever casino partner of the NFL, the most prominent sports league in North America,\" Caesars President and CEO Mark Frissora said in a statement.\nNFL Distances Itself From Bookmakers\nWhen the three other major American professional sports leagues signed their partnerships with MGM, the emphasis was clearly on sports betting. In those cases, MGM gained the right to use official league data at its sportsbooks, as well as use logos from the leagues at its brick-and-mortar locations. There is no data sharing component to the NFL partnership with Caesars.\nThe agreement could give Caesars the inside track for hosting the 2020 NFL draft, which is slated to be hosted in Las Vegas. The company operates several properties in the city, including Caesars Palace, The Linq, Bally's Las Vegas, and Harrah's Las Vegas, among others.\nFor the NFL, the deal will give it a partner that can help create the kinds of events for fans that may not have been possible before the league had access to the gaming industry.\n\"We couldn't be more excited to work with one of the world's largest gaming and entertainment companies,\" Renie Anderson, NFL Senior Vice President for Partnerships, Sponsorship, and Consumer Products, said in the press release. \"Combining the NFL with Caesars' expertise in world class entertainment will provide our fans unique experiences both here in the United States and abroad.\"\nNew NFL Rules Create Grey Area for Teams\nWhile the NFL relaxed its rules on casino sponsorships in August in reaction to the Supreme Court decision that struck down the Professional and Amateur Sports Protection Act (PASPA), the league has remained staunchly against allowing its teams \u2013 or itself \u2013 from becoming too intertwined with sports betting.\nWhile teams can now directly advertise with and for casinos, they are still not allowed to promote associated sportsbooks. This has already led to some questions about the grey area in this policy, as the New York Jets have advertised online gaming company 888.com at MetLife Stadium \u2013 a group that offers casino games, poker, and a sportsbook over the internet in New Jersey.\nSimilar Guides On This Topic\nSuperbowl Betting\nAugust 3, 2022 Business and Commerce\nXFL and Its New Host Cities Hope the Third Time is the Charm\nBy Amy Calistri\nDenver Broncos Lose WR Tim Patrick to Season-Ending ACL Injury","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
+{"text":"What's Next for Legal Psilocybin in Oregon\nby Ken Jordan\nIt's been almost two years since voters in Oregon passed the first ballot initiative in the country to legalize the use of psilocybin, the psychoactive agent in magic mushrooms. The passage of Measure 109 put in motion a deliberative process to put rules in place for the use of psilocybin in therapy, in ceremony, and in pursuit of personal wellness. These services become available in 2023.\nNext week in Portland, many of the leading figures involved in this pioneering experiment will come together to discuss it at Horizons Northwest, a conference organized by Horizons in partnership with the Sheri Eckert Foundation. The event offers a deep dive into the current state of psychedelic science. It also will explore the Oregon model in detail.\nLooking ahead to Horizons Northwest, Lucid News convened a roundtable discussion of conference organizers and participants to give a 30,000 foot overview of the Oregon initiative and discuss why it's so central to the future of psychedelic legalization.\nThe participants:\nTom Eckert is the co-chief petitioner of Measure 109, and the founder of Innertrek, a training company for psilocybin service center facilitators, and the Sheri Eckert Foundation, an organization established to ensure diversity in Oregon's evolving psychedelic ecosystem.\nRebecca Martinez (she\/her) is a queer Chicana writer and community organizer born and raised on Chinook homelands known as Portland, Oregon, and founder of the Alma Institute, an Oregon-based non-profit psychedelic training and mentorship program.\nKevin Balktick, founder and director of the Horizons Public Benefit Corporation, is a New York-based producer, creative director, and cultural entrepreneur focused on live experiences and hospitality.\nHorizons is a Lucid News content partner. Ann Harrison, managing editor of Lucid News, took part in the conversation. The transcript was edited for clarity and concision.\nYesterday San Francisco decriminalized plant based psychedelics, joining Denver, DC, Seattle, and another dozen or so cities around the country. The psychedelic decrim movement keeps picking up steam. What makes Oregon Measure 109 different and how is it pioneering an alternative model?\nEckert: The Oregon model legalizes access to psilocybin-assisted therapy and wellness services in a licensing framework. That means prospective clients can access these services and move through a sequence of supervised sessions with licensed personnel at licensed facilities. It looks a bit like the medical model, although it sits outside of that system. It's based on its own licensing framework and has its own foundation, which opens it up to folks who don't have a diagnosis or a prescription. But it is based on practice standards, safety standards, ethical standards. It's a program in which clients work with newly licensed personnel who are licensed specifically to do this work. They'll oversee preparation sessions, safety planning, psilocybin administration in a licensed facility, and then integration services afterwards \u2013 which could be a pass off into a broader integration network.\nSo it's a regulated system that opens up access to anyone who can safely benefit, whether or not they're working on mental health issues. That's new in this country. Measure 109 was actually the first campaign in all of the states, all the way back to 2015. The measure passed in 2020. Since then the program has been developing, as was prescribed in the measure, over a two year period. We're getting close to rollout, which happens probably somewhere in the middle of 2023. That's when services will actually be hitting the ground.\nBalktick: As someone who works on the education and media side of this field, explaining the difference between decriminalization and the varieties of regulation is something that we continue to struggle with. There is much public confusion about it. One of the things I often tell people is that decriminalization is not really about drugs, but about jail cells. Regulation is entirely different from decriminalization, in that it does allow people to offer products and services to start, fund and operate businesses, and to really build an ecosystem. Decriminalization largely just takes away handcuffs, but doesn't allow any formal building of institutions or infrastructure on top of it.\nMartinez: I'm part of the Plant Medicine Healing Alliance, which is a Portland-based initiative that's seeking to decriminalize entheogens in the city. A lot of what we came up against are people saying, didn't that already happen through Measure 110? That's a separate groundbreaking measure to decriminalize the personal possession of all substances in Oregon. [110 also passed as a ballot initiative in 2020.] They serve completely different purposes.\nIt's important that we come at drug policy transformation collaboratively, and that we're not pitting a therapeutic legalization model against a community-based access decriminalization model. And that we're not pitting the \"psychedelic movement\" \u2013 I'm doing air quotes, because it's many movements within a larger phenomenon \u2013 against broader drug policy reform. Many of us in the field feel strongly that this is part of a goal towards a complete end of criminalization of substances. I think it's important to rally people who are excited about psychedelics to think about the deeper values that make them excited about community access, and inquire how far they're willing to take that to keep people out of jail, and keep people from being punished for the substances that that they choose to use and possess.\nIt's been about 18 months since the first meeting of the Oregon Psilocybin Advisory Board. What's the remit of that board? And what has actually been accomplished by it so far?\nEckert: It was written into the initiative that an advisory board would be formed once the measure passed and be active for a two year window of development. It's a governor appointed board, a group of experts, that can provide advice and recommendations regarding the details of the program. Measure 109 was pretty hefty, it laid out a lot. But even so, there's a lot in between the lines that needs to be figured out \u2013 what we call \"rules.\" The advisory board does not create the rules. It gives advice and recommendations to the Oregon Health Authority, which houses the entire program. So ultimately the OHA writes the rules, which have been coming out gradually. It was smart to bring in experts that are working in the field to share what they know. That was absolutely instrumental to the process.\nWhat's the timeline for the advisory board to complete its work?\nEckert: The way we wrote it in Measure 109 was that rules for the entire program would be in effect by January 1 of 2023. Applications for licensure would open up at that time. Now that doesn't mean services will hit the ground in January 2023, because then there's processing. The Oregon Health Authority has to work through the applications and do all the due diligence. So it's unclear exactly when services will hit the ground, but things actually start opening up in 2023.\nTom, initially you were the chair of the advisory board, then you stepped down. What happened?\nEckert: Well, I'd done a full year at the advisory board voluntarily, after volunteering on the campaign for five years. There was a lot of talking out there, but in my mind it wasn't such a story.\nSome questions were raised about whether you should serve on a regulatory board that made rules impacting your business, or companies run by people close to you. Do you think any additional measures should be taken to help promote fairness and transparency for the rulemaking process?\nEckert: Well, as I said, the advisory board are not rule makers. They're providing recommendations and advice. The board was set up by the Oregon Health Authority, which intentionally appointed folks from the community who are involved in psychedelics. That's what made them experts. They're commenting, providing advice based on their expertise on a system that will contain forthcoming projects. So that was sticky, but I think the advisory board handled it well. I'm not sure the media handled it very well, because they got a kind of distorted narrative going. But within the advisory board there were periodic disclosures of interest. And there was no issue on the Oregon Health Authority side whatsoever.\nBalktick: There's been a lot of confusion about the role of the advisory board. Many people did not fully understand that the Oregon Health Authority and its civil servants are the people who create these rules. The advisory board is just that: advisory. It was intentional that the products committee has people who will manufacture products on it. The training committee had people who will conduct trainings on it. But they're not actually rule makers. So that's the kind of thing we hope to give people a broader understanding of at the conference on Saturday morning. What does the Oregon Health Authority do? And what does the advisory board do?\nHas the state government been supportive during this process?\nBalktick: I come from a state, New York, that is not so well regarded in terms of public administration. And it was interesting for me as an outsider, when I started to meet people involved in Oregon, to hear everyone say how supportive and professional the OHA was. That doesn't mean there aren't disagreements over specific rules, or specific aspects of the bill. But I kept hearing that the OHA saw the law as being the law, and wanted to implement it faithfully for the benefit of the people of Oregon. And that many of the people they appointed to do so, as civil servants, we're doing so pretty faithfully.\nMartinez: I serve on the equity subcommittee for the advisory board. From the outset, we were actually very pleasantly surprised. Some of the people who would be writing the policy, including the manager of the program herself, Angie Allbee, were sitting in on those meetings. It helped to avoid some of the \"telephone\" phenomena that could happen, because they were sitting and listening to active discussions, listening to public comments, and really trying to get a well rounded understanding of all of the ideas, questions, concerns that we were putting forth.\nWorking in policy is complicated. A lot of hoops have to be jumped through. There's a lot of restrictions that are not ideal. You know, we're dealing with mushrooms here. The whole nature of mushrooms is unwieldy and sort of magical. We're trying to fit something ineffable into a structured governmental system. There's a natural tension, it's awkward.\nI think some of the frustration that people have felt is wanting a program that feels like this ineffable thing. And we're trying to fit it into a structure that can scale, that can meet standards of safety and access. I've sensed, from the outset, OHA has been interested in helping us be a successful program, and they expressed that the simpler we make it at the beginning, the less variables there will be and the more chances for success. So I think we're all making sacrifices compared to what our ideal would be. But there are areas where we have some really big wins, like asking that license holders include a social equity plan to make this successful in their community, or the option to have services outside as long as the circle leader is licensed and there are safety parameters in place.\nRecently a number of Oregon counties and localities have moved to block psilocybin therapy centers in their areas. Do you see that as a sign that the state isn't ready for this?\nEckert: Well, in Jackson County there's a lot of big cannabis farms and there's some issues with farms and black market stuff. All of that has the county commissioners antsy about psilocybin, which is too bad, because it is absolutely incomparable. The circumscribed need for products for the therapeutic and wellness system that measure 109 sets up can probably be housed in a single room. It's not like these sprawling cannabis farms that need to be regulated. And who in their right mind would try to do black market activity through a licensed center when you could just do it in your bedroom? The concerns are not terribly rational. But it comes from the cannabis hangover.\nThat's one particular county. Other counties have other stories where unfortunately, it falls into the hands of the city commissioners, whether they choose to go for an opt out. That was part of measure 109. But it was meant to be a way to work with counties that are very much against it. Instead of those counties grouping together and organizing opposition to measure 109, we could put that to bed by saying, there is a way for your county not to move forward. Unfortunately, some counties where measure 109 actually carried the vote are opting out. That was not the spirit of the measure.\nWhat is the licensing process for those who want to offer therapy or group experiences?\nMartinez: I'm part of a training program for a nonprofit, we're called Alma Institute. As long as we're approved by the Oregon Health Authority, and the state's Higher Education Coordinating Commission, we can convey the educational pieces. If students successfully go through an entire program, they receive certification from a training program, and they can take that to the state and say: I've gone through the training, now can I take the licensure exam? It's actually the state that provides the licensure to facilitators. But they won't give that licensure exam to anyone who hasn't already completed a training program. So our role is to certify the state licenses.\nIn terms of other types of license holders, it seems like a pretty straightforward process. There's a detailed application. Each type will be different. Alma Institute is planning to have a service center, and the draft rules for service centers were just released. They are very detailed, very lengthy, about what you need to have in place.\nThen, of course, there are fees involved with each of these types of licenses. There are four categories. There's the facilitator license, the service site, the grower, and a separate license for labs.\nWhat's the difference between a facilitator and a therapist?\nEckert: Another point of confusion for those who aren't deeply into this, but it's super important because it gets to the inspiration behind the initiative. You know, this program sits uniquely, because of some of the philosophy behind it. One of those pieces is that we wanted to create a therapy and wellness framework where anyone could access these services who could safely benefit. And by safely benefit, I mean, moving through a safety planning and preparation process and into an administration session. We did not want to medicalize this model.\nWe thought that the FDA process, as important as it is, and as much as we support all the efforts, can't be the only container for psilocybin and psychedelic services down the road. That was an inspiration to do the initiative. We were trying to fill out the picture and develop the wellness aspect, the ability to create an integrated framework that can address a full spectrum of concerns, from preventative to wellness, therapy to medical. Now that's a lot to sort out. That's why the advisory board conversations are so interesting, and why there's so many different opinions and angles, because it's tricky to sort all that out. But we took that on quite intentionally, because we think it's possible.\nBalktick: One thing that is clear is that, altogether, 109 is a less expensive model than what we're going to see in a few years under the FDA model. You're going to see a lot of service centers doing sliding scale, where they deliberately serve lower income populations. Alongside that, you're going to have luxury resort centers that will operate more like high end retreats at very high price points. There's a lot of room for variety within the model.\nHas there been any pushback from OHA around the idea of non-medical use?\nEckert: I would say no. OHA, to Kevin's point, has been super supportive of the measure as written. They understand that that's their job. The people of Oregon voted to make this a reality.\nMartinez: Within the therapists\/facilitators conversation, there's a lot of concern about: is this therapy, or medical, or is this just for personal wellness? A lot of that can be addressed with good training and systems within service centers. Specifically by helping the facilitators who are being trained to have solid baseline skills for holding space. And also training them how to assess if someone is beyond their scope of practice, and helping them to understand the necessary steps during the initial interviews and intakes, so they know when to refer someone.\nPart of what we're doing in Oregon is forming a strong network of referral systems, so that people have a choice of a facilitator who they feel good about. We want to help them find someone organically that is a good fit for the types of things they're looking to explore using psilocybin.\nRecently much attention has been given to the potential for abuse in both psychedelic therapy and ceremonial contexts, including sexual abuse. What guardrails are being put in place in Oregon to ensure safety?\nEckert: The whole notion of a regulated system \u2013 that's one of the reasons it exists this way. Because with regulation comes licensing, comes accountability to your license, comes an ethical board, somewhere to go if there's a breach or a violation of ethics. And a board or organization or governmental agency in place that is funded and prepared to follow up on those potential allegations. They wouldn't just appear in the media. There are actually systems in place to address violations.\nMartinez: There are many angles we need to address on the topic of preventing harm and abuse. A lot of those have been written in. One of the pieces is a client Bill of Rights as a part of the informed consent process. Before someone shows up for an administration session, they talk through a detailed plan that includes pre consent to a variety of things. That includes: I don't want to be touched at all, or I only want to be touched on my shoulder. It gets very specific, so that there's very little room for interpretation or changing things later and saying: Well, it was what was called for in the moment.\nThe training programs have a big responsibility to be the initial filter for who's going to lead these sessions. We need to be scrutinizing our participant lists in these training programs to make sure that we have confidence that each and every person is ready for the type of power and responsibility that comes with holding space for someone in an altered state. We also have to make hard decisions along the way, if we're training someone and it starts to become clear that they're not ready. There are going to be people who will not finish the program and graduate. Unfortunately, not everyone is a good fit for this kind of work.\nI would add that a couple of professional associations are forming \u2013 the American Psychedelic Practitioners Association and the National Psychedelics Association \u2013 that are adding another layer of accreditation. So folks can say, I'm accountable to several governing bodies, and the public can feel more confident.\nLastly, we also need to create community-based repair models. Not everything is as black and white as something happens and you lose your license and you're exiled from the community. There's a lot in the middle where we have to intervene, whether it's miscommunication, or harm, or conflict. We should use the existing systems of restorative and transformative justice, and make use of other consequence-based accountability systems. That's so important. I'm in many conversations around that. We'll see what we're able to do. For a lot of it, we need resources to scale to the degree that Oregon's going to need.\nBalktick: I want to say something, just to make it clear: the Oregon model does not provide retail access to psilocybin under any circumstances. The licensed manufacturers can only sell to the service centers, and the only psilocybin consumption happens at a licensed service center under the supervision of a licensed facilitator. There is no way in which individuals can purchase, store or possess mushrooms privately under this system. However, it is also worth saying that, because there is also decriminalization, there is no criminal penalty if you do so. But that still does not allow people to create points of retail. This is a huge point of confusion, and where the cannabis analogies are particularly unhelpful. Cannabis has primarily been a retail market, whereas the 109 psilocybin system is really the exact opposite.\nPsychedelic retail may not be part of the system, but there will be a psychedelic economy focused around therapy and sessions. What is the vision for this?\nEckert: Horizons has set up an interesting day at the conference about the forthcoming ecosystem in Oregon. One thing I'm kind of proud of is how we set up the Oregon system flexibly so it allows a lot of avenues into service, into working in the evolving ecosystem. In my opinion, I feel like there's an over-emphasis on products in Oregon. I don't see that as having big business potential. It's a circumscribed program and it doesn't need a lot of mushrooms. It's not like cannabis, it's not retail. So there's not going to be some big gold rush to make mushrooms to fulfill this relatively small need to have therapeutic access and wellness access to mushrooms.\nThe service side is where things are really interesting. And that's what we want: a vibrant marketplace of potential access, hitting lots of different categories. It's really neat. And I don't think people fully understand this. They think it sounds a bit like a clinical model, and that it's probably going to be kind of sterile, etc. No, not really. Service centers can come in a lot of forms, and cater to a lot of different populations. When facilitators get licensed they can stay independent, or they can contract with service centers, or they can create their own service center. They can stack the licenses and create an organization that does it all in one place. There's lots of flexibility. The common denominator is the adherence to practice standards, safety standards and ethical statements. But beyond that, we can have a vibrant marketplace.\nThere's a lot of talk about price points. There will be a lot of different access points. Nobody is dictating what's being charged. So we can have urban centers, we can have retreat centers, we can have big organizations, we can have therapy offices. And as a community, we'll come together and think through the issues around access to ensure that this is getting everywhere it needs to go, to all the different communities around the state.\nMartinez: Coming from the training side and having a service center in the works, a lot of the economic concern that my group has is around IRS tax code 280E, which forbids any organization that is handling psilocybin from writing off their expenses at the end of the year when they file their taxes. It's a huge financial burden. Until we have federal legalization, this is going to keep a lot of folks from participating, from starting their own service center, from even operating as facilitators. Because they can't get it to pencil out so they can make a decent living, or keep their sites open. I don't think a lot of the small businesses are concerned with, you know, getting rich and buying yachts. These are folks who really want to do good things in their community, and make a living doing something they're passionate about and feel is important.\nHave you been able to find liability insurance for providers, or has that been a challenge? Has the state taken any steps to help support providers to get the insurance they need to protect themselves and their practices?\nMartinez: This was one of the first things I anticipated. And as I called around to my colleagues, they said that agents couldn't even get them a quote. Dozens and dozens of different groups said we don't cover that. So I raised this with the National Psychedelics Association, and they \u2013 thank goodness \u2013 have been willing to take on some of the hairier situations, whether it's banking or liability insurance. Those are the two big ones that they're tackling, and which are going to be so critical. Even as a nonprofit \u2013 and at Alma Institute we don't actually handle the psilocybin, that will happen under the service center \u2013 even with that, Alma has had a really hard time getting directors and officers insurance for my board of directors. That's general liability, not even assessing any risk involved with psilocybin. I do have a lead now. One group said they got access to a new market that will cover it. I anticipate it's going to be expensive.\nOf course, one reason insurance and banking are so hard to get is that psilocybin is an illegal Schedule 1 substance at the federal level. How do you imagine this conflict with federal law will play out?\nEckert: There's some pretty smart folks working on it, with connections. They're having conversations. The idea is that we would come into Measure 109 with relationships, in conversation, and hopefully in an environment of collaboration with national officials and the state attorney to ensure that this program is safe. The important thing is that we would see trouble coming before it arrived, and we would work through that. But I don't foresee conflict at this point. This is the age old \"states versus US law\" that we went through with cannabis. Hopefully that's an area where maybe we did learn from cannabis about how to get to a place where these two things can exist simultaneously.\nKen Jordan September 10, 2022","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
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+{"text":"MICHAEL JACKSON LOVED ADOLF HITLER?\nTUESDAY \/ APRIL 23, 2019\nNY Times: Michael Jackson Biographers Face History, and the Mirror\nNearly 10 years after his mysterious death at age of 51, Michael Jackson -- the man-child once dubbed by entertainment media as \"The King of Pop\" -- continues to be trashed and defamed as a pedo-molester by the Piranha Press. Though neither his music nor pop culture gossip are of any interest to The Anti-New York Times, the reasons behind the metaphorical assassination of Jackson's character, and the literal assassination of the man himself, relate directly to the stuff we talk about all the time.\nYes, the black man-child who turned his skin white and enjoyed playing with the child friends that he never had as a child-star was indeed a very odd character. But a pedo-monster, he was not. So, why the continuing anti-Jacksonism in the Judepresse? To answer that question, let us resurrect a piece which we had originally published way back in 2013 -- a time when most of \"youse guys\" hadn't even heard of TomatoBubble yet.\nWAS MICHAEL JACKSON A FAN OF ADOLF HITLER?\nJACKSON HAD A HUGE COLLECTION OF HITLER MEMORABILIA & FILMS\nUK Daily Mail: Jackboot Jacko?\nNew York memorabilia seller claims king of pop kept hoard of Nazi films\nMichael Jackson had a secret stash of Nazi documentaries that he kept at his Neverland home, it's claimed.\nHe allegedly had a collection of memorabilia and hunted down specialist video sellers who could discreetly sell him hard-to-find films and documentaries, according to the New York Post.\nThe troubled pop star seemed obsessed with Adolf Hitler's regime .......\nNazi memorabilia seller Norman Scherer claims to have helped Jackson form 'a really good collection', ..........\nScherer goes on to claim in the Post that Jackson didn't even try to hide the videos, displaying them on the walls of his video vault at his Neverland Ranch.\nBut clearly Jackson, who often wore military-style clothing, was not comfortable sharing his Hitler obsession with other people. Scherer explains that he was approached by a New Yorker in 1995 who was trying to make orders for a 'big client' who insisted on discretion and privacy.\nAnd he was warned that the deal couldn't happen if Scherer, who owned a videotape distribution company in the Nineties, wasn't discreet. Despite having first-hand knowledge of Jackson's secret obsession, Scherer doesn't think that Jackson's interest in Hitler had any worrying connotations. Scherer says he assumed that the singer just loved the military uniforms and the goose-step marching.\n'Michael Jackson was a very special client to me,' said Scherer.\nhttp:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/tvshowbiz\/article-1297590\/Jackboot-Jacko-Memorabilia-seller-claims-king-pop-kept-hoard-Nazi-films.html\nJackson's collection was extensive. (above is not Jackson's)\nJACKSON MUST HAVE ADMIRED HITLER'S VEGETARIANISM AND LOVE OF ANIMALS\nThe vegetarian Jackson adored animals. Given Jackson's fascination and study of Hitler, he would surely have come to know of, and identify with, Hitler's own vegetarianism and love of animals.\nJACKSON MUST HAVE ADMIRED HITLER'S LOVE OF CHILDREN\nDeprived of his own childhood, Jackson filled the void by surrounding himself with children. Contrary to the media attacks against him, this was innocent and pure. Given Jackson's fascination and study of Hitler, he would surely have come to know of, and identify with, Hitler's own playful love of children.\nJACKSON'S SIGNATURE COLORS WERE RED & BLACK\nJACKSON OFTEN WORE MILITARY-STYLE JACKETS & MEDALS\nLooks like an SS officer!\nJACKSON WORE HITLER-STYLE ARMBAND\nEven Jackson's adopted son gets into the act.\nJACKSON PRAISED HITLER AS A \"GENIUS SHOWMAN'\nDuring an interview with a Jewish Rabbi - Journalist, Jackson said: \"Hitler was a genius orator. To make that many people turn and change and hate, he had to be a showman and he was.\"\n(The part \"turn and change and hate\" was likely intended to cover himself in front of the Rabbi).\nJACKSON CONDEMNED CONSPIRATORIAL JEWS AS BLOODSUCKERS!\nJackson's 1996 Hit song \"They Don't Really Care About Us\" includes the lyric: \"Jew me. Sue me. Kick me. Kike me.\"\nThe singer also once stated, ON TAPE,\n\"They (Jews) suck - they're like leeches. I'm so tired of it. They start out the most popular person in the world, make a lot of money, big house, cars, and everything, end up with, penniless. It is conspiracy. The Jews do it on purpose.\"\nJACKSON WAS FALSELY ACCUSED BY THE JEWISH MEDIA\nFALSE accusations of child molestation were widely publicized, but never questioned:\n* \"The trial that was relayed to us didn't even resemble the trial that was going on inside the courtroom\". - Charles Thomson, The Huffington Post, \"One of the Most Shameful Episodes In Journalistic History\", (2010)\n** \"Out here...Michael Jackson is being literally crucified...I think if you did a pulse poll, of people listening to these local talk shows, they would say 95% that Michael Jackson did all this...because it's based on the coverage.\" - Matt Drudge (The Drudge Report)\nJackson loved childern. He only surrounded himself with them to make up for his own lost childhood.\nThe false charges against him were leveled by a greedy con man, a welfare Queen, and the media.\nWas the character assassination of 'The King of Pop' (and perhaps even the curious drug overdose given to him) related to his admiration of Hitler and known 'anti-semitism' towards the Big Jews of the music industry? OF COURSE IT WAS!\nBoobus Americanus 1: I read a book review in The New York Times today about Michael Jackson. It seems that biographers remain divided as to whether he was a sex offender or not.\nBoobus Americanus 2: He had to have done something. Why else was he having sleepovers with so many kids?\nSt. Sugar: Becausse he was an arressted-development case who wasn't allowed to have friendss when he was a child himsself. The child buddiess filled a void in his tormented life.\nEditor: I too believe that he was another innocent man slandered by the usual suspects for the usual reasons.\nTomatoBubble does not sell advertising. We rely on reader support to bring you and new audiences this unique and important content.\nYou have been LIED to about Hitler and World War II. Read 'The Bad War' and learn the shocking truth that 'they' don't want you to know about.\nIT'S BACK!\nAs featured on National Radio and suddenly banned by Amazon... (after receiving more than 300 5-star reviews!)\nTHE BAD WAR\nThe Truth NEVER Taught About World War 2\n2nd Edition (Expanded \/ Post-Ban)\n'How To Respond To An Anti-Conspiracy Theorist'\n*The World War II pages of \"NWO Forbidden History'","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
+{"text":"A Young Leader\nI drove to Houston today for a terrific shape-note singing. This youngster is the newest member of an extensive and famous shape note clan (the Owens), where they start training 'em young. He had learned several songs and was completely comfortable marching to the center of the \"open square\" and announcing his choice. (The leader chooses the song from the many hundreds available in the two books we usually use.)\nSilas is so young he could barely make us understand the numerals when he identified the song by its number, but his mother helped translate. He sang out and was a good leader. He's enthusiastic about beating the time, one of the principal duties of the leader.\nThe singing lasted six hours, counting dinner on the grounds. Now I'm so hoarse I can barely talk. I know that professional singers can belt it out for hours without losing their voices, but I've never learned the trick. Though I can sing ordinary music for several hours, shape note singing is basically shouted, and it does me in. What a wonderful time I had. I got to lead four or five times. Having all the singers aim at you in the center is overwhelming.\nBy Texan99 on Saturday, December 04, 2010 0 comments\nBrined Turkey\nMark asked for our turkey brining recipe in a comment below, so here it is, from an old Food & Wine article. This is guaranteed to be the most wonderful turkey you ever tasted. Too late for Thanksgiving, but plenty of time for Christmas! It may take a while to find the juniper berries, so you can get started now. We used to pick ours off of the tree of a neighbor, but I'm sure they can be had by mail order.\nBrown butter (see below)\n2 sticks unsalted butter\nSpice mixture:\n1-1\/2 T fennel seeds\n1 large dried red chile\n1\/2 T whole allspice berries\n1\/2 T whole black peppercorns\nCured turkey:\n1-1\/2 cups coarse or kosher salt\n1\/2 cup plus 2 T sugar\n1 T thyme\n1\/2 T whole allspice berries, coarsely cracked\n1\/2 t juniper berries, crushed\nOne 14-lb turkey\nTable salt and fresh ground pepper\nMake the brown butter: in a small skillet, toast the fennel seeds, chile, allspice berries, and papppercorns over moderatly high heat, tossing frequently, until fragrant, about 3 minutes. Let cool, then transfer to a spice grinder or mortar and finely grind them. (Can keep at room temperature 2 days.)\nVegetable stuffing:\n25 garlic cloves, smashed\n3 medium onions, coarsely chopped\n1 large celery rib, coarsely chopped plus 1\/2 cup coarsely chopped celery leaves\nPrepare the cured turkey: In a very large stockpot, combine the coarse salt, sugar, bay leaves, thyme, cloves, and allspice and juniper berries. Add 2 gallons of water and bring to a boil over high heat. Remove from heat and let cool to room temperature. Add the turkey to the brine, breast side down, cover, and let stand overnight in a cool place or in the frig or a cooler overnight.\nMake the vegetable stuffing: Preheat the oven to 500 degrees. In a large bowl, toss the garlic with the onions, celery, and celery leaves and 1\/2 T of the spice mixtures; season with salt.\nSeason the inside of the turkey with salt and pepper. Spoon all but 2 cups of the stuffing into the chest and neck cavities. Using your fingers, loosen the skin from the breast without tearing it. Evenly spread the softened brown butter under the skin. Close the neck wit toothpicks.\nSet the turkey, breast side up, on a rack in a large roasting pan. Sprinkle the remaining spice mixture all over the bird and loosely tie the legs together with kitchen string. Scatter the reserved stuffing round the turkey and pour the stock over the stuffing.\nRoast the turkey for 20 minutes. Lower the oven temperature to 300 degrees, cover the turkey loosely with foil, and continue roasting for about 4 hours, basting frequently, until an instant-read thermometer inserted in the inner thigh registered 165 to 170 degrees. Add water to the pan during cooking if the juices evaporate. Transfer the turkey to a carving board and let stand at room temperature for 15 to 20 minutes before carving.\nMeanwhile, make the gravy. Pass the pan juices through a coarse strainer into the medium saucepan, pressing down on the softened vegetables to work them through the strainer. Skim the fat from the pan gravy.\nSet the roasting pan over 2 burners over moderately high heat. Add 1-1\/2 cups of water and bring to a boil, scraping up any browned bits. Lower the heat to moderate and boil, stirring constantly, until reduced by half, about 4 minutes. Stir this mixture into the pan gravy in the saucepan and season with salt and pepper . Warm the gravy through, if necessary, then pour into a sauceboat and serve alongside the turkey.\nDaring\nDaring:\nIn one of our recent discussions, Ymar asked about the question of whether the 9\/11 hijackers demonstrated courage. I answered that courage was a virtue, the virtue of facing danger in a moral way. Facing danger in an unjust or vicious way is not courage, but a sort of rashness.\nHere is Aquinas' account of the subject:\nObjection 1: It seems that daring is not a sin. For it is written (Job 39:21) concerning the horse, by which according to Gregory (Moral. xxxi) the godly preacher is denoted, that \"he goeth forth boldly to meet armed men [*Vulg.: 'he pranceth boldly, he goeth forth to meet armed men'].\" But no vice redounds to a man's praise. Therefore it is not a sin to be daring.\nObjection 2: Further, according to the Philosopher (Ethic. vi, 9), \"one should take counsel in thought, and do quickly what has been counseled.\" But daring helps this quickness in doing. Therefore daring is not sinful but praiseworthy.\nObjection 3: Further, daring is a passion caused by hope, as stated above ([3330]FS, Q[45], A[2]) when we were treating of the passions. But hope is accounted not a sin but a virtue. Neither therefore should daring be accounted a sin.\nOn the contrary, It is written (Ecclus.8:18): \"Go not on the way with a bold man, lest he burden thee with his evils.\" Now no man's fellowship is to be avoided save on account of sin. Therefore daring is a sin.\nI answer that, Daring, as stated above ([3331]FS, Q[23], A[1]; Q[55]), is a passion. Now a passion is sometimes moderated according to reason, and sometimes it lacks moderation, either by excess or by deficiency, and on this account the passion is sinful. Again, the names of the passions are sometimes employed in the sense of excess, thus we speak of anger meaning not any but excessive anger, in which case it is sinful, and in the same way daring as implying excess is accounted a sin.\nReply to Objection 1: The daring spoken of there is that which is moderated by reason, for in that sense it belongs to the virtue of fortitude.\nReply to Objection 2: It is praiseworthy to act quickly after taking counsel, which is an act of reason. But to wish to act quickly before taking counsel is not praiseworthy but sinful; for this would be to act rashly, which is a vice contrary to prudence, as stated above ([3332]Q[58], A[3]). Wherefore daring which leads one to act quickly is so far praiseworthy as it is directed by reason.\nReply to Objection 3: Some vices are unnamed, and so also are some virtues, as the Philosopher remarks (Ethic. ii, 7; iv, 4,5,6). Hence the names of certain passions have to be applied to certain vices and virtues: and in order to designate vices we employ especially the names of those passions the object of which is an evil, as in the case of hatred, fear, anger and daring. But hope and love have a good for this object, and so we use them rather to designate virtues.\nI would make one correction to Aquinas' account: the daring spoken of in objection one is the daring of the horse.\nHast thou given the horse strength? hast thou clothed his neck with thunder?\nCanst thou make him afraid as a grasshopper? the glory of his nostrils is terrible.\nHe paweth in the valley, and rejoiceth in his strength: he goeth on to meet the armed men.\nHe mocketh at fear, and is not affrighted; neither turneth he back from the sword.\nThe quiver rattleth against him, the glittering spear and the shield.\nHe swalloweth the ground with fierceness and rage: neither believeth he that it is the sound of the trumpet.\nHe saith among the trumpets, Ha, ha; and he smelleth the battle afar off, the thunder of the captains, and the shouting.\nThis is an interesting passage, though: because horses are like that, but only if men make them so. By pure nature, a horse will avoid any danger, and is scared like a grasshoppper -- or of a grasshopper. The Lord's point in speaking to Job, if Job were the kind of man who could understand it, was that this is indeed what men do with horses.\nSo what do we say about the passage, then? That it was written by someone who didn't know much about horses? Or that it was written with an intent to convey our role in shaping and mastering animals? Is it an irony, among the other passages wherein men are proven to be ignorant and weak? Or does it mean something?\nBy Grim on Friday, December 03, 2010 0 comments\nCompetition & Women:\nWe've got some pretty competitive women around here, one of whom wants to talk about this story. So let's ask two questions about it: First, are women really less competitive than men? Second, if they were, would it be a problem?\nBoth were clerical, but one was titled \"Seeking Sports News Assistant.\" The other was described as more generic office work. In all, nearly 7,000 people replied to one of the two positions. Interested applicants received an e-mail detailing how the job would work. All were told they would have frequent deadlines, and there would be a high value placed on producing timely quality information. Some applicants, though, were told they would be getting a fixed $15 an hour for their work. Others were told the job would pay a base salary plus a bonus. In the second scheme, the new hires would be placed in pairs, and the one whose work was deemed the best would get the additional pay. Still interested? Send in your resume and application, the e-mail said.\nFor both jobs, more females replied to both job listings than males. Of the applicants to the sports assistant position, 53.5% of those interested were women. The generic job listing was split 80-20 females to male.\nWait, that doesn't sound like women are less competitive at all! It sounds like women are out there trying for a job at greater rates than men, even if it's a job like 'sports news reporter,' which one might expect to be favored by men.\nWell, it goes on:\nHere's the interesting part: for both jobs, when the element of the bonus was added, males were far more likely to actually send in their application than females. Or worded the other way around, females were more likely to pass on the job once they found out part of their pay would be based on their performance versus a co-worker. In the most competitive salary structure, where the base pay was $12 an hour and the bonus $6, List determined that men were 55.5% more likely to apply for the job than women.\nSo, once they are informed that the job is going to require them to compete in the long term, from day to day, a lot of the women pass.\nSo, the answer to the first question might be: it depends on what you mean by \"competitive.\" Are women more likely to go for a job? Sounds like it. Are they more likely to pass on a job that requires them to fight against their co-workers every day? Sounds like it.\nI'd say the answer to the second question is, \"No,\" but we can talk about that in the comments.\nBy Grim on Thursday, December 02, 2010 0 comments\nLegalize What?\nThis story presents a very good opportunity to discuss that field of philosophy called consequentialism.\nThe research found that child sex crimes fell when child pornography was more easily accessible.\nThe discovery tallies with similar studies in Denmark and Japan, where child pornography is not illegal, that found incidences of child sex abuse were lower in those countries.\nThe conclusion of the new study is that 'artificially-produced' child pornography should be made available to prevent real children being abused.\nI think that by 'artificially produced' they mean something like cartoons and animation. So, the idea is that legalizing cartoons about child rape will reduce the incidence of actual rape of real children.\nFor the sake of argument, let's say that is true; and furthermore, that the effect is large enough that we're talking about saving a fairly large number of children from being raped.\nDoes that justify legalizing child porn cartoons? Explain and defend your answer. :)\nScience of Lit\nA \"Science\" of Literature:\nThere was a time when history went through the same argument. In fact, history went so far down this road that some historians claimed that history was a science, not just that it could benefit from some scientific methods.\nThe importance of the distinction between arts and sciences is a topic I've written about since the earliest days of the Hall. In those days I was especially driven by the damage being done to science by the art of psychology (which even has an -ology name, normally characteristic of sciences). Which, by the way, did you know that one in five Americans suffers from mental illness... according to these 'scientists'? Psychology is the only medical 'science' in which increased funding always seems to lead to an increased incidence of 'disease.'\nThe problems of psychology are most pernicious because they are used to justify legal restrictions on liberty; but the problems for human understanding are also serious. The fact is that history has benefitted from some scientific methodology: but it has not benefitted from the idea that it is doing 'social science.' In order to keep the science clean and reliable, you have to exclude a huge number of things from history that were of the utmost importance to the people making the decisions you are trying to chronicle. The alternative is to include the important things, and muddy the \"science\" out of measure. That is at least as true in literature.\nBoth arts and sciences are noble pursuits, worthy and fine. We benefit from a clean distinction between what is and is not science. It's important to defend that distinction.\nA Brief, Splendid Life\nThe death of a former colleague is very much on my mind this week. At the height of a splendid career, only 47 years old, he died piloting a small plane that was taking him, along with his wife's mother (assistant VP for research services at Texas A&M) and uncle (recently appointed BP head of Gulf Coast recovery operations), to a family Thanksgiving gathering in the Florida panhandle. All perished. His wife's grief is unimaginable to me. He left three sons nearly grown, one a student at Texas A&M.\nHis name was Greg Coleman. He came to work in the mid-90s for the law firm at which I spent most of my professional life. His unusual career there was a mark of the high regard we all had for him. He took his law degree in 1992 at the age of 29, after a two-year LDS mission in Japan followed by a B.S. and M.B.A., then honored us by succumbing to our recruiting efforts. He delayed his starting date, however, so that he could clerk for renowned conservative Fifth Circuit justice Edith Jones. He then joined us as a litigation associate for one short year, which was long enough for everyone to realize we had something special. Next he made the unusual request to take a leave of absence to clerk for Justice Clarence Thomas for a couple of years. At last we welcomed him back as a associate in 1996, when he was 33 years old. He soon specialized in appellate work and struck his colleagues with his combination of uncommon decency and lucidity of thought. Although he was a strongly principled conservative thinker working among a lot of orthodox liberals, it was obvious he would be made a partner as soon as humanly possible.\nHe threw another wrench in the works when then-Texas-Attorney-General John Cornyn (now U.S. Senator from Texas) created the new office of Texas Solicitor General in 1999 and asked Greg to serve, at the age of 36. For two years he represented the State of Texas in high-profile appellate cases, then returned to our firm in 2001, swiftly being made not only a partner but head of his own national appellate litigation department. (This in a firm that normally has a 7- or 8-year partner track.) By 2007, when he left the firm, to its intense regret, he already had successfully argued four cases to the United States Supreme Court. He joined a small appellate litigation boutique in Austin, where before long his name was on the masthead. You can read here how deeply he wove himself into the lives of his colleagues there in the three short years that remained of his life, and how many varieties of public service he managed to pack into the time he had on earth. Last year, he successfully argued the case of the \"New Haven 20\" firefighters in their reverse-discrimination case (Ricci v. DeStephano) before the Supreme Court. The firefighters' website offers a tribute to him today. His New Haven colleague in that case had this informal eulogy to offer:\n\"Greg had all the right stuff \u2014 he was both a brilliant lawyer and a man of impeccable morals in a profession where that is increasingly scarce,\" Torre said. \"His quiet rectitude provided a needed counterbalance to the anger and bitterness that I felt at having to go so far to vindicate a principle I thought was plain: that every man should be judged on his character and worth, not the color of his skin.\nBy Texan99 on Wednesday, December 01, 2010 0 comments\nSt. Cadoc's\nA Surprise at St. Cadoc's:\nWhy it makes sense to fix the roof of the church once in a while... at least, if your church is six hundred years old.\nBy Grim on Monday, November 29, 2010 0 comments\nEpicurus:\nA professor of French literature has some advice about eating. Being reasonably good advice, we find that its source is ancient philosophy (and not French literature, which in the post-medieval period hasn't been very good, exceptis excipiendis).\nThe epidemiologist cannot tell us what the Epicurean wants to know: What should I choose to love without guilt? What is good for me? What keeps me happy? What, in the best sense, keeps me healthy?\nIn certain European philosophical circles, there has been a recent spike of interest in Epicurus, and not only among Marxists (Marx wrote his doctoral thesis on Epicurus). Like every Greek, Epicurus was obliged to believe in the pantheon of Greek gods who lived on Mount Olympus; but he did so without having to suppose that these gods were even remotely interested in human affairs. As a result, Epicurus needed to find principles for living that were based not on theological but on materialist (or, we might say, scientific) conceptions of the world\u2014those which explained all nature, including mind and spirit, with reference not to the supernatural but to harmonies and atomic processes....\nNeo-Epicureans argue that the entire philosophical tradition since Plato\u2014perhaps philosophy itself\u2014has always rejected materialism and has forever been in love with idealism. Even the so-called materialist philosophies exhibit forms of Platonic idealism; this idealism may be turned on its head, as it were, but its articulations are still in place.\nAn aside, because it will be of interest to some of you: That was Marx's complaint about them, that materialism wasn't adequately materialist. What does that mean? Briefly, that materialist philosophy was still positing a mind apart from the meat. Subsequent philosophers have tried to rectify that; Sebastian R\u00f6dl had a book out just three years ago promising a \"true materialist\" account of self consciousness, the problem that we (especially Joe and I) have discussed here. (R\u00f6dl's account isn't very convincing, if you were about to rush out and order the book; indeed, I'm not sure it qualifies as an account. If you're interested in exploring the question, we can discuss it further.)\nBut, back to eating. We have now a rather bold assertion from our French literary scholar:\nThe new, radical Epicureanism, on the other hand, is nonphilosophical.\nReally? Go on.\nIt is a new way of articulating the relation between theory and practice; it is a praxis of thinking about pleasure and its value, in and of itself, as well as from the standpoint of health. Like Nietzsche, the Epicurean does not aspire to negate philosophy, for that would be only another way of affirming it. Philosophy is nothing but the history of its successive negations. Rather, Epicurus teaches us how to look away from the tradition. \"Looking up and away shall be my only negation,\" Nietzsche asserts in The Gay Science. Like Nietzsche, neo-Epicureans start their thinking not with ideas but with what Epicurus insists is the origin of thought, the body.\nBroadly put, neo-Epicureans suppose not only that you are what you eat, but that you think what you eat. Take German idealism, says Nietzsche. It has the leaden consistency and gaseous redolence of a diet thick with potatoes. Italian thought, one might add, is marked by the slippery texture and doughy blandness of pasta. Jewish metaphysics has the astringency and smoky intensity of briny pickles and cured fish. The indistinctness of Buddhist thought resembles white rice. Neo-Epicureans aim to discover not just a philosophy of being but a hygiene for living; not a universal system but a way of thinking about good health in terms of the peculiar proclivities of the individual body.\nSorry, boys. That's a philosophy, whether you like it or not. Indeed, you give the game away yourself when you say that it's \"not just\" a philosophy, but also a hygiene.\nSpeaking of which, I can think of a precedent for this philosophy in French literature. Perhaps he comes by it honestly, then.\nWhat sort of a philosophy is it? A good one, as far as it follows this form: eat enough, and well enough, to be satisfied; not so little as to be hungry, nor so poorly as to be sick, but also not so much as to suffer digestive malfunction or obesity. That's the hygiene.\nWhy a philosophy, though? If you go no farther along the road than perfecting the body, you've missed an important point. The body isn't an end in itself, after all; it will eventually sicken and die even if you take perfect care of it. Waylon Jennings and Jerry Reed can tell you that (following Shel Silverstein's poem, as Johnny Cash had followed another in \"A Boy Named Sue\").\nSo 'you're getting real healthy, but you're still gonna die.' The human mind has a potential far more vast than the maintenance of the body, for the majority of your life; but the body is doomed in spite of the mind's best efforts, when the time comes. The mind is therefore too great a tool to be aimed at the maintenance of the body for most of our lives; and a tool entirely insufficient for that purpose when we reach our designated time. This should be adequate proof that a philosophy aimed only at the material is insufficient for us.\nWhat's left, then, if not the mind and the ideas it can contain? Some of these ideas may be actualized, as in the case of an engineer who dreams of spacecraft; others may remain ideas, but inspire others, as in a composer who writes symphonies.\nThe day-to-day health of the body cannot be our end, for we are too much for that; neither can its permanent survival be our end, for we are too little for that. To write, to think, to design, to compose, these things are more fit for us. Of them all, though, the greatest and hardest challenge may simply be to understand.\nBy Grim on Sunday, November 28, 2010 0 comments\nEpicurus: A professor of French literature has so...","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
+{"text":"Michelle Obama Is the Most Admired Woman in America\nBy Barbara Sobel on December 28, 2018 1 Comment\nA new Gallup Poll was just released for the most admired woman in America for 2018. For the past 17 years, Hillary Clinton was Queen. This year was different. Stealing the title was former First Lady Michelle Obama.\nSince 1946, with the exception of 1776, the Gallup Poll has asked random people to \"name any man or woman who is alive today whom they admire the most.\" The person can be anywhere in the world. Between December 3-12, 1,025 Americans were interviewed by phone.\nFifteen percent named Obama who is presently on a worldwide tour, selling out stadiums and theaters promoting her best selling book \"Becoming,\" which hit the shelves on Nov. 13, 2018. The book sold over 2 million copies in North America alone in the first 15 days of its release.\nPresently in its sixth printing, in the United States and Canada, the book has sold an astonishing 3-4 million copies. \"Becoming\" became the best selling book of 2018 and was published in 31 different languages. Showing no signs of slowing down the book became a No. 1 best seller in the U.K., France, Italy, Germany, Spain, Holland, Denmark, Norway, Finland, and Greece.\n\"Becoming\" topped the coveted New York Times bestseller list for two weeks, and topped the bestseller lists from USA Today and Publishers Weekly.\nAdditionally, Obama's book crushed the sales of any other recent political figure's biography. Hillary Clinton's book \"Living History\" took one month to sell 1 million copies. Bill Clinton's book \"My Life,\" while hitting 1 million copies quickly, slowed down considerably to sell 2 million. George W. Bush's book \"Decision Points\" released in 2010 took several weeks to sell 2 million copies.\nAnother woman on the poll was Oprah Winfrey who came in second with 5 percent of the votes. Winfrey has come in second on 14 occasions, but she never hit number one.\nThe former Secretary of State tied with Melania Trump taking the third and fourth spot scoring 4 percent. Rounding out the list was Queen Elizabeth and German Counselor Angela Merkel, each garnering 2 percent. Ellen DeGeneres came in last at 1 percent.\nBoth Winfrey and Clinton have appeared in the poll numerous times; 31 and 27 years respectively.\nKeeping it in the family, Obama's husband, former President Barack Obama, took the most admired man award. He took the spot by 19 percent and has held that spot for the past 11 years. If Obama wins the spot again in 2019, he will hold the record for having the most years as the most admired man tying with former President Dwight Eisenhower.\nThe year 2018 marks the 13th time an incumbent president, Donald Trump, did not hit number one on the poll. If Trump does not hit the top spot during his presidency he and Gerald Ford will be the only presidents who were not chosen the most admired male while in the White House.\nPresident Trump placed second for a fourth year, scoring 13 percent of the votes. Former President George W. Bush and Pope Francis tied for third with 2 percent of the votes. Microsoft owner and philanthropist Bill Gates came in fourth with 1 percent of the votes.\nThirty-two percent of those who identified themselves Republican named Trump and 35 percent of Democrats named Barack Obama. Seven percent of Republicans asked were more likely to name Obama while 1 percent of Democrats would name Trump.\nTwo men who were regularly on the list who passed away in 2018 were noticeably absent, Senator John McCain and Reverend Billy Graham. The Gallup Poll has a margin of error of plus or minus for percentage points.\nWritten by Barbara Sobel\nEdited by Cathy Milne-Ware\nNBC News: Michelle Obama voted most admired woman, bumps Hillary Clinton from top spot: Gallup\nYahoo News: Michelle Obama displaces Clinton as 'most admired' woman\nBBC News: Michelle Obama takes 'most admired woman' title from Hillary Clinton\nCNBC: Michelle Obama wins America 's 'Most Admired Woman' Gallup Poll\nFortune: Michelle Obama's 'Becoming' Is the Best-Selling Book of 2018\nFeatured and Top Image Courtesy of Mike Baird's Flickr Page \u2013 Creative Commons License\nBarack Obama, Hillary Clinton, Melania Trump, Obama, Pope Francis\nMichelle Obama Is the Most Admired Woman in America added by Barbara Sobel on December 28, 2018\nView all posts by Barbara Sobel \u2192\nOne Response to \"Michelle Obama Is the Most Admired Woman in America\"\nEmmanuel Love March 10, 2019 at 10:25 pm\nDid you hear that the powers that run this world want to put a RFID microchip in our body? It will contain not only our bank accounts but our personal information, making us total slaves to the elite. This will cause us to lose even more of our privacy.\nDid you know that this RFID microchip matches perfectly with the Mark of the Beast in the Bible, more specifically Revelation 13:16-18?\n\"He causes all, both small and great, rich and poor, free and slave, to receive a mark on their right hand or on their foreheads, and that no one may buy or sell except one who has the mark or the name of the beast, or the number of his name\u2026\"\nReferring to the last days, this could only be speaking of a cashless society, which we have yet to see, but are heading towards. Otherwise, we could still buy or sell without the mark amongst others if physical money was still currency. It's amazing that the Bible foretold a cashless society!\nDid you also hear that the Jewish people are in the process of bringing about the Third Temple prophesied in the Bible by the prophet Daniel, Jesus, and Apostle Paul? They deny Jesus as their Messiah and say their Messiah will be revealed to rule the whole world under a one world religion. They are not even hiding this information, but are actually promoting it. You can view videos about this on YouTube.\nWhen Donald Trump made Jerusalem captial of Israel in late December 2017, the Jewish people said this was a big step for them to build this Third Temple. They even printed a Temple coin with president Trump's face on the front with king Cyrus'(the man who built the Second Temple in the Bible) face behind him. On the back of the coin is an image of the Third Temple. They are selling these coins to raise money to build the Temple.\nPeople have been saying for many years that the end is near, but we needed not only the Third Temple, but also the technology for there to be a cashless society for the Mark of the Beast to be a reality.\nThere is much more to know, please visit http:\/\/WWW.BIBLEFREEDOM.COM to see all the proof!\nGOD BLESS, JESUS LOVES YOU!","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
+{"text":"Weather correspondent Dylan Dreyer's early days in broadcasting media\nDylan Dreyer was born as Dylan Marie Dreyer on August 2, 1981, in Manalapan Township, New Jersey. Unfortunately, no details of her childhood days and educational background could be traced. However, we do know that she was interested in broadcasting media, most probably the weather broadcast, since her early days.\nDylan is the granddaughter of Doris Milke. Doris was a \"record-setting winner\" of a TV game show - original The Price Is Right.\nDylan has Bachelors in meteorology from the Rutgers University. She started off her career through Pennsylvania-based WCIU. She also worked for Providence, Rhode Island-based WJAR, and Boston-based WHDH. She worked in the NBC affiliate WHDH from 2007 to 2012.\nIn 2013, Dylan got into a car accident, while on the route to cover a snowstorm. The accident caused her a mild concussion. Active in the television industry since 2003, Dylan Dreyer has contributed more than a decade in the field and has accumulated a notable amount in her account. Reportedly, Dylan Dreyer is an owner of approx. 1 million USD net worth.","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
+{"text":"Loy Norrix Freshman Will Change the Way You Look At Computers\nBy Alex Vonhof\nFreshman Jason Howard sits working on his mom's computer. He took this computer apart to replace the hard drive and put it back together so that it works better. Photo Credit \/ Alex Vonhof\n\"I took it apart and I ended up breaking a little tiny piece inside of it that made the fan work,\" said freshman Jason Howard, talking about struggling with a computer. \"After that I tried fixing it, but I ended up breaking it more so I basically just smashed it into pieces and threw it away.\"\nHoward likes to take apart computers in his house. He's always been very interested in technology. His parents gave him a computer when he was really young and he used to use it all the time. He thought the computer was interesting because he could play games on it. After a few years of just playing games on his computer, he began taking computers apart around age 12.\nOne would think that taking apart computers is a very complicated and long process, but Howard does it with ease. It takes him approximately 10 minutes to disassemble a desktop computer and approximately 1-2 hours for a laptop. This is the case because the layout of a laptop's interior is much different and more complicated than the layout of a desktop.\nIn order to take apart a desktop computer, one must remove the outer cover. Removing the cover opens up the inside of the computer. As long as a person knows where everything is, the rest of it is fairly simple, just a lot of unscrewing screws and unplugging things.\nThe overall process is similar for laptops. Everything is more compact and therefore harder to see and to find, which means that the process takes longer.\nWhat started out as an amateur interest became more of an obsession. Initially Howard worked on only a few computers, but eventually expanded his collection so he could gain more experience. He purchased all of his computers from garage sales, which means that for the most part they are very inexpensive.\nFrom the time he started to now, Howard estimates that he has taken apart 18 computers. This has made him somewhat of an expert and can explain his ability to take apart desktop computers in only 10 minutes.\nHoward's parents have been very supportive of his interest because it means that they don't have to call a professional in order to get their computers fixed, they can just ask him for help.\nEven Howard's school administrators and teachers knew of his skills with a computer.\n\"In middle school I used to get called out of class to go fix computers instead of the IT department,\" said Howard.\nCurrently Howard is interested in the hardware component of computers. Being a freshman, he is too young to participate in any EFEs or dual enroll at KVCC to take classes in computer science. Classes such as these are available starting sophomore year.\n\"I would really like to take a class about coding next year, but I can't right now because I'm too young to dual enroll,\" said Howard.\nHe hasn't had much past experience with coding, but has made a web browser as well as a calculator through coding. His hopes for the future are to pursue this more.\nHoward definitely plans on continuing working with computers no matter what, whether it is the hardware aspect of it or working on codes and software for the computers.\n\"In the future, I want to help people fix their computers and help them figure out how to use them,\" said Howard.\nAlex Vonhof\nloy norrix","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
+{"text":"Guest Speakers old\nInspiring Words From Inspiring People!\nChacham David Yosef\nChacham David Yosef is a prominent and renowned Israeli rabbi who has authored dozens of prominent books in Jewish Law mainly based on the rulings of his father, Rabbi Ovadia Yosef. He is highly regarded as one of the most influential Sephardic Rabbi's in the world due to having scores of students serving as Rabbinic figures across the globe. David Yosef is the chief rabbi of the Har Nof neighborhood in Jerusalem the head of the Yechaveh Da'at Kollel and a member of the Moetzet Chachmei HaTorah of the Shas party. Yosef is also a lecturer at Chazaq, a New York City-based outreach organization for Jewish public-school students. He is a frequent guest by the Syrian American community in Brooklyn and the Sephardic community in France and Mexico.\nDuring Chacham David Yosef's last visit in Florida, he came to talk to the Talmidim and gave them all blessings to be successful B'nei Torah.\nMr. Ari Pearl is the Founder and Chief Executive Officer of PPG Development, an owner and developer of commercial and residential real estate. Mr. Pearl has been involved in Real Estate Development since 2001, with a primary focus in South Florida. Mr. Pearl came to enlighten the Talmidim about what it means to be in the business world and to be an entrepreneur. He walked the Talmidim through how he got to where he is today and gave the Talmidim lots of advice on how to utilize their time now to prepare themselves to set them up for success. Talmidim were highly appreciative and involved in what Pearl shared with them.\nMr. Ari Pearl\nRabbi Eli Mansour\nRabbi Eli Mansour is currently the head Rabbi of The Edmond J Safra Synagogue in Brooklyn, New York, where he continues to spread Torah and provide inspiration. In addition to his lecturing and communal responsibilities, Rabbi Mansour devotes himself to intensive Torah learning, studying each day at the Keter Sion Kollel and in the Kollel Aram Soba.\nRabbi Mansour is among the Torah world's most sought-after speakers, throughout the United States and in communities around the globe.\nRabbi Mansour came to speak to our Talmidim when he was last in South Florida. The Talmidim felt very inspired by his profound and spiritual words of Torah that he shared with them.\nMr. Joshua Levine has been an associate in the firm's Business Litigation practice group since 2013. Josh Primarily concentrates on complex commercial litigation and business disputes. Josh received his J.D. from the University of Miami School of Law in 2013.\nMr. Levine came to speak to our Talmidim and tell them all about the \"law world.\" He enlightened the Talmidim all about the process of becoming a lawyer. He then had a Q&A Session for the Talmidim for over 30 minutes. The Talmidim immensely appreciated the wealth of knowledge he gave the boys.\nMr. Joshua Levine\nDavid Koegel\nDavid Koegel Managing Director of Sterling National Bank- VP Banking and lending services for middle market business owners and high net worth individuals. Mr. Koegel talked to the Talmidim about being financially responsible, the importance of being on top of your accounts, how to protect your accounts properly as well as how to try and invest strategically.\nRabbi Duvi Bensoussan currently serves as the head Rabbi to the congregation and gives daily classes in Gemara, Halacha, Torah, Musar and a variety of subjects relevant to the community \u2013 many of which are recorded and available online.\nHe spoke to the Talmidim about the importance of standing up for what you believe in. He also addressed the concept of pushing through even when things seem challenging.\nRav Duvi Bensoussan","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
+{"text":"Do drug tests test for EtG?\nAlan Bolin\nEtG is not suitable for occupational drug testing since it does not identify present impairment or prove current alcohol intake during working hours. However, if an employee claims not to have consumed alcohol in several days or weeks, there may be reason to suspect that he or she is lying about alcohol use. An employer can rule out false claims by requiring all employees to submit to random drug tests. These tests should be conducted by a laboratory that uses gas chromatography\/mass spectrometry (GCMS) technology for analysis. Employees should be warned that failure to comply could result in termination of employment.\nIn general, yes, drug tests do test for EtG. Drug tests measure the presence of drugs and their metabolites in your body fluids (urine, blood, saliva). The only drug on this list that doesn't appear on any standard drug test is EtG, which is why it's important to know this fact about drug tests when trying to figure out what will fail them. Ethanol is found in urine, blood, and hair samples. Since most drug tests check for the presence of ethanol, an employee would have to consume significant amounts of alcohol in very close proximity to being tested in order for a sample to produce a negative result for this substance.\nWhat kind of test is an ETG test?\nDo EtG tests really work?\nCan an ETG test detect alcohol after four days?\nIs the ETG urine alcohol test reliable or unreliable?\nWhen someone has ingested alcohol, the EtG test identifies the presence of ethyl glucuronide in their urine. Urine tests are typically administered to those who have been ordered by a court not to consume alcohol or by companies who randomly test personnel to detect if they have been drinking on the job.\nEthyl glucuronide is a chemical marker found in the body long after drinking has stopped. Because ETG remains in the body for up to two weeks after last consuming alcohol, it can be used to confirm recent alcohol use. The test cannot determine how much alcohol was consumed or how many drinks someone had at once. It also does not indicate whether alcohol was consumed before or after a patient's surgery date.\nCourt-ordered alcohol monitoring programs usually includes several tests over a certain period of time. For example, some programs require participants to provide three consecutive clean samples during different visits. These samples are then analyzed for alcohol using methods such as gas chromatography\/mass spectrometry (GCMS).\nParticipants are often asked to refrain from drinking for 24 hours prior to providing a sample. However, this is not always possible because of work obligations or other factors outside of our control. In these cases, patients should provide samples as soon as possible but no more than 72 hours after their last drink.\nSample collection containers should be stored at room temperature and shipped according to the manufacturer's instructions.\nA breathalyzer cannot guarantee that a person did not consume alcohol in the days preceding the test, but an EtG test may. EtG tests are incredibly sensitive and may detect even trace amounts of alcohol. If a person has been exposed to one of the numerous products containing alcohol, this might result in some false positives. However many companies have now started to make EtG test kits specifically for consumers who want to know if they have drank enough to trigger a penalty box on their car insurance policy.\nIn conclusion, yes, an EtG test works very well to show whether or not a person has consumed any amount of alcohol within the last few days. It is very accurate if used properly and gives us a good indication of how much a person has drunk. However, like all other forms of drug testing, it can give false negatives or positives depending on what product a person uses before the test. Also, people who have been exposed to alcohol might also get false positives. Finally, people who drink only beer, wine, or liquor should be able to use an EtG test kit correctly. People who drink mixed drinks or who drink alcohol mixed with another substance might get false positives if they use the wrong kit.\nEtG is a direct metabolite of alcohol that the body produces. Its presence in urine can be utilized to determine alcohol usage in the previous 80 hours (approximately). Even after light to moderate drinking, an EtG test might be positive for 3 to 4 days. Ethyl glucuronide is a biomarker that reveals if the body has recently digested alcohol. As it leaves the body, urine will continue to show evidence of alcohol use for up to four months after the last drink.\nThe best time to provide a sample for this test is when you first get out of bed in the morning. The most accurate results come from testing freshly produced urine. However, samples can also be used to confirm past alcohol use. In fact, studies have shown that EtG remains detectable in urine for up to four months after cessation of drinking.\nETG tests are commonly performed along with other drugs of abuse. This helps identify individuals who may be at risk for adverse reactions or interactions with medications. The test does not measure blood alcohol content. Instead, it looks for the presence of EtG, which is found only in urine. This means that people who have not consumed any alcohol but who carry out tasks requiring cognitive ability such as driving a car or operating machinery can still produce positive results on an ETG test.\nETG tests are usually done in laboratories using liquid or gas chromatography and mass spectrometry techniques. A small sample of urine is required.\nThe EtG urine alcohol test is widely used. However, the test is unreliable. That is SAMSHA's warning. (The Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration in the United States.) Because of this risk, the agency does not recommend using the EtG urine alcohol test as the only means of determining whether an employee is drinking too much beer at work.\nEven if the employer uses the EtG test regularly and finds no signs of intoxication, this does not mean that the employee is not drinking at work. There are many reasons why the test may give false negative results. For example: if the employee drinks more than 24 hours after taking the drug, the result will be false negative. If the employee has certain medications in his or her system, the result may be false negative. If the employee has recent mouth trauma or dental work, the result may be false negative. If the employee has a history of gastric problems or acid reflux disease, the result may be false negative.\nEmployers should not rely on the result of the EtG test alone to determine whether or not their employees are drinking too much beer at work. The test has been shown to have high rates of false negatives. Therefore, employers should use other methods to screen for drinking on the job, such as breathalyzers, saliva tests, etc.\nAlan Bolin is a very experienced security officer. He has many years of experience in the field, and knows how to handle any emergency situation. Alan loves his job because he gets to help people feel safe by doing what he does best!\nDataHack4fi.org is a participant in the Amazon Services LLC Associates Program, an affiliate advertising program designed to provide a means for sites to earn advertising fees by advertising and linking to Amazon.com.\nHow far back does a 10-panel urine test go?\nHow far back does a hair drug test test for?\nAuthor: Milton Mcelvaine\nWill ethyl alcohol show up on a drug test?\nHow do you do a breath test for alcohol?\nAuthor: Julian Riddell\nHow accurate is the drug confirm test?\nAuthor: Derrick True\nCan a swab test be used to test for alcohol?\nBy Michael Denny\nHow far back can a hair drug test show?\nHow accurate is the swab test for marijuana?\nBy Michael Cook\nWhat is tested on a 12-panel drug test?\nBy Shawn Fauver","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
+{"text":"Many years ago, my husband's friend Ken Campbell lost his 18-year-old daughter in a car accident. Ken pastored a church here in South Jersey, and Gwendolyn was a student at Word of Life Bible Institute in New York.\nShe had come home for the wedding of a friend who worked at The Friends of Israel (FOI) headquarters and had gone to Walmart to pick up a few things. As the car she was riding in emerged from the parking lot, another car slammed into it and killed her.\nMy husband visited Ken. Understandably, everyone was extremely upset. But Ken told Tom something I'll never forget. \"I teach the sovereignty of God,\" he said. \"I believe in the sovereignty of God. But now I've come to love the sovereignty of God.\"\nNothing can give an individual more peace than wholly trusting in God, who is in absolute control of everything. This issue of Israel My Glory is devoted to a small yet important portion of the wonderful book of Isaiah that emphasizes God's sovereignty.\nWe live in troubled times. But God holds the world in the palm of His hand, and He isn't dropping it. He tells us, \"I appointed the ancient people. And the things that are coming and shall come. . . . Do not fear, nor be afraid\" (Isa. 44:7\u20138). \"I am the LORD, and there is no other\" (45:5). \"I have made the earth, and created man on it. I\u2014My hands\u2014stretched out the heavens, and all their host I have commanded\" (v. 12). \"Look to Me, and be saved, all you ends of the earth!\" (v. 22). \"My counsel shall stand, and I will do all My pleasure\" (46:10). \"And I will place salvation in Zion, for Israel My glory\" (v. 13).\nWe hope this issue encourages you\u2014and inspires you to worship and pray to the sovereign God of the universe who loves us so much He sent His Son to pay for our sin so that we can live with Him eternally through faith in Jesus, the Messiah of Israel and Savior of the world.\nWith this issue, we also inaugurate a new feature, \"The Friends of Israel in Action.\" Many of you may not realize all we do here at FOI. For example, we run a free medical clinic in Argentina, Bible camps in Eastern Europe, churches in Israel, and so much more.\nWe hope you enjoy this issue and that it will kindle within you a love for the sovereignty of God.\nMeditating on God\nThe Father Knows Best\nThe Future-Teller\nThe Absurdity of Idolatry\nGoodbye, Year of the Virus\nIsrael, Lebanon Talk Maritime Borders\nThe Friends of Israel in Action Jan\/Feb 2021\nQ: Who Created Evil?\nCyrus, 'My Shepherd'\nWhy Animal Sacrifice?\nStand Strong in Christ\nChoose Joy!\nMany years ago, my husband's friend Ken Campbell lost his 18-year-old daughter in a car accident. Ken pastored a church here in South Jersey, and Gwendolyn was a student at Word of Life...\nHealth experts agree that walking 10,000 steps a day is a good thing. So I do this \"good thing\" regularly, and I can tell you that my Oy veys grow louder every time I start walking. But I can also tell you that...\n\"Welcome to the State of Israel,\" the guard said, smiling as he checked us through security and into the Embassy of Israel in Washington, DC. My wife and I attended a function there...\nIn 1949, a show called Father Knows Best debuted on the radio. It made the transition to television in 1954, starring Robert Young, who played Jim Anderson, the father of three children...\nHarold Summers\nA peculiar industry has been growing in America. It generates $2 billion in revenue a year and employs roughly 85,000 people who are primarily mediums, astrologers, palm readers, and fortune-tellers...\nSam Coonrod made news last summer when he refused to kneel. The then-27-year-old relief pitcher for the San Francisco Giants was the only baseball player...","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
+{"text":"Mary Kay Ash Home Bites the Dust, R.I.P.\nSay goodbye to another Dallas icon. The home of the late Mary Kay Ash, the founder of Dallas-based Mary Kay Inc., is being torn down as we speak, at 8915 Douglas Ave.\nThe 11,874-square-foot mansion, in the honeypot Old Preston Hollow, was built in 1984. The Dallas Central Appraisal District has the home valued at $1.91 million, interesting because it was sold for $1.85 million. Its condition is listed as \"very poor.\" And it's obvious the house has not been loved in a long time.\nShrubbery is to be maintained so as to not to disturb the neighbors.\n\"It was dilapidated inside, and it's really sad,\" says someone who has been inside recently. \"No one has lived there in years. The materials were not of high quality, and looks like water had gotten up through the foundation.\"\nThe really valuable chandeliers and marble pieces are also gone.\nEven the pink quartz bathroom commode is going.\nA demolition permit was issued for the property on March 6, but the current owner has been planning to tear it down since last August. The home has six bedrooms, five full bathrooms, and four half-bathrooms, and sits on 1.05 primo acres that back up to the Dallas North Tollway. It was sold December 28, 2015, for $1.85 million.\nAllie Beth Allman agent Karen Luter was the listing agent for the owner, Dr. Karen Gillum, who had been trying to sell the property for years. At one point the home was listed at $5.7 million with Myla Patton, back in 2007. Successive agents kept lowering the price until Karen did the magic.\nWho is the new owner? We have been trying to find out for a long time. Dallas-based Pelicans Corp. Services LLC is listed as the property's owner but\u2026well, stay tuned.\nBuilt in 1984, remodeled in 2000, the estate featured manicured lawns with fountains, pools, koi ponds, arboretum like gardens, Brazilian teakwood flooring, grand sweeping staircases (two or three), statues, arcades of Corinthian columns, a wine cellar, walls of beveled glass windows, hand painted murals, original pink quartz-marble hardware, indescribable mill work and that pink quartz commode. The lime green carpet on the stairs is the original that hosted many a top producer party. The kitchen has the original white Corian counters and Mary Kay's own breakfast table (one of them) under the massive chandelier.\nWhen I first saw the home years ago, right after Mary Kay had moved out, it held no oriental rugs. It has been listed by Myla Patton of Patton International Real Estate for $5.7 in 2007, then with Linda Jordan Hobbs over at Ebby for $4.995 million.\nYou know, Alex Rodriquez, or A-Rod, who used to live next door, still drives up Douglas every time he visits Dallas just to take a gander at the home he owned, right next door to Mary Kay's pink castle. Sadly, he will have one less reminder of his days in Dallas on his next visit.\ncelebrity real estate, Dallas Demolition, Mary Kay Ash, Preston Hollow\n8915 Douglas Ave., R.I.P.\nChanging PD-15 to Rebuild Preston Place\u2026Maybe\nBlue Harris March 14, 2017 at 6:38 pm\nThe house looks so sad now. Back in the early 1990's I did an upstairs bathroom (pink and green of course, which I had removed but had to replace back after the show), a long hallway and alcove for the Dallas Symphony Showhouse. All the designers had to restore it back to its original 'grandure'\u2026\nI still have a playful letter Dame Mary Kay wrote for me to place on a table in that alcove. First time I have thought of that letter in a long time.\nI think we all will be following the journey of this house, as it has winded it way into our Dallas lives for many a year.\nBeth Fitzgerald March 14, 2017 at 7:38 pm\nHouses are just commodities these days. Not homes that are pass from family to family. Tear it down, build something bigger and taller and more opulent and more expensive. This is a disposable society.\nBlueeyemama March 14, 2017 at 8:38 pm\nIt's very sad to hear that Mary Kay's home is going to be destroyed. She was such a lovely lady and took such pride in her home and sharing it with everyone. She had her top people there each year to her home. She even baked cookies for everyone to enjoy while there. There will never be another woman like her and it's sad to now think her home will be torn down. I can only hope someone will see it's beauty and save it!\nMette Holthe Eriksen March 15, 2017 at 8:37 am\nBeautiful home. Just showed it to my American \/ Norwegian daughter, who is only 20 years old here in Oslo, Norway. Had so much fun with MARY KAY COSMETIC, both in Norway and the USA, where we lived for five years. <3\nCandy Evans March 15, 2017 at 11:06 am\nTell us more!\nShannon March 15, 2017 at 10:44 am\nI remember this house being built in the early 80s. One of the first new mansions in Preston Hollow. Our school bus took us down Douglas Ave. every morning on our way to ED Walker Middle School.\nDidn't MKA sell this home to build a newer (pink) home in Highland Park?\nNo, she did not. She actually moved back into her home on the lake near Boedeker. While she loved the Douglas hone, it was huge and riddled with problems from the get go. (Watch who you hire to build your home!) She used it for many Mary Kay events but preferred her round house east of Preston. Never built a home in Park Cities as far as I know\u2026\nI heard that she moved back to her previous home over by Northpark.\nP.A. March 15, 2017 at 11:27 am\nThis house reminds me of a Las Vegas casino. I don't know that it had a chance to survive beyond her original vision since it's so very, very specific. Still \u2013 it's shocking to think the max value is in the dirt (goodbye house!).\nCharlae CLiff March 15, 2017 at 11:43 am\nThat is a nice house. Dont take it please.\nDenise March 15, 2017 at 12:15 pm\nThe details in this home are stunning. The curved hallway and pillars, the wood ceiling and details. So sad to see this torn down. They should allow people to go in and remove the parts they want at no cost since they clearly see no value in keeping the home or the securing any of the beautiful elements.\nJay Young March 15, 2017 at 12:23 pm\nI used to maintain the swimming pool back in the 80's era at Riviera Pools of Dallas, while going to college. I even got to take my girlfriend (now wife) on a tour inside the home, on the day before MK moved in. All of her furniture and belongings had been delivered. It was spectacular!\nLyubov March 15, 2017 at 11:58 pm\nMary Kay was a one of the Great Woman . I had so much fun with Mary Kay Cosmetics as a Beauty Consultant and Directeur of sale. I can prouve absolutely that the slogan \"Enriching women's lives\" works . My live and me personally was changed for the better. It's a great university for the women .\nSpencer Michlin March 16, 2017 at 8:18 pm\nA sacrilege! In epic tackiness, this house rivaled Graceland.\nGayle Green March 17, 2017 at 7:32 am\nSo sad to see Mary Kay Ash home torn down- I felt it is a historical landmark that people would pay to tour! I know all of the MARY KAY women would love to tour it!\nDebbie March 31, 2017 at 8:36 am\nAs of this morning, it is rubble\u2026. Sad.\nMette Holthe Eriksen August 18, 2017 at 12:23 am\nLove this house. Wish I could live there. <3 Hello from registered nurse \/ beauty consultant MISS Mette and Mary Kay Cosmetic in Norway. PS Lived in the US for five years and got to know MARY KAY COSMETIC in 1992 \u2013 already 25 years ago. <3\nriley higgins September 11, 2017 at 11:53 am\nI believe it that the house was in disrepair. I just went to the auction house that was commissioned to liquidate all that furniture. All the pieces needed major work with signs of mold and water damage on nearly everything. That giant piece in the dinning room sold for a mere $2,100 the giant painting sold under $500.\neduardo April 3, 2019 at 9:48 am\ntell us more information\nWinifred June 28, 2019 at 6:06 pm\nOh no say it isn't so!! Me and a few of my MARY KAY team members visited this home and when I walked into the home I I said Mary Kay's home is my dream home. We thought they were having an open house or something so we started taking pictures when this frail little woman walked up and said, \"may I help you?\" Scared the you know what out of us. It was the owner, a precious lady recovering from brain surgery. She was a surgeon herself. She allowed us to go all over this lovely home and talk pictures. We offered words of prayer for her recovery upon leaving. Her husband said they still have the builders plans so I would love to have them because MARY KAY'S home is my dream home.\nGrenadier Homes View Page\nreal estate JLD Custom Homes Dallas 15400 Knoll Trail Drive\nRobert Elliott Custom Homes Dallas 100 Highland Park Village\nAvant Group Plano 2745 Dallas Parkway, #455\nTim Jackson Custom Homes View Page\nScott Homebuilders View Page","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
+{"text":"Character of Lord Bacon: His Life and Work ...\nAf Thomas Martin\nmost illustrious contemporary,) to the prison of the unholy Office of the Inquisition for having maintained that the earth moves round its own axis;* and even Bacon himself-he who had nobly and eloquently said, that I had rather believe all the fables in the Legend, and the Talmud, and the Alcoran, than that this universal frame is without a mind,' +-escaped not the bigoted attacks of the school-divines, who attempted to cry down his philosophical writings, by falsely asserting that they favoured atheism. I\n\u2022 See Drinkwater's Life of Galileo, ch, xiii., published in the Library of Useful Knowledge.\n+ Bacon's Works, vol. 1, p. 53.\n1 Osborn's Works, p. 446, (tenth edition.) The passage from which we learn this fact is too interesting not to be given in the words of the anthor, who was a contemporary observer :\u2014Sir Walter Raleigh was the first (as I have heard) that ventured to tack about, and sail aloof from the beaten track of the schools; who, upon the discovery of so apparent an error, as a torrid zone, intended to proceed in an inquisition after more solid truths, till the meditation of some, whose livelihood lay in hammering shrines for this superannuated study,\nFor the original source of such prejudices as these, we must look into that peculiar system of theoretic or speculative divinity which formerly prevailed. The scholastic philosophy, whose origin and character have recently been so ably and ingeniously investigated and explained by Dr. Hampden, was the acknowledged system of the Church, and soon stamped its metaphysical character upon theology, which became the master science. The Trivium and Quadrivium of the schools * were studied in sub\npossessed queen Elizabeth, that such doctrine was against God no less than her Father's honour, whose faith (if he owned any) was grounded upon school-divinity: whereupon she chid him, who was (by his own confession) ever after branded with the title of an Atheist, though a known asserter of God and Providence. A like censure fell to the share of venerable Bacon till overbalanced by a greater weight of glory from strangers: nor could desert, and the name of the English Jewel, given Selden beyond sea, free him from a like imputation at home.'-Francis Osborn's Works,\nP. 446.\n* The Trivium was a term invented to express the\nservience to this system; and all science having been thus incorporated with theology, the notion arose, that nothing could be true in any science that was not accordant with the received interpretation of Scripture, whether literal or hypothetical.*\n\"If the scriptures,' said sir Humphry Davy, are to be literally interpreted, and systems of science found in them, Gallileo Gallilei merited his persecution, and we ought still to believe that the sun turns round the earth.'+ And we would add, that those who seek for systems of geology, for instance, in the Genesis of\nthree sciences that were first learned in the schools, viz., Grammar, Rhetoric, and Logic; and the schools in which these sciences alone were taught were called Triviales. The Quadrivium comprehended the four mathematical sciences, viz., Arithmetic, Music, Geometry, and Astronomy.\u2014Mosheim's Ecclesiastical History, vol. 2, p. 251, note; and see Dr. Hampden's Scholastic Philosophy, p. 63.\n* Hampden's Scholastic Philosophy, p. 302, note.\n+ Sir H. Davy's Consolations in Travel, p. 141. See some judicious remarks on this subject by Archbishop Whately, Lectures on Political Economy, pp. 30\u201336.\nMoses, are not consistent with themselves, when they acknowledge (as all rational people do acknowledge) the truth of the Copernican system. In the one case, they are guided by a just rule of construction, which, in the other, they reject.\nIt deserves to be mentioned, as an interesting fact which hereafter will be recorded in the history of science, that, in the year 1818, Pius VII., a pontiff alike distinguished for his liberality and love of knowledge, procured a repeal of the edicts against Galileo and the Copernican system. He assembled the congregation; and the late cardinal Toriozzi, assessor of the Sacred Office, proposed that they should wipe off this scandal from the church.' The repeal was carried, with the dissentient voice of one Dominican only.*\n\u2022 Lyell's Principles of Geology, vol. 1, p. 99, note, (third edit.) 'Long before this time,' says Mr. Lyell,\nthe Newtonian theory had been taught in the Sapienza, and all Catholic universities in Europe, (with the exception, I am told, of Salamanca ;) but it was always re\nAnother hindrance to the advancement of science has arisen from the habits and regulations of universities and other academical societies. These bodies were the great external means by which that sterile scholastic philosophy was cherished and matured which converted theology and physical science into a subtle system of abstract terms.* Chained down to the dogmas of particular authors, reason submitted to authority; and if any one dared to assert the liberty of thinking for himself, he was branded as an atheist; and perhaps, like Roger Bacon,-one of the most illustrious names in the early annals of science,\u2014dragged from his studious cell into\nquired of professors, in deference to the decrees of the church, to use the term hypothesis, instead of theory. They now speak of the Copernican theory.\n* Hampden's Scholastic Philosophy, pp. 9, 86, and passim. In physical science,' says Dr. Hampden, .it has been admitted, that conclusions from abstract terms are no valid indications of facts in nature. May we hope, that the time will come, when the like will be as fully and practically admitted in Theology!'- Ib., p. 56.","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
+{"text":"'House of Bernarda Alba' Presented on Campus\nThe Deanship of Students' Affairs and the Folk Theatre presented \"The House of Bernarda Alba,\" a play written by Spanish Dramatist Federico Garcia Lorca and directed by Fathi Abdul Rahman.\nThe play, performed in the Kamal Nasir Assembly Hall, was written in 1936 when the Spanish civil war broke out. Critics categorize the play as a rural melodrama that tackles topics relating to tyranny, humiliation, submission and women who are twice punished.\n\"The events take place in one of Spain's rural areas during the thirties of the last century,\" Director Abdul Rahman said. \"Upon her second husband's death, domineering matriarch Bernarda Alba imposes an eight-year mourning period on her household in accordance with her family tradition. Bernarda has five daughters, ages 20 to 39, whom she has controlled inexorably and prohibited from any form of relationship. She isolates her daughters completely and bans them from interacting with the outside world, vowing that 'not a breath of air will get in this house from the street.'\"\nThe play presents a women-only household, said Abdul Rahman. \"These women are deprived of their freedom, isolated behind the bars of their windows exactly like prisoners. They enjoy no civil or women's rights and are ruled by a woman like them\u2014their harsh and strict mother who controls the house with a fist of iron, turning her daughters' lives into living hell. In their life, there is no place for joy and laughter and doors and windows must be closed at all times. Even curtains must be lowered and light is not to enter the house.\"\nAbdul Rahman said the play provides an example of societies that reject life and close in on themselves under the pretext of adhering to tradition and social norms.","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
+{"text":"Ben & Jerry's co-founder creates new flavor for Bernie\nFrom humble origins in Burlington, Vermont, in the late 1970s to its current status as one of the most popular global ice cream brands, Ben & Jerry's ice cream is an example of the American Dream at work.\nTwo childhood friends, Ben Cohen and Jerry Greenfield, take a correspondence course on ice cream-making, craft some creative flavor variations, open a small ice cream shop in a renovated garage, expand as success allows, designate a significant amount of profit to various causes and charities and eventually sell the company for hundreds of millions of dollars. As a condition of sale, both Ben & Jerry maintained positions on the board of directors while insisting that the new owners (Unilever) would continue funneling a percentage of profit to the Ben & Jerry's Foundation.\nDuring the 22 years that Ben and Jerry operated the company, Cohen says that he was often inspired to create new flavors of ice cream based on popular culture, social causes or the delectably irresistible combination of ingredients. For the first time, he's created a flavor in honor of a presidential candidate.\n'Bernie's Yearning' is a limited edition (as in only 40 pints, each handmade by Ben, in his kitchen) flavor created for Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders's campaign, under the brand name, 'Ben's Best.'\n'Jerry and I have seen Bernie in action over the last 30 years here in Vermont and the guy is amazing,' Cohen told me last week in a phone interview from his home in Burlington. 'We just got back from Iowa where we caucused for Bernie. He deserves everybody's vote and whatever you can do to help him.'\n'This is a participatory flavor,' Cohen says. 'You open up the pint lid, and what you see is this huge disc of solid chocolate. That represents all the wealth that has gone to the top one per cent since the end of the recession. Below the chocolate is just solid mint ice cream. That represents the rest of us. Then you take your soup spoon and you whack that chocolate into a lot of little pieces, then you mix it around and there you have it Bernie's Yearning.''\nKnowing upfront that 'Bernie's Yearning' would have to be an extremely limited edition flavor, Cohen was faced with the dilemma of how to distribute (or, perhaps, redistribute) the ice cream. The solution: Donate most of them to Sanders supporters.\n'The original idea was that we were going to make a small number of pints and put them up for auction on eBay and have the money go to Bernie's campaign,' Cohen told me. 'Then we realized that, legally, there were problems with getting money to the campaign and also the fact that auctioning it off to the person who had the most money would be very un-Bernie-like. This way, it's available to everybody regardless of how much money they have and, hopefully, people will make a donation to Bernie's campaign.'\nTwenty-five of the 40 individually autographed and numbered pints of 'Bernie's Yearning' went to randomly selected winners who provided their name and contact information atwww.BerniesYearning.com. A message from Ben on the website reads, 'This site is owned by me, Ben Cohen, co-founder of Ben & Jerry's.It is not associated with Ben and Jerry's Homemade, Inc or the Sanders for President Campaign. It reflects my views alone.'\nNot that he would seriously consider it, but what if Cohen were to create a flavor for the Donald Trump campaign? What might it consist of?\n'The furthest I've got on a flavor for Trump is Donald Trump's Junk,' Cohen said, laughing. 'Trump came to Burlington and held a rally at the Flynn (Center for the Performing Arts). The deli next door came up with a sandwich called 'The Trumpster,' with two slices of white bread and three pounds of baloney in the middle. Maybe that's what we would throw into Trump's Junk.''\n'The Big Morning Show with Mike Dow' can be heard on Big 104 FM The Biggest Hits of the '60s, '70s & '80s - airing on 104.7 (Bangor\/Belfast), 104.3 (Augusta\/Waterville) and 107.7 (Bar Harbor\/Ellsworth)\nPublished in The Cooking Edge\nice cream flavor\nThe Maine Edge\nLatest from Mike Dow\nThe New England Musician's Relief Fund: A lifeline for musicians in need\nWilliam Shatner examines history's mysteries on 'The UnXplained'\nA conversation with Andy Watts, Israel's 'blues ambassador'\nA few of my favorite 2020 musical things\nNetflix's 'Holiday Home Makeover with Mr. Christmas' is a feel-good hit\nEdge editor to appear on 'Jeopardy!'\nCelebrating 20 years of Phish Food\n'A huge step forward' \u2013 Bangor Humane Society's ongoing mission\n2016 \u2013 The year in review\nMore in this category: \u00ab Moosehead Region celebrates Valentine's Day with chocolate","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
+{"text":"WHY CATHOLICISM MATTERS\nHome\/Catalyst\/Essay\/WHY CATHOLICISM MATTERS\nReligious and ethnic loyalties are important to me. I am proud to be Catholic and proud to be Irish. I am also very proud to be an American. But pride absent an intelligent appreciation of one's roots quickly descends to tribalism, and that is not good for the individual or the society. For example, we need to know why it is rational to be proud of our religion. This is one reason why I wrote Why Catholicism Matters. And by \"we,\" I don't mean just Catholics. I mean everyone.\nThere is much to be proud of. Down through the ages, the great philosophers have written widely on the quest for the good society. While it has never been achieved (and given the reality of original sin it can never be fully realized), it is nonetheless true that trying to craft the good society remains a noble enterprise. But we need to the right recipe. Fortunately, it has been available to us for two millennia: the teachings of the Catholic Church provide all the ingredients we need.\nWell, if the Catholic Church is so great, what about the sexual abuse scandal? I get this all the time. The short answer is this: every priest who failed us did so because he followed his id, not his vows. Had he followed the teachings of the Catholic Church, he could not have sinned. But we all do. That's why popes go to confession\u2014they're human. In other words, beginning with the apostles, some of our teachers have failed us. However, the teachings manifestly have not. The distinction is crucial.\nName something that makes for the good society and invariably it will be shown to have Catholic roots; at the very least, Catholic embellishments can be ascertained. Take the Preamble to the U.S. Constitution. It speaks to a vision of society where justice, domestic tranquility, the common defense of the people, their general welfare, and the blessings of liberty reign supreme.\nJustice is one of the cardinal virtues, and no institution has a better record in tending to the needs of the dispossessed than the Catholic Church. Domestic tranquility is not dependent on the police, but on the ability of people to police themselves; here the cardinal virtue of temperance is key. The common defense must allow for just wars, and the proper exercise of another cardinal virtue, namely fortitude, is a must. The general welfare of the people is best served by adopting the teleology, or ultimate purpose, of Catholicism\u2014a \"focus on the other.\" And without the most senior of all the cardinal virtues, prudence, the blessings of liberty, properly understood, can never be achieved.\nFrom the founding of the first universities, to the triumph of the Scientific Revolution, the role of the Catholic Church has been seminal. Indeed, when it comes to understanding why Europe and North America have been home to almost every technological breakthrough in history, there is no better road map than the one Christianity affords. Moreover, the Church's contributions to art, architecture and music have proven to be legendary.\nThe section on prudence begins by discussing the Catholic Church's role in the makings of a free society. Freedom was not born in Greece\u2014it was a byproduct of the Church's opposition to temporal powers. By contrast, so unknown was freedom to the Chinese and Japanese that they did not have a word for it until the nineteenth century. To be sure, slavery was a universal institution that was not condemned initially by any civilization or religion, though no entity did more to prudentially undermine it over time\u2014through the promotion of natural law and natural rights\u2014than the Catholic Church. Contemporary challenges to freedom, such as the false idea of abortion as a \"right,\" have similarly been resisted by the Church.\nJustice for the strongest has never commanded the resources of the Catholic Church, but justice for the weakest most certainly has. In this regard, the role of nuns has been pivotal. Whether by founding schools, foster care homes, asylums, hospitals, hospices, and the like, or by personally tending to the psychological and emotional needs of men, women, and children, nuns, along with priests and the laity, have a track record that has no equal anywhere in the world. Reaching out to the diseased, and to the stranger, especially immigrants, has always been a staple of Catholic social teachings. That many Catholics have made good on those teachings is a story that should make all Catholics cheer.\nIt took tremendous fortitude for Pope Pius XII to fight the Nazis, and no leader in the world won the plaudits of Jews, during and after the war, than he did. It is important to set the record straight\u2014there have been so many lies told\u2014by recounting all the brave words and deeds that this great pope delivered. Similarly, we need to give Pope John Paul II all the praise he deserves in helping to destroy communism in the Soviet Union and throughout Eastern Europe. The historical evidence is clear: Pius XII and John Paul II have secured their place in the annals of freedom. Few world leaders, and no religious ones, did more to combat totalitarianism than they did.\nTemperance is a virtue that self-governing people need to inculcate if moral anarchy is to be checked. Here again, the teachings of Catholicism have proved indispensable. By offering a realistic interpretation of liberty, one that is grounded in our responsibilities to others, the Church offers a practical guide to the creation of a free society. The importance of marriage and the family, and a healthy appreciation of sexuality, beckons us all to give Catholic sexual ethics serious consideration.\nThese are just some of the subjects that bear examination. By moving from papal encyclicals to their faithful implementation, the reader learns how critically important the Church has been in world history. Priests, the religious, and the laity have bequeathed a stunning legacy, one that contrasts sharply with the failed record of secularism.\nBy comparing the Church's efforts to that of secular theorists and practitioners, we see ever more clearly why the Catholic voice must be heard in the third millennium. For example, had the secular idea of positivistic law, or law posited by government, prevailed after World War II, Nazis who obeyed orders by killing innocent Jews, Catholics, and others could not have been prosecuted. To do that, the Nuremberg courts had to turn to natural law, a concept that has been embraced by Catholicism for centuries. Similarly, government programs to help the poor have often created more poverty; when compared to Catholic programs, they look even more enfeebled.\nThe democracies, especially the U.S., fought fascism and communism, but without the efforts of the Catholic Church their ultimate demise would have taken longer to achieve. The secular approach to liberty, one that prizes individual autonomy, has delivered a lot less freedom to its adherents than those who have followed the Catholic approach. Indeed, it has spawned a condition closer to moral anarchy.\nHopefully this book may inspire us to turn to the great heritage of Catholicism as a platform for societal renewal. As indicated, the right recipe for the makings of the good society are right in front of us. There is no better time to show why Catholicism matters than right now.\nWHAT THEY'RE SAYING ABOUT WHY CATHOLICISM MATTERS\nBill Donohue's Why Catholicism Matters offers a fresh and compelling look at how the teachings of the Catholic Church continue to provide the best guide for a healthy, happy society. Using the four cardinal virtues \u2013 prudence, justice, fortitude, and temperance \u2013 as a springboard, this insightful book delves into the issues facing the Church and the broader community, and shows how the Church is at the cutting edge of providing solutions to those issues. Why Catholicism Matters should eliminate the tired stereotype of the Church as being little more than a nagging nay-sayer. On the contrary, it reveals that the Church, and Dr. Donohue himself, give an emphatic YES! to all that is good, noble and uplifting in the human person.\nHis Eminence Timothy Michael Cardinal Dolan\nOne can rarely finish a commentary by Dr. William Donohue and remain unfazed. In these days of sharp attacks against the Catholic Church and her teachings and values, Bill can be counted on to weigh in, full-blast, and get the attention which our position too often finds ignored in the secular media. In Why Catholicism Matters, readers of every persuasion will find much to inform, deliberate, and, invariably, take issue with. For that, and for his unapologetic commitment to our Faith, I am personally grateful to Dr. Bill Donohue.\nHis Eminence Edwin Cardinal O'Brien\nWhy Catholicism Matters is an important contribution at a critical time. As a preeminent voice defending the Church, Dr. Donohue eloquently explains the beauty and importance of Catholic faith. On the canvas of the cardinal virtues, he presents a true and beautiful portrait of the Church that will benefit all people of faith.\"\nHis Eminence Donald Cardinal Wuerl\nTV audiences know Bill Donohue as a scrapper; a vigorous defender of the Catholic faith in his public role as leader of the Catholic League. But he's also a gifted scholar and, as Why Catholicism Matters demonstrates, a thoughtful, vivid and compelling writer. This is a must-read book for anyone who wants to understand the role Catholics need to play in recovering key Christian virtues and renewing American society.\"\nArchbishop Charles J. Chaput\nWith religious freedom under assault from many directions, what better moment to be reminded of Catholicism's wisdom, glories, and multi-faceted contributions to the common good? And who better to remind us than that tireless defender of the Catholic faith, Bill Donohue? Donohue is a treasure and his book is a gem.\nMary Ann Glendon, Harvard Law Professor\nBill Donohue has spent much of his life defending the Catholic Church \u2013 in his latest work he joyously celebrates it. This tour of the Church's forgotten virtues and the many gifts She has given society reminds us all why the Faith remains the prime mover in our time. It also demonstrates why Donohue matters!\nRaymond Arroyo, Host of EWTN's \"The World Over\"\nBy Bill|2017-03-20T17:52:02-04:00July 12th, 2012|Categories: Catalyst, Essay|Tags: July\/August Issue 2012|Comments Off on WHY CATHOLICISM MATTERS","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
+{"text":"What is MIPEX\nMIPEX is a unique tool which measures policies to integrate migrants in 56 countries, including all EU Member States and the UK, OECD countries, Albania, Argentina, Brazil, China, India, Indonesia, Jordan, Moldova, North Macedonia, Russia, Saudi Arabia, Serbia, South Africa, United Arab Emirates, and Ukraine.\nWho Produces MIPEX\nThe fifth edition of the MIPEX rests on the extensive and long-term collaboration of trusted partners, experts and supporters of the project. See their structure and their role.\nMIPEX History\nThe Migrant Integration Policy Index was first published in 2004 as the European Civic Citizenship and Inclusion Index. Read more about the previous four editions of the Migrant Integration Policy Index. You can also download previous editions.\nMIPEX Methodology\nThere are 58 policy indicators on migrant integration in the MIPEX. These have been designed to benchmark current laws and policies. Read more about the methodology.\nWho is running the study? Are they credible? Has MIPEX been useful? Any many other frequently asked questions...\nLabour Market Mobility\nAccess to Nationality\nPlay With The Data\nDig into MIPEX data and create custom graphs\nSave information from MIPEX in PDF format. Create a custom PDF.\nThe Robert Schuman Centre for Advanced Studies publishes chapter about MIPEX in its recent working paper\nThe Robert Schuman Centre for Advanced Studies has just published their latest working paper, titled 'Going global: Opportunities and Challenges for the Development of a Comparative Research Agenda on Citizenship Policies at the Global Level', including a chapter focusing upon MIPEX. Authors of the chapter, Giacomo Solano, Head of Research at the Migration Policy Group, and Thomas Huddleston, Former Research Director at MPG, provide an overview of existing indices on naturalisation policies, subsequently introducing the example of MIPEX.\nTitled \"Existing Indices on Naturalisation Policies: The Case of MIPEX\", the chapter outlines the MIPEX methodology and the main findings of the MIPEX 2020 edition concerning naturalisation policies, while also linking naturalisation policies to the other areas of integration (e.g. labour market, education, permanent residence and health). In doing so, the authors highlight how MIPEX has recently been extended to countries in the so-called 'Global South', marking a shift beyond Western and European-centric analysis.\nAs such, the chapter represents the broader theme of the Working Paper, namely, the movement beyond European contexts. The idea of this paper originated from the workshop 'Going Global: Opportunities and Challenges for the Development of a Comparative Research Agenda on Naturalisation Policies at the Global Level' that was convened in 2021 at the Robert Schuman Centre, under the framework of the Global Citizenship Governance programme and it is focuses on the opportunities and challenges of adopting a global comparative perspective within the field of citizenship studies.\nMIPEX Team\nCoordination Team\nMIPEX team is formed by the members of CIDOB and Migration Policy Group, the leading organization of the Migrant Integration Policy Index project.\nThe index is the most comprehensive, reliable and used tool to compare what governments are doing to promote the integration of migrants across Europe and the world.\nAcademic citation:\nMigrant Integration Policy Index 2020\nSolano, Giacomo and Huddleston, Thomas (2020)\nTo stay up to date on MIPEX developments you can sign up to our newsletter, or follow us on Facebook and Twitter.\nMIPEX YouTube Channel\nCopyright \u00a9 2020 MIPEX. All rights reserved.\nNew results of MIPEX\nWe are pleased to announce that the new results of MIPEX (2014-2020) will be published by the end of 2020. MIPEX 2020 will include 52 European and non-European countries: Australia, Brazil, Canada, China, EU28, India, Japan, Mexico, US and much more. Stay tuned!","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
+{"text":"Emotion EP Review - Breathe Electric\nHello Fascination Brief Review - Breathe Carolina\nArtist Profile - Thee Armada\nArtist Profile - i Rival\nSpain Album Review - Between The Trees\nRain Or Shine EP Review - Show Me The Skyline\nUpcoming Album Releases\nYou Are Forgotten EP Review - Conditions\nArtist Profile - Artist Vs Poet\nPlaylist - August 7th Edition\nBetter Now Than Never EP Review - The Real You\nTo Love And Back Album Review - This Century\nHot Mess Album Quickie Review - Cobra Starship\nBoys Will Be Boys Album Release Show - Videos\nBoys Will Be Boys Album Release Show - Review\n01. We Can Try\n03. The One Thing\n04. One Last Time (Darlin' II)\n05. Story Of A Boy\n06. Miss You\n07. Move\n08. Scarecrow\n09. Gentleman\n10. Changed By You\nWe Can Try was the first single released off the album. The intro starts with an instrumental version of the chorus with guitar as the melody and piano as the lyrics. The verses are calm with background drums and piano. The guitar comes in right before the chorus and gives plenty of intensity. The chorus flows extremely well and has gotten stuck in my head many times. The bridge is a great guitar part followed by a great final chorus. This was definitely a perfect choice for the first single. An amazing track to start off one of my favorite albums so far this year.\nSpain begins with upbeat keyboard as guitar comes in to accompany it. The verses are definitely a huge contrast to We Can Try. However, the chorus is extremely good. The lyrics and vocals are both amazing. It flows perfectly and as in We Can Try has gotten stuck in my head. It contrasts from the verses in a way that works well. The final chorus builds up intensity as the instruments come in the second time through. Another amazing track.\nThe One Thing begins acoustically with piano. Between The Trees has definitely created diversity between each song. The verses are very calm and peaceful. Drums give the chorus a little more intensity without totally disrupting the mood. The drums continue on through the chorus along with the verse. The intensity is at its highest during the bridge until it eases off slightly in the chorus. After the first two songs on this album, this one seems only decent. It's a very good song, but pales in comparison to the first ones.\nOne Last Time begins with another musical difference; the time signature. It's 6\/8. Every song to this point has had it's differences from the others. That is what is perfect for a band. Making songs different without losing their general sound. The chorus is what really stands out about the song. There is plenty of intensity while still being sweet. The bridge is a great instrumental part that definitely stands out in the song. This is another great song on the level of the first two tracks.\nStory Of A Boy begins with piano driving the lyrics until drums and a little guitar come in. The chorus again stands out in the song. It almost seems like the tempo speeds up. It's much different sounding than the other songs so far. The tempo seems to slow back down at the end to go back to the original pace. The bridge is a piano solo with a little guitar backing it. The song ends with a guitar solo before a final slow singing part. Another great song. 5 songs through and no one song sounds the same.\nMiss You is the first song that I don't think is great. I do think the first verse is pretty good however. The unplugged electric guitar sounds very good. However, once the drums come in I become less of a fan of the flow and the vocals. The vocalist however does show off his great range. I'm not a fan of the chorus either. This song just isn't my style in general. However, it does not diminish from the greatness of the album so far.\nMove is another song that begins differently. It has a rock\/reggae feel with the guitars for the first verse. The bridge to the chorus displays amazing vocals while the chorus is another great chorus in the style of the first two tracks. It is not as good as them though. The bridge is another guitar led segment with decent vocals. Another good song, however it is middle of the pack.\nScarecrow is a slower piano song. The opening sounds like what The Fray wishes they could have done in Never Say Never. The chorus is repetitive but is sweet in its own way. The first chorus fades out with tons of emotion as drums and guitar come in to support. The bridge is great as it is full of emotion and intensity. Another really good song.\nGentleman begins cutely lyrically, vocally, and instrumentally. The guitar comes in to add intensity before the chorus. The chorus is fairly good. I'm a fan of several parts of it, but some parts just don't seem to fit for me. The chorus and the verses stick out from each other. The bridge is great although it sounds a little bit like Viva La Vida. The songs still are all totally different. Can the last song keep up the trend?\nIt does. Changed By You is a slow piano ballad that never adds guitar. The vocals are very good especially during the chorus. The vocalist definitely takes advantage of the slow song to express his voice. It's an extremely good love song that combines the simplistic nature of the piano with the lyrics and vocals. This song is a definite standout song as the only song without guitar in it.\nThis is probably one of the best albums I have heard. I was never a real fan of Between The Trees. Although I had their last album, it never grew on me. This album has been playing on my ipod for the last few days now. I've played it so often I had to review it. Support the band. Buy the album. Listen to them on myspace HERE.\nPosted by Casey Whitman\nTheBlueMusicGirl August 18, 2009 at 4:19 PM\nHey! Great Job. I love Spain and it has also been playing on my ipod for the last week. You did them honorable justice (:\nCasey Whitman September 5, 2009 at 1:11 PM\nAw thanks. :)","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
+{"text":"Click Here for Items Related To - Record of the Warring States\nThe ''Zhan Guo Ce'', ( W-G: Chan-kuo T'se), also known in\nEnglish English usually refers to: * English language English is a West Germanic languages, West Germanic language first spoken in History of Anglo-Saxon England, early medieval England, which has eventually become the World language, leading lan ...\nas the ''Strategies of the Warring States'' or ''Annals of the Warring States'', is an ancient Chinese text that contains anecdotes of political manipulation and warfare during the\nWarring States period The Warring States period () was an era in ancient Chinese history characterized by warfare, as well as bureaucratic and military reforms and consolidation. It followed the Spring and Autumn period and concluded with the Qin wars of conquest ...\n(5th to 3rd centuriesBC). It is an important text of the Warring States Period as it describes the strategies and political views of the School of Diplomacy and reveals the historical and social characteristics of the period.\nThe author of ''Zhan Guo Ce'' has not yet been verified: it is generally deemed, after Zhang Xincheng, that the book was not written by a single author at one time. It is thought to have been composed by\nSu Qin Su Qin (380\u2013284 BCE), was an influential political strategist during the Warring States period of ancient China. He was born in Chengxuan Village, Luoyang in present-day Henan Province. According to legend Su Qin was a disciple of Guiguzi, the ...\nand his peers before being obtained by Liu Xiang. Unlike most of the pre-Qin classics, the authenticity of ''Zhan Guo Ce'', along with the ''\nShijing The ''Classic of Poetry'', also ''Shijing'' or ''Shih-ching'' (), translated variously as the ''Book of Songs'', ''Book of Odes'' or simply known as the ''Odes'' or ''Poetry'' (), is the oldest existing collection of Chinese poetry, comprising 3 ...\n'', ''\nMozi Mozi (; ; Latinized as Micius ; c. 470 \u2013 c. 391 BC), original name Mo Di (), was a Chinese philosopher Chinese philosophy originates in the Spring and Autumn period () and Warring States period (), during a period kn ...\n'', ''Yulingzi'' and ''\nGongsun Longzi Gongsun Long (, BCLiu 2004, p. 336), courtesy name Zibing (\u5b50\u79c9), was a Chinese philosopher and writer who was a member of the School of Names (Logicians) of ancient Chinese philosophy Chinese philosophy originates in the S ...\n'' had never been questioned since the\nWestern Han The Han dynasty () was the second imperial dynasty of China (202 BC \u2013 220 AD), established by the rebel leader Liu Bang and ruled by the House of Liu The Han dynasty () was the second imperial dynasty of China (202 BC \u2013 220 AD), ...\nperiod. The earliest to assert the texts were apocryphal scriptures was perhaps the compiler of the Annotated Catalogue of the '' Siku Quanshu'', but he provided no warrant for it. In 1931, Luo Genze put forward an argument that the book was composed by Kuai Tong () in his two papers based on six conclusions which he drew, a contemporary of\nHan Xin Han Xin (; died 196 BC) was a military general who served Liu Bang during the Chu\u2013Han Contention and contributed greatly to the founding of the Han dynasty The Han dynasty () was the second Dynasties in Chinese history, imperial dyna ...\n. Although this argument had been seconded by Jin Dejian (1932) and Zu Zhugeng (1937), but by 1939 it was refuted by Zhang Xincheng. The six versions of written works from the School of Diplomacy were discovered by Liu Xiang during his editing and proofreading of the imperial literary collection. Those works of political views and diplomatic strategies from the School of Diplomacy were in poor condition, with confusing contents and missing words. Liu Xiang proofread and edited them into the new book under the title ''Zhan Guo Ce''; it was therefore not written by a single author at one time. Significant contents of ''Zhan Guo Ce'' were lost in subsequent centuries.\nZeng Gong Zeng Gong (, 1019\u20131083), courtesy name A courtesy name (), also known as a style name, is a name bestowed upon one at adulthood in addition to one's given name. This practice is a tradition in the Sinosphere, including China, Japan, Korea, ...\nof the Northern\nSong Dynasty The Song dynasty (; ; 960\u20131279) was an imperial dynasty of China that began in 960 and lasted until 1279. The dynasty was founded by Emperor Taizu of Song Emperor Taizu of Song (21 March 927 \u2013 14 November 976), personal name Zhao Kuan ...\nreclaimed some lost chapters, proofread and edited the modern version. 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The book contained 27 chapters, 11 of which were found to be similar to the contents in ''Zhan Guo Ce'' and the ''\nRecords of the Grand Historian The ''Records of the Grand Historian'', also known by its Chinese name ''Shiji'', is a monumental history of ancient China and the world finished around 94 BC by the Western Han Dynasty official Sima Qian after having been started by his father ...\n''. That publication appeared in\nTaiwan Taiwan (), officially the Republic of China (ROC), is a country in East Asia. Neighbouring countries include the China, People's Republic of China (PRC) to the northwest, Japan to the northeast, and the Philippines to the south. The main islan ...\nin 1977 as the ''Boshu Zhanguoce'' (). The texts were written in between the style of\nSeal script 200px, left, Chinese characters for the words 'seal script' in regular script (left) and seal script (right). 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This practice is a tradition in the ...\n, to circumvent\nnaming taboo A naming taboo is a cultural taboo A taboo is an implicit prohibition on something (usually against an utterance or behavior) based on a cultural sense that it is excessively repulsive or, perhaps, too sacred for ordinary people.''Encyclop\u00e6dia ...\nThe ''Zhan Guo Ce'' recounts the history of the Warring States from the conquest of the\nFan Fan commonly refers to: * Fan (machine), a machine for producing airflow, often for cooling ** Hand fan, an implement held and waved by hand to move air * Fan (person), short for fanatic; an enthusiast or supporter, especially with regard to enterta ...\nclan A clan is a group of people united by actual or perceived kinship In anthropology, kinship is the web of social relationships that form an important part of the lives of all humans in all societies, although its exact meanings even with ...\nby the Zhi clan in 490 BC up to the failed\nassassination Assassination is the act of murder, deliberately killing a prominent or important person, such as heads of state, head of government, heads of government, politicians, Monarchy, royalty, celebrity, celebrities, journalists, or CEOs. An assassina ...\nQin Shi Huang Qin Shi Huang (, ; 259\u2013210 BCE), or Shihuangdi, was the founder of the Qin dynasty, and first Emperor of China, emperor of a unified China. Rather than maintain the title of \"Chinese king, king\" ( ''w\u00e1ng'') borne by the previous Shang dynas ...\nGao Jianli Gao Jianli (Chinese: \u9ad8\u6f38\u96e2) was a musician of the Chinese state of Yan, during the Warring States period The Warring States period () was an era in ancient Chinese history characterized by warfare, as well as bureaucratic and military re ...\nin 221 BC. The chapters take the form of anecdotes meant to illustrate various strategies and tricks employed by the Warring States. With the focus thus being more on providing general political insights than on presenting the whole history of the period, there is no stringent year-by-year dating such as that found in the preceding\nSpring and Autumn Annals The ''Spring and Autumn Annals'' or ''Chunqiu'' is an ancient Chinese chronicle that has been one of the core Chinese classics Chinese classic texts or canonical texts () or simply dianji (\u5178\u7c4d) refers to the Chinese texts which originated ...\n. Stories are sorted chronologically by under which ruler they take place, but within the reign of a single king there is no way to tell if the time elapsed between two anecdotes is a day or a year. The book comprises approximately 120,000 words, and is divided into 33 chapters and 497 sections. The twelve dynasties the strategies pertain to are:\nThe intellectual aspects have been disputed due to its stress on fame and profit and its conflicts with\nConfucian , Shanxi Confucianism, also known as Ruism, is a system of thought and behavior originating in ancient China. Variously described as tradition, a philosophy, a religion, a humanistic or rationalistic religion, a way of governing, or simply a ...\nideology. The book appears to overemphasize the historical contributions from the School of Diplomacy, devaluing the book's historical importance. The book does not emphasize the historical facts or fiction, but appears to be an extensive collection of anecdotes with little bearing to the chronological order of chapter and narration. Since the 12th century, it has been widely debated whether the book should be considered a historical documentation from writer Chao Gongwu and Gao Sisun, and there have been attempts to categorize the book into a different genus. This lasted until 1936 where scholars like Zhong Fengnian demonstrated that the book was written as a handbook of diction from the School of Diplomacy, and not intended to be a compilation of historical facts.He 2001, p. 132-135\n*Crump, James I., Jr. (1970, 1996). ''Chan-Kuo Ts'e''. Oxford: Clarendon Press; revised edition, University of Michigan Center for Chinese Studies.\n{{Spoken Wikipedia, En-Zhan_Guo_Ce.ogg, date=2006-2-26\nComplete text of ZGC (Simplified Chinese)\nEnglish translation of ZGC by B. S. Bonsall\nChinese text with matching English vocabulary Chinese history texts 3rd-century BC history books Zhou dynasty Han dynasty texts","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
+{"text":"Giants, Giants (3e), Articles in need of citations,\nCreatures found in Arvandor (layer)\n'Forgotten Realms' Lore: Giants\nfrom Faer\u00fbn History\nFire, storm, and frost giants.\nThe Elemental Chaos, Prime Material Plane\nFormerly: The elemental planes[citation needed]\nGiant[1]\nGiants were humanoid creatures of exceptionally large size.\n3.1 Good and evil\n3.2 Religion\n3.3 Ordning\n3.3.1 Parley\n3.4 Myths and legends\n3.5 Festivals and events\n5.1 True Giants\n5.2 Giant-kin\n5.3 True Giant Offshoots\n5.4 Zakharan Giants\n5.5 Further Giant Species\nPhysical description[edit | edit source]\nThe appearance of giants varied according to the type of giant (see true giants below) but they were generally humanoid in appearance, just much larger. Their bone structure was more dense than that of humans, giving them extra toughness but slowing them down a little.[2]\nEcology[edit | edit source]\nMost giants had superior senses to most humans. In general they could see and hear twice as well. The cloud giant, hill giant and stone giant species had a particularly good sense of smell.[3] Some had the capacity to see well in low light or total darkness as well.[4] They were immune to almost all diseases, and had a slight resistance to poison.[5]\nA female giant had a pregnancy of between nine and fifteen months, depending on the type of giant.[3] Their offspring reached maturity in around fifty years.[6]\nAlthough their ancestors were immortal, giant life spans decreased with each generation. The life expectancy of a giant in 1366 DR [note 1], seven or eight giant generations removed from Annam, was believed to be between 300 and 400 years depending on race,[7] although later sources stated that storm and stone giants could live several centuries longer on average.[8] The oldest giants were well over 1000 years old.[7] Because their lifespans were so much longer than humans, giants were slow to make decisions and would not be rushed.[9]\nGiants were intelligent creatures with their own set of cultures and customs. The intelligence varied according to the type of giant (and as with humans, with the individual) but most were at least on a human level of intellect,[2] with the exception of hill giants.[10] Most giants saw themselves as superior to all other creatures.[11] The ordning was one reason for this,[12] but they were also much larger than many other species, so they would talk down to and patronize smaller folk, regarding them as unimportant.[9] Giants lived in tribes or familes, but their numbers were limited because of their size, and the difficulty of finding plentiful food.[13]\nA building damaged by giants.\nAncestry was important to giants. Most giants could trace their lineage back to Annam All-Father, and it was recited formally when introducing oneself to other giants. Once a relationship had been established between giants, whether it was amiable or hostile, this would be continued further down the lineage. Therefore, reciting one's lineage helped to dictate the relationship that would be established. Frost giant skalds (bards) would include lineage in the sagas they wrote.[12]\nGood and evil[edit | edit source]\nGiants had a different sense of good and evil than most other creatures. A \"good\" (maat) act for a giant was an act that honored a giant's deity or family, displayed bravery, or honored another \"good\" giant, regardless of the consequences. An \"evil\" (maug) act was one of cowardice, stealing, betraying a giant's deity, family or trust, or an act that forced a giant from its natural terrain type. Violating the ordning was also considered evil (see Ordning below).[11]\nReligion[edit | edit source]\nMain article: Giant pantheon\nGiants often differed in their religious views between species or even between tribes, having been known to argue and even war with one another over the exact desires of a specific deity. Generally, they all accepted Annam All-Father, the creator of giants, as the top of the Ordning, the giant pantheon. Giants respected the stormaz\u00een as the high priest of Annam, the highest ranked figure in the giant religious hierarchy, who resided in Annam's grand temple in the Ice Spires.[14]\nOrdning[edit | edit source]\nMain article: Ordning (social structure)\nThe ordning was the social order to which all giants adhered and assigned a rank to each individual giant so that there were none who are equal to one another, only inferior or superior. It was regarded as an act of evil to go against the ordning.[6]\nParley[edit | edit source]\nGiants causing chaos over their feud.\nAlthough the ordning dictated the leader of a tribe and the leader's will had to be ordinarily obeyed, it was possible for the priests or shamans of two conflicting tribes to conduct a parley in which their consensus was binding for the leaders of both tribes. The intention of the parley was for both parties to agree upon the will of Annam All-Father in the situation at hand, but often the party with more power simply asserted his own will. This system had been further abused in the past, where tribal priests or shamans engineered conflicts to fulfil desires that they would not normally be able to.[12] In modern Faer\u00fbn the numbers of giants were so low that tribal conflicts, and therefore parleys, were rare. In addition, inter-tribal relations were improved compared to the past.[15]\nMyths and legends[edit | edit source]\nSome people, especially those who lived exclusively in the cities, did not believe that giants even existed. Others thought they were magically altered humans.[2] A human myth stated that all giants were evil. This rumor was part of the cause of the formation of the Blood Riders.[11]\nSome giants believed that the stars were dragon queens preparing to scatter dragon eggs across the land.[16] There was a legend that a dragon god lived in the sun and led the dragons in war.[17]\nFestivals and events[edit | edit source]\nThe Grand Feast of the All-Father was celebrated on the first day of the new year. On this day giants would put aside their other responsibilities and have a massive feast celebrating Ostoria's eventual restoration. Ambassadors would be sent from one tribe to another during these feasts to show their unity, and the stormaz\u00een would honor a favored chieftain by dining with that chieftain's tribe.[18]\nFor many years after the death of Hartkiller, the chiefs of the largest giant tribes on Faer\u00fbn made a pilgrimage to the Twilight Vale every year where the Twilight Spirit appeared to them, asking for its help in fulfilling the prophecy of the return of Annam All-Father. The Twilight Spirit appeared as a very large, shadowy giant[19] whose identity was eventually revealed to be Lanaxis in 1366 DR.[20] It is unknown whether this practice continued after Lanaxis' attempt to restore the All-Father failed.\nGiants were inhabiting Abeir-Toril before any of the other humanoid or demihuman races. The first of their kind and the source of the entire species were the sons of Annam All-Father and his wife Othea, who settled on the planet to form a kingdom known as Ostoria. Each of their mortal sons was the progenitor of a different type of giant.[16]\nA giant killed during the chaos of the ordning.\nThe giants were soon at war with the dragons.[16] This conflict was to last for over a thousand years. There are differing accounts of its conclusion, although the giants believe it was a result of a stalemate in a game of wah-ree between Annam and the dragon god, while dwarven accounts say that the dragons needed to declare peace to conduct a civil war in which the metallic dragons fought the chromatic dragons.[17]\nVarieties[edit | edit source]\nTrue Giants[edit | edit source]\nA true giant was one who could trace its lineage back to Annam All-Father and Othea. They all had a defined place in the ordning.[13]\nCloud giant - A clever giant race descended from Nicias that prioritized the accumulation of wealth and power.\nEttin - Two-headed giants descended from Arno and Julian\nFire giant - A militaristic giant race descended from Masud that looked somewhat like a huge red dwarf.\nFog giant - A stealthy giant race descended from cloud giants.\nFrost giant - A giant race descended from Ottar who lived in areas frozen year-round and participated in raids.\nHill giant - A selfish giant race descended from Ruk that inhabited hilly regions.\nMountain giant - An exceptionally strong and cruel type of giant descended from hill giants.\nStone giant - A reclusive and artistic giant race descended from Obadai that was nevertheless dangerous when aroused to anger.\nStorm giant - A wise giant race descended from Vilmos that lived mainly in mountains, enchanted cloud islands, or underwater.\nTitan - The largest of the giants and descendants of Lanaxis. They fled to Arborea when their progenitor was cursed by Othea.\nGiant-kin[edit | edit source]\nMain article: Giant-kin\nMost of the original giant-kin were half-brothers of the original giants through their mother Othea, but their father was not Annam All-Father. They were considered last in the ordning by true giants.\nFirbolg - intelligent and reclusive giant-kin with a deep connection to nature, they rejected the ordning for their own code of conduct focusing on community.\nFomorian - hideous and malformed giant-kin. Some believe fomorians have always been this way,[21][22] while other stories say they were originally incredibly beautiful until they were cursed by the fey for trying to dominate they Feywild, after which they were exiled to the Underdark.[23]\nOgre - brutish descendants of Othea and Vaprak.\nVerbeeg - cunning giant-kin determined to increase their standing in the ordning through subtle manipulation and sabotage.\nVoadkyn - descendants of Dunmore, they were formerly known as wood giants until it was revealed that they were the result of another of Othea's dalliances with Ulutiu. They felt cheated of their proper place in the ordning.\nCyclops - one-eyed giants. They claimed to be sons of Annam, but this was questioned by true giants and other giant-kin.\nTrue Giant Offshoots[edit | edit source]\nThese giants were descended from true giant breeds, but their placement in the ordning was either unknown or non-existent.\nAsh giant - A stone giant subrace found in the Black Ash Plain.[24]\nCraa'ghoran giant - The descendants of stone giants infused with the essence of elemental earth energy, causing rocky growths throughout their body and giving them innate earth magic.[25]\nMaur - The descendants of storm giants exiled to the Underdark. Also known as hunched giants due to the fact that they could no longer stand up straight for long periods of time.[26]\nPhaerlin giant - The mad and brutal descendants of stone giants warped by phaerimm magic in the Underdark.[27]\nZakharan Giants[edit | edit source]\nThese giants were found in Zakhara. They were not related to Annam All-Father.[28][29]\nDesert giant - Nomadic giants affected by a curse that eventually turned all members of the race to stone.\nJungle giant - Carnivorous giants who were skilled hunters.\nReef giant - Aquatic giants who used their skill at foraging to trade ocean treasures to surface folk.\nIsland giant - Bestial giants who hated everyone, including their own kind.\nOgre giant - Simple minded and physically imposing giants.\nFurther Giant Species[edit | edit source]\nThese were other giant subraces found throughout Faer\u00fbn. Their relationship to true giants was unknown:\nEldritch giant - Massive beings fallen from power but who still retained formidable arcane skill.\nDeath giant - Giants who lived in Netheril and traded their souls for the power to survive the collapse of the empire.\nSand giant - Disciplined and honorable giants who lived in isolated desert communities.\n\u2191 The year is deduced from the \"Presenting . . . Seven Millennia of Realms Fiction\" article from Wizards of the Coast and the fact that Giantcraft describes its setting as taking place immediately before the events of the The Twilight Giants trilogy.\nEd Greenwood (2016-06-30). Volo's Guide to Befriending Giants (Web). In John Houlihan, Christopher Perkins eds. Dragon+ #8. Wizards of the Coast. p. 6. Retrieved on 2018-05-23.\nShannon Appelcline (2016-09-02). A Brief History of Giants (Web). In John Houlihan, Mike Mearls eds. Dragon+ #9. Wizards of the Coast. p. 8. Retrieved on 2018-05-23.\nGiant article at the Eberron Wiki, a wiki for the Eberron campaign setting.\n\u2191 1.0 1.1 Skip Williams, Jonathan Tweet, Monte Cook (July 2003). Monster Manual v.3.5. (Wizards of the Coast), pp. 119\u2013125. ISBN 0-7869-2893-X.\n\u2191 2.0 2.1 2.2 Ray Winninger (September 1995). Giantcraft. Edited by Karen S. Boomgarden. (TSR, Inc.), p. 13. ISBN 0-7869-0163-2.\n\u2191 3.0 3.1 Ray Winninger (September 1995). Giantcraft. Edited by Karen S. Boomgarden. (TSR, Inc.), p. 23. ISBN 0-7869-0163-2.\n\u2191 Mike Mearls, Stephen Schubert, James Wyatt (June 2008). Monster Manual 4th edition. (Wizards of the Coast), pp. 120\u2013125. ISBN 978-0-7869-4852-9.\n\u2191 Ray Winninger (September 1995). Giantcraft. Edited by Karen S. Boomgarden. (TSR, Inc.), p. 18. ISBN 0-7869-0163-2.\n\u2191 7.0 7.1 Ray Winninger (September 1995). Giantcraft. Edited by Karen S. Boomgarden. (TSR, Inc.), pp. 17\u201318. ISBN 0-7869-0163-2.\n\u2191 Skip Williams, Jonathan Tweet and Monte Cook (October 2000). Monster Manual 3rd edition. (Wizards of the Coast), pp. 101\u2013102. ISBN 0-7869-1552-1.\n\u2191 11.0 11.1 11.2 Ray Winninger (September 1995). Giantcraft. Edited by Karen S. Boomgarden. (TSR, Inc.), p. 15. ISBN 0-7869-0163-2.\n\u2191 13.0 13.1 Ray Winninger (September 1995). Giantcraft. Edited by Karen S. Boomgarden. (TSR, Inc.), p. 16. ISBN 0-7869-0163-2.\n\u2191 16.0 16.1 16.2 Ray Winninger (September 1995). Giantcraft. Edited by Karen S. Boomgarden. (TSR, Inc.), p. 7. ISBN 0-7869-0163-2.\n\u2191 17.0 17.1 Ray Winninger (September 1995). Giantcraft. Edited by Karen S. Boomgarden. (TSR, Inc.), p. 9. ISBN 0-7869-0163-2.\n\u2191 Ray Winninger (September 1995). Giantcraft. Edited by Karen S. Boomgarden. (TSR, Inc.), pp. 43\u201345. ISBN 0-7869-0163-2.\n\u2191 Troy Denning (September 1995). The Titan of Twilight. (TSR, Inc.). ISBN 0-7869-3798-X.\n\u2191 Doug Stewart (June 1993). Monstrous Manual. (TSR, Inc), p. 138. ISBN 1-5607-6619-0.\n\u2191 Mike Mearls, Jeremy Crawford, Christopher Perkins (2014-09-30). Monster Manual 5th edition. Edited by Scott Fitzgerald Gray. (Wizards of the Coast), p. 136. ISBN 978-0786965614.\n\u2191 Richard Lee Byers (May 2010). The Captive Flame. (Wizards of the Coast). ISBN 0786953969.\n\u2191 Gwendolyn F.M. Kestrel (July 2006). Monster Manual IV. (Wizards of the Coast), pp. 60\u201361. ISBN 0-7869-3920-6.\n\u2191 James Wyatt and Rob Heinsoo (February 2001). Monster Compendium: Monsters of Faer\u00fbn. (Wizards of the Coast), pp. 51\u201352. ISBN 0-7869-1832-2.\n\u2191 Ray Winninger (September 1995). Giantcraft. Edited by Karen S. Boomgarden. (TSR, Inc.), p. 6. ISBN 0-7869-0163-2.\n\u2191 Wolfgang Baur, Steve Kurtz (1992). Monstrous Compendium Al-Qadim Appendix. (TSR, Inc). ISBN l-56076-370-1.\nTrue Giants\nCloud \u2022 Ettin \u2022 Fire (Fire titan ) \u2022 Fog \u2022 Frost \u2022 Hill (Earth titan \u2022 Mouth of Grolantor) \u2022 Mountain \u2022 Stone \u2022 Storm (Storm titan) \u2022 Titan\nTrue Giant Offshoots\nAsh \u2022 Craa'ghoran \u2022 Maur \u2022 Phaerlin\nGiant-Kin\nCyclops (Cyclopskin) \u2022 Firbolg \u2022 Fomorian \u2022 Ogre (Oni) \u2022 Verbeeg \u2022 Voadkyn\nZakharan Giants\nDesert \u2022 Island \u2022 Jungle \u2022 Ogre giant \u2022 Reef\nOther Giants\nEldritch \u2022 Death \u2022 Sand \u2022 Troll\nRetrieved from \"https:\/\/forgottenrealms.fandom.com\/wiki\/Giant?oldid=613226\"\nGiants (3e)","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
+{"text":"Ego -> Soul\nWe are transitioning from ego to soul. Below is a brief summary of the book 'Everything is here to help you,' by Matt Kahn.\nThe ego is seeking\/protecting an identity The soul is aware of our true nature\nVictim of our circumstances. Pioneers of an awakened humanity\nEgo sees itself as separate and fights with aggression. It distrusts the divine order and insists on having things its way. It worries, anticipates and regrets. It habitually casts blame on others. But it can unravel and each layer melt before love. Soul sees us all as one and accepts ego with compassion and great reverence to liberate it in the most loving way. It knows it's true identity and is here for the experience and can thus enjoy the present.\nEgo is meant to be transformed, not abandoned or cast away. We are transforming earth into its highest potential by announcing the presence of well-being. We respect the divinity in ourselves and others. We acknowledge others' right to be as they are. We welcome each moment in whatever life brings us.\nThe ego's first inclination to a situation is that of adversity. On the defensive, it responds unconsciously to everything. It is unaware that dissolving back into Source is its true life purpose, unable to hinder its progress. The soul sees the ally in everything. It knows that nothing can hurt it. It meets whatever feeling or person with unconditional love, our true nature. It views everything beyond just pain and pleasure. It recognizes all circumstances as evolutionary gifts, that everything is here to help me. My feelings are indicators of the unraveling and dissolving of ego. Disappointment assists in keeping me open to life's infinite possibilities of happiness. We begin to breathe instead of blame, and feel instead of argue.\nEgo incubates in separation. Soul communes in unity, an active listener.\nEgo unravels in space, in silence. It sees it as loneliness and isolation, in need of constant validation. It must be loved to be unraveled and integrated. Soul sees solitude as a way to deeper connection, content with lowly jobs. It sees each emotion as opportunities to love itself, more concerned with the situation than how it feels about it. It takes the time to nurture itself.\nThe aggression of overactivity attacks others and denies its very divinity. It is absorbed in the drama, swept away in unconsciousness. The diplomacy of conscious response is to embrace everything as an expression of Source. It returns to Source by pardoning those associated with the pain. We remember our true nature and begin to unhook from the victim identity. It watches the movie, enjoying it from a conscious position. It sees divinity masquerading in everyone. It endures hardship for the healing of all, to make it easier for others to awaken. O, to hold nothing against myself or anyone else! Soul alone can come from the viewpoint of living for the evolution of the world in place of ego's reputation. The worst things that have ever happened to me are the greatest opportunities given me. In the worst of circumstances it knows it is safe. It welcomes any emotion as an opportunity to love more unconditionally, feeling deeply without blaming.\nEgo views the unknown as loss or void. Only the ego says no to the pain and despair of unavoidable loss. Soul sees the unknown as adventure, a new beginning. We are keenly aware of how often life is giving us the chance to grow. We allow everyone to be heard, without the need for them to change their viewpoint. The dissolving of a relationship does not mean the death of love. It goes through the devastation of ego without anger, hurt or disappointment.\nFrustration, confusion, boredom and loneliness are enemies only to an unraveling ego. It views it as a punishment or hardship to be endured. Through compassion the ego undergoing its demise can see that it is actually being rescued, rather than excluded. The ego's greatest contribution is letting go and returning to the light. These are signs of healing and transformation, and the soul recognizes it as my contribution to that of the whole. The more time I spend in the wisdom of the soul the more I see this world as the university for angels that it is. Adverse experiences are a contribution to a more evolved humanity. I am clearing and healing my being and also that of others. Each moment is an evolutionary gift, not a karmic punishment.\nWe are willing to spend as much time necessary shut down to come back renewed and more radiant. The inner victim transforms into the redeeming hero of a life of great purpose. We treat ourselves and others better than we've ever been treated in the past.","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
+{"text":"Home\/Policy Briefs\nAs Colorado Christian University's think tank, we draw on the expertise of CCU Faculty, Centennial Institute Fellows, and other skilled policy analysts to provide background and recommendations on current issues facing policymakers in Colorado and the nation. We do not lobby on specific bills or take sides in elections for candidates and ballot questions.\nThe Centennial Institute Policy Briefs are distributed online and on paper, free of charge, to a wide audience of citizens, public officials, journalists, and thought-leaders \u2013 Americans who can make a difference.\nPolicy Brief No. 2016-1 * 2016-08-24 06:02:53\nSuicide By Doctor: What Colorado Would Risk on the Slippery Slope of Physician-Assisted Suicide\nBy Michael Norton and Natalie Decker\nEditor: Following the lead of five other states and several foreign countries, proponents in Colorado this year are seeking both legislation and a ballot initiative to allow a physician to assist with a patient's suicide. If such a measure became law, it would invert the doctor's time honored role from the sacred duty of sustaining life to the ghoulish power of terminating it. Centennial Institute asked two respected attorneys formerly with our sister organization Alliance Defending Freedom and now with the Colorado Freedom Institute, for a legal and ethical analysis of what is at stake as both the Colorado General Assembly and citizens of Colorado confront this issue. Here is their report.\nRead the Policy Brief\nOur Unwelcoming Welcome Mat: The Case for Immigration Simplification\nBy Helen Raleigh\nEditor: No matter what comes of the showdown between the President and Congress over how to deal with the millions of foreigners illegally present in this country, two great questions will remain if the United States is to continue in global leadership: How can America live up to our self-understanding as a beacon of liberty and opportunity to the world? How can we counter falling birthrates to maintain a workforce that can drive the economic growth and tax revenues needed for our social contract between the generations? The answer: Only by offering an open door for the right people in the right numbers wishing to immigrate here. Finally, here's a practical plan for immigration simplification is based on the core American principles of equal treatment, rule of law, and self-reliance.\nThe Big Deal: How Marijuana Endangers Young People and What Policymakers Should Do\nBy Christian Thurstone, MD\nEditor: When Coloradans in 2012 approved Amendment 64, a constitutional provision legalizing marijuana for optional (miscalled \"recreational\") use by people 21 and older, they moved the state into uncharted waters for medical and social impacts from this high-potency chemical. The experiment set in motion new and very serious challenges to the protection of public health and safety \u2013 specifically that of children and youth. Here are the cold facts, medically documented, about those dangers, along with a six-point damage control agenda for policymakers. It all starts with the oft-invoked but in this case overlooked axiom: Put children first.\nEndangered R Us: Unintended Consequences of the Endangered Species Act, 1973-2013\nBy By Kent Holsinger\nEditor: Editor: The U.S. Endangered Species Act (ESA) is the world's most powerful environmental law. Bureaucratically complex, beset with litigation, gamed by activists, the ESA's mandate for species protection \"whatever the cost\" abounds with adverse unintended consequences. Americans have wakened to realize that under ESA some of our own cherished values such as private property and economic growth are as endangered as any bug, bird, mouse, or minnow. Energy resources, agricultural productivity, and access to public lands are hindered by ESA, with untold billions in costs. Colorado case studies of the Preble's mouse and the greater sage grouse illustrate these impacts. Kent Holsinger, a leading authority on the intricacies and burdens of ESA, argues for rethinking the law's operation from a cost-benefit standpoint. Practical solutions such as programmatic compliance and market-based mitigation offer an exit from endless expensive regulation at undetermined benefit.\nPolicy Brief No. Comparative Counties Study * 2014-03-20 15:59:37\nGRASSROOTS GOVERNMENT IN COLORADO\nBy Centennial Institute Staff\nEditor: Editor: Following upon widespread discontent among rural Coloradans in 2013, leading to talk of secession and heightened interest in political decentralization, Weld County's board of commissioners engaged a Centennial Institute research team to compile and analyze comparative data on Weld's governance and public administration, economic and fiscal condition, and citizen attitudes, relative to those in five other Colorado counties similarly situated: Larimer, Boulder, El Paso, Pueblo, and Mesa. Findings and recommendations are spelled out in this 100-page study. Our charge was to give Weld commissioners an assessment of how well they are performing, why performance is good or not, what steps they might take to improve where needed, and whether their model may be transferable to other counties. The research team concluded that Weld County's performance of its governmental mission compares very favorably with peer counties on most objective measurements, and that Weld residents subjectively register more satisfaction with life in the county than Coloradans in other locales. As for transferability, the team judged the Weld model as one that \"local governments everywhere would do well to replicate.\"\nThe Hydraulic Fracturing Primer: Base Energy Regulation on Facts, not Fear\nEditor: Editor: Here is a factual counterweight to the waves of unfavorable media and advocacy stirring up fear about the process of extracting oil and gas from the ground through the method known as hydraulic fracturing or \"fracking.\" Waves of propaganda have fostered a broad negative perception of fracking. Voters in four Colorado cities have banned fracking as a result, with a statewide ban projected in 2014. To remedy the dearth of factual information reaching the public, this policy brief details the history, methods, and chemistry involved in fracking. There is authoritative information about the drilling, amounts and composition of water used, the depths of wells away from water tables, and the safeguards in place. The primer compiles solid evidence to help allay Americans' widespread but utterly misplaced concerns about water and air pollution risks associated with hydraulic fracturing.\nMedical Direct Pay: How States Can Start Improving Health Care Right Now\nBy Frank D. Francone\nEditor: Editor: Despite gridlock on health care nationally, states can take one immediate step to address the cost and quality of care for everyone. Arizona showed the way when it passed an innovative medical \"direct pay\" law. Direct pay means that a patient pays the doctor or hospital directly. The provider need not claim reimbursement by a third party. The patient, if insured, is responsible for collection of reimbursement. The Arizona law fully legalizes direct pay and requires health care providers and facilities to make available to the public, their direct pay prices for their top 25 or 50 services. Anticipated benefits, in Arizona as the law took effect this year and in Colorado or other states that may follow suit next year, include placing downward pressure on medical prices, assisting those who become victims of the ACA (Obamacare) when their insurance is cancelled, and pointing the way beyond ACA to a better health care system in the future.\nBad Bargain: How Renewable Energy Mandates Pick your Pocket\nBy Kelly Sloan\nEditor: Editor: The fading fad for state Renewable Portfolio Standards (RPS) has accomplished little but the transfer of vast sums of money from consumers to favored industries. Average electric rates in the 30 states with enforceable mandates for wind and solar are 21% higher than in the states without such mandates. Higher unemployment in a state appears to be correlated with higher electric rates, which in turn are often correlated with enforceable mandates. Between 2003 and 2012, residential electric rates rose nationally by 36%, half again as fast as the inflation rate at 24.8%, hurting poor people the most. Despite all the mandates, subsidies, tax breaks, and loan guarantees, wind and solar accounted for barely 4% of total U.S. electrical generation in 2012. Electricity generated by wind and solar will always cost more because of intermittent availability, geographic limitations, and impracticality of storage.\nYou Want Affordable Care? Common Sense from a Practicing Physician\nBy Dr. Jill Q. Vecchio, MD\nEditor: Editor: The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, President Obama's prescription for reforming American health care, could not be more misleadingly named. As the public is beginning to realize, with its full implementation now upon us, the PPACA law neither protects patients \u2013 who face rationing, shortages, and delays \u2013 nor guarantees affordable care. It only guarantees higher premiums, higher taxes, and worst of all, degradation of care for many in the most vulnerable groups \u2013 older people under Medicare and lower-income people under Medicaid. And now Colorado is about to further overburden its already dysfunctional Medicaid system by massively expanding the rolls with what is perceived as \"free money\" under PPACA. This policy brief is an attempt to step back and see the big picture on what has made health care unaffordable to so many, and how we can start making it more affordable once again \u2013 especially for America's poor.\nWeapons of Mass Obstruction: How the Environmental Lobby Stymies Energy Production and Hurts America\nEditor: Editor: The militant environmental lobby has developed a successful playbook for using legal strategies to deny, delay, and deter energy production on public lands in Colorado. Known as \"the Colorado Model,\" it is now being applied across the country. Its impact is to curtail domestic energy production, slow the onset of American energy independence, block job creation and economic growth, and drive up costs for both consumers and taxpayers. This policy brief looks three case studies of the model at work in western Colorado, illustrating how the environmental lobby deploys its \"weapons of mass obstruction.\" We conclude with a menu of recommended policy solutions.\nBy Much Better Schools on Much Lower Budgets\nEditor: Editor: Colorado public education is the most important communal undertaking for our state's future. It is also the most expensive obligation for taxpayers. But as we enter 2011, education faces both a budget crisis and an identity crisis. Legislators will take up another round of unwelcome spending reductions come January. At the same time, school districts from the gritty urban neigh-borhoods of Montbello to the affluent greenbelts of Douglas County are mired in controversy over the very meaning of education. Centennial Institute asked former Education Commissioner William Moloney, who was Colorado's chief state school officer under Democratic and Republican administrations from 1997 to 2007 and has worked on education policy in a number of other states and nations, to think outside the box about realistic solutions. Here are his analysis and recommendations.\nNo Political Oversight of Private Colleges\nBy Krista Kafer\nEditor: Abstract: Should private colleges and universities be subjected to adversarial oversight by politicians in 50 state capitals? The Education Department is set to mandate more government control over a private-sector accreditation process that has served higher education well. To what purpose? The new regulations offer little benefit to these institutions, their students, or the taxpayers. Abuses by a few unethical, for-profit colleges do not justify a power grab against 6,000 nonprofit schools. If states politicize their authorization process, colleges may face the choice of compromising their mission or closing their doors. In a nation founded on the free exchange of ideas, that's wrong. Policymakers should withdraw the proposed regulations.\nRecent Briefs","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
+{"text":"Titles Non Fiction\nOriente Medio, Oriente roto\nChildren & YA\nMiddle East, Broken East\nOriginal title: Oriente Medio, Oriente roto\nMikel Ayestaran\nCategory: Non-Fiction | Current Affairs\nWhen Mikel Ayestaran decided to become a war reporter, leaving behind a peaceful job in the newsroom, he had few doubts about where his path would take him. The Middle East isn't the only hot zone on the planet, but it is the one that is never absent from international coverage in worldwide media. Marked by profound ethnic, political, and religious divisions, it is a region where world powers and local regimes settle scores through third-party states while terrorist groups like Al Qaida and ISIS have flourished into authentic worldwide threats.\nFollowing a baptism by fire in Iran, during the Bam Earthquake, Ayestaran has traveled from his base in Jerusalem to Lebanon, Georgia, Iraq, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Egypt, Tunis, and Lybia. Not to mention Syria. Living, suffering, trying to understand and retell all that happens there has become the center of Mikel Ayestaran's life since he arrived in the Middle East more than a decade ago. And it is the raison d'\u00eatre for this book, built up from fragments of a nomad's life guided by the compass of the present through a region that is bleeding like an enormous open wound.\nOriente Medio, Oriente roto videos\nSelecciona un Booktrailer\nColecci\u00f3n Odiseas - Pen\u00ednsula\nBooktrailer Las cenizas del califato | Mikel Ayestaran\nA journalist on the front line of the biggest and most painful front of the planet.\nPublishing date: 2017\/06\/06 | 304 pages | ISBN: 978-84-9942-611-2 | Imprint: Ediciones Pen\u00ednsula\nOther titles of the author\nThe Ashes of the Caliphate","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
+{"text":"History and Philosophy of Science Seminar\nSchool of Philosophy, Religion and History of Science event Wednesday 11 March 2020\nDate: Wednesday 11 March 2020, 15:15 \u2013 17:00\nDr Adrian Currie's topic is TBA\nDr Adrian Currie is a Philosopher of Palaeontology and Archaeology, Lecturer at the University of Exeter and recent winner of the 2019 Ferdinando Gil Prize for his book 'Rock, bone and ruin: An optimist's guide to the Historical Sciences.\nThe research seminar of the Centre for History and Philosophy of Science at the University of Leeds runs fortnightly during term time.\nSee all School of Philosophy, Religion and History of Science events\nAfrican Knowledges of Health\nSchool of Philosophy, Religion and History of Science - Thursday 21 January 2021\nSchool of Philosophy, Religion and History of Science - Wednesday 27 January 2021\nPhilosophy and AI workshop\nSchool of Philosophy, Religion and History of Science - Thursday 4 February 2021","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
+{"text":"The Dignity of Man An Islamic Perspective (HardBack)\nThe Dignity of Man: An Islamic Perspective provides the most detailed study to date on the subject of the dignity of man from the perspective of Islam. M H Kamali sets out the proclamations on human dignity found in the Qur'an and then discusses topics pertaining to or resulting from human dignity: the physical and spiritual nobility of man; God's love for humanity; the sanctity of life; and the necessity for freedom, equality and accountability. Finally, the author examines the measures that the Shariah has taken to protect human dignity and to promote it in social interaction. The discussion is here presented in the light of the debate on the universality of human rights as enshrined in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. This book goes a long way towards exploring an alternative to Western concepts of human rights. The Dignity of Man: An Islamic Perspective is part of a series of studies on fundamental rights and liberties in Islam and should be read with its companion volumes of Freedom, Equality and Justice in Islam, and Freedom of Expression in Islam.\nDr Mohammad Hashim Kamali is Professor of Law at the International Islamic University Malaysia where he has been teaching Islamic law and jurisprudence since 1985. Among his other works published by The Islamic Texts Society are: Principles of Islamic Jurisprudence, Freedom of Expression in Islam, Islamic Commercial Law, and Freedom, Equality and Justice in Islam.\nPublisher: Islamic Text Society\nAuthor: Muhammad Hisham Kamali\nArabic Course for English Speaking\nDehnal Oudh Mubakhar\nBakhoor Mulhum\nNew York Shalwar Kameez","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
+{"text":"Police seize guns and drugs at Duncan property. (Citizen file photo)\nPolice seize drugs, guns at Duncan property\nOne man taken into custody\nA number of guns and a quantity of drugs were seized after the RCMP executed a search warrant at a property in Duncan on Sept. 7.\nThe North Cowichan\/Duncan RCMP Street Crime Unit searched the property on Alexander Street following a drug-related investigation that spanned several months.\nOfficers with the Vancouver Island Integrated Emergency Response Team and Police Dog Services also assisted in executing the warrant in the early morning hours, and a 37-year-old man from the Hope, B.C. area was taken into custody without incident.\nThe RCMP found 13 ounces of suspected fentanyl at the site, as well as six ounces of suspected cocaine, 34 ounces of suspected methamphetamine and more than 230 prescribed medication pills.\nIn addition, officers seized a 12-gauge shotgun, .45 calibre replica handgun, two conducted-energy weapons (tasers) and body armour.\n\"Along with the obvious visible issues around drug abuse in the community, any time individuals and groups involved in the drug trade choose to move into new areas, the risk of violence increases,\" said Corp. Trevor March from the North Cowichan\/Duncan RCMP Street Crime Unit.\n\"Maintaining pressure against these groups to curb their activity will remain a priority of the Street Crime Unit and collectively as a detachment. Investigators will be working closely with federal Crown counsel to secure charges and convictions on this matter.\"\nAnyone with information is asked to contact the North Cowichan\/Duncan RCMP at 250-748-5522\nFuneral march and service at Olympic Oval for Const. Shaelyn Yang: RCMP\nRecord share of Canadians are immigrants or permanent residents, census shows","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
+{"text":"News|Climate Crisis\nOman's monsoon has arrived\nSalalah's green season has arrived and will be around for three months\nA monsoon cloud hovers over southern Oman [Eumetsat]\nBy Rob McElwee\nPublished On 22 Jun 201622 Jun 2016\nSalalah is one of those rare places in the Arabian Peninsula that experiences a monsoon season. It is called Khareef and lasts, roughly, from late June to early September. Khareef means \"autumn\" in Arabic, but it is used to refer to monsoon in Salalah.\n\"It rained in the morning, and still the skies are cloudy,\" Bader Ali Al Baddaei told The Times of Oman. He was referring to Salalah in the Dhofar region of Oman. (Bader is an administrator of www.rthmc.net, a local web-based forum that monitors the weather)\nAccording to Bader, in addition to rain, low-lying fog and mist have blanketed many parts of Salalah, especially in the Sarfeet area. Basil Peter, an official at Salalah Port, said: \"I got drenched in rain. The climate is perfect here.\"\nHe was not being sarcastic. During this time, the brown landscape of Salalah and its surroundings are completely transformed to a beautiful and lush green, and locals and tourists alike flock to the area to take advantage.\nThe Southwest Monsoon arrived late in India this year, but in the last 24 hours it has surged northwards. This prompted a sudden influx of cloud and humidity over southern Oman.\nWhile the temperature in Oman's northeast hovers around 46C and the sun beats down, Salalah has now dipped below 30C. Humidity is high and will usually be above 90 percent both day and night.\nThe plain upon which Salalah sits is dampened by mist and drizzle at this time of the year. In both July and August, Slalah's average rainfall is 25mm. The escarpment that surrounds the plain and rises to the Dhofar Plateau catches the clouds and can double the amount of rain that falls. This is what makes Salalah so green.","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
+{"text":"DAR honors student essay winners\nAsa Laws\nPhotos courtesy of Mary Less Bailey Shelton, Daughters of the American Revolution, Do\u00f1a Ana Chapter\nLeft to right are DAR Do\u00f1a Ana Chapter American History chair Bonnie Poloner, teacher Rose Mitchell, DAR essay contest fifth-grade winner Roma Subedi and DAR Do\u00f1a Ana Chapter Regent Linda Bartlett.\nDaughters of the American Revolution, Do\u00f1a Ana Chapter member Bonnie Poloner awards Mia Homsi her DAR American history essay certificate.\nPosted Friday, February 25, 2022 12:53 pm\nBy Mary Lee Bailey Shelton, Vice Regent Daughters of the American Revolution, Do\u00f1a Ana Chapter\nStepping into the imaginary shoes of families who suffered unimaginable loss, two Las Cruces middle school students have penned their way to statewide distinction.\nSierra Middle School seventh-grader Mia Homsi and Mesilla Valley Leadership Academy eighth-grader Asa Laws won first place state honors for their grade levels in the New Mexico Society of the Daughters of the American Revolution (DAR) annual American History Essay Contest. The Las Cruces students will read their essays aloud April 2 at the DAR state conference in Albuquerque.\nUniversity Hills Elementary School fifth-grader Roma Subedi's essay won first place in Las Cruces for her grade level.\nThe state DAR honors annually the best essays in grades five through eight. All New Mexico chapter winners from each grade are judged at the state level. State winners are entered in the national competition.\nThis year's topic, The Tomb of the Unknown Soldier, honors the 100-year anniversary of the tomb's establishment.\nTo write her award-winning essay Mia Homsi said she imagined her adored two older brothers being lost in World War II.\n\"It was very hard to think of never seeing them again,\" she recalled of her essay's inspiration. \"I tried to think of what my outlook would be. I would be proud that my brothers fought for the people, but so sad if they were lost. I would never be the same.\"\n\"The essay gave me a whole new box in my mind,\" she said. \"I never thought of this before. I never even heard of The Tomb of the Unknown Soldier.\"\nMia said language arts and history are favorite subjects.\n\"I love to write, and history is intriguing,\" Mia said. \"To think that people actually went through this, how hard it was for them, how much they did for us, and how different we are now because of what they did for us\u2026it's very remarkable.\"\nAsa Laws also said he was unaware that there was a Tomb of the Unknown Soldier. He agreed that it is \"a super interesting topic.\"\nAsa created his essay voice as a World War I veteran fighting alongside his brother. His character survived; the brother was lost and unaccounted for.\nThe assignment forced Asa to think about disappearing from the world and your family not knowing how or when. \"I know I wouldn't want that to happen to me,\" he said.\nAsa said he was fascinated that the tomb was guarded 24 hours a day, seven days a week, 365 days a year.\n\"No hurricane, tornado, or flood can drive these valiant soldiers from their post guarding the deceased unknown soldier who gave their life for our country,\" Asa wrote in his essay.\nRoma Subedi had heard of WWI and of the unknown soldier's tomb, but writing the essay taught her a lot \"about the place where people who have given their lives for our freedom are represented.\"\nRoma said she did not know about the food and water shortages in the WWI theater and learned that our soldiers didn't have much to live on.\nA passionate reader of realistic fiction, Roma said that she plans to be a doctor. After researching and writing the DAR essay, she said she would like to be a doctor for veterans. She hopes there will not be another war for the United States, but if there is, she wants to serve as a doctor on the battlefield.\nDAR's American History Essay Contest was established to encourage young people to think creatively about our nation's great history and learn about history in a new light. Essays are judged for historical accuracy, adherence to the topic, organization of materials, interest, originality, spelling, grammar, punctuation, and neatness.\nDo\u00f1a Ana DAR American History Chapter Chair Bonnie Poloner and member Cathy Hollar coordinated the Las Cruces essay contest. Judges were retired history teacher Kathy Fox, National DAR Historic Preservation Medal winner Sally Kading and history buff Bill Kinsella.\nDAR is a nonprofit, non-political volunteer women's service organization dedicated to promoting patriotism, preserving American history and securing America's future through better education for children. Any woman 18 years or older-regardless of race, religion, or ethnic background who can prove lineal descent from a patriot of the American Revolution, is eligible for membership.\nMore than a million women have joined DAR since it was founded more than 125 years ago.\nFor information on how to join DAR, contact Dona Ana chapter's registrar Carol McIntyre at carol.mcintyre55@gmail.com.\nVisit donaanadar.com.","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
+{"text":"Africa This Week: August 29, 2022\nLast Updated: September 6, 2022 by 21votes\nA weekly review of news and analysis of elections in Africa, usually posted on Mondays and occasionally updated throughout the week.\nThe Fortaleza de S\u00e3o Miguel, built in 1576, and the skyline of Luanda, Angola. Photo credit: Wikimedia\/David Stanley (CC BY 2.0)\nSomaliland Presidential Election: November 13, 2022\nMohamed Dhaysane, Voice of America (August 25, 2022): Attacks Increase Against Somaliland Media\nNigeria General Elections: February 18, 2023\nUche Igwe, Observer Research Foundation (August 24, 2022): Nigeria's worsening security situation may jeopardise the 2023 elections\nReuters (August 24, 2022): Insecurity: 2023 elections may not hold, political parties council warns\nZimbabwe General Elections: July 2023\nJeffrey Moyo, Mail and Guardian (August 30, 2022): Rise in attacks on journalists and opposition activists in Zimbabwe ahead of elections\nKitsepile Nyathi, The East African (August 26, 2022): Four Zimbabwean journalists attacked as political violence escalates\nPrivilege Musvanhiri and Annabelle Steffes-Halmer, DW (August 24, 2022): Author and activist Tsitsi Dangarembga's trial reflects repression in Zimbabwe\nDemocratic Republic of the Congo Presidential and Legislative Elections: December 2023 (due)\nAnna Sylvestre-Treiner, The Africa Report (August 26, 2022): DRC: Is F\u00e9lix Tshisekedi standing all alone in 2023?\nSouth Africa General Elections: May 2024\nAntony Sguazzin, Bloomberg (August 29, 2022): South Africa's Ruling ANC to Win 2024 Vote Even as City Support Plunges, Survey Shows\nRay Mwareya, The Africa Report (August 26, 2022): South Africa: Shock poll shows ANC heading towards 2024 coalition\nChad Elections: TBD, following coup\nAfricanews with AFP (August 29, 2022): Chad's \"National Dialogue\": election of presidium members stormy\nAFP (August 27, 2022): Chad Rebels Say Killed 10 Soldiers, Government Denies Claim\nHelga Dickow, The Conversation (August 25, 2022): Chad is making a huge effort to find peace: Chadians aren't convinced it will work\nAngola General Elections: August 24, 2022\nAP (August 30, 2022): Angolan opposition UNITA rejects ruling party's election win: Angola's opposition party has filed a complaint against the election victory of the ruling MPLA party in which President Joao Lourenco won a second term and the party got a reduced majority in the legislature\nStephanie Busari and Nimi Princewill, CNN, (August 29, 2022): Angola's ruling party extends 47-year streak with election win\nBBC (August 29, 2022): Angola election: The MPLA defeats Unita in closest-ever election\nGabriele Steinhauser, Wall Street Journal (August 25, 2022): Angola's Debt to China Looms as Nation Holds Tight Elections: Vote in sub-Saharan Africa's second-largest oil-producing country could challenge nearly five decades of one-party rule\nKenya General Elections: August 9, 2022\nDuncan Miriri, Reuters (August 30, 2022): Kenya's top court to rule on hacking allegations, votes disparity in election dispute\nJuma Majanga, Voice of America (August 30, 2022): Experts: Challenges to Kenya Presidential Poll Results Have Improved Election Integrity\nFaustine Ngila, Quartz Africa (August 26, 2022): Court petitions allege hackers manipulated Kenya's presidential poll results\nAgnes Aineah, Association for Catholic Information in Africa (August 25, 2022): Catholic Church in Kenya Urged to Address \"entrenched\" Tribalism Influencing Elections\nThe Diplomat (August 25, 2022): What Kenya's Presidential Election Means for China's Belt and Road Initiative: The country's president-elect has promised to review and renegotiate the opaque BRI contracts brokered by the previous government.\nNic Cheeseman, The Elephant (August 24, 2022): Four Reasons Why Raila Odinga Struggled in the 2022 Kenyan Elections\nWashington Post (August 24, 2022): Why did Kenyans elect Ruto as president? What looks superficially like a normal election was filled with contradictions, intrigue, double-crossing and surprise shifts in ethnic loyalties\nThe Guardian (August 24, 2022): Kenya elections bring new wave of female leaders to the fore: Record win for women is a cause for celebration as acrimony over the presidency continues\nAntony Sguazzin, Bloomberg (August 26, 2022): Next Africa: Is the Shine Fading for the Liberation Parties?\nShola Lawal, Coda Story (August 25, 2022): Russian trolls and mercenaries win allies and good will in Africa: As French troops leave Mali to jeers, the West fears that it is leaving a vacuum that the Kremlin is eager and ready to fill\nPhillip van Niekerk, Daily Maverick (August 25, 2022): Wagner Group: Putin's grim reapers giving mercenaries a bad name, now embedded in Africa\nAfrica Elections Coming Up in 2022 and 2023\nSao Tome and Principe Legislative Elections: September 25, 2022\nLesotho Parliamentary Elections: October 7, 2022\nCentral African Republic Local Elections: September 2022 (delayed \u2013 no new date set)\nEquatorial Guinea Legislative and Local Elections: November 2022 (due)\nGuinea-Bissau Snap Parliamentary Elections: December 18, 2022\nDjibouti Legislative Elections: February 2023\nNigeria Gubernatorial Elections in Most States: March 2023 (due)\nSouth Sudan General Elections: By March 2023 (tentative)\nSierra Leone Presidential Election: June 24, 2023\nEswatini Parliamentary Elections: August 2023 (due)\nGabon Presidential Election: August 2023 (due)\nMauritania Parliamentary Elections: September 2023 (due)\nGabon Legislative Elections: October 2023 (due)\nLiberia Presidential and Legislative Elections: October 2023 (due)\nNigeria, Gubernatorial Elections in Kogi and Bayelsa States: November 2023 (due)\nMadagascar Presidential Election: November 2023 (due)\nTogo Legislative and Regional Elections: December 2023 (due)\nC\u00f4te d'Ivoire Local Elections: 2023\nChad General Elections: TBD, following coup\nBurkina Faso Elections: TBD, following coup\nGuinea Elections: TBD, following coup\nCategory: This Week Tags: Angola, Chad, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Kenya, Nigeria, Somaliland, South Africa, Zimbabwe\n\u2190 Americas This Week: August 27, 2022\nMiddle East This Week: August 30, 2022 \u2192","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
+{"text":"MONROE NC FAMILY LAW\nNC Laws\nDivorce >\nDivorce from bed and board\nDivorce based on insanity\nResumption of maiden name\nChild Custody >\nAttorney fees for Child Custody\nChild Support >\nAttorney fees for Child Support\nModification of Child Support\nProperty Distribution >\nRetirement Distribution\nSanctions for Delay of Property Division\nSpousal Support >\nPostseparation Support >\nAttorney fees for Postseparation Support\nModification of Postseparation Support\nAlimony >\nAttorney fees for Alimony\nModification of Alimony\nUnion County Local Rules\nEmergency Custody\nCustody Mediation\nTemporary Custody\nUnion County Local Forms\nCourthouse info\nChild Support in NC\nChild Support in NC is determined based on the number of overnights a child spends with each parent. Assuming one parent has primary custody then Worksheet A is used. If the parents shared custody arrangement close to equal number of overnights then Worksheet B is used.\nThe NC Child Support Guidelines makes determining child support relatively easy assuming the income of the parties can be ascertained. The main factors used by the guidelines include the income of each parent, the number the children, daycare expenses, and health insurance expenses.\n\u00a7 50-13.4. Action for support of minor child.\n(a) Any parent, or any person, agency, organization or institution having custody of a minor child, or bringing an action or proceeding for the custody of such child, or a minor child by his guardian may institute an action for the support of such child as hereinafter provided.\n(b) In the absence of pleading and proof that the circumstances otherwise warrant, the father and mother shall be primarily liable for the support of a minor child. In the absence of pleading and proof that the circumstances otherwise warrant, parents of a minor, unemancipated child who is the custodial or noncustodial parent of a child shall share this primary liability for their grandchild's support with the minor parent, the court determining the proper share, until the minor parent reaches the age of 18 or becomes emancipated. If both the parents of the child requiring support were unemancipated minors at the time of the child's conception, the parents of both minor parents share primary liability for their grandchild's support until both minor parents reach the age of 18 or become emancipated. If only one parent of the child requiring support was an unemancipated minor at the time of the child's conception, the parents of both parents are liable for any arrearages in child support owed by the adult or emancipated parent until the other parent reaches the age of 18 or becomes emancipated. In the absence of pleading and proof that the circumstances otherwise warrant, any other person, agency, organization or institution standing in loco parentis shall be secondarily liable for such support. Such other circumstances may include, but shall not be limited to, the relative ability of all the above-mentioned parties to provide support or the inability of one or more of them to provide support, and the needs and estate of the child. The judge may enter an order requiring any one or more of the above-mentioned parties to provide for the support of the child as may be appropriate in the particular case, and if appropriate the court may authorize the application of any separate estate of the child to his support. However, the judge may not order support to be paid by a person who is not the child's parent or an agency, organization or institution standing in loco parentis absent evidence and a finding that such person, agency, organization or institution has voluntarily assumed the obligation of support in writing. The preceding sentence shall not be construed to prevent any court from ordering the support of a child by an agency of the State or county which agency may be responsible under law for such support.\nThe judge may order responsible parents in a IV-D establishment case to perform a job search, if the responsible parent is not incapacitated. This includes IV-D cases in which the responsible parent is a noncustodial mother or a noncustodial father whose affidavit of parentage has been filed with the court or when paternity is not at issue for the child. The court may further order the responsible parent to participate in work activities, as defined in 42 U.S.C. \u00a7 607, as the court deems appropriate.\n(c) Payments ordered for the support of a minor child shall be in such amount as to meet the reasonable needs of the child for health, education, and maintenance, having due regard to the estates, earnings, conditions, accustomed standard of living of the child and the parties, the child care and homemaker contributions of each party, and other facts of the particular case. Payments ordered for the support of a minor child shall be on a monthly basis, due and payable on the first day of each month. The requirement that orders be established on a monthly basis does not affect the availability of garnishment of disposable earnings based on an obligor's pay period.\nThe court shall determine the amount of child support payments by applying the presumptive guidelines established pursuant to subsection (c1) of this section. However, upon request of any party, the Court shall hear evidence, and from the evidence, find the facts relating to the reasonable needs of the child for support and the relative ability of each parent to provide support. If, after considering the evidence, the Court finds by the greater weight of the evidence that the application of the guidelines would not meet or would exceed the reasonable needs of the child considering the relative ability of each parent to provide support or would be otherwise unjust or inappropriate the Court may vary from the guidelines. If the court orders an amount other than the amount determined by application of the presumptive guidelines, the court shall make findings of fact as to the criteria that justify varying from the guidelines and the basis for the amount ordered.\nPayments ordered for the support of a child shall terminate when the child reaches the age of 18 except:\n(1) If the child is otherwise emancipated, payments shall terminate at that time;\n(2) If the child is still in primary or secondary school when the child reaches age 18, support payments shall continue until the child graduates, otherwise ceases to attend school on a regular basis, fails to make satisfactory academic progress towards graduation, or reaches age 20, whichever comes first, unless the court in its discretion orders that payments cease at age 18 or prior to high school graduation.\n(3) (See Editor's note for applicability) If the child is enrolled in a cooperative innovative high school program authorized under Part 9 of Article 16 of Chapter 115C of the General Statutes, then payments shall terminate when the child completes his or her fourth year of enrollment or when the child reaches the age of 18, whichever occurs later.\nIn the case of graduation, or attaining age 20, payments shall terminate without order by the court, subject to the right of the party receiving support to show, upon motion and with notice to the opposing party, that the child has not graduated or attained the age of 20.\nIf an arrearage for child support or fees due exists at the time that a child support obligation terminates, payments shall continue in the same total amount that was due under the terms of the previous court order or income withholding in effect at the time of the support obligation. The total amount of these payments is to be applied to the arrearage until all arrearages and fees are satisfied or until further order of the court.\n(c1) Effective July 1, 1990, the Conference of Chief District Judges shall prescribe uniform statewide presumptive guidelines for the computation of child support obligations, including retroactive support obligations, of each parent as provided in Chapter 50 or elsewhere in the General Statutes and shall develop criteria for determining when, in a particular case, application of the guidelines would be unjust or inappropriate. The purpose of the guidelines and criteria shall be to ensure that payments ordered for the support of a minor child are in such amount as to meet the reasonable needs of the child for health, education, and maintenance, having due regard to the estates, earnings, conditions, accustomed standard of living of the child and the parties, the child care and homemaker contributions of each party, and other facts of the particular case. The guidelines shall include a procedure for setting child support, if any, in a joint or shared custody arrangement which shall reflect the other statutory requirements herein.\nPeriodically, but at least once every four years, the Conference of Chief District Judges shall review the guidelines to determine whether their application results in appropriate child support award amounts. The Conference may modify the guidelines accordingly. The Conference shall give the Department of Health and Human Services, the Administrative Office of the Courts, and the general public an opportunity to provide the Conference with information relevant to the development and review of the guidelines. Any modifications of the guidelines or criteria shall be reported to the General Assembly by the Administrative Office of the Courts before they become effective by delivering copies to the President Pro Tempore of the Senate and the Speaker of the House of Representatives. The guidelines, when adopted or modified, shall be provided to the Department of Health and Human Services and the Administrative Office of the Courts, which shall disseminate them to the public through local IV-D offices, clerks of court, and the media.\n(d) In non-IV-D cases, payments for the support of a minor child shall be ordered to be paid to the person having custody of the child or any other proper person, agency, organization or institution, or to the State Child Support Collection and Disbursement Unit, for the benefit of the child. In IV-D cases, payments for the support of a minor child shall be ordered to be paid to the State Child Support Collection and Disbursement Unit for the benefit of the child.\n(d1) For child support orders initially entered on or after January 1, 1994, the immediate income withholding provisions of G.S. 110-136.5(c1) shall apply.\n(e) Payment for the support of a minor child shall be paid by lump sum payment, periodic payments, or by transfer of title or possession of personal property of any interest therein, or a security interest in or possession of real property, as the court may order. The court may order the transfer of title to real property solely owned by the obligor in payment of arrearages of child support so long as the net value of the interest in the property being transferred does not exceed the amount of the arrearage being satisfied. In every case in which payment for the support of a minor child is ordered and alimony or postseparation support is also ordered, the order shall separately state and identify each allowance.\n(e1) In IV-D cases, the order for child support shall provide that the clerk shall transfer the case to another jurisdiction in this State if the IV-D agency requests the transfer on the basis that the obligor, the custodian of the child, and the child do not reside in the jurisdiction in which the order was issued. The IV-D agency shall provide notice of the transfer to the obligor by delivery of written notice in accordance with the notice requirements of Chapter 1A-1, Rule 5(b) of the Rules of Civil Procedure. The clerk shall transfer the case to the jurisdiction requested by the IV-D agency, which shall be a jurisdiction in which the obligor, the custodian of the child, or the child resides. Nothing in this subsection shall be construed to prevent a party from contesting the transfer.\n(f) Remedies for enforcement of support of minor children shall be available as herein provided.\n(1) The court may require the person ordered to make payments for the support of a minor child to secure the same by means of a bond, mortgage or deed of trust, or any other means ordinarily used to secure an obligation to pay money or transfer property, or by requiring the execution of an assignment of wages, salary or other income due or to become due.\n(2) If the court requires the transfer of real or personal property or an interest therein as provided in subsection (e) as a part of an order for payment of support for a minor child, or for the securing thereof, the court may also enter an order which shall transfer title as provided in G.S. 1A-1, Rule 70 and G.S. 1-228.\n(3) The remedy of arrest and bail, as provided in Article 34 of Chapter 1 of the General Statutes, shall be available in actions for child-support payments as in other cases.\n(4) The remedies of attachment and garnishment, as provided in Article 35 of Chapter 1 of the General Statutes, shall be available in an action for child-support payments as in other cases, and for such purposes the child or person bringing an action for child support shall be deemed a creditor of the defendant. Additionally, in accordance with the provisions of G.S. 110-136, a continuing wage garnishment proceeding for wages due or to become due may be instituted by motion in the original child support proceeding or by independent action through the filing of a petition.\n(5) The remedy of injunction, as provided in Article 37 of Chapter 1 of the General Statutes and G.S. 1A-1, Rule 65, shall be available in actions for child support as in other cases.\n(6) Receivers, as provided in Article 38 of Chapter 1 of the General Statutes, may be appointed in action for child support as in other cases.\n(7) A minor child or other person for whose benefit an order for the payment of child support has been entered shall be a creditor within the meaning of Article 3A of Chapter 39 of the General Statutes pertaining to fraudulent conveyances.\n(8) Except as provided in Article 15 of Chapter 44 of the General Statutes, a judgment for child support shall not be a lien against real property unless the judgment expressly so provides, sets out the amount of the lien in a sum certain, and adequately describes the real property affected; but past due periodic payments may by motion in the cause or by a separate action be reduced to judgment which shall be a lien as other judgments and may include provisions for periodic payments.\n(9) An order for the periodic payments of child support or a child support judgment that provides for periodic payments is enforceable by proceedings for civil contempt, and disobedience may be punished by proceedings for criminal contempt, as provided in Chapter 5A of the General Statutes.\nNotwithstanding the provisions of G.S. 1-294, an order for the payment of child support which has been appealed to the appellate division is enforceable in the trial court by proceedings for civil contempt during the pendency of the appeal. Upon motion of an aggrieved party, the court of the appellate division in which the appeal is pending may stay any order for civil contempt entered for child support until the appeal is decided, if justice requires.\n(10) The remedies provided by Chapter 1 of the General Statutes, Article 28, Execution; Article 29B, Execution Sales; and Article 31, Supplemental Proceedings, shall be available for the enforcement of judgments for child support as in other cases, but amounts so payable shall not constitute a debt as to which property is exempt from execution as provided in Article 16 of Chapter 1C of the General Statutes.\n(11) The specific enumeration of remedies in this section shall not constitute a bar to remedies otherwise available.\n(g) An individual who brings an action or motion in the cause for the support of a minor child, and the individual who defends the action, shall provide to the clerk of the court in which the action is brought or the order is issued, the individual's social security number.\n(h) Child support orders initially entered or modified on and after October 1, 1998, shall contain the name of each of the parties, the date of birth of each party, and the court docket number. The Administrative Office of the Courts shall transmit to the Department of Health and Human Services, Child Support Enforcement Program, on a timely basis, the information required to be included on orders under this subsection and the social security number of each party as required under subsection (g) of this section. (1967, c. 1153, s. 2; 1969, c. 895, s. 17; 1975, c. 814; 1977, c. 711, s. 26; 1979, c. 386, s. 10; 1981, c. 472; c. 613, ss. 1, 3; 1983, c. 54; c. 530, s. 1; 1985, c. 689, s. 17; 1985 (Reg. Sess., 1986), c. 1016; 1989, c. 529, ss. 1, 2; 1989 (Reg. Sess., 1990), c. 1067, s. 2; 1993, c. 335, s. 1; c. 517, s. 5; 1995, c. 319, s. 9; c. 518, s. 1; 1997-433, ss. 2.1(a), 2.2, 4.4, 7.1; 1997-443, ss. 11A.118(a), 11A.122; 1998-17, s. 1; 1998-176, s. 1; 1999-293, ss. 3, 4; 1999-456, s. 13; 2001-237, s. 1; 2003-288, s. 1; 2008-12, s. 1; 2012-20, s. 2; 2014-77, s. 8; 2014-115, s. 37.)","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
+{"text":"UDO Letters\nCultural Awareness Keynote Speakers 2019-2020\nFaculty and Staff Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Affinity Groups\nAAFSA\nAPIFSA\nResponse to Racism due to COVID-19\nAPIFSA Scholarship\nMeetings and Membership\nCLSFA\nCLSFA Scholarship\nStaff and Faculty Giving\nDiversity Advisory Committee Action Plan\nDiversity & Inclusion Student Center (DISC)\nOmbuds Services\nDISC Faculty Fellows\nThe DISC Faculty Fellows program provides students and faculty the opportunity to work closely together in an environment outside of the traditional classroom setting. This program is focused on the retention and engagement of student populations that are currently underserved by our institution. Currently, the Faculty Fellows program is focused on serving the needs of Latinx, African American, and Native American students.\nFaculty Fellows FAQ\nWhat do the Fellows do?\nThe faculty fellows will be in the DISC weekly and will act as teacher, learners and research partners with the Scholar-Students. Their hope is to work with all DISC students but also partner with the Scholar Student's on programming, and research.\nWhat will the Scholar-Students do?\nThe Scholar-Students will show up weekly to work with the Faculty Fellows, they will partner with the Fellows on research or programming and possibly serve on other diversity, equity, and inclusion committees.\nWhat do I get out of this?\nThe Scholar-Student get to participate in a resume-building experience. They will also have the possibility of attending and presenting at diversity, equity, and inclusion leadership conferences and will receive a stipend of $250 per semester. Apply to be a Scholar-Student by filling out the online application.\nDr. Andrea Arauza Rivera\nLatinx\/Chicanx Faculty Fellow\nThe oldest of three children, Andrea was born in Guadalajara, Mexico and spent the first few years of her life bouncing between Guadalajara, Las Vegas NV, and Fort Worth TX before her family settled in the California Central Valley...\nRead Andrea's full biography.\nDr. Michael Stanton\nNative American Faculty Fellow\nDr. Stanton is a licensed clinical psychologist and Assistant Professor at California State University, East Bay. Dr. Stanton's research focuses on how stress and stigma contribute to weight gain...\nRead Michael's full biography.\nSteven \"The Prof\" Cleveland\nAfrican American Faculty Fellow\nSteven \"TheProf\" Cleveland was born into poverty at a time when being poor seemed to be\npopular to everyone but the poor. From this world he was thrown into college, the first of his family to go...\nRead Steven's full biography.\nApply to be a Scholar Student","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
+{"text":"Creating an Environment for Environmental History: The Open Textbook Project\nMarch 24, 2017 March 23, 2017 7 minute readby John Belshaw\nCovers from the Canadian history textbooks written for the BC Open Textbook Project.\nWriting a survey text (or two) on Canadian history presents peculiar challenges. No one can be expert in all areas and subfields and, in our post-Who Killed? discipline, the subfields are many and robust. Moreover, there's no consensus on the metanarrative. All to the good, says I. But it's still a challenge, and one that I would not have taken up under conventional circumstances.\nCircumstances changed in 2012. That year, British Columbia's Minister of Advanced Education announced the B.C. Open Textbook Project. The first principle of this project was to create a suite of openly licensed textbooks, all of which would be available on a free-to-use basis. A secondary objective was to create the textbooks in an online environment that would increase and accelerate accessibility. Building on these two ideals was the goal of adaptability, of producing a textbook that was perpetually unfinished, revisable and remixable by the user (faculty or student). This was the game-changer: the purpose of an open textbook is different from that of a conventional, static textbook. It is far less the poured-concrete-foundation of a course on which the lectures and learning stand than it is an invitation to do more.\nHow, then, to issue that invitation as regards environmental history?\nI adopted two strategies. The first of these was the opportunity that a survey text covering several centuries presents to exploit a long-term view. While there are many acute or even cataclysmic environmental watersheds in Canadian history, there's also real value in looking at environmental change over the longue dur\u00e9e. Establishing the arc of a story that unfolds from, say, the 1200s through the nineteenth century establishes a massive framework in which instructors and students can intervene with additional details, test or refute the model, or offer alternative and\/or parallel stories.\nBison make for good eating. They also make for great drive-belts. Nineteenth century industrialization was one of many stressors on the Plains bison population. McCord Museum, \"Interior of Workshop,\" engraving by John Henry Walker, ca.1850-85, M930.50.8.79. CC-BY-NC-ND.\nBy way of an example, we can look at the story of bison. (That is, Bison bison bison, an animal so nice they had to name it thrice.) Some historians and anthropologists have theorized that declining \u2013 indeed, collapsing \u2013 populations of Indigenous peoples in the pre- and proto-contact periods sidelined humans as a prime predator species in much of North America as early as the sixteenth century. One result was the accelerated recovery of foodstock species. It follows that the old chestnut about the bison herds \"blackening the plains\" actually describes an anomaly, something that came about because one brake on their growth was gone.\nAs European and African resettlement of Canada and everything east of the Mississippi advanced, the bison herds thundered westward, drawing in their wake the many Indigenous peoples who fed on them. Plains culture \u2013 already distinctive and strong \u2013 flourished and was widely emulated. Guns and horses arrived in the eighteenth century, transforming these societies especially as hunters of bison. Soon, however, Plains peoples were competing against well-armed newcomers. Bison numbers began to drop \u2026 perilously.\nThe effective extinction of the Plains bison in the nineteenth century brought with it profound crises in the lives of Plains peoples. These conditions paved the way for further colonization and imperial conquests across the whole of the North American West. The bison were incompatible with the modern grain economy heralded by the newcomer populations; herds waded through fences, consumed early farmers' efforts, and trampled everything else. Likewise, Aboriginal communities that the bison sustained were an obstacle to Canadianizing the prairies, thus Ottawa's pursuit of treaties and reserves to contain these communities. The fact that both Plains bison and Plains Indigenous populations were in freefall in the period after 1850 was no coincidence. These demographics were intimately connected, and their collapse presaged the transformation of the Prairies from a gargantuan commons into a checkerboard of private property.\nBye-bye, bison. Skeletal remains at Gull Lake, SK, ca. 1891, getting ready for a ride on the CPR to a fertilizer plant in Central Canada. McCord Museum, \"Buffalo bones gathered from the Prairies,\" anon., 1891, M-0000.298.11. CC-BY-NC-ND.\nThese interactions between exotic bacteria, Indigenous humans, bison populations, Plains cultures, invasive horses, and homesteader agriculture take place over a very long period of time indeed: the process may have started as early as 600 years ago. Without wanting to fall prey to reductionism, this is a slow-motion environmental event without which \"Canada\" \u2013 that is, the original federation of four provinces \u2013 could not have successfully annexed Rupert's Land, at least not when it did. It is a story that can be sliced very thinly and scrutinized both microscopically and longitudinally. Undergraduate students can take one small piece (or the whole) and develop critiques of original evidence, experiment with ethnographic approaches, or test the whole hypothesis. The open textbook format, which allows for remixing, gives instructors the ability to pull together the sections that align in that environmental saga, rearrange them, highlight their connections, hyperlink from one part of the textbook to another, or insert sidebars. The point is the possibility of telling the story in any number of ways, which is as it should be, perhaps for environmental history in particular.\nWhat then? That brings me to my second strategy, which is more technological. Embedding videos in the open textbooks \u2013 something that is possible in the html versions \u2013 allows students to see and hear some of Canada's leading historians addressing their special interests and critical themes in the discipline. (There's an example here.) It also opens the door to recording debates, visually testing documents, and adding these to a bespoke version of the open textbook re-tailored by the instructor. BCcampus even produced an open textbook on adapting open textbooks (that is, a modifiable document on how to modify documents). Doing so shifts the dynamic of course assignments away from the tyranny of what are often called 'disposable' projects \u2013 i.e.: essays \u2013 toward intellectual activities that are visible and consequently subject to the critical eye of their peers as well as their profs and even successor classes. The textbook becomes an expandable residence for historical debate.\nStudent willingness to engage in this kind of dialogue with the textbook is made possible by the technology and it is made necessary by twenty-first-century concerns for the environment. Too often \"the environment\" is depicted or understood as something that exists somewhere else: in the forests, in the Arctic, perhaps at sea or in the air. In point of fact, it is everywhere, both materially and intellectually. As Madge (the manicurist immortalized in 1960s dishsoap commercials) would say, \"You're soaking in it.\" Revealing that constant intimacy across centuries is the challenge to which an introductory Canadian history text should rise.\nSome of the best literature on environmental history, too, highlights the environment of the mind. The idea of \"nature\" and the \"natural\" are so ubiquitous in the Canadian iconography that they need to be unpacked and examined. These include our notion of \"parks\" as places where \"nature\" is left undisturbed, a bucolic countryside in which people are more godly, and traditions of leisure time that are more likely to involve a cottage and a canoe than a stadium packed with chanting spectators. If there is a national currency more generously decorated with representations of wildlife, trees, and water, I've yet to see it. How does it come to pass that people who have never observed a stand of maple trees will melt at the sight of a red leaf?\nSeveral of these themes are explored in the Post-Confederation volume. In that instance \u2013 and recognizing that there are vastly more of us working the post-1867 side of the house \u2013 I solicited expert sections from some three-dozen colleagues across the country. As far as environmental history goes, I was pleasantly surprised by the number of historians who reference common themes, including the relationship between place and perspective on the environment, the connections between the urban and 'nature', the rise of landscape-oriented tourism and art, and the links between fuel consumption, socio-economic change, and modernity. Each of these provides an entry point for students considering, say, the matter of global climate change through a 150-year wide historical lens.\nThe open textbook was never intended to be a monument, something cast in stone with pretensions of perfection. These two volumes exist so as to be perfectible. They are themselves an environment in which historic change is possible. The question then becomes not, \"Does the text contain enough on environmental history?\", but \"How can we add more?\"\nJohn Belshaw\nLong connected with Thompson Rivers University as a History professor, also a consultant to the post-secondary sector and a struggling novelist. Has authored, co-authored, and edited several articles and books on the history of British Columbia, including Becoming British Columbia: A Population History (UBC 2009) and Vancouver Noir: 1930-1960 with Diane Purvey (Anvil 2011).\nLatest posts by John Belshaw (see all)\nCreating an Environment for Environmental History: The Open Textbook Project - March 24, 2017\nTags: \/ Category: Teaching, Teaching EH, The Otter\nSean Kheraj 6 years ago \/Reply\nThanks for this excellent post, John. And thanks also for including me in this project through the video inserts in the textbook.\nI had a couple remarks:\n1. I have adopted both the pre- and post-Confederation textbooks in my Canadian History survey course this year. We are almost finished the term so I won't have final thoughts just yet, but I can say that thus far the reception from students and TAs has been positive.\nEverything you say about the adaptability of the textbook is true. I was able select all the portions of the textbook that were relevant to my version of this course. In that manner, I think student engagement has been better because the readings are more directly tuned to the lectures and tutorials.\n2. As far as environmental history goes, this textbook has the most environmental history content that I've seen in the general textbooks on Canadian history (perhaps tied with Origins and Destinies, now co-authored by Alan MacEachern). Regardless, I think your textbook is a sign of what environmental historians have wanted to see for some time: the integration of environmental analysis into broader narratives of Canadian history.","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
+{"text":"User Login \/ Register\nPlease select the user group for registration.\nSelect User GroupExhibitorTrade VisitorVisitorPress\nShow catalogue\nMunich Show\n* Additional shipping costs may apply.\nTheme Book 2019 (German)\n\"Whoever collects, makes history\"\n\"ELEMENTS\" : The Theme book tells the fascinating stories behind this year's special exhibition highlights.\n\"From mine to mine\" : The Theme book tells the fascinating stories behind this year's special exhibition highlights.\nTheme Book 2017 (english)\n\"The museum's hidden treasures\" : The Theme book tells the fascinating stories behind this year's special exhibition highlights. Also: \"Crystal treasures of Ticino\" with its characteristics and diversity, and a journey through 2.000 years of craftsmanship: \"stone images\" from Italy (Available from October 1st 2016)\nTheme Book 2015 (german) incl. Show Catalogue\nThe perfect Duo: The show catalogue with detailed exhibitor list and the theme book 2015! The elegant hardcover book takes a look on the exciting special exhibition \"Precious Stones\" from a scientific, a cultural and a paleontological perspective. (Available from October 1st 2015)\nTheme Book 2015 (english) incl. Show Catalogue\nThe Show Catalogue 2015\nThe ideal tool for your visit. All exhibitors in alphabetical order with contact details and merchandise in English and German language.\nThe perfect Duo: The show catalogue with detailed exhibitor list and the theme book 2014! The elegant hardcover book takes a look on the 2014 exciting special exhibitions from a scientific, a cultural and a paleontological perspective.\nThe Theme Book is a high-quality hard cover book that accompanies the special exhibition \"Gold\" in the anniversary year 2013. The cover of the German edition shows the world-famous \"Dragon\".\nThe Theme Book is a high-quality hard cover book that accompanies the special exhibition \"Gold\" in the anniversary year 2013. The cover of the English edition shows the world-famous \"Corsage\".\nall exhibitors \/ actual information\nThemebook 2012 (german)\nAfrica is not only the \"cradle of mankind\", but also a continent that has exceptionally beautiful and valuable natural resources. Diamonds and gold from South Africa, the most beautiful minerals from Morocco and Namibia, fantastic gems from Madagascar and\nThemebook 2012 (english)\nPublication of Fair Topics (2011)\n2011 all three special exhibits were dedicated to Europe: The exclusive \"European Classics\" assembled unbelievably over 400 mineral classics from the \"old\" continent, leading to certainly the most precious mineral exhibition in the world. The \"European Cla\n2010 belonged to the \"Brazilian Beauties\". Their richness in color and amazing structures was an inspiration even to collectors and fans who thought they had seen it all. Only here in Munich were the world's best specimens from Brazil presented in one exh\n2009 marked the year of the groundbreaking \"Archaeopteryx\" exhibit, considered the most famous fossil of the world. It's still hard to believe that seven originals of the then existing ten originals were united at the Munich Show \u2013 a feat long considered\n2008 was the year when \"down under\" was all the way \"on-top\" at the Munich Show. The diversity of the mineral and gold deposits is legendary. The continent commands even over the diamond richest volcano of the world and counts as the principal producer of\n2007 the \"Treasures from the Mountains\" were the main focus of the special exhibits. The treasures from the \"top of the world\" were literally the highest reverence the organizers could make to mineral fans from all over the world. But also the mineral trea\nPublication of Fair Topics (2006) Masterpieces\n2006 needed just one word for the main exhibit: \"Masterpieces\". The very best mineral specimens were assembled and left an unforgettable experience on all who were there. And the \"Crystals from the Canton Uri\" impressively documented just what incredible\n2005 was a year of dreams, of \"Agate Dreams\" to be exact. This unique special exhibit convincingly proved that even a \"simple\" stone can even outshine some gemstones with its surprising diversity in colors and pictures. In this Theme Book you will fin\nYou currently have no orders\n\u00a9 Mineralientage M\u00fcnchen|Terms of participation|Impressum|DatenschutzbestimmungenTerms","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
+{"text":"Toxic threat at Bearsden Cross\nBearsden'24th June 2014'Pic: Roberto Cavieres\nPublished: 14:55 Thursday 28 February 2019\nA scientist living in Bearsden has published a report on the threat of air pollution at Bearsden Cross.\nProfessor Michael Hitchman, emeritus professor of Chemistry at the University of Strathclyde, has been investigating the issue, in light of interest shown by developers in building on greenbelt land in the vicinity.\nProfessor Hitchman's report opens by quoting a 2018 UNICEF UK report, A Breath of Toxic Air, which states: \"Air pollution is an invisible but dangerous threat to children's health. Toxic emissions can damage children's growth and leave them with lasting health problems.\n\"This not only violates a child's right to health, but also their future. It could impact their right to education, their right to play and, ultimately, their right to life.\"\nAir Quality in Scotland has been collecting air pollutant data at Bearsden Cross for some time, particularly nitrogen dioxide and particulate matter, which are known to have various health effects including respitary disease and heart disease, lung cancer and chronic bronchitis.\nProfessor Hitchman says this data shows that nitrogen dioxide in the area is well above the safe limit and some particulate matter is dangerously close to the threshold. \"In reality there is no safe level of that PM for humans to breathe in,\" he said.\nIn 2011 the council declared the area an Air Quality Management Area, and mapped an area of concern from just beyond Ledi Drive down to Canniesburn Toll.\nThe council is currently working on its local development plan, which defines potential land usage and priorities for future planning applications.\nDevelopers have shown interest in greenbelt north of Bearsden and over to Milngavie.\nProfessor Hitchman said: \"Traffic from any new developments there would flow southwards by Milngavie Road in the east, and to the west much of it would be funneled along the A809 Drymen Road through the Cross.\n\"It is very obvious that development on the Craighdu Wedge would dramatically exacerbate the problem of air pollution.\n\"And, most significantly, it would also heavily impact on the primary and secondary schools in the immediate area around the Wedge, and at the Cross.\n\"If the council allows any development on the Greenbelt land, it would be going completely against its own air quality strategy.\nMurder probe after death at Low Moss Prison at Bishopbriggs\n\"It would also be an act of utter folly and would show a complete lack of consideration and responsibility for not only the children of Bearsden, but for all of us living here.\"\nProfessor Hitchman is calling on the council to halt all furthre residential development in the area, and maintain all greenbelt land.\nHe wants anyone who agrees with him to contact EDC chief executive Gerry Cornes.\nThomas Glen, one of the council's depute chief executives, said \"The air quality around Bearsden Cross has been continuously monitored since 2006 and an area of Bearsden was declared an Air Quality Management Area in 2011 due to exceedances of the nitrogen dioxide (NO2) and particulate matter (PM10) annual mean.\n\"In line with Scottish Government guidance, a Draft Air Quality Action Plan was published and consulted upon, proposing 29 measures aimed at helping to reduce pollutant levels around Bearsden Cross.\n\"Since declaration, the annual mean NO2 and PM10 levels have declined considerably and 2017 saw a further reduction in pollutant levels. The data for 2018 has not yet been ratified but will be published once it is available.\n\"Improving air quality is a Council priority and we will continue to work towards improvements where possible.\n\"Local people can play their part too by ensuring they reduce the number of unnecessary journeys by car, walk\/cycle more and switch off their engines whilst stationary.\n\"If we all work together on this, we can continue to help improve air quality not just across Bearsden but across all of East Dunbartonshire.\"\nFull copies of Professor Hitchman's report can be requested by emailing mlhbearsden@hotmail.com.\nConcern grows for missing girl (14) from Kirkintilloch\nMan (34) seriously injured after disturbance outside Kirkintilloch property\nBishopbriggs residents raise concerns over plans for 147 new homes\nDog walkers asked to show some respect\nNew Aldi plans for Bishopbriggs\nMore from Kirkintilloch Herald","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
+{"text":"Supreme Court will not hear Hutterite workers comp case\nOctober 08, 2013 Reprints\nThe U.S. Supreme Court has declined to hear a religious colony's argument that Montana is forcing it to participate in the state's workers compensation system despite religious objections to doing so.\nBig Sky Colony Inc. is a member colony of the Hutterian Brethren Church, whose participants renounce private property and hold all their possessions in common, wear the same homemade clothing and live in similar housing.\nThe Hutterites traditionally engaged in communal agricultural work. But after the group engaged in construction work outside their community, Montana's Supreme Court ruled late last year that it must purchase workers comp insurance for members working in commercial enterprises.\nAs usual, the U.S. Supreme Court justices did not provide a reason for declining to hear the case of Big Sky Colony Inc. v. Montana Department of Labor and Industry when the decision was announced Monday.\nHutterite colony must buy workers compensation insurance: Court\nA religious colony must purchase workers compensation insurance for its members working in commercial enterprises, a divided Montana Supreme Court ruled Monday.\nHutterite colony takes workers comp fight to Supreme Court","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
+{"text":"Samnang Sok was born in 1982 during civil war in Cambodia after Pol Pot regime collapsed in 1979. Born into a poor family with seven sons and daughters, he was sent to live with his aunts to look after cows and buffalos at the age of three. Living in an area of relentless fighting in a poor community, it was impossible for him to get any form of state education.\nIn 1991 Cambodia had Paris Peace Agreement between three parties. 1993-1997 After the first election in Cambodia that organized and supported by UN, Samnang's villagers and other villagers in the region fled to live with the new government in the Chongkall district. However this upheaval was difficult for the elderly and led to a lot of them dying. With no assigned farmland, a lot of the families' animals also died.\nMost of villagers were too scared to leave the village they were placed in but after three months of turmoil, a number of families decided to take the plunge and move back to their village in order to farm and plough rice that they needed in order to stay alive. However after a week, the Khmer Rouge moved Samnang's family and other families to live in the jungle. They were forced to stay here for four years, without any healthcare, schools or any contact with the outside world. On top of this, every family member was forced daily to make sharp sticks for Khmer Rouge's fighting.\nIn 1997 the Government armies found the village in jungle and moved all villagers to their original village, which had been saturated with mines and sharp sticks. After these were cleared away and families began to start their life there again. But without any infrastructure this was an extremely difficult time.\nIn 1999 Samnang decided to become a Buddhist monk and in 2002 Samnang decided to come to a pagoda in Siem Reap\u202f to start an education for the first time in his life. He began Buddhist primary school at the age of 21. While he was studying at Buddhist secondary and high school, Samnang became dedicated to volunteering for NGOs in Siem Reap and helping children in his village with education and health care. With Samnang's projects growing from strength to strength,\u202f in 2013 he founded the NGO, Action For Cambodia's Children- AFCC. AFCC is dedicated to empowering children living in the communities in the Siem Reap province by providing them with the education and healthcare they so vitally need.","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
+{"text":"F1 TV\nMotorsport Broadcasting\nThe inside line on motor sport and broadcasting.\nDecember 31, 2017 January 1, 2018 David Nelson3 Comments\nHeading into 2018, there are several stories which promise to keep bubbling away during the next twelve months, some of which have significant relevance to UK readers.\nA new look Formula 1 will greet fans at the start of the 2018 season, both on and off the track. On track, we say hello to the Halo. Will the introduction of the cockpit protection system cause a ratings drop worldwide for F1, or will audiences continue to be enticed by the machinery on offer?\nOff the track, F1 unveiled its new branding at the end of the Abu Dhabi Grand Prix, which will be rolled out across all forms of media at the start of 2018. How will fans react to the new visual on-screen look? Friendly, more playful is the intention, we wait to see if fans like what they see come Melbourne, if not earlier.\nAlso, Formula 1's new over-the-top services are highly anticipated, which should launch in a number of countries. Sean Bratches publicly confirmed the service during the Abu Dhabi Grand Prix weekend, but early 2018 will see firm details unveiled, such as pricing and content. Will an entry level tariff allow F1 to reach new fans and markets? Will the platform make a noise to start with if the initial user base with access is low?\nWith an over-the-top network comes personnel. Will Formula One Management poach personnel from their existing broadcasters', or bring new pundits into the sport? Will we see the likes of Will Buxton and Jason Swales (both part of NBC's former F1 line-up) play a part?\nIn the UK, as readers are aware, Sky Sports hold exclusive television rights from 2019 to 2024, marking a significant shift in the market. However, is there appetite from them to sublet a highlights-only package to a free-to-air station, allowing Formula 1 to continue to reach the masses? As it stands, 2018 will be Channel 4's third and last season covering Formula 1.\nWe should also in the first half of 2018 find out which UK broadcaster will air MotoGP from 2019 onwards. BT Sport's contract expires at the end of 2018. They are expected to retain the rights, but it is not a nailed on certainty, and Eurosport could still steal back the premier motorcycling sport.\nSo many questions unanswered as we head into 2018. If you love your broadcasting news, do not change the channel\u2026\nRosberg highlights strong end to 2017 for Sky's F1 coverage\nGone are the days of Sky being the new kids on the block. 2017 marked Sky Sports' sixth season covering Formula 1. Simon Lazenby again led the presentation team, alongside the likes of David Croft, Ted Kravitz and Martin Brundle, a situation that has remained status quo since 2012. But, has Sky's coverage improved since their early years?\nRegular readers of this site will know that I have been critical of Sky's Formula 1 coverage historically past from time to time. Like everything in life, you have your difficult periods, the times where you need to regroup and refocus. Sky launched their F1 channel at the beginning of 2012, but efficiency savings have restricted what the channel can offer in recent years. Sky axed the studio editions of The F1 Show, whilst F1 Legends is currently on a hiatus.\nThe savings inevitably have had a downstream effect on the weekend product that Sky's F1 team could offer to viewers. However, the latter half of 2017 saw a notable uptick in the quality of Sky's broadcasts, with emphasis on taking viewers behind the scenes, with a fresher punditry line-up complimenting their coverage.\nThe reasons for the quality increase are likely two-fold. As noted recently, there have been changes at the top of the Sky F1 hierarchy, with their Executive Producer Martin Turner retiring. In situations like this, new creative talent rises to the top and fresh ideas generally come to the forefront, which may be the case here. That is not to dismiss the excellent work that happened previously, merely to acknowledge that changes at a senior level influences those further down the food chain.\nIn addition, Liberty Media's takeover of Formula 1 may have loosened the red tape where broadcasters are concerned. It is unusual that, in year six of Sky's coverage, a burst of creativity emerged. The impact of Liberty's takeover means that broadcasters can be more creative in their overall output, and the viewer wins as a result.\nFollowing the Summer break, Sky teamed up with Sauber, filming their every move from Spa Francorchamps to Monza between the Belgium and Italian races. The aim was to show how Formula 1's teams transport equipment between races. Billed as 'The Race Between Races', a short VT aired during Sky's weekend output, whilst a feature-length 30-minute episode aired prior to the Abu Dhabi Grand Prix.\nBut that was not all from Sky: they also went behind the scenes with the FIA Medical Team in Singapore, inside the FIA stewards room in Japan, and then dived into the Formula One Management (FOM) production truck during the Mexican Grand Prix weekend. It felt as if someone had given Sky the magic keys, and they took advantage immediately.\nYet, the problem with some of their features is the \"so what?\" test, otherwise known as the memorability test. Sky's pieces varied in quality: the Sauber segment and the medical team piece both hit the mark. The latter deserves more than a few words, because it is an element rarely covered by broadcasters. Sky righted this wrong, with a brilliant piece of television that made you fully appreciate the job that the medical team performs week in, week out.\nIn comparison, the stewards room and the FOM production truck pieces were not as memorable, and felt rushed in comparison. A few years ago, Formula E uploaded a fantastic piece to their YouTube channel showing how a TV recce works. At eight minutes in length, an equivalent F1 piece might not be appropriate as one cut in a television broadcast, but it would work split across two different shows, something Sky should have considered doing with the production truck piece.\nThe Sauber piece stands out alongside Guy Martin's Pit Stop Challenge in terms of quality. Martin's documentary, which aired on Channel 4, was enough to breathe outside the of the confines of the usual race day coverage. A lesson for Sky is that their pieces should go into ample detail, and not scrape over the surface to fit a given time limit. The BBC used to do this on occasion, with Top Gear style pieces, but it is something that we have lost somewhat with F1 now on commercial television.\nRosberg's punditry allows for new perspective\nSky's coverage took on a new element during the Japanese Grand Prix weekend when 2016 Drivers' Champion Nico Rosberg appeared as a pundit during their qualifying and race day programming.\nWhen Sky first announced this, I was worried that the hype would be unfulfilled, with only short appearances on-screen. As it turned out, Rosberg went the extra mile than what you may expect, appearing as a fully fledged member of Sky's line-up alongside Lazenby, Brundle and Anthony Davidson. Japan was arguably Sky's strongest team of 2017 as a result, and Rosberg's contributions did not disappoint.\nA bit of variety never hurts broadcasting, and that was the case here. Rosberg was keen to give his expertise and opinion on current events, whilst also reflecting on his own title challenges prior to last season. His rapport with the current Formula 1 line-up was evident throughout the weekend live interviews, notably with Red Bull drivers Daniel Ricciardo and Max Verstappen, only strengthening Sky's coverage more.\nMy only minor criticism is that Sky did not manage to get Rosberg behind the scenes in the Mercedes garage, maybe interviewing one or two of the people who Rosberg worked with during this time there. As much as I would like to see Rosberg return, RTL have snapped him up instead for 2018, which is unfortunate from a UK broadcasting perspective, but brilliant for RTL and the German audience.\nPat Symonds was also a fresh face with Sky for 2017, appearing sporadically throughout the season. Fresh off his stint with Williams as technical director, Symonds helped strengthen Sky's output throughout the year. Symonds assisted with Sky Pad analysis alongside Ted Kravitz, ensuring that Sky was the place to be for technical coverage.\nOne person who was not with Sky as much as in previous years was Johnny Herbert. Eagle eyed readers will have spotted him working with FOM, both during the race build-up and around their Esports output towards the end of 2017. Unconfirmed, but Herbert may well end up with FOM a little bit more than just 'occasionally' in 2018.\nOverall, I think Sky have made encouraging strides in the latter half of 2017, with new voices appearing, and exposing areas previously hidden. But, some areas remain formulaic (such as the usage of 'Coming Up' trailers), and need to change for 2018. Nevertheless, I am hopeful the wave of creativity from Sky continues into 2018. If there was ever a year to try to hook new viewers into their broadcasts, 2018 is the year\u2026.\nThe top 10 posts of 2017\nDecember 29, 2017 December 28, 2017 David Nelson1 Comment\nNew beginnings, and the end of an era in at least one respect, 2017 had both. #AlonsoRunsIndy caused a major traffic spike for The F1 Broadcasting Blog in April and May, with record numbers reading about the Indianapolis 500. Elsewhere, it was also the end for two legendary MotoGP commentators. Here is what you read most out of the content published during 2017.\n10. BT Sport likely to retain UK TV rights for MotoGP \u2013 August 29th\nOne of the key broadcasting stories that is likely to conclude early in 2018 is the destination of MotoGP's live television coverage from 2019 onwards. This writer spoke to Dorna during the 2017 British MotoGP weekend, and with it found out that BT Sport are likely to retain MotoGP beyond 2018.\n9. UK \u2013 Alonso's Indy 500 exploit peaks with 203,000 viewers \u2013 May 29th\nFernando Alonso's participation in the Indianapolis 500 was a huge driver for a large portion of readers visiting this site during May. His stint in the famous race provided BT Sport with a major boost, increasing their Indianapolis 500 audience year-on-year by 975 percent!\n8. Channel 5 to continue World Rally Championship coverage in 2017 \u2013 January 12th\nRemaining on four-wheels of a different kind, it emerged straight after the Winter break that the World Rally Championship will remain on Channel 5. MotoGP would soon join the series on Channel 5\u2026\n7. ITV and MotoGP part company ahead of 2017 season \u2013 February 16th\n\u2026after they parted company with ITV, who had been covering highlights since 2014. The move came as a surprise given that MotoGP was an easy schedule filler for ITV4 and was rating reasonably well for the broadcaster in that slot.\n6. Liberty Media helps bring F1 social media strategy on-track \u2013 August 20th\nAmazingly, the only Formula 1 article to make the top ten. Relatively speaking, there have been no major news for UK fans from Liberty Media. The piece that did make the top ten surrounded Formula 1's social media strategy, with an increased following because of the additional resources poured into the platforms.\n5. Channel 5 secures MotoGP highlights package \u2013 March 15th\nThe parting of ways between ITV Sport and MotoGP prompted some chatter around whether Channel 4, Channel 5, or even the BBC would swoop in for the MotoGP highlights package. In the end, it was Channel 5 that secured the deal, announced shortly before the season opener in Qatar.\n4. Scheduling: The 2017 Indianapolis 500 \u2013 May 17th\nI posted the finalised Indianapolis 500 schedule on this site half way through May. Disappointingly though, no free-to-air broadcasters aired the event, which had significantly more attention than usual this year due to Alonso's appearance. And, this is not Indy's last appearance in the top ten either\u2026\n3. Discovery threatens to pull channels, including Eurosport, from Sky platform \u2013 January 25th\nA spat between Discovery and Sky started off 2017, and escalated rapidly with Discovery threatening to remove their channels from Sky's platform. The movement gained traction on social media, but in the end the two sides agreed a deal, ensuring Eurosport remained on Sky.\n2. Julian Ryder to bow out of MotoGP commentary role following 2017 season \u2013 November 9th\nOne of the lessons of covering this site is to expect the unexpected. That was the case in November when news emerged that Julian Ryder was to hang up his MotoGP commentary gig, following Nick Harris into pastures new. Whoever is alongside Keith Huewen in the BT Sport commentary box in Qatar will have big shoes to fill.\n1. The 2017 Indianapolis 500: how, and where you can see it in the UK \u2013 April 12th\nThere was immediate interest in the Indianapolis 500 as soon as news came out around #AlonsoRunsIndy. Reacting straight away, the number one post of 2017 outlined how viewers in the UK could watch the 101st running of the famous event, which formed part of the 2017 IndyCar series season.\nAlongside the top ten posts, there are a few other posts from across the year that I want to highlight. In September, I was lucky enough to go behind the scenes look inside the British Superbikes outside broadcast (OB) truck (here and here). If you are at all interested in how motor sport television broadcasts are produced, I strongly encourage you to have a read of both of those pieces.\nElsewhere, I have also interviewed numerous motor sport personalities this year, ranging from former ITV F1 pit lane reporter Louise Goodman (here and here) to Sky's Formula 1 presenter Simon Lazenby, and onto Motorcycle News (MCN) writer Simon Patterson, amongst others throughout the racing year.\nThe 2017 top ten only featured one Formula 1 post, however I suspect that there will be a lot more on the broadcasting side to discuss in 2018 where F1 is concerned\u2026\nThe magic 2017 numbers\nWhilst 2017 may not have attracted as many hits as 2016 due to the novelty factor around Channel 4's Formula 1 coverage disappearing, The F1 Broadcasting Blog readership was still dispersed between a variety of countries.\nThe main year-on-year increase comes from the USA, whose percentage share has nearly doubled since 2015, heading from 3.8 percent in 2015, to 5.4 percent last year and now 6.4 percent this year, a sign of increased interest in the sport from state side. The UK percentage continued to drop marginally, now down to 72.2 percent from 75 percent in 2014. Elsewhere, Australia suffered a significant drop compared with 2016, falling behind Ireland as a result.\nTop 10 Countries \u2013 Percentage of all hits\n01 \u2013 72.2 percent (2016: 72.7) \u2013 United Kingdom\n02 \u2013 6.4 percent (2016: 5.4) \u2013 United States\n04 \u2013 2.4 percent (2016: 2.3) \u2013 Ireland\n03 \u2013 2.2 percent (2016: 2.7) \u2013 Australia\n05 \u2013 1.6 percent (2016: 1.8) \u2013 Netherlands\n07 \u2013 1.3 percent (2016: 1.0) \u2013 Spain\n06 \u2013 1.3 percent (2016: 1.6) \u2013 Canada\n09 \u2013 1.1 percent (2016: 0.9) \u2013 Germany\n10 \u2013 1.1 percent (2016: 0.8) \u2013 Italy\n08 \u2013 0.9 percent (2016: 0.9) \u2013 France\nGenerally, any breaking stories receive immediate attention via social media, which was the case in 2016. With less major stories in 2017, the social influence decreased compared with 2016, Reddit halved year-on-year showing the volatility of social media platforms.\nSearch engines benefited as a result, with casual fans who do not normally follow this site heading here to find out more information around the Indianapolis 500 and Julian Ryder's MotoGP departure.\nTop 5 Referring Websites\n01 \u2013 73.8 percent (2016: 63.1) \u2013 Search engines\n02 \u2013 18.6 percent (2016: 21.8) \u2013 Twitter\n03 \u2013 3.4 percent (2016: 6.0) \u2013 Reddit\n04 \u2013 2.7 percent (2016: 3.5) \u2013 Facebook\n05 \u2013 0.2 percent (2016: n\/a) \u2013 AUTOSPORT Forum\nThe shock departure of Ryder, announced at the start of MotoGP's final 2017 weekend, dominates the search tallies, with not much else getting a look in.\nTop 10 Search Queries\n01 \u2013 julian ryder\n02 \u2013 f1 broadcasting\n03 \u2013 f1 broadcasting blog\n04 \u2013 formula 1 f1 broadcasting blog\n05 \u2013 amazon\n06 \u2013 f1 braudcasting\n07 \u2013 list of channel 5 motogp commentators\n08 \u2013 julian ryder motogp\n09 \u2013 f1 viewing figures\n10 \u2013 motogp commentators\nThe numbers ebb and flow depending on what is flavour of the month. Outside of the top 10 search queries listed above, readers were also interested in details about the UK's World Rally Championship coverage and the Indianapolis 500.\nAn odd search term that appears just outside of the top 10 is 'a1 grand prix', as this article written in 2014 about the defunct World Cup of Motorsport series is number one in Google's search rankings! 2018 will no doubt see more surprises, and traffic spikes to go with it, along the way.\nStatistics compiled and correct as of December 18th, 2017.\nMerry Christmas from The F1 Broadcasting Blog\n2017 has been a positive year for top-flight motor sport worldwide, with a competitive championship battle for three-quarters of the Formula 1 season, whilst the MotoGP title went to the wire in Valencia. State side, Fernando Alonso attempted the Indianapolis 500, drawing more attention to the event in the UK than it usually would have had.\nFor me, I have tried to build on the strengths of 2016, bringing you closer to the broadcasting side. By attending the AUTOSPORT Show, the British MotoGP round and looking behind the scenes with the British Superbike championship, I hope I have achieved even a tenth of that goal.\nIt has been a pleasure to interview some famous faces in motor sport, and I am hopeful that 2018 will continue in the same regard. Unlike many motor racing websites out there, I run this site alongside my day job (also involving data, the horror!) so I may not update it as frequently as other sites out there, but nevertheless it is always a pleasure.\nThis holiday season, I hope you all have a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year! Thanks for all the positive comments and thoughts throughout this year on here and on social media, my fifth full year running the site. Stay safe, wherever you are heading.\nOwner of The F1 Broadcasting Blog\nChannel 4's F1 race edit to switch to 'Extended Highlights' format for 2020\nWorld Rally Championship highlights to return to ITV4 in \"multi-year\" deal\nLive coverage of F1 testing to return in 2020\nNo UK free-to-air coverage for WRC as Channel 5 deal ends\n'The Verdict so Far' Series (66)\n01. April 2012 (6)\n02. Summer 2012 (5)\n03. 2012 Review (7)\n09. 2015 Review \/ 2016 Preview (4)\nBBC F1 (402)\nBBC Sport (47)\nBT Sport (217)\nChannel 4 F1 (246)\nEurosport (133)\nF1 Digital+ (3)\nForeign broadcasting (45)\nFormula E (131)\nFormula One Management (155)\nIndyCars (115)\nITV F1 (31)\nITV Sport (166)\nMotorsport Network (67)\nScheduling (304)\nSite updates (46)\nSky Sports F1 (748)\nWorld Rally Championship (58)\nEnter your email address to follow Motorsport Broadcasting and receive notifications of new posts by email.\nCopyight\n\u00a9 Motorsport Broadcasting, 2012-2020. 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+{"text":"Snoop Dogg Officially Confirms New Album \"Algarhythm\" Dropping In November On The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon\nAlgarhythm, DJ Battlecat, ProHoeZak, Rick Rock, Snoop Dogg, The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon\nDuring last night's The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon (September 27), hip-hop legend and Long Beach, CA icon Snoop Dogg was a featured guest on the show. During the interview with Jimmy Fallon, Snoop talked about why people shouldn't try to keep up with him while smoking weed, confirms a new album is in the works and discusses his role voicing Cousin Itt in Addams Family 2.\nOne point of interest was Snoop Dogg confirming his new album Algarhythm and that it is dropping in November. Frequent Snoop Dogg producers Rick Rock and ProHoeZak have both confirmed they are working with Snoop on the project, along with DJ Battlecat.\nCheck out Snoop Dogg's appearance on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon below:\nPrevPreviousHappy Born Day to Lil Wayne\nNextRaekwon Preps Memoir \"From Staircase To Stage: The Story of Raekwon and the Wu-Tang Clan\" For November 9 ReleaseNext","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
+{"text":"Bookmark Going to Bat for Girls\nGoing to Bat for Girls\nSchool athletics in Nebraska is radically altered after a mother's court fight for equal treatment for high school female athletes.\nGender & Sexual Identity Rights & Activism\nBookmark Madres de Plaza de Mayo\nEvery Thursday, the Madres march around the plaza while wearing white head scarves to bring attention to the children of Argentina that have been taken and never returned.\nBookmark (A)wake\n(A)wake\nIn this poem, the speaker traces the senseless killings taking place abroad and at home, with a particular focus on the African-American community. The speaker also calls communities to action to \"grow our hope and heal our hearts\" in order to live together in peace.\nJessica Kobe\nRace & Ethnicity Religion Class Immigration Gender & Sexual Identity Rights & Activism\nBookmark Witch Hunting\nWitch Hunting\nIn this essay, the author draws parallels between the \"witch hunts\" experienced in 1692 in Salem, Massachusetts and in 1950 in the U.S. government at U.S. Senator Joseph McCarthy's urgings.\nReligion Gender & Sexual Identity\nBookmark Hawaiians Live in Aloha\nHawaiians Live in Aloha\nThis animation sequence explains traditional Hawaiian gender roles and their conception of m\u0101h\u016b, or the middle. Kumu Hina, a teacher at H\u0101lau L\u014dkahi\u2014 a public charter school in Hawaii\u2014also discusses the history of colonization and its impact on Hawaiian culture.\nBookmark \"We Lived in a Bubble\"\n\"We Lived in a Bubble\"\nElizabeth MacQueen is the sculptor of Four Spirits, a monument built to memorialize the four girls killed in the bombing of the 16th Street Baptist Church. In her memoir, she discusses how the project revealed to her how sheltered she had been as a child growing up in Birmingham.\nElizabeth MacQueen\nRace & Ethnicity Class Gender & Sexual Identity Rights & Activism\nBookmark Gay Marriage\nThis cartoon shows a legislator who voted against marriage equality as part of a series of legislators photographed for a \"wrong-side-of-history photo shoot.\"\nBookmark Knock Knock\nUntil Daniel Beaty was 3 years old, his father would \"knock knock\" on his door every morning. This performance explores the shaping of personal identity in an incarcerated parent's absence.\nDaniel Beaty\nClass Gender & Sexual Identity Race & Ethnicity\nBookmark StoryCorps: We Were Caught\nStoryCorps: We Were Caught\n\"The only way that I could see out of that situation was to take my life.\"\nRob Littlefield","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
+{"text":">> Local\n>> Local Nevada\nLocal Nevada\nBLM: Burning Man yet to resolve health, safety issues\nA month and a half before the scheduled start of this year's desert festival, organizers of the annual Burning Man in Northern Nevada have yet to resolve more than 15 health and safety issues stemming from last year's event, according to the Bureau of Land Management.\nBy STEVE TETREAULT REVIEW-JOURNAL WASHINGTON BUREAU\nJuly 8, 2015 - 4:04 pm\nThe Man burns during the Burning Man 2014 \"Caravansary\" arts and music festival in the Black Rock Desert of Nevada, August 30, 2014. (REUTERS\/Jim Urquhart)\nWASHINGTON \u2013 A month and a half before the scheduled start of this year's desert festival, organizers of the annual Burning Man in Northern Nevada have yet to resolve more than 15 health and safety issues stemming from last year's event, according to the Bureau of Land Management.\nOfficials from the BLM and the Burning Man organization were meeting Wednesday in Reno to discuss outstanding issues in advance of the Aug. 30-Sept. 7 festival in the Black Rock Desert.\nThe federal agency has yet to issue a permit for the event. John Ruhs, the BLM acting Nevada state director, said all conditions raised in a post-event review last year must be addressed for the BLM to allow this year's event to proceed.\nRuhs stopped short of saying the BLM might shut down Burning Man, expressing confidence an agreement could be worked out.\n\"We have a long ways to go yet but I'm pretty confident we will as always be able to address issues together and get to a good place with them,\" Ruhs said in an interview.\nBut the agency took the unusual step of making public a letter listing the outstanding health and safety issues. Of 20 compiled following the 2014 festival, the BLM said 18 remain to be resolved including improvements to its medical program, transportation management and security surrounding the festival's signature burn events.\n\"Last year, a total of 2,880 patients were treated for medical issues, including 71 drug overdoses, 67 trauma incidents and 30 cases of alcohol poisoning,\" Ruhs said in the letter to the government affairs director of Black Rock City, LLC, the nonprofit that runs the festival. In addition, a woman from Wyoming was killed when she fell beneath a moving bus.\nThe Burning Man festival spokesman was traveling on Wednesday and not immediately available for comment.\nThe BLM letter shed light on the nuts and bolts behind the event in which 60,000 to 70,000 people congregate at the art and counterculture festival in the remote playa.\nThe BLM making potentially embarrassing public health and safety issues with Burning Man is the latest twist in the relationship between the agency and the festival that this year has been anything but routine in the history of the event that dates to the early 1990s in Nevada.\nThe bureau came under withering criticism earlier this month after it proposed Burning Man pay for a separate compound for federal working staff with amenities such as refrigerators, washing machines, vanity mirrors, flush toilets and food choices including ice cream and steak.\nThe agency is reworking a proposed memorandum of understanding for the event after pressure from Sen. Harry Reid, D-Nev., and other federal lawmakers. BLM Director Neil Kornze is a former Reid aide.\nBLM officials on Wednesday denied they were in a tit-for-tat with Burning Man. The agency's letter though makes a connection.\nThe BLM in the letter acknowledged Burning Man concerns with the agency's proposals for food and facilities.\n\"We are now taking a top to bottom look at exactly what is needed,\" Ruhs said, adding \"While the BLM revises its statement of work, dialogue must also continue on a wide array of health, safety and environmental concerns raised by the BLM earlier this year.\"\nContact Review-Journal Washington Bureau Chief Steve Tetreault at stetreault@reviewjournal.com or 202-783-1760. Find him on Twitter: @STetreaultDC\nPosted on: Local, Local Nevada, News\nArray of bills could change Nevada's election process\nBy Jessica Hill \/ RJ\nJanuary 27, 2023 - 8:24 am January 27, 2023 - 10:52 am\nMoving back the deadline to mail in a ballot, requiring an ID to vote, and increasing penalties for submitting fake electoral certificates are all on the table.\nVeterans cemetery in Boulder City breaks ground on expansion\nBy Justin Razavi \/ RJ\nThe expansion project, which will add thousands of burial plots and above-ground niches, is expected to start Feb. 6.\nNevada sees some of the lowest COVID-19 levels in US\nBy Mary Hynes \/ RJ\nJanuary 25, 2023 - 7:54 pm January 26, 2023 - 12:24 pm\nNevada and three others states are the only ones in which all counties are experencing low levels of the virus.\nLake Mead's decline may slow, thanks to winter's wet start\nBy Colton Lochhead \/ RJ\nWhile not enough to fend off the falling water levels entirely, the snow that has dropped in recent weeks across the mountains that feed the river is expected to slow the decline at Lake Mead.\nMiner killed, another hurt in northeast Nevada accident\nOne miner was killed and another injured at an underground mine in northeast Nevada.\nThese Lombardo donors were with Sisolak \u2026 until he lost\nMany companies that donated only to former Gov. Steve Sisolak suddenly opened their checkbooks once Joe Lombardo won the governor's race in November.\nTesla spending $3.6B to build electric trucks in Northern Nevada\nBy McKenna Ross \/ RJ\nJanuary 24, 2023 - 11:14 am January 25, 2023 - 7:16 pm\nTesla plans to invest an estimated $3.6 billion in battery and electric semi-truck manufacturing in Northern Nevada and create 3,000 jobs, the company announced Tuesday.\nTribe fights cancer cluster in Nevada town: 'We have to get a new school'\nThe Shoshone-Paiute Tribes of the Duck Valley Indian Reservation traces a plume of hydrocarbons to a former maintenance facility, and is asking the Legislature for money to build a new school in another location.\nRenner says he broke 30-plus bones in Nevada snowplow mishap\nIn social media posts Saturday, Renner expressed \"much love and appreciation\" to people for their \"messages and thoughtfulness.\"\nBurning Man organizers sue BLM to block 'green energy' project\nBest Fat Burners 2023: Top 8 Effective Weight Loss Pills and Supplements for Men and Women\nWho made this mysterious artwork on a plateau overlooking Las Vegas?\nSpiegelworld to turn California desert town into 'circus village'\nBest Keto Gummies for Weight Loss \u2013 Top Keto Gummy Brands on the Market\nBLM cites mining company for trespassing on endangered wildflower habitat","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
+{"text":"Mathematics subject guide\nMathematics Resources in the Library\nMathematics at the University of Chicago\nArticles & Journals\nMathematics Resources on the Web\nPhysical Sciences Newsletters\nThese are the most essential databases for articles and books in mathematics. See the articles & journals tab on this page for additional databases.\nIndexes journal articles, books, and conference proceedings in pure and applied mathematics, mathematical statistics and some computer science. Provides comprehensive coverage from 1940 and includes bibliographic data from retrodigitized articles dating back to the early 1800s. Provides links to available full text.\nMathSciNet (EBSCOhost)\nProvides fewer search fields but a simpler search interface than AMS version and better keyword searching.\nCovers all areas of the sciences and social sciences with coverage available to 1900. Especially useful for its citation linking.\nAuthoritative, multidisciplinary content covers over 10,000 of the highest impact journals worldwide, including Open Access journals and over 110,000 conference proceedings. You'll find current and retrospective coverage in the sciences, social sciences, arts, and humanities, with coverage available to 1900. Includes the Science Citation Expanded, Social Sciences Citation Index, and Arts & Humanities Citation Index. Web of Science is especially useful for its citation linking.\nScopus is an interdisciplinary, bibliographic database that indexes the contents of more than 15,000 journals in the physical sciences, engineering, earth and environmental sciences, life and health sciences and social sciences.\nScopus is an interdisciplinary, bibliographic database that indexes the contents of more than 15,000 journals in the physical sciences, engineering, earth and environmental sciences, life and health sciences, social sciences, psychology, business, and management.\nScopus also features cited references and can be searched for articles that cite a specific article.\nUChicago Software Tools\nUChicago Virtual Lab (vLab) can be used to access certain softwares on library computers and remotely from home that the University offers including Matlab, Python and R Studio.\nVirtual Lab (vLab)\nThe University of Chicago Library mathematics collection is located in Eckhart Library (Eckhart Hall 217) and Mansueto Library. A collection of the most recent and most heavily used monographs is in Eckhart Library. All other monographs and all mathematics journals are in Mansueto Library. The collection focuses on research level materials in all areas of pure mathematics and in selected areas of applied mathematics. It contains an extensive collection of journals and a comprehensive collection of research monographs. An increasing number of journals are available in electronic form only.\nMeet with a librarian to discuss research strategies\nHave book chapters and articles scanned and emailed to you\nRequesting Material\/Interlibrary Loan\nGet books and article from other libraries\nRenew your books online\nProxyIt! Bookmarklet\nUse this bookmarklet to access materials from off campus\nRequest we add a book or other resource to the library collection\nGroup Study Rooms are available in Regenstein and Crerar Libraries. Only current University of Chicago students, faculty, and staff may book rooms. Reservations are limited to 4 hours per day per group.\nComputational and Applied Mathematics\nby Jenny Hart Updated Sep 29, 2020 2 views this year\nby Jenny Hart Updated Nov 30, 2020 12 views this year\nby Jenny Hart Updated Sep 29, 2020 10 views this year\nby Jenny Hart Updated Oct 1, 2020 102 views this year\nFinancial Mathematics Program\nThe Stevanovich Center for Financial Mathematics\nSchedule a Zoom or Phone Appointment\nMathematics, Statistics, Computer Science and Physics Librarian\nCrerar Library\n5730 South Ellis Ave\nEckhart Library\nEckhart Hall 217\nSocial: Twitter Page\nSubjects:Computer Science, Mathematics, Physics, Statistics\nAlmost all Library databases can be accessed from off-campus. The easiest way to do this is to use links from the Library website. You will then be prompted for your CNetID and password to authenticate yourself as an authorized user.\nIf you find sources through Google Scholar or other search engines, you may not automatically get access to Library resources. Use the ProxyIt bookmarklet in these situations. There's more information on our guide to off-campus access\nHow do I access Library resources from off-campus?\nJohn Crerar Library News\nFollow Library News on Twitter\nNext: Articles & Journals >>\nSubjects: Mathematics, Physical Sciences\nTags: applied math, applied mathematics, math, mathematics\nUpdated: Jan 6, 2021 1:59 PM\nURL: https:\/\/guides.lib.uchicago.edu\/math","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
+{"text":"0\u00b0 Enter City\/Postcode City or Postcode\nFeed-in-tariffs: can you still profit by going green?\nlovemoney.com\nMay 29th 2012 2:01PM\nHomeowners paid to produce their own electricity through feed-in-tariffs will see rates slashed from 1st August this year. We explain the changes and reveal whether you can still make money from 'going green'.\nHouseholds that want to generate their own electricity from solar panels will see subsidies cut from 21p per kWh to 16p from 1st August.\nEarly adopters of the feed-in-tariff, also known as clean energy cashback, received 43.3p per kWh. But this rate was reduced by the government as the scheme became increasingly popular and the cost of installing solar panels fell.\nNow the rates have fallen still further for new investors.\n%VIRTUAL-ArticleSidebar%\nRenewable energy systems such as solar panels and wind turbines can be installed in your home and used to generate electricity. Any surplus energy that you don't use is exported back to the National Grid. You are then paid, using Government subsidies, for supplying your own energy and selling the excess back.\nThese payments come from your usual energy supplier. You also benefit from lower energy bills, as your demand for electricity would be much lower than usual. So you should be making money and saving it at the same time.\nAny other changes?\nFuture tariffs will decrease every three months, only pausing if the market slows down, but will continue to be linked to the Retail Price Index measure of inflation.\nThere is a separate tariff paid for surplus energy that goes back to the National Grid. This will rise to 4.5p per kWh from the current 3.2p.\nBut the term over which payments are made will fall from 25 years to 20.\nCan I still make money?\nThe Department of Energy and Climate Change (DECC) says the changes still represent a 6% return on investment for a typical solar installation. There is still money to be made and saved; it just won't be as much as previous adopters of the scheme who were handed more generous terms.\nIt's estimated that the total annual benefit will be around \u00a3100 less than it was previously.\nAverage tariff reductions of 3.5% will also be made every three months, but the cut could be bigger if there is a rapid uptake of the scheme \u2013 up to 28% at a time. So your profits will be less the longer you leave it to install the technology. If uptake is low then tariff cuts can be skipped for up to two quarters (six months).\nWhat about other schemes?\nThe Renewable Heat Incentive (RHI) will be launched next year, which is a sister scheme to feed-in tariffs. If you install equipment such as biomass boilers or ground source heat pumps, you will be paid for the energy you produce. Systems will need to be new and installed since 15 July 2009.\nThe tariffs haven't been revealed yet, so there's no way of knowing how profitable the scheme will be for households adopting it and payments won't be made until the scheme is fully launched, most likely in 2013.\nHowever \u00a325 million has been set aside for phase two of the Renewable Heat Premium Payment, which includes helping households buy the right equipment. Vouchers will be given out to help cover the costs, focusing mostly on the four million homes without mains gas heating. A voucher value of \u00a31,250 is given for ground or water-source heat pumps, \u00a3950 for a biomass boiler and \u00a3850 for an air-to-water heat pump.\nA \u00a3300 grant will also be available to households wanting a solar thermal hot water panel, regardless of the type of heating system used. 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+{"text":"Nonprofit, independent journalism. Supported by readers.\nAboutAbout Us\nSearch MinnPost\nMental Health & Addiction\nMinnesota Blog Cabin\nThe Minnesota Voter ID Fraud: Is a sucker really born every minute?\nThoughtful Bastards\nThis is not simply an attempt to add photo ID to the existing system. This is completely changing the way we vote in MN and it will require the creation of an entirely new election infrastructure.\nBy Paul Udstrand\nThis November we'll find out how many suckers vote in Minnesota. Republicans in our fine state have joined their counterparts all over the nation in an ongoing effort to reduce the number of votes cast on Election day. Their rationale for doing this is the subject of another discussion, what we are concerned today is the hidden (I would say deliberately hidden) effects of a deceptively simple proposition. The plan is to amend the MN constitution to require that voters present a government issued photo ID on Election Day in order to cast a ballot. The actual ballot question will look like this:\n\"Shall the Minnesota Constitution be amended to require all voters to present\nvalid photo identification on Election Day and that the state provide free identification\nto eligible voters?\"\nOn the face of it this doesn't seem like a big deal, but here's what you need know: it's a huge bait and switch. Here's how the ballot question should read:\n\"Shall the Minnesota Constitution be amended to require all voters to present\nvalid photo identification on election day, abolish same day voter registration, vouching, absentee ballots, create an entirely new system of \"provisional\" ballots, and provide free identification\nto eligible voters?\"\nArticle continues after advertisement\nI know, it's a run-on sentence but this is really what you will be voting for if you vote \"yes\" for voter ID.\nThis is not simply an attempt to add photo ID to the existing system. This is completely changing the way we vote in MN and it will require the creation of an entirely new election infrastructure. This will eliminate same day registration, vouchers, and could completely change or even prohibit many if not all absentee ballots for state offices.\nNo more same day registration\nEven if you have a valid photo ID on Election Day, if you are not already registered, you will only be allowed to cast a provisional ballot which will not be counted on Election Day. Why? Because the existing system that's used to provide same day registration would be scrapped, and Republicans haven't explained what exactly they're going to replace it with, they promise to work that out after the amendment passes. Those promises are not encouraging. When Mary Kiffmeyer, the House author of amendment was repeatedly asked whether or not unregistered voters with a valid ID would be allowed to cast a normal rather than a \"provisional\" ballot on Election Day, she simply would not answer the question. Kiffmeyer, a former Secretary of State, has always been critical of same day registration. This amendment a back door way of eliminating same day registration altogether. Same day registration without a valid photo ID will simply not be possible. If you lose your driver's license the day before an election, even if you've been voting at the same polling place for 15 years, you will not be allowed to cast a normal ballot, you will have to cast a \"provisional\" ballot that will not be counted on Election Day. You will have tendered a provisional ballot that will only be counted after you return at a later date with the valid ID. And by the way, you don't return to the polling place, you have to go county elections office which for some Minnesotan's is over a 200 mile round trip.\nBasically same day registration would be replaced with provisional ballots. What's wrong with provisional ballots? Well for one thing, no one knows when or if all the provisional ballots will be counted. The amendment guarantees you a provisional ballot, but it does not guarantee that that ballot will ultimately be counted. The amendment merely says these ballots will be counted \"in a manner provided by law\".\nIn the last election 500,000 (almost 20% of the total votes) same day registration ballots were cast. The effect of eliminating same day registration will disenfranchise voters and decrease the number of votes. Tens of thousands or maybe hundreds of thousands of provisional ballots will be set aside on Election day.\nThere's another thing about these \"provisional\" ballots that's troubling. Normally your vote is secret, no one knows or can know who you voted for. Provisional ballots by definition need to be attached to your identity until they're verified. In other words, unlike a normal ballot that just goes into the machine, your provisional ballot has to be set aside with your name on it until it's counted, if it's ever counted.\nProvisional ballots are completely new process for MN. They currently do not exist so the entire system of collecting them, storing them, keeping them intact and retrievable, and then counting or not counting them will have to be created. This is NOT simply adding a photo ID to the current system.\nNo more vouchers\nIn any given election there are thousands of voters who are living in new or temporary addresses. There are thousands of voters who have no address because they are in shelters or on the street. And then there are thousands that live in nursing homes or other group homes. It's estimated that 200,000 or more of these people currently have no valid photo ID. Many seniors for instance have let their drivers licenses expire because they no longer drive. Many people living in group homes of various types can't drive in any event. Many college students from other states and other MN towns don't have current state issued photo IDs. Of course it goes without saying that homeless people don't have valid IDs with a current address on them. These are all people who are constitutionally guaranteed a right to vote, and who are currently voting. The way we currently accommodate these voters is to allow another registered voter to vouch for them. A registered voter can vouch for up to 15 people. Why 15 people? This is NOT about driving around a van and shuttling voters from one polling place to the next. Minnesota law currently licenses residential facilities i.e. group homes for developmentally disabled, mentally ill, battered women, chemical dependency, etc. to house 15 residents in most cases. The vouching system was set up so these people could be taken to the polling place by resident staff and cast their vote. A voucher testifies that you know this person, they are who they way they are, and they currently live in the precinct where they are voting. When you vouch for someone you basically sign an affidavit, it's perjury to lie on an affidavit and in MN this is a felony offense.\nVouching is currently allowed as part of the same day registration process as well. Photo ID will eliminate vouching. Republicans want to eliminate vouching because they imagine thousands of voters being scooped up by nefarious ne'er-do -wells in big vans and being shuttled from poll to poll. The truth is that apparently no one is willing to go to jail on behalf of an underdog candidate because no actual instances of this kind of fraud have actually been prosecuted in MN, or even reported. While one can imagine bus loads illegal voters, the truth is that this vouching allows thousands of MN's the chance to exercise their constitutional right to vote. Eliminating vouching won't disenfranchise all of those voters, but it will disenfranchise some of them.\nRepublicans frequently evoke the specter of ACORN when it comes to this business of bus loads voters flitting around town in vans. Here's what you need know: neither ACORN as an organization nor any of its members have been charged with voter fraud. What some ACORN workers have been charged with is election registration fraud. The difference between registration and voter fraud is significant. There is no evidence that ACORN members were trying to influence elections by stuffing ballots, rather they were trying to meet registration quotas in order to get paid, they produced bogus registrations, they did not produce fraudulent voters or votes. And there have been no reports about ACORN having anything to do with van loads of voters.\nAbsentee ballots under threat\nRepublicans try to blow a lot of smoke all over this but the fact is there no way that someone casting an absentee ballot can produce a Photo ID in person on the day of election as required by this amendment. Language allows for a: \"substantially equivalent\" verification process, but Republicans have never described what that process could look like, and frankly it's very difficult to imagine what it could look like. What could be \"equivalent\" to producing a photo ID in person on the day of election? Ironically when pressed on this issue on the house floor Kiffmeyer suggested that a vouching signature on the absentee ballot might be sufficient. So vouching would be eliminated for people voting in person, but created for people voting by absentee ballot. Apparently there are some federal protections for casting absentee ballots for federal office, but the extent to which these laws would protect Minnesota's absentee ballots is unclear at best.\nBeyond all the considerations I've discussed so far there are very basic problems with this proposition. The nature of a \"valid\" ID has not been defined, and Republicans have been very dodgy about the issue. On the floor of the House when asked, Kiffmeyer actually claimed that any government issued photo ID would be \"valid\". She said that if you up showed to vote in Rochester with a Nevada driver's license you'd be allowed to vote. Frankly, this is a lie and Kiffmeyer knows it. A valid ID for voting has to have your current address on it because you're not just demonstrating who you are, but that you're voting at the right location. Without the address requirement a bunch of folks from Wisconsin could come over and vote against Michelle Bachmann. Remember, the current same day registration process that requires additional verification like a utility bill, will no longer exist. This means that a valid ID must have a current address on it and THAT means that forms of ID like passports and military IDs will not be valid for voting. What Kiffmeyer isn't telling us is that such voters may be given \"provisional\" ballots, but there would no way to cast a ballot that would counted on Election Day.\nFurthermore, the actual mechanics of a presenting an ID have not been described in any meaningful way. There are videos showing nifty little card swipers connected to laptops but that actually raises more questions than it answers. For one thing it reinforces the notion that specific kinds of state issued IDs will be required. Unless you have multiple swipe technology connected to multiple data bases you're going to be limited to certain types of IDs. You can't use the same technology to swipe a driver's license and a passport for instance. And you'd have to be connected to completely different data bases i.e. the State Department for passports, and the Pentagon for Military IDs. The connections between these data bases and the polling place would have to secure and reliable, and the data bases themselves would have to perfectly reliable and up to date. For instance, if the intention really is to accept out of state driver's licenses as Kiffmeyer said, then every polling place would have to be connected to a minimum of 50 different data bases on election, and you would need the technology to swipe all of these. The technical logistics for all of this don't currently exist anywhere in the world, and frankly the cost of creating one would be prohibitive. This means that as a practical matter, state ID or Driver's license with a current address will be the only form of voter ID that will get your vote counted on Election day, and that's only if you're already registered.\nRegardless what technology would ultimately be deployed, there will be malfunctions and user errors. You have to remember, the polls are not staffed by computer nerds, they are staffed by volunteers who will have to be trained in a completely new system and technology. Even with existing technology we have hundreds of breakdowns on Election Day that poll workers have to contend with. Right now, no matter what technical problems may arise at the polls, you get to vote and your vote gets counted. This new system creates an entirely new front end that blocks votes from being counted under a variety of circumstances for a variety of anticipated and unanticipated reasons.\nIt's vitally important that MN voters understand that the voter ID requirement created by this constitutional amendment does NOT simply \"add\" photo ID to the current system. This requirement completely restructures and changes the way we do elections in MN. It will disenfranchise the most vulnerable voters in the state, it will cost tens of millions of dollar to implement, and there is actually no evidence that will even prevent voter fraud.\nThis blog was written by Paul Udstrand and originally published on Thoughtful Bastards.\nIf you blog and would like your work considered for Minnesota Blog Cabin, please submit our registration form.\nKeep Minnesota news paywall-free.\nMinnPost's in-depth, independent news is free for all to access \u2014 no paywall or subscriptions. 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If you have questions, email editors@minnpost.com. \u2014 The Editors\n<h1>The Minnesota Voter ID Fraud: Is a sucker really born every minute?<\/h1> <p class=\"a-entry-byline\">By <span class=\"a-entry-author\">Paul Udstrand<\/span><\/p> <p class=\"a-entry-date\">April 18, 2012<\/p> <p>This November we'll find out how many suckers vote in Minnesota. Republicans in our fine state have joined their counterparts all over the nation in an ongoing effort to reduce the number of votes cast on Election day. Their rationale for doing this is the subject of another discussion, what we are concerned today is the hidden (I would say deliberately hidden) effects of a deceptively simple proposition. The plan is to amend the MN constitution to require that voters present a government issued photo ID on Election Day in order to cast a ballot. The actual ballot question will look like this:<\/p> <p>\"Shall the Minnesota Constitution be amended to require all voters to present\nvalid photo identification on Election Day and that the state provide free identification\nto eligible voters?\"<\/p> <p>On the face of it this doesn't seem like a big deal, but here's what you need know<b>: it's a huge bait and switch<\/b>.&nbsp; Here's how the ballot question should read:<\/p> <p>\"Shall the Minnesota Constitution be amended to require all voters to present\nvalid photo identification on election day, abolish same day voter registration, vouching, absentee ballots, create an entirely new system of \"provisional\" ballots, &nbsp;and provide free identification\nto eligible voters?\"<\/p> <p>I know, it's a run-on sentence but this is really what you will be voting for if you vote \"yes\" for voter ID.<\/p> <p>This is not simply an attempt to add photo ID to the existing system. This is completely changing the way we vote in MN and it will require the creation of an entirely new election infrastructure. This will eliminate same day registration, vouchers, and could completely change or even prohibit many if not all absentee ballots for state offices.<\/p> <h4>No more same day registration<\/h4> <p>Even if you have a valid photo ID on Election Day, if you are not already registered, you will only be allowed to cast a provisional ballot which will not be counted on Election Day. Why? Because the existing system that's used to provide same day registration would be scrapped, and Republicans haven't explained what exactly they're going to replace it with, they promise to work that out <i>after<\/i> the amendment passes. &nbsp;Those promises are not encouraging. When Mary Kiffmeyer, the House author of amendment was repeatedly asked whether or not unregistered voters with a valid ID would be allowed to cast a normal rather than a \"provisional\" ballot on Election Day, she simply would not answer the question. Kiffmeyer, a former Secretary of State, has always been critical of same day registration. This amendment a back door way of eliminating same day registration altogether. Same day registration without a valid photo ID will simply not be possible. If you lose your driver's license the day before an election, even if you've been voting at the same polling place for 15 years, you will not be allowed to cast a normal ballot, you will have to cast a \"provisional\" ballot that will not be counted on Election Day. You will have tendered a provisional ballot that will only be counted after you return at a later date with the valid ID. &nbsp;And by the way, you don't return to the polling place, you have to go county elections office which for some Minnesotan's is over a 200 mile round trip.<\/p> <p>Basically same day registration would be replaced with provisional ballots. What's wrong with provisional ballots? Well for one thing, no one knows when or if all the provisional ballots will be counted. The amendment guarantees you a provisional ballot, but it does not guarantee that that ballot will ultimately be counted. The amendment merely says these ballots will be counted \"in a manner provided by law\".<\/p> <p>In the last election 500,000 (almost 20% of the total votes) same day registration ballots were cast.&nbsp; The effect of eliminating same day registration will disenfranchise voters and decrease the number of votes. Tens of thousands or maybe hundreds of thousands of provisional ballots will be set aside on Election day.<\/p> <p>There's another thing about these \"provisional\" ballots that's troubling. Normally your vote is secret, no one knows or can know who you voted for. Provisional ballots by definition need to be attached to your identity until they're verified. In other words, unlike a normal ballot that just goes into the machine, your provisional ballot has to be set aside with your name on it until it's counted, if it's ever counted.<\/p> <p>Provisional ballots are completely new process for MN. They currently do not exist so the entire system of collecting them, storing them, keeping them intact and retrievable, and then counting or not counting them will have to be created. This is NOT simply adding a photo ID to the current system.<\/p> <h4>No more vouchers<\/h4> <p>In any given election there are thousands of voters who are living in new or temporary addresses. There are thousands of voters who have no address because they are in shelters or on the street. And then there are thousands that live in nursing homes or other group homes. It's estimated that 200,000 or more of these people currently have no valid photo ID. Many seniors for instance have let their drivers licenses expire because they no longer drive. Many people living in group homes of various types can't drive in any event.&nbsp; Many college students from other states and other MN towns don't have current state issued photo IDs. Of course it goes without saying that homeless people don't have valid IDs with a current address on them. These are all people who are constitutionally guaranteed a right to vote, and who are currently voting. The way we currently accommodate these voters is to allow another registered voter to vouch for them.&nbsp; A registered voter can vouch for up to 15 people.&nbsp; Why 15 people? This is NOT about driving around a van and shuttling voters from one polling place to the next. Minnesota law currently licenses residential facilities i.e. group homes for developmentally disabled, mentally ill, battered women, chemical dependency, etc. to house 15 residents in most cases. The vouching system was set up so these people could be taken to the polling place by resident staff and cast their vote. A voucher testifies that you know this person, they are who they way they are, and they currently live in the precinct where they are voting. When you vouch for someone you basically sign an affidavit, it's perjury to lie on an affidavit and in MN this is a felony offense.<\/p> <p>Vouching is currently allowed as part of the same day registration process as well. Photo ID will eliminate vouching. Republicans <i>want<\/i> to eliminate vouching because they imagine thousands of voters being scooped up by nefarious ne'er-do -wells in big vans and being shuttled from poll to poll. The truth is that apparently no one is willing to go to jail on behalf of an underdog candidate because no actual instances of this kind of fraud have actually been prosecuted in MN, or even reported.&nbsp; While one can <i>imagine<\/i> bus loads illegal voters, the truth is that this vouching allows thousands of MN's the chance to exercise their constitutional right to vote.&nbsp; Eliminating vouching won't disenfranchise all of those voters, but it will disenfranchise some of them.<\/p> <p>Republicans frequently evoke the specter of ACORN when it comes to this business of bus loads voters flitting around town in vans. Here's what you need know: neither ACORN as an organization nor any of its members have been charged with voter fraud.&nbsp; What some ACORN workers have been charged with is election registration fraud. The difference between registration and voter fraud is significant. There is no evidence that ACORN members were trying to influence elections by stuffing ballots, rather they were trying to meet registration quotas in order to get paid, they produced bogus registrations, they did <i>not<\/i> produce fraudulent voters or votes.&nbsp; And there have been no reports about ACORN having anything to do with van loads of voters.<\/p> <h4>Absentee ballots under threat<\/h4> <p>Republicans try to blow a lot of smoke all over this but the fact is there no way that someone casting an absentee ballot can produce a Photo ID in person on the day of election as required by this amendment. Language allows for a: \"substantially equivalent\" verification process, but Republicans have never described what that process could look like, and frankly it's very difficult to imagine what it could look like. What could be \"equivalent\" to producing a photo ID in person on the day of election? Ironically when pressed on this issue on the house floor Kiffmeyer suggested that a vouching signature on the absentee ballot might be sufficient. So vouching would be eliminated for people voting in person, but created for people voting by absentee ballot.&nbsp; Apparently there are some federal protections for casting absentee ballots for federal office, but the extent to which these laws would protect Minnesota's absentee ballots is unclear at best.<\/p> <p>Beyond all the considerations I've discussed so far there are very basic problems with this proposition. The nature of a \"valid\" ID has not been defined, and Republicans have been very dodgy about the issue. On the floor of the House when asked, Kiffmeyer actually claimed that any government issued photo ID would be \"valid\". She said that if you up showed to vote in Rochester with a Nevada driver's license you'd be allowed to vote. &nbsp;Frankly, this is a lie and Kiffmeyer knows it. &nbsp;A valid ID for voting has to have your current address on it because you're not just demonstrating who you are, but that you're voting at the right location. Without the address requirement a bunch of folks from Wisconsin could come over and vote against Michelle Bachmann. Remember, the current same day registration process that requires additional verification like a utility bill, will no longer exist. This means that a valid ID must have a current address on it and THAT means that forms of ID like passports and military IDs will not be valid for voting. What Kiffmeyer isn't telling us is that such voters may be given \"provisional\" ballots, but there would no way to cast a ballot that would counted on Election Day.<\/p> <p>Furthermore, the actual mechanics of a presenting an ID have not been described in any meaningful way. There are videos showing nifty little card swipers connected to laptops but that actually raises more questions than it answers. For one thing it reinforces the notion that specific kinds of state issued IDs will be required. Unless you have multiple swipe technology connected to multiple data bases you're going to be limited to certain types of IDs. You can't use the same technology to swipe a driver's license and a passport for instance. And you'd have to be connected to completely different data bases i.e. the State Department for passports, and the Pentagon for Military IDs. The connections between these data bases and the polling place would have to secure and reliable, and the data bases themselves would have to perfectly reliable and up to date. For instance, if the intention really is to accept out of state driver's licenses as Kiffmeyer said, then every polling place would have to be connected to a minimum of 50 different data bases on election, and you would need the technology to swipe all of these.&nbsp; The technical logistics for all of this don't currently exist anywhere in the world, and frankly the cost of creating one would be prohibitive. This means that as a practical matter, state ID or Driver's license with a current address will be the only form of voter ID that will get your vote counted on Election day, and that's only if you're already registered.<\/p> <p>Regardless what technology would ultimately be deployed, there will be malfunctions and user errors. You have to remember, the polls are not staffed by computer nerds, they are staffed by volunteers who will have to be trained in a completely new system and technology. Even with existing technology we have hundreds of breakdowns on Election Day that poll workers have to contend with.&nbsp; Right now, no matter what technical problems may arise at the polls, you get to vote and your vote gets counted. &nbsp;This new system creates an entirely new front end that blocks votes from being counted under a variety of circumstances for a variety of anticipated and unanticipated reasons.<\/p> <p>It's vitally important that MN voters understand that the voter ID requirement created by this constitutional amendment does NOT simply \"add\" photo ID to the current system. This requirement completely restructures and changes the way we do elections in MN. It will disenfranchise the most vulnerable voters in the state, it will cost tens of millions of dollar to implement, and there is actually no evidence that will even prevent voter fraud.<\/p> <p><i>This blog was written by <a href=\"http:\/\/pudstrand.fatcow.com\/blog\/?page_id=2\">Paul Udstrand <\/a>and originally published on <a href=\"http:\/\/pudstrand.fatcow.com\/blog\/\">Thoughtful Bastards<\/a>.<\/i><\/p> <p><i>If you blog and would like your work considered for Minnesota Blog Cabin, please <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"\/minnesota-blog-cabin\/signup\">submit our registration form<\/a>.<\/i><\/p>\nThis <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.minnpost.com\/minnesota-blog-cabin\/2012\/04\/minnesota-voter-id-fraud-sucker-really-born-every-minute\/\">article<\/a> first appeared on <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.minnpost.com\">MinnPost<\/a> and is republished here under a Creative Commons license.<img id=\"republication-tracker-tool-source\" src=\"https:\/\/www.minnpost.com\/?republication-pixel=true&post=70183&ga=UA-3385191-1\" style=\"width:1px;height:1px;\">\nThis article isn't free.\nIndependent, in-depth journalism costs money to produce. 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